US 7,527,677 B2
Carbon dioxide adsorption apparatus and adsorption element and method for manufacture thereof
Hidefumi Saito, Ibaraki (Japan); Yoshihiko Takemura, Ichinomiya (Japan); and Takatoshi Shoji, Kobe (Japan)
Assigned to Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto (Japan); and Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Hyogo (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/590,820
PCT Filed Feb. 25, 2005, PCT No. PCT/JP2005/003176
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Aug. 25, 2006,
PCT Pub. No. WO2005/082489, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 09, 2005.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-054266 (JP), filed on Feb. 27, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2007/0169624 A1, Jul. 26, 2007
Int. Cl. B01D 53/02 (2006.01); B64D 13/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 96—153  [96/154; 252/190] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A carbon dioxide adsorption element for adsorbing carbon dioxide contained in air, comprising:
a foil-like or plate-like support member,
a porous aluminum oxide film covering said support member,
amine groups clinging to the inner surface of each pore of said film for carbon dioxide adsorption,
said film being formed by oxidation of aluminum or aluminum alloy,
wherein
the depth direction of each pore of said film is the thickness direction of said support member.