Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Tdk Corporation

Kansai Paint Company, Ltd.

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

N.e. Chemcat Corporation

Mizusawa Industrial Chemicals, Ltd.

Namco Bandai Games, Ltd.

Namco Limited

Kabushiki Kaisha Bandai Namco Games

Fujitsu Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Ngk Insulators, Inc.

Clarion Co

Tokyo Denki University

Kobayashi Institute of Physical Research

Hiroshi Igarashi

Tsutomu Okabe

Toshihiko Miyajima

Naoya Kamimura

Tsutomu Suzuki

Yasumasa Fujii

Shougo Sato

Junji Takamoto

Yasushi Okabe

Takeshi Nagareda

Yasuhiro Seki

Yoshiya Tomatsu

Yasumasa Okumura

Yoko Nakamura

Tomoteru Mizusaki

Kiyotaka Nagamori

Motoshi Yabuta

Yoshinobu Komatsu

Mutsuo Sasaki

Noboru Wakitani

Tsugio Okamoto

Kuniaki Ito

Shinji Kimura

Masaaki Saika

Hiroyuki Onoda

Hiroumi Endo

Hiroshi Kitagawa

Takashi Nakata

Akio Onda

Hideo Nagata

Hitoshi Ishida

Tetsu Sato

Tomoshi Abe

Takuya Tsubaki

Madoka Minagawa

Hitoshi Suzuki

Hiroshi Nakano

Makoto Ishii

Atsushi Kato

Yasuo Tamaru

Noritsugu Ito

Tomitake Aratachi

Yoshiteru Hattori

Teiji Sato

Hiroshi Tokuda

Tadamasa Iwamoto

Jun Emoto

Hironori Tonomura

Satoshi Ikushima

Hiroo Ogawa

Masami Kondo

Kenichi Nagai

Takahisa Erami

Masayuki Yamada

Kenichiro Ashida

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Hiroshi Inoue

Hiroshi Ogawa

Akira Tominaga

Masatoshi Shiraki

Hideki Inoue

Kengo Matsumoto

Satoru Ishikawa

Fumio Morita

Michitoshi Akao

Shuichi Kato

Kazuhiro Maruyama

Akira Kasari

Yasushi Nakao

Yoshizumi Matsuno

Reiziro Nishida

Takao Shimizu

Seiichi Senda

Mitsuo Suzuki

Shunsuke Tanaka

Ryoji Matsuda

Shogo Suzuki

Hideo Yoshihara

Masami Kobata

Satoru Ito

Yoshio Sasaki

Kazumi Kitazumi

Hiroshi Sawada

Haruhiko Aida

Tsunemitsu Fukami

Tsuyoshi Kushida

Katsuyoshi Sonobe

Terumi Ukai

Toshiya Ohara

Nobuo Aoki

Kazuaki Kitazono

Kazuya Asano

Akira Tatebe

Nobutaka Nakajima

Mitsuyoshi Uehara

Hiroyuki Nagano

Kouji Inoue

Nobuyuki Aoshima

Kenji Arima

Shigeki Tohyama

A developing cartridge includes a casing, a rotating member, and an electrode member. The casing may be configured to accommodate therein developer. The rotating member has a rotational shaft extending in an axial direction. The rotating member is configured to rotate about the rotational shaft and carries the developer thereon. The electrode member is configured to be electrically connected to the rotating member. The electrode member covers at least part of the rotational shaft from an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the axial direction and is arranged to confront the casing in the axial direction. The electrode member is configured to move in the orthogonal direction in accordance with a movement in the axial direction.

Developing cartridge having electrode

A load port apparatus connects a main opening of a wafer transportation container to a frame opening. The apparatus includes an installation unit, a frame unit, a flange clamp unit, and a detection unit. The installation unit includes an installation table configured to install the container and relatively move to the frame opening. The frame unit is upright upward from the installation unit and includes the frame opening. The flange clamp unit includes an engagement section and a drive section. The engagement section is engageable with a flange surrounding an outer circumference of the main opening. The drive section drives the engagement section to carry out an engagement operation and a separation operation. The detection unit detects the engagement operation by the flange clamp unit with classification into a normal engagement operation and an abnormal engagement operation.

Load port apparatus and method of driving the same

A circulating EFEM includes an introduction port for introducing a gas, a housing for circulating the introduced gas, and a discharge port for discharging the gas from the housing into a discharge pipe. The discharge port includes a box and a damper. The box is disposed to surround a discharge opening formed on the housing and connected to the discharge pipe. The damper is disposed inside the box to close and open the discharge port and adjusts a discharge amount of the gas via the discharge opening by at least partially moving in response to a differential pressure between the housing and the box.

