Chichibu Cement Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroshi Machida

Tsuguo Fukuda

Keigo Hoshikawa

Takashi Sasaki

Yasushi Kojima

Keiichi Minegishi

Tokuji Akiba

Keiichi Katayama

A memory unit stores maps of predetermined determination threshold values for detection values detected by a hydrogen sensor according to an operating state of a fuel cell such as a difference in pressure between reaction gases at an anode and a cathode, supply pressure of the reaction gases, supply flow rate of the reaction gases and generated current of the fuel cell. A control unit obtains a predetermined determination threshold value from the memory unit based on the operating state of the fuel cell. Then, the detection value outputted from the hydrogen sensor and the determination threshold value obtained from the memory unit are compared, and in the event that the detection value is determined to exceed the determination threshold value, a predetermined protecting process is implemented for the fuel cell.

Apparatus and method for protecting fuel cell

A method of growing a rod form of a single oxide crystal is disclosed. The method uses a slit die which is placed in a crucible with a starting melt. The melt is seeded with a seed crystal while being rotated. The resulting crystal will have the same sectional shape as the shape of the upper surface of the die.

Growth method for a rod form of single oxide crystal

A rutile single crystal with no grain boundaries of large inclination is obtained by an EFG crystal growth process wherein a die provided with slits is incorporated in a feed melt 2 to deliver up the melt through the slits until it reaches the upper face of the die, thereby obtaining a single crystal conforming in configuration to the die by pulling growth.

Rutile single crystals and their growth processes

A voltage non-linearity type resistor and a process for the preparation of a voltage non-linearity type resistor wherein pre-sintering is effected at a temperature of no lower than 700.degree. C. with a basic composition including X mole % of ZnO and (100-X) mole % of Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 (wherein 40.ltoreq.X.ltoreq.60), and sintering is then effected with the resulting pre-sintered body to which at least one of V.sub.2 O.sub.5, Bi.sub.2 O.sub.3, MgO, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, MoO.sub.3, Sb.sub.2 O.sub.3, SiO.sub.2, NiO, SrO.sub.2 and PbO is further added in a proportion of 0.01-40% by weight.

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Saitama, Japan

Hiroshi Machida