Abstract: A secondary battery including a first electrode structure including a first electrode current collector, the first electrode current collector including a first electrode layer forming region and a first electrode layer non-forming region on each surface of the first electrode current collector, a second electrode structure including a second electrode current collector, the second electrode current collector including a second electrode layer forming region and a second electrode layer non-forming region on each surface of the second electrode current collector, wherein the first and second electrode layer non-forming regions respectively include first and second electrode current collector tab coupling regions in an interior portion of each of the first and second electrode layer forming regions, and wherein the first electrode structure, the second electrode structure, and an electrolyte layer disposed between the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure are enclosed with an exterior bo

Abstract: An all solid secondary battery including a positive electrode layer; a negative electrode layer; and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, wherein at least one of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, and the solid electrolyte layer includes a solid electrolyte including a first binder that is insoluble in a non-polar solvent and is non-continuously present in at least one of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, and the solid electrolyte layer, and a second binder that is soluble in non-polar solvent and is continuously present in at least one of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, and the solid electrolyte layer, wherein a solubility parameter of the first binder and a solubility parameter of the second binder are different from each other.

Abstract: A printing system and printing apparatus are provided with improvements in the image quality of an image formed on a printing medium, a peel off region (PO) wherein a transfer layer of a transfer film is not transferred is set corresponding to a card, modified printing data is generated by modifying a gray-scale value of printing data inside a region that is larger than the PO region by predetermined dimensions and including the PO region in the printing data of Y, M, C and Bk into a gray-scale value of 0, an image is formed on the transfer film by heating a thermal head for an image formation panel of an ink ribbon according to the modified printing data. The transfer layer is peeled off by heating the thermal head for a peel off panel of the ink ribbon according to position information of the PO region.

Abstract: Provided is an information recording device in which jam processing operation can be easily performed with simple operation when a recording medium such as a card is jammed in a conveyance passage. A card storing section and a medium conveyance passage for conveying a card to an image forming section are arranged in a housing at upper and lower sides and a passage open-close member for removing a card jammed at the image forming section is arranged therebetween. Then, electronic information recording means is incorporated in the passage open-close member and a medium conveyance path which conveys a card toward the electronic information recording means is arranged on a medium introduction passage for feeding a card from the card storing section to the medium conveyance passage. According to the above, a card jammed at the image forming section or the information recording section can be easily removed to the outside of the device by opening the card storing section.

Abstract: A positive electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode particle including a positive active material including a lithium salt, and a coating layer including an amorphous carbonaceous layer on a surface of the positive active material, and a sulfide solid electrolyte contacting the coating layer, wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte includes a solid sulfide.

Abstract: To perform preheating on a recording medium before transfer with an inexpensive configuration to reduce a transfer failure due to a change in temperature of a transfer film and further reduce thermal damage to the transfer film, in a transfer apparatus for nipping a transfer film and recording medium with a transfer roller and transfer platen, preheating treatment of the recording medium is performed by heat of the transfer roller before transfer processing. When the preheating treatment is performed using the transfer roller, the transfer film exists between the transport roller and the recording medium, and by shifting the position of the transfer film during the preheating treatment, it is possible to suppress thermal damage to the transfer film without applying heat of the transfer roller to only a part of the transfer film excessively.

Abstract: To provide a printing apparatus with high printing quality that reduces a transport amount of an ink ribbon except printing operation and that suppresses skew of the ink ribbon, diameters of spools 43, 44 are calculated from rotation amounts of the supply spool 43 and wind-up spool 44 corresponding to a printing length in a sub-scanning direction of the printing data during driving of a thermal head 40, a value of the calculated diameter is compared with a value of a beforehand set diameter, it is thereby determined whether or not an ink ribbon 41 is near empty, and when the ink ribbon is not near empty, the ribbon 41 is wound around the spool 44 up to a printing end position in which a rear end of a used portion of the ribbon 41 passes through a peeling member 28, while when the ink ribbon is near empty, the ribbon 41 is wound around the spool 44 until an empty mark EMP_M arrives at a position detectable by a sensor Se2, and then is rewound around the spool 43 until a front end of an unused portion of the ri

Abstract: A transfer device is provided to realize a higher speed in terms of print time by reducing a conveyance time of an ink ribbon to a beginning position of each ink panel. The transfer device includes an image formation unit conveying the ink ribbon and a recording medium held between a thermal head and a platen, and transferring a transfer image onto the recording medium; a ink ribbon conveyance device for conveying the ink ribbon; a recording medium conveyance device for conveying the recording medium; and a control device for controlling the ink ribbon conveyance device and the recording medium conveyance device to control, in the image formation unit, beginning positions of a transfer start position of the ink panel and a transfer start position of the recording medium.

Abstract: A printing system and printing apparatus are provided with improvements in the image quality of an image formed on a printing medium, a peel off region (PO) wherein a transfer layer of a transfer film is not transferred is set corresponding to a card, modified printing data is generated by modifying a gray-scale value of printing data inside a region that is larger than the PO region by predetermined dimensions and including the PO region in the printing data of Y, M, C and Bk into a gray-scale value of 0, an image is formed on the transfer film by heating a thermal head for an image formation panel of an ink ribbon according to the modified printing data. The transfer layer is peeled off by heating the thermal head for a peel off panel of the ink ribbon according to position information of the PO region.

