A motor drive device according to the present invention comprises: an inverter that is electrically connected to a motor which has an air bearing; and an inverter control unit that provides the inverter with a PWM control signal on the basis of a pulse width modulation method for controlling an operation of the inverter. The inverter control unit outputs, to the inverter, a PWM control signal that includes a carrier wave which is set at a pre-levitation frequency when the air bearing is not in a levitation rotation speed range, or outputs, to the inverter, a PWM control signal that includes a carrier wave which is set at a post-levitation frequency when the air bearing is in the levitation rotation speed range. The pre-levitation frequency is lower than the post-levitation frequency.
H02P 27/08 - Arrangements or methods for the control of AC motors characterised by the kind of supply voltage using variable-frequency supply voltage, e.g. inverter or converter supply voltage using dc to ac converters or inverters with pulse width modulation
An applicator is provided, with which an even coating film having a sufficient thickness can be ensured and a coating operation can be easily conducted without using a coating material in excess. An applicator main body 10 including brushes 20 each having a coating material adherent thereto is put over a bolt 1, a nut 2, and a washer 4 and is rotationally moved in the circumferential direction. Thus, the brushes 20 disposed in a plurality of portions of the applicator main body 10 along the circumferential direction simultaneously apply the coating material. In doing so, since the brushes 20 are covered by the applicator main body 10, the coating material is not scattered to the outside of the applicator main body 10 even when the brushes 20 are rotated together with the applicator main body 10. In addition, the coating material which has been adhered to the inner surface of the applicator main body 10 and flowed down gathers in a coating material receiving part 11 at the opening rim of the applicator main body 10. The coating material hence does not drip outward from the opening rim of the applicator main body 10.
B05C 1/02 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is applied to the surface of the work by contact with a member carrying the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. a porous member loaded with a liquid to be applied as a coating for applying liquid or other fluent material to separate articles
B05B 3/02 - Spraying or sprinkling apparatus with moving outlet elements or moving deflecting elements with rotating elements
B05C 11/10 - Storage, supply or control of liquid or other fluent material; Recovery of excess liquid or other fluent material
B05C 17/00 - Hand tools or apparatus using hand-held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces
A combustion device includes: an ammonia injection nozzle having an injection port facing an internal space of a furnace; a pulverized coal injection nozzle having an injection port facing the internal space of the furnace; an adjustment mechanism that adjusts an injection flow rate of ammonia from the ammonia injection nozzle; and a control device that controls an operation of the adjustment mechanism in such a manner that the injection flow rate of ammonia from the ammonia injection nozzle is higher than an injection flow rate of pulverized coal from the pulverized coal injection nozzle.
F23N 1/08 - Regulating fuel supply conjointly with another medium, e.g. boiler water
F23C 1/10 - Combustion apparatus specially adapted for combustion of two or more kinds of fuel simultaneously or alternately, at least one kind of fuel being either a fluid fuel or a solid fuel suspended in air liquid and pulverulent fuel
A turbocharger includes an actuator housing in which an actuator that drives a movable member is disposed, a compressor housing disposed adjacent to the actuator housing, and a through hole formed in the actuator housing in an area closer to the compressor housing and extending in a vertically downward direction when the actuator housing is mounted.
A road surface condition determination system includes: a ranging sensor that is installed at a predetermined position on a vehicle, emits light toward a road surface in a measurement area around the vehicle and receives reflected light of the emitted light, and measures a distance to the road surface based on a light reception state of the reflected light; and a determination unit that determines that the road surface is wet when the reflected light is not received by the ranging sensor, or when a measurement value measured by the ranging sensor is longer than a predetermined value.
G01S 7/48 - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES - Details of systems according to groups , , of systems according to group
A turbine includes a turbine housing having a scroll flow passage and a gas inflow passage fluidly coupled to the scroll flow passage, and a variable nozzle assembly located inside the turbine housing. The variable nozzle assembly includes a plurality of nozzle vanes located in the gas inflow passage and a plurality of vane shafts separately fixed to the nozzle vanes. The plurality of nozzle vanes includes a first nozzle vane and a number of second nozzle vanes. A width of the first nozzle vane in an axial direction of the vane shafts is smaller than a width of each of the second nozzle vane in the axial direction of the vane shafts.
