Abstract: A battery assembling apparatus is disclosed. The battery assembling apparatus comprises: first and second rotary tables arranged to face each other at points on respective outer circumferences and rotate in forward directions relative to each other; a battery holding part provided on the outer circumference of the first rotary table to hold a battery; a frame holding part provided on the outer circumference of the second rotary table to hold a frame; a battery supplying part for supplying batteries to the battery holding part at a position different from a facing position between the first and second rotary tables; a frame supplying part for supplying frames to the frame holding part at a position different from the facing position; and a discharging part for taking out an assembly of a battery and a frame assembled together from the facing position.

Abstract: A battery assembling apparatus of one aspect of the invention comprises: first and second rotary tables arranged to face each other at points on respective outer circumferences and rotate in forward directions relative to each other; a battery holding part provided on the outer circumference of the first rotary table to hold a battery; a frame holding part provided on the outer circumference of the second rotary table to hold a frame; a battery supplying part for supplying batteries to the battery holding part at a position different from a facing position between the first and second rotary tables; a frame supplying part for supplying frames to the frame holding part at a position different from the facing position; and a discharging part for taking out an assembly of a battery and a frame assembled together from the facing position, the first and second rotary tables being rotated with a rotation speed ratio and in a phase relationship such that the battery holding part and the frame holding part face each

Abstract: A battery system includes: an assembled battery having battery cells with a pair of electrodes, wherein one electrode of one cell is coupled with another electrode of another cell via a bus bar so that the cells are coupled in series with each other; a fluid supply element for supplying fluid to the bus bar and the electrodes so that the fluid conducts heat to and absorbs heat from the bus bar and the electrodes; and a partition for partitioning the bus bars and for providing multiple passages. The bus bar and the electrodes protrude from the cell. The passages are disposed outside of the assembled battery. The fluid is branched into the passages.

Abstract: A battery system includes: an assembled battery having battery cells with a pair of electrodes, wherein one electrode of one cell is coupled with another electrode of another cell via a bus bar so that the cells are coupled in series with each other; a fluid supply element for supplying fluid to the bus bar and the electrodes so that the fluid conducts heat to and absorbs heat from the bus bar and the electrodes; and a partition for partitioning the bus bars and for providing multiple passages. The bus bar and the electrodes protrude from the cell. The passages are disposed outside of the assembled battery. The fluid is branched into the passages.

Abstract: Catalyst support particles and a catalyzer are produced by using ?-alumina particles or alumina precursor particles treated in advance by hydrothermal treatment in an autoclave. Performing the hydrothermal treatment improves the thermal resistance of the alumina particles because of suppressing deformation of the alumina particles when used at a high temperature such as 1000° C.

Abstract: A water repellent material, such as PTFE layer, is provided by coating on the surface of a Pt catalyst. A catalytic carrier supporting the Pt catalyst is a metallic tube, such as an aluminum tube. The coolant acting as a heating medium is supplied into this metallic tube. According to this arrangement, the catalyst surface is not covered with the moisture contained in the air, the moisture contained in the fuel gas, or the moisture contained in the exhausted catalytic combustion gas. The catalyst can directly contact with a fuel mixture. The catalyst function does not deteriorate. A sufficient amount of catalytic combustion heat is generated. Accordingly, the catalytic combustion heater can quickly increase the catalyst temperature to the activation temperature within a short time. Furthermore, the temperature of the PTFE layer can be maintained at a temperature range not exceeding its heat-resisting limit.

Abstract: A water separating filter, disposed between a gas mixing chamber and a catalytic combustion chamber in a passage, includes numerous fine passages for trapping waterdrops or steam contained in a fuel mixture produced from the gas mixing chamber and letting the trapped waterdrops or steam dwell in the water separating filter. The fuel mixture contains no water components when it flows into the catalytic combustion chamber. No moisture adheres on the catalyst surface. The fuel mixture surely contacts with the catalyst. The catalytic combustion is stably maintained. The catalytic combustion heat is not consumed by the waterdrops for the latent heat required in the process of evaporation. A catalytic combustion heater can quickly increase the catalyst temperature to the active temperature within a short time.

Abstract: A catalytic reacting section generates heat based on a catalytic reaction of a gas mixture of a fuel and an oxygen containing gas. A fuel supplying device supplies the fuel into the catalytic reacting section. An air supplying device supplies air into the catalytic reacting section. An exhaust gas passage is provided at a downstream side of the catalytic reacting section to discharge an exhaust gas from the catalytic reacting section. A bypass passage directly supplies part of the air from air supplying device into the exhaust gas passage, so that the air is separately supplied into the catalytic reacting section and into the bypass passage.

Abstract: A catalytic reaction heater includes a plurality of catalytic reacting sections for generating a high-temperature gas based on a catalytic reaction of fuel and oxygen, and a plurality of heat exchanging sections for increasing the temperature of a circulating heating medium based on heat exchange between the heating medium and the gas. The catalytic reacting sections and the heat exchanging sections are alternately and serially disposed along a flowing direction of the gas. A supply amount of the fuel and oxygen supplied into an upstream end catalytic reacting section is set to a value exceeding a maximum consumable level in this upstream end catalytic reacting section.