Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Cataler Corporation

Denso Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Cataier Corporation

Satoru Katoh

Masahide Miura

Hiromasa Suzuki

Hirotaka Ori

Michihiko Takeuchi

Toshitaka Tanabe

Keiichi Narita

Tatsuya Ohashi

Hiroaki Naito

Kenji Yamada

Yoshinori Saito

Tetsuhiro Hirao

Akira Morikawa

Mitsuyoshi Okada

Toshio Yamamoto

Takashi Onozuka

Isao Chinzei

Sho Hoshino

Seiji Nakahigashi

Hideaki Saida

Mitsuru Iseda

Masaya Yamamoto

Naoki Takahashi

Yukihiko Ideshio

Makoto Nakamura

Yasuhiro Nakai

Hichirosai Oyobe

Hiroaki Kato

Hideto Hanada

Takaya Soma

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Tadashi Suzuki

Masayoshi Suhama

Takaaki Kanazawa

Masaya Ibe

Nobuyuki Takagi

Haruki Sato

Nobusuke Kabashima

Naoyuki Miyara

Yohsuke Tagawa

Michinobu Suzuki

Takahiro Hayashi

Yoshihiro Shamoto

Minoru Itou

Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi

Tetsuya Shinozaki

Masaya Kamada

Yoshinori Tomita

Yoshihiro Taniyama

Tomonori Ogura

Ryuichi Tsutsumi

Jota Yamauchi

Tetsuhiro Itoh

Miura Masahide

Saito Yoshinori

Suzuki Hiromasa

Tetsuhio Hirao

Toshitata Tanabe

Itou Minoru

A catalyst for purification of exhaust gas including a substrate, and a catalyst coat layer which is formed on a surface of the substrate and contains catalyst particles, wherein the catalyst coat layer has an average thickness ranging 25 to 150 μm, a void fraction, as determined by scanning electron microscope observation of a cross-section of the catalyst coat layer, ranging 1.5 to 8.0% by volume, 60 to 90% by volume of all voids in the catalyst coat layer are high-aspect ratio pores which have equivalent circle diameters ranging 2 to 50 μm in a cross-sectional image of a cross-section of the catalyst coat layer perpendicular to a flow direction of exhaust gas in the substrate, and which ratios of 5 or higher, the high-aspect ratio pores have an average aspect ratio ranging 10 to 50, and a noble metal is supported on the entire catalyst coat layer.

Catalyst for purification of exhaust gas

When the voltage value of the capacitor included in the PCU is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, the vehicle power supply device turns on both the positive switching element and the negative switching element corresponding to one of a plurality of resistors so as to activate the one resistor connected to the initially disabled PCU. In addition, the vehicle power supply device turns on both the positive switching element and the negative switching element corresponding the other one of the resistors so as to deactivate the one resistor and activate the other one resistor based on a predetermined condition.

Vehicle power supply device and vehicle power supply method

A manufacturing method for a hydroelectric power generation system includes removing a transaxle including a first motor generator from an end-of-life hybrid electric vehicle, and assembling a hydraulic turbine to a rotary shaft coupled to the first motor generator in the removed transaxle. The rotary shaft to which the hydraulic turbine is assembled may be an engine shaft connected to an engine of the hybrid electric vehicle when the transaxle is mounted on the hybrid electric vehicle.

Manufacturing method for hydroelectric power generation system

The present disclosure provides the exhaust gas purification catalyst with the improved purification performance under the high Ga condition and the transient state in which an A/F repeats rich and lean phases. The present disclosure relates to an exhaust gas purification catalyst comprising a catalyst coating layer on a substrate, the catalyst coating layer containing a noble metal, a composite oxide containing cerium oxide and zirconium oxide, and a composite oxide containing aluminum oxide, wherein in the catalyst coating layer: an average thickness of the coating layer is in a range from 20 &#x3bc;m to 100 &#x3bc;m; a porosity measured by a weight-in-water method is in a range from 50% by volume to 80% by volume; and high-aspect-ratio pores having an aspect ratio of 5 or more account for 0.5% by volume to 50% by volume of a whole volume of voids, the high-aspect-ratio pore having an equivalent circle diameter in a range from 2 &#x3bc;m to 50 &#x3bc;m in a cross-sectional image of a catalyst coating layer cross section perpendicular to an exhaust gas flow direction of the substrate and having an average aspect ratio in a range from 10 to 50, and wherein the noble metal is supported on peripheries of the voids, the composite oxide containing the cerium oxide and the zirconium oxide, and the composite oxide containing the aluminum oxide.

