Abstract: The present invention improves productivity of production of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery insulating porous layer in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is a constituent member of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery laminated separator, includes a thermoplastic resin, has a porosity of 25% to 80%, and has a peeling strength of above 0 N/m to 2.0 N/m when press-bonded to a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery electrode at 25° C. through two one-minute 30 kN applications, the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery electrode containing an electrode active material, an electrically conductive agent, and a binding agent in a mass fraction of 92:2.7:5.3.

Abstract: To provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery porous layer that allows a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery to have improved battery characteristics, a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery porous layer includes a filler including a benzendiol-aldehyde resin modified with a monomer having a particular structure.

Abstract: A laminated porous film includes: a porous base material layer containing polyolefin as a main component; a filler layer containing inorganic particles as a main component; and a resin layer containing, as a main component, resin particles having a median diameter (D50) of greater than 1 ?m.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to perform: extracting, as a common object, an object commonly referred to on a plurality of pages, from a file including data of a plurality of pages and positional information indicating positions of the data of the plurality of pages; determining whether to define the common object extracted at the extracting as an object to be commonly used on the plurality of pages or to define the common object on each of the plurality of pages; reconstructing data by arranging the object based on a determination result at the determining; and transmitting the data reconstructed at the reconstructing to an image forming apparatus.

Abstract: An image pickup element is configured to remove fixed pattern noise at a fixed density over time. The image pickup element includes an image pickup unit and a compensating unit. The image pickup unit converts light, received by light-receiving elements in unit pixels arranged in a matrix, into an electric charge to output electronic image data. The compensating unit subtracts and removes a noise pattern from the image data, while having a storage unit store the noise pattern of fixed pattern noise of the image data. The compensating unit reads data output and obtained during cutting in a vertical blanking interval of each frame. The compensating unit reads image data and reads the data obtained during cutting of all of the light-receiving elements in an image pickup area from at least one frame among frames listed in time series. The compensating unit averages the data obtained during cutting with the noise pattern, read from the storage unit, to update the noise pattern.

Abstract: Provided are a separator capable of being used for a secondary battery such as a nonaqueous electrolyte-solution secondary battery and a secondary battery including the separator. A separator having a first layer including a porous polyethylene and an organic additive is provided. A white index of the first layer is equal to or more than 85 and equal to or less than 98, and a reduction rate of diethyl carbonate dropped on the first layer is equal to or higher than 0.048 mg/s and equal to or lower than 0.067 mg/s. The to separator may further include a porous layer over the first layer.

Abstract: Provided is a separator including a separator which consists of a porous polyolefin of 95 wt % or more and an organic additive. A temperature-increase convergence time of the first layer is equal to or longer than 2.9 s·m2/g and equal to or shorter than 5.7 s·m2/g when the first layer is irradiated with a microwave having a frequency of 2455 MHz and an output power of 1800 W after dipping the first layer in N-methylpyrrolidone containing 3 wt % of water, whereas a white index is equal to or more than 86 and equal to or less than 98.

Abstract: Provided is a separator capable of suppressing an increase in internal resistance and a decrease in a battery performance. A separator having a first layer consisting of a porous polyolefin and an organic antioxidant and a secondary battery including the separator are provided. The first layer has a parameter X, defined by the following equation, equal to or more than 0 and equal to or less than 20, X = 100 ? ? ? MD ? ? tan ? ? ? - TD ? ? tan ? ? ? ? ? MD ? ? tan ? ? ? + TD ? ? tan ? ? ? ? 2 where MD tan ? and TD tan ? are respectively a loss tangent in a flow direction and a loss tangent in a width direction which are obtained by a viscoelasticity measurement of the first layer at a temperature of 90° C. and a frequency of 10 Hz. A white index of the first layer is equal to or more than 85 and equal to or less than 98.

