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20110053040 | CATALYST, PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF - Catalysts of the invention are not corroded in acidic electrolytes or at high potential and have excellent durability and high oxygen reducing ability. A catalyst includes a metal oxycarbonitride containing niobium and at least one metal M selected from the group consisting of tin, indium, platinum, tantalum, zirconium, copper, iron, tungsten, chromium, molybdenum, hafnium, titanium, vanadium, cobalt, manganese, cerium, mercury, plutonium, gold, silver, iridium, palladium, yttrium, ruthenium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium and nickel. | 03-03-2011 |
20110053049 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING FUEL CELL CATALYSTS, AND FUEL CELL CATALYST - The invention provides processes for producing fuel cell catalysts that are not corroded in acidic electrolytes or at high potential and have excellent durability and high oxygen reducing ability. | 03-03-2011 |
20110189583 | CATALYST, PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF - The invention provides catalysts which are not corroded in acidic electrolytes or at high potential and have excellent durability and high oxygen reducing ability. | 08-04-2011 |
20120058415 | CATALYST, PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | 03-08-2012 |
20120070763 | CATALYST, PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF - The invention provides catalysts that are not corroded in acidic electrolytes or at high potential and have excellent durability and high oxygen reducing ability, and processes for producing the catalysts and uses of the catalysts. The catalyst of the invention includes a metal oxycarbonitride that contains at least one metal selected from tantalum, vanadium, molybdenum and zirconium (hereinafter, also referred to as “metal M” or simply “M”) and does not contain any of platinum, titanium and niobium. | 03-22-2012 |
20120094207 | CATALYST, PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREFOR, AND USE THEREOF - The invention provides catalysts that are not corroded in acidic electrolytes or at high potential and have excellent durability and high oxygen reducing ability. The catalyst includes a metal element M, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, wherein the catalyst shows peaks at 1340 cm | 04-19-2012 |
20120115064 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING FUEL CELL CATALYST, FUEL CELL CATALYST OBTAINED BY PRODUCTION PROCESS, AND USES THEREOF - It is an object of the present invention to provide a production process which can produce a fuel cell catalyst having excellent durability and high oxygen reducing activity. | 05-10-2012 |
20120258381 | INK, FUEL CELL CATALYST LAYER FORMED BY USING THE INK AND USES THEREOF - There is provided an ink for forming a fuel cell catalyst layer that is capable of efficiently forming a high-performance fuel cell catalyst layer inexpensively. The ink for forming a fuel cell catalyst layer of the present invention comprises a fuel cell catalyst, an electron conductive material, a proton conductive material and a solvent, wherein the fuel cell catalyst comprises a metal-containing oxycarbonitride that contains niobium and/or titanium; the mass ratio [(A)/(B)] of the content (A) of the fuel cell catalyst to the content (B) of the electron conductive material is 1 to 6; and the mass ratio [(D)/(C)] of the content (D) of the proton conductive material to the total content (C) of the fuel cell catalyst and the electron conductive material is 0.2 to 0.6. | 10-11-2012 |
20120315568 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING FUEL CELL ELECTRODE CATALYST, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING TRANSITION METAL OXYCARBONITRIDE, FUEL CELL ELECTRODE CATALYST AND USES THEREOF - Provided is a process for producing a fuel cell electrode catalyst having high catalytic activity which uses a transition metal, e.g., titanium, which process comprises thermal treatment at relatively low temperature, i.e., not including thermal treatment at high temperature (calcining) step. The process for producing a fuel cell electrode catalyst comprises a step ( | 12-13-2012 |
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20080229208 | DISPLAY INSTRUCTION APPARATUS, DISPLAY INSTRUCTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A display instruction apparatus transmits a display screen on which symbols representing network devices connected to a network are displayed to a client terminal connected to the network; and transmits, when a drag-and-drop operation between symbols of network devices is received from the client terminal, an instruction for executing a predetermined process between the network devices that are subjected to the drag-and-drop operation to the network devices. | 09-18-2008 |
20100020355 | PRINT CONTROL MECHANISM BASED ON PRINTING ENVIRONMENT - An image forming apparatus implements a print restriction depending on the environment of the image forming apparatus, such as who is or is not near the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus communicates with a short-range wireless terminal for authenticating print data with reference to access right information in which document identifying information identifying the print data is associated with wireless terminal identifying information identifying the short-range wireless terminal. The image forming apparatus includes an acquiring unit for acquiring the wireless terminal identifying information from the short-range wireless terminal; a determining unit for determining whether the printing of the print data should be permitted or not based on the wireless terminal identifying information acquired by the acquiring unit and the access right information; and a control unit for controlling the printing of the print data depending on a result of the determination made by the determining unit. | 01-28-2010 |
