Abstract: The present invention is to provide a cathode active material used for a lithium ion secondary battery which has a large charge-discharge capacity, and excels in charge-discharge cycle properties, output properties and productivity, and, a lithium ion secondary battery using the same. The cathode active material used for a lithium ion secondary battery comprises a lithium transition metal composite oxide represented by the following Formula (1); Li1+aNibCocMndMeO2+?, where, in the formula (1), M is at least one metal element other than Li, Ni, Co, and Mn; and a, b, c, d, e, and ? satisfy the following conditions: ?0.04?a?0.04, 0.80?b<1.00, 0?c?0.04, 0<d<0.20, b+c+d+e=1, ?0.2<?<0.2, and c and d in the Formula (1) satisfy c/d?0.75.

Abstract: To receive a response signal from a radio card, a card reader transmits a carrier (not modulated) to the radio card. In the radio card, a phase modulator phase-modulates the a sub-carrier with a response signal, thereby generating a PSK signal, and a phase modulator phase-modulates the carrier with the PSK signal, producing a PSK-PSK signal. The PSK-PSK signal is supplied to an antenna via a signal-extracting device. The antenna sends the PSK-PSK signal toward the card reader. In the card reader, a distributor distributes the PSK-PSK signal to a synchronous detector and an orthogonal detector. The detectors performs synchronous detection by using carriers which differ in phase by 90.degree.. Low-pass filters extract sub-carrier components from the outputs of the detectors. The sub-carrier components are delayed and detected by delay detectors and added together by an adder.