Mitsui Minings & Melting Co., Ltd.

Daisuke Mukai

Kiyotaka Yasuda

Shinya Kagei

Hidetoshi Inoue

Shigeki Nakayama

Yasunori Tabira

Yoshiki Sakaguchi

Shingo Kikugawa

Mitsuhiro Wada

Akira Uchiyama

Kazuhito Komatsu

Shigeo Hirayama

Minoru Sakai

A hydrogen storage alloy is provided which has an extremely low Co content, and can maintain the drain (power) performance (especially pulse discharge characteristics), activity (degree of activity), and life performance at high levels. The hydrogen storage alloy is manufactured by weighing and mixing every material for the hydrogen storage alloy so as to provide an alloy composition represented by the general formula MmNiMnAlCoor MmNiMnAlCoFe, and controlling the manufacturing method and manufacturing conditions so that both the a-axis length and the c-axis length of the crystal lattice are in a predetermined range. Although it is sufficient if the a-axis length of the crystal lattice is 499 pm or more and the c-axis length is 405 pm or more, by further specifying the a-axis length and c-axis length depending on the values of ABx, a hydrogen storage alloy having high durability can be provided.

Low Co hydrogen storage alloy

A hydrogen storage alloy is provided which, when used in a battery, has high drain (power) performance and charge acceptance that are excellent, and in addition, cracks are few, and cycle life performance are excellent, to be used in large batteries, in particular for electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, high-power use, and the like. The hydrogen storage alloy is a hydrogen storage alloy having phase conversion accompanying the variation of hydrogen storage capacity (H/M) and is in a single phase or in a state close to a single phase when the above-mentioned hydrogen storage capacity (H/M) is in a range of 0.3 to 0.7 or 0.4 to 0.6.

Hydrogen storage alloy

A hydrogen storage material which is characterized by having, as a cast alloy, a flaky or similar shape with a thickness of 50 to 500 &mgr;m and showing such crystallite orientation that the X-ray diffraction pattern has an intensity ratio of plane indices (002)/(200) of 2 to 10 as measured with the cooled surface of the flaky cast alloy being in parallel with a mount, and a process of producing the same.

Hydrogen absorbing alloy and method for its production

Hydrogen storage alloy and method for preparation thereof

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Saitama, Japan

Daisuke Mukai