Provided is a method for charging, with ceramic, open pores formed in a matrix of a ceramic matrix composite that includes the matrix and reinforcing fibers provided in the matrix. The ceramic comes to constitute the matrix. The method includes repeating the following steps (A) and (B) in a state where the ceramic matrix composite is arranged in a liquid material serving as a matrix material. At the step (A), the ceramic matrix composite is heated such that the liquid material is brought into a film-boiling state, and the ceramic derived from the liquid material is thereby generated in the open pores. At the step (B), the ceramic matrix composite is cooled until a temperature of the ceramic matrix composite becomes lower than a boiling point of the liquid material.
This supercharger comprises: turbine blades; a turbine housing including a flow path through which there flows a gas received from a flow inlet; a variable-capacity mechanism disposed in the turbine housing, the variable-capacity mechanism receiving the gas from the flow path and guiding the received gas to the turbine blades; and a disc spring that applies, to the variable-capacity mechanism, a biasing force for pressing the variable-capacity mechanism toward the turbine housing. The turbine housing has a turbine housing flange reverse surface that contacts the variable-capacity mechanism along the rotation-axis direction of the turbine blades. The variable-capacity mechanism has a nozzle-ring-outer-side flange main surface that contacts the turbine housing flange reverse surface along the rotation-axis direction. The turbine housing flange reverse surface and/or the nozzle-ring-outer-side flange main surface is machined to improve the coefficient of friction thereof.
This rotary machine comprises: an electric motor provided with a stator and a rotor; a rotating shaft that rotates due to driving by the electric motor; an impeller that is attached to the rotating shaft; and a case that surrounds the stator, the stator being fixed to the case. The case has a first accommodation space for accommodating the stator, and a second accommodation space for accommodating the rotor so as to face the stator in the first accommodation space in a cross-sectional view that includes the axis of the rotating shaft. The first accommodation space is filled with a resin material in a state of being partitioned from the second accommodation space by a partition member disposed along the inner peripheral edge of the stator.
A terminal connection structure of a motor casing configured to house an AC motor of a plurality of phases, the terminal connection structure includes a plurality of terminal blocks located side by side to each other along a circumferential direction of the motor casing and including a plurality of terminal surfaces facing away from the motor casing, and a plurality of terminals that penetrate the terminal blocks and are configured to be electrically connected to the phases of the AC motor. A portion of each of the terminals is located on the terminal surfaces. At least one terminal surface is offset in a perpendicular direction from a plane aligned with another terminal surface of the plurality of terminal surfaces.
A gas turbine system includes: a combustor; an intake flow passage connected to the combustor; an exhaust flow passage connected to the combustor; a compressor provided in the intake flow passage; a turbine provided in the exhaust flow passage; an ammonia tank; and a hydrogen generator-separator having an ammonia supply port connected to the ammonia tank and a hydrogen discharge port connected to the combustor, the hydrogen generator-separator being arranged on a downstream side of the turbine in the exhaust flow passage or on a downstream side of the compressor in the intake flow passage, the hydrogen generator-separator including an ammonia cracking catalyst and a hydrogen separation membrane.
F02C 3/22 - Gas-turbine plants characterised by the use of combustion products as the working fluid using a special fuel, oxidant, or dilution fluid to generate the combustion products the fuel or oxidant being gaseous at standard temperature and pressure
C01B 3/04 - Production of hydrogen or of gaseous mixtures containing hydrogen by decomposition of inorganic compounds, e.g. ammonia
C01B 3/50 - Separation of hydrogen or hydrogen containing gases from gaseous mixtures, e.g. purification
A supercharger comprising a motor including a rotor provided on a rotating shaft and a stator provided around the rotor, wherein the stator includes a stator core, an insulator, a coil, a bus bar connected to an end of the coil, and a thermistor, the temperature sensing element of the thermistor is inserted in the axial direction into a pocket provided in the insulator, and the signal cable of the thermistor is drawn out from the temperature sensing element in the opposite direction to the direction of insertion into the pocket and extends across the temperature sensing element side of the bus bar when viewed from the axial direction.
