United States Patent Application -- 20160155518 -- June 2, 2016
REACTANT, HEATING DEVICE, AND HEATING METHOD
ABSTRACT: Provided is a reactant, a heat-generating device and a heat-generating method,
which can generate heat more stable than conventionally possible. When the reactant (26)
that is formed from a hydrogen storage metal and has a plurality of metal nanoparticles
(metal nano-protrusion) having the nano-size formed on the surface is structured to be
installed in a reactor that becomes a deuterium gas atmosphere, and thereby hydrogen
atoms are occluded in the metal nanoparticle of the reactant 26, heat can be generated
more stable than conventionally possible.