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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kiyotaka Yasuda, Hiroshima, JP;
Daisuke Mukai, Hiroshima, JP;
Minoru Sakai, Hiroshima, JP;
Shigeo Hirayama, Hiroshima, JP;
Kazuhito Komatsu, Hiroshima, JP;
Shinya Kagei, Hiroshima, JP;
Assignee:
Mitsui Mining & Smelting Company Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B22D 1/106 ; H01M 4/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B22D 1/106 ; H01M 4/04 ;
Abstract
A hydrogen storage material which is characterized by having, as a cast alloy, a flaky or similar shape with a thickness of 50 to 500 &mgr;m and showing such crystallite orientation that the X-ray diffraction pattern has an intensity ratio of plane indices (002)/(200) of 2 to 10 as measured with the cooled surface of the flaky cast alloy being in parallel with a mount, and a process of producing the same.