An energy consumption prediction device includes: a storage unit configured to store past energy consumption result data of a target facility in correlation with information for identifying a date and time at which the data has been acquired and incidental information which is information related to an operation situation of the target facility when the data has been acquired; an extraction unit configured to extract data in which the incidental information matches an extraction condition designated by a user from the energy consumption result data stored in the storage unit and to generate prediction data which is used to predict an amount of consumed energy; and a prediction data generating unit configured to generate energy consumption prediction data in accordance with an instruction from the user based on the prediction data.
A TiAl alloy is provided with 47 at % or more and 50 at % or less of Al, 1 at % or more and 2 at % or less of Nb, 2 at % or more and 5 at % or less of Zr, 0.05 at % or more and 0.3 at % or less of B, and the balance being Ti and inevitable impurities.
B22F 1/00 - Metallic powder; Treatment of metallic powder, e.g. to facilitate working or to improve properties
B22F 3/00 - Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sintering; Apparatus specially adapted therefor
This rotation device comprises one or more plates 21, 22 defining a part of a flow path 10, and a plurality of vanes 23 disposed in the flow path 10. The vanes 23 each include a vane body 25 positioned inside the flow path 10, and a shaft 26 rotatably supported by one or more holes 21a, 22a provided in the one or more plates 21, 22, both axial-directional ends of a contact part between the shaft 26 and the one or more holes 21a, 22a including a rounded shape.
Provided is a liquid tank, including: a cylindrical seamless tank body having both end portions being reduced in diameter toward respective end sides; and a plurality of annular baffles provided inside the tank body and arranged at intervals in an axial direction of the tank body, in which at least one of the plurality of baffles is held on an inner peripheral surface of the tank body.
F17C 13/00 - VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES - Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels
A stacking apparatus of a sheet-shaped workpiece includes a pick-and-place machine that holds and picks up a sheet-shaped workpiece cut out from a sheet material and places the workpiece onto a stacking position to stack sequentially, a detector that is provided in the pick-and-place machine and detects a position of the workpiece in a lifted state by the pick-and-place machine and a controller that controls the pick-and-place machine. The controller calculates a position shift of the workpiece based on the position of the workpiece detected by the detector and adjusts, based on the calculated position shift, a holding position of a workpiece by the pick-and-place machine in a future operation.
B65H 29/00 - Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
B65H 35/00 - Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machines; Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers
B65H 43/04 - Use of control, checking, or safety devices, e.g. automatic devices comprising an element for sensing a variable detecting, or responding to, presence of faulty articles
18.
HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION METHOD
A hydrocarbon production system 100 comprises an impurity removal device 140 that removes impurities that include one or both of oxygen and a sulfur component from a mixed gas that includes carbon dioxide and the impurities, a hydrocarbon production device 160 that includes a hydrocarbon synthesis catalyst for accelerating a reaction by which a hydrocarbon is synthesized from hydrogen and carbon dioxide and synthesizes a hydrocarbon from hydrogen and the carbon dioxide included in the mixed gas from which the impurities were removed by the impurity removal device 140, and a heat supply unit 170 that supplies reaction heat produced at the hydrocarbon production device 160 to the impurity removal device 140.
C07C 1/12 - Preparation of hydrocarbons from one or more compounds, none of them being a hydrocarbon from oxides of carbon from carbon dioxide with hydrogen
C07C 9/02 - Acyclic saturated hydrocarbons with one to four carbon atoms
19.
INFLOW DEVICE OF A SPIRAL CHANNEL OF AN EXHAUST GAS GUIDE SECTION OF AN EXHAUST GAS TURBOCHARGER, AND EXHAUST GAS TURBOCHARGER
The invention relates to an inflow device (7) of a spiral channel (6) of an exhaust gas guide section (2) of an exhaust gas turbocharger (1), said inflow device comprising an inflow section (8) and a flow section, the inflow section (8) being connected to the spiral channel (6) in a manner that allows flow to pass therethrough, and being positioned adjacent to a spiral channel inlet (9), the flow section upstream of the inflow section (8) being connected to the inflow section in a manner that allows flow to pass therethrough, the spiral channel (6) being designed to surround at least part of a turbine wheel (3) of a rotor (4) of the exhaust gas turbocharger (1), which turbine wheel is rotatably accommodated in the exhaust gas guide section (2), and the inflow device (7) being connected to an exhaust gas channel of a drive unit in a manner that allows flow to pass therethrough, it being possible for exhaust gas from the drive unit to flow through the inflow device. According to the invention, the inflow section (8) and/or the flow section is inclined with respect to a horizontal plane (H) at an angle of inclination (a) in order to separate water from the exhaust gas in the exhaust gas guide section (2), the horizontal plane (H) being perpendicular to the force of gravity (G), and the inflow section (8) and/or the flow section being positioned so as to be "descending" relative to the spiral channel inlet (9). The invention also relates to a turbocharger.
