Abstract: In the present invention, a secondary battery comprises: a battery element (20) in which a positive pole plate and a negative pole plate are layered; a housing (10) for housing the battery element (20) and an electrolyte; electrode tabs (21, 25) of the positive electrode and the negative electrode that are led out from the housing (10); a fusing part (25b) that is formed in a part of the electrode tab and preferentially fuses if a predetermined current has flowed; and a reinforcing member (33) which is attached to an electrode tab at least at the section having the fusing part (25b), and which is attached so as to be separated from the housing.

Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery which uses a heat generating reaction of the redox shuttle agent to achieve stopping a function of fee battery by blocking ion conduction and rapidly increasing an internal resistance by means of volatilized non-aqueous solvent when an abnormality such as overcharge occurs. A secondary battery 1 comprises a battery element comprising a positive electrode 11, a negative electrode 12, a separator 13, and an electrolytic solution, and a casing sealing the battery element. The electrolytic solution comprises a redox shuttle agent and an organic solvent having a boiling point of 125° C. or less. The separator 13 comprises aramid fiber assembly, aramid microporous structure, polyimide microporous structure or polyphenylenesulfide microporous structure, and polyphenylenesulfide, and has an average void size of 0.1 ?m or more.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte solution secondary battery having an electrode element having a positive electrode and a negative electrode disposed so as to face each other, a nonaqueous electrolyte solution, and an outer package housing the electrode element and the nonaqueous electrolyte solution, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte solution contains a cyclic sulfonic acid ester represented by the general formula (1), and a positive electrode active material in the positive electrode is a mixture of a lithium manganese composite oxide having a spinel structure and a lithium transition metal composite compound having a layered rock salt structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lithium secondary battery having a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode active material capable of absorbing and releasing lithium ions, a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode active material capable of absorbing and releasing lithium ions, and an electrolyte solution, wherein a positive electrode surface detection component comprises at least one negative secondary ion peak selected from CH3S2O6? and CHS2O4?, and further comprises a negative secondary ion peak of SO3—, wherein the positive electrode surface detection component is detected when a primary ion is irradiated on the surface of the positive electrode active material by a Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) method. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a lithium secondary battery having excellent cycle characteristics.

Abstract: Provided is a double-faced PSA sheet having excellent detergent resistance. The PSA sheet according to this invention comprises a PSA layer and is adhesive on both faces. The PSA sheet shows a push-peel strength of 30 N/cm2 or greater after a detergent immersion test involving immersion in a standard detergent at 40° C. for 24 hours. It also has an adhesive strength retention rate of 50% or higher, determined as the ratio of push-peel strength P2 after the detergent immersion test to push-peel strength P1 before the detergent immersion test.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrolyte solution comprising a supporting salt, a nonaqueous solvent containing a compound having a viscosity of 1.0 mPa-s or less in an amount of more than 50% by volume in the nonaqueous solvent, and a halogenated cyclic acid anhydride. According to the present invention, an electrolyte solution capable of suppressing gas generation is provided.

Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery comprising a negative electrode comprising one or more types of carbon selected from the group consisting of natural graphite, artificial graphite, non-graphitizable carbon and easily graphitizable carbon; and an electrolyte solution comprising a cyclic sulfonic acid ester represented by the following formula (1): wherein in the formula (1), R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a halogen group or an amino group with the proviso that R1 and R2 are not hydrogen atoms at the same time; R3 represents a linkage group selected from the group consisting of an alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a carbonyl group, a sulfonyl group, a fluoroalkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and a divalent group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms in which alkylene units or fluoroalkylene units are bonded through an ether group.

Abstract: An electric power steering device includes a phase advance correction unit configured to advance a phase of a steering torque signal detected by a torque sensor detecting a steering torque input from a steering wheel, a specific frequency extraction unit configured to extract a component in a specific frequency band out of the steering torque signal detected by the torque sensor, a gain multiplication unit configured to correct a steering torque signal computed on the basis of an output signal of the phase advance correction unit and an output signal of the specific frequency extraction unit such that the steering torque signal reaches a limit value set by a limiter by multiplying the steering torque signal by a gain, and an addition unit configured to add an assist correction command value calculated on the basis of an output signal output from the gain multiplication unit to the assist command value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrolytic solution comprising a cyclic dicarboxylic acid ester represented by the specific formula, and the secondary battery comprising the same. According to the present invention, the electrolytic solution comprising an additive which can improve a characteristics in a secondary battery and a secondary battery comprising the same can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrolytic solution comprising a cyclic disulfonic acid ester represented by the specific formula and a cyclic dicarboxylic acid ester represented by the specific formula, and the secondary battery using the same. According to the present invention, the electrolytic solution which can improve a cycle characteristics in a secondary battery and a secondary battery using the same can be provided.

