Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yuichi Itoh

Nobuhira Abe

Kazuhito Kato

Yuto Narita

Masato Ono

Hiroshi Fujiwara

Satoshi Ohnuma

Yusuke Ikeda

A stacking apparatus provided with a flexible conveyor plate (), a clamp mechanism () for holding a sheet-shaped member carried on the conveyor plate () against the conveyor plate (), and an adjustment mechanism able to adjust the degree of curvature of the conveyor plate (). When stacking a new sheet-shaped member () carried on the conveyor plate () onto already stacked sheet-shaped members (), the adjustment mechanism makes the conveyor plate () deform from a flat state to a curved state to make the new sheet-shaped member () carried on the conveyor plate () deform from a flat state to a curved state.

Stacking apparatus and stacking method

A placement method using a placement device provided with a first process of pressing a transfer plate a topmost layer sheet member so as to pick up it when a restraint device is rendered a restraining state, a second process of rendering the restraint device a non-restraining state to render the transfer plate an inclined state while pressing down the plurality of sheet members from above in the stacking direction by a base end part side of the transfer plate rendered the inclined state, a third process of inserting the restraining blade into the space formed between the topmost layer sheet member and the sheet member of the layer below it and again render the restraint device the restraining state, and a fourth process of making the transfer plate retract upward while returning it to the horizontal state and transferring the topmost layer sheet member to the holder.

Placement method

A solid-state battery includes a third active material layer, a first solid electrolyte layer, a first active material layer, a first current collector layer, a second active material layer, a second solid electrolyte layer and a fourth active material layer in the order mentioned, wherein both the first and second active layers are anode or cathode active material layers. When both the first and second active layers are anode layers, both the third and fourth active layers are cathode layers. When both the first and second active layers are cathode layers, both the third and fourth active layers are anode layers, at least the first current collector layer extends to an outer side than the third and fourth active layers, and an insulating resin layer continuously across a surface of the extending part on one side, a side face and a surface of the extending part on the other side.

All solid-state battery, resin applicator, and method for producing all solid-state battery

A fuel cell manufacturing method is provided by which an unbroken strip of sheet material is sent through a molding process, an MEA assembly process and a modularization process, and is separated into individual modules in a batch process. In the molding process, separators are sequentially molded on the strip of sheet material, and a separator strip is produced in which the separators are connected together by runners. In the MEA assembly process and the modularization process, MEAs are sequentially assembled on the separator strip in which a series of the separators are connected together by the runners, and a module strip is produced in which a series of the modules are connected together by the runners. In the batch process, the series of modules is separated into the individual modules by cutting and removing the runners from the module strip.

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Yuichi Itoh