20110276985 | NOTIFICATION PROCESSOR THAT NOTIFIES INFORMATION AND POSITION INFORMATION MANAGER - To provide an apparatus that transmits information, which includes a storage unit that stores notification rule information in which transmission destination information is associated with notification type information, a reception processor that receives predetermined information from a detector that detects a mobile information storage medium attached to an object, a notification information generating unit that obtains information specified by the notification type information in the notification rule information based on the predetermined information, to generate notification information from obtained information, and a notification unit that transmits the notification information to a transmission destination specified by the transmission destination information associated with the notification type information that is used when the notification information is generated. | 11-10-2011 |
20110314099 | TRANSMISSION TERMINAL, TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM - A transmission terminal communicates contents data with a counterpart transmission terminal through a first session, and transmits management data to a management system through a second session. When a predetermined event that may prevent or interrupt communication with a user at the counterpart terminal is detected, the transmission terminal obtains countermeasure data, and transmits the countermeasure data to the management system through the second session. | 12-22-2011 |
20120272251 | Notification Processor That Notifies Information and Position Information Manager - To provide an apparatus that transmits information, which includes a storage unit that stores notification rule information in which transmission destination information is associated with notification type information, a reception processor that receives predetermined information from a detector that detects a mobile information storage medium attached to an object, a notification information generating unit that obtains information specified by the notification type information in the notification rule information based on the predetermined information, to generate notification information from obtained information, and a notification unit that transmits the notification information to a transmission destination specified by the transmission destination information associated with the notification type information that is used when the notification information is generated. | 10-25-2012 |
20130115542 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FUEL CELL CATALYST, FUEL CELL CATALYST, AND USES THEREOF - A method for producing a fuel cell catalyst containing a metal oxycarbonitride, the method including: a step of producing a metal oxycarbonitride by heating a metal carbonitride in an inert gas containing oxygen gas; and a step of bringing the metal oxycarbonitride into contact with an acidic solution. | 05-09-2013 |
20130274911 | Image Forming System - An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected in series along a paper conveying direction. An image forming apparatus provided upstream in the conveying direction among the apparatuses prints one side of a sheet of paper and an image forming apparatus provided downstream prints the other side of the paper. Each of the upstream and downstream image forming apparatuses includes: an image forming unit; a storage unit; and a control unit to send a first information on a paper feed tray of the own image forming apparatus to the other image forming apparatus, receive a second information on a paper feed tray of the other image forming apparatus from the other image forming apparatus, make the storage unit store the first and second information, and make the image forming unit perform image formation based on the first and second information stored in the storage unit. | 10-17-2013 |
20140055555 | TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, PROGRAM, TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A transmission management apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives, from a first transmission terminal | 02-27-2014 |
20140118475 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONFERENCE SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A disclosed information processing device transmits and receives, as elements, audio information of inputted audio, video information of video taken, and screen image information of a screen image to be shared. The information processing device includes a determination criteria storing unit configured to store determination criteria created in terms of the elements for determining whether to continue transmission or reception of the elements, an information obtaining unit configured to obtain specified information related to the elements from the elements being transmitted and received, and an element determination unit configured to determine from the obtained information whether to continue or not the transmission or the reception of the elements by referring to the determination criteria. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120454 | FUEL CELL ELECTRODE CATALYST AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREOF - A fuel cell electrode catalyst which includes, at least, M1 that is at least one element selected from 3 to 7 group transition metal elements; M2 that is at least one element selected from iron group elements; M3 that is at least one element selected from 13 group elements; carbon; nitrogen; and oxygen, as constitutional elements, wherein when the atomic ratios of the elements (M1:M2:M3:carbon:nitrogen:oxygen) are represented by a:b:c:x:y:z, 0 | 05-01-2014 |
20140170528 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A FUEL CELL ELECTRODE CATALYST, FUEL CELL ELECTRODE CATALYST AND USE THEREOF - Provided is a process for producing a fuel cell electrode catalyst with high catalytic activity that is alternative to a noble metal catalyst, through a heat treatment at a relatively low temperature. A process for producing a fuel cell electrode catalyst includes a step (I) of obtaining a catalyst precursor, including a step (Ia) of mixing at least a metal compound (1), a nitrogen-containing organic compound (2), and a fluorine-containing compound (3), and a step (II) of heat-treating the catalyst precursor at a temperature of 500 to 1300° C. to obtain an electrode catalyst, a portion or the entirety of the metal compound (1) being a compound containing an atom of a metal element M1 selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt, chromium, nickel, copper, zinc, titanium, niobium and zirconium, and at least one of the compounds (1), (2) and (3) containing an oxygen atom. | 06-19-2014 |
20140178790 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING OXYGEN REDUCING CATALYST AND USES THEREOF - A process for producing an oxygen reducing catalyst including a step of heat-treating, in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, a catalyst precursor including a compound (i) supplying a carbon element and a nitrogen element by heating in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, and a compound (ii) containing at least one element of iron and cobalt. Also disclosed is an oxygen reducing catalyst, a fuel cell catalyst layer including the oxygen reducing catalyst, an electrode including the fuel cell catalyst layer, a membrane-electrode assembly including the electrode and a fuel cell including the membrane-electrode assembly. | 06-26-2014 |
20140193739 | OXYGEN REDUCTION CATALYST, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL - It is an object of the present invention to provide an oxygen reducing catalyst having high catalytic activity and high durability using a transition metal (such as titanium); and a method for producing a fuel cell electrode catalyst using the oxygen reducing catalyst. The present invention provides the oxygen reduction catalyst including titanium, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen as constituent elements at a specific ratio, wherein in XRD measurement using a Cu—Kα ray, peaks are each present in at least regions A and B among regions A to D which occupy 2θ ranges of 42° to 43°, B: 36.5° to 37°, 25° to 26°, and 27° to 28°, respectively; and each of maximum peak intensities I | 07-10-2014 |
20140240450 | TRANSMISSION TERMINAL, TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - A transmission terminal is connected to a management apparatus, which stores information on a destination in a first communication mode associated with a plurality of transmission terminals, via a network. The transmission terminal includes a transmission unit that sends data including at least voice data; a voice input unit, that inputs the voice data; and a determination unit that determines whether the transmission terminal is in the first communication mode or not based on an input volume level of the voice data, input by the voice input unit. When the determination unit determines that the transmission terminal is in the first communication mode, the data sent by the transmission unit is relayed only to an other transmission terminal of the transmission terminals, which communicate with the transmission terminal. The other transmission terminal corresponds to the destination associated with the transmission terminal in the management apparatus. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244460 | FEE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND FEE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A disclosed fee management system is for managing attending fees that are charged when transmission terminals attend a conversation in a transmission management system, which manages transmission of information associated with the conversation between the transmission terminals. The fee management system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire attending hours information and conversation quality information, the attending hours information indicating attending hours for which the respective transmission terminals have attended the conversation, the conversation quality information indicating conversation communication service quality provided during the conversation; an attending hours computing unit configured to compute total attending hours based on the attending hours information, the total attending hours indicating hours for which the terminal has attended the conversation; and an attending fee computing unit configured to compute an attending fee for each of the terminals based on the corresponding total attending hours and the conversation quality information. | 08-28-2014 |