Abstract: An electric power steering device for driving an electric motor 10 using an assist command value calculated on the basis of a detection result of a torque sensor 12 for detecting a steering torque to reduce a left/right difference of a remaining steering angle of a steering wheel, the electric power steering device including a basic return command value calculation unit 20 configured to calculate a basic return command value in a direction to return the steering wheel to a neutral position on the basis of a steering angle of the steering wheel, a turn/return determination unit 40 configured to determine the turn and the return of the steering wheel, a gradually changing return command value calculation unit 41 configured to calculate a gradually changing return command value, the gradually changing return command value gradually increasing, while the return of the steering wheel is determined by the turn/return determination unit, and a return command value calculation unit 50 configured to calculate a return

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrolytic solution capable of suppressing gas generation. The present exemplary embodiment is an electrolytic solution comprising a supporting salt, a nonaqueous solvent that dissolves the supporting salt, a cyclic sulfonic acid ester compound represented by predetermined formula (1), and an acid anhydride. According to the exemplary embodiment, an electrolytic solution capable of suppressing gas generation can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium ion secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode; a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode active material comprising at least one carbon material selected from the group consisting of a natural graphite, an artificial graphite, a non-graphitizable carbon and a graphitizable carbon; and an electrolyte solution comprising a specific cyclic disulfonate ester compound and an acid anhydride.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte solution secondary battery having an electrode element having a positive electrode and a negative electrode disposed so as to face each other, a nonaqueous electrolyte solution, and an outer package housing the electrode element and the nonaqueous electrolyte solution, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte solution contains a cyclic sulfonic acid ester represented by the general formula (1), and a positive electrode active material in the positive electrode is a mixture of a lithium manganese composite oxide having a spinel structure and a lithium transition metal composite compound having a layered rock salt structure.

Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery comprising a negative electrode comprising one or more types of carbon selected from the group consisting of natural graphite, artificial graphite, non-graphitizable carbon and easily graphitizable carbon; and an electrolyte solution comprising a cyclic sulfonic acid ester represented by the following formula (1); wherein in the formula (1), R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a halogen group or an amino group with the proviso that R1 and R2 are not hydrogen atoms at the same time; R3 represents a linkage group selected from the group consisting of an alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a carbonyl group, a sulfonyl group, a fluoroalkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and a divalent group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms in which alkylene units or fluoroalkylene units are bonded through an ether group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a gel electrolyte comprising a cyclic sulfonic acid ester represented by formula (1). According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a gel electrolyte capable of suppressing the self-discharge of a polymer secondary battery, and a polymer secondary battery using the gel electrolyte. wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a halogen group or an amino group with the proviso that R1 and R2 are not hydrogen atoms at the same time; R3 represents a linkage group selected from the group consisting of an alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a carbonyl group, a sulfonyl group, a fluoroalkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and a divalent group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms in which alkylene units or fluoroalkylene units are bonded through an ether group.

Abstract: A voltage detection circuit includes: an amplifier which amplifies a voltage difference between first and second input signals input into non-inverting and inverting input terminals of the amplifier via first and second input portions; a first signal line which connects the first input portion to the amplifier; a second signal line which connects the second input portion to the amplifier; a first capacitor connected in parallel to the first signal line; a second capacitor connected in parallel to the second signal line; a first filter element which has an inductor component and a resistor component and is connected in series to the first signal line between the first capacitor and the amplifier; and a second filter element which has an inductor component and a resistor component and is connected in series to the second signal line between the second capacitor and the amplifier.

Abstract: A voltage detection circuit includes: an amplifier which amplifies a voltage difference between first and second input signals input into non-inverting and inverting input terminals of the amplifier via first and second input portions; a first signal line which connects the first input portion to the amplifier; a second signal line which connects the second input portion to the amplifier; a first capacitor connected in parallel to the first signal line; a second capacitor connected in parallel to the second signal line; a first filter element which has an inductor component and a resistor component and is connected in series to the first signal line between the first capacitor and the amplifier; and a second filter element which has an inductor component and a resistor component and is connected in series to the second signal line between the second capacitor and the amplifier.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape includes a substrate layer, a colored layer, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The substrate layer is formed of a plastic material, such as polyethylene terephthalate. The colored layer is laminated on one major surface of the substrate layer. The colored layer is a black printed layer formed by printing, for example, black ink. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is laminated on the other major surface of the substrate layer. An acrylic polymer is preferably used as the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. In the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, a specular reflectance of visible light on the surface near to the colored layer is 2.0% or smaller.

Abstract: A double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape according to an embodiment contains a solvent-type acrylic copolymer, in which the total thickness of the tape is 150 ?m or less and a mass increase after being dipped in artificial sebum under an atmosphere at 55° C. for 3 days is 10% by mass or more and 150% by mass or less.