Abstract: A cylindrical anode can has a sidewall extending along a central axis. The sidewall has an upper end portion having a relatively large thickness and a sidewall small portion having a thickness smaller than the upper end portion. The upper end portion is located at an end of the sidewall, and the sidewall small portion is a portion other than the upper end portion. In the sidewall, a distance (L3) between an outer circumferential surface of the upper end portion and the central axis is equal to a distance (L3) between an outer circumferential surface of the sidewall small portion and the central axis. A distance (L1) between an inner circumferential surface of the upper end portion and the central axis is smaller than the distance (L2) between an inner circumferential surface of the sidewall small portion and the central axis.

Abstract: An anode can capable of preventing leakage of liquid, method of fabricating the same, and battery using the anode can and method of fabricating the same is provided. An anode can is formed of a material formed of a stack of layers including an aluminum alloy and stainless steel layers formed on the aluminum alloy layer and it includes a flat, center portion and a peripheral side wall contiguous to and surrounding the flat center portion. The aluminum alloy layer located at the peripheral side wall is thinner than the aluminum alloy layer located at the flat center portion. At an edge of the peripheral side wall, the aluminum alloy and stainless steel layers have their respective end surfaces aligned substantially in a single straight line in a plane substantially perpendicular to an outer peripheral surface of the peripheral side wall.

Abstract: An anode can having a sufficient strength in a fixing portion of the anode can and a cathode cover of a battery as well as a manufacturing method thereof are obtained. A cylindrical anode can has a sidewall and extends along a central axis. The sidewall has an upper end portion serving as a large thickness portion having a relatively large thickness and a sidewall small thickness portion having a thickness relatively smaller than that of the upper end portion. The upper end portion is located at an end of the sidewall, and the sidewall small thickness portion refers to a portion other than the upper end portion in the sidewall. In the sidewall, a distance (L3) between an outer circumferential surface of the upper end portion and the central axis is equal to a distance (L3) between an outer circumferential surface of the sidewall small thickness portion and the central axis.

Abstract: There is provided an anode can capable of preventing leakage of liquid, a method of fabricating the same, and a battery using the anode can and a method of fabricating the same. An anode can is formed of a material formed of a stack of layers including an aluminum alloy layer and a stainless steel layer formed on the aluminum alloy layer and it includes a flat, center portion and a peripheral side wall contiguous to and surrounding the flat center portion. The aluminum alloy layer located at the peripheral side wall is smaller in thickness than the aluminum alloy layer located at the flat center portion. At an edge of the peripheral side wall, the aluminum alloy layer and the stainless steel layer have their respective end surfaces aligned substantially in a single straight line in a plane substantially perpendicular to an outer peripheral surface of the peripheral side wall.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a button-type alkaline cell comprises forming and working a negative electrode having an inner surface of Cu using a die having a ceramic portion while abutting the ceramic portion of the die with at least the Cu inner surface of the negative electrode. The thus formed and worked negative electrode is then combined with a positive electrode compound, a negative electrode compound, a separator, a positive electrode, a gasket and an alkaline electrolyte to form the button-type alkaline cell.

Abstract: Inserting member 10 used for the retaining device for clothes is formed of a plastic material, and includes a base plate 11 attached to the clothes, an inserting plate 12 having, at one end of base plate 11, a vertical portion 11a extending vertically from the base plate 11, a bent portion 12b bent to a direction parallel to the base plate from the vertical portion 11a, and a parallel portion 12c extending parallel to the base plate 11 from the bent portion 12a, a convex portion 15 provided on the inserting plate 12 at a position opposing to the base plate 11, and a rib 14 provided on an outer surface of the inserting plate 12 for suppressing deflection of the inserting plate 12. Accordingly, a retaining device for clothes formed of plastic, which does not cause any chemical reaction with the chemicals used for clothes and not cause any reaction of a metal detector, which has sufficient characteristics for use and suitable for mass production can be provided.

Abstract: A battery can hole detecting apparatus detects whether or not battery cans formed by a drawing operation are defective and leak because a can has a hole. Battery cans which are continuously fed in are placed on the outer surface of a rotor and thereby carried to a first or second discharge port. During this movement, air is introduced into the inner space of such battery can to detect whether or not the battery can is leaking according to whether or not the pressure of the introduced air reaches a predetermined value. Battery cans which are not defective are discharged at a first discharge port, while battery cans which are defective are discharged at a second discharge port.

Abstract: A cathode lid of a battery container having a peripheral portion U letter shaped in section, with the outer peripheral side formed thicker than the inner peripheral side, and a side formed thicker than the inner peripheral side, and a method of manufacturing the same. In a process of manufacture of the anode lid, the periphery of a blank of a disk is bent in one direction vertical to the surface thereof, thereby to achieve a structure of a vessel having a bent periphery and then the vessel structure is subjected to paired working processes of punch and knockout, whereby a pressing force is exerted so that the edge of the bent periphery and the central portion of the main flat portion of the blank comes to to be close to each other in the direction vertical to the surface of the blank. As a result, the periphery is formed to be U letter shaped in section, while the central portion is maintained flat.

Abstract: A anode lid of a battery container having a peripheral portion U letter shaped in section, with the outer peripheral side formed thicker than the inner peripheral side, and a method of manufacturing the same. In a process of manufacture of the anode lid, the periphery of a blank of a disk is a bent in one direction vertical to the surface thereof, thereby to achieve a structure of a vessel having the bent periphery and then the vessel structure is subjected to paired working processes of punch and knockout, whereby a pressing force is exerted so that the edge of the bent periphery and the central portion of the main flat portion of the blank comes to be close to each other in the direction vertical to the surface of the blank. As a result, the periphery is formed to be U letter shaped in section, while the central portion is maintained flat.