Nissin Electric Co., Ltd.

Omron Tateisi Electronics Co.

Plasma Ion Assist Co., Ltd.

Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuo Suzuki

Masanori Watanabe

Yasunori Ando

Toshiaki Fujii

Kiyoshi Ogata

Akinori Ebe

Akio Tanaka

Satoshi Nishiyama

Nobuyoshi Sakamoto

Masayasu Tanjo

Takeshi Goto

Hirokazu Suzuki

In order to provide a separator for fuel cells, or a current collecting member for fuel cells, which has low contact resistance, excellent corrosion resistance and which can be economically manufactured, and a manufacturing method thereof, this separator for fuel cells comprises a substrate having iron or aluminum as the main component, a gas barrier film formed directly on said substrate and having excellent corrosion resistance, and a conductive resin film formed on the gas barrier film and containing a conductive ceramics or graphite particles having a particle diameter of 1-20 &#x3bc;m.

Separator for fuel cell or current collecting member for fuel cell, and solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell

A plasma treatment apparatus is provided to suppress plasma from being generated between an antenna conductor and a lid to prevent contamination inside a vacuum chamber and to put an elongated antenna unit to practical use. The plasma treatment apparatus includes a vacuum chamber that accommodates a treatment target; an inductively coupling antenna unit that generates plasma in the vacuum chamber; and a high frequency power source that supplies a high frequency power to the inductively coupling antenna unit. The inductively coupling antenna unit has one or a plurality of antenna conductors and a lid that covers an opening formed in a wall surface of the vacuum chamber, and the one or plurality of antenna conductors are attached to the lid without a gap where discharge may occur.

Plasma treatment apparatus and driving method thereof

In order to provide a separator for fuel cells, or a current collecting member for fuel cells, which has low contact resistance, excellent corrosion resistance and which can be economically manufactured, and a manufacturing method thereof, this separatorfor fuel cells comprises a substratehaving iron or aluminum as the main component, a gas barrier filmformed directly on said substrateand having excellent corrosion resistance, and a conductive resin filmformed on the gas barrier filmand containing a conductive ceramic or graphite particles having a particle diameter of 1-20 &#x3bc;m.

Separator for fuel cell or current collecting member for fuel cell, and manufacturing method thereof

In order to ensure quality even when a sheet-like base material is thin while improving efficiency of production, a plasma treatment apparatus disclosed herein includes a plasma treatment chamber X for treating a sheet-like base material Z with plasma, a high-frequency antennafor generating plasma in the plasma treatment chamber X, and a feeding mechanismfor feeding the sheet-like base material Z into the plasma treatment chamber X in a vertical direction.

Plasma treatment apparatus

A method and apparatus for radiation of ions from an ion source,onto a surface of an objective substrate T and vacuum evaporation of a predetermined material from an evaporation source,onto the surface of the substrate, simultaneously while the substrate is continuously moved. The ion radiation from the ion source,is applied to a portion of a region reached by the evaporation material from the evaporation source,upstream relative to the direction of movement of the substrate from the center of that region and which is lower in evaporation speed than the center of the region, to thereby continuously form a mixture layer of substrate material atoms and evaporation material atoms on the surface of the substrate and then continuously form a vacuum evaporation film with a predetermined thickness on the mixture layer.

Film forming method and apparatus

A metal ion implanting apparatus according to the present invention includes a vacuum vessel also serving as an anode, a holder for holding a substrate to be processed, a plurality of arc evaporation sources, a plurality of arc power supplies and a bias power supply. Each of the plurality of arc evaporation sources has a cathode including at least one of metal and a metal compound. The cathode evaporates cathode substance by arc discharge between the cathodes and the vacuum vessel also serving as the anode. Each of the plurality of arc power supplies supply an arc discharge voltage between the cathode of the arc evaporation source corresponding to the arc power supply and the vacuum vessel with the cathode as a negative side. The bias power supply for applying a negative pulse-like bias voltage on a base of a potential of the vacuum vessel to the holder and the substrate held by the holder.

Apparatus for implanting metal ions in metals and ceramics

An electronic cash register includes a means for storing information having respective discount prices corresponding to customer discount levels (customer levels), a code input means for entering codes of goods to be purchased, a memory for storing unit prices for each customer level of those goods subject to customer level discounts, and a reading means for reading a unit price of goods by reviewing the stored unit prices for the goods code entered by the code input means. If a key designating a customer level is depressed, the unit price of the goods designated by the subsequently entered goods designation codes for the entered customer level is read out from the memory and registered for every entry of the goods code.

