Abstract: Provided is an air conditioner including an indoor unit provided with a microphone element for receiving voice instructions, such that a voice instruction spoken by an operator is acquired with high quality and control based on the voice instruction spoken by the operator is likely to be ensured. The air conditioner includes an indoor unit, a transmission unit, and a reception unit. The indoor unit has a main body and a microphone element. The main body has formed therein a blow-out port through which air-conditioned air is blown out toward a space to be air-conditioned. The microphone element accepts a voice instruction captured from a voice capturing portion arranged at a position that deviates from a ventilation space through which the air blown out from the blow-out port flows, in such a manner as to face the space to be air-conditioned. The transmission unit transmits the voice instruction accepted by the microphone element to an outside as a signal.

Abstract: A power storage device packaging material includes a laminate having at least a base material layer, a barrier layer, and a heat-sealable resin layer sequentially from an outer side, wherein the base material layer includes a polyester film and a polyamide film, the polyester film has a thickness of 10 ?m or more and 14 ?m or less, and the polyamide film has a thickness of 18 ?m or more and 22 ?m or less.

Abstract: A battery packaging material is configured from a laminate including, at a minimum, a polyester film layer, an aluminum alloy foil layer, and a heat fusible resin layer in the stated order. The thickness of the polyester film layer is 23-27 ?m (inclusive), the thickness of the aluminum alloy foil layer is 27-43 ?m (inclusive), the thickness of the heat fusible resin layer is 70-100 ?m (inclusive), and the insulation breakdown voltage of the surface of the polyester film layer side is 13 kV or greater.

Abstract: A casing material for a power storage device, including a laminate that includes, in order, at least a base material layer, a barrier layer, and a heat-fusible resin layer. The heat-fusible resin layer includes a single layer or a plurality of layers. The heat-fusible resin layer includes at least one layer having a hardness of at least 70 MPa from a cross-section in the lamination direction of the laminate, measured using a nanoindentation method using an indentation load of 100 ?N.

Abstract: An all-solid-state battery contained in an exterior material having a barrier layer in which deterioration is effectively suppressed even when the all-solid-state battery is constrained in a high-pressure state. The all-solid-state battery has a battery element contained in a package formed of an exterior material, the battery element includes at least a unit cell including: a positive electrode active material layer; a negative electrode active material layer; and a solid electrolyte layer laminated between the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer, wherein the exterior material is composed of a laminate having, in the following order: at least a barrier layer; a barrier layer protection film formed on the surface of the barrier layer; and a heat-fusible resin layer.

Abstract: A battery packaging material is configured from a laminate including, at a minimum, a polyester film layer, an aluminum alloy foil layer, and a heat fusible resin layer in the stated order. The thickness of the polyester film layer is 23-27 ?m (inclusive), the thickness of the aluminum alloy foil layer is 27-43 ?m (inclusive), the thickness of the heat fusible resin layer is 70-100 ?m (inclusive), and the insulation breakdown voltage of the surface of the polyester film layer side is 13 kV or greater.

Abstract: A battery packaging material includes a laminate with at least a base layer, an aluminum alloy foil layer, and a heat-fusible resin layer in this order, and in which the aluminum alloy foil layer satisfies the chemical composition in JIS A8021 and has a Si content of no higher than 0.08 mass %.

Abstract: A battery packaging material that is excellent in continuous productivity of batteries. A battery packaging material comprising a laminate having at least a base material layer, a barrier layer, and a heat-sealable resin layer in this order, wherein the heat-sealable resin layer contains a lubricant, and when a Vickers-shaped indenter is pressed into a surface of the heat-sealable resin layer opposite to the barrier layer at a loading speed of 5 mN/10 sec, using PICODENTOR (registered trademark) HM500, in an environment at a temperature of 24° C. and a relative humidity of 50%, an indentation depth of the indenter into the heat-sealable resin layer at the point when a load on the indenter reaches 3.0 mN is 5.8 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided is a packaging material for an electrochemical cell which prevents the occurrence of short circuits. A packaging material for an electrochemical cell configured by laminating a base material layer including: at least a resin film; a heat-adhesive layer including a heat-adhesive resin, the heat-adhesive layer being disposed on the innermost layer; and a barrier layer including a metal foil, the barrier layer being disposed between the base material layer and the heat-adhesive layer, wherein a chemical-conversion-treated layer including alumina particles and modified epoxy resin is formed on the surface of at least the heat adhesive layer side of the barrier layer.

Abstract: A battery packaging material has an excellent ink printing characteristic on a base-layer-side surface. This battery packaging material has a laminated body formed by sequentially stacking at least a base layer, a metal layer, and a sealant layer, with the wet tensile strength of the surface of the base layer being 32 mN/m or greater.

