Abstract: A battery is provided which includes: an electrode roll having a positive-electrode plate, a negative-electrode plate and a separator interposed therebetween; a battery casing accommodating the electrode roll; and a sealing plate laser-welded to an open end of the battery casing. On the outermost periphery of the electrode roll is located an electrode-base-exposed portion of either one of the positive-electrode plate and the negative-electrode plate. The sealing plate is laser-welded to the battery casing in a state that a collector tab formed by incising the electrode-base-exposed portion and folding the incised portion is held between the periphery of the open end of the battery casing and the sealing plate. With this construction, the electrical connection between the collector tab and the battery casing is assuredly achieved simultaneously with the sealing of the battery to suppress a reduction in the closed-circuit voltage and an increase in the internal resistance.

Abstract: An apparatus for inputting image forming condition includes a combination of a tablet and an input pen. An IC card insertion portion is formed on the tablet. In the state that an IC card is loaded to the tablet, when a control condition, for example, a copy quantity and copy magnification and/or an editing condition, for example, editing function and positional data are inputted by operating the tablet by means of the input pen, the inputted image forming condition is stored into the IC card. Thereafter, by unloading the IC card from the tablet and loading the same into a copying machine, a copying image of an original is formed by the copying machine in accordance with the image forming condition read out from the IC card.