Abstract: A machine tool for cutting a workpiece having an inclined surface includes a main spindle that rotates while holding the workpiece, a tool post that holds a cutting tool to cut the inclined surface of the workpiece, a mover that relatively moves the workpiece and the cutting tool in a direction including at least a Y-direction perpendicular to both a Z-direction parallel to an axis of the main spindle and an X-direction that is perpendicular to the Z-direction and determines the amount of cutting of the workpiece. The mover includes a Y-direction guide disposed on the tool post, the Y-direction guide guiding movement of the cutting tool in the Y-direction, and the Y-direction guide has a guide surface along a surface perpendicular to a direction of a thrust force that occurs when cutting the inclined surface using the cutting tool.

Abstract: A machine tool includes a main spindle that rotates while holding a workpiece, a mover that moves a cutting tool including a linear cutting blade that cuts the workpiece, with respect to the workpiece in a moving direction including at least a Z-direction parallel or substantially parallel with the axis of the main spindle and a Y-direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to both the Z-direction and an X-direction determining the amount of cutting of the workpiece, a holder that holds the cutting tool in a state in which the direction of the linear cutting blade is inclined with respect to the Z-direction by a predetermined angle when seen from the X-direction, and an angle adjuster that changes the edge angle.

Abstract: A machine tool cuts a workpiece having an inclined or curved surface and includes a main spindle that holds and rotates the workpiece, a moving device that moves a cutting tool relative to the workpiece in a direction obtained by combining a Z direction parallel or substantially parallel with the axis of the main spindle, an X direction that is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the Z direction and determines the amount of cutting of the workpiece, and a Y direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the Z direction and the X direction, and an angle setting mechanism that causes the direction of an edge of the cutting tool to match the inclined surface of the workpiece by inclining the direction of the edge with respect to the Z direction when seen from the Y direction in a state in which the direction of the edge is inclined with respect to the Z direction when seen from the X direction.

Abstract: A machine tool includes a main spindle that rotates while holding a workpiece, a holder that holds first and second cutting tools including first and second linear cutting blades to cut the workpiece, and a moving device that moves the first and second cutting tools relative to the workpiece in a moving direction including at least a Z-direction and a Y-direction. The holder holds the first and second cutting tools such that the cutting tools are arranged along the moving direction in a state in which the directions of the linear cutting blades are inclined with respect to the Z-direction when seen from the X-direction and are not parallel with each other.

Abstract: A tool unit includes a base that is mountable on and demountable from a first turret, a slider that is disposed on the base, holds a cutting tool in a state in which a direction of the linear cutting blade of the cutting tool is inclined with respect to a Z-direction by a predetermined angle when seen from an X-direction, and is able to move in a Y-direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to both the X-direction and Z-direction, and a drive transmission that is disposed on the base and is connected to a tool drive unit to move the slider.

Abstract: A machine tool includes a main spindle that rotates while holding a workpiece, a mover that moves a cutting tool including a linear cutting blade that cuts the workpiece, with respect to the workpiece in a moving direction including at least a Z-direction parallel or substantially parallel with the axis of the main spindle and a Y-direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to both the Z-direction and an X-direction determining the amount of cutting of the workpiece, a holder that holds the cutting tool in a state in which the direction of the linear cutting blade is inclined with respect to the Z-direction by a predetermined angle when seen from the X-direction, and an angle adjuster that changes the edge angle.

Abstract: A machine tool includes a moving device that moves a cutting tool with a linear cutting blade in a Y-direction, or in a combined direction of the Y-direction and a Z-direction, with an axis of a main spindle holding a workpiece, an X-direction determines an amount of cutting of the workpiece, and a holder that holds the cutting tool such that the orientation of the linear cutting blade is inclined with respect to the Z-direction when seen from the X-direction. The holder includes a first reference surface contacting with a first surface parallel with a linear cutting blade, of the side surfaces of the cutting tool and is parallel with the YZ-plane or a plane tangent to the peripheral surface of the workpiece and a second reference surface that is in contact with a second surface intersecting the first surface. The workpiece is cut while moving the linear cutting blade in the Y-direction or the combined direction.

