Abstract: Provide is a zinc secondary battery capable of preventing a short circuit between the positive and negative electrodes caused by zinc dendrites. The zinc secondary battery of the present invention comprises a positive electrode; a negative electrode containing zinc; an electrolytic solution in which the positive electrode and the negative electrode are immersed or with which the positive electrode and the negative electrode are in contact, wherein the electrolytic solution is an aqueous solution containing an alkali metal hydroxide; and a separator being placed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and separating the positive electrode and the negative electrode from each other, wherein the separator comprises an inorganic solid electrolyte body having hydroxide ion conductivity.

Abstract: An alloy flake production apparatus (1) includes a crystallinity control device (2) for controlling an alloy crystal structure of fed alloy flakes to a desired state, a cooling device (3) for cooling the alloy flakes discharged from the crystallinity control device (2), and a chamber for keeping these devices under reduced pressure or under an inert gas atmosphere. The crystallinity control device (2) has a rotary heating drum (21) in a cylindrical shape for heating the fed alloy flakes, and a switching device (23) for switching between storage and discharge of the alloy flakes fed to an inner wall side of the heating drum (21), so that long-time heat treatment is uniformly applied to the alloy flakes immediately after being made by ingot crushing. The heating drum (21) preferably has a scooping blade plate (22) for scooping up alloy flakes fed to the inner wall side with its rotation.

Abstract: Provided is a zinc-air secondary battery capable of preventing both of the short-circuiting between positive and negative electrodes caused by zinc dendrites and the carbon dioxide incorporation. This zinc-air secondary battery includes an air electrode (12) functioning as a positive electrode; an inorganic solid electrolyte body (14) provided in direct contact with one side of the air electrode and having hydroxide ion conductivity; a metal negative electrode (16) provided opposite to the air electrode with respect to the inorganic solid electrolyte body and comprising zinc or a zinc alloy; and an electrolyte solution in which the metal negative electrode is immersed, the electrolyte solution being separated from the air electrode by the inorganic solid electrolyte body.

Abstract: An all-solid-state cell has a fired solid electrolyte body, a first electrode layer integrally formed on one surface of the fired solid electrolyte body by mixing and firing an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte, and a second electrode layer integrally formed on the other surface of the fired solid electrolyte body by mixing and firing an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte. The first and the second electrode layers are formed by mixing and firing the electrode active material and the amorphous solid electrolyte, which satisfy the relation Ty>Tz (wherein Ty is a temperature at which the capacity of the electrode active material is lowered by reaction between the electrode active material and the solid electrolyte material, and Tz is a temperature at which the solid electrolyte material is shrunk by firing).

Abstract: An all-solid-state cell contains a combination of an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte, and has a plate-shaped fired solid electrolyte body of a ceramic containing a solid electrolyte, a first electrode layer (e.g. a positive electrode) integrally formed on one surface of the fired solid electrolyte body by mixing and firing an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte, and a second electrode layer (e.g. a negative electrode) integrally formed on the other surface of the fired solid electrolyte body by mixing and firing an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte. The solid electrolyte materials added to the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer comprise an amorphous polyanion compound.

Abstract: There is provided an optical waveguide which has appropriate orientation properties, a production process of which is simple so as to be suitable for producing an electro-optical element, and is able to reduce power consumption of the element due to excellent electro-optical properties, and further can be formed into a thin film and be layered; and a material for the optical waveguide. A cladding material of an optical waveguide, characterized by comprising a polymer compound including a triarylamine structure, and a nonlinear optical compound; and an optical waveguide produced by using the cladding material.

Abstract: A fan motor including a stator; a rotor having a cylindrical part arranged around the stator and a plurality of blades sticking out from an outer periphery of the cylindrical part to a radial direction, the rotor rotating about an axial line to blow a gas; and a housing having a disk part arranged at a side of the stator, a shroud part arranged around the blades, and a plurality of stays extending from an outer circumferential edge portion of the disk part to the radial direction to connect the disk part and the shroud part beside the blades. The stays are arranged at an upstream side from the blades in a blowing direction of the gas.

