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20110031935 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR THE SAME - The present invention is characterized in that, in a negative electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery, the negative electrode being manufactured via an application step of applying a binder resin and an active material onto a surface of collector, the binder resin is an alkoxysilyl group-containing resin that has a structure being specified by formula (I); and the active material includes a lithium-inactive metal that does not form any intermetallic compounds with lithium, or a silicide of the lithium-inactive metal, and an elemental substance of Si. It is possible to upgrade cyclic characteristics by means of using the negative electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery according to the present invention. | 02-10-2011 |
20110291055 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR LITHIUM-SILICATE-SYSTEM COMPOUND - The present invention is one which provides a production process for lithium-silicate-system compound, the production process being characterized in that: a lithium-silicate compound being expressed by Li | 12-01-2011 |
20110315919 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR LITHIUM-BORATE-SYSTEM COMPOUND - A process is provided, process which makes it possible to produce lithium-borate-system materials by means of relatively simple means, lithium-borate-system materials which are useful as positive-electrode active materials for lithium-ion secondary battery, and the like, whose cyclic characteristics, capacities, and so forth, are improved, and which have better performance. The present production is characterized in that a divalent metallic compound including at least one member of compounds that is selected from the group consisting of divalent-iron compounds and divalent-manganese compounds, and boric acid as well as lithium hydroxide are reacted at 400-650° C. in a molten salt of a carbonate mixture comprising lithium carbonate and at least one member of alkali-metal carbonates that is selected from the group consisting of potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, rubidium carbonate and cesium carbonate in a reducing atmosphere. | 12-29-2011 |
20130029222 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY AND LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THAT POSITIVE ELECTRODE - To provide a sulfur-system positive electrode for lithium-ion battery, sulfur-system positive electrode which is good in the cyclability and the other characteristics, and a lithium-ion secondary battery including that positive electrode. | 01-31-2013 |
20130078519 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR LITHIUM-SILICATE-BASED COMPOUND - A production process for lithium-silicate-based compound according to the present invention is characterized in that: a lithium-silicate compound being expressed by Li | 03-28-2013 |
20130183584 | LITHIUM-SILICATE-BASED COMPOUND AND PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR THE SAME - A production process for lithium-silicate-based compound is characterized in that:
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20140050974 | SODIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - Because of being equipped with a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a sodium-ion nonaqueous electrolyte, and because the positive electrode includes a sulfur-based positive-electrode active material containing carbon (C) and sulfur (S), it is possible to inhibit sulfur from eluting out into electrolytic solution, thereby resulting in a sodium secondary battery that makes it feasible to undergo charging and discharging for 100 cycles or more reversibly. | 02-20-2014 |
20140127585 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY, NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY, VEHICLE, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL - It is intended to provide a positive electrode active material, which contains a lithium silicate based compound and has superior conductivity, for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a process for producing the same, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the positive electrode active material. The lithium silicate based compound and a carbon material are mixed at 450 to 16000 rpm for 1 minute to 10 hours and then heated and pressurized at 500° C. to 700° C. at 1 to 500 MPa for 1 minute to 15 hours, thereby adhering the lithium silicate based compound and the carbon material to each other. | 05-08-2014 |
20140231721 | LITHIUM SILICATE-BASED COMPOUND, POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY USING THE SAME - Provided is a novel lithium silicate-based material useful as a positive electrode material for lithium ion secondary battery. | 08-21-2014 |
20140308579 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SODIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, POSITIVE ELECTRODE, AND SODIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - Provided are a positive electrode active material for a sodium ion secondary battery, and a positive electrode and a sodium ion secondary battery using the material. The positive electrode active material for a sodium ion secondary battery comprises a lithium sodium-based compound containing lithium (Li), sodium (Na), iron (Fe), and oxygen (O). | 10-16-2014 |
20140332718 | LITHIUM SILICATE-BASED COMPOUND AND PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR THE SAME, POSITIVE-ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND POSITIVE ELECTRODE FOR USE IN LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY AS WELL AS SECONDARY BATTERY - A lithium silicate-based compound according to the present invention is expressed by a general formula, Li | 11-13-2014 |
20150380729 | LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A lithium-ion secondary battery of the present invention comprises a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material composite formed by compositing a lithium silicate-based material and a carbon material, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material containing a silicon, and an electrolyte. The lithium-ion secondary battery satisfies 0.8 | 12-31-2015 |
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20090050510 | Structure for Air-Packing Device - An air-packing device has an improved shock absorbing capability to protect a product in a container box. The air-packing device is comprised of first and second thermoplastic films where predetermined portions are bonded thereby creating a plurality of air containers, a plurality of heat-seal lands each sealing the first and second thermoplastic films in a small area of the air container thereby creating a plurality of series connected air cells for each air container, a plurality of check valves for corresponding air containers for allowing the compressed air to flow in a forward direction. The plurality of heat-seal lands at predetermined sides of the air-packing device create triangled areas of the air cells, and the air-packing device is folded at the heat-seal lands, thereby creating an inner space for packing a product therein. | 02-26-2009 |