Circulating EFEM

Provide an electrode catalyst with excellent catalytic activity that can contribute to cost reduction of PEFC. The electrode catalyst includes a hollow carbon carrier with mesopores with a pore size of 2 to 50 nm and a catalyst particle supported on the carrier. The catalyst particle is supported on both inside and outside the mesopores of the carrier, and have a core portion formed on the carrier and a shell portion covering at least a part of the surface of the core portion. Pd is included in the core portion, and Pt is included in the shell portion, and when the analysis of the particle size distribution of the catalyst particles using the three dimensional reconstructed image obtained by electron beam tomography (electron tomography) measurement using an STEM is performed, the ratio of the catalyst particles supported inside the mesopore is 50% or more.

Electrode catalyst, composition for forming gas diffusion electrode, gas diffusion electrode, membrane electrode assembly and fuel cell stack

An EFEM includes first and second chambers, an airflow formation unit, a gas discharge port, and first and second nozzles. The first chamber introduces a replacement gas. The second chamber is connected with the first chamber via first and second communication sections. In the first communication section, a filter is disposed, and the replacement gas inflows from the first chamber. In the second communication section, the replacement gas outflows into the first chamber. The airflow formation unit produces a circulating airflow between the first and second chambers. The gas discharge port discharges an internal gas from the first or second chamber. The first nozzle discharges the replacement gas supplied from a replacement gas supply source into the first chamber through a first opening. The second nozzle discharges the replacement gas supplied from the source through a second opening.

EFEM and method of introducing replacement gas thereinto

A load port apparatus connects a main opening of a wafer transportation container with a frame opening. The load port apparatus includes an installation part, a frame, and a flange clamp. The installation part has an installation table configured to install the wafer transportation container and move to and from the frame opening. The frame is upright from the installation part and has the frame opening. The flange clamp includes an engagement portion and a drive portion. The engagement portion is configured to be engaged with a flange surrounding an outer circumference of the main opening. The drive portion is configured to drive the engagement portion. The engagement portion is engaged from above or the side with a flange groove formed in the flange and opening radially outwardly.

Provided is a method for producing a gas diffusion electrode, with which it is possible to more effectively improve electrode performance, in cases in which a core-shell catalyst is used as an electrode catalyst. This method for producing gas diffusion electrode comprises: a first step in which a support layer having electron conductivity, water-repellency and gas diffusion properties is soaked in water; a second step in which the constituent materials of ink for forming a catalyst layer are put into a mixer and mixed by agitation to prepare an ink for forming a catalyst layer; and a third step in which the ink for forming a catalyst layer is used to form a catalyst layer on the surface of the support layer obtained in the first step. The ink for forming the catalyst layer contains a core-shell catalyst, a polyelectrolyte, water and alcohol. The alcohol is only a polyvalent alcohol.

Method for producing gas diffusion electrode and method for producing membrane electrode assembly (MEA)

Provided is an electrode catalyst that can exhibit sufficient performance, is suitable for mass production, and is suitable for reducing production costs, even when containing a relatively high concentration of chlorine. The electrode catalyst has a core-shell structure including a support; a core part that is formed on the support; and a shell part that is formed so as to cover at least one portion of the surface of the core part. A concentration of bromine (Br) species of the electrode catalyst as measured by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy is 500 ppm or less, and a concentration of chlorine (Cl) species of the electrode catalyst as measured by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy is 8,500 ppm or less.

Electrode catalyst, composition for forming gas diffusion electrode, gas diffusion electrode, membrane-electrode assembly, and fuel cell stack

To provide electrode catalyst (core-shell catalyst) having an excellent catalyst activity which contributes to lower the cost of the PEFC. The electrode catalyst has catalyst particles supported an a support. The catalyst particle has a core part containing simple Pd and a shell part containing simple Pt. A percentage R(atom %) of the carbon of the support and a percentage R(atom %) of the simple Pd in an analytical region near a surface measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) satisfy the conditions of the following equation (1): 2.15&#x2264;[100&#xd7;R/(R+R)].

Electrode catalyst, composition for forming gas diffusion electrode, gas diffusion electrode, membrane-electrode assembly, fuel cell stack, method for producing electrode catalyst, and composite particle

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Hiroshi Igarashi