The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

W.l. Gore & Associates, Co., Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

International Superconductivity Technology Center

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

Tomoya Nomura

Masaya Yamamoto

Masashi Yagi

Shinichi Mukoyama

Takaharu Mitsuhashi

Tokui Yonemura

Yoichi Suzuki

Shinichi Nishimura

Norifumi Horibe

Hirao Hirata

Jun Teng

Takuya Kosaka

Takanori Oku

Mitsutaka Abe

Kenichi Toyoshima

Taro Matsuoka

Tomoyuki Takane

Jin Liu

Ryou Nakayama

Aya Kouno

Hisashi Kashima

A connection structure is provided for a pair of superconducting cables each including a cable core including a former and a superconductive conductor layer composed of a plurality of superconducting wires arranged along an outer circumference of the former. The superconducting wire has a laminated structure including a base plate and a superconducting layer formed on a side closer to one of principal surfaces of the base plate. One of the superconducting cables and another of the superconducting cables are connected with each other by a first superconducting wire and a second superconducting wire such that the superconducting layers of the first superconducting wire and the second superconducting wire face each other.

Connection structure of superconducting cables, superconducting cable, and electrical terminal structure of end portion of superconducting cable

A fuel battery cell has a membrane electrode assembly, a frame, a pair of separators, and support members. The membrane electrode assembly is formed with an anode and a cathode bonded so as to face an electrolyte membrane. The frame holds the periphery of the membrane electrode assembly. The pair of separators sandwich the frame holding the membrane electrode assembly. The support members protrude along an edge part of the frame so as to pass beyond the frame and support the membrane electrode assembly.

Fuel cell

To provide a manufacturing method of a membrane electrode assembly which improves the reliability of seal, mechanical strength, and handling ability of a solid polymer type fuel cell. The manufacturing method of a membrane electrode assembly according to the present invention prepares a membrane electrode assembly which differs in size of gas diffusion layers at an anode side and cathode side, provides the outer peripheral edge of the membrane electrode assembly with a resin frame by molding, and, at that time, provides projections or a concave part and convex part at a top mold and bottom mold used for the molding so as to keep to a minimum the penetration of the resin frame material to the gas diffusion layers and/or electrode layers and prevent warping of the outer peripheral edges of the larger gas diffusion layer etc.

Method for manufacturing reinforced membrane electrode assembly and reinforced membrane electrode assembly

A cryogenic cable termination connector having a small heat inflow from the outside and stable electrical insulation properties. The cryogenic cable termination connector includes a lead-out conductor led out from a site at a very low temperature to a site at room temperature via a liquid refrigerant layer, a refrigerant gas layer, and an oil layer. The lead-out conductor includes a capacitor-cone insulator in which plural metal foils for dividing an electric field from a high voltage level down to the ground voltage level are stacked through an insulator. Among electric field tilting portions in which voltage changes gradually from the high voltage level to the ground voltage level, an electric field tilting portion positioned at a lower part is located in the liquid refrigerant layer and an electric field tilting portion positioned at an upper part is located in the oil layer.

Cryogenic cable termination connector

In a superconducting cable line in which a superconducting cable is connected to a terminal connecting part or an intermediate connecting part, an offset part in which a superconducting cable is laid in a curved-shape is provided near the terminal connecting part or the intermediate connecting part. Further, when it is assumed that the superconducting cable is movable in the offset part, an external tube of the superconducting cable is fixed such that a maximum amplitude part which maximizes the amount of movement of the superconducting cable following thermal expansion and contraction of a cable core becomes immovable.

Superconducting cable line

The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a membrane electrode assembly which improves the reliability of seal, mechanical strength, and handling ability of a solid polymer type fuel cell. The manufacturing method includes: preparing a membrane electrode assembly which differs in the size of the gas diffusion layers at the anode side and the cathode side; and providing a resin frame at the outer peripheral edge of the membrane electrode assembly by molding; wherein the molding includes the use of a mold that keeps penetration of the resin frame material into the gas diffusion layers and/or electrode layers to a minimum and prevents warping of the outer peripheral edges.

