Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Fusayoshi Miura

Kenichi Suzuki

Fumio Shimizu

Naoki Hasegawa

Yuki Sato

Motoki Hiraoka

Manabu Kato

Kazutaka Kimura

Yu Morimoto

Atsushi Murase

Hiroo Yoshikawa

Masaya Kawasumi

Tsutomu Ochi

Kensaku Kodama

Eishiro Toyoda

Tomohiro Takeshita

Yoshihiro Kinoshita

An electroplating cell includes: an anode chamber in which an anode chamber solution is stored; and a separator that separates the anode chamber and a cathode. The electroplating cell undergoes a modification treatment of introducing a carboxylic acid group or a derivative thereof into a base material of the separator. The separator selectively allows permeation of metal ions contained in the anode chamber solution.

Electroplating cell, and method of forming metal coating

An electroplating cell includes: (i) an anode chamber in which an anode chamber solution is stored; and (ii) a separator that includes a base material and an organic plating additive contained in the base material, separates the anode chamber and a cathode from each other, and selectively allows permeation of metal ions contained in the anode chamber solution.

Electroplating cell, and metal coating and method of forming the same

A membrane electrode assembly according to the invention includes a solid polymer electrolyte membrane and an electrode joined to each of two sides of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane. The solid polymer electrolyte membrane is such that some or all of the protons included in the entire solid polymer electrolyte membrane, a band region, or a non-power generating region are ion exchanged with one or more cations selected from among complex cations, class four alkylammonium cations, and high valence cations. In addition or alternatively, the solid polymer electrolyte membrane includes an organo-metalloxane polymer obtained by impregnating the entire solid polymer electrolyte membrane, the non-power generating region, or the band region with an organo-metalloxane monomer that includes an ammonium cation or a class four ammonium cation at its terminus and then hydrolyzing and polycondensing the organo-metalloxane monomer.

Membrane electrode assembly and polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell

Disclosed herein is a solid polymer electrolyte wherein protons of cation exchange groups contained in a perfluorinated electrolyte are partially replaced by metal ions. The metal ion is at least one metal ion selected from vanadium (V), manganese (Mn), niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta), chromium (Cr), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), iron (Fe), ruthenium (Ru), nickel (Ni), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt), silver (Ag), cerium (Ce), neodymium (Nd), praseodymium (Pr), samarium (Sm), cobalt (Co), gadolinium (Gd), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), and erbium (Er) ions. Further disclosed is a solid polymer fuel cell using the solid polymer electrolyte.

Solid polymer electrolyte, solid polymer fuel cell and method for manufacturing the fuel cell

A brazing flux comprises cesium fluoride, aluminum fluoride, and crystalline aluminum hydroxide or aluminum oxide or both which form a crystalline compound having the following composition and containing cesium in the form of a complex salt:

Brazing flux

A brazing flux having a composition corresponding to 0 (not inclusive) to 62 mol % of potassium fluoride, 2 to 74 (not inclusive) mol % of cesium fluoride and 26 to 67 mol % of aluminum fluoride, said flux including potassium and cesium as fluoro-aluminum-complexes and not including free cesium fluoride and potassium fluoride, thus having a melting starting point within the range of 440.degree.-580.degree. C.

A method of brazing an aluminum material. At least a portion of the material is brought into contact with a coating solution containing cesium and fluorine ions, whereby a chemically coated flux layer composed of cesium fluoroaluminate or a mixture thereof with aluminum fluoride is formed on the surface of the material. Then, the material is heated and joined to another material with a brazing alloy.

Method of brazing an aluminum material

In a method of brazing aluminum material, the flux is formed on the surface of the aluminum material by a chemical conversion coating step. The aluminum material is brought into contact with a treating solution containing potassium and fluorine ions to cause a chemical reaction between aluminum components and potassium and fluorine ions, thereby forming K.sub.2 AlF.sub.5. The K.sub.2 AlF.sub.5 is present on the surface of the aluminum material as a uniform coating and acts as the flux during brazing. With the treating solution further containing zinc, the flux of K.sub.2 AlF.sub.5 and a pitting corrosion inhibiting layer of metallic zinc are simultaneously formed. The treating solution may further include powdered K.sub.2 AlF.sub.5 or AlF.sub.3 to increase the amount of flux and thus to intensify the action of the flux. The chemical conversion coating may be applied either to the material to be brazed or to the material for brazing.

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Fusayoshi Miura