Abstract: An outer package material for all-solid-state batteries, which is composed of a multilayer body that is sequentially provided, from the outer side, with at least a base material layer, a barrier layer and a thermally fusible resin layer in this order, and which is configured such that the multilayer body has a layer that has a buffering function on the outer side of the thermally fusible resin layer.

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 valve device and an assembled battery according to which even if the valve device operates, deterioration of an outer layer of a storage body is unlikely to be accelerated. The valve device is attached to a first storage body that stores a battery. The valve device includes an attachment part, a valve device main body, and a gas passage part. The attachment part is attached to the first storage body. The valve device main body reduces pressure inside the first storage body in a case where the pressure increases due to gas produced inside the first storage body. The gas passage part is between the attachment part and the valve device main body, and allows gas that passes through the attachment part to pass through the valve device main body. The valve device main body is located outward of an outer periphery of the first storage body.

Abstract: An exterior material which is applied to an all-solid-state battery using a solid electrolyte containing a sulfide solid electrolyte material, the 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, wherein hydrogen sulfide generated inside the all-solid-state battery can be discharged to the outside. The exterior material for an all-solid-state battery is used for an all-solid-state battery including a sulfide solid electrolyte material, and is composed of a laminate having: at least a substrate layer; a barrier layer; a barrier layer protection film formed on the surface of the barrier layer; and a heat-fusible resin layer in this order from the outside, wherein the amount of hydrogen sulfide permeation through the resin constituting the heat-fusible resin layer is at least 1.0×10?8 cc·mm/cm2·sec·cmHg.

Abstract: An exterior material for an all-solid-state battery, wherein hydrogen sulfide generated inside the all-solid-state battery including a sulfide solid electrolyte material is effectively suppressed from leaking to the outside. The exterior material for an all-solid-state battery is used for an all-solid-state battery including a sulfide solid electrolyte material, and is composed of a laminate having: at least a substrate layer; a barrier layer; and a heat-fusible resin layer in this order from the outside, wherein the amount of hydrogen sulfide permeation through the resin constituting the heat-fusible resin layer is 1.0×10?9 cc·mm/cm2·sec·cmHg or less.

Abstract: A sheathing material for an all solid state battery, the sheathing material including at least: a stack including a substrate layer, a barrier layer, and a heat fusible resin layer in this order; and an insulating layer provided on the heat fusible resin layer on the opposite side from the substrate layer side, wherein when an all solid state battery obtained by accommodating, in a packaged formed from the sheathing material for an all solid state battery, a battery element which includes at least a unit cell including a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a solid state electrolyte layer stacked between the positive and negative electrode active material layers is seen in plan view, the insulating layer is disposed at a position covering the entire surface of the positive electrode active material layer in the all solid state battery.

Abstract: A valve device for a power storage device that can, when a gas is generated inside the power storage device, release the gas to the outside, and can highly prevent the intrusion of moisture from an external environment, the power storage device including: a power storage device element and a housing in which the element is housed, the valve device being attached to the housing, wherein the valve device is configured to reduce an internal pressure of the housing when the pressure increases due to a gas generated inside, and in the valve device, an amount of helium leakage from a secondary side to a primary side is 5.0×10?11 Pa·m3/sec or more and 5.0×10?6 Pa·m3/sec or less, as measured in a 25° C. environment, in accordance with a method defined in “Vacuum spraying method (spray method)” of “Method for helium leak testing” in JIS Z 2331: 2006.

Abstract: A valve for forming a passage through an inside and an outside of a packaging container constituted by resin molded articles or films are in communication with each other includes a breakable valve that's arranged to block the passage and splits open when internal pressure of the packaging container increases due to gas generated inside the packaging container, a check valve that's arranged on a secondary side located on an outer side to the breakable valve in the passage and through which the gas is discharged from the inside of the packaging container to the outside thereof according to internal pressure of the packaging container after the breakable valve has split open, and an attachment portion that delimits at least a portion of the passage and is fixed to the packaging container in a state of being sandwiched between the resin molded articles or the films constituting the packaging container.

Abstract: A notification device in a vehicle enables a person outside the vehicle to be notified of a predetermined operating state of the vehicle by the light emission, and includes: a plurality of spot-shaped light sources arranged at intervals to follow an upper edge of a windshield; a reflecting part reflecting light from the light sources to a front; an outer lens transmitting therethrough the light heading toward the front from the reflecting part; and a housing. The outer lens has on at least one of front and rear faces thereof a fine concave-convex face diffusing the light transmitted through the outer lens. Accordingly, the device is visible through an upper part of the windshield from a person outside the vehicle so that visibility is very good, and the light from the relatively small spot-shaped light source can be sufficiently diffused so that visibility can be further enhanced.

Abstract: A battery includes a battery element, housing body, and valve device. The housing body has a laminate including a base material, barrier, and heat-sealable resin layers. The valve device is in communication with the housing body inside. A joined edge portion in which the mutually facing heat-sealable resin layers are fused together is formed in a housing body peripheral edge portion. The valve device includes first and second portions. A valve mechanism reduces the housing body internal pressure if it is increased due to gas generated in the housing body is formed in the first portion. An air passage guides gas generated in the housing body toward the valve mechanism is formed in the second portion. The first portion is located on a joined edge portion edge outer side. At least a portion of the second portion is sandwiched between the heat-sealable resin layers in the joined edge portion.