Abstract: A polymeric compound having a backbone structure including an addition product of a (meth)acrylate compound and a nucleophile of a cobalt porphyrin complex including a tetraphenylporphyrin derivative represented by Formula 1 coordinated to a cobalt metal, wherein substituents R1 to R4 are as described in the specification, an oxygen permeable membrane including the polymeric compound, and an electrochemical device including the oxygen permeable membrane.

Abstract: To provide a printing apparatus without waste of a ribbon panel in using a two-side dedicated ribbon, a printing apparatus 1 capable of printing on both surfaces of a printing medium performs two-side printing using an ink ribbon 41 with a color ribbon panel 41a and monochrome ribbon panel 41b configured in a face sequential manner. At this point, the apparatus detects a position of each ribbon panel, judges a type (color or monochrome) of a next usable nearest ribbon panel of the ink ribbon 41, judges which type of the ribbon panel (color or monochrome) is used for printing data sent from a higher apparatus 201, and compares the type of the next usable nearest ribbon panel with the ribbon panel judged with the printing data to determine the printing order on the printing medium.

Abstract: When an image formed on an intermediate transfer film is heat-transferred to a recording medium, the film surface is prevented from being deteriorated or distorted due to heat so as to enable high-quality printing.

Abstract: To provide a printing apparatus with high printing quality that reduces a transport amount of an ink ribbon except printing operation and that suppresses skew of the ink ribbon, diameters of spools 43, 44 are calculated from rotation amounts of the supply spool 43 and wind-up spool 44 corresponding to a printing length in a sub-scanning direction of the printing data during driving of a thermal head 40, a value of the calculated diameter is compared with a value of a beforehand set diameter, it is thereby determined whether or not an ink ribbon 41 is near empty, and when the ink ribbon is not near empty, the ribbon 41 is wound around the spool 44 up to a printing end position in which a rear end of a used portion of the ribbon 41 passes through a peeling member 28, while when the ink ribbon is near empty, the ribbon 41 is wound around the spool 44 until an empty mark EMP_M arrives at a position detectable by a sensor Se2, and then is rewound around the spool 43 until a front end of an unused portion of the ri

Abstract: To provide a transfer apparatus that uniforms peeling characteristics and peeling characteristics in transfer processing and that enables a stabilized transfer result to be obtained, in a transfer apparatus for nipping a transfer film 46 and recording medium K with a transfer roller 33 and transfer platen 31 to form an image on the recording medium, preheating treatment of the recording medium K is performed before transfer processing. At this point, by determining a preheating amount corresponding to the temperature of the recording medium K, it is possible to obtain a stabilized transfer result in response to a change in transfer conditions due to a change in environmental temperature and a change in the transfer surface. Particularly, in the case of performing backside transfer subsequently to frontside transfer, since the temperature of the recording medium K is high, a preheating amount in backside transfer is made smaller than in frontside transfer.

Abstract: To peel off a transfer film varying in easy-to-peel according to the temperature of a recording medium (temperature of an adhesion surface) with a suitable peeling tension and to suppress the occurrence of peeling residues, in a transfer apparatus for nipping a transfer film 46 and recording medium K with a transfer roller 33 and transfer platen 31 to form an image on the recording medium, the temperature of the card K is detected by detecting an environmental temperature outside the apparatus, and the peeling tension (transfer film wind torque) required for peeling off the transfer film 46 from the card K subjected to transfer is changed corresponding to the card temperature. Further, in the case of performing backside transfer subsequently to frontside transfer, since the card temperature is high, the peeling tension in backside transfer is set to be lower than the peeling tension in frontside transfer.

Abstract: To provide a transfer apparatus in which a transferred image is not displaced during image transfer and further, finish is excellent on the rear end side of a recording medium subjected to transfer, in a transfer apparatus for nipping a transfer film 96 and recording medium K with a transfer roller 33 and transfer platen 31 to form an image on the recording medium, the transfer film 46 on the upstream side from the card rear end is sagged during transfer processing, and the sag of the transfer film 46 is eliminated by controlling rotation of a carry roller 49 for a period during which the transfer processing is finished and the card rear end arrives at a peeling pin 34b.

Abstract: A polymeric compound including a cross-linked backbone which is a product of a reaction between a multifunctional acrylate compound and a metal porphyrin derivative, wherein the metal porphyrin derivative has a first axial position and a second axial position, and further includes a basic coordination ligand coordinated at the first axial position of the metal porphyrin derivative.

Abstract: An electrochemical device including: a positive electrode including oxygen as a positive active material; a negative electrode including a lithium ion-intercalatable/deintercalatable material as a negative active material; and an electrolytic solution in fluid communication with the positive electrode and the negative electrode and including a solvent and an oxygen absorbing/desorbing material with an oxygen binding rate of about 60 to about 95% in a pure oxygen atmosphere.

Abstract: A solid-state battery including a cathode, an anode, and a solid-state electrolyte layer including a solid-state electrolyte, wherein the solid-state electrolyte layer is disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the anode includes an anode active material, a first binder, and a second binder, the first binder is inactive to the solid-state electrolyte, the second binder has a tensile modulus greater than a tensile modulus of the first binder, and the second binder has a binding force which is greater than a binding force of the first binder.

Abstract: An all-solid battery including a positive electrode including a binder, a negative electrode including a binder, and an electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and including a solid electrolyte, wherein at least one binder of the positive electrode and the negative electrode is cross-linked by a cross-linking agent.