Abstract: A machine tool cuts a workpiece having an inclined or curved surface and includes a main spindle that holds and rotates the workpiece, a moving device that moves a cutting tool relative to the workpiece in a direction obtained by combining a Z direction parallel or substantially parallel with the axis of the main spindle, an X direction that is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the Z direction and determines the amount of cutting of the workpiece, and a Y direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the Z direction and the X direction, and an angle setting mechanism that causes the direction of an edge of the cutting tool to match the inclined surface of the workpiece by inclining the direction of the edge with respect to the Z direction when seen from the Y direction in a state in which the direction of the edge is inclined with respect to the Z direction when seen from the X direction.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a small surface film resistance and a high negative electrode strength, wherein the negative electrode includes a collector and an active material layer formed thereon, wherein the active material layer contains an active material and a binder composition, wherein the active material is a material in which metal oxide fine particles having an average particle diameter of 250 nm or less are attached to the surface thereof, and wherein the binder composition contains a binder having an olefinic unsaturated bond.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a small surface film resistance and a high negative electrode strength, wherein the negative electrode includes a collector and an active material layer formed thereon, wherein the active material layer contains an active material and a binder composition, wherein the active material is a material in which metal oxide fine particles having an average particle diameter of 250 nm or less are attached to the surface thereof, and wherein the binder composition contains a binder having an olefinic unsaturated bond.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery with high-output/high-input characteristics which has a long life, and is highly safe contains a negative electrode of a negative-electrode active material. In a dispersion prepared by dispersing 100 g of the active-material powder in 200 g of water together with 2 g of carboxymethyl cellulose, the particle diameter at which particles begin to appear is 50 ?m or smaller when the dispersion is examined by the grind gauge method for determining the degree of dispersion in accordance with JIS K5400.

Abstract: A subject for the invention is to provide a lithium secondary battery which can be improved in high-output/high-input characteristics based on a reduction in the thickness of an active material layer, has a long life, and is highly safe. The invention relates to: a negative electrode for lithium secondary battery which comprises a current collector having provided thereon an active material layer comprising an active material and an organic material having binding and thickening effects, wherein the active material is a powdery active material comprising an amorphous-material-coated graphite, and when a dispersion prepared by dispersing 100 g of the active-material powder in 200 g of water together with 2 g of carboxymethyl cellulose is examined by the grind gauge method for determining the degree of dispersion in accordance with JIS K5400, the particle diameter at which particles begin to appear is 50 ?m or smaller; and a lithium secondary battery employing the negative electrode.

Abstract: A subject for the invention is to provide a lithium secondary battery which can be improved in high-output/high-input characteristics based on a reduction in the thickness of an active material layer, has a long life, and is highly safe.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a small surface film resistance and a high negative electrode strength. The present invention relates to a negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, wherein an active material layer containing an active material and a binder is formed on a collector, the active material being a material in which metal oxide fine particles having an average particle diameter of 250 nm or less are attached to the surface and the binder being a binder having an olefinic unsaturated bond.

Abstract: A carbonaceous material has a plane space d002 of a (002) plane less than 0.337 nm in an X-ray wide angle diffraction method, a crystallite size (Lc) of 90 nm or higher, an R value, as a peak intensity ratio of a peak intensity of 1360 cm−1 to a peak intensity of 1580 cm−1 in a Raman spectrum in use of an argon ion laser, of 0.20 or higher, and a tap density of 0.75 g/cm3 or higher. Also disclosed is a multilayer structure carbonaceous material for electrode, which is manufactured by carbonizing some organic compounds where the carbonaceous material for electrode is mixed with the organic compounds. The battery using the carbonaceous material for electrode or the multilayer structure carbonaceous material for electrode has a large capacity, a small irreversible capacity admitted in the initial cycle, excellent capacity maintaining rate of the cycle, and particularly, largely improved quick charging and discharging characteristics.

Abstract: A carbonaceous material for a negative electrode in which a true density of 1.65 g/cc to 1.85 g/cc, a content of hydrogen with respect to carbon is 0.01 to 0.15 in terms of an atomic ratio, intervals between (002) planes are 3.45 Å to 3.55 Å, the thickness of crystalline is 12.0 Å to 20.0 Å, and assuming that an area enclosed by a base line which is a common tangent line connecting minimal values on the two sides of a (002) diffraction line in a scattered X-ray curve and the (002) diffraction line is S1 and that an area enclosed by a scattered X-ray curve having a diffraction angle 2&thgr; of 4° or more and positioned in lower angle portions as compared with the (002) diffraction line and the base line is S0, an area ratio S0/S1 of S0 with respect to S1 is 0.4 to 2.0. The carbonaceous material for a negative electrode is obtained by oxidizing a carbonaceous raw material containing &ggr; resin in a quantity of 0.

Abstract: A photo-curable composition with high covering power provides the coating film with a glossy smooth surface when such composition is exposed firstly to light radiation having wavelengths of from about 350 nm to about 460 nm, and then to light radiation having wavelengths of from about 230 nm to about 400 nm with a specific ratio of the intensity of the former light radiation to the intensity of the latter light radiation.

Abstract: A photo-curable composition with high covering power provides the coating film with a glossy smooth surface when such composition is exposed firstly to light radiation having wavelengths of from about 350 nm to about 460 nm, and then to light radiation having wavelengths of from about 230 nm to about 400 nm with a specific ratio of the intensity of the former light radiation to the intensity of the latter light radiation.