Abstract: An observation device includes a neutron emission device, a detection device, and a data processing device. The neutron emission device emits neutrons to an inspection object. The detection device detects exit neutrons from the inspection object at one set of detection positions in a peripheral direction around the inspection object, outside the inspection object, and measures the number of the detected exit neutrons for each of the detection positions. The data processing device generates reconstructed cross-sectional data by performing reconstruction processing based on the number of the detected exit neutrons at each of the one set of detection positions. The reconstructed cross-sectional data represent a two-dimensional distribution of a neutron reaction rate in an imaginary cross-section of the inspection object.

Abstract: There is provided a sealed battery having excellent corrosion resistance and sealing performance. The sealed battery 1 includes a battery jacket can 2 having a bottom and being in a cylindrical or polyhedral shape. The battery jacket can 2 also serves as a collector of one of the electrodes. The battery jacket can 2 has an opening pointing upwards and accommodates active parts (3, 4, 5 and 20). The opening is sealed by a sealing part 10 that includes a flat metal sealing plate 6, a gasket 9 made of an insulator, and a terminal part 7 of the other electrode. In the sealing part, the terminal part is attached to the sealing plate 6 using the gasket 9. The sealing plate has a planar shape that matches a shape of the opening of the battery jacket can. The sealing plate is in a saucer shape whose edge section is bent upwards.

Abstract: A spirally-wound lithium battery includes: a bottomed cylindrical cell can doubling as an anode current collector; and a strip-shaped electrode body including an anode and a cathode arranged faced each other via a separator, the anode including an anode active material of lithium metal or alloy, the cell can being sealed, with a non-aqueous organic electrolyte, containing the electrode body wound in a longitudinal direction, the electrode body being wound from a winding axis side around the axis in a vertical direction, an extending direction of a cell can cylindrical axis, such that the anode is arranged at an outermost circumference, the electrode body is attached with a conductor, continuously extending in the longitudinal direction thereof, on an outer circumferential surface of the anode, from a winding end of the anode to an area thereof opposed to an inner surface of the cathode on its winding end side.

Abstract: There is provided non-aqueous organic electrolytic solution for a lithium primary battery which can be stored for long period at elevated temperatures or at the end stage of discharge. Non-aqueous organic electrolytic solution 20 for lithium primary battery 1 having a cathode active material which is manganese dioxide and an anode active material which is either of lithium or lithium alloy includes a base electrolytic solution that is composed of organic solvent and supporting electrolyte and to which either one of hydroxyphthalimide or hydroxyphthalimide derivative is added as an additive. An amount of the additive which is added to the base electrolytic solution is 0.1 wt % or more and 5.0 wt % or less. It is more preferable that the amount of the additive which is added to the base electrolytic solution is 0.1 wt % or more and 1.0 wt % or less.

Abstract: A spirally-wound lithium battery includes: a bottomed cylindrical cell can doubling as an anode current collector; and a strip-shaped electrode body including an anode and a cathode arranged faced each other via a separator, the anode including an anode active material of lithium metal or alloy, the cell can being sealed, with a non-aqueous organic electrolyte, containing the electrode body wound in a longitudinal direction, the electrode body being wound from a winding axis side around the axis in a vertical direction, an extending direction of a cell can cylindrical axis, such that the anode is arranged at an outermost circumference, the electrode body is attached with a conductor, continuously extending in the longitudinal direction thereof, on an outer circumferential surface of the anode, from a winding end of the anode to an area thereof opposed to an inner surface of the cathode on its winding end side.

Abstract: There is provided a sealed battery having excellent corrosion resistance and sealing performance. The sealed battery 1 includes a battery jacket can 2 having a bottom and being in a cylindrical or polyhedral shape. The battery jacket can 2 also serves as a collector of one of the electrodes. The battery jacket can 2 has an opening pointing upwards and accommodates active parts (3, 4, 5 and 20). The opening is sealed by a sealing part 10 that includes a flat metal sealing plate 6, a gasket 9 made of an insulator, and a terminal part 7 of the other electrode. In the sealing part, the terminal part is attached to the sealing plate 6 using the gasket 9. The sealing plate has a planar shape that matches a shape of the opening of the battery jacket can. The sealing plate is in a saucer shape whose edge section is bent upwards.

Abstract: There is provided non-aqueous organic electrolytic solution for a lithium primary battery which can be stored for long period at elevated temperatures or at the end stage of discharge. Non-aqueous organic electrolytic solution 20 for lithium primary battery 1 having a cathode active material which is manganese dioxide and an anode active material which is either of lithium or lithium alloy includes a base electrolytic solution that is composed of organic solvent and supporting electrolyte and to which either one of hydroxyphthalimide or hydroxyphthalimide derivative is added as an additive. An amount of the additive which is added to the base electrolytic solution is 0.1 wt % or more and 5.0 wt % or less. It is more preferable that the amount of the additive which is added to the base electrolytic solution is 0.1 wt % or more and 1.0 wt % or less.