Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Shuzo Tsuchida

Akihiro Horikawa

Yasuhiro Ueyama

Ryouhei Seki

Tomohiro Okumura

Kazuyuki Tohji

Yasushi Taniguchi

Hideyuki Takahashi

Michiru Kuromiya

Ami Okabe

Shun Yokoyama

Akinobu Miyazaki

Akira Kawase

Toshiyuki Kojima

Tsutomu Kawashima

Kazufumi Miyatake

Yoshiro Kitamura

Kazunori Kubota

Kazuto Fukuda

Motohiro Okochi

Tsutomu Koshizuka

Kenji Date

Yoshihiro Nakamura

Isao Muragisi

An all-solid-state battery has a structure in which a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode layer containing a positive electrode active material and a solid electrolyte, a solid electrolyte layer containing a solid electrolyte, a negative electrode layer containing a negative electrode active material and a solid electrolyte, and a negative electrode current collector are stacked in this order. The solid electrolyte layer has a repeating structure in which a low porosity portion and a high porosity portion having a higher porosity than a porosity of the low porosity portion are repeated in an in-plane direction.

All-solid-state battery and method for manufacturing the same

A fuel-cell cell capable of reducing elution of particles with a catalytic function into the electrolyte membrane is provided. A fuel-cell cell according to the present disclosure includes an electrolyte membrane, a cathode catalyst layer laminated on a first main surface side of the electrolyte membrane, a cathode gas diffusion layer laminated on the cathode catalyst layer, an anode catalyst layer laminated on a second surface side of the electrolyte membrane, and an anode gas diffusion layer laminated on the anode catalyst layer. The cathode catalyst layer includes a cathode catalyst in which catalyst particles with a catalytic function are carried on a carrier, and the cathode catalyst includes a water-repellent polymer material in at least part of a surface thereof.

Fuel-cell cell

A solid-state battery that exhibits improved battery performance includes: a positive-electrode collector; a negative-electrode collector; a positive electrode layer formed on the positive-electrode collector and containing a positive-electrode active material and a solid electrolyte; a negative electrode layer formed on the negative-electrode collector and containing a negative-electrode active material and a solid electrolyte; and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer and containing a solid electrolyte. At least one of the solid electrolyte and the solid electrolyte partly represents a porous solid electrolyte.

Solid-state battery and method of manufacture thereof

An electrode includes a collector, and an active material mixture layer located on the collector and containing first particles, second particles, first active material particles, and second active material particles. The active material mixture layer includes a first mixture layer located on the collector and containing the first particles and the first active material particles, and a second mixture layer located on the first mixture layer and containing the second particles and the second active material particles. The active material mixture layer has a boundary in which the first active material particles and the second active material particles are in contact with each other in a discontinuous state at least in part, in a cross-sectional view of the electrode.

Electrode, battery, and method for manufacturing electrode

A negative electrode active substance is used for a negative electrode layer of an all-solid battery and contains a plurality of secondary particles. The plurality of secondary particles contain impregnated particles which are secondary particles having a polymer solid electrolyte region impregnated with the polymer solid electrolyte therein and an active material region.

Electrode active substance, method for producing electrode active substance, and all-solid battery using electrode active substance

A catalyst, includes: a carbon support that possesses functional groups including a carboxyl group; and a metal that is supported onto the carbon support, wherein the proportion of the carboxyl group to the functional groups is 10% or higher. A method for producing a catalyst includes: (i) supporting metal particles onto a carbon support; (ii) bringing the carbon support into contact with an acid solution; and (iii) calcining the carbon support after Step (ii), wherein the carbon support included in the produced catalyst possesses functional groups including a carboxyl group, and the proportion of said carboxyl group to the functional groups is 10% or higher.

Metal particle supported catalysts, methods for producing same, and fuel cells using same

Provided is a method for producing a catalyst, including: (i) mixing a core metal salt that serves as a material for a core metal, and a complexing agent (a) to produce a core metal complex solution containing a core metal complex; (ii) mixing a shell metal salt that serves as a material for a shell metal, and a complexing agent (b) to produce a shell metal complex solution containing a shell metal complex; (iii) mixing a carbon powder and a dispersing agent to produce a carbon powder dispersion; (iv) mixing the core metal complex solution, the shell metal complex solution, and the carbon powder dispersion, and reducing the core metal complex and the shell metal complex on the carbon powder by using at least one reducing agent; and (v) drying and baking at a predetermined temperature the carbon powder resulting from Step (iv), said carbon powder having a core-shell structure that includes the core metal and the shell metal.

