Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Shouzou Shintani

Kenji Yoshihiro

You Yamamori

Daisuke Imoda

Kenichi Takahashi

Wataru Kurokawa

Kenjiro Tanaka

Masayoshi Tanaka

Kouki Kinouchi

Koichi Narutaki

Kinuyo Shintani, Legal Representative

In, for example, a direct methanol type fuelcell, fuel is allowed to be injected little by little when the fuel is injected and supplied from the outside to a fuel receiving part reduced in the amount of remaining fuel on the fuelcell body side and an electromotive part can be prevented from being damaged by keeping the pressure in the fuel receiving part at a fixed level or less when the fuel is injected. Specifically, when a fuel CL filled in a refuelling container C is injected into a fuel receiving part T in several lots, a fuel injecting operation is repeated in which the volume of the refuelling container C is shrunk and reduced to supply the fuel into the fuel receiving part T in a proper amount and then the original volume of the refuelling container is restored to thereby absorb the atmospheric gas in the fuel receiving part T, which makes it possible to inject fuel continuously without any hindrance to the injection of the fuel.

Refuelling container for fuelcell, method for refuelling, and holder for refulling container

A stainless steel material for a fuel cell, used for a fuel cell or a cartridge for the fuel cell, having a magnetic permeability of 1.000 to 2.500, and forming a layer having a value of chromium atomic %/iron atomic % of not less than 3.0 in the most surface thereof, and/or the layer of thickness of not less than 12 nm calculated as SiOhaving an oxygen atomic % of not less than 20%. Even when brought into contact with the content solution exhibiting acidity of the fuel cell, the stainless steel material reliably suppresses the elution of metal ions thereof.

Stainless steel member for a fuel cell

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Yokohama, Japan

Shouzou Shintani