Abstract: A sealed-type battery includes an exterior body, a collector terminal, a hollow rivet defining a hollow section, and a reverse plate arranged between the collector terminal and the hollow rivet. The collector terminal includes: a projected section projected; a peripheral edge section provided; and a notch section provided in the peripheral edge section in a manner to surround the projected section and formed in a manner to reduce thickness of the collector terminal. In a projected direction of the projected section, the projected section is thicker than the peripheral edge section. A fitting section, to which the projected section is fitted, is provided in the reverse plate. The sealed-type battery includes a welded section that has a top surface opposing the hollow rivet and that joins the collector terminal and the reverse plate at a position between the projected section and the fitting section.

Abstract: An air-blow cleaning apparatus proposed herein includes: a cleaning chamber; a retainer member disposed inside the cleaning chamber; an air circulator configured to generate an airflow flowing from an upside to a downside inside the cleaning chamber; and a blower configured to blow air onto a workpiece retained by the retainer member. An inner wall of the cleaning chamber has a plurality of protrusions or a plurality of recesses, and the protrusions or the recesses are provided at predetermined intervals along an up-and-down direction.

Abstract: An assembly device for a battery component proposed herein includes at least one of members that are a positioning pin and a chuck, and a suction machine. There is at least one exhaust passage inside the at least one of the members that are the positioning pin and the chuck. An outer peripheral surface of the at least one of the members that are the positioning pin and the chuck has at least one dust-collecting port to which the at least one exhaust passage opens. The at least one exhaust passage is connected to the suction machine.

Abstract: A first terminal including an insertion hole is placed on one side of a lid of a battery case with one or more insulating materials interposed therebetween. An inner circumferential surface defining the insertion hole includes a first rim and a second rim at a position farther away from the one or more insulating materials than the first rim is. The second rim includes an inclined surface with a recess that includes a bottom at a position set back inside the first terminal from the inclined surface. The second terminal has a shaft part inserted through a mounting hole of the lid and the insertion hole. A leading end of the shaft part is riveted, and at least a portion of the shaft part reaches into the recess.

Abstract: A secondary cell manufacturing method includes the steps of: disposing a cap including a magnetic body so as to cover a liquid injection hole provided in a lid member; disposing the lid member so as to cover an opening of an outer case; and bringing close to each other the magnetic body and a magnetic body that applies a magnetic force to the magnetic body, and so holding the position of the cap that is disposed to cover the liquid injection hole by the magnetic force applied from the magnetic body to the magnetic body.

Abstract: A secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an external terminal electrically connecting a charge collector disposed inside a battery case with a terminal, a first part electrically connected to the charge collector, a second part electrically connected to the terminal, a first connection part electrically connecting the first part with the second part, and a second connection part electrically connecting the first part with the second part, the second connection part being different from the first connection part. The first connection part is ruptured when a displacement of the displacement part toward the outside of the battery case is transferred to the first connection part, and the second connection part becomes nonconductive when a temperature of the second connection part reaches a predefined temperature.

Abstract: In the method for manufacturing a cell according to the present invention, the cell has a cell case, an external terminal, a relay member, and a pressure-type current interrupting mechanism, the method including fixing the relay member and the external terminal to the cell case by caulking the relay member to the external terminal by means of a caulking process. A tubular reinforcing member that is configured with a material harder than that of the relay member is attached to an inner circumferential surface of the tubular shaft portion of the relay member prior to the caulking process, and the caulking process is performed, with the reinforcing member being attached to the inner circumferential surface of the relay member.

Abstract: A secondary battery according to the present disclosure includes a battery case, an electrode member contained in the battery case, and a lid configured to hermetically seal the battery case. A current-carrying part, which electrically connects a collector terminal of the electrode member with an external electrode terminal, includes a displacement part configured to be displaced outward in response to a rise in an internal pressure of the battery case, the displacement part being connected to at least a part of the collector terminal. When the displacement part is displaced outward in response to the rise in the internal pressure of the battery case, the connection between the displacement part and the collector terminal is disconnected and the current-carrying part is electrically cut off from the collector terminal. In the secondary battery according to the present disclosure, the current-carrying part including the displacement part is disposed in the lid.

Abstract: A region of a hole-inner circumferential surface composing a portion defining a terminal through-hole, the region being located on the battery case cover side, include a tapered surface gradually enlarged in diameter as extending toward the battery case cover side and opening toward the battery case cover side; when riveting is carried out, a region of a shaft portion, the region being located inward of the tapered surface, is enlarged in diameter so as to form an annular projecting portion in contact with the tapered surface; and a hole circumferential portion located around the portion defining the terminal through-hole is held between the external enlarged-diameter portion and the annular projecting portion so as to fix a first terminal member to a second terminal member.

Abstract: The present invention provides a secondary battery 1 including: a battery case 10 having a safety valve 13; an electrode body 40; an electrolyte; and a cover member 41 arranged between the safety valve 13 and the electrode body 40 so as to be separated from the safety valve 13. The electrode body 40 is housed in the battery case 10 so that a lamination surface opposes the safety valve 13. The cover member 41 is configured to cover a portion of the battery case 10 in which the safety valve 13 is formed in a state where the cover member 41 holds the lamination surface of the electrode body 40.

