Abstract: In a forward movement, an article is conveyed to a printing device via a transfer position while being kept mounted in a first holder for printing by the printing device. The article is returned to the transfer position together with the first holder after printing. An article to be printed after the above article is mounted into a second holder in parallel with at least a part of the forward movement, the printing and a return movement. This is capable of printing on the articles in a short throughput time also when the articles are those having a three-dimensional shape such as bottles and in-vehicle components.

Abstract: In a forward movement, an article is conveyed to a printing device via a transfer position while being kept mounted in a first holder for printing by the printing device. The article is returned to the transfer position together with the first holder after printing. An article to be printed after the above article is mounted into a second holder in parallel with at least a part of the forward movement, the printing and a return movement. This is capable of printing on the articles in a short throughput time also when the articles are those having a three-dimensional shape such as bottles and in-vehicle components.

Abstract: An electrode composite having such a structure that a first active material layer and a second active material layer are formed on two principal surfaces of a sheet body functioning as a current collector is formed. Each of the first and the second active material layer includes a plurality of strip-shaped parts which extend in a longitudinal direction of the sheet body and are arranged at a distance from each other. An area of a first principal surface of the sheet body corresponding to a gap between the second strip-shaped parts on a second principal surface is covered by one of the first strip-shaped parts; and an area of the second principal surface of the sheet body corresponding to a gap between the first strip-shaped parts on the first principal surface is covered by one of the second strip-shaped parts.

Abstract: In a technology for manufacturing a battery electrode by applying an application liquid containing an active material, stripe-shaped pattern elements are formed at narrower intervals than before while contact between the pattern elements is avoided. An application liquid containing an active material is applied onto a base material 11, which will become a current collector, by a nozzle-scan coating method, thereby forming stripe-shaped active material pattern elements P1, P3, P5, . . . parallel to each other and extending in a Y-direction. After liquid components are volatilized from the application liquid and spread base parts of the pattern elements are shrunk, pattern elements P2, P4, P6, . . . are formed by applying the application liquid in stripes between the already formed pattern elements. In this way, it can be prevented that the base parts approach each other and the pattern elements touch each other when the adjacent patterns are simultaneously formed.

Abstract: In a technology for manufacturing a battery electrode by applying an application liquid containing an active material, stripe-shaped pattern elements are formed at narrower intervals than before while contact between the pattern elements is avoided. While a nozzle 21 including a multitude of discharge openings in an X-direction is moved to scan in a Y-direction relative to a base material 110, an application liquid containing an active material is discharged from the respective discharge openings and applied to the base material 110. Between pattern elements 221 formed by a first scanning movement, pattern elements 222 are formed by applying the application liquid anew by a second scanning movement. By making the start positions of the pattern elements 221, 222 different in a scanning direction (Y-direction), contact between the pattern elements resulting from the spread of the application liquid at pattern element start ends is prevented.