Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Ngk Insulators, Inc.

Hiroyuki Fukuda

Masatomo Shigeta

Kuniyuki Saitoh

Hisatsugu Kaji

Masayuki Funabashi

Hiroto Fujimaki

Hikonori Abe

Toshikatsu Haga

Hiroshi Shinoda

Kiyomi Ohuchi

Hideharu Hayakawa

Tetsuo Kaminaga

Naohiro Murayama

Yoichiro Yamanobe

Masaru Hiruta

Masumi Sagi

Sigeru Ohmi

Yukihiro Shibuya

A ribbed porous carbon material (1) is a one piece molded product containing carbon fibers (5) and having a rib portion ( 2) and a web portion (3), in which the carbon fibers (5) are oriented in the rib portion (2) along the direction of the thickness of the web portion (3), while the carbon fibers (5) are oriented in the web portion (3) along the direction of the plane of the web portion (3) and along the direction perpendicular to the rib portion (2).

Flat plate-like ribbed porous carbon material and manufacturing method

Flat plate-like ribbed porous carbon material

Disclosed herein is an electrode substrate for fuel cells comprising two porous, carbonaceous layers, each having a number of elongated holes for feeding reactant gases into a fuel cell which are provided near the center of the thickness in said layer, and a gas impermeable, carbonaceous separator, interposed between said layers and having a number of elongated holes for flowing coolant which are provided near the center of the thickness in the separator. The porous layer is either a uniformly porous, carbonaceous monolayer, or has a two-layer structure comprising a more porous layer, a less porous layer and elongated holes for feeding reactant gases provided between said more porous layer and said less porous layer, the less porous layer having a bulk density larger than that of the more porous layer. There are also provided according to the invention processes for preparing such an electrode substrate for fuel cells.

Fuel cell electrode substrate incorporating separator as an intercooler

An electrode substrate for fuel cells with a three-layer separator and two porous single or double carbonaceous layers and processes for preparing the same. The separator includes a carbon plate and two flexible graphite sheets. The porous layer has a number of elongated holes for feeding reactant gases into a fuel cell. The elongated holes are provided near the center of the thickness in the porous single layer or in the interface between the porous double layer. The electrode substrate exhibits improved properties, such as mechanical strength, thermal and electric resistances and the like, as a fuel cell electrode substrate.

Process for preparing a carbonaceous fuel cell electrode substrate

Disclosed herein are a carbonaceous composite product produced by joining carbonaceous materials together by melt-adhesion of a tetrafluoroethylene resin or a tetrafluoroethylene resin mixed with a highly electroconductive carbon black interposed between the carbonaceous materials, a composite electrode substrate for a fuel cell comprising the carbonaceous composite product and the process for producing the same.

Carbonaceous composite product produced by joining carbonaceous

A flexible carbon material is produced by carbonizing a composite material comprising carbon fibers having an average length of 6 to 50 mm and a binding agent. Carbon lumps are derived from the binding agent and are dispersed in a matrix of the carbon fibers so as to restrain a plurality of the carbon fibers while yet permitting relative slippage to occur as between the carbon fibers and carbon lumps such that the carbon fiber material exhibits a flexibility ratio D/d of not greater than 200 (where D is the diameter of curvature of the carbon material, when bent, just before breakage, and d is the thickness of the carbon material). The carbon fibers and lumps are preferrably present in an amount of from 5 to 50%, and 5 to 70% by volume, respectively, based upon the total volume of the carbon material.

Flexible carbon material

Disclosed herein are an oxygen-cathode for use in electrolysis or an alkali chloride, comprising a current collector made of a compact carbonaceous material, electrode substrate(s) made of a porous carbonaceous material and the catalyst carried on the electrode substrate(s), wherein the electrode substrate(s) and the current collector have been joined together and integrated into one body as carbon, and a process for preparing the oxygen-cathode.

Oxygen-cathode for use in electrolysis of alkali chloride and process

Disclosed herein is a reinforced flexible graphite sheet uniformly containing a thermosetting resin prepared by impregnating a flexible graphite sheet with a liquid thermosetting resin having the carbonizing yield of more than 20% under a reduced pressure and thereafter, heat-setting the resin, an amount of the resin impregnated being in the range of 0.5 to 20% by weight based on the flexible graphite sheet.

Reinforced flexible graphite sheet

Disclosed herein is a process for producing a porous carbonaceous electrode substrate provided with elongated holes opening from one side to the opposite side of the electrode substrate through nearly the central region of the thickness of the substrate, for use in fuel cells, characterized by using high polymeric substance as a material for forming the elongated holes.

Process for producing electrode substrate for use in fuel cells

Disclosed herein are processes for preparing electrode substrate for fuel cells which has an integratedly press molded five-layer structure comprising a porous carbonaceous layer, a dense carbonaceous layer having a bulk density larger than the porous layer, a separator, a dense carbonaceous layer having a bulk density larger than the porous layer, and a porous carbonaceous layer, and which further comprises a number of elongated holes for feeding reactant gases into a fuel cell in the interface between the porous layer and the dense layer.

Process for preparing a carbonaceous five-layer fuel cell electrode

Disclosed herein are an oxygen-cathode for use in electrolysis of an alkali chloride, comprising a current collector made of a compact carbonaceous material, an electrode substrate made of a porous carbonaceous material and the catalyst carried on the electrode substrate, wherein the electrode substrate and the current collector have been joined together via the mutually facing carbonized surfaces thereof, and a process for preparing the oxygen-cathode.

A porous carbonaceous electrode substrate for a fuel cell disclosed herein has elongated holes for feeding reactant gases to the fuel cell. The holes are elongated from one side to the opposite side of the substrate and parallel to each other and to the electrode surface.

Porous fuel cell electrode substrate having elongated holes for feeding

Disclosed herein is a process for producing a carbonaceous electrode substrate for use in fuel cells, comprising two layers of a porous carbonaceous layer and a compact carbonaceous layer or three layers of two porous carbonaceous layers and a compact carbonaceous layer disposed between the two porous carbonaceous layers, wherein the porous carbonaceous layer(s) has elongated holes located nearly in the central region of thickness thereof, characterized by using high polymeric substance as a material for forming said elongated holes.

Process for producing electrode substrate for fuel cells

Disclosed herein is an electrode substrate for fuel cells which comprises a three-layer separator and two porous single or double carbonaceous layers. The separator comprises a carbon plate and two flexible graphite sheets. The porous layer has a number of elongated holes for feeding reactant gases into a fuel cell. The elongated holes are provided near the center of the thickness in the porous single layer or in the interface between the porous double layer. The electrode substrate of the present invention exhibits improved properties, such as mechanical strength, thermal and electric resistances and the like, as a fuel cell electrode substrate. The present invention provides processes for preparation of such an electrode substrate.

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Iwaki, Japan

Hiroyuki Fukuda