Abstract: According to the present disclosure, it is possible to inhibit the electrically conductive foreign substance from falling off and being peeled off from the electrode plate that has been already manufactured, so as to contribute in improving the safety property of the secondary battery. The manufacturing method of the electrode plate herein disclosed includes a precursor preparing step for preparing an electrode precursor 20A including an active material provided area A1 in which an electrode active material layer 24 is provided on a surface of the electrode core 22 and including a core exposed area A2 in which the electrode active material layer 24 is not provided and the electrode core 22 is exposed, and an active material provided area cutting step for cutting the active material provided area A1 by a pulse laser, and a core exposed area cutting step for cutting the core exposed area A2 by the pulse laser.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, it is possible to inhibit the electrically conductive foreign substance from falling off and being peeled off from the electrode plate that has been already manufactured, so as to contribute in improving the safety property of the secondary battery. The manufacturing method of the electrode plate herein disclosed includes a precursor preparing step for preparing an electrode precursor 20A including an active substance provided area A1 in which an electrode active substance layer 24 is provided on a surface of the electrode substrate 22 and including a substrate exposed area A2 in which the electrode active substance layer 24 is not provided and the electrode substrate 22 is exposed, an active substance provided area cutting step for cutting the active substance provided area A1 by a pulse laser, and a substrate exposed area cutting step for cutting the substrate exposed area A2 by the pulse laser.

Abstract: An electrode plate which is to be contained in a wound or multilayer electrode body, and which is provided with: a band-like electrode plate core body; mixture layers that are formed on both surfaces of the electrode plate core body; and a tab that extends from one end of the electrode plate core body in the short-side direction. With respect to this electrode plate, the front edge of the electrode plate core body at the end from which the tab extends is covered by the mixture layers.

Abstract: A control device controls a display device capable of displaying visual information for a passenger of a moving body, in two or more display regions. The control device causes adjacent target regions of the display regions to change from a display state in which the information is displayed to a display restricted state in which display is restricted, according to a predetermined order, when a predetermined condition is satisfied. The control device determines the target regions and the order, based on a traveling direction of the moving body at the time when the condition is satisfied or a traveling direction of the moving body that is predicted after the time when the condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A calibration method for, in a robot including a robot arm, calculating a positional relation between a first control point set in an end effector attached to the distal end of the robot arm and a second control point set further on the robot arm side than the end effector, the calibration method calculating a coordinate in a robot coordinate system of a first feature point of the robot associated with the first control point based on a first vector and a second vector calculated using an imaging section while moving the robot arm.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided a technique making it possible to prevent an electrode active material layer and a protective layer from falling off or peeling off at the laser cutting site of an electrode plate and to obtain a highly safe secondary battery. A manufacturing method disclosed herein includes a step of preparing a positive electrode precursor having a positive electrode active material layer and a protective layer applied to a surface of a positive electrode core, and a step of cutting a protective layer application region of the positive electrode precursor by a continuous wave laser. As a result, it is possible to prevent the protective layer from falling off or peeling off due to the impact during laser irradiation.

Abstract: A braking control system includes control circuitry configured to control first and second brakes in a vehicle. The control circuitry is configured to calculate a target braking force in accordance with the operation amount of a brake pedal by a driver, determine a first braking force and a second braking force based on the target braking force, and control each of the first and second brakes such that each of the determined braking forces is generated in the vehicle. The first and second braking forces are determined such that a sum of the first and second braking forces becomes the target braking force and a pitch behavior specified by a preset pitch behavior model occurs in the vehicle.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a technique capable of suppressing an internal short circuit caused by a peeled metal piece and obtaining a safer secondary battery is provided. An electrode plate (negative electrode plate) disclosed herein includes a negative electrode core including copper or a copper alloy, a negative electrode active material layer applied to a surface of the negative electrode core, and a negative electrode tab protruding to the outside from one end side in a width direction. In the negative electrode plate, a first region having an oxide film having a thickness of 40 nm to 200 nm is formed in a region of 0.01 mm to 0.2 mm from an outer end side of the negative electrode tab toward the inside in the width direction, and the first region 22t1 extends along the outer end side 22ta of the negative electrode tab 22t.

Abstract: This positive electrode plate, included in a rolled electrode body, is characterized by comprising a belt-shape positive electrode core, a positive electrode active material layer which, along the long direction of the positive electrode core, is formed in a belt shape on at least part of the surface of the positive electrode core, and a positive electrode tab which extends in the short direction of the positive electrode core from the active material layer-uncoated area of the surface of the positive electrode core where the positive electrode active material layer is not formed, and the root width H1 and the maximum width H2 of the positive electrode tab satisfy the relation 0.4×H2?H1?0.9×H2.

Abstract: A positive electrode plate that has a positive electrode active material layer formed on a positive electrode core, wherein the positive electrode core has, on an edge side, a thick portion which has a thickness that is greater than the thickness of a portion of the positive electrode core that has the positive electrode active material layer formed on both sides, and the positive electrode plate has a first region that extends into the thick portion from the portion of the positive electrode core that has the positive electrode active material layer formed on both sides and a second region that is positioned outside the first region in the thick portion. The average maximum diameter of the metal crystal grains that compose the first region is smaller than those of the second region.

Abstract: A secondary battery provided with: a belt-like positive electrode plate having a plurality of positive electrode tabs; and a positive electrode current collector which is connected so that the plurality of positive electrode tabs are stacked, wherein the positive electrode plate has a positive electrode core body and a positive electrode active material layer formed on the positive electrode core bodies. At one edge side of the positive electrode plate where the plurality of positive electrode tabs are provided, one surface of the positive electrode core body has formed thereon a first protrusion that protrudes from said surface of the positive electrode core body in the thickness direction of the positive electrode core body, whereas the other surface of the positive electrode core body has no protrusion formed to protrude from said other surface of the positive electrode core body in the thickness direction of the positive electrode core body.

Abstract: Provided are a highly reliable electrode plate and a secondary battery using the electrode plate. A positive electrode plate, which is for a secondary battery, has a positive electrode core body and a positive electrode active material layer formed on the positive electrode core body. The positive electrode core body has, at an end thereof, a thick part having a thickness larger than that of the center area of the positive electrode core body. The thick part includes a first projection that projects from one surface of the positive electrode core body in the thickness direction of the positive electrode core body. The positive electrode core body is formed of an aluminum alloy which contains 0.5-2.0 mass % of Mn.

Abstract: A calibration method, in a robot having a robot arm, of obtaining a position relationship between a first control point set for an end effector attached to a distal end of the robot arm and a second control point set on the distal end of the robot arm, includes a sixth step of calculating a second position relationship between a second reference position obtained from a position of the second control point in a third state and a position of the second control point in a fourth state and a first feature point in the fourth state, and a seventh step of calculating coordinates of the first feature point in a robot coordinate system based on a first position relationship and the second position relationship.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape measurement device includes a controller, in which the controller starts a process in which a plurality of different phase pattern images is projected by a projector, whenever the phase pattern image is projected by the projector before a rising time elapses, the rising time being a time until the luminance of light does not temporally change after a light source of the projector applies the light, and measures a three-dimensional shape of a target object onto which the phase pattern image is projected on the basis of a captured image obtained by the camera after the process is performed.