Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Ngimat Co.

Masayoshi Kitada

Kosuke Niki

Andrew Tye Hunt

Todd Andrew Fitz

Yongdong Jiang

Masahiro Hirota

Jeanne Yadlyne Smalley

Marvis White

The process of the present invention significantly increases the durability of superhydrophobic surfaces, while retaining similar optical properties to those of the original surface. The process uses velocity and heat to take freshly formed nano- and ultrafine particles and can partially embed and chemically bond them to the substrate, creating a strongly bonded nano-to-submicron textured surface. This nanotextured surface can then be modified to have desirable surface properties; for example, it can be hydrophobic, oliophobic, or hydrophilic. The high points of the coating made with this process protect the remainder of the surface from abrasion, thus greatly increasing product life in many uses. In preferred embodiments, the process is used to coat transportation vehicle windshields.

Process for forming high surface area embedded coating with high abrasion resistance

A hydrogen generation apparatus is constituted of a treated-substance container, which has a hydrogen discharge port for activating a treated substance; and at least one plate-form activation structural body, which is provided within the treated-substance container vertically thereto. The plate-form activation structural body is a structural body that arranges particles composed of any of a single constituent element, which is selected from a group comprising silicon, titanium, nickel, and samarium, and fluorocarbon at positions that amplify unique wave energy in each the element and the fluorocarbon, and which structural body has an energy concentration field between the particles within the treated-substance container, wherein gases containing hydrogen are generated by any of the treated substance within the treated-substance container staying in and passing through the energy concentration field. The hydrogen generation apparatus can generate hydrogen with less energy and achieve space saving.

Hydrogen generating apparatus, hydrogen generating system and use thereof

An electrode plate for electrolysis is composed of a plate-form porous ceramic body for electrolyzing a hydrogen-comprising-compound solution, and a conductive portion provided at a part of the ceramic body, wherein particles for composing the ceramic body are comprised of any of fluoride carbon and an element difficult to react to oxygen, and wherein an outmost-nucleus-orbit electron number of the element is even, and porosity having an energy concentration field is provided between the particles in the ceramic body.

Electrode plate and electrolysis apparatus for electrolyis, electrode plate unit, and method for electrolyzing compound comprising hydrogen

At least a pair of electrodes comprising semiconductors or a semiconductor compounds are arranged to be submerged in water or a liquid of a hydrogen-containing organic compound. Applying pulse electric power between the at least one pair of the electrodes activates hydrogen atoms contained in the water or the hydrogen-containing organic compound to produce hydrogen gas. The hydrogen activating apparatus thus constructed eliminates the necessity of doping electrolysis or the like for improving an electric conductivity of the water and allows production of hydrogen from materials containing hydrogen atoms such as water and the hydrogen-containing compound or the like with a low energy.

Hydrogen activating apparatus

A process of activating water by leading water to pass through energy concentrated fields which are generated in particles, being composed of a single elementary material selected from a group of silicon, titanium, nickel and samarium or composed of fluorocarbon, of which the single elementary material or the fluorocarbon is placed at a position where wave energy intrinsic to each atom or said fluorocarbon is amplified and constructing activation structural bodies are concurrently carried out with increasing quantity of dissolved oxygen in the water. Water can be activated without externally supplying energy or with a little energy.

Method and apparatus for activating water

The present invention provides heating equipment of a treated substance designed so as to be equipped with any foil of a metallic material or non metallic material for heating the treated substance, and a heating mechanism for heating the foil to a temperature where a far infrared ray is radiated, and to heat the treated substance by the far infrared ray radiated from the foil. The heating efficiency in heating the treated substance by the far infrared ray can be made higher than conventional heating equipment. Meanwhile, the present invention has been found on the basis of experimental results where heating tests of water are performed with using the foil and wire of an aluminum material.

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Wako, Japan

Masayoshi Kitada