Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Admatechs Company Limited

Tomonari Kogure

Satoshi Takata

Keiu Kanada

Mayumi Nakanishi

Masafumi Suzuki

Hiroko Kurihara

Noritaka Miyamoto

Kazuaki Haga

Kenji Nakamura

Masaki Hirano

Junya Murai

Hitoshi Tanino

Tomoharu Kataoka

Shigeto Takeuchi

Yoshinori Okawauchi

Daichi Miyazaki

Youichiro Kawai

The hydrogen separation filter includes a porous substrate and a super lattice layer on the porous substrate. The super lattice layer includes at least one lattice expansion layer containing a first material and at least two hydrogen dissociation and permeation layers containing a second material selected from the group consisting of Pd, V, Ta, Ti, Nb, and alloys thereof. The at least one lattice expansion layer and the at least two hydrogen dissociation and permeation layers are alternately stacked. The first material and the second material have a same crystalline structure. A lattice constant aof a first bulk material haying a same composition and a same crystalline structure as the first material and a lattice constant aof a second bulk material having a same composition and a same crystalline structure as the second material satisfy Formula (1):1.03≤1.15  (1).

Hydrogen separation filter

Provided is a hydrogen separation filter allowing a hydrogen purification at a lower temperature than conventional one, and a method for manufacturing the same. A hydrogen separation filter includes a porous substrate, a lattice expansion layer formed on the porous substrate and containing a first material, and a hydrogen dissociation and transmission layer formed on the lattice expansion layer and containing a second material selected from the group consisting of Pd, V, Ta, Ti, Nb, and alloys thereof. The first material and the second material have a same crystalline structure. A lattice constant aof a first bulk material having a same composition and a same crystalline structure as the first material and a lattice constant aof a second bulk material having a same composition and a same crystalline structure as the second material satisfy a formula (1):1.03≤1.15  (1).

Hydrogen separation filter and method for manufacturing hydrogen separation filter

The present embodiment is a fuel cell including a stacked body of single cells each of which includes a power generating unit and separators disposed on both surfaces of the power generating unit, in which the separators each include a metal base material, a carbon layer made of carbon and formed on a first surface of the metal base material on a power generating unit side, and a titanium nitride layer made of titanium nitride and formed on a second surface of the metal base material opposite to the first surface.

Fuel cell

A resolver that ensures improvement in a detection sensitivity is provided. The resolver according to the present disclosure includes a rotor and a stator arranged to surround an outer peripheral surface of the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core, the stator includes a stator core and a coil, the stator core includes a plurality of teeth disposed at intervals along a circumferential direction, the plurality of teeth project toward the outer peripheral surface side of the rotor, and the coil is wound around the plurality of teeth. A gap permeance between the rotor and the stator varies in association with a rotation around a rotation axis of the rotor. The rotor further includes a porous machinable film containing a magnetic metal, and the porous machinable film is disposed on a projecting portion on an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core.

Resolver

Provided is a separator for a fuel cell that can suppress a decrease in the power generation performance of the fuel cell by reducing the contact resistance of the separator. Specifically, provided is a separator for a fuel cell, the separator being adapted to be in contact with a MEGA (power generation portion) including a membrane electrode assembly of the fuel cell so as to separate the MEGA from a MEGA of an adjacent fuel cell, the separator including a metal substrate made of metal; and a tin oxide film covering a surface of the metal substrate on the side of the MEGA. The tin oxide film is made of tin oxide containing 0.2 to 10 atom % of antimony.

Separator for fuel cell

Provided is a separator for a fuel cell that can suppress a decrease in the power generation performance of the fuel cell by reducing the contact resistance of the separator. Specifically, provided is a separator for a fuel cell, the separator being adapted to be in contact with a MEGA (power generation portion) including a membrane electrode assembly of the fuel cell so as to separate the MEGA from a MEGA of an adjacent fuel cell, the separator including a metal substrate made of metal; and a tin oxide film covering a surface of the metal substrate on the side of the MEGA. The tin oxide film is made of tin oxide containing 1 to 10 atom % of aluminum.

