Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer including a lithium-cobalt composite oxide. The lithium-cobalt composite oxide has a layered rock-salt crystal structure. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material layer including graphite. When the secondary battery is charged and discharged with an upper limit of a closed circuit voltage being set to 4.42 V or higher, a unit capacity (mAh/g) satisfies a condition represented by 168 mAh/g?unit capacity (mAh/g)?(?0.28×area rate (%)+178) mAh/g.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a lithium-cobalt composite oxide having a layered rock-salt crystal structure. The negative electrode includes graphite. An open circuit potential of the negative electrode measured in a full charge state is from 19 mV to 86 mV. A potential variation of the negative electrode is greater than or equal to 1 mV when the secondary battery is discharged from the full charge state by a capacity corresponding to 1% of a maximum discharge capacity. The maximum discharge capacity is obtained when the secondary battery is discharged with a constant current from the full charge state until the closed circuit voltage reaches 3.00 V, following which the secondary battery is discharged with a constant voltage of the closed circuit voltage of 3.00 V for 24 hours.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a lithium-cobalt composite oxide having a layered rock-salt crystal structure. The negative electrode includes graphite. A potential variation of the positive electrode is greater than or equal to 2 mV when the secondary battery is discharged from a full charge state by a capacity corresponding to 1% of a maximum discharge capacity. The maximum discharge capacity is a discharge capacity obtained when the secondary battery is discharged with a constant current from the full charge state until the closed circuit voltage reaches 3.00 V, following which the secondary battery is discharged with a constant voltage of the closed circuit voltage of 3.00 V for 24 hours.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a lithium-nickel composite oxide having a layered rock-salt crystal structure. The negative electrode includes graphite. An open circuit potential, versus a lithium reference electrode, of the negative electrode measured in a full charge state is from 19 mV to 86 mV. A potential variation of the negative electrode is greater than or equal to 1 mV when the secondary battery is discharged from the full charge state by a capacity corresponding to 1% of a maximum discharge capacity. The maximum discharge capacity is obtained when the secondary battery is discharged with a constant current from the full charge state until the closed circuit voltage reaches 2.00 V, following which the secondary battery is discharged with a constant voltage of the closed circuit voltage of 2.00 V for 24 hours.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a wound electrode body. The wound electrode body includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are stacked on each other with the separator interposed therebetween and are wound about a winding axis. The wound electrode body has a section perpendicular to the winding axis. The section has an elongated shape that includes a flat part and a pair of curved parts. The curved parts oppose each other with the flat part interposed therebetween. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer provided on the negative electrode current collector. A width of the wound electrode body, a wound-layer number of the wound electrode body, and a ratio of a second distance to a first distance satisfy at least one of Condition A and Condition B.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a wound electrode body having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are stacked on each other with the separator interposed therebetween and are wound about a winding axis. The wound electrode body has a section perpendicular to the winding axis. The section has an elongated shape that includes a flat part and a pair of curved parts. The curved parts oppose each other with the flat part interposed therebetween. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer provided on the negative electrode current collector. A ratio of a second distance to a first distance is less than 1.

Abstract: An eyeglass frame shape measurement device measures a shape of an eyeglass frame. The eyeglass frame shape measurement device includes a light projecting optical system that has a light source and emits a measurement light flux from the light source toward a groove of a rim of an eyeglass frame, a light receiving optical system that has a detector and causes the detector to receive a reflected light flux of the measurement light flux emitted toward the groove and reflected by the groove, an acquiring means section that acquires a cross-sectional shape of the groove based on the reflected light flux received by the detector, a change section that change a light receiving position of the reflected light flux, and a control section that control the change section to change the light receiving position of the reflected light flux so that the detector receives the reflected light flux.

Abstract: An eyeglass frame shape measurement device includes an optical measurement unit, a probe unit, a holding unit that holds the optical measurement unit and the probe unit, a changing portion that integrally moves the optical measurement unit and the probe unit with respect to an eyeglass frame to change a measurement position with respect to a groove of a rim of the eyeglass frame, and a controller that controls an operation of the eyeglass frame shape measurement device. The controller controls an operation of the changing portion to measure the groove of the rim of the eyeglass frame, acquires a cross-sectional shape of the groove of the rim of the eyeglass frame based on a detection result detected by the optical measurement unit, and acquires a shape of the rim of the eyeglass frame based on a detection result detected by the probe unit.

Abstract: A battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The negative electrode includes an active material having grains and a binder having a reticulated structure. In this battery, spaces between the grains of the active material are filled with the reticulated structure of the binder.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a cathode terminal; an anode terminal; a wound electrode body; and a step reducing member. The step reducing member is attached to one or both of a first cathode wound portion and a first anode wound portion in one or more of a first region, a second region and a third region. The first region is in a major axis direction outside the cathode terminal in a wound direction of a cathode, and the second region is in the major axis direction outside the anode terminal in the wound direction of an anode and the third region between the cathode terminal and the anode terminal.

