Filing Information

Inventor(s)	Shigeki Ooma · Hiroyuki Watanabe · Chikara Manabe · Masaki Hirakata · Kentaro Kishi · Taishi Shigematsu · Miho Watanabe · Takashi Isozaki · Shinsuke Okada · Kazunori Anazawa ·
Assignee(s)	Fuji Xerox Company, Limited ·  View assignee updates
Attorney/Agent(s)	Oliff & Berridge, PLC ·
Primary Examiner	Anthony Dinkins ·
Application Number	US10894021
Filing date	07/20/2004
Issue date	08/23/2005
Prior Publication Data	US20050083635 - 04/21/2005
Predicted expiration date	07/20/2024
U.S. Classifications	361/303  · 29/250.3  · 361/528  · 361/508  ·
International Classifications	--
Kind Code	B2
International Classifications	361303 · 361502 · 361508-509 · 361528-529 · 361516 · 361532 · 29 2503 ·
Foreign Priority	JP2003357553 - 10/17/2003 ·

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Abstract

To provide a capacitor capable of utilizing carbon nanotube characteristics effectively to obtain excellent electric or mechanical characteristics, and a method of manufacturing the same. The capacitor is characterized by including two opposing electrodes, at least one of the two electrodes being formed from a coating film of a carbon nanotube structure in which plural carbon nanotubes with functional groups bonded constitute a mesh structure by cross-linking the functional groups through chemical bonding. The method of manufacturing a capacitor includes: a coating step for coating a surface of a base body with a solution that contains plural carbon nanotubes with functional groups bonded; and a cross-linking step for forming a carbon nanotube structure layer in which the functional groups are chemically bonded to one another, thereby causing the carbon nanotubes to cross-link to one another and build a mesh structure.

Independent Claims | See all claims (33)

1. 1. A capacitor comprising two opposing electrodes, at least one of the two electrodes being formed from a coating film of a carbon nanotube structure in which plural carbon nanotubes with functional groups bonded constitute a mesh structure by cross-linking the functional groups through chemical bonding.
2. 9. A method of manufacturing a capacitor that has two opposing electrodes comprising: a coating step for coating a surface of a base body with a solution that contains plural carbon nanotubes with functional groups bonded; and a cross-linking step for forming a carbon nanotube structure layer in which the functional groups are chemically bonded to one another, thereby causing the carbon nanotubes to cross-link to one another and build a mesh structure, wherein the carbon nanotube structure layer constitutes one or both of the opposing electrodes.