Abstract: A flow battery includes: a cell including a first chamber and a second chamber a first liquid that contains a charge mediator and a discharge mediator, and that is located in the first chamber of the cell; a first electrode located in the first chamber of the cell; a first active material that is solid and that is located in the first chamber of the cell; a second liquid located in the second chamber of the cell; a second electrode that is located in the second chamber of the cell, and that is a counter electrode to the first electrode; and a first stirrer that stirs the first liquid in the first chamber. The charge mediator has a lower equilibrium potential than an equilibrium potential of the first active material. The discharge mediator has a higher equilibrium potential than the equilibrium potential of the first active material.

Abstract: A flow battery according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a first liquid containing dissolved therein a charge mediator and a discharge mediator; a first electrode immersed in the first liquid; and a first active material immersed in the first liquid. The equilibrium potential of the charge mediator is lower than the equilibrium potential of the first active material, and the equilibrium potential of the discharge mediator is higher than the equilibrium potential of the first active material.

Abstract: Provided is a mold clamping device that can simplify the component count or structure by including a mold thickness adjustment mechanism that reduces the load on a power source, is easily maintained, and has high design flexibility. Also provided is a mold clamping device that can set a long distance (daylight) between molds without having to upsize the entire mold clamping device and can simplify the component count or structure. A mold clamping device for split molds includes a first platen, a second platen, a pressure receiving platen, and a mold thickness adjustment mechanism disposed on the pressure receiving platen. At least one of the first platen and the second platen is able to move back and forth so as to approach or depart from the other. The pressure receiving platen is located on a side remote from the first platen, of the second platen.

Abstract: Provided is a method for extruding molten resin in a charging space from a head by converting a rotational motion of an electric motor into a linear motion of a piston disposed in the charging space through a ball screw and thus causing the piston to move vertically, the charging space being a space into which the molten resin can be charged and formed in an accumulator, the head having an extrusion port at a lower end thereof.

Abstract: A negative electrode material includes a carbon material including boron. In a B1s spectrum of the carbon material which is measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the ratio of the area of a peak that occurs at a binding energy of 187.0 eV or more and 188.5 eV or less to the total area of peaks that occur at a binding energy of 184.0 eV or more and 196.5 eV or less is 50% or more.

Abstract: A flow battery includes a first liquid, a second liquid, a first electrode immersed in the first liquid, a second electrode being a counter electrode of the first electrode and immersed in the second liquid, and an isolation unit separating the first electrode and the first liquid from the second electrode and the second liquid. Lithium is dissolved in at least one of the first liquid and the second liquid. The first liquid and the second liquid have a property of emitting solvated electrons of lithium and dissolving the lithium as a cation.

Abstract: A negative electrode material includes a carbon material including boron. In a B1s spectrum of the carbon material which is measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the ratio of the area of a peak that occurs at a binding energy of 187.0 eV or more and 188.5 eV or less to the total area of peaks that occur at a binding energy of 184.0 eV or more and 196.5 eV or less is 50% or more.

Abstract: An electrode material contains a carbon material. The carbon material has a specific surface area of 2 m2/g or more and 250 m2/g or less. The carbon material has a density, which is measured with a helium pycnometer, of 0.2 g/cc or more and 1.5 g/cc or less. A battery includes a negative electrode containing an electrode material, a positive electrode, and an electrolyte. The electrode material contains a carbon material. The carbon material has a specific surface area of 2 m2/g or more and 250 m2/g or less. The carbon material has a density, which is measured with a helium pycnometer, of 0.2 g/cc or more and 1.5 g/cc or less.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium ion battery 10 includes a negative electrode current collector 11, a negative electrode active material layer 14, and a lithium silicate layer 15. The negative electrode active material layer 14 contains silicon. The lithium silicate layer 15 contains lithium, oxygen, and silicon forming a Li—O—Si bond, and is formed at the interface between the negative electrode current collector 11 and the negative electrode active material layer 14. The negative electrode active material layer 14 and the lithium silicate layer 15 may be composed of columnar bodies.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a current collector including a base portion with a flat face, primary projections projecting from the flat face, and secondary projections projecting from the top of the primary projections. The present invention also relates to a current collector including a base portion with a flat face and primary projections projecting from the flat face, wherein the roughening rate of the top of the primary projections is 3 to 20. By using such a current collector, separation of the active material from the current collector can be inhibited when using an active material that has a high capacity but undergoes a large expansion at the time of lithium ion absorption.

Abstract: There is provided a method for forming a resin molded article characterized by comprising the steps of melting and kneading a thermoplastic resin, storing a predetermined amount of the melted and kneaded thermoplastic resin, extruding the stored thermoplastic resin intermittently in a predetermined extrusion amount per unit time from an extrusion slit provided in a T-die and having a predetermined gap and sandwiching the sheet-shaped resin between a pair of rollers arranged below the extrusion slit and feeding the resin downward at a feeding speed higher than, or equal to the predetermined extrusion speed by rotary driving of the rollers, disposing the sheet-shaped molten resin, fed by the rollers, near a side of a mold arranged below the pair of rollers, and forming the sheet-shaped resin in a shape conforming to a shape of the mold.

