Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Kawada Industries, Inc.

Joji Yoshimura

Koji Nakanishi

Yasuhiro Ueno

Seiji Mizuno

Hitoshi Hamada

Masayoshi Iwase

Shigeyuki Kawatsu

Naoki Yoshida

Hisayoshi Chiba

Kenichi Suzuki

Hiromichi Nakata

Masayoshi Yokoi

Fumio Nonoyama

Toru Sugiyama

Mitsumasa Matsushita

Kenzo Fukumori

Takayoshi Doi

Yasuhiro Nonobe

Natsuhiko Katahira

Takuya Morishita

Makoto Tsuzuki

Takashi Nagase

Kazuomi Yamanishi

Yoshihide Katagiri

Akinori Eda

Masahiko Yasue

Shuichi Nakayama

Keiji Yamane

A manufacturing method for a catalyst layer for a fuel cell includes: preparing a nozzle group to output ultrasonically-vibrated air, the nozzle group being formed of an aggregate of unit nozzles each controlled in at least one of the temperature of the ultrasonically-vibrated air to be output from the unit nozzle, an internal pressure in the unit nozzle, and the position of the unit nozzle in an output direction in which the ultrasonically-vibrated air is to be output; coating a sheet-like base material with catalyst ink containing a solvent, an ionomer, and a catalyst supporting material on which a catalyst is supported; and drying the catalyst ink by blowing the ultrasonically-vibrated air from the nozzle group on the catalyst ink applied to the base material. The drying includes controlling at least one of the temperature, the internal pressure, and the position for each of the unit nozzles independently.

Manufacturing method for catalyst layer for fuel cell

A current interrupt mechanism includes a partition wall defining a second space that is independent from a first space, and the partition wall includes a current path portion serving as a current path of a sealed battery. The current interrupt mechanism interrupts the current path in response to an internal pressure of the second space that is higher than a predetermined pressure. One conductive path passes through the current path of the current interrupt mechanism, and is in contact with the second electrolyte solution enclosed in the second space. Another conductive path includes a potential application line that is wired to the second electrolyte solution enclosed in the second space.

Sealed battery

Disclosed is a stator capable of reducing stress generated in the resin mold of the stator. A stator is provided with a coil formed by coiling a flat conductor, a split stator core provided with a teeth unit for inserting the coil, and a resin mold, which has resin covering the coil ends of the coil inserted into the split stator core. In the stator, an insulator is formed between the split stator core and the coil by way of insert molding, and the resin mold has a cavity, formed in the radial direction of the stator, in between the coil and the end face of the split stator core.

Stator

A stator structure and a stator manufacturing method which are configured so that the stress occurring in resin-molded sections or insulators of the stator can be reduced. The structure of the stator is provided with coils formed by winding conductors, and also with stator cores provided with teeth to which the coils are mounted through the insulators. The coils mounted to the insulators are resin-molded and integrated with the insulators. Spaces which continue in the radial direction of the stator cores are formed between the insulators and end surface of the stator cores in the axial direction thereof. The insulators and the side surfaces of the teeth of the stator cores are adhered or welded (fusion bonded) to each other.

Stator structure and stator manufacturing method

A first process in which a fiber reinforced base is placed in a cavity of a molding die and then resin is injected into the cavity of the molding die in a state where the molding die is opened by a sum of a distance Xand a distance at the time of completion of molding; a second process in which the molding die is closed to a state where the molding die is opened by a sum of a distance Xand the distance at the time of completion of molding while resin in the cavity is being drained; and a third process in which the drain of the resin from the cavity is stopped and then the molding die is closed to the distance at the time of completion of molding while a die clamping pressure is maintained at a predetermined value to cure the resin, are carried out sequentially.

Fiber reinforced resin, manufacturing method for fiber reinforced resin, and manufacturing system for fiber reinforced resin

In a stator manufacturing method to manufacture a stator in which divided-core assemblies are arranged in a cylindrical shape, each of which includes a divided-core member having a teeth portion on which a coil is wound. In this method, the divided-core assemblies are inserted in the cylindrical shape into a fixed mold, resin sheets containing glass fibers or carbon fibers are disposed on coil-end portions of the cylindrically-arranged divided-core assemblies, and a slide part of a movable mold applies pressure to and molds the resin sheets, thereby combining the divided core assemblies into a single unit. The movable mold is operated to position the divided-core assemblies in place by a cylindrical part and then apply pressure to and mold the resin sheets by the slide part.

Stator manufacturing method and stator

A resin composition includes 0.1 to 40% by mass of a carbon-based nanofiller, 5 to 90% by mass of a resin, and 5 to 90% by mass of calcium fluoride.

Resin composition and electrically insulating part obtained from the same

Disclosed are a split stator and a manufacturing method thereof with which insulation reliability can be improved by preventing deformation or cracking of the insulator by eliminating slippage of the insulator at the coil end face. A slip prevention mechanism that prevents slippage of the insulator is provided at the coil end face, and using insert molding, the insulator is integrally molded to a split stator core provided with the slip prevention mechanism.

Split stator and manufacturing method thereof

An improved fuel cell makes uniform partial gas pressure of a fuel gas flowing through a gas passage formed between an electrode and a separator of a fuel cell, activating an electrode reaction in a whole region of the electrode surface along the gas passage. The inlet and outlet for the fuel gas are disposed on a diagonal line of the separator to define a gas passage such that fuel gas smoothly flows even though portions of the passage away from the diagonal line. This may reduce the separator size and improve the volumetric efficiency of the fuel cell and the diffusibility of fuel gas as well as the drainage of water produced by the electrode reaction.

Fuel cell and separator for the same

A separator is provided with a substrate portion having a predetermined concave-convex shape, an underlying coating layer formed on the substrate portion, a first coating layer coating the substrate portion and the underlying coating layer, and a second coating layer formed thereon. The second coating layer, which is formed from carbon materials, is sufficiently electrically conductive and protects the underlying layers. The first coating layer is formed from a low-melting-point metal subjected to a melting process. The melting process is a process of first conducting heating at such a temperature that melts the low-melting-point metal but does not melt the substrate portion and the underlying coating layer and then conducting cooling. Thus, in the first coating layer, the crystal grain size of the metal is increased and thus the grain boundary density is reduced.

Fuel cell separator, manufacturing method thereof and fuel cell

An inexpensive and corrosion resistant metal-made gas separator includes a base formed by joining formed stainless steel base sheets face to face. The base carries on each of opposite surfaces thereof a first coating layer formed by plating with tin. The base is also coated with a second coating layer of a thermal expansion graphite. When incorporated into a fuel cell, the separator contacts gas diffusion electrodes that are formed from a carbon material similar to the carbon material of the second coating layer, so that the contact resistance is reduced. The first coating layer is formed after a passive state coating is removed from the stainless steel surface, so that an increase in the internal resistance of the separator caused by the passive state coating is substantially prevented.

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Joji Yoshimura