1. A method of manufacturing at least portion of a micro-reactor comprising:
providing a plurality of metal foil layers;
forming a plurality of metal foil layers into specific shapes by use of at least one lithographic technique;
stacking and aligning said plurality of formed metal layers;
connecting together said plurality of formed metal layers to form said portion of said micro-reactor.
2. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein a plurality of said metal foil layers are formed of a catalyst metal.
3. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein a plurality of said metal foil layers each have an average thickness less than about 400 microns.
4. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein said at least one lithographic technique includes photo-etching.
5. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein said step of forming includes the formation of at least one alignment opening in at least one metal foil layer.
6. The method as defined in claim 5, wherein said step of stacking and aligning includes the use of at least one alignment opening formed in a plurality of metal foil layers.
7. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein said step of connecting together includes brazing together a plurality of metal foil layers.
8. The method as defined in claim 7, including the step of coating at least one side of a plurality of metal foil layers with a brazing metal.
9. The method as defined in claim 7, wherein said brazing metal has an average coating thickness of less than about 10 microns.
10. The method as defined in claim 7, wherein said step of brazing includes vacuum brazing.
11. The method as defined in claim 1, including the step of generating a computer image of a plurality of said formed metal foil layers.
12. The method as defined in claim 1, including the step of generating a computer image of said portion of said micro-reactor and then sectioning said computer image of said portion of said micro-reactor into a plurally of sectional images that correspond to a plurality of said formed metal foil layers.
13. The method as defined in claim 12, including the step of forming at least one mask from at least one of said computer images and at least partially forming at least one of said formed metal foil layers using said mask.
14. The method as defined in claim 12, including the step of forming at least one mask from at least one of said sectional images and at least partially forming at least one of said formed metal foil layers using said mask.
15. A portion of a micro-reactor formed of a plurality of metal layers, each of said metal layers connected together by a brazing metal having a different composition than said metal of said metal layers.
16. The micro-reactor as defined in claim 15, wherein a plurality of said metal layers are formed of a catalyst metal.
17. The micro-reactor as defined in claim 15, wherein a plurality of said metal layers each have an average thickness less than about 400 microns.
18. The micro-reactor as defined in claim 15, wherein said brazing metal has an average coating thickness of less than about 10 microns.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A vehicle end section structure comprising:
a bumper reinforcement comprising an outside member and an inside member having respective length directions along a vehicle width direction, with the inside member joined, at a vehicle front-rear direction center side, to the outside member such that an indented portion opening towards the center side is formed between a pair of closed cross-section portions that are formed and separated from each other in the vehicle top-bottom direction;
a framework member of closed cross-section structure, having a length direction along a vehicle front-rear direction and being disposed at one length direction end side of the bumper reinforcement on an inside member side in the vehicle front-rear direction;
a top and bottom pair of joining units that join the bumper reinforcement, at portions of the inside member configuring the respective pair of closed cross-section portions, to the framework member at portions positioned inside a closed cross-section of the framework member as viewed along the vehicle front-rear direction; and
a hook attachment section fixed to a front end side of the framework member and being configured to be accessible along the vehicle front-rear direction via through holes that are formed at portions of the inside member and the outside member which configure an indentation-bottom of the indented portion, wherein
the joining units and the hook attachment section are disposed offset from each other in the vehicle width direction,
the portion of the inside member forming the indented portion is formed larger in the top and bottom direction at a placement area of the hook attachment section than at other portions of the indented portion, and
a portion, in the vehicle front-rear direction, of the hook attachment section is inserted inside the indented portion.
2. The vehicle end section structure of claim 1 wherein:
the bumper reinforcement is configured such that the portions of the inside member and the outside member which configure the indentation-bottom of the indented portion are positioned at a vehicle front-rear direction outside end portion of the bumper reinforcement; and
dimensions and shape of the through holes are set such that, when a top-bottom direction load of a specific value or greater acts on a hook member attached to the hook attachment section, a portion of the load is supported by a hole edge of the through hole formed at portions of the inside member.
3. The vehicle end section structure of claim 1, wherein a portion of the bumper reinforcement is formed larger in the top-bottom direction, which portion overlaps in the vehicle width direction with the portion of the inside member where the indented portion is formed larger in the top-bottom direction, and the top and bottom pair of joining units is disposed at the portion that is formed larger in the bumper reinforcement.