Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujitsu Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

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Ishikawajima-harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.

Kazuyuki Sato

Tomohisa Sano

Masashi Hirose

Daisuke Yoshiba

Kei Inoue

Shinji Kobayashi

Masao Suzuki

Keisuke Tanaka

Yasuaki Murai

Masami Fujimoto

Tadashi Shinohara

Koji Nishikawa

Atsushi Nakamoto

Yojiro Hotta

Masayoshi Kato

Yu Yoshida

Yasuhiro Fujii

Makoto Fukatsu

Kazuo Terauchi

Ryuji Murayama

Satoshi Murata

Yusuke Kosaki

Takao Watanabe

Yosuke Fukuyama

Nobuhiro Tazoe

Yuichiro Shukuya

Nobuyoshi Kaima

Takaaki Furui

Hisashi Honjou

Yoichi Motoyashiki

Sadakazu Masuda

Tomoya Nagaoka

Yoshiaki Kawai

Ryo Nagata

Kenichi Ide

Yuta Komiya

Shigeki Narushima

Yasushi Dodo

Shuichi Yamashina

Toyokazu Aoki

Hiroki Konno

Tohru Hiramatsu

Masami Dokai

Takashi Matsui

Soichiro Kawakami

Takeshi Yamamoto

Masaaki Yamamoto

Yasunori Chigono

Takahiro Kawamoto

Takuya Tsujimoto

Hidetoshi Tsuzuki

Manami Haraguchi

Yoshiya Matsumoto

Toru Sasaki

Shingo Nishizaki

Kazuhiro Kageyama

Motoki Yaginuma

Keita Iritsuki

Maki Okajima

Takeshi Shiomi

Kazumasa Koike

Isao Imai

Toru Minote

Makoto Higashiyama

Toshiyuki Itoh

Norio Muraishi

Sumihiro Inokuchi

Kenji Kanamori

Shinichi Kuranari

Hisashi Sato

Manabu Toyoda

Manabu Sotodate

Shozo Ikemune

Hiroshi Miyaoka

Hiroshi Sekine

Manabu Sugino

Shinji Okazaki

Kouji Yamanobe

Masaki Tsugawa

Hajime Ishii

Masahiro Kuchi

Mitsufumi Yamamoto

Hideto Ito

Fumiyoshi Tomohara

Kinichi Higuchi

Takumasa Terauchi

Satoshi Nagata

Rei Tsuchiya

Hayato Sasaki

Shohei Fukuya

Masayoshi Sato

Toshihiko Obata

Mari Kawabuchi

Shugo Okamura

Takumi Kawamura

Miki Sakai

Hiroyuki Katsumata

Takuya Terasawa

Kenji Otaki

The toner is a toner including a toner particle comprising a binder resin, a crystalline material, wherein, when a ratio of an area occupied by the crystalline material in a toner surface observed with a scanning electron microscope after ruthenium-staining the toner under a specific condition (1) is represented by S(%), a ratio of an area occupied by the crystalline material in the toner surface observed with the scanning electron microscope after ruthenium-staining the toner under a condition (2) is represented by S(%), and a dispersion diameter of a plurality of domains formed of the crystalline material on the toner surface observed with the scanning electron microscope after the ruthenium-staining the toner under the condition (2) is represented by R(nm), the following expressions (1), (2), and (3) are satisfied.

Toner

There is provided a toner containing: a toner particle containing a binder resin, a releasing agent, and a colorant; and an iron oxide particle present on a surface of the toner particle, in which the iron oxide particle has a surface containing a compound having a specific structure.

A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a core particle comprising a binder resin and a diester wax, and a shell on a surface of the core particle, wherein the following formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied, where Sp is a partition coefficient of the shell and Wp is a partition coefficient of the diester wax:≤0.40  (1), and16.00≤≤20.00  (2).

A solid oxide fuel cell includes a metal support cell, in which an anode layer containing nickel, an electrolyte layer and a cathode layer are stacked on a metal support portion. In the method for activating the anode layer in the solid oxide fuel cell, first, an oxygen-containing gas is introduced into the anode layer to oxidize the nickel. Next, a hydrogen-containing gas HG is introduced into the anode layer to reduce the nickel oxide formed by oxidizing the nickel, and to increase conduction paths of the nickel that electrically connect the electrolyte layer to the metal support part in the anode layer.

Anode layer activation method for solid oxide fuel cell, and solid oxide fuel cell system

A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a core particle comprising a binder resin and a wax, and a shell formed on a surface of the core particle, wherein the wax comprises a wax A, the shell comprises a resin comprising a functional group B, the wax A has a surface charge density DA of &#x2212;0.0080 to &#x2212;0.0025, and an absolute difference |DA&#x2212;DB| between the surface charge density DA of the wax A and a surface charge density DB of the functional group B is not more than 0.0025.

A toner including a toner particle that contains a binder resin and inorganic fine particles, wherein the binder resin contains a polymer A that includes a first monomer unit derived from a first polymerizable monomer and a second monomer unit derived from a second polymerizable monomer that is different from the first polymerizable monomer; the first polymerizable monomer is at least one selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylate esters having an alkyl group having 18 to 36 carbons; the SP value of the first monomer unit and the SP value of the second monomer unit satisfy a specified relationship; each of the inorganic fine particles contains a substrate containing at least one inorganic element selected from metal elements and metalloid elements, and a coating layer; and the coating layer has a specified structure.

