Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Zojirushi Corporation

Yasushi Taniguchi

Seiichi Nakatani

Takashi Kitae

Seiji Karashima

Yasuhiro Ueyama

Toshiyuki Kojima

Kazuyuki Tohji

Shuzo Tsuchida

Hideyuki Takahashi

Masayoshi Koyama

Kenichi Hotehama

Susumu Matsuoka

Takayuki Ashida

Shun Yokoyama

Takashi Kubo

Ichiro Nakayama

Masahiro Mori

Takaaki Higashida

Satoru Yuhaku

Susumu Sawada

Seiji Kumazawa

Kazunori Kubota

Kaori Toyoda

Takahiro Kuhara

Shinya Kikuzumi

Yoshitake Hayashi

Takayuki Hirose

Hiroshi Tanabe

Haruhisa Yagi

Naoshi Yamaguchi

Yoshihisa Ohido

Noriyuki Maruyama

Ryouhei Seki

Kazutaka Nishikawa

Kazuo Otani

Noriaki Yamamoto

Kouji Arai

Nobuaki Hirata

Shigeru Sankawa, Sr

A cleaning device includes: a base that supports a liquid injection member that injects an electrolyte to a battery case; a cleaning unit that sprays a cleaning liquid onto the liquid injection member supported by the base; and an inspection unit that inspects the spraying condition of the cleaning liquid by receiving a spray of the cleaning liquid from the cleaning unit.

Cleaning device

An insulation inspection device includes: a conveyance unit that conveys a laminated electrode in which a first separator, a first electrode plate, a second separator, and a second electrode plate are laminated; a pressure roll that presses the laminated electrode against the conveyance unit; a first terminal electrically connected to the first electrode plate; a second terminal electrically connected to the second electrode plate, further electrically connected to the conveyance unit when the first separator is disposed on the conveyance unit side, and further electrically connected to the pressure roll when the first separator is disposed on the pressure roll side; and an insulation inspection unit that applies a voltage to the laminated electrode to inspect insulation condition of the laminated electrode.

Insulation inspecting device

A highly reliable joined structure and joining method by suppressing peeling at joined portions in the joined structure formed by joining metals together is provided. A joined structure includes a plurality of metals laminated and joined together. The plurality of metals are shaped to include a plurality of convex portions arranged on a surface positioned in a lamination direction, and flat portions arranged between the plural convex portions. Tip ends of the plurality of convex portions are formed as curved surfaces.

Joined structure and joining method

In an electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell, having nanofiber unwoven cloth buried in an electrolyte resin, the nanofiber unwoven cloth is disposed being exposed only from one face of the electrolyte membrane. The fuel cell includes a MEA having an anode electrode disposed on one face of the electrolyte membrane and having a cathode electrode disposed on the other face thereof, and a pair of separators holding the MEA by sandwiching the MEA therebetween. Thereby, the electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell, the manufacturing method of the electrolyte membrane, and the fuel cell are provided with which the electric power generation property and productivity are improved.

Electrolyte membrane for fuel cell, manufacturing method of electrolyte membrane, membrane electrode assembly, and fuel cell

Multi cooker

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

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel silicon substrate having a textured surface by dry-etching the surface of a silicon substrate having (111) orientation and thereby forming a texture thereon. The present invention provides a silicon substrate having (111) orientation, said silicon substrate having a textured surface that includes multiple protrusions which each comprise three slant faces and have heights of 100 to 8000 nm. This process for producing a silicon substrate includes: a step of preparing a silicon substrate having (111) orientation; and a step of blowing an etching gas onto the surface of the silicon substrate, said etching gas containing one or more gases selected from the group consisting of ClF3, XeF2, BrF3, BrF5 and NF3.

Silicon substrate having textured surface, and process for producing same

The present invention provides a thermoelectric conversion element, a thermoelectric conversion element module, and a method of manufacturing the same that can easily realize high-density arrangement of thermoelectric conversion elements and securement of connection reliability. The thermoelectric conversion element has, for example, rod-shaped thermoelectric conversion material, tube that has an insulation property and an adiabatic property and houses thermoelectric conversion material, and electrodes that are in close adhesion to the end surfaces of thermoelectric conversion material and tube. A surface roughness Ra of the end surfaces is larger than 0.8 micrometers. In the present invention, the thermoelectric conversion elements can be arranged at a high density such that tubes are in close adhesion to each other. Also, since the close adhesion surface of electrodes on the end surfaces is large, the connection reliability of electrodes is further improved.

Thermoelectric conversion element, thermoelectric conversion element module, and method of manufacturing the same

An electrode structureon which a solder bump is placed includes an electrode patternmade of an electrode-constituting material selected from the group consisting of Cu, Al, Cr, and Ti, a Ni layerformed on a part of the electrode pattern, a Pd layerformed on at least a part of a region other than the part of the electrode pattern, and an Au layerformed on the Ni layerand the Pd layer

Electrode structure and method for forming bump

A method for forming bumpson electrodesof a wiring boardincludes the steps of: (a) supplying a fluidcontaining conductive particlesand a gas bubble generating agent onto a first regionincluding the electrodeson the wiring board; (b) disposing a substratehaving a wall surfaceformed near the electrodesfor forming a meniscusof the fluid, so that the substratefaces the wiring board; and (c) heating the fluidto generate gas bubblesfrom the gas bubble generating agent contained in the fluid

Bump forming method using self-assembling resin and a wall surface

In a method for forming bumpson electrodesof a wiring board, a fluidcontaining conductive particlesand a gas bubble generating agent is supplied onto a first regionincluding the electrodeson the wiring board. Then, a substratewhich has a protruding surfacehaving the same area as that of the first regionand formed on a main surfaceof the substratehaving a larger area than that of the first regionis disposed so that the protruding surfacefaces the first regionof the wiring board. Then, the fluidis heated to generate gas bubblesfrom the gas bubble generating agent contained in the fluid

Bump forming method and bump forming apparatus

A component built-in module of the present invention includes: a first wiring pattern; an electronic component mounted on the first wiring pattern; a second wiring pattern; an electrical insulating sheet with the electrical component built therein, the electrical insulating sheet being disposed between the first wiring pattern and the second wiring pattern; and a via conductor formed in a via hole penetrating through the electrical insulating sheet, the via conductor connecting electrically the first wiring pattern and the second wiring pattern. A side face of the via conductor defines a continuous line in an axis direction of the via conductor. Thus, a component built-in module having excellent reliability concerning electrical connection can be provided.

Method for manufacturing component built-in module, and component built-in module

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Osaka, Japan

Yasushi Taniguchi