Mazda Motor Corporation

Toshiki Takahashi

Yoshio Tanimoto

Akemi Muraoka

Tatsuto Fukushima

Wataru Masuda

Masanori Honda

Chikara Kawamura

Yusuke Koike

Yuma Yamaga

Takafumi Tanehira

Yusuke Marutani

Teruhiko Hanaoka

A lithium-ion battery device comprises a housing, a battery cell stored inside the housing, and an adjacent member provided adjacently to and on a rearward side, in a vehicle longitudinal direction, of the battery cell. The battery cell comprises a cell case, an electrode body stored inside the cell case, and a pair of terminals. The cell case includes a first main face and a second main face which face to each other in the vehicle longitudinal direction. At least two gap-forming portions which respectively have a smaller area than the second main face and have a specified thickness of the vehicle longitudinal direction are arranged between the second main face and the adjacent member. The two gap-forming portions are provided to be spaced apart from each other in an inter-terminal direction of the battery cell.

Lithium-ion battery device for vehicle

A battery temperature adjusting device for a vehicle on which a battery is mounted, the battery being a lithium ion battery disposed near a powertrain unit inside an engine bay, is provided. The device includes a first air duct provided to an intake passage configured to lead intake air to a combustion chamber of an engine, a second air duct provided to the intake passage and provided with an intake opening that opens toward a space between the powertrain unit and the battery, an intake-air-amount adjusting part, and a controller configured to acquire an ambient temperature of the powertrain unit. The controller increases a ratio of the second intake air amount relative to the sum of the first intake air amount and the second intake air amount, when the ambient temperature exceeds a first threshold temperature, compared with when the ambient temperature is below the first threshold temperature.

Battery temperature adjusting device for vehicle, vehicle, and method of adjusting battery temperature for vehicle

There is provided a process to recover phthalic anhydride from a plastic material which contains a phthalate ester as a plasticizer comprising the steps of: (a) heating the plastic material so that the plastic material is gasified to produce a first product, (b) contacting the first product with alumina catalyst so that the product is catalytically cracked to produce a first catalytically cracked product comprising phthalic anhydride; and (c) recovering phthalic anhydride from the first catalytically cracked product.

Process of recovering useful material through cracking of plastic

There is provided a process to recover phthalic anhydride from a plastic material which contains a phthalate ester as a plasticizer comprising the steps of:

Process for recovering phthalic anhydride and hydrogen chloride from

A method of obtaining hydrocarbon oil from waste plastic material or waste rubber material, comprising the steps of: subjecting the waste plastic material or the waste rubber material to thermal cracking so as to obtain a thermal cracking product; liquefying the thermal cracking product into a liquefied product; causing a liquid phase cracking reaction of the liquefied product under action of a catalyst on the liquefied product so as to produce a cracking product; and cooling the cracking product so as to obtain the hydrocarbon oil, and an apparatus used for carrying out the method.

Method of obtaining hydrocarbon oil from waste plastic material or waste

Waste plastics are heated so as to be thermally decomposed and produce a vapor product containing oil and gas components. The vapor product is brought into contact with a solid acid catalyst containing a hydrochloric acid as a decomposing activator to be cracked so as to recover a low boiling point hydrocarbon oil.

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Toshiki Takahashi