Provided is a compound which is mixed with a thermoelectric conversion material matrix as a phonon scattering material. The compound is represented by the following formula: (In the above formula, Grepresents a functional group capable of binding to the thermoelectric conversion material matrix; Gindependently represents Gor CH; 0&#x2266;m&#x2266;5; 0&#x2266;m'&#x2266;5; 6&#x2266;n&#x2266;1000; and 1/1000&#x3c;(the number of G/n)&#x2266;1).

Phonon scattering material, nanocomposite thermoelectric material, and method of producing the same

In an IPM motor rotor, a rotor core has a plurality of magnetic poles, and each magnetic pole is formed by two permanent magnets. The two permanent magnets of each magnetic pole are two split pieces obtained by splitting one parent permanent magnet that is larger than the permanent magnets.

IPM motor rotor and production method therefor

Provided is a coercive-force specifying apparatus capable of creating a demagnetization curve for each divisional area of a coercive-force distributed magnet without breaking the coercive-force distributed magnet and of specifying an average coercive force for each divisional area precisely. A coercive force specifying apparatus of the present invention includes: a yoke including an insertion space into which a coercive-force distributed magnet is to be inserted; a magnetizing coil; a search coil that detects a magnetization change when the magnetic field is applied to the coercive-force distributed magnet; and a tracer that creates a demagnetization curve on a basis of a voltage value generated due to the magnetization change. The end face is provided with two or more loop-shaped thread grooves bored therein, the search coil being provided in each thread groove. The coercive-force distributed magnet includes a divisional area defined so as to correspond to each of the two or more search coils, and a voltage value due to a magnetization change detected by each search coil is transmitted to the tracer for creation of a magnetization curve at a corresponding divisional area as well as for specification of an average coercive force.

Coercive force specifying apparatus

Disclosed are a rotor and an IPM motor capable of avoiding concentration of flux on a corner area of a magnet on the stator side, leading to reduction in demagnetizing field and accordingly reduction in a required coercive force, and reduction in the usage amount of dysprosium or the like and accordingly reduction in manufacturing cost. In a slot bored in a rotor core of a rotor making up a motor, at least one of a slot face on a center side of the rotor core and a slot face facing this slot face is formed a protrusion or a concave groove and the magnet to be inserted in the slot includes at least one of a concave groove and a protrusion to be engaged with the protrusion or the concave groove of the slot face at a position corresponding to the protrusion or the concave groove formed in the slot. Then, these concave groove and protrusion are engaged to form an engagement part. This engagement part aligns and fixes the magnet in the rotor, and a flux barrier is formed between a lateral side face of the magnet and a slot face, the flux barrier having a same thickness as a thickness of the magnet.

Rotor and IPM motor

A manufacturing method for a permanent magnet includes the steps of a) producing a permanent magnet (), b) fracturing the permanent magnet () to obtain two or more separate pieces (), and c) restoring the permanent magnet () by fitting the fracture surfaces of adjacent separate pieces () together.

Permanent magnet, manufacturing method thereof, and rotor and IPM motor

According to the present invention, a method for determining coercivity of a coercivity distribution magnet, whereby coercivity of each portion in the coercivity distribution magnet can be determined with good accuracy without, for example, cutting the coercivity distribution magnet into pieces and thus quality assurance can be achieved with good accuracy, is provided. The coercivity determination method of the present invention comprises the following steps: a step of dividing a plane of a coercivity distribution magnet into a plurality of virtual plane segmented regions, placing the coercivity distribution magnet in a demagnetization-field-applying device, providing detectors for the plane segmented regions, and creating a demagnetization loss curve for each plane segmented region; a step of determining the minimum coercivity and the mean coercivity; a step of creating a coercivity distribution graph based on three hypotheses; and a step of determining the coercivity at an arbitrary position on the plane of the coercivity distribution magnet with the use of the coercivity distribution graph based on which the coercivity for each plane segmented region is determined.

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Tomonari Kogure