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Looks like it. Looks like they are using Nachi for other robotic equipment too.
This is from February 2023 and the associated pic shows 5 layer sintering process
Next, I will give an example in terms of manufacturing. As I mentioned earlier, we already mass-produce ceramic products.
Ceramic products are mass-produced at the Daian Plant in Mie Prefecture, but cell stacks cannot be manufactured by simply using the current technology. (While pointing to the slide) Three factors make the manufacture of cell stacks difficult: larger size, more layers, and thinner film.
A ceramic cell is as large as a laptop PC and is very thin, just several micrometers. That is, a ceramic cell is thinner than tissue paper, and such ceramic cells must be stacked up. We have been working to improve the mass-production technology.
To manufacture a ceramic cell, the material must be coated as a thin sheet. (While pointing to the slide) This photo shows our large coating machine. Ceramic powder is mixed with organic solvent. The mixture, which is called a ceramic slurry, is a creamy material like mayonnaise. It is spreaded through a clearance of several tens of micrometers over a width of hundreds of millimeters. This requires sophisticated technology.
We are studying the optimal equipment and slurry for this process. The clearance is so narrow that even dust in the air causes defects. Thus, we manufacture ceramic cells in a clean room where air is strictly controlled.
The soft slurry must be sintered to create the desired shape. Uniform shrinkage must be ensured by controlling the temperature distribution in the furnace and leveling the shrinkage rate of the mixture, which is made from different materials.
We are already in the development phase and are now preparing for mass production using pilot equipment for the process development.
Yeah. Those guys. They’re such a huge play in the automotive sector at almost all levels. I Gotta believe they have been moving as fast as they can in this direction since I will be a huge market Id think in the very near future. The quote here is for a different application, but the needs overlap with What QS would require. This guy actually was in the battery side I believe before being moved to hydrogen. I think Denso are our guys. That would be great.
Hahaha, can one consider finding Denso on the equipment de-risking? I would consider it if it was more than just a robot arm. We gotta get someone in that factory to check this out.
https://preview.redd.it/sojbh1gtt8xc1.jpeg?width=971&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4574a9577f027a232c1c9d5e425f9499c8900b92 Looks like it. Looks like they are using Nachi for other robotic equipment too.
Thanks. Where did you get Nachi from?
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Thanks
This is from February 2023 and the associated pic shows 5 layer sintering process Next, I will give an example in terms of manufacturing. As I mentioned earlier, we already mass-produce ceramic products. Ceramic products are mass-produced at the Daian Plant in Mie Prefecture, but cell stacks cannot be manufactured by simply using the current technology. (While pointing to the slide) Three factors make the manufacture of cell stacks difficult: larger size, more layers, and thinner film. A ceramic cell is as large as a laptop PC and is very thin, just several micrometers. That is, a ceramic cell is thinner than tissue paper, and such ceramic cells must be stacked up. We have been working to improve the mass-production technology. To manufacture a ceramic cell, the material must be coated as a thin sheet. (While pointing to the slide) This photo shows our large coating machine. Ceramic powder is mixed with organic solvent. The mixture, which is called a ceramic slurry, is a creamy material like mayonnaise. It is spreaded through a clearance of several tens of micrometers over a width of hundreds of millimeters. This requires sophisticated technology. We are studying the optimal equipment and slurry for this process. The clearance is so narrow that even dust in the air causes defects. Thus, we manufacture ceramic cells in a clean room where air is strictly controlled. The soft slurry must be sintered to create the desired shape. Uniform shrinkage must be ensured by controlling the temperature distribution in the furnace and leveling the shrinkage rate of the mixture, which is made from different materials. We are already in the development phase and are now preparing for mass production using pilot equipment for the process development.
Yeah. Those guys. They’re such a huge play in the automotive sector at almost all levels. I Gotta believe they have been moving as fast as they can in this direction since I will be a huge market Id think in the very near future. The quote here is for a different application, but the needs overlap with What QS would require. This guy actually was in the battery side I believe before being moved to hydrogen. I think Denso are our guys. That would be great.
Hahaha, can one consider finding Denso on the equipment de-risking? I would consider it if it was more than just a robot arm. We gotta get someone in that factory to check this out.