PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a negative electrode plate for a lithium secondary battery using a high capacity active material and capable of reducing stress at both ends in the width direction of a current collector in expansion contraction caused by absorption of lithium ions, and to provide the lithium secondary battery using the negative electrode.

SOLUTION: The negative electrode 20...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-capacity lithium secondary battery in which a material which can make an alloy with lithium is used as an anode active substance and a peeling off of this material because of swelling at a time of charging can be prevented and deterioration of service life due to a fine internal short circuit together with a work of a surface layer formed on the anode can...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pachinko game machine of a new structure which can realize an operation for making a winning facilitated state appear only when a ball enters a specified winning port which is different from a variable winning device, by a simple structure.

SOLUTION: A rotator 66 for counting, and a rotator 68 for opening are provided. In this case, the rotator 66 for coun...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical instrument, an intraluminal insertion tool equipped with the medical instrument, and an intraluminal insertion tool for preventing buckling of the intraluminal insertion tool to eliminate the replacement of the intraluminal insertion tool as much as possible and for enabling an operator to sense the torque exceeding a threshold value instantly by hands...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a slot machine capable of raising and sustaining a player's interest in a game by executing a performance amusing the player by predicting a game state and feeling unexpectedness.

SOLUTION: This slot machine is provided with a combination lottery means for determining a single combination out of combinations including a winning combination in a combination l...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ultrasonic probe with a piezoelectric vibrator of excellent piezoelectric characteristics without degradation in sensitivity by suppressing the formation of a part where polarization is incomplete at a part of a piezoelectric body layer, and also to provide an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic test equipment each using the ultrasonic probe.

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To permit the restraint of game balls hitting the top face of a ball tray from rebounding, the prevention of the game balls from jumping out of the ball tray and the reduction of noise caused at the time when the game balls hit against the tray.

SOLUTION: An impact diffusion member 15 made by molding a plurality of riblike impact diffusion pieces 17 at an appropriate i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid dispensing container eliminating any possibility of a short circuit and an electric shock even if the liquid dispensing container falls down and having an extremely superior safety.

SOLUTION: This liquid dispensing container 1 is provided with an inner container 2 for storing liquid, a heater 3 heating the liquid in the inner container, a pouring me...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the game ball from jumping out of the ball tray by providing a low-restitution structure of a ball tray which prevents a game ball from hitting the ball tray from greatly rebounding in a game machine such as a pachinko machine, an arrangement ball machine, a Jankyu (combination of pachinko and mahjong) game machine, a slot machine, or a parrot game machine.

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a snowboard binding device which returns to a reference position after the turning of a binding, and reduces the load on the joint of the knee, the ankle, and so on making free sliding possible by enabling the binding to rotate within the range of setting so that it is easy to control even at the time of sliding.

SOLUTION: The snowboard binding device is com...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an X-ray computed tomography apparatus in which approach to a patient and an area usable for horizontal movement of a patient table are not intensely restricted.

SOLUTION: An x-ray computed tomography apparatus has a stationary x-ray detector 2 that at least partially surrounds the examination volume in one plane and a stationary device. The device for gener...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that respectively different sets of images for the conventional reconfiguration of respective planes by reconstruction of an image of any plane in an object that is parallel to an image plane from a single set of images.

SOLUTION: An X-ray source 12 is moved at various positions in an arc around an object 20 to illuminate a stationary digital detec...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method for working thin sheet material, by which apparatus and method, the positioning accuracy and working efficiency can be improved by performing a series of rational movements for working and handling a workpiece.

SOLUTION: The apparatus for working thin sheet material comprises a punch 14 for cutting off the workpiece 10 by being driv...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a machine tool with a swivel head capable of resolving stiffness shortage and improving cutting performance without increasing the bearing diameter of a swivel center portion.

SOLUTION: In this machine tool with a swivel head, a swivel center side sliding surface is formed on a portion near around a rotary shaft 21, the surface being a front surface of a sad...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a stretched thermoplastic polyester resin sheet excellent in the adhesiveness with a thermoplastic resin, tensile strength, tensile elastic modulus and heat resistance, and a laminated sheet excellent in lightweight properties, impact resistance, durability, workability, productivity, etc., and suitably usable especially as a facing building material such as an ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of a spacer member which enable the manufacture of the spacer member body of a taking-up liner, the efficient and continuous manufacture of a taking-up liner with a spacer and the easy excution of the taking-up and unwinding of an unvulcanized strip of rubber member, a manufacturing apparatus therefor, a manufacturing method of the taking-...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing the rubber component of a tire which can simplify the structure of a facility, reduce the space and costs of the facility, and suppress the occurrence of an air bank between the rubber components and a rubber extruding machine for the method.

SOLUTION: In the method for producing the rubber component Gg of the tire by winding a rubber ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tip for an applicator, which is superior in durability and which can continuously discharge a coating liquid, and the applicator.

SOLUTION: This tip 1 for the applicator comprises a tip body 11 for the applicator, and a ball 10 with a diameter of less than 0.5 mm, which is held by the leading end side of the tip body 11. In a ball house 15 which is provide...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric power steering device having a cover member provided with a part to be fitted to a vehicle and improved so as to be fixed to a side surface of an opening of a gear box at a desirable position, and improved in mounting lay-out performance and having common parts in relation to vehicle models.

SOLUTION: The electric power steering device is provide...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform both the driving assist and turning assist of a vehicle by an electric motor reduced in scale and capacity.

SOLUTION: When a main electromagnetic clutch C is engaged to driven an electric motor M, the torque is transmitted through a differential mechanism DR to right and left rear wheels WRR and WRL, and the driving of a vehicle by an engine is assisted. Whe...