The invention relates to an exhaust gas guide section (2) of an exhaust gas turbocharger (1), said exhaust gas guide section comprising a spiral channel (6) which is designed to surround at least part of a turbine wheel (3) of a rotor (4) of the exhaust gas turbocharger (1), which turbine wheel is rotatably accommodated in the exhaust gas guide section (2), the exhaust gas guide section (2) being connected to an exhaust gas channel of a drive unit in a manner that allows flow to pass therethrough, it being possible for exhaust gas from the drive unit to flow through the exhaust gas guide section (2), a secondary channel (11) that surrounds at least part of the spiral channel (6) being designed to separate water from the exhaust gas in the exhaust gas guide section (2), the secondary channel (11) being connected to the spiral channel (6) in a manner that allows flow to pass therethrough. According to the invention, a lowest point (PN) of the secondary channel (11) is positioned lower in the radial direction relative to a longitudinal axis (14) of the rotor (4) than a lowest point (PS) of the spiral channel (6), and the secondary channel (11), so as to avoid disturbing the air flow in the spiral channel (6), is designed to surround the spiral channel (6) in such a way that a flow cross-section (S) of the spiral channel (6) is continuous from a spiral channel inlet (9) to a tongue of the exhaust gas guide section (2). The invention also relates to a turbocharger.
Economic efficiency in power control including transmission and reception of electric power to and from an external power market is improved. An EMS serving as a power control device that is able to transmit and receive electric power to and from a power market and controls operations of one or more power instruments includes: a host control unit serving as a transmitted/received electric power determining unit configured to determine an amount of transmitted/received electric power which is an amount of electric power transmitted to and received from the power market based on a power-market unit price in the power market and information related to an operating situation of the one or more power instruments; and an intra-grid control unit serving as an operation instruction determining unit configured to determine an operation instruction for the one or more power instruments based on the determined amount of transmitted/received electric power.
H02J 13/00 - Circuit arrangements for providing remote indication of network conditions, e.g. an instantaneous record of the open or closed condition of each circuitbreaker in the network; Circuit arrangements for providing remote control of switching means in a power distribution network, e.g. switching in and out of current consumers by using a pulse code signal carried by the network
The present invention provides an electric supercharger comprising: a motor casing that houses a motor; a compressor casing provided with a scroll flow path; and a diffuser plate disposed between the motor casing and the compressor casing. This electric supercharger comprises: a rotor secured to a rotation axis; a motor stator secured to the motor casing; a heat dissipation member disposed between the diffuser plate and the stator; and a seal member that is disposed between the diffuser plate and the stator and that is disposed between the heat dissipation member and the rotation axis.
H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges
F02B 37/10 - Engines with exhaust drive and other drive of pumps, e.g. with exhaust-driven pump and mechanically-driven second pump at least one pump being alternately driven by exhaust and other drive
F02B 39/00 - Component parts, details, or accessories relating to driven charging or scavenging pumps, not provided for in groups
H02K 5/20 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium
H02K 7/14 - Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans
This motor rotor includes: a magnet including a magnet circumferential surface, a first magnet end surface, and a second magnet end surface; a C shaft including a C shaft end surface abutting against the first magnet end surface; and an armoring covering the magnet circumferential surface and a portion of the first magnet end surface that contacts the C shaft end surface. The C shaft includes: a C shaft insertion portion covered by the armoring; a C shaft protruding portion not covered by the armoring; and a C shaft coupling portion positioned between the C shaft insertion portion and the C shaft protruding portion and contacting an end of the armoring. The end of the armoring includes a ring-shaped fastening portion bent in such a manner as to approach a rotation axis of the C shaft.
H02K 1/2726 - Inner rotors the magnetisation axis of the magnets being perpendicular to the rotor axis the rotