Abstract:
Provided is a porous metal body having higher corrosion resistance than existing porous metal bodies composed of nickel-tin binary alloys and existing porous metal bodies composed of nickel-chromium binary alloys. The porous metal body contains at least nickel, tin, and chromium. An example of a method of producing such a porous metal body is a method including a conductive-coating-layer formation step of forming a conductive coating layer containing chromium on a surface of a porous base formed of a resin material; a metal-layer formation step of forming a nickel layer and a tin layer in any order on a surface of the conductive coating layer; a removal step of removing the porous base; and a diffusion step of, by a heat treatment, causing interdiffusion of metal atoms between the nickel layer and the tin layer and diffusing chromium contained in the conductive coating layer into the nickel layer and the tin layer.
Abstract:
A method for producing a nickel alloy porous body includes a step of applying a coating material that contains a nickel alloy powder of nickel and an added metal, the nickel alloy powder having a volume-average particle size of 10 µm or less, onto a surface of a skeleton of a resin formed body having a three-dimensional mesh-like structure; a step of plating with nickel the surface of the skeleton of the resin formed body onto which the coating material has been applied; a step of removing the resin formed body; and a step of diffusing the added metal into the nickel by a heat treatment.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide, at a low cost, a porous metal body that can be used in an electrode of a fuel cell and that has better corrosion resistance. The porous metal body has a three-dimensional mesh-like structure and contains nickel (Ni), tin (Sn), and chromium (Cr). A content ratio of the tin is 10% by mass or more and 25% by mass or less, and a content ratio of the chromium is 1% by mass or more and 10% by mass or less. On a cross section of a skeleton of the porous metal body, the porous metal body contains a solid solution phase of chromium, nickel, and tin. The solid solution phase contains a solid solution phase of chromium and trinickel tin (Ni 3 Sn), the solid solution phase having a chromium content ratio of 2% by mass or less, and does not contain a solid solution phase that is other than a solid solution phase of chromium and trinickel tin (Ni 3 Sn) and that has a chromium content ratio of less than 1.5% by mass.
Abstract:
A dynamic pressure pneumatic bearing structure, by which a whirl can be avoided not only at the time of the high speed rotation but also at the time of the low speed rotation, and the variation of a floating revolution can be suppressed. The dynamic pressure pneumatic bearing structure has a shaft (1) and a bearing (2). Trenches (11) are formed in the outer circumferential surface of the shaft (1). Each trench (11) is composed of two or more recesses which are formed continuously in a circumferential direction and have practically different depths. The cross section of the trench (11) which is perpendicular to an axial line is asymmetrical with respect to the circumferential direction. The circumferential distance (a) between the cross point (15) of a line (C) connecting the deepest point (14) of the trench (11) to the center (O) of the shaft (1) and the one side edge (16) of the trench (11) on the envelope line (Q) of the shaft (1) which is provided on the downstream side of an air flow (P) produced at the time of rotation with respect to the cross point (15) is larger than the circumferential distance (b) between the cross point (15) and the other side edge (17) of the trench (11) which is provided on the upstream side of the air flow (P) with respect to the cross point (15). The dynamic pressure pneumatic bearing structure can be applied to the rotation driving unit of an optical deflection scanner.
Abstract:
A capacitor has a positive electrode 10, a negative electrode 20, and a solid electrolyte layer arranged between the electrode layers 10 and 20. At least one 10 (20) of the electrode layers of this capacitor 100 has an Al porous body 11, and an electrode body 12 (13) held in this Al porous body 11 to polarize the electrolyte. The oxygen content in the surface of the Al porous body 11 is 3.1% by mass or less. The matter that the oxygen content in the surface of the Al porous body 11 is 3.1% by mass or less is equal to the matter that a high-resistance oxide film is hardly formed on the surface of the Al porous body 11. Thus, this Al porous body 11 makes it possible to make the current collector area of the electrode layer 10 (20) large so that the capacitor 100 can be improved in capacity.
Abstract:
A plate-like porous metal body having a three-dimensional mesh-like structure and containing nickel (Ni). The content of the nickel in the porous metal body is 50% by mass or more. The porous metal body has a thickness of 0.10 mm or more and 0.50 mm or less.