Abstract: This invention provides a negative electrode and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including the negative electrode. The negative electrode includes a Li-absorbing element as a negative electrode active material, is free from deformation, separation of the negative electrode active material layer from the negative electrode current collector, and deposition of lithium on the negative electrode current collector, and is excellent in cycle characteristic, large-current discharge characteristic, and low-temperature discharge characteristic. The negative electrode of this invention includes: a current collector having depressions and protrusions on a surface in the thickness direction thereof; and a negative electrode active material layer that includes a plurality of columns containing a negative electrode active material that absorbs and releases lithium ions, the columns being grown outwardly from the surface of the current collector.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for forming a resin molded article, a resin molded article forming apparatus, and an apparatus for adjusting a thickness of a thermoplastic resin sheet which are capable of preventing a draw-down or a neck-in phenomenon of a molten sheet-shaped thermoplastic resin extruded downwardly in a suspended manner without putting a restriction on the type of resin to be adopted.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery of the present invention includes a sheet-like current collector and an active material layer carried on the current collector. The current collector includes a substrate and a surface portion that undergoes plastic deformation more easily than the substrate. The surface portion has protrusions and recesses. The active material layer includes a plurality of columnar particles containing silicon. The columnar particles are carried on the surface portion.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium ion battery 10 includes a negative electrode current collector 11, a negative electrode active material layer 14, and a lithium silicate layer 15. The negative electrode active material layer 14 contains silicon. The lithium silicate layer 15 contains lithium, oxygen, and silicon forming a Li—O—Si bond, and is formed at the interface between the negative electrode current collector 11 and the negative electrode active material layer 14. The negative electrode active material layer 14 and the lithium silicate layer 15 may be composed of columnar bodies.

Abstract: In a negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery including a silicon oxide capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium ions, a silicon oxide having structural units each in the form of a tetrahedron in which a silicon atom is located at its center and silicon or oxygen atoms are located at its four vertices is used. The structural units are arranged randomly to form an amorphous structure. In the case that the number of oxygen atoms located at the four vertices in the structural units is represented by n (n=0, 1, 2, 3 or 4) and the structural units are represented by Si(n), the number of the structural units NSi(n) in the silicon oxide satisfies the following relations (1) to (3). [ Formula ? ? 1 ] NSi ? ( 0 ) ? NSi ? ( n ) ? 0.1 ( 1 ) Nsi ? ( 4 ) ? NSi ? ( n ) ? 0.

Abstract: A negative electrode 10 for a lithium ion battery of the present invention includes a negative electrode current collector 11, protrusions 13 formed so as to be spaced apart from each other on a surface of the negative electrode current collector 11, columns 12 supported on the protrusions 13 one by one, and a coating layer 15 coating a surface of each of the columns 12. The columns 12 include a negative electrode active material including either one of silicon and tin, and further include lithium absorbed thereinto. The coating layer 15 contains at least one of lithium carbonate and lithium fluoride and is formed by exposing the columns 12 to an atmosphere with a dew point temperature of ?60° C. or higher and 0° C. or lower.

Abstract: A band-shaped laminate having a flexible elongated substrate, a negative collector, a solid electrolyte, a positive active material, and a positive collector in this order is wound in a plate shape with the flexible elongated substrate placed inside. The band-shaped laminate that is laminated in a particular order is wound with the substrate placed inside, whereby a short-circuit occurrence ratio can be decreased. Furthermore, the band-shaped laminate includes the solid electrolyte, and is wound in a plate shape, whereby the reduction in thickness and the increase in volumetric energy density can be achieved.

Abstract: An outer case 10 accommodating a gas combustion apparatus main body comprises a case main body 2 opening forward, and a front cover 3 closing a front end opening of the case main body 2. A waterproof packing material 17 is sandwiched between inner peripheral flanges 20 and 39 formed on inner peripheral edges of the front end opening of the case main body 2 and a rear end of the front cover 3. To deteriorate outward appearance and cleaning easiness of a connected portion between the front cover 3 and the case main body 2, and to stably secure waterproof of the connected portion for a long term, a protection plate covering a range extending along an upper edge of a front end opening of the case main body 2 of the packing material 17 is possessed to the front cover 3 or the case main body 2.

Abstract: An electrode capable of effectively dispersing or relieving the stress generated in association with expansion and contraction of an active material is provided. The electrode is produced by forming an active material layer on a predetermined current collector. This current collector includes a base and a plurality of projections formed so as to extend outwardly from a surface of the base. The cross section of the projections in a thickness direction of the current collector has a tapered shape in which a width in a direction parallel to the surface of the base narrows from the surface of the base along an extending direction of the projections.