Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yuichiro Hama

Masaki Terada

Masaru Hori

Haruyuki Nakanishi

Hiroyuki Kano

Masahiro Imanishi

Toru Sugiyama

Hirokazu Ishimaru

Yukihisa Katayama

Shigeaki Murata

Satoshi Yoshida

Takayoshi Doi

Takashi Usui

Tomoyoshi Kobayashi

Yoshihisa Tamura

Mineo Hiramatsu

Sreekumar Kurungot

A method for manufacturing a high pressure tank capable of uniformly heating a thermosetting resin in a short time is provided. A method for manufacturing a high-pressure tank including: a step (a) of preparing a tank intermediate product including a fiber-reinforced resin layer formed by winding a carbon fiber impregnated with a thermosetting resin around a liner including a cap attached thereto; and a step (b) of performing a process for thermosetting the fiber-reinforced resin layer of the tank intermediate product by induction-heating the fiber-reinforced resin layer using induction-heating means, in which: the induction-heating means includes first induction-heating means for induction-heating a trunk part of the tank intermediate product and second induction-heating means for induction-heating a dome part of the tank intermediate product; and a temperature of the trunk part of the tank intermediate product and a temperature of the dome part thereof are controlled independently.

Method for manufacturing high-pressure tank

A manufacturing method for an electrode catalyst layer includes: containing a conductive carrier on which a catalyst is supported, a substrate, an electrolyte resin and a supercritical fluid inside a closed container (Sto S); and cooling the substrate to form an electrode catalyst layer, having the conductive carrier on which the catalyst is supported and the electrolyte resin, on the substrate (S).

Manufacturing method for electrode catalyst layer, manufacturing method for membrane electrode assembly, and manufacturing method for fuel cell

A negative electrode () for a lithium secondary battery, including a negative electrode collector (), and a negative electrode active substance layer () that is supported on the negative electrode collector () and includes carbon nanowalls () which are formed on the negative electrode collector (), and a negative electrode active substance () which is supported on the carbon nanowalls ().

Negative electrode for lithium secondary battery, method for preparing the negative electrode, lithium secondary battery having the negative electrode, and vehicle having the lithium secondary battery

A tubular fuel cell includes an inner current collector, a membrane-electrode assembly, and seal portions provided at the axial end portions of the membrane-electrode assembly, respectively. The membrane-electrode assembly includes an inner catalyst layer provided on the inner current collector, an electrolyte membrane provided on the inner catalyst layer, and an outer catalyst layer provided on the electrolyte membrane. The axial length of the outer catalyst layer is shorter than the axial lengths of the electrolyte membrane and the outer catalyst layer. The axial end face of the outer catalyst layer and the axial end face of the inner catalyst layer are located on the opposite sides of the seal portion in each side of the tubular fuel cell.

Tubular fuel cell

A tubular fuel cell comprises a cylindrical internal electrode having electrical conductivity, a lamination of a first catalytic layer, an electrolytic layer, and a second catalytic layer laminated in that order on an outer circumferential surface of the internal electrode, and an electrically conductive exterior coil wound around an outer circumferential surface of the second catalytic layer. The tubular fuel cell further comprises an electrically conductive spacer which has an outside diameter greater than that of the exterior coil.

Tubular fuel cell and fuel cell module

A fuel cell module that includes: a plurality of tubular fuel cells, each of which contains a cylindrically shaped inner electrode that exhibits conductivity, a first catalyst layer, an electrolyte layer, and a second catalyst layer laminated sequentially to the outer peripheral surface of the inner electrode, and an external coil that exhibits conductivity and is wound around the outer peripheral surface of the second catalyst layer in such a manner that a first coil section with a loose winding pitch is sandwiched between second coil sections with a tight winding pitch; and a current collecting member that exhibits conductivity and is provided with a plurality of openings into which the tubular fuel cells can be inserted, wherein the first coil sections and the openings fit together.

Tubular fuel cell with coil current collector

A production apparatus for a tubular fuel cell, including a first extruder that supplies a first catalyst layer material to the outer peripheral surface of a cylindrically shaped inner electrode that exhibits conductivity, thereby forming a first catalyst layer, a second extruder that supplies an electrolyte layer material to the outer peripheral surface of the first catalyst layer, thereby forming an electrolyte layer, and a third extruder that supplies a second catalyst layer material to the outer peripheral surface of the electrolyte layer, thereby forming a second catalyst layer, wherein by conducting supply of the first catalyst layer material, the electrolyte layer material and the second catalyst layer material in an intermittent manner, at least a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the inner electrode is left exposed.

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Nagoya, Japan

Yuichiro Hama