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Method for Recycling Lithium-ion Secondary Battery
2 Nov 23
Provided is a method for recycling a lithium-ion secondary battery, which includes: providing a used lithium-ion secondary battery that includes: a battery element including a ceramic positive electrode layer, a ceramic separator, and a ceramic negative electrode layer; an electrolytic solution; and a battery container accommodating the battery element and the electrolytic solution, taking out the battery element from the lithium-ion secondary battery, replacing the electrolytic solution in the lithium-ion secondary battery with a fresh electrolytic solution, subjecting the battery element to an electrode restoration treatment including cleaning and/or heat treatment, and putting the battery element subjected to the electrode restoration treatment back into the battery container to assemble a lithium-ion secondary battery.
Yuki TANAKA, Nobuyuki KOBAYASHI
Filed: 11 Jul 23
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CO2 Mass Estimation System, Exhaust Gas Composition Ratio Estimation Method, and CO2 Mass Estimation Method
2 Nov 23
A CO2 mass estimation system includes: an acquisition element acquiring detected values in accordance with concentrations of oxygen, H2O, and CO2 contained in an engine exhaust gas output from a gas sensor; a setting element setting an air-fuel ratio of a mixture; and a calculation element calculating the mass of CO2 contained in the exhaust gas, wherein the calculation element calculates the concentrations of oxygen, H2O, and CO2 contained in the exhaust gas based on the sensor detected values, acquires concentrations of oxygen and H2O in air and the air-fuel ratio, calculates a composition ratio of at least C atoms contained in fuel based on the concentrations in the exhaust gas, the concentrations in the air, and the air-fuel ratio, and estimates the mass of CO2 contained in the exhaust gas based on the composition ratio and the amount of injection of the fuel into the engine.
Yuichiro KONDO
Filed: 17 Mar 23
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Heater Element for Heating Vehicle Cabin, Heater Unit, Heater System, and Heater Element for Purifying Vehicle Cabin
2 Nov 23
A heater element includes: a honeycomb structure having an outer peripheral wall and partition walls disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition walls defining a plurality of cells each forming a flow path from a first end face to a second end face, the outer peripheral wall and the partition walls made of a material having a PTC property; and a pair of electrode layers provided on a surface of the outer peripheral wall.
Yukio MIYAIRI, Masaaki MASUDA, Yoshifumi TAKAGI, Hirofumi YAMAGUCHI, Toru HAYASE, Takuya NAKASHIMA
Filed: 10 Jul 23
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Perforating apparatus for cylindrical workpiece, method for perforating cylindrical workpiece, method for manufacturing cylindrical product, and method for inspecting cylindrical workpiece
31 Oct 23
A perforating apparatus for a cylindrical workpiece, including: a cradle having a groove extending in one direction horizontally from one end to another end; a stopper provided at the one end of the groove; a drill disposed vertically above the groove and movable at least in vertical direction, having a drill bit that extends vertically; and a chuck having a pair of opposing grippers movable toward each other in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the direction in which the groove extends, and symmetrically with respect to a rotation axis of the drill bit, each of the grippers further having a pair of vertically symmetric inclined surfaces expanding upwards and downwards.
Toshihiro Fukui, Hideaki Ito
Filed: 17 Mar 20
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Honeycomb Filter
26 Oct 23
Fumihiko YOSHIOKA, Yudai KURIMOTO, Yasuyuki FURUTA, Ritsuko TERANISHI, Ayaka SAKAI, Tatsuya OHASHI
Filed: 2 Mar 23
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Zeolite Membrane Complex and Method of Producing Zeolite Membrane Complex
26 Oct 23
A zeolite membrane complex includes a porous support and a zeolite membrane provided on the support and composed of RHO-type zeolite.
Makoto MIYAHARA, Kenichi NODA, Naoto KINOSHITA
Filed: 28 Jun 23
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Wafer Placement Table
26 Oct 23
A wafer placement table includes a ceramic substrate having a wafer placement surface on an upper surface thereof and containing an electrode therein; a conductive substrate disposed adjacent to a lower surface of the ceramic substrate, serving also as a plasma generating electrode, and having the same diameter as the ceramic substrate; a support substrate disposed adjacent to a lower surface of the conductive substrate, having a greater diameter than the conductive substrate, and electrically insulated from the conductive substrate; and a mounting flange constituting a part of the support substrate and radially extending out of the conductive substrate.
Seiya INOUE, Tatsuya KUNO
Filed: 16 Feb 23
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Wafer Placement Table
26 Oct 23
A wafer placement table includes: a ceramic substrate having a wafer placement surface at an upper surface, and incorporating an electrode; a cooling substrate which is bonded to a lower surface of the ceramic substrate, and in which a refrigerant flow path is formed; a power supply terminal connected to the electrode; and a power supply terminal hole vertically penetrating the cooling substrate and storing the power supply terminal.
