Abstract: A power supply device has; a battery stacked body where a plural sheets of battery cells each having a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal at one surface thereof are stacked; and a plurality of bus bars which connect the electrode terminals in the battery cells adjacently disposed. Each of the bus bars partially has a thin area whose thickness is thinner than a thickness of the other area, and an open window formed in the dun area, and opening a portion thereof. The thin area is formed in an oval shape elongated in the battery cell stacking direction, and the open window extends in a direction along the length of the oval shape. This configuration allows the thin area, above and below the length side of the oval shaped thin area, to be secured as a joining area for laser welding or the like.

Abstract: A power supply device has; a battery stacked body where a plural sheets of battery cells each having a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal at one surface thereof are stacked; and a plurality of bus bars which connect the electrode terminals in the battery cells adjacently disposed. Each of the bus bars partially has a thin area whose thickness is thinner than a thickness of the other area, and an open window formed in the dun area, and opening a portion thereof. The thin area is formed in an oval shape elongated in the battery cell stacking direction, and the open window extends in a direction along the length of the oval shape. This configuration allows the thin area, above and below the length side of the oval shaped thin area, to be secured as a joining area for laser welding or the like.

Abstract: An RF signal is read from a rewritable DVD while rotating the rewritable DVD. The read RF signal is converted to pulse signals according to different threshold values, and the number of pulses of each pulse signal is counted. Indexes IBSmin, IBMmax, IBS, and IBRmax are determined from the relationship between the counted numbers and the threshold values, and the recording quality of the BCA on the rewritable DVD is evaluated by judging whether these indexes satisfy the following inequalities: IBMmax/IBSmin?0.8 IBRmax/IBS?1.

Abstract: An RF signal is read from a rewritable DVD while rotating the rewritable DVD. The read RF signal is converted to pulse signals according to different threshold values, and the number of pulses of each pulse signal is counted.