Abstract:
A bookbinding apparatus includes: a replenishing device having a pellet storing section that stores pellets of adhesive and a replenishing member that takes out the pellets in a countable manner from the pellet storing section; an adhesive reservoir that melts the pellets replenished from the replenishing member and stores the molten adhesive liquid; a coating device having a coating member that coats the adhesive scooped up from the adhesive liquid; a replenishment sensor that detects the number of pellets replenished to the adhesive reservoir; and a controller that controls the replenishing member based on an output of the replenishment sensor.
Abstract:
A battery that includes a cathode, anode and an electrolytic solution containing an organic electrolyte solvent including a compound of the formula: R1—CO—NR2—OR3 wherein R1 is selected from alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aryls and their substituted derivatives and perfluorinated analogues; R2 is selected from alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aryls and their substituted derivatives; R3 is selected from alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aryls and their substituted derivatives wherein the electrolyte is stable at voltages of greater than 4.0 volts.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an ion-conductive material which comprises an ionic liquid and can realize a higher level of safety. Also disclosed is an electrochemical device using the ion-conductive material. Further disclosed is a method for manufacturing an electrochemical device. An ion-conductive material comprising an ionic liquid satisfying the following conditions: the ionic liquid comprises two or more types of anion, such that at least one type thereof is an anion having a structure in which one or more electron-withdrawing groups are bonded to a central atom having one more non-covalent electron pairs; and the ionic liquid has a maximum exothermic heat-flow peak height no greater than 2 W/g as measured by DSC (measurement temperature range: ordinary temperature to 500° C., rate of temperature rise: 2° C./minute). Preferably, the ion-conductive material comprises an ionic liquid having a gross calorific value of no greater than 1000 J/g as measured by the DSC.
Abstract:
A battery, such as a lithium-ion battery, comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, a molten salt electrolyte, and an electron collector, associated with the first electrode, the electron collector comprising an electrically conducting film. The battery further includes a protection layer separating the electron collector and the first electrode, the protection layer comprising a carbon-containing material. The electron collector may be an electrically conducting material such as aluminum, aluminum alloy, copper, nickel, other metal (such as alloys), conducting polymer, and the like. In one example, the protection layer is a graphite layer. In other examples, the protection layer may be a fullerene film, carbon nanotube film, or other carbon-containing material.
Abstract:
According to the present invention, all terminals can establish synchronization in a radio communications system formed only of a plurality of mobile terminals. This radio terminal communicates by the time division connection method, and comprises a control portion for synchronizing its transmission/reception timing to that of a group including a plurality of radio terminals. The control portion determines the overall cycle including basic cycles in a number corresponding to the number of radio terminals within said group, conducts control to transmit a signal in a basic cycle that is included in said overall cycle and that is set by a unique terminal number allotted in advance to each of said radio terminals, conducts control to receive signals from another radio terminal in another basic cycle, adjusts the transmission/reception timing based on the data received from said other radio terminal in said other basic cycle, and saves the reception timing until a process to adjust the transmission/reception timing is conducted.
Abstract:
A lithium-based rechargeable battery comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a molten salt electrolyte that is electrically conductive lithium ions. The positive electrode includes a positive active material that has an electrochemical potential of at least approximately 4.0 volts relative to lithium, and more preferably at least approximately 4.5 V relative to lithium. The electrolyte may further include a source of lithium ions, such as a lithium compound. Other rechargeable batteries using other ionic species can be fabricated to an analogous design.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a process for producing an optically active β-trifluoromethyl-β-hydroxycarbonyl compound represented by formula (3): comprising a step of reacting a fluoral equivalent represented by formula (1): with a carbonyl compound represented by formula (2): in the presence of an optically active amino acid or a derivative thereof.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor substrate by bonding two silicon crystalline wafers, and particularly, to a method of manufacturing a semiconductor substrate capable of reduced electrical resistance at the bonding interface. In the disclosed method, the silicon wafers to be bonded have at least one surface mirror-polished. Then they are washed, thus forming a natural oxide film on the surface. Then they are soaked in a concentrated HF solution for enough time to remove the oxide film formed on the surface. After that, the silicon wafers are soaked in ultra pure water to replace the fluorine atoms terminated on the surface thereof by OH groups, followed by drying. The silicon wafers thus treated are closely contacted with each other in such a manner that the mirror-polished surfaces are opposed to each other. The silicon wafers are thus bonded to each other by the hydrogen bonding forces due to the OH groups, and then heat treated for reinforcing the bonding.
Abstract:
A magnesium battery includes a first electrode including an active material and a second electrode. An electrolyte is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The electrolyte includes a magnesium compound. The active material includes an inter-metallic compound of magnesium and bismuth.
Abstract:
A main object is to provide an asymmetric type BF3 complex which is useful as a solvent for a liquid electrolyte for electrochemical device, in which the liquid electrolyte has a wide potential window and is particularly excellent in oxidation resistance. To attain the object, an asymmetric type BF3 complex is represented by the following general formula (1): (in the general formula (1), each of R1 and R2 is an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms and may be the same or different, and R1 and R2 may be branched or may form a ring).