Abstract: A sealed battery includes a current-collecting terminal member; a gasket that electrically insulates a lid member and the current-collecting terminal member from each other; and a connection member that connects the current-collecting terminal member and an external terminal member. The connection member and the current-collecting terminal member are connected by swaging the second end of the current-collecting terminal member to an insertion hole of the connection member. The lid member has a lid-side protruded portion that compresses the gasket. The current-collecting terminal member has a terminal-side protruded portion that compresses the gasket. A gasket-side area of the lid-side protruded portion, a gasket-side area of the terminal-side protruded portion, and an area of a surface of the current-collecting terminal member which faces and contacts the gasket, except the terminal-side protruded portion, are different in size from each other.

Abstract: A secondary cell manufacturing method includes the steps of: disposing a cap including a magnetic body so as to cover a liquid injection hole provided in a lid member; disposing the lid member so as to cover an opening of an outer case; and bringing close to each other the magnetic body and a magnetic body that applies a magnetic force to the magnetic body, and so holding the position of the cap that is disposed to cover the liquid injection hole by the magnetic force applied from the magnetic body to the magnetic body.

Abstract: The invention provides a manufacturing method of a sealed battery that includes a power generating element, a housing member, a lid member, a collector terminal member, and a first insulating member. This manufacturing method includes compressing the first insulating member with a protruding portion of the lid member. The method includes measuring a position of the lid member and a compression load applied by the lid member, and stopping compressing when a slope of the change in the compression load with respect to the position of the lid member reaches a predetermined value.

Abstract: There is provided an antiviral vinyl-chloride-based resin composition including: 100 parts by weight of a poly(vinyl chloride)-based resin obtained by mixing 10-90 parts by weight of a vinyl-chloride-based resin for paste with 90-10 parts by weight of a suspension vinyl-chloride-based resin; and 0.5-10.0 parts by weight of a sulfonic-acid-based surfactant.

Abstract: An object is to provide a gasket for a secondary battery having excellent compressive restoration characteristics. A gasket for a secondary battery (particularly for a lithium secondary battery) is a gasket used as an insulation seal of a secondary battery, and is a hot-press and cold-press molded product (particularly, a product which is hot-pressed into a gasket shape under a temperature condition lower than a melting point of a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer (PFA) that is used by 0° C. to 80° C. and is thereafter cooled under pressure) obtained by hot-pressing a skived sheet obtained by skiving a block-shaped molded body (particularly, a columnar or cylindrical molded body obtained by injecting a PFA raw material into a heated mold to be pressurized and cooling the material under pressure) made of a PFA to be deformed into a gasket shape and thereafter performing cold-pressing on the resultant to fix a shape thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a polymer electrolyte membrane that is formed of a fluorine free material, is soft and hardly cracks, and is excellent in hot water resistance. The polymer electrolyte membrane is obtained by crosslinking a block copolymer (Z) containing a polymer block (A) containing a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound and having an ion-conducting group; and an amorphous polymer block (B) containing a structural unit derived from an unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon and free of any ion-conducting group, the block copolymer (Z) being crosslinked with a crosslinking agent (X) having, in a molecule thereof, two or more aromatic rings of which one or more hydrogen atoms are substituted with hydroxy groups.

Abstract: An electrolyte membrane having a structure wherein fine rubber particles having substantially no ion-conducting group and having an average particle size of 20 nm to 1 ?m are uniformly dispersed in a matrix including a resin component having ion-conducting group. The electrolyte membrane has high bonding ability to electrodes and does not cause cracks and ruptures because it is kept flexible even under low humid or absolutely dried condition, in addition, shows high ion conductivity even under low humid or absolutely dried condition because the matrix having ion-conducting groups are continuous.

Abstract: A sealed battery includes a current-collecting terminal member; a gasket that electrically insulates a lid member and the current-collecting terminal member from each other; and a connection member that connects the current-collecting terminal member and an external terminal member. The connection member and the current-collecting terminal member are connected by swaging the second end of the current-collecting terminal member to an insertion hole of the connection member. The lid member has a lid-side protruded portion that compresses the gasket. The current-collecting terminal member has a terminal-side protruded portion that compresses the gasket. A gasket-side area of the lid-side protruded portion, a gasket-side area of the terminal-side protruded portion, and an area of a surface of the current-collecting terminal member which faces and contacts the gasket, except the terminal-side protruded portion, are different in size from each other.

Abstract: The invention provides a manufacturing method of a sealed battery that includes a power generating element, a housing member, a lid member, a collector terminal member, and a first insulating member. This manufacturing method includes compressing the first insulating member with a protruding portion of the lid member. The method includes measuring a position of the lid member and a compression load applied by the lid member, and stopping compressing when a slope of the change in the compression load with respect to the position of the lid member reaches a predetermined value.

Abstract: A control method for a processing device including a plurality of functional blocks and a plurality of electric power reception units includes: periodically detecting or estimating a total amount of received electric power supplied to the plurality of electric power reception units to acquire total received electric power information indicative of the total amount of received electric power; and selectively controlling, based on the total received electric power information, supply of the total received electric power supplied to the plurality of electric power reception units to the plurality of functional blocks.