Abstract: A cryopump system includes at least one cryopump including a refrigerator including a low temperature cooling stage and a high temperature cooling stage, a low temperature cryopanel cooled by the low temperature cooling stage, and a high temperature cryopanel cooled by the high temperature cooling stage. A compressor unit includes a compressor main body that compresses a working gas supplied to the refrigerator, an operating frequency of the compressor main body being variable. The compressor unit is operated such that a pressure ratio between high pressure and low pressure of the compressor main body is in a range between 1.6 and 2.5.

Abstract: An eyeglass frame shape measurement device measures a shape of an eyeglass frame. The eyeglass frame shape measurement device includes a light projecting optical system that has a light source and emits a measurement light flux from the light source toward a groove of a rim of an eyeglass frame, a light receiving optical system that has a detector and causes the detector to receive a reflected light flux of the measurement light flux emitted toward the groove and reflected by the groove, an acquiring means section that acquires a cross-sectional shape of the groove based on the reflected light flux received by the detector, a change section that change a light receiving position of the reflected light flux, and a control section that control the change section to change the light receiving position of the reflected light flux so that the detector receives the reflected light flux.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes at least: a laminated electrode body 20 in which an electrode member 21 and a separator 26 are laminated, in which a suppressing member 31A suppressing a movement of the separator 26 with respect to the electrode member 21 is disposed between a portion 21A of the electrode member 21 and a portion of the separator 26, in an uneven portion 27A existing in the laminated electrode body 20.

Abstract: A battery includes a positive electrode having a first strip shape and a positive electrode lead, and a negative electrode having a second strip shape and a negative electrode lead. First ends of the positive electrode and the negative electrode in a longitudinal direction are on an inner peripheral side, and second ends of the positive electrode and the negative electrode in the longitudinal direction are on an outer peripheral side. The positive electrode lead and the negative electrode lead are extended out from a first end side in a width direction of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a first thickness of the positive electrode on the first end side is thinner than a second thickness of the positive electrode on a second end side in the width direction.

Abstract: A battery is provided. The battery includes a power generation element having a through hole; and a cylindrical can housing the power generation element and having at least one thin wall part on a circumferential surface of the cylindrical can. A ratio of a hole diameter of the through hole to an outer diameter of the power generation element is 17% or less. The thin wall part is provided in one or both of regions in a range from 0% to 30% and a range from 70% to 100% from one end of the circumferential surface.

Abstract: A cathode active material includes a first cathode material configured of a layered rocksalt type lithium metal oxide, the layered rocksalt type lithium metal oxide including lithium and a metal other than lithium, the metal configured of nickel (Ni), or nickel (Ni) and the like. A site occupancy of metal ions other than lithium at a 3a site obtained by Rietveld analysis of a powder X-ray diffraction pattern of the first cathode material in a cathode in a discharged state is about 5% or less, and a site occupancy of metal ions other than the metal occupying a part of a 3b site at the 3b site is about 1% or over, and the cathode active material is covered with a coating film, and an exposed amount of the cathode active material exposed from the coating film is within a range from about 0.05% to about 8% both inclusive.

Abstract: A battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The negative electrode includes an active material having grains and a binder having a reticulated structure. In this battery, spaces between the grains of the active material are filled with the reticulated structure of the binder.

Abstract: The present invention provides a secondary battery-use active material that allows for an improvement in thermal stability after charge and discharge are repeated. The secondary battery-use active material of the present invention includes a cathode active material that includes (A) a main phase and a sub-phase, (B) the main phase containing a first lithium compound represented by LiaNibMcAldOe (where M is an element such as cobalt, and 0.8<a<1.2, 0.45?b?1, 0?c?1, 0?d?0.2, 0<e?1.98, (c+d)>0, and (b+c+d)?1), and (C) the sub-phase containing a second lithium compound that contains lithium, aluminum, and oxygen as constituent elements.

Abstract: A cryopump system includes a cryopump, a compressor of a working gas for the cryopump, a control device configured to control an operation frequency of the compressor, a gas line connecting the cryopump and the compressor, and a gas quantity adjustment unit configured to switch a working gas quantity of the gas line between at least a first gas quantity and a second gas quantity. When the gas line has the first gas quantity, a controllable range of the operation frequency provides a first flow rate range of the working gas. When the gas line has the second gas quantity, the controllable range provides a second flow rate range of the working gas. The second flow rate range has a non-overlapping portion with the first flow rate range.

Abstract: Control device for continuously variable transmission has continuously variable transmission mechanism (CVT) transmitting power with belt (7) wound around primary and secondary pulley (5, 6); torque convertor (2) having pump impeller (20), turbine runner (21) and lock-up clutch (2a); and control unit (10) controlling lock-up clutch (2a) to predetermined engagement state and controlling the CVT to predetermined transmission ratio, according to travelling condition.