Abstract: A crushing drying device includes an object-to-be-treated supply port from which an object is supplied into a main body, a crushing portion for crushing the object by hammers rotated on a drive shaft, and a classifying portion having a space for circulating the object to be treated at a position away from the crushing portion, the crushing portion has a dry gas supply port from which the heated air is supplied in a predetermined direction along an inner surface of the device main body, and the classifying portion has discharge portions from which the crushed object is discharged together with the heated air, and deviation plates for changing a flow of the object transferred to the classifying portion, so that the crushing drying device is one machine.

Abstract: A user interface generation apparatus is provided with a user interface generation unit for generating a user interface, a display unit for displaying the user interface generated by the user interface generation unit, and a memory unit for storing a definition file including object definition information which defines an object, which is a component of the user interface. If being instructed to generate a plurality of user interfaces, the user interface generation unit makes a selection from object definition information included in the definition file stored in the memory unit and executes processing to generate a compound user interface based on the object definition information selected.

Abstract: In a navigation apparatus having a cradle unit that is fastenable to a vehicle and is equipped with at least a microcomputer; and a front panel unit that is attachable to and detachable from the cradle unit and is equipped with at least a display displaying map data and a microcomputer performing a navigation function to indicate a determined location of the vehicle on the map data, it is configured such that a panel is integrally formed at bottom of the cradle unit to be attachable to the vehicle. With this, it becomes possible to provide the navigation apparatus configured such that a member having a microcomputer performing a navigation function is attachable/detachable to/from the main body, i.e., the base unit, thereby improving ease of use, that the member can be easily attached to the dashboard of the vehicle, and that unnatural impression is prevented from arising in the appearance.

Abstract: Provided is a motor driver including: a housing; an electronic component that is disposed inside the housing, and that drives or controls a motor; and a fan motor that is disposed below a top plate of the housing, and that causes air to pass from an opening in a bottom plate of the housing to an opening in the top plate. In the motor driver, an outer surface of the top plate is an inclined surface.

Abstract: A method for producing a dye-sensitized solar cell includes: preparing a first electrode comprising a transparent substrate and a transparent conductive film, and a second electrode comprising a metal substrate that is formed of a metal capable of forming a passivation film; forming an oxide semiconductor layer on the first electrode; supporting a photosensitized dye on the oxide semiconductor layer; disposing an electrolyte on the oxide semiconductor layer; facing the first electrode and the second electrode, and sealing the electrolyte by a sealing section; and fixing a connection member formed of a metal having lower resistance than the metal substrate, onto the surface of the metal substrate, with the surface being on the opposite side of the first electrode, in which method in fixing the connection member, the connection member is bonded to the metal substrate by resistance welding, and thereby the connection member is fixed onto the metal substrate.

Abstract: An optical disc driving device has a metallic exterior casing composed of a first casing and a second casing and an internal unit to be housed in the exterior casing. The internal unit includes an optical pickup unit having an optical pickup part that moves in radial directions of an optical disc to perform recording or reproduction of information signals on the optical disc. At a portion where the optical pickup part moved radially outward of the optical disc makes a closest approach to, in either one of the first casing or the second casing opposed to the first casting, a protrusion for electrically connecting the first casing and the second casing to each other is provided.

Abstract: A data signal is transmitted synchronously with a clock signal, and contains n phases (n represents an integer of 2 or more) of data for each cycle of the clock signal. A first time to digital converter generates clock change point information which represents the change timing of the clock signal. A second time to digital converter receives a data sequence in increments of cycles of the clock signal, and generates data change point information items which represent the change timing of the data in increments of phases of the data. A calculation unit calculates difference data between the change timing represented by the data change point information and the change point timing represented by the clock change point information in increments of phases. A judgment unit judges a DUT based upon the difference data received from the calculation unit.