20090091122 | PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTING SHEET, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ENVELOPE WITH PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTING SHEET - The present invention provides a personal information protecting sheet in which personal information can be easily made illegible. The personal information protecting sheet includes a base material, a release layer formed on at least a part of the surface of the base material, and an image-receiving layer formed on the release layer. When a force having a directional component that is larger than a predetermined value and parallel to the surface of the base material is applied to the surface, a portion of the image-receiving layer to which the force is applied is peeled from the release layer. | 04-09-2009 |
20100072875 | SURFACE EMISSION TYPE ELECTRON SOURCE AND DRAWING DEVICE - A surface emission type electron source according to the present invention includes a first electrode having a planar form; a second electrode having a planar form facing the first electrode; an electron passage layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a power source part configured to apply a voltage to the second electrode and the first electrode. The electron passage layer includes plural quantum wires extending in a first direction from the first electrode to the second electrode. The quantum wires are spaced apart from each other at predetermined intervals, and electrons are emitted from a front surface of the second electrode. The quantum wires are made of silicon, and each of the quantum wires has plural thin parts having small thicknesses formed at predetermined intervals along the first direction. | 03-25-2010 |
20130039473 | Mobile X-Ray Device and Method for Controlling Mobile X-Ray Device - Provided is a mobile X-ray device with which the power consumption of the battery of the mobile X-ray device can be reduced efficiently by determining the state of movement of the mobile X-ray device from the states of the components thereof and controlling the supply of electric power to the components in non-movement-related sections, which are sections irrelevant to the movement of the mobile X-ray device. | 02-14-2013 |
20130223596 | MOBILE X-RAY APPARATUS - A mobile X-ray apparatus that performs a stable operation even if a sudden voltage drop or momentary power interruption occurs during operation of a commercial AC power source. The mobile X-ray apparatus includes a plug for connection to an external power source, a battery charged from the external power source through the plug, a unit that operates by being supplied with electricity from the commercial AC power source connected through the plug, and a second circuit including a rectifier that supplies electricity to the unit from the battery if a voltage from the commercial AC power source falls to or below a regulated value while the unit is being operated by the electricity supply from the commercial AC power source. | 08-29-2013 |
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20150189276 | VIDEO ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, VIDEO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND PROGRAMS THEREFOR - When dividing each frame that forms an encoding target video into a plurality of processing regions and subjecting each processing region to predictive encoding, the encoding is executed by subjecting a prediction residual signal to downsampling that utilizes an interpolation filter. The interpolation filter whose filter coefficients are not encoded is determined by adaptively generating or selecting, for each processing region, the interpolation filter with reference to information that is able to be referred to when corresponding decoding is performed. A low-resolution prediction residual is obtained by subjecting the prediction residual signal to downsampling that utilizes the interpolation filter. | 07-02-2015 |
20150245062 | PICTURE ENCODING METHOD, PICTURE DECODING METHOD, PICTURE ENCODING APPARATUS, PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS, PICTURE ENCODING PROGRAM, PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An picture encoding method includes steps of converting a reference depth map into a virtual depth map that is a depth map of an object photographed in a target picture, generating a depth value of an occlusion region in which there is no depth value in the reference depth map generated by an anteroposterior relationship of the object by assigning a depth value of which a correspondence relationship with a region on the same object as an object shielded in the reference picture is obtained to the occlusion region, and performing picture prediction between views by generating a disparity-compensated picture for the encoding target picture from the virtual depth map and the reference picture after the depth value of the occlusion region is generated. | 08-27-2015 |
20150249839 | PICTURE ENCODING METHOD, PICTURE DECODING METHOD, PICTURE ENCODING APPARATUS, PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS, PICTURE ENCODING PROGRAM, PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIA - A picture encoding method and a picture decoding method are provided which are capable of generating a view-synthesized picture of a processing target frame with small computational complexity without significantly degrading the quality of the view-synthesized picture when the view-synthesized, picture is generated. A picture encoding/decoding method for, when encoding/decoding a multiview picture which includes pictures for a plurality of views, performing the encoding/decoding while predicting a picture between the views using a reference view picture for a view different from a view of a target picture and a reference view depth map which is a depth map of an object within the reference view picture, includes a virtual depth map generating step of generating a virtual depth map which has lower resolution than the target picture and is a depth map of the object within the target picture, and an inter-view picture predicting step of performing inter-view picture prediction by generating a disparity-compensated picture for the target picture from the virtual depth map and the reference view picture. | 09-03-2015 |
20150271527 | VIDEO ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, VIDEO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND PROGRAMS THEREFOR - When decoding code data of a video wherein each frame that forms the video is divided into a plurality of processing regions, each processing region is subjected to predictive decoding, a provisional decoded image obtained by provisional image decoding utilizing a low-resolution prediction residual is generated, and a final decoded image is generated by updating decoded values of the provisional decoded image. Additionally, when dividing each frame that forms a video into a plurality of processing regions and subjecting each processing region to predictive encoding in which a high-resolution prediction residual is subjected to downsampling to generate a low-resolution prediction residual, a subsampled prediction residual is generated by a subsampling process which subjects only part of pixels of the high-resolution prediction residual to sampling, and the subsampled prediction residual is determined to be the low-resolution prediction residual. | 09-24-2015 |
