Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Laser X Company, Ltd.

Fine Device Co., Ltd.

Masaki Terada

Yasushi Yamazawa

Yasuhiro Tsuchiya

Katsumi Kondo

Yuichiro Hama

Hirokazu Ishimaru

Takashi Yamamoto

Tsuyoshi Tanigaki

Yukihisa Katayama

Takatsune Niimi

Kunihiro Matsuba

Akihiko Tsuboi

Kyouji Kokufuda

Jun Hayakawa

Seijirou Soeda

Tosio Aoki

Masataka Deguchi

Hiromitsu Tanaka

Yoshio Taguchi

Katsuyuki Kido

Shinichi Miura

Hiroyuki Sato

Makoto Kito

Tetsuyoshi Fukaya

Megumi Sasaki

Yoichi Serino

Yasuhiro Tsutiya

Shinji Koike

There is provided a thermally conductive composite material obtained by dispersing a thermally conductive filler in a matrix. The thermally conductive filler is a mixture including boron nitride particles with an average particle size of 10 &#x3bc;m to 100 &#x3bc;m and aluminum nitride particles with an average particle size that is 1/100 to &#xbd; of the average particle size of the boron nitride particles, a content of the boron nitride particles is 60 volume % to 90 volume % with respect to a total amount of the boron nitride particles and the aluminum nitride particles, a content of the thermally conductive filler is 80 volume % to 95 volume % with respect to a total amount of the composite material, and a porosity of the composite material is 10 volume % or less.

Thermally conductive composite material

A tubular fuel cell comprises a cylindrical internal electrode having electrical conductivity, a lamination of a first catalytic layer, an electrolytic layer, and a second catalytic layer laminated in that order on an outer circumferential surface of the internal electrode, and an electrically conductive exterior coil wound around an outer circumferential surface of the second catalytic layer. The tubular fuel cell further comprises an electrically conductive spacer which has an outside diameter greater than that of the exterior coil.

Tubular fuel cell and fuel cell module

A process is for laser-welding resinous members, and includes the steps of overlapping a transparent resinous member on an absorptive resinous material, and irradiating the transparent resinous member with a laser beam, thereby welding an interface between the transparent resinous member and the absorptive resinous member as a strip shape, wherein the energy of the laser beam acting on a side of a major-curvature-radius curved part of the strip-shaped welded interface and the energy of the laser beam acting on a side of a minor-curvature-radius curved part thereof are averaged.

Process for laser welding resinous members, apparatus for the same and laser-welded resinous product

A fuel cell module that includes: a plurality of tubular fuel cells, each of which contains a cylindrically shaped inner electrode that exhibits conductivity, a first catalyst layer, an electrolyte layer, and a second catalyst layer laminated sequentially to the outer peripheral surface of the inner electrode, and an external coil that exhibits conductivity and is wound around the outer peripheral surface of the second catalyst layer in such a manner that a first coil section with a loose winding pitch is sandwiched between second coil sections with a tight winding pitch; and a current collecting member that exhibits conductivity and is provided with a plurality of openings into which the tubular fuel cells can be inserted, wherein the first coil sections and the openings fit together.

Tubular fuel cell with coil current collector

A production apparatus for a tubular fuel cell, including a first extruder that supplies a first catalyst layer material to the outer peripheral surface of a cylindrically shaped inner electrode that exhibits conductivity, thereby forming a first catalyst layer, a second extruder that supplies an electrolyte layer material to the outer peripheral surface of the first catalyst layer, thereby forming an electrolyte layer, and a third extruder that supplies a second catalyst layer material to the outer peripheral surface of the electrolyte layer, thereby forming a second catalyst layer, wherein by conducting supply of the first catalyst layer material, the electrolyte layer material and the second catalyst layer material in an intermittent manner, at least a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the inner electrode is left exposed.

Method of producing fuel cell and production apparatus for fuel cell

In a state where a gas barrier sheet ( ) having a gas barrier layer is held between a heat plate ( ) and a pressing plate, the gas barrier sheet is disposed between two molds together with a sub tank ( ) and a separator ( ) constituting attachment parts, the molds are then closed and a resin is injection-molded forming a resin layer ( ). A method for manufacturing a resin container by melt-adhering an intermediate molded product ( ) and another intermediate molded product ( ) constituting a pair therewith by heating with a heat plate ( ) thereafter, and a resin container manufactured by this manufacturing method.

Manufacturing method for a resin container

This invention relates to a method of manufacturing molded wooden products composed of a wooden body and a skin material. This method employs materials having long working life and enables simultaneous integral molding of the wooden body and the skin. The obtained molded wooden product has excellent characteristics.

Method of manufacturing a molded wooden product

A method for the manufacture of a fiber reinforced plastic structure, comprising the steps of winding a continuous long-staple fiber impregnated with a liquid resin around a plurality of winding jigs until the resultant bundle of resin impregnated fibers attains a predetermined thickness; setting rings tightly in place on the linear portions of the resin impregnated fiber bundle between the jigs; and moving the tightly set rings relative to the linear portions thereby wringing the resin impregnated fiber bundle and expelling bubbles entrapped within the fiber bundle.

Method for production of fiber reinforced plastic structure

A steering wheel core material of continuous filament FRP for vehicles which is made up of a ring, a boss positioned at the center of the ring, and spokes connecting the boss to the ring, said boss being integrally joined to a boss metal fitting. It is formed by winding resin-impregnated continous filaments in layer around the ring- and spoke-forming mold and the body of the boss metal fitting, with an elastic material interposed between the body of the boss metal fitting and the FRP.

Steering wheel core material

A core for a steering wheel made of a long fiber-reinforced resin in which a ring portion, a boss portion and a three spoke portions including a first spoke portion, a second spoke portion and a third spoke portion extending in a generally T-shaped configuration from the ring portion to the boss portion, are formed by bundles of continuous fibers reinforced with a resin. The cross-sectional area for the second spoke portion situated between the first spoke portion and the third spoke portion is made smaller than the cross-sectional area for the first spoke portion and the third spoke portion.

Core material for steering wheels made of long fiber-reinforced resin

A process for preparing a fiber reinforced plastic structure having points of branching, which comprises the steps of, positioning pins at points of branching in the structure and repeatedly hanging and repeatedly stretching a resin-impregnated strand of continuous long-staple fibers over and between said pins, thereby completing the structure of the points of branching.

Process for preparing a fiber-reinforced plastic structure having

A core material for steering wheels, comprising a boss equipped with sleeves in a unitary structure, each of which sleeves has a slit in the axial direction thereof, said sleeves further being packed with superposed fiber strands; a ring portion; and spoke portions which connect said ring portion to said boss and being formed by winding and stretching continuous long-staple fiber strands impregnated with a resin to form the superposed strands within said sleeves.

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Masaki Terada