Abstract: Composite graphite particles, including a core material composed of artificial graphite and a coating material for coating the core material. The coating material includes a non-powdery amorphous carbon material and a powdery conductive carbon material. The ratio of the mass of the non-powdery amorphous carbon material to the mass of the core material is 0.2 to 3.8 mass %, and the ratio of the mass of the powdery conductive carbon material to the mass of the core material is 0.3 to 5.0 mass %. Also disclosed is a method for producing the composite graphite particles, a paste containing the composite graphite particles, an electrode sheet including a laminate of a current collector and an electrode layer containing the composite graphite particles, and a lithium ion secondary battery including the electrode sheet as a negative electrode.

Abstract: A graphite material, including high crystallinity graphite and spherical graphite, in which high crystallinity graphite: (1) a rhombohedral crystal ratio by X-ray diffractometry is 0.02 or less, (2) Lc is 90 nm or more, (3) when a pressure of 1 GPa for 10 seconds is applied to the high crystallinity graphite, the increment rate of the BET specific surface area after applying the pressure to the BET specific surface area before applying the pressure is 90% or less, and (4) D10 is 5.0 ?m or more; and in which spherical graphite: (1) a median of the circularity is 0.90 or more, and (2) a tapping density is 1.20 g/cm3 or more; and the ratio by mass of the high crystallinity graphite and the spherical graphite is 95:5 to 40:60; an electrode using the graphite material as an electrode active material; and a lithium ion secondary battery using the electrode.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes a condenser, a fan, a variable mechanism, a fan control unit, an outside air temperature sensor, and a storage unit. The condenser cools a cooling medium used in an air conditioner. The fan cools the condenser. The variable mechanism can change a number of rotations of the fan. The fan control unit controls the variable mechanism. The storage unit stores a plurality of control maps for setting the number of rotations of the fan to respective different numbers of rotations of the fan in accordance with the outside air temperature detected by the outside air temperature sensor. The fan control unit controls the variable mechanism in accordance with one control map selected from the plurality of control maps stored in the storage unit based on an operating state of the air conditioner, to control the number of rotations of the fan.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes a condenser, a fan, a variable mechanism, a fan control unit, an outside air temperature sensor, and a storage unit. The condenser cools a cooling medium used in an air conditioner. The fan cools the condenser. The variable mechanism can change a number of rotations of the fan. The fan control unit controls the variable mechanism. The storage unit stores a plurality of control maps for setting the number of rotations of the fan to respective different numbers of rotations of the fan in accordance with the outside air temperature detected by the outside air temperature sensor. The fan control unit controls the variable mechanism in accordance with one control map selected from the plurality of control maps stored in the storage unit based on an operating state of the air conditioner, to control the number of rotations of the fan.

Abstract: A graphite composite material obtained by mixing graphite material 1 having diversity in the sizes of optical anisotropic structure and optical isotropic structure, the ratio thereof, and crystal direction, and graphite material 2 having a rhombohedron structure, which is different from graphite material 1 and has an average interplanar spacing d002 of plane (002) of 0.3354 nm to 0.3370 nm measured by the powder X-ray diffraction method and Lc of 100 nm or more. Also disclosed is a carbon material for a battery electrode, a paste for an electrode, an electrode, a battery, a lithium ion secondary battery and a method of producing the graphite composite material.

Abstract: A graphite carbon composite material including a graphite material having diversity in the sizes of optical anisotropic structure and optical isotropic structure, the ratio thereof, and crystal direction, and a carbon material on the way to a graphitized structure of easily-graphitizable carbon. Also disclosed is a carbon material for a battery electrode, a past for an electrode, an electrode, a battery, a lithium ion secondary battery and a method of producing the graphite carbon composite material.

Abstract: A graphite composite material obtained by mixing graphite material 1 having diversity in the sizes of optical anisotropic structure and optical isotropic structure, the ratio thereof, and crystal direction, and graphite material 2 having a rhombohedron structure, which is different from graphite material 1 and has an average interplanar spacing d002 of plane (002) of 0.3354 nm to 0.3370 nm measured by the powder X-ray diffraction method and Lc of 100 nm or more. Also disclosed is a carbon material for a battery electrode, a paste for an electrode, an electrode, a battery, a lithium ion secondary battery and a method of producing the graphite composite material.

Abstract: A graphite carbon composite material including a graphite material having diversity in the sizes of optical anisotropic structure and optical isotropic structure, the ratio thereof, and crystal direction, and a carbon material on the way to a graphitized structure of easily-graphitizable carbon. Also disclosed is a carbon material for a battery electrode, a past for an electrode, an electrode, a battery, a lithium ion secondary battery and a method of producing the graphite carbon composite material.

Abstract: Provided are a graphite material suitable as an electrode material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, a carbonaceous material for battery electrodes, and secondary batteries which exhibit excellent charge-discharge cycle characteristics and excellent severe-current-load characteristics. A graphite material which has specific sizes of optically anisotropic and isotropic structures, a specific content ratio between both structures, and various orientation of crystallization; and a carbonaceous material for battery electrodes which is made using the graphite material and which exhibits a large discharge capacity and a small irreversible capacity with the severe-current-load characteristics and cycle characteristics being kept at high levels.

