Abstract: A solid-state battery includes a solid-state battery body and a coating film. The solid-state battery body has an electrolyte layer containing a solid electrolyte, a positive electrode layer formed on a part of a first principal plane of the electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode layer formed on a part of a second principal plane of the electrolyte layer opposite to the first principal plane. The coating film has an insulating property and covers the solid-state battery body so as to expose a first portion of the positive electrode layer and a second portion of the negative electrode layer. The coating film has hardness higher than that of solid electrolytes contained in the solid-state battery body.

Abstract: A solid-state battery includes a battery body in which a positive electrode layer, an electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode layer are stacked; and a reference electrode stacked on a surface in the direction which these layers are stacked. The solid-state battery further includes a positive electrode connected to the positive electrode layer and a negative electrode connected to the negative electrode layer. The positive and negative electrodes are provided on the battery body.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a solid-state battery includes forming an electrode that includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer facing the first electrode layer and that further includes a buried layer interposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer so as to surround a contact portion where these electrode layers contact each other. For the buried layer, a solid electrolyte with lower electron conductivity than an electrode active material is used, for example. The buried layer is provided between the edge portion of the first electrode layer and the edge portion of the second electrode layer, so that deformation of the first electrode layer and second electrode layer is prevented in the subsequent lamination and thermocompression bonding and thus the occurrence of a short circuit due to such deformation is prevented in the solid-state battery.

Abstract: A laminated transformer includes a magnetic substance layer, a coil lamination stacked on the magnetic substance layer, the coil lamination having formed thereinside a primary coil and a secondary coil, the primary coil being wound spirally in convolutions in a stacking direction, the secondary coil being wound spirally in convolutions in the stacking direction and formed inside the primary coil, a magnetic substance filling inside of the secondary coil in the coil lamination, and a non-magnetic substance filling a region between the primary coil and the secondary coil and filling outside of the primary coil in the coil lamination.

Abstract: A multilayer inductor for reducing a difference in inductance values and suppressing magnetic interference. Plural electrically insulating magnetic layers and conductive patterns are laminated, each of the conductive patterns being connected in sequence in the lamination direction, so that two coils having substantially the same number of turns and substantially the same coil diameter are formed, the two coils are in parallel such that each coil is a mirror image with respect to a virtual surface between the coils, and ends of each coil are located at an outer peripheral part on a side opposite to the virtual surface, an electrically insulating nonmagnetic pattern corresponding in shape to each of the conductive patterns is between the conductive patterns adjacent in the lamination direction, and at least one electrically insulating nonmagnetic layer is disposed only inside the coils in the lamination direction in place of the magnetic layers.

Abstract: Provided is a medicinal agent for medical applications, which can act on the function of a target cell specifically. The medicinal agent for medical applications comprises: a cell-incorporated substance that can be incorporated into a target cell specifically; and an acting substance that can act on the function of the target cell and is bound to the cell-incorporated substance.

Abstract: Provided is a medicinal agent for medical applications, which can act on the function of a target cell specifically. The medicinal agent for medical applications comprises: a cell-incorporated substance that can be incorporated into a target cell specifically; and an acting substance that can act on the function of the target cell and is bound to the cell-incorporated substance.

Abstract: An absorbent article comprising an absorbent assembly and a pair of barrier cuffs is disclosed. The absorbent assembly comprises a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet. The barrier cuffs are disposed on the absorbent assembly and extend in the longitudinal direction of the article. Each barrier cuff has a fixed edge attached to the absorbent assembly, a free edge opposite to the fixed edge, a first folded portion formed between the fixed edge and the free edge by folding the barrier cuff transversely outwardly at both the longitudinal ends of the barrier cuff, and a second folded portion formed by folding the barrier cuff transversely outwardly at both the longitudinal ends of the barrier cuff so that the second folded portion is positioned transversely inwardly from the first folded portion and the free edge at each longitudinal end of the barrier cuff.

Abstract: Provided is a heat generating bag for footwear having a comfortable temperature regardless of the state of use, namely, when staying still, walking etc., which is thin and avoids an uncomfortable feeling of the wearer. The heat generating bag for footwear is made by having a heat generating composition powder and hot-melt adhesive powder held in the pores of multiporous vegetable fiber non-woven fabrics, such fabrics being heat compressed on a mold compressor, and the obtained sheet shaped heat generating body being packed in an air-permeable bag. The heat composition is held in the pores of multiporous vegetable fiber non-woven fabric layers which are superposed by the adhesion of water. Such non-woven fabric are compressed on a mold compressor, and the obtained sheet shaped heat generating body is impregnated with water or an inorganic electrolyte and then packed in an air-permeable bag.

Abstract: An ultrasonic motor comprises a piezo-electric element and electrode patterns disposed on a surface of the piezo-electric element at nearly equal intervals in a multiple of four. A vibrating member is disposed on another surface of and electrically connected to the piezo-electric element. A moving member is movably disposed on the vibrating member. First projections which frictionally drive the moving member by expansion and contraction movement of the piezo-electric element are disposed on a surface of the vibrating member near every other one of the boundaries of the electrode patterns of the piezo-electric element. Second projections are provided at each intermediate position between the first projections near all of the boundaries of the electrode patterns other than the boundaries near which the first projections are provided for adjusting the vibrating conditions of the vibrating member.

Abstract: An ultrasonic motor comprises a piezoelectric element having first and second surfaces. Electric patterns are disposed on the first surface of the piezoelectric element at nearly equal intervals in a multiple of four, with each pair of two neighboring electrode pattern corresponding to a region of the piezoelectric element which has an alternately reversed direction of polarization. First and second circuit devices short-circuit every other one of the electrode patterns to form two electrode pattern groups. A vibrating member is disposed on the second surface of and electrically connected to the piezoelectric element. Projections are disposed on the surface of the vibrating member near every other one of the boundaries of the electrode patterns.

Abstract: An ultrasonic motor utilizing flexural travelling wave components. A ball bearing is constituted by the inner ring, the balls, and an outer ring provided with a groove similar to the ball positioning groove of the inner ring, at a position where the ball are interposed. A rotor is provided inside the amplifying projections which are formed in the vibration member. A coil spring is provided in order to bring the rotor and the projections of the vibration member into pressure contact with each other. A spring pressing seat having a groove for receiving the other end of the coil spring is fixed to the support pin, with the coil spring and the support pin centered. The coil spring receiving groove of the inner ring and the coil spring are positioned so as not to share the same vertical plane with the ball. In this manner the thickness of the ultrasonic motor can be reduced.