Electronic cash register having discount prices selected by customer

A data input device can be adapted for setting a data format establishing mode or a data inputting mode in which the input data are processed on the basis of the established data format. The data input device includes a keyboard for establishing the data format in the data format establishing mode and for inputting data in the data inputting mode. The data format established by the keyboard is stored in a memory. The input device processes the input data on the basis of the data format stored in the memory.

ECR having means for establishing a data format and processing entered

A process and an apparatus for forming films, up to several microns in thickness, on substrates by the combination of ion implantation and vapor deposition; said apparatus comprising a vacuum chamber, means for transporting a substrate within the vacuum chamber, a first ion source having an accelerating voltage of 500 V to 5 kV and disposed at a first position along the direction of movement of the substrate within the vacuum chamber, a first evaporator disposed at a second position along the direction of movement of the substrate within the vacuum chamber, and a second ion source having an accelerating voltage of 10 kV to 100 kV and disposed at a third position along the direction of movement of the substrate within the vacuum chamber, and optionally further comprising a second evaporator disposed at a fourth position along the direction of movement of the substrate within the vacuum chamber, which may be provided with high-frequency exciting means disposed in a path of release of vapor from the second evaporator toward the substrate for ionizing the vapor, and means for forming an electric field for accelerating the ionized vapor toward the substrate.

Film forming process

An information recording system, which comprises means for storing in a storage device various pieces of information to be registered, an operator table storing at least one secret code peculiar to a particular operator and an operation level corresponding to such secret code, and a report weight table storing a plurality of different weights one for each kind of recorded information to be outputted, means for entering a secret code of the operator and the kind of recorded information to be outputted when such recorded information is desired to be outputted, means for comparing the operation level corresponding to the secret code of the operator so entered with the weight of the recorded information desired to be outputted, and means for outputting the recorded information only when the secret code of the operator is greater than the weight of the recorded information.

Information recording system with multiple levels of data access

Film forming apparatus

A transaction processing apparatus comprises a memory having a sales information storing region defined for each of a plurality of commodity departments, a cost multiplier rate information storing region for storing in advance the cost multiplier rate, and a deduction amount information storing region. When the price of a commodity sold is entered from a keyboard, the price data is stored in the sales information storing region corresponding to the commodity department thereof. When a deduction amount is entered from the keyboard, the deduction amount is subtracted from the stored price data and the deduction amount data is stored in the deduction amount information storing region. Upon receipt of a command for preparing a report, the cost and the profit are evaluated based on the price data and the cost multiplier rate. A profit report is prepared based on the evaluated cost and profit and the stored sales information and deduction amount information.

Transaction processing apparatus for storing and/or calculating costs,

An electronic cash register system having a plurality of electronic cash registers which are connected to a common bus and assignable to a plurality of operators given respective operator codes, at least one of said cash registers comprising a customer number storage means for storing customer numbers and the data relating to merchandise and corresponding to the respective customer numbers for each of the operator codes, each of said cash registers further comprising: mode setting means for setting the cash register into registration mode or a liquidation mode; input means for entering data into the cash register; means operative in the registration mode to cause the customer number storage means corresponding to an operator code to store the customer number and the corresponding merchandise data entered through the input means; and means operative in the liquidation mode to read out the stored merchandise data corresponding to a customer number from the customer number storage means so as to perform a liquidation transaction, so that any of the operator may operate any of the cash registers to perform a desired registration or liquidation transaction.

Electronic cash register system

Apparatus for a wire spray coating method including a capacitor connected with an electric power source to be charged thereby. A gap switch having discharge electrodes which are spaced apart from each other so that a discharge is produced under a voltage applied by the capacitor. Wire receiving terminals which are spaced apart to receive a length of wire of coating material therebetween, the terminals being connected with the capacitor so that the charge of the capacitor is applied to the terminals through the switch. The discharge electrodes being maintained at a fixed distance so that a discharge across the electrodes is readily produced when the electrodes are supplied with the voltage from the capacitor. A voltage dividing element for applying a fraction of the voltage across the capacitor to the discharge electrodes and the remainder of the voltage to the wire receiving terminals when the wire is not in position between the terminals, but for applying substantially a total voltage of the capacitor when the wire is in a position between the terminals.

Apparatus for wire explosion spray coating

A crowbar switch having a start and a crowbar gap each having a trigger electrode therein. The two gaps are disposed close to each other so that the photons and thermoelectrons emitted from the arc produced by a discharge in the start gap ionize the ambient gas about the crowbar gap for easier occurrence of a discharge in the crowbar gap.

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Otsu, Japan

Yasuo Suzuki