Toner and method of producing toner

A cell unit is provided for a solid oxide fuel cell, and has a sequential stack of a power generation cell, an auxiliary collector layer and a separator. The power generation cell includes a cathode layer, an electrolyte layer, and an anode layer. The auxiliary collector layer assists electrical contact. The separator is provided with flow passage portions that define a gas flow passage for gas. The auxiliary collector layer has a curved in an arch shape that is disposed so as to overlap the gas flow passage in the stacking direction, and that is curved so as to project toward the power generation cell side.

Cell unit

A toner comprising a toner particle containing a resin component, wherein the resin component contains an amorphous polyester and a crystalline polyester, and in depth profile measurement of secondary ions on the toner particle surface by TOF-SIMS, given Ia(t) as the intensity of secondary ions derived from the amorphous polyester, Ic(t) as the intensity of secondary ions derived from the crystalline polyester, and I(t) as the total detected intensity of secondary ions derived from resin contained in the toner particle at a depth of t (nm) from the toner particle surface, the following formulae are satisfied within the range of 0&#x2264;t&#x2264;10:()&#x3e;()&#x3e;0.0000(()+())/()&#x2265;0.80and there is only one point of intersection between the depth profile curve of Ia(t) and Ic(t) within the range of 10&#x2264;t&#x2264;30.

Provided is a toner external additive containing a base material, wherein the base material is surface-treated with an isocyanurate ring-bearing silane coupling agent, and a toner including a toner particle and a toner external additive on a surface of the toner particle, wherein the toner external additive is the aforementioned toner external additive.

Toner external additive and toner

A fuel battery cell comprising a battery structureand a support plate, the battery structurehaving a power generation region G of a lamination of an anode electrode layer, an electrolyte layer, and a cathode electrode layer, and the support platebeing made of metal, being disposed on the anode electrode layerside of the battery structure, in which the support plateintegrally includes a main body partA and a frame partB, the main body partA having gas permeability, the frame partB having gas impermeability and having small thickness, the support plateB has a step surfaceD between the main body partA and the frame partB, on the surface on the anode electrode layerside, and the electrolyte layeris disposed in a way it extends to the step surfaceD and the frame partB, is provided. A risk of application of a tensile load to the electrolyte layeris removed, when the support platethermally expands during power generation, whereby a good gas barrier property at an end part of the battery structureis maintained.

Fuel battery cell

A fuel cell FC includes a cell structurein which an anode electrode layer, an electrolyte layerand a cathode electrode layerare stacked. The anode electrode layeris arranged in the middle, and has an electrode reacting parthaving a thermal expansion coefficient greater than a thermal expansion coefficient of the electrolyte layer, and an outer peripheral partarranged adjacent to the electrode reacting parton an outer periphery of the electrode reacting part, the outer peripheral parthaving a thermal expansion coefficient smaller than the thermal expansion coefficient of the electrode reacting part. The fuel cell FC is arranged on the anode electrode layer side of the cell structure, and further includes a metallic supporting platethat supports the cell structure

Fuel cell

A fuel cell stack FS includes: a stack A that includes a single cells C that are stacked, each of the single cells including a framethat holds an outer periphery of a membrane electrode assemblyand a pair of separatorssandwiching the membrane electrode assemblyand the frameand a casethat houses the stack A. The framecomprises a protrusionthat protrudes outward from an outer periphery of a frame bodyA beyond an outer peripheral edge of the pair of separatorsA protrusion length of the protrusionis greater than at least a gap between the frameand one of the pair of separatorsand the protrusionis bendable with respect to the frame bodyA. The protrusions prevent a contact between the separatorsof the single cell C and a contact between the end faces of the separatorsand the caseso as to prevent a short circuit of the single cell C.

Fuel cell stack

A toner including a toner particle and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains an inorganic fine particle A and a silica fine particle; in a surface of the toner observed using a scanning electron microscope, a number-average particle diameter of primary particle of the silica fine particle is from 5 nm to 50 nm, a number-average particle diameter of primary particle of the inorganic fine particle A is at least 10 nm and less than 60 nm, a coverage ratio X1 of the toner surface covered by the silica fine particle is from 60 area % to 95 area %, the inorganic fine particle A is a fine particle of a titanate having a Group 2 element, and a coverage ratio X2 of the toner surface covered by the inorganic fine particle A is from 5 area % to 40 area %.

Provided is toner that contains a toner particle, and an external additive containing a strontium titanate particle, wherein the toner has an average circularity of at least 0.935 and not more than 0.995, the strontium titanate particle has a number-average primary particle diameter of at least 10 nm and not more than 60 nm, the strontium titanate particle has a peak in the range of 39.700&#xb0;&#xb1;0.150&#xb0; and a peak in the range of 46.200&#xb0;&#xb1;0.150&#xb0; in a CuK&#x3b1; x-ray diffraction spectrum obtained in the 2&#x3b8; range of at least 10&#xb0; and not more than 90&#xb0; where &#x3b8; is the Bragg angle, and the ratio of the area Sb of the peak at 46.200&#xb0;&#xb1;0.150&#xb0; to the area Sa of the peak at 39.700&#xb0;&#xb1;0.150&#xb0; is at least 1.80 and not more than 2.30.

A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin, wherein the surface of the toner particle is covered with a resin A; the modulus of elasticity Ea of the resin A and the modulus of elasticity Eb of the binder resin satisfy the following formula:0.5&#x2264;()&#xd7;100&#x2264;50.0; andthe adhesion force Aof the toner particle is at least 500 nN when a probe having spherical SiOattached at the tip of a cantilever is pressed into the toner particle at 3 &#x3bc;N.

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