20150334418 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DECODING PROGRAM - An image encoding/decoding apparatus for performing encoding/decoding while predicting an image between different views using a reference image for a view different from a processing target image and a reference depth map which is a depth map for an object of the reference image when a multi-view image including images of a plurality of different views is encoded/decoded includes a reference depth region setting unit configured to set a reference depth region which is a corresponding region on the reference depth map for decoding target regions into which the processing target image is divided, and an inter-view prediction unit configured to generate an inter-view predicted image for the processing target region from the reference image using depth information in the reference depth region as depth information for the processing target region. | 11-19-2015 |
20150350678 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING PROGRAM, IMAGE DECODING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIA - When pseudo motion representing synthesized positional deviation in a view-synthesized image is compensated for, pseudo motion-compensated prediction of fractional pixel precision for the view-synthesized image is realized. An image encoding/decoding method which performs encoding/decoding while predicting an image between views using a reference image for a view different from that of a processing target image and a depth map for the processing target image when a multi-view image including images of a plurality of different views is encoded/decoded includes: setting a pseudo motion vector indicating a region on a depth map for a processing target region obtained by dividing the processing target image; setting the region on the depth map indicated by the pseudo motion vector as a depth region; generating depth information serving as a processing target region depth for a pixel of an integer or fractional position within the depth region corresponding to a pixel of an integer pixel position within the processing target region using depth information of an integer pixel position of the depth map; and generating an inter-view predicted image for the processing target region using the processing target region depth and the reference image. | 12-03-2015 |
20150358644 | VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAMS THEREFOR - A video encoding apparatus divides each frame which forms an encoding target video into a plurality of processing regions, each processing region being subjected to predictive encoding, where a basic reference region associated with each processing region as an encoding target image is set. A first reference prediction region and a second reference prediction region, which are reference regions associated with the basic reference region, are set. Based on a first reference predicted image and a second reference predicted image which correspond to the reference prediction regions, weighting coefficients assigned to individual small regions are set. A first prediction region and a second prediction region, which are reference regions for the encoding target image, are set. A predicted image is generated based on the weighting coefficients, and a first primary-predicted image and a second primary-predicted image which are obtained based on the first and second prediction regions. | 12-10-2015 |
20160037172 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DECODING PROGRAM - The image encoding apparatus encodes while predicting an image between different views using a reference image encoded for a view different from a processing target image, and a reference depth map for an object of the reference image when a multiview image of plural different views is encoded. A view-synthesized image is generated for the entire encoding target image using the reference image and the reference depth map. A setting section sets whether to perform prediction for each of encoding target blocks into which the encoding target image is divided, or to perform prediction using the view-synthesized image for the entire encoding target image. Information is encoded to indicate the prediction unit. An encoding section performs predictive encoding on the encoding target image for every encoding target block, while selecting a predicted image generation method when the prediction for every encoding target block as the prediction unit has been selected. | 02-04-2016 |
20160065990 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING PROGRAM, IMAGE DECODING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIA - An image encoding device and an image decoding device encodes with a low overall output size while preventing encoding-efficiency degradation in occlusion regions. When encoding a multiview image comprising a plurality of images from different perspectives, this device, using a reference image from a different perspective from a target image being encoded and a reference depth map for a subject in said reference image, encodes while performing image prediction across different perspectives. The device is provided with: a combined-perspective-image generation unit that uses the reference image and reference depth map to generate a combined-perspective image for the target image; a usability determination unit that, for each encoding region determines whether or not the combined-perspective image is usable; and an image encoding unit that performs predictive encoding on the target image while selecting predicted-image generation methods for encoding regions for which the combined-perspective image was determined to be unusable. | 03-03-2016 |
20160073125 | VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAMS THEREFOR - An apparatus performs inter-frame prediction in directions pertaining to time and disparity and predictive-encodes an encoding target video by generating a predicted image whose error is corrected. An encoding target image is predicted by utilizing reference pictures which are previously-decoded pictures in the directions pertaining to time and disparity; and inter-frame reference information and inter-viewpoint reference information which indicate individual reference parts on the reference pictures are determined. A disparity predicted image and a motion predicted image are generated based on the determined information items. A corrective predicted image is generated based on the inter-viewpoint reference information and the inter-frame reference information. The predicted image is generated from the disparity predicted image, the motion predicted image, and the corrective predicted image. | 03-10-2016 |