20140354767 | TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, PROGRAM, TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A transmission management apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives, from a first transmission terminal, a communication request for a communication with a second transmission terminal; a fists storage unit that stores therein terminal identification information for identifying the transmission terminals and relay device identification information for identifying a relay device that relays data to be transmitted and received by the first transmission terminal, in an associated manner; a relay device selecting unit that selects the relay device associated with the terminal identification information of the first transmission terminal in the first storage unit; a second storage unit that stores therein the relay device identification information and encryption necessity information in an associated manner; and an encryption necessity determining unit that determines whether encryption is needed based on the encryption necessity information associated, in the second storage unit, with the relay device selected by the relay device selecting unit. | 12-04-2014 |
20140362718 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION STATE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A communication terminal device performs communication with another communication terminal device through a network. The communication terminal device includes a storage unit configured to store therein thresholds for communication speed and display methods for displaying states of the communication speed for respective groups into which communication quality is categorized; an acquiring unit configured to acquire a communication speed during communication; a determining unit configured to compare the acquired communication speed with the thresholds for the communication speed stored in the storage unit and determine a display method for displaying a state of the acquired communication speed; and a display unit configured to display the state of the acquired communication speed with the determined display method. | 12-11-2014 |
20140368410 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing device includes a display control unit configured to display data in an area formed in a display unit connected to the information processing device, a display data acquiring unit configured to acquire the display data displayed in an operation reception area or an entire area, which is a target of receiving an operation by a user, an area forming unit configured to form a render reception area so as to be superposed on the operation reception area, a render receiving unit configured to receive rendering with respect to the render reception area, a render data acquiring unit configured to acquire render data rendered in the render reception area, a render data combining unit configured to combine the display data with the render data, and a data sending unit configured to send, to a terminal, the display data with which the render data has been combined. | 12-18-2014 |
20150044595 | PRODUCTION PROCESS OF ELECTRODE CATALYST FOR FUEL CELLS, ELECTRODE CATALYST FOR FUEL CELLS AND USES THEREOF - An object of the present invention is to suppress flooding phenomenon in an electrode catalyst for fuel cells containing a metal atom, a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom and an oxygen atom. A production process of an electrode catalyst for fuel cells is provided which includes a fluorination step of bringing a catalyst body into contact with fluorine, the catalyst body having an atom of at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of zinc, titanium, niobium, zirconium, aluminum, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, strontium, yttrium, tin, tungsten, cerium, samarium and lanthanum, a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom and an oxygen atom. | 02-12-2015 |
20150093681 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FUEL CELL ELECTRODE CATALYST, FUEL CELL ELECTRODE CATALYST, AND USES THEREOF - An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel cell electrode catalyst with which high durability and a high maximum output density are obtained even when a fuel cell is continuously operated for long time; a method for producing the fuel cell electrode catalyst; a fuel cell in which the catalyst is used; and the like. A method for producing a fuel cell electrode catalyst is provided, the method including: a step of preparing a catalyst precursor comprising each atom of a metal element, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and comprising copper as the metal element; and a contact step of bringing the catalyst precursor and an acid solution into contact with each other to obtain a catalyst. | 04-02-2015 |
20150155569 | METHOD FOR OPERATING FUEL CELL AND POWER GENERATION DEVICE - Provided is a method for operating a fuel cell involving supplying an electrode with a low or non-humidified gas that achieves no significant decrease of voltage as compared with when a high-humidified feed gas is used. The method for operating a fuel cell having a membrane electrode assembly includes a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte membrane interposed between both the electrodes, wherein the cathode has a layer including an oxygen reducing catalyst including composite particles which include atoms of a metal element M1, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen and in which primary particles of a compound of the metal element M1 are dispersed in a carbon structure, which method includes supplying the cathode with an oxidizing agent gas which includes an oxygen gas and which has a relative humidity at a temperature of the membrane electrode assembly of 60% or less, and supplying the anode with a fuel gas. | 06-04-2015 |