Exhaust gas purification catalyst

An object of the present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purification catalyst which can exhibit sufficient purification performance even under a high Ga condition. The present invention relates to an exhaust gas purification catalyst comprising a substrate and a catalyst coating layer formed on the substrate, wherein the catalyst coating layer comprises catalyst particles, the catalyst coating layer having an upstream region extending by 40 to 60% of the entire length of the substrate from an upstream end of the catalyst in the direction of an exhaust gas flow and a downstream region corresponding to the remainder portion of the catalyst coating layer, the composition of the catalyst particle of the upstream region being different from that of the downstream region. The downstream region in the direction of an exhaust gas flow has a structure where a void is included in a large number, and furthermore high-aspect-ratio pores having an aspect ratio of 5 or more account for a certain percentage or more of the whole volume of voids. Thus, the exhaust gas purification catalyst exhibits enhanced purification performance.

The present disclosure provides the exhaust gas purification catalyst with the improved purification performance under the high Ga condition and the atmosphere where the A/F is rich. The present disclosure relates to an exhaust gas purification catalyst including a catalyst coating layer on a substrate, the catalyst coating layer containing a noble metal and a metal oxide, wherein in the catalyst coating layer: an average thickness of the coating layer is in a range from 50 &#x3bc;m to 100 &#x3bc;m; a porosity measured by a weight-in-water method is in a range from 50% by volume to 80% by volume; and high-aspect-ratio pores having an aspect ratio of 5 or more account for 0.5% by volume to 50% by volume of a whole volume of voids, the high-aspect-ratio pore having an equivalent circle diameter in a range from 2 &#x3bc;m to 50 &#x3bc;m in a cross-sectional image of a catalyst coating layer cross section perpendicular to an exhaust gas flow direction of the substrate and having an average aspect ratio in a range from 10 to 50, and wherein when a surface side in contact with an exhaust gas in a thickness direction of the catalyst coating layer is defined as 0% and a side in contact with the substrate is defined as 100%, 80% by mass or more of a total amount of the noble metal is present in a range from 0% to 25% or more and 70% or less.

The problem of the present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purification catalyst which can exhibit sufficient purification performance under a high Ga condition while having a resistance to stress such as high-temperature and poisonous substances. The present invention relates to an exhaust gas purification catalyst comprising two or more catalyst coating layers on a substrate, wherein a lower catalyst coating layer that is present lower with respect to an uppermost catalyst coating layer has a structure where a large number of voids are included and high-aspect-ratio pores having an aspect ratio of 5 or more account for a certain proportion or more of the whole volume of voids, thereby to improve gas diffusivity in the lower catalyst coating layer.

An object of the present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purification catalyst which can exhibit high durability and warm-up performance. The present invention relates to an exhaust gas purification catalyst comprising a substrate and a catalyst coating layer formed on the substrate, wherein the catalyst coating layer comprises catalyst particles, the catalyst coating layer having an upstream region extending by 40 to 60% of the entire length of the substrate from an upstream end of the catalyst in the direction of an exhaust gas flow and a downstream region corresponding to the remainder portion of the catalyst coating layer, the composition of the catalyst particle of the upstream region being different from that of the downstream region. The upstream region in the direction of an exhaust gas flow has a structure where a void is included in a large number, and furthermore high-aspect-ratio pores having an aspect ratio of 5 or more account for a certain percentage or more of the whole volume of voids. Thus, the exhaust gas purification catalyst exhibits enhanced purification performance.

When the amount of coating is increased in a two-layer catalyst or the like containing two noble metals in respective different layers, gas diffusivity in the catalyst and use efficiency of a catalytic active site are reduced to thereby reduce purification performance. In view of this, an organic fiber having a predetermined shape is used as a pore-forming material in formation of an uppermost catalyst coating layer of a multi-layer catalyst, to thereby form an uppermost catalyst coating layer having a high-aspect-ratio pore excellent in connectivity and therefore excellent gas diffusivity.