A terminal connecting part has: a low temperature container filled with a cooling medium; a conductor current lead which has one end immersed in the cooling medium and the other end led to a normal temperature part; and a conductor movable connecting terminal which electrically connects a superconductive conductor layer and the conductor current lead of a superconducting cable. The superconductive conductor layer of the superconducting cable stripped stepwise from a front end is connected to the conductor current lead through the conductor movable connecting terminal. The cable core of the superconducting cable is movable in a longitudinal direction and is rotatable in a circumferential direction while maintaining electrical connection between the superconductive conductor layer and the conductor current lead. The cable core is horizontally supported in the low temperature container.

Terminal connecting part of superconducting cable

A connection structure for superconducting cables includes: superconducting cables that are connected to each other and include cable cores containing formers and superconducting conductor layers, and each cable core is housed in a thermal insulation tube with a cooling medium, wherein the cable cores include electric insulating layers obtained by winding insulating sheets around the superconducting conductor layers, the electric insulating layers on both sides of a conductor connecting part, in which the formers and the superconducting conductor layers are connected to each other, include taper shape portions each having a diameter reducing towards the conductor connecting part, each taper shape portion is formed so as to have an inclination angle changing in a stepwise fashion by a plurality of tapered portions among which a tapered portion nearer the conductor connecting part has smaller inclination angle, and a reinforcing insulating layer is provided between the taper shape portions.

Connection structure for superconducting cables

In an intermediate connecting unitof superconducting cables, by forming the connecting superconducting wiresin a trapezoid shape tapered in the direction of the electric insulating layer(the superconducting shield layers) sides from the large radius sectionside of the reinforcement insulating layer, the inclined surface sectionscan be covered without spaces and without the plurality of connecting superconducting wires overlapping. The plurality of connecting superconducting wirescover the inclined surface sectionsof the reinforcement insulating layerformed thicker than the radius of the cable coresof the superconducting cables. The connecting superconducting wiresfurther connects the superconducting wiresarranged on the outer periphery of the large radius sectionof the reinforcement insulating layerand the superconducting wiresconstituting the superconducting shield layers

Intermediate connection unit of superconducting cables

An AC superconducting cable with an insulating layer on the external circumference of a conductor, and wherein: the insulating layer includes a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer and a third insulating layer, from the inside layer to the outside layer; the insulating layer is impregnated with liquid nitrogen; the product of the dielectric constant &#x2208;of the first insulating layer and the dielectric loss tangent tan &#x3b4;and the product of the dielectric constant &#x2208;of the second insulating layer and the dielectric loss tangent tan &#x3b4;fulfilling the relationship &#x2208;&#xd7;tan &#x3b4;&#xd7;tan &#x3b4;; and the product of the dielectric constant &#x2208;of the second insulating layer and the dielectric loss tangent tan &#x3b4;and the product of the dielectric constant &#x2208;of the third insulating layer and the dielectric loss tangent tan &#x3b4;fulfilling the relationship &#x2208;&#xd7;tan &#x3b4;&#xd7;tan &#x3b4;

Superconducting cable

In a terminal structure of a superconducting cable conductor, a terminal portion of the superconducting cable conductor is connected with a terminal member of a good conductor. The terminal portion includes a superconducting layer disposed on an outer periphery of a central support; and an insulating layer surrounding the superconducting layer. The insulating layer and the superconducting layer are partially removed to expose the central support and the superconducting layer in this order from an end of the superconducting cable conductor. The terminal member includes a metal sleeve which includes a first cylindrical portion whose inner surface is in close contact with an exposed portion of the central support; a second cylindrical portion which is soldered around an exposed portion of the superconducting layer; and a third cylindrical portion into which the insulating layer is inserted.

Terminal structure of superconducting cable conductor and terminal member used therein

A thermal insulation tube has a double-structure including a thermal insulation internal tube and a thermal insulation external tube, an intermediate connecting part has a double-structure including an outer container and an inner container, the internal tube and the external tube penetrate through a wall surface of the outer container and are introduced at least up to a wall surface of the inner container, a region between the internal tube and the external tube is sealed by joining an end to be introduced of the internal tube and an end to be introduced of the external tube, at an introduction portion of the external tube to be positioned on an inner side of a wall surface of the outer container, and a corrugated tubular part has a tube wall thinner than the external tube outside of the wall surface.

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Tomoya Nomura