20150316887 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMATION CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a paper sheet; a conveying unit configured to convey the paper sheet to the image forming unit at a first conveyance speed and convey the paper sheet in the image forming unit at a second conveyance speed; a trouble detecting unit configured to detect a trouble; and a control unit configured to control the conveyance of the paper sheet in the conveying unit and the image formation on the paper sheet in the image forming unit, wherein, when the trouble detecting unit detects a trouble from the paper sheet being conveyed, and the control unit controls the conveying unit to perform a purging process to discharge a troubled paper sheet to the outside of the apparatus, the control unit controls a conveyance speed to be equal to the second conveyance speed. | 11-05-2015 |
20150365727 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A communication device that receives, from a different communication device, video data being encoded in a scalable manner, decodes received video data, and reproduces and outputs the video data, that comprises: a subjective-quality information acquiring unit acquiring subjective quality information where a combination of values of multiple items related to a coding setting of video data is related to an evaluation result of a subjective quality with regard to video data; a determining unit determining levels of priority of the items in accordance with one of a purpose of video data received from the different device and a user's setting operation; a generating unit generating coding setting information for determining a coding setting of video data received from the different device in accordance with the subjective quality information and the levels of priority of the items; and a notifying unit notifying the coding setting information to the difference device. | 12-17-2015 |
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20130280639 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR ELECTRODE CATALYST FOR FUEL CELL AND USES THEREOF - A production process for an electrode catalyst for a fuel cell, which includes a step (I) of mixing a nitrogen-containing organic substance, a transition metal compound and conductive particles with a solvent and a step (II) of calcining a mixture obtained in the step (I). | 10-24-2013 |
20130288154 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FUEL CELL ELECTRODE CATALYST, FUEL CELL ELECTRODE CATALYST, AND USES THEREOF - A method for producing a fuel cell electrode catalyst, including: a step (1) of mixing at least a metal compound (1), a nitrogen-containing organic compound (2), a compound (3) containing fluorine and at least one element A selected from the group consisting of boron, phosphorus, and sulfur, and a solvent to obtain a catalyst precursor solution, a step (2) of removing the solvent from the catalyst precursor solution, and a step (3) of heat-treating a solid residue, obtained in the step (2), at a temperature of 500 to 1100° C. to obtain an electrode catalyst; a portion or the entirety of the metal compound (1) being a compound containing, as a metal element, at least one transition metal element M1 selected from the elements of group 4 and group 5 of the periodic table; and at least one of the compounds (1), (2), and (3) having an oxygen atom. | 10-31-2013 |
20130295483 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FUEL CELL ELECTRODE CATALYST, FUEL CELL ELECTRODE CATALYST, AND USES THEREOF - A method for producing a fuel cell electrode catalyst including a metal element selected from aluminum, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, strontium, yttrium, tin, tungsten, and cerium and having high catalytic activity through heat treatment at comparatively low temperature. The method including: a step (1) of mixing at least a certain metal compound (1), a nitrogen-containing organic compound (2), and a solvent to obtain a catalyst precursor solution, a step (2) of removing the solvent from the catalyst precursor solution, and a step (3) of heat-treating a solid residue, obtained in the step (2), at a temperature of 500 to 1100° C. to obtain an electrode catalyst; a portion or the entirety of the metal compound (1) being a compound containing, as the metal element, a metal element M1 selected from aluminum, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, strontium, yttrium, tin, tungsten, and cerium. | 11-07-2013 |
20140186743 | FUEL CELL CATALYST LAYER AND USES THEREOF - Provided is a fuel cell catalyst layer which has a catalytic performance equivalent to or higher than fuel cell catalyst layers containing platinum alone and which is inexpensive. The fuel cell catalyst layer of the present invention includes a metal oxycarbonitride-containing layer (I) and a platinum-containing layer (II). It is preferable that the mass ratio per unit area of the metal oxycarbonitride in the layer (I) to platinum in the layer (II) (metal oxycarbonitride/platinum) is 2 to 500. It is preferable that the mass per unit area of platinum in the layer (II) is 0.005 to 0.2 mg/cm | 07-03-2014 |