Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nichias Corporation

Kouji Nagai

Toshiyuki Suzuki

Yasuyuki Asai

Osamu Maeda

Chisato Kato

Tsuyoshi Inagaki

Tomoyuki Isogai

Atsushi Omura

Akitoshi Iwata

Masanori Saeki

Yasuko Inoue

Hiroki Matsui

Akihiro Asano

Tetsuo Ohinata

Toru Segawa

Sinzaburou Suzuki

Takayasu Ogasawara

Hideto Ishikawa

Shinzaburou Suzuki

Naochiro Takeshita

Hideto Nakano

A wastegate is attached to a turbine housing of a turbocharger. The wastegate opens and closes a bypass passage. An actuator is coupled to the wastegate via a link mechanism. The link mechanism includes a link rod and a link arm. The longitudinal direction of the link rod in a state in which the bypass passage is fully closed is defined as a width direction of the link arm. The coupling center position in the link arm to which the link rod is coupled is located at a position offset in a direction in which the link rod moves to open the wastegate from a middle of the link arm in the width direction.

Turbocharger

A turbine housing includes a first shell member and a third shell member, which are formed from metal sheets and forming a housing body, and a tongue member, which is fixed to inner circumferential surfaces of the shell members and discrete from the shell members. The tongue member defines an inlet port and a scroll compartment in the housing body.

Turbine housing and exhaust gas turbine supercharger

A turbine housing includes an outer housing member, which has a proximal housing portion and a distal housing portion, and an inner housing member, which is provided inside the outer housing member and has a shroud surface that faces a turbine wheel in an axial direction. A distal portion of the inner housing member serves as a slide portion slidable in the axial direction. Further, a proximal portion of the inner housing member is fixed to the proximal housing portion at a part closer to a distal side than a proximal portion of the proximal housing portion. Further, a scroll portion is formed by the inner housing member and a proximal scroll portion of the proximal housing portion located closer to a proximal side than the inner housing member.

The present invention provides a separator for fuel cell containing: a flat plate member; a gas passage-side member provided on one side of the flat plate member and having passages for passing a reactant gas therethrough; and a cooling water passage-side member provided on the other side of the flat plate member and having passages for passing cooling water therethrough, wherein the gas passage-side member and the cooling water passage-side member are formed from first and second conductive resin compositions which are different from each other, respectively, and the difference between the thermal expansion coefficient of the gas passage-side member in its thickness direction and the thermal expansion coefficient of the cooling water passage-side member in a direction perpendicular to its thickness direction is 25&#xd7;10/K or smaller, and wherein the flat plate member contains at least one of the first and second conductive resin compositions.

Separator for fuel cell and process for producing the same

A fuel cell separator containing conductive material and epoxy resin is provided. In the fuel cell, the epoxy resin is made of solid epoxy resin whose epoxy equivalent weight is 300-500. Further, according to another fuel cell separator, raw materials containing not lower than 60 weight % of conductive material and 34-40 weight % of resin material are kneaded, and adjusted to have a flow index of 5-20%. A kneaded compound is compression-molded so that a fuel cell separator is obtained.

Fuel cell separator and method for manufacturing the same

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Nagoya, Japan

Kouji Nagai