Nissan Motor Company Limited

Sony Corporation

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Hirokazu Komatsu

Tatsuya Yaguchi

Keiko Kushibiki

Yasushi Nakajima

Shigeo Ibuka

Itaru Shibata

Yoshiko Tsukada

Noriko Uchiyama

Shinji Yamamoto

Manabu Watanabe

Nobutaka Chiba

Tomohiro Kaburagi

Akio Nojiri

Youichi Yoshioka

Masao Horiguchi

Hidehito Shishikura

An electrode structure includes a first electrode unit, a second electrode unit and a first insulating frame, in which the electrode units are adjacent to each other. The first insulating unit has an airflow space therein and includes an electrically conducive base with an airflow plane and an air cell cathode disposed on an outer surface of the airflow plane. The second insulating unit includes an electrically conductive base and an air cell anode disposed on an outer surface of the electrically conductive base. The first insulating frame spaces and joins the adjacent electrode units to each other such that the air cell cathode and the air cell anode of the adjacent electrode units are opposed to each other. The first insulating frame together with the adjacent electrode units forms an electrolytic solution container.

Electrode structure, air cell, and air cell stack

In an electric device the negative electrode active material layer includes a silicide phase containing a silicide of a transition metal is dispersed in a parent phase containing amorphous or low crystalline silicon as a main component, a predetermined composition, and a ratio value (B/A) of a diffraction peak intensity B of a silicide of a transition metal in a range of 2&#x3b8;=37 to 45&#xb0; to a diffraction peak intensity A of a () plane of Si in a range of 2&#x3b8;=24 to 33&#xb0; in a predetermined range in an X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK&#x3b1;1 ray is used as a Si-containing alloy. A solid solution or an oxide-coated solid solution in which a coating layer containing an oxide in a predetermined amount is formed on the particle surface of the solid solution and is used in the positive electrode active material layer.

Electric device

The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus and method and a program that can easily handle replacement of an apparatus. First application creating means creates a first application that controls a device of another information processing apparatus communicating with an IC card, and first domain creating means allows another information processing apparatus to create a first domain where the first application is to be registered. First application registering means allows the first application to be registered in the first domain of another information processing apparatus. Writing means allows the first application to be written into an execution area of another information processing apparatus, and second application creating means creates a second application that performs a process for the IC card. Second domain creating means allows another information processing apparatus to create a second domain where the second application is to be registered, and second application registering means allows the second application to be registered in the second domain of another information processing apparatus.

Information processing apparatus and method, and program

A fuel cell includes a stack structure composed of fuel cell units with current collectors between the fuel cell units, a casing housing the stack structure, and a gas flow-regulating member provided in a gap between the casing and the stack structure. The fuel cell unit includes: a cell plate which holds at least one cell and has a gas introduction hole for one of fuel gas and air; and a separator plate which has a gas introduction hole for the one of the fuel gas and the air. The casing introduces the other of the fuel gas and the air via a gas introduction portion and flows the other gas to a gas discharge portion. The gas flow-regulating member guides the other gas to the gas discharge portion through the current collectors.

Fuel cell

A fuel cell (A) includes a cell stack (B) and a casing () for housing the cell stack (B), and is supplied with two reactant gases flowing separately from each other. The cell stack (B) includes a plurality of solid electrolyte fuel cell units () stacked on one another with inter-unit spaces provided therebetween. One of the reactant gases is supplied to the inter-unit spaces and used for power generation. The casing () includes a peripheral wall () surrounding the cell stack (B). The peripheral wall () is provided with at least one gas inlet opening () for introducing the one of the reactant gases into the inter-unit spaces and at least one gas outlet opening () for discharging the introduced reactant gas, wherein total opening width dimension of the gas inlet opening () is greater than total opening width dimension of the gas outlet opening ().

Solid oxide fuel cells each include a circular cell plate holding single cells as a solid oxide fuel cells and having a gas introducing opening and a gas exhausting opening in a central section. A circular separator plate has a gas introducing opening and a gas exhausting opening in a central section. Sealing members allow the gas intruding openings of the cell plate and the separator plate to airtightly communicate with each other and allow the gas exhausting openings of the cell plate and the separator plate to airtightly communicate with each other.

Fuel cell stack structure

According to a method of manufacturing a foamed polypropylene resin sheet of this invention, a composition comprising as a resin component a mixture of 80 to 20 wt % of a crystalline propylene-ethylene block copolymer containing 20 wt % or less of ethylene and having a melt index (MI) of 2 or less and 20 to 80 wt % of a crystalline propylene-ethylene block or random copolymer containing 5 wt % or less of ethylene and having an MI of 6 to 20 or a polypropylene homopolymer having an MI of 6 to 20 is used. A pair of molding roll dies is horizontally arranged at a point separated from the center of an apex of an extrusion foaming die when a foamed sheet is to be extrusion-molded. A distance between the center of the roll and the apex of a base lip is set to fall within a range of (R.sup.2 +25).sup.1/2 to (R.sup.2 +144).sup.1/2 where R is a radius of the molding roll die. The composition is extrusion-molded into a foamed sheet without collapsing while a fluid is supplied to the interiors of the rolls so that a surface temperature of the foamed sheet passing between the molding rolls is set at 105.degree. C. or less. The extrusion-molded foamed sheet is cooled thereafter.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hirokazu Komatsu