Abstract: A position adjustment process of an electrode plate on a position adjusting table is performed based on captured image data from an imaging unit for adjustment, so that the electrode plate placed on an upper part is fed to a normal position with respect to a separator.

Abstract: After stacking of stacked cell is finished, the control unit performs a cutting process including allowing a separator cutting unit to cut a separator between a separator holding unit and a table for stacking in a state where the separator holding unit holds a lower surface of the separator between a separator roller and the table for stacking, moving the separator holding unit from below the separator roller to one side, and allowing to pass the separator to an upper surface of the table for stacking that has moved to the one side after the completed stacked cell is removed.

Abstract: An electrode feed unit includes an electrode plate feed unit, and the electrode plate feed unit includes an electrode cutting unit arranged to cut a conductive sheet into electrode plates by a certain length. The electrode cutting unit includes a fixed blade having a fixed cutting blade extending in a direction crossing a conveyance direction of the conductive sheet, a rotary blade of a disk shape having a rotary cutting blade on the radial outer edge, and a rotary blade moving unit arranged to rotate and move the rotary blade along the fixed blade in a state where the rotary cutting blade maintains contact with the fixed cutting blade.

Abstract: In the stacking process to stack negative electrode plates and positive electrode plates alternately with a bellows-shaped separator therebetween, a control unit performs tension control to change control condition to determine operations of a conveyance adjustment unit so that tension of the separator is within a certain range.

Abstract: A battery material stacking device sequentially stacks sheet-like workpieces pertaining to a battery material at high speed. The battery material stacking device is provided with a conveyance mechanism configured to convey workpieces in a predetermined direction, a rotor arranged below the conveyance mechanism to rotate about a predetermined rotation shaft, a plurality of holding portions provided on a peripheral portion of the rotor to hold the workpieces, and a stacking table configured to stack the workpieces thereon. The plurality of holding portions is configured to hold one surface of each of the workpieces which is being conveyed with the other surface of each of the workpieces being held by the conveyance mechanism, then convey the workpieces in accordance with a rotation of the rotor while reversing the workpieces, and stack the workpieces on the stacking table with the other surface facing the stacking table.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a gate wiring, an active layer, a gate insulating film, a first wiring, a second wring, and a first semiconductor film. The gate wiring includes a gate electrode. The active layer overlaps with the gate electrode and contains an oxide semiconductor. The gate insulating film is sandwiched by the gate electrode and the active layer. The first wiring and the second wiring are each located over the active layer and respectively include a first terminal and a second terminal which are electrically connected to the active layer. The first semiconductor film is located under and in contact with the first wiring and contains the oxide semiconductor.

Abstract: A sludge dehydration method includes a recovery process of recovering specific material as a dewatering aid from sludge generated in a sewage treatment process and a dewatering process of performing solid-liquid separation on sludge in which the dewatering aid recovered in the recovery process and dewatering target sludge are mixed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a gate wiring, an active layer, a gate insulating film, a first wiring, a second wring, and a first semiconductor film. The gate wiring includes a gate electrode. The active layer overlaps with the gate electrode and contains an oxide semiconductor. The gate insulating film is sandwiched by the gate electrode and the active layer. The first wiring and the second wiring are each located over the active layer and respectively include a first terminal and a second terminal which are electrically connected to the active layer. The first semiconductor film is located under and in contact with the first wiring and contains the oxide semiconductor.

Abstract: A battery material stacking device sequentially stacks sheet-like workpieces pertaining to a battery material at high speed. The battery material stacking device is provided with a conveyance mechanism configured to convey workpieces in a predetermined direction, a rotor arranged below the conveyance mechanism to rotate about a predetermined rotation shaft, a plurality of holding portions provided on a peripheral portion of the rotor to hold the workpieces, and a stacking table configured to stack the workpieces thereon. The plurality of holding portions is configured to hold one surface of each of the workpieces which is being conveyed with the other surface of each of the workpieces being held by the conveyance mechanism, then convey the workpieces in accordance with a rotation of the rotor while reversing the workpieces, and stack the workpieces on the stacking table with the other surface facing the stacking table.

Abstract: A recovery device is configured to recover specific material as a dewatering aid from sludge generated in a sewage treatment process. The recovery device includes: a grinder configured to fragment a solid in the sludge to obtain prepared sludge; a separator configured to separate hardly decomposable organic matter and easily decomposable organic matter from the prepared sludge; and an extractor configured to continuously extract hardly decomposable organic matter having specific properties as the dewatering aid from the hardly decomposable organic matter separated by the separator.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to countermeasure a disconnection between the drain electrode or the source electrode and the wiring or the electrode formed on the insulating film via through hole. The concrete structure is that: A display device having a display area including a plurality of pixels comprising: the pixel includes a thin film transistor having a semiconductor layer as an active element, a first insulating film is formed to cover a drain electrode of the thin film transistor, the drain electrode is connected with an electrode or an wiring that are formed on the first insulating film via a through hole, an oxide semiconductor layer exists between the drain electrode and the first insulating film, the oxide semiconductor layer does not exist at the bottom of the through hole.

