Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

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University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc

Hiroshi Ogasa

Mitsuru Sayama

Tetsuo Endo

Hajime Kajiwara

Yoshiya Fujiwara

Yoshitomo Azekatsu

Robert V Tompson, Jr

Masami Kosuge

Yusaku Sakata

Tushar K Ghosh

Akinori Muto

Sudarshan Loyalka

Mitsuo Sugiyama

Hidetoshi Amano

Shinji Yamashita

Morio Kuroki

Nagatsugu Mukaibo

Supriya Koul

Masashi Inamoto

Hideki Kurihara

Yohei Kondo

Mari Kohno

Masaru Oku

George Vosnidis

Gregory A Holscher

Fumika Fujisaki

A lithium (Li) secondary battery having a Li buffer layer compressed between a Li metal anode and an electrolyte of the battery cell and a porous structure positioned between the Li metal anode and a current collector of the battery cell. The Li buffer layer is effective in preventing uncontrollable dendrite growth. The porous structure layer is effective in guiding the location of the Li deposition, thereby reducing the volume changes of the Li anode during the charge and discharge cycles of the lithium secondary battery.

Lithium secondary battery and method of manufacture

To provide a lithium secondary battery capable of suppressing short circuits and having high energy density and high output. An electrolyte medium for a lithium secondary battery includes a low dielectric constant solvent, a lithium salt, and a polyvalent cation salt. The polyvalent cation salt is dispersed as particles in the electrolyte medium and can flow without being immobilized. The electrolyte medium includes 20 mass % or less of a high dielectric constant solvent. A lithium secondary battery including the electrolyte medium for a lithium secondary battery can suppress short circuits and provide high energy density and high output.

Electrolyte medium for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery

A variable damping-force damper includes a cylinder tube filled with magnetic particles (MRF), a piston that is slidably disposed within the cylinder tube, a piston rod connected with the piston and is disposed so as to protrude out of one end of the cylinder tube and a rod guide that closes one end of the cylinder tube and slidably supports the piston rod. The cylinder tube has a Ni plating film whose Vickers hardness is 800 VHN or more on its inner peripheral surface and the piston slides relative to the Ni plating film. The rod guide has a structure having a predetermined base material portion and a fluorine resin contained Ni plating film that is treated by heat and is provided on the surface of the base material portion. The piston rod slides relative to the fluorine resin contained Ni plating film.

Variable damping-force damper and manufacturing method of the same

A fuel tank structure for a vehicle using gaseous fuel, has a plurality of cylindrical tank main bodies communicating from one another. The plurality of cylindrical tank main bodies are disposed at a fuel tank mount portion in a state of being adjoined from one another.

Fuel tank structure

A natural gas engine capable of exhaust emission control over the entire temperature range and at low costs without requiring a complicated structure. An adsorbent ( ) is disposed between a fuel tank ( ) and a fuel supply port ( ) on a suction air passage ( ), and NMOG in the fuel gas supplied to the fuel tank ( ) is adsorbed by the adsorbent ( ) to purify the fuel gas in advance. When the temperature of a catalyst ( ) disposed on an exhaust passage ( ) reaches an activation temperature, the adsorbent ( ) is heated by a heater ( ) to a desorption temperature to desorb NMOG from the adsorbent ( ) and purify the NMOG by the catalyst ( ).

Exhaust emission control device and exhaust emission control method for natural gas engine

An adsorbent for HC in an exhaust gas is an agglomerate of double-structure particles, each of which includes an HC-adsorbing zeolite core, and a ceramic coat wrapping the zeolite core and having a plurality of through-pores communicating with a plurality of pores in the zeolite core. Each of the double-structure particles is at least one of a double-structure particle including the zeolite core comprising a single zeolite particle, and a double-structure particle including the zeolite core comprising a plurality of zeolite particles. Each of the through-pores in the ceramic coat has such a shape that the HC is easy to flow into the through-pore and difficult to flow out of the through-pore.

Adsorbent for HC in exhaust gas, and process for producing the same

A granular active carbon for natural-gas occlusion is disclosed which can occlude natural gas at a relatively low pressure and has a high natural-gas occlusion capacity. The granular active carbon for natural-gas occlusion has first and second pores for the occlusion of constituent gas molecules of natural gas. The first pores each has a diameter d,, satisfying 2d<d,&lE;2.5d, while the second pores each has a diameter d,satisfying 5d<d,&lE;6d, wherein d is the diameter of the constituent gas molecules.

Granular active carbon for natural-gas occlusion and process for producing the same

First, second and third fuel tanks,and,each packed with adsorbent,can be shaped to any desired forms and are installed within space regions,and,that are defined by two longitudinal frame beams,and,and four transverse frame beams,and 30,These arrangements provide a space saving mounting structure of fuel tanks on automobiles fueled with natural gas.

Mounting structure of a fuel tank for vehicle

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Wako, Japan

Hiroshi Ogasa