Abstract: Provided are a graphite material suitable as an electrode material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, a carbonaceous material for battery electrodes, and secondary batteries which exhibit excellent charge-discharge cycle characteristics and excellent severe-current-load characteristics. A graphite material which has specific sizes of optically anisotropic and isotropic structures, a specific content ratio between both structures, and various orientation of crystallization; and a carbonaceous material for battery electrodes which is made using the graphite material and which exhibits a large discharge capacity and a small irreversible capacity with the severe-current-load characteristics and cycle characteristics being kept at high levels.

Abstract: An excimer laser apparatus in which deterioration of the laser gas in the laser container can be suppressed, and damage to the magnetic bearings caused by the laser gas can be suppressed, and which can be reduced in size and operated efficiently, and has low power consumption. Each electromagnet (stator) (7-1) of a magnetic bearing (7) for supporting a rotary shaft (4) of a circulation fan 3 includes excitation coils. Each of the coils is arranged as one unit by embedding a coil body in a ceramic or glass type hardened material which is non-magnetic and has corrosion resistance against a laser gas. The excitation coils are attached to magnetic poles. Alternatively, coil wires (108b) of a radial magnetic bearing (108) can be isolated from a corrosive atmosphere by means of a separation wall (124) while projecting portions of cores (108b) extend through the separation wall (124) and are exposed toward a magnetic bearing rotor (108f).

Abstract: The invention provides a discharge electrodes structure which can be easily replaced and adjustable a distance between the discharge electrodes, and a laser apparatus employing the discharge electrodes. Accordingly, the laser apparatus is provided with a pair of anode (5A) and cathode (5B) provided within a laser chamber (2) for sealing a laser medium in an opposing manner, generating a discharge so as to excite the laser medium and oscillating a laser beam, a conductive anode base (6) holding the anode, an insulative cathode base (8) placed so as to close an opening portion (4) provided in the laser chamber and holding the cathode, a return plate (9) suspending the anode base from the cathode base so as to supply a current to the anode, and an anode support bar (23) for connecting the cathode base to the anode base so as to suspend the anode from the cathode base.

Abstract: There is provided an excimer laser apparatus in which deterioration of the laser gas in the laser container can be suppressed, and damage to the magnetic bearings caused by the laser gas can be suppressed, and which can be reduced in size and operated efficiently, and has a low power consumption. Each electromagnet (stator) 7-1 of a magnetic bearing 7 for supporting a rotary shaft 4 of a circulation fan 3 includes excitation coils, each of which is arranged as one unit by embedding a coil body in a ceramic or glass type hardened material which is nonmagnetic and has corrosion resistance against a laser gas. The excitation coils are attached to magnetic poles comprising magnetic bodies. Alternatively, an arrangement may be made, such that coil wires 108b of a radial magnetic bearing 108 are isolated from a corrosive atmosphere by means of a separation wall 124 while projecting portions of cores 108b extend through the separation wall 124 and are exposed toward a magnetic bearing rotor 108f.

Abstract: A gas laser device including a dust filter with which a flow rate of laser gas flowing between discharge electrodes is approximately uniform in a longitudinal direction of the discharge electrodes without a variation with time is provided. For this purpose, the gas laser device includes a laser chamber (2) containing laser gas, a pair of discharge electrodes (5, 5) disposed inside the laser chamber (2) to face to each other for exciting a laser medium by discharge to thereby oscillate laser light, a fan (14) for circulating the laser gas to send the same to an area between the discharge electrodes (5, 5), and a dust filter (12) for eliminating dust generated inside the laser chamber (2), and has a configuration in which a filter inlet port (15), which is formed in an inner wall (2A) of the laser chamber (2) and guides the laser gas into the dust filter (12), is formed to be approximately vertical to the inner wall (2A) of the laser chamber (2).

Abstract: An excimer laser device which neither corrodes due to a laser gas nor contaminates the laser gas is provided. For this purpose, in an excimer laser device including a cross flow fan (1) disposed in a chamber (2) for circulating a laser gas, magnetic bearings (12, 12) having outer ring magnet coils (11, 11) and inner ring magnetic substances (10, 10) for rotatably supporting a rotating shaft (9) by magnetic force, and a motor (49) having a stator (47) and a rotor (48) for directly and rotationally driving the cross flow fan (1), the outer ring magnet coils (11, 11), the inner ring magnetic substances (10, 10), the rotor (48), and the stator (47) are respectively housed in shielded spaces shielded from the laser gas.

Abstract: A temperature monitoring unit has a high degree of sensitivity and reliability even when monitoring the temperature of a relatively large rotary heating element. The temperature monitoring unit includes a mirror which is provided in the vicinity of the rotary heating element and is oriented to reflect infrared rays from the heating element in the radial direction thereof, the mirror being reciprocated linearly in the radial direction, a condenser lens provided radially outwardly of the heating element for converging the infrared rays reflected by the mirror, an infrared sensor on which the converged rays impinge, a plate provided between the mirror and the lens and which has a slit therein that is elongate in a direction approximately perpendicular to the surface of the heating element, and an image processor receiving the output of the infrared sensor. The sensitivity is high because infrared rays from around the thermal point of the heating element are blocked by the plate.