Abstract: There is disclosed a glass-fiber coating liquid for forming a coating layer on a glass fiber cord, prepared in the form of an emulsion consisting essentially of a monohydroxybenzene-formaldehyde resin (A) obtained by reaction of monohydroxybenzene (D) and formaldehyde (E), a vinylpyridine-styrene-butadiene copolymer (B) having a vinylpyridine monomer content of 17 to 35% by mass, a styrene monomer content of 20 to 40% by mass and a butadiene monomer content of 35 to 60% by mass, a chlorosulfonated polyethylene (C), an acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (P); at least one of an antioxidant, a pH adjuster and a stabilizer; and water.

Abstract: A method of producing a fuel cell separator includes pressing a compact part-forming material that includes a carbonaceous powder and a thermosetting resin binder at a temperature equal to or higher than the softening temperature of the thermosetting resin binder and less than the curing temperature of the thermosetting resin binder to obtain a compact part-forming preformed sheet, preparing a porous part-forming powder that includes a carbonaceous powder and a thermosetting resin binder, placing the compact part-forming preformed sheet and the porous part-forming powder in a forming die that has a concave-convex forming surface corresponding to the shape of a gas passage so that the concave-convex forming surface faces the porous part-forming powder, and hot-pressing the compact part-forming preformed sheet and the porous part-forming powder using the forming die at a temperature equal to or higher than the curing temperature of the thermosetting resin binder included in the compact part-forming material or

Abstract: A cast cylinder head 1 of an internal combustion engine to be mounted on a vehicle has an intake-side side wall 2i, an exhaust-side side wall 2e, and opposite end walls 3r and 3f. The walls 2i, 2e, 3r and 3f define a water jacket 8. A first cooling water exit part 11 and a second cooling water exit part 21 both having a solid structure are formed by casting integrally with one of the intake-side side wall 2i and the exhaust-side side wall 2e and with one of the end walls 3r and 3f, respectively. Cooling water exit openings 15,16 or 25,26 opening into the water jacket 8 are drilled selectively in either of the first cooling water exit part 11 and the second cooling water exit part 21 depending on the engine mounting position on the vehicle. Thus the same cylinder head can be used independently of the mounting orientation of the engine on the vehicle.

Abstract: For providing an electric connection box including a metal core board, which can limit increase of a size thereof and be prevented from bending along the slit, the electric connection box 10 includes a metal core board 1, in which a plurality of core metal plates 21, 22 is laminated and insulation resin is filled between each of the plurality of core metal plates 21, 22. The plurality of core metal plates 21, 22 are provide with slits 3A, 3B to divide the core metal plates 21, 22 to a plurality of separate plates 21a, 21b, 22a, 22b and be filled with insulation resin. The slits 3A, 3B is formed not to overlap each other on the same one line when viewing in a vertical direction about the metal core board 1. The electric connection box 10 distributes electric power inputted from a plurality of power systems to each separate plates 21a, 21b, 22a, 22b.

Abstract: The electrical junction box is provided with a metal core substrate including: a rectangular-shaped core metal layer in which two core metal plates are arranged with a slit-shaped gap therebetween; and insulating layers filling the gap and integrating the two core metal plates by covering surfaces of the core metal plates. Electric power from a battery is inputted into the core metal plate, and electric power from an alternator is inputted into the core metal plate. The gap includes: a first straight portion vertically extended straight from one side of the core metal layer; a second straight portion vertically extended straight from another side of the core metal layer, parallel to a virtual extended line of the first straight portion, and not arranged in the same line as the first straight portion; and a square-U-shaped portion.

Abstract: An electrical junction box for distributing electric power in a vehicle includes: a metal core substrate 1 provided with a core metal assembly having two core metal plates arranged with a gap, and an insulating layer embedded in the gap and covering surfaces of the metal core plates to integrate the metal core plates; and electronic components. Electric power from a battery is inputted into the core metal plate, and electric power from an alternator is inputted into the core metal plate. The electronic components are provided with a plurality of attaching portions soldered or screwed to the metal core substrate. At least one of the attaching portions is attached to the core metal plate, and at least one of the attaching portions is attached to the core metal plate.