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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2017
Kyocera Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Dainichi Co., Ltd., Niigata, JP;
Shunsuke Shintani, Kirishima, JP;
Naruto Takahashi, Kirishima, JP;
Norihisa Shibasaki, Niigata, JP;
Naoki Yokoo, Niigata, JP;
KYOCERA CORPORATION, Kyoto, JP;
DAINICHI CO., LTD., Niigata, JP;
Abstract
A reformer of the present disclosure includes a reformer body having a cylindrical shape that carries out a reforming reaction by a raw fuel gas and water supplied thereto, the reformer body including therein a vaporization portion which generates steam and a reforming portion which reacts the steam generated in the vaporization portion with the raw fuel gas to generate a reformed gas, at least one of a convex portion and a rough portion having a higher degree of surface roughness than that of other portions, being disposed on at least one of an inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface of the reformer body.