Abstract: Battery packaging material wherein a sheet-like laminated body is formed by sequentially stacking at least a base layer, metal layer, and sealant layer, the battery packaging material being equipped with substantially rectangular space that is formed to protrude from the sealant layer side toward the base layer side, and accommodates a battery element on the sealant layer side. In planar view from the base layer side view, a first and second curved sections are provided from the center portion toward the battery packaging material end parts, in a cross section in the thickness direction on a line connecting opposing corner parts protruding in a substantially rectangular shape. The thickness (a) of the metal layer at the first curved section, (c) of the metal layer at the second curved section, and (b) of the metal layer at the section located between the first and second curved sections, satisfy the following relationship a?b>c or a?c>b.

Abstract: A cell packaging material in which the substrate layer surface has excellent ink printing characteristics. Cell packaging material including a layered article provided with at least a substrate layer, a metal layer, and a heast-fusible layer in the stated order, the substrate layer being formed from a polyamide resin containing an ethylene-bis-stearic acid amide and an ethylene-bis-oleic acid amide.

Abstract: A battery packaging material has a laminate in which at least a base material layer, a metal layer and a sealant layer are laminated in this order, wherein the sealant layer has a plurality of fatty acid amide-based lubricants, and at least one of the fatty acid amide-based lubricants is a saturated fatty acid amide.

Abstract: A method for producing a battery packaging material, the method including the steps of: providing a battery packaging material including a laminate in which at least a base material layer, a metal layer, and a sealant layer containing a polyolefin resin are laminated in this order; and confirming that the intensity ratio X=P/Q is in the range of 0.05 to 0.80 where P is a peak intensity P at 1650 cm?1 originating from C?O stretching vibration of the amide group of an amide-based lubricant, and Q is a peak intensity Q at 1460 cm?1 originating from bending vibration of the group —CH2— of the polyolefin resin, each of which is measured from an absorption spectrum obtained by splitting reflected light in irradiation of the surface of the sealant layer with an infrared ray, and P/Q is a ratio of the peak intensity P to the peak intensity Q.

Abstract: A battery packaging material that is excellent in continuous productivity of batteries. A battery packaging material comprising a laminate having at least a base material layer, a barrier layer, and a heat-sealable resin layer in this order, wherein the heat-sealable resin layer contains a lubricant, and when a Vickers-shaped indenter is pressed into a surface of the heat-sealable resin layer opposite to the barrier layer at a loading speed of 5 mN/10 sec, using PICODENTOR (registered trademark) HM500, in an environment at a temperature of 24° C. and a relative humidity of 50%, an indentation depth of the indenter into the heat-sealable resin layer at the point when a load on the indenter reaches 3.0 mN is 5.8 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided is a battery packaging material that comprises a laminated body formed by sequentially stacking at least a base layer, a metal layer, and a sealant layer, and that has a thin overall thickness, and has excellent formability and piercing strength. This battery packaging material comprises a laminated body formed by sequentially stacking at least a base layer, a metal layer, and a sealant layer, with the overall thickness of the laminated body being 50-80 ?m, and the ratio of the sum of the thicknesses of the base layer and the metal layer with respect to the overall thickness of the laminated body being in a range of 0.380-0.630.

Abstract: A battery packaging material that is unlikely to develop pinholes or cracks during molding, and has excellent moldability, comprising at least an aluminum alloy foil layer, wherein for any 100 aluminum alloy grains positioned within a field of view of a scanning electron microscope in a cross section of the aluminum alloy foil layer in a thickness direction, an average grain diameter, which is an average value of a maximum diameter x of the 100 grains, is 10.0 ?m or less, where the maximum diameter x is defined as a linear distance connecting a leftmost end of each of the grains in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction and a rightmost end of the grain in the direction perpendicular to the thickness direction.

Abstract: A cell packaging material in which the substrate layer surface has excellent ink printing characteristics. Cell packaging material including a layered article provided with at least a substrate layer, a metal layer, and a heast-fusible layer in the stated order, the substrate layer being formed from a polyamide resin containing an ethylene-bis-stearic acid amide and an ethylene-bis-oleic acid amide.

Abstract: A battery packaging material has an excellent ink printing characteristic on a base-layer-side surface. This battery packaging material has a laminated body formed by sequentially stacking at least a base layer, a metal layer, and a sealant layer, with the wet tensile strength of the surface of the base layer being 32 mN/m or greater.

Abstract: Battery packaging material wherein a sheet-like laminated body is formed by sequentially stacking at least a base layer, metal layer, and sealant layer, the battery packaging material being equipped with substantially rectangular space that is formed to protrude from the sealant layer side toward the base layer side, and accommodates a battery element on the sealant layer side. In planar view from the base layer side view, a first and second curved sections are provided from the center portion toward the battery packaging material end parts, in a cross section in the thickness direction on a line connecting opposing corner parts protruding in a substantially rectangular shape. The thickness (a) of the metal layer at the first curved section, (c) of the metal layer at the second curved section, and (b) of the metal layer at the section located between the first and second curved sections, satisfy the following relationship a?b>c or a?c>b.