Abstract: Providing a secondary battery maintaining the cyclability at room temperature and additionally being able to inhibit the cyclability from declining when being employed at high temperature. A secondary battery includes a positive electrode including a positive-electrode active material, a negative-electrode including a negative-electrode active material, and an electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode and/or the negative electrode includes a binding agent containing an organic/inorganic hybrid material having an organic segment including a resin, and an inorganic segment including silica, the organic/inorganic hybrid material binding the positive-electrode active material and/or the negative-electrode active material, and the electrolytic solution includes a fluorine-containing cyclic carbonate containing at least one fluorine atom.

Abstract: A negative-electrode stuff has negative-electrode active-material particles including: an element being capable of sorbing and desorbing lithium ions, and being capable of undergoing an alloying reaction with lithium; or/and an elementary compound being capable of undergoing an alloying reaction with lithium. The negative-electrode active-material particles includes particles whose particle diameter is 1 ?m or more in an amount of 85% by volume or more of them when the entirety is taken as 100% by volume, exhibit a BET specific surface area that is 6 m2/g or less, and exhibits a “D50” that is 4.5 ?m or more.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery, has a current collector and an active-material layer bound on a surface of the current collector. The active-material layer includes active materials, binders, conductive additives, and buffer materials. The active materials include Si and/or Sn, and the buffer materials comprise a silicone composite powder in which a spherical silicone-rubber powder is covered with a silicone resin.

Abstract: To provide a lithium ion secondary battery electrode in which a coated layer is held on a surface of an active material layer over a long period of time to suppress decomposition of the electrolysis solution and to enhance the cyclability, a manufacturing process for the same, and a lithium ion secondary battery using the electrode. A lithium ion secondary battery electrode includes a current collector, an active material layer containing a binder formed on a surface of the current collector, and a coated layer formed on the surface of at least a part of the active material layer, wherein the coated layer consists of an acrylic type copolymer cured substance comprising an acrylic type main chain and a side chain having polyester or polyether graft-polymerized to said acrylic type main chain and the coated layer is chemically bonded with the binder.

Abstract: Provided is a negative-electrode active material, which is capable of constituting a lithium ion secondary cell exhibiting excellent cell characteristics. The negative-electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary cell of the invention includes a mixed material of silicon oxide particles composed of silicon oxide and rod-shaped iron oxide particles composed of iron oxide. It is preferable to use iron oxide particles having a plurality of pores in a surface, and an electrode reaction is effectively carried out.

Abstract: To provide a lithium ion secondary battery electrode in which a coated layer is held on a surface of an active material layer over a long period of time to suppress decomposition of the electrolysis solution and to enhance the cyclability, a manufacturing process for the same, and a lithium ion secondary battery using the electrode. A lithium ion secondary battery electrode includes a current collector, an active material layer containing a binder formed on a surface of the current collector, and a coated layer formed on the surface of at least a part of the active material layer, wherein the coated layer contains a silicone-acrylic graft copolymer cured substance including an acrylic type main chain having a functional group and a side chain having a silicone graft-polymerized to the acrylic type main chain, and the coated layer is chemically bonded with the binder.

Abstract: To provide a lithium ion secondary battery electrode in which a coat is held on a surface of an active material layer over a long period of time to suppress decomposition of the electrolysis solution and to enhance the cyclability, a manufacturing process for the same, and a lithium ion secondary battery using the electrode. A lithium ion secondary battery electrode includes a current collector, an active material layer containing a binder formed on a surface of the current collector, and a coat containing modified polydimethylsiloxane formed on a surface of at least a part of the active material layer, wherein the coat is chemically bonded with the binder.

Abstract: In a lithium ion secondary battery using a positive electrode active material made of a lithium manganese based oxide that contains Li and tetravalent Mn and having a crystal structure known as a layered rock salt structure, oxidative and reductive degradation of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution is reduced. The battery uses a non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing fluorine in one or both of the non-aqueous solvent and the electrolytic salt. For the negative electrode active material, SiOx (0.3?x?1.6) is used. The combined use of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing fluorine and SiOx in the negative electrode active material reduces oxidative and reductive degradation of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution.

Abstract: In a lithium-ion secondary battery using a positive-electrode active material that includes a lithium-manganese-based oxide which includes a lithium (Li) element and a tetravalent manganese (Mn) element and whose crystal structure belongs to a layered rock-salt structure, adding a compound being selected from the group consisting of Compounds (a) through (i) into the electrolytic solution leads to the following: degradations due to oxidation-reduction decompositions of the electrolytic solution, and so on, are inhibited; and not only the shelf or storage capacity and recovered capacity upgrade in the case of being stored at high temperatures, but also the rise of internal resistance is inhibited.

Abstract: A ride-on mower can easily lift mower deck up and down so that it remains horizontal. The ride-on mower has driving motors, mower blades spinning for mowing grass, mowing motors for the mower blades, batteries for the driving motors and the mowing motors, a mower deck for covering the mower blades from the above and sides and for setting the mowing motors on, and a mower deck lifting device for lifting up and down the mower deck. The mower deck lifting device has a booster for assisting the mower deck lifting device in lifting the mower deck up and down, and the mower deck lifting device is set at the center on the mower deck.

