A cutting apparatus includes: a cutter that cuts a recording medium, both sides of which are laminated with a laminate film, at a position to an outer side by a predetermined margin amount; a recording medium outer shape detector that detects an outer shape portion of the recording medium; and a hardware processor that determines a cutting position by the cutter based on a position of the outer shape portion detected by the recording medium outer shape detector.

The present invention is a thermally conductive sheet comprising a plurality of unit layers, each comprising a silicone resin and a thermally conductive filler, the plurality of unit layers being laminated such that the plurality of unit layers are adhered to each other, wherein a volume content of the silicone resin is 32% by volume or less, and a compressive load at a sheet area of 25.4 mm25.4 mm when the thermally conductive sheet is 30% compressed from a direction perpendicular to an adhesion plane on which the plurality of unit layers are adhered to each other is 7.0 kgf or less. According to the present invention, it is possible to improve the thermal conductivity and enhance the softness of a thermally conductive sheet using a silicone resin as a matrix component and composed of a large number of unit layers laminated as compared with the conventional one.

A plasma generator for a secondary battery includes a transfer roller for transferring a separator and a plasma generation part configured to form an adhesive surface having adhesive force on a portion of a surface of the separator transferred by the transfer roller and a non-adhesive surface having no adhesive force on a remaining portion. The plasma generation part includes a metal member embedded in the transfer roller, a plasma generation member configured to be spaced apart from the transfer roller and to react with the metal member to generate plasma and thereby form the adhesive surface, and a blocking member on an outer circumferential surface of the transfer roller configured to block the reaction between the metal and plasma generation members and thereby form the non-adhesive surface having no adhesive force on the remaining portion of the surface of the separator.

A method for producing a cell stack for battery cells comprises at least the following steps: feeding in at least a first material strip consisting of a first material; making a first cut into at least the first material strip while forming at least one transport section having tensile strength; combining the first material strip with at least a second material strip consisting of a second material, so as to form a partial stack; making a second cut of the partial stack, whereby the transport section is cut open; and arranging at least two partial stacks so as to form a cell stack.

Sensors, methods of producing sensors, and methods of measuring sensitivities of sensors are disclosed herein. A sensor includes a nanocomposite material having a thermoplastic polyurethane base. A method of producing a sensor includes embedding a plurality of carbon nanotubes into a thermoplastic polyurethane base and diluting a concentration of the plurality of carbon nanotubes embedded into the thermoplastic polyurethane base.

The present disclosure relates generally to cladding for covering a building surface. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a method of manufacturing a building surface panel. The method includes providing a foam piece having a 30 day/23 C. residual shrinkage of no more than 0.2%. The foam piece having the 30 day/23 C. residual shrinkage of no more than 0.2% is attached to a rear side of an outer shell so as to form the building surface panel. In some embodiments, a front side of the outer shell forms a visible surface of the building surface panel. The foam piece can be provided, e.g., by aging the foam piece for a time and at a temperature such that the 30 day/23 C. residual shrinkage is no more than 0.2%. The foam piece to be aged can, in some embodiments, be cut from a body of foam.

Disclosed is a high-strength fishing rod body having carbon fibers oriented at an intersecting angle. The rod body is a tapering cylindrical tube having an extended axis. The rod body is formed by a multi-layer structural fiber cloth layer rolled at least once and having one or more layers of a first carbon fiber prepreg cloth comprising carbon fibers oriented at a first angle relative to the rod axis and one or more layers of a second carbon fiber prepreg cloth layers having second carbon fibers oriented at a second angle relative to the rod axis. When wrapped about a forming mandrel, the carbon fiber direction of the first carbon fiber prepreg cloth layer forms a first angle with the radial direction of the rod body, the carbon fiber direction of the second carbon fiber prepreg cloth layer forms a second angle with the radial direction of the rod body, and the first angle and the second angle are symmetrical along the radial direction of the rod body. Compared with the fishing rod body obtained by rolling in an ordinary single fiber direction, the high-strength fishing rod body with a carbon cloth cross structure can obtain a bidirectional cross spiral structure with a larger angle, thereby greatly enhancing the strength of the fishing rod.

A laminated body pressing apparatus, which can restrain damage of a first outer ridge portion or a second outer ridge portion of a positive electrode plate during roller-pressing and can restrain damage of a strip-shaped first separator of a strip-shaped negative electrode body on a positive electrode plate side, includes a first press roller, a second press roller disposed parallel to the first press roller and spaced apart from the first press roller by a roller gap, and a metal plate feeding unit to feed a strip-shaped metal plate extending in a conveyance direction to the roller gap. The apparatus roller-presses the positive electrode plate and the strip-shaped negative electrode body by the first press roller and the second press roller in a state where the strip-shaped metal plate fed by the metal plate feeding unit is placed on the positive electrode plate placed on the strip-shaped negative electrode body.

A ribbon laminated body used for creating a honeycomb core is constituted by a plurality of layers of ribbons laminated, a low-temperature curing adhesion portion, and a high-temperature curing adhesion portion. A low-temperature curing adhesion portion adhesively bonds adjacent ribbons, and a high-temperature curing adhesion portion is in contact with both ribbons. At a portion where the low-temperature curing adhesion portion is in contact with a ribbon, the shape of the low-temperature curing adhesion portion is a trapezoidal shape, wherein an upper base is overlapped with a part of one long side of the ribbon, and a lower base is overlapped with a part of the other long side of the ribbon. At a portion where the high-temperature curing adhesion portion is in contact with the ribbon, a part of a periphery of the high-temperature curing adhesion portion is in contact with an oblique side a low-temperature curing adhesion portion.

A method of manufacturing a display device including a three-dimensional display panel, includes attaching a guide film onto a back surface of the display panel, attaching an OCA film onto a front surface of the display panel, cutting the attached display panel, guide film, and OCA film, performing a pre-forming process by pressing the cut display panel, guide film, and OCA film onto a shape stage, performing a first bonding process by attaching and pressing a cover glass onto the OCA film, removing the shape stage from the guide film and introducing a diaphragm pad into a position where the shape stage was previously placed, performing a second bonding process by pressing the cover glass onto the diaphragm pad, and removing the diaphragm pad from the guide film and removing the guide film.