Method for producing core-shell catalyst

A manufacturing method of a supported platinum catalyst, includes: generating a platinum group salt solution using platinum group salts and a complexing agent; mixing the platinum group salt solution and a carbon powder dispersion in which carbon powder is dispersed; and adding a reducing agent to a mixed solution of the platinum group salt solution and the carbon powder dispersion, and reducing the platinum group salts to allow the platinum group particles to be supported on the carbon powder.

Supported platinum catalyst and manufacturing method of the same

A coating barin a coating apparatus includes groovesthat are formed, on the surface of a cylindrical shaft, from a contact point between the coating barand a substratein a traveling direction and a direction opposite to the traveling direction, and are arranged in the width direction of the shaft. Thus, a uniform film can be stably applied to the curved or wavy substratehaving high rigidity.

Apparatus for applying coating liquid and coating bar

In a coating apparatus and a method thereof according to the present invention, the coating-solution receiving region of a porous materialis smaller in bubble diameter than the contact region of a porous materialwith a substrate. Thus, even if the substrateis curved or wavy, a coating filmcan be easily and evenly applied to the substrate

Coating apparatus and method thereof

A solar cell module includes an antireflective film () which has a curved shape depressed towards a side to place photovoltaic cells () so as to make a film thickness of the antireflective film () in boundary regions (E) between regions (E) immediately above the adjacent photovoltaic cells () smaller than a film thickness of the antireflective film () in the regions (E) immediately above the photovoltaic cells ().

Solar cell module and manufacturing method of the same

An object of the present invention is to provide a plasma display panel that can suppress the generation of cracks in a dielectric layer, and also improve the yield, and a method for manufacturing such a display panel. A dielectric layer on a front panel is designed to have a two-layer structure in which a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer are laminated, and the first dielectric layer is formed through processes in which, after printing or applying a dielectric paste containing a glass frit onto a front substrate so as to cover display electrodes formed thereon as a stripe pattern, drying and firing the resulting substrate at a temperature not less than a softening point of the glass frit, and the second dielectric layer is formed on the first dielectric layer by using a sol-gel method.

Plasma display panel and manufacturing method thereof

A plasma display panel includes a front panel wherein an electrode, a dielectric layer and a protective layer are formed on a substrate of the front panel; and a rear panel wherein an electrode, a dielectric layer and a barrier rib and a phosphor layer are formed on a substrate of the rear panel. The front panel and the rear panel are oppositely disposed to each other. The electrode of the front panel is composed of a transparent electrode and a bus electrode, and the bus electrode comprises a melted-solidified portion obtained by a melting and subsequent solidifying of electrically-conductive particles.

Plasma display panel and method for producing the same

In a front plate for PDP, which includes: a large number of display electrodes formed in stripes on a substrate; a plurality of terminal groups for connection with an external drive circuit, each terminal group being formed along an edge of the substrate, the edge being extended in a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the display electrode; and a large number of lead electrodes extended from the display electrodes, respectively, in a non-image display region on the substrate to gather toward any one of the terminal groups without intersecting each other, the lead electrodes being connected to corresponding terminals in the relevant terminal group, respectively, further, a large number of strip-shaped aid members for aiding formation of a dielectric layer are formed in a region located between the adjacent terminal groups. Thus, it is possible to make a circumference of a dielectric layer even although a dielectric material to be used is low in viscosity.

Front plate for plasma display panel and method for manufacturing the same, as well as plasma display panel

A plasma display panel includes a pair of substrates which are opposite to each other and one of which includes display electrodes () and a dielectric layer () formed thereon, and the display electrodes () are made of a glass material containing 0.1 wt % to 5 wt % of at least one oxide of molybdenum, cerium, copper, tin, manganese, ruthenium, antimony, and iron.

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Shuzo Tsuchida