Abstract: A battery includes a battery element, housing body, and valve device. The housing body includes at least one laminate and an interior space wherein the battery element is housed, a first housing portion covers the interior space from a first side in a thickness direction, and a second housing portion that covers the interior space from a second side opposite to the first side in the thickness direction. The valve device attaches to the housing body and makes the interior space communicate with an external space. A joined edge portion is formed in the housing body by the first and second housing portion being fused along respective peripheral edges. The valve device is between the first and second housing portion in the joined edge portion, and an inner end of the valve device protrudes from an inner edge of the joined edge portion toward the interior space.

Abstract: A battery includes a battery element, a housing body, and a valve device. The housing body houses the battery element. The valve device is in communication with the inside of the housing body. Heat-sealable resin layers face each other in a peripheral edge portion of the housing body. A joined edge portion in which the mutually facing heat-sealable resin layers are fused together is formed in the peripheral edge portion of the housing body. The valve device is configured to reduce an internal pressure of the housing body if the internal pressure is increased due to gas generated in the housing body. The valve device includes a first portion that is located on an outer side of an edge of the joined edge portion and a second portion that is sandwiched between the heat-sealable resin layers in the joined edge portion.

Abstract: A valve device is a valve device for attaching to a storage body. This valve device is provided with a valve device main body and an adhesive member. The valve device main body is configured to reduce pressure inside the storage body in the case where the pressure increases due to gas produced inside the storage body. The adhesive member is adhered to an outer periphery of the valve device main body, and is configured to adhere to the storage body. A hole through which the gas passes is formed in an end face of the valve device main body.

Abstract: A battery includes a battery element, a housing body, and a valve device. The housing body is constituted by at least one laminate and includes an interior space in which the battery element is housed, a first housing portion that covers the interior space from a first side, and a second housing portion that covers the interior space from a second side. The valve device is attached to the housing body and can make interior space of housing body be in communication with an external space. A joined edge portion is formed in housing body as a result of the first and second housing portion being fused along respective peripheral edge portions. The valve device is sandwiched between the first and second housing portion in the joined edge portion, and an inner end of the valve device protrudes from an inner edge of joined edge portion toward the interior space.

Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide a dye-sensitized solar cell capable of improving photoelectric conversion efficiency, which is obtained at low costs, and a dye-sensitized solar cell module using the solar cell.

Abstract: A solar cell module comprises: two or more solar cell elements provided at intervals; a first colored layer provided between adjacent solar cell elements; and a diffusion layer and a second colored layer provided, on a side of a light receiving surface of the solar cell module, directly or through another layer in this order from the solar cell element side. A difference in luminance between a color of a region above the solar cell element and a color of a region above a gap between adjacent solar cell elements, in an anterior view of a surface of the diffusion layer of the solar cell module with the second colored layer removed, is up to 2.3.

Abstract: To raise the upper limit of the temperature range in which a quantum cascade laser (QCL) element for THz range operates at a single frequency. In a quantum cascade laser element in one embodiment of the present invention, each unit structure 10U in the active region 10 is provided with the first to fourth well layers 10W1-10W4 that are stacked in this order and separated from one another by at least one barrier layer 10B. During application of a first bias electric field for lasing, the structure of electronic energy levels has a reception, upper lasing, lower lasing, and depopulation levels and emits electromagnetic waves at a first frequency. During application of a second bias electric field that is weaker than the first bias electric field, the overlap integral is 0.15 or less between electronic wavefunctions for the unnecessary upper lasing and unnecessary lower lasing levels, thereby stimulated emissions of electromagnetic waves are suppressed at frequencies other than the first frequency.

Abstract: To raise the upper limit of the temperature range in which a quantum cascade laser (QCL) element for THz range operates at a single frequency. In a quantum cascade laser element in one embodiment of the present invention, each unit structure 10U in the active region 10 is provided with the first to fourth well layers 10W1-10W4 that are stacked in this order and separated from one another by at least one bather layer 10B. During application of a first bias electric field for lasing, the structure of electronic energy levels has a reception, upper lasing, lower lasing, and depopulation levels and emits electromagnetic waves at a first frequency. During application of a second bias electric field that is weaker than the first bias electric field, the overlap integral is 0.15 or less between electronic wavefunctions for the unnecessary upper lasing and unnecessary lower lasing levels, thereby stimulated emissions of electromagnetic waves are suppressed at frequencies other than the first frequency.

Abstract: A simple method that makes it possible to manufacture a highly-workable organic solar cell module having a plurality of connected organic solar cells is provided. The method includes: a first electrode substrate forming step of forming a plurality of first electrode layers on a first substrate to form a first electrode substrate; preparing a single piece of second electrode substrate-forming base material having at least a second electrode layer and capable of being cut into a plurality of second electrode substrates; a functional layer forming step; a cutting step to form a plurality of second electrode substrates; a bonding step so that the first and second electrode substrates are bonded together; and a connecting step of electrically connecting the first electrode layer of one of the organic solar cells to the second electrode layer of another organic solar cell which is adjacent to the one organic solar cell.

Abstract: A simple method that makes it possible to manufacture a highly-workable organic solar cell module having a plurality of connected organic solar cells is provided. The method includes: a first electrode substrate forming step of forming a plurality of first electrode layers on a first substrate to form a first electrode substrate; preparing a single piece of second electrode substrate-forming base material having at least a second electrode layer and capable of being cut into a plurality of second electrode substrates; a functional layer forming step; a cutting step to form a plurality of second electrode substrates; a bonding step so that the first and second electrode substrates are bonded together; and a connecting step of electrically connecting the first electrode layer of one of the organic solar cells to the second electrode layer of another organic solar cell which is adjacent to the one organic solar cell.