Tatsuya KUNO, Seiya INOUE
Filed: 21 Feb 23
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Wafer Placement Table
26 Oct 23
A wafer placement includes an alumina substrate having a wafer placement surface at an upper surface, and incorporating an electrode; a brittle cooling substrate which is bonded to a lower surface of the alumina substrate, and in which a refrigerant flow path is formed; and a ductile connection member stored in a storage hole opened in a lower surface of the cooling substrate in a state of restricted axial rotation and in a state of being engaged with an engagement section of the storage hole, the ductile connection member having a male thread section or a female thread section, wherein the storage hole is provided in the refrigerant flow path.
Tatsuya KUNO, Seiya INOUE
Filed: 24 Feb 23
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Core Substrate and Interposer
26 Oct 23
A core substrate is a core substrate with a built-in inductor for constructing an interposer to which a semiconductor element is mounted.
Yoshitsugu WAKAZONO, Makoto TANI
Filed: 28 Jun 23
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Rho-type Zeolite and Method of Producing Rho-type Zeolite
26 Oct 23
In an RHO-type zeolite, in a case where a peak at a lattice spacing of 9.96 to 11.25 Å in a measurement using a powder X-ray diffraction method is assumed as a reference peak and an intensity of the reference peak is assumed as 100, a relative intensity of a peak at a lattice spacing of 4.59 to 4.85 Å is 150 to 300, a relative intensity of a peak at a lattice spacing of 3.55 to 3.64 Λ is 200 to 500, and a relative intensity of a peak at a lattice spacing of 2.98 to 3.06 Å is 100 to 200.
Makoto MIYAHARA, Kenichi NODA, Naoto KINOSHITA, Ryotaro YOSHIMURA
Filed: 28 Jun 23
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Continuous heating furnace and operating method thereof
24 Oct 23
A continuous heating furnace including an inlet, a heating zone, a cooling zone and an outlet in this order, for carrying out a heat treatment while conveying at least one workpiece from the inlet to the outlet, wherein the cooling zone is configured such that an ambient gas for direct cooling of the workpiece can flow into the cooling zone from the outlet; the cooling zone includes a plurality of indirect coolers arranged in parallel in the conveying direction of the workpiece, each of the indirect coolers having at least one regulator for independently adjusting a cooling power; and the cooling zone includes one or more residual heat outlets for discharging a residual heat gas in the cooling zone.
Satoshi Taniguchi, Takeshi Tokunaga
Filed: 14 Aug 19
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Inspection method and inspection system for pillar-shaped honeycomb structure
24 Oct 23
A method for inspecting a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure including the steps of: imaging a pattern of transmitted light from the second end face according to arrangement of the plugged portions of first cells and second cells, with a camera via a light diffusing film placed parallel to a second end face of the pillar-shaped honeycomb structure in a non-contact state with the second end face, which pattern is obtained by irradiating a first end face with light; and detecting a defective plugged portion(s) of the second cells based on an image of the pattern of transmitted light imaged with the camera.
Ryota Kurahashi, Yoshihiro Sato, Takafumi Terahai
Filed: 21 Dec 20
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Ceramic heater
24 Oct 23
A ceramic heater includes a ceramic plate, a planar electrode, and a resistive heating element.
Hiroshi Takebayashi
Filed: 17 Feb 21
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Manifold, cell stack device, and electrochemical cell
24 Oct 23
A manifold includes a first manifold main body and a second manifold main body.
Noriyuki Ogasawara, Yuki Tanaka, Masayuki Shinkai, Hirofumi Kan, Makoto Ohmori
Filed: 27 Oct 20
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Mixed Gas Separation Method and Mixed Gas Separation Device
19 Oct 23
A mixed gas separation method includes supplying a mixed gas containing at least N2, H2, and CO2 and having a CO2 concentration of 30% or less by volume to a first separation membrane that selectively allows passage of H2, supplying the first non-permeated gas to a second separation membrane that selectively allows passage of CO2, and supplying the second non-permeated gas to a CO2 collector that separates and collects CO2 by a separation method other than membrane separation to collect CO2 contained in the second non-permeated gas.
Kenichi NODA
Filed: 21 Jun 23
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Separation Membrane Complex and Method of Producing Separation Membrane Complex
19 Oct 23
A separation membrane complex includes a porous support, a dense part covering one surface of the support from a boundary position toward one side in a predetermined direction on the surface, and a separation membrane covering the surface from the boundary position toward the other side and covering the dense part in the vicinity of the boundary position.
Makoto MIYAHARA
Filed: 21 Jun 23
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Package
19 Oct 23
A package includes a mounting surface on which an electronic component is to be mounted, a cavity, and an attachment surface to which a lid is to be attached through an adhesive layer.
Atsushi MASE
Filed: 14 Jun 23
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Honeycomb filter
17 Oct 23
A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall disposed to surround a plurality of cells and a plugging portion.
Kazuya Yuki
Filed: 20 Jan 21
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Method for producing Cu—Ni—Sn alloy
17 Oct 23
A method for producing a Cu—Ni—Sn alloy, which achieves both productivity and product quality by reducing internal cracks and dispersing Sn uniformly while shortening the time for cooling an ingot.
Kensuke Ishii
Filed: 23 Feb 22