Abstract: A joining device includes a pair of cylindrical rotors 210 and 220, holding surfaces 211 and 221 of which for holding a pair of sheet-like members 30, respectively, have a width smaller than a width of the pair of sheet-like members 30. The joining device has a conveyance unit 200 which superimposes the pair of sheet-like members sequentially while conveying the pair of sheet-like members, by rotating the pair of cylindrical rotors, and joining units (first joining units 300) which join portions of the superimposed pair of sheet-like members to each other sequentially, the portions protruding beyond the holding surfaces of the cylindrical rotors.

Abstract: A stacking apparatus having a cylindrical conveyance drum holding and rotating to covey a separator and an electrode conveyance unit conveying a positive electrode in a tangential direction of the conveyance drum so that the positive electrode overlaps the separator. To the outer circumferential surface of the conveyance drum, there are defined a suction area for drawing the separator that is non-rotatably positioned on an upstream side of a rotation direction of the conveyance drum with respect to a location to which the positive electrode in conveyed and a non-suction area for removing the separator that is non-rotatably positioned on a downstream side of the rotation direction of the same. The separator in the suction area is conveyed to the non-suction area, is removed from the outer circumferential surface, and is transferred onto the positive electrode, thereby gradually stacking the separator on the positive electrode.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to countermeasure a disconnection between the drain electrode or the source electrode and the wiring or the electrode formed on the insulating film via through hole. The concrete structure is that: A display device having a display area including a plurality of pixels comprising: the pixel includes a thin film transistor having a semiconductor layer as an active element, a first insulating film is formed to cover a drain electrode of the thin film transistor, the drain electrode is connected with an electrode or an wiring that are formed on the first insulating film via a through hole, an oxide semiconductor layer exists between the drain electrode and the first insulating film, the oxide semiconductor layer does not exist at the bottom of the through hole.

Abstract: A sludge dehydration method includes a recovery process of recovering specific material as a dewatering aid from sludge generated in a sewage treatment process and a dewatering process of performing solid-liquid separation on sludge in which the dewatering aid recovered in the recovery process and dewatering target sludge are mixed.

Abstract: A motor unit is provided which shortens an information transmission path between a detector and an arithmetic board. The motor unit includes a motor and a motor controller controlling a rotating operation of the motor based on a rotating angle of the motor such that the motor and the motor controller form a unit. The motor controller includes a resolver detecting a voltage signal corresponding to the rotating operation of the motor. The resolver outputs the voltage signal corresponding to the rotating operation of the motor, to a control board. The resolver is interposed between the motor and the control board and detects a rotating angle of a shaft end of a motor shaft extending beyond an operation performing apparatus that performs an operation of supplying driving power to the motor, to a position closer to the control board.

Abstract: First rib layers made of an inorganic material are formed in first frame regions of a first glass substrate. First resin layers are formed in first product regions after the first rib layers are formed. First functional layers which include light emitting element layers as a result of luminance of each of unit pixels forming an image being controlled and sealing layers covering the light emitting element layers are formed on the first rib layers and the first resin layers. The first rib layers and the first functional layers are cut along lines passing through the first frame regions while avoiding the first product regions in order to separate the first product regions from each other. In the step of cutting the first rib layers and the first functional layers, the first rib layers and the sealing layers are cut.

Abstract: A sludge dehydration method includes a recovery process of recovering specific material as a dewatering aid from sludge generated in a sewage treatment process and a dewatering process of performing solid-liquid separation on sludge in which the dewatering aid recovered in the recovery process and dewatering target sludge are mixed.

Abstract: A battery electrode manufacturing apparatus including: a front end die which cuts a strip-shaped electrode material into an electrode shape; a hand which grasps the electrode material and conveys the electrode material to the cutting position of the front end die; and a first suction conveyor which is disposed upstream of the front end die in a conveying direction and has a supporting surface for supporting the electrode material during the cutting by the front end die. The hand includes a first grasper and a second grasper, and the first suction conveyor is disposed between the first grasper and the second grasper. The hand carries the electrode material to the cutting position, at such a position that the electrode material does not contact the front end die and the first suction conveyor.

Abstract: A device for producing a packaged electrode includes: a conveyance unit configured to sequentially overlay the electrode and the pair of separators from a front end side in a conveying direction while conveying the electrode and the pair of separators; a first joining chip configured to join lateral edges of the pair of separators together; at least one second joining chip positioned downstream of the first joining chip in the conveying direction and configured to join the lateral edges of the pair of separators together. Front ends of the lateral edges of the pair of separators being sequentially overlaid while being conveyed by the conveyance unit are joined together by the first joining chip positioned upstream before the front ends are conveyed to the second joining chip positioned downstream.