An object of the present disclosure is to provide an exhaust gas purification catalyst demonstrating superior storage of NOx contained in exhaust gas. The exhaust gas purification catalyst of the present disclosure has a substrate, a first catalyst layer containing a catalytic metal for NOx reduction and a NOx storage material and formed on the substrate, and a second catalyst layer containing a catalytic metal for NOx oxidation and formed on the first catalyst layer. In the exhaust gas purification catalyst of the present disclosure, the value obtained by dividing the volume of all large pores having a pore volume of 1000 &#x3bc;mor more by the total volume of all medium pores of having a pore volume of 10 &#x3bc;mto 1000 &#x3bc;min the second catalyst layer is 2.44 or less.

The present invention is directed to address the following problem: in an exhaust gas purification catalyst comprising a dual catalyst of a combination of a startup catalyst and an underfloor catalyst, reduction in the gas diffusivity of the underfloor catalyst results in reduction in the use efficiency of a catalytic active site, resulting in reduction in purification performance. The present invention relates to an exhaust gas purification catalyst comprising a dual catalyst of a combination of a startup catalyst and an underfloor catalyst having a catalyst coating where a large number of voids are included, wherein high-aspect-ratio pores having an aspect ratio of 5 or more account for a certain rate or more of the whole volume of the voids, to thereby enhance the purification performance of the catalyst.

A catalyst for purification of exhaust gas, wherein a substrate and a catalyst coat layer which is formed on a surface of the substrate and which comprises catalyst particles, wherein the catalyst coat layer has an average thickness in a range of 25 to 160 &#x3bc;m, and a void fraction in a range of 50 to 80% by volume as measured by a weight-in-water method, 0.5 to 50% by volume of all voids in the catalyst coat layer consist of high-aspect ratio pores which have equivalent circle diameters in a range of 2 to 50 &#x3bc;m in a cross-sectional image of a cross-section of the catalyst coat layer which the cross-section is perpendicular to a flow direction of exhaust gas in the substrate, and which have aspect ratios of 5 or higher, and the high-aspect ratio pores have an average aspect ratio in a range of 10 to 50.

Catalyst for purification of exhaust gas, method for producing the same, and method for purification of exhaust gas using the same

A control device includes a PWM control unit that executes PWM control over an alternating-current motor mounted on a vehicle. The PWM control unit includes an alarm sound generation processing unit and a slip determination unit. The slip determination unit determines whether a drive wheel coupled to the alternating-current motor is slipping on the basis. of a d-axis current (Id), a q-axis current (Iq), a d-axis voltage command value (Vd) and a q-axis voltage command value (Vq) of the alternating-current motor. When the drive wheel is not slipping, the alarm sound generation processing unit generates an alarm sound from the alternating-current motor by adding a variation value (&#x394;V) to the d-axis voltage command value (Vd) at a predetermined interval. When the drive wheel is slipping, the alarm sound generation processing unit temporarily stops adding the variation value (&#x394;V) to the d-axis voltage command value (Vd).

Vehicle, and control method for vehicle

A control device includes a PWM control unit that executes PWM control over an alternating-current motor mounted on a vehicle. The PWM control unit includes an alarm sound generation processing unit that executes an alarm sound generating process of generating an alarm sound from the motor for informing a pedestrian, or the like, of the approach of the vehicle by intentionally varying phase current flowing through the motor by periodically adding a variation value (&#x394;V) to a d-axis voltage command value (Vd) at a predetermined interval. At the time of executing the alarm sound generating process, the alarm sound generation processing unit adjusts the variation value (&#x394;V) such that the d-axis voltage command value (Vda) resulting from the alarm sound generating process (the sum of Vd and &#x394;V) falls within a range in which it is possible to suppress occurrence of an overcurrent in the motor.

An exhaust gas-purifying catalyst includes a support provided with one or more through-holes through which exhaust gas flows, and a catalytic layer supported by the support and containing an oxygen storage material. The exhaust gas-purifying catalyst includes a first section to which the exhaust gas is supplied, and a second section to which the exhaust gas having passed through the first section is supplied. The catalytic layer includes a layered structure of a first catalytic layer containing platinum and/or palladium and a second catalytic layer containing rhodium in the first catalytic section and further includes a third layer containing rhodium in the second section. The second section is smaller in oxygen storage material content per unit volumetric capacity than the first section.

Exhaust gas-purifying catalyst

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Satoru Katoh