Abstract: A material for contact components or battery components, which includes a metal sheet having a surface layer portion containing a first metal element, the metal sheet including a Cr-containing steel plate or a surface-treated steel plate, and at least a part of the first metal element on an outermost surface of the surface layer portion being substituted by a second metal element having a nobler standard electrode potential than the first metal element, the second metal element being deposited on the outermost surface in a state of a particulate metal, oxide, or hydroxide.

Abstract: With regard to a tractor having a high-powered engine, universal joints must be enlarged, whereby the attachment work of a power transmission shaft becomes difficult. Furthermore, the kind of the universal joints to be used is limited, thereby being inconvenient. Therefore, a tractor is constructed so that a transmission casing is arranged in a rear portion of a vehicle body, a front axle casing is arranged in the front portion of the vehicle body, and power from an engine is transmitted from an output shaft supported by the transmission casing through a power transmission shaft to an input shaft supported by the front axle casing.

Abstract: Provided is a polycarbonate with a hard coat layer, which is excellent in transparency, high surface hardness, weather resistance, chemical resistance, durability, and heat resistance. The polycarbonate with a hard coat layer includes a hard coat film (1 and 4) bonded to a base (3) formed of a polycarbonate resin via an adhesive layer (2), in which the hard coat film includes, on an outermost surface, a resin layer (4) that is obtained by curing a photocurable resin composition containing at least a photocurable polyhedral silsesquioxane resin and that has a light transmittance at a wavelength of 550 nm of 90% or more, a glass transition temperature of 250° C. or more, and a thickness of 10 ?m or more and 200 ?m or less.

Abstract: A working vehicle with an HST in which over-rotation of a hydraulic pump in the HST or the pump input shaft thereof is prevented when a main clutch is disconnected during a run. When a main clutch connection/disconnection detection means detects the disconnection state of the main clutch during a run, a control means judges whether a vehicle speed detected by a vehicle speed detection means is at least a set speed or not, and if the vehicle speed is at least the set speed, the movable swash plate of the hydraulic pump in an HST is controlled to sustain it at the current inclination angle.

Abstract: To provide a negative electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery, negative electrode which has good cyclability by suppressing the active material from coming off or falling down from the current collector, and a manufacturing process for the same. It is characterized in that, in a negative electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery, the negative electrode having a current collector 1 and an active-material layer 6 being bound on a surface of the current collector 1, the active-material layer 6 includes active materials 2, binders 5, conductive additives 4, and buffer materials 3, the active materials 2 include Si and/or Sn, and the buffer materials 3 comprise a silicone composite powder in which a spherical silicone-rubber powder is covered with a silicone resin.

Abstract: This invention provides an electric ride-on mower that can easily lift up and down the mower deck and can also lift up and down the mower deck so that it remains horizontal. The electric ride-on mower has driving motors, mower blades spinning for mowing grass, mowing motors for the mower blades, batteries for the driving motors and the mowing motors, a mower deck for covering the mower blades from the above and sides and for setting the mowing motors on, and a mower deck lifting device for lifting up and down the mower deck, wherein: the mower deck lifting device has a booster for assisting the mower deck lifting device in lifting up and down the mower deck, and the mower deck lifting device is set at the center on the mower deck.

Abstract: A layered structure including a base, and an elastic layer and a release layer positioned on the base in this order, the layered structure satisfying at least one of Formula (1): an interlayer peeling force between the elastic layer and the base at a temperature of from 20° C. to 30° C.<a cohesive failure force of the elastic layer at a temperature of from 20° C. to 30° C.; or Formula (2): an interlayer peeling force between the elastic layer and the release layer at a temperature of from 20° C. to 30° C.<a cohesive failure force of the elastic layer at a temperature of from 20° C. to 30° C.

Abstract: In a tapping mode Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) system, a probe is excited at an excitation frequency other than the probe's first natural frequency to produce a response signal manifesting a grazing bifurcation between “non-collision” and “collision” states of the AFM system, so that an additional characteristic frequency component is generated in the “collision” state. The magnitude of the additional characteristic frequency component is monitored in real time, and the probe-sample separation is adjusted to maintain the monitored magnitude at an optimal value to operate the AFM system at near-grazing conditions.

Abstract: Disclosed is an attached body detachably attached to a mobile communication terminal main body. The attached body includes a storage unit for storing an attached body identification number, content data, and access information showing an access destination of auxiliary information to utilize said content data in the mobile communication terminal. The attached body further includes a communication unit for transmitting the attached body identification number, the access information and the content data to the mobile communication terminal main body in accordance with demands from the mobile communication terminal main body.

Abstract: A working vehicle with an HST in which over-rotation of a hydraulic pump in the HST or the pump input shaft thereof is prevented when a main clutch is disconnected during a run. When a main clutch connection/disconnection detection means (112) detects (S2) the disconnection state of the main clutch (22) during a run, a control means (110) judges (S3) whether a vehicle speed detected by a vehicle speed detection means (116) is at least a set speed or not, and if the vehicle speed is at least the set speed, the movable swash plate (55) of the hydraulic pump (51) in an HST (50) is controlled to sustain it at the current inclination angle (S4).