Abstract: The application relates to a laminated porous film having a heat-resistant layer that is suitable for a separator for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having excellent cycle characteristics, and a coating liquid for forming the heat-resistant layer. A coating liquid containing a filler, a binder, and a solvent, wherein a hydrophilicity parameter A of the filler defined by formula (1) is 0.35 to 0.65: Hydrophilicity parameter A=BET1/BET2 ??(1) wherein, in formula (1), BET1: the specific surface area of the filler calculated using a BET method from a differential adsorption isotherm obtained by subtracting, from a first adsorption isotherm measured by adsorbing water vapor to the filler, a second adsorption isotherm; and BET2: the specific surface area of the filler calculated using a BET method from a differential adsorption isotherm measured by adsorbing nitrogen to the filler.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing (i) a separator containing a polyolefin porous film, (ii) a porous layer containing a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin, (iii) a positive electrode plate having a capacitance falling within a certain range, and (iv) a negative electrode plate having a capacitance falling within a certain range, the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin containing an ?-form polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin in an amount of not less than 35.0 mol %.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: a separator including a polyolefin porous film; a porous layer containing a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin; and a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate for each of which the result of a scratch test in the width direction and the result of a scratch test in the flow direction are each within a predetermined range, the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin containing an ?-form polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin in an amount of not less than 35.0 mol %.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: a separator including a polyolefin porous film; a porous layer containing a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin; a positive electrode plate, a bend number of which being not less than 130, the bend number indicating how many times the positive electrode plate bends before peeling of a positive electrode active material layer occurs; and a negative electrode plate, a bend number of which being not less than 1650, the bend number indicating how many times the negative electrode plate bends before peeling of a negative electrode active material layer occurs, the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin containing not less than 35.0 mol % of an ?-form polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a separator including a polyolefin porous film; a porous layer containing a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin; and a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate for which the sum of the interface barrier energies is not less than a predetermined value, the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin containing an ?-form polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin in an amount of not less than 35.0 mol %.

Abstract: To afford a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator that is not easily curled, a laminated body of the present invention includes: a porous base material containing a polyolefin-based resin as a main component; and a porous layer on at least one surface of the porous base material, the porous layer containing a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin, the porous film having a lightness (L*) of not less than 83 and not more than 95 and a white index (WI) of not less than 85 and not more than 98, the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin containing crystal form ? in an amount of not less than 34 mol % with respect to 100 mol % of a total amount of the crystal form ? and crystal form ? contained in the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing a separator by cutting a laminated porous film. The laminated porous film includes a porous base material layer containing polyolefin as a main component and a filler layer containing inorganic particles as a main component. The filler layer is provided on one surface of the porous base material layer; and a resin layer containing resin particles as a main component is provided on the other surface of the porous base material layer. The method includes a step of cutting, using a slit blade, the laminated porous film from the one surface on which the filler layer is provided.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes circuitry to receive a file including data of a plurality of pages and position information indicating individual positions of data of the plurality of pages. The circuitry further starts printing of one of the plurality of pages based on data specified by specifying information that indicates a position of data of one of the plurality of pages. The circuitry further starts the printing of one of the plurality of pages when receiving the specifying information before the position information.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing a laminated porous film including: a porous base material layer containing polyolefin as a main component; a filler layer containing inorganic particles as a main component; and a resin layer containing resin particles as a main component, the filler layer and resin layer being provided on opposite surfaces of the porous base material layer. The method includes steps of: applying, on one surface of the porous base material layer, a coating solution containing more than 50 wt % of inorganic particles, and drying the coating solution to form a filler layer, and thereafter applying, on the other surface of the porous base material layer, a coating solution containing more than 50 wt % of resin particles, and drying the coating solution to form a resin layer, the weight percentages (wt %) being based on total weight of components other than the medium of each coating solution.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery insulating porous layer having an excellent charge resistance characteristic. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery insulating porous layer has a fractal dimension of 2.42 to 2.60, the fractal dimension being calculated from a three-dimensional image showing a void part and a porous layer part on respective two gradation levels, the three-dimensional image being prepared by analyzing images of cross sections obtained by making observation at intervals of 20 nm in a thickness direction from a surface of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery insulating porous layer by FIB-SEM measurement at a magnification of 6500 times.

Abstract: The present invention improves productivity of production of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery insulating porous layer in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is a constituent member of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery laminated separator, includes a thermoplastic resin, has a porosity of 25% to 80%, and has a peeling strength of above 0 N/m to 2.0 N/m when press-bonded to a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery electrode at 25° C. through two one-minute 30 kN applications, the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery electrode containing an electrode active material, an electrically conductive agent, and a binding agent in a mass fraction of 92:2.7:5.3.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide (i) a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator having excellent ion permeability and (ii) an insulating porous layer by which to achieve the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator. The insulating porous layer is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery insulating porous layer containing: a resin A; and a resin B, the resin A and the resin B having therebetween a Hansen solubility parameter distance (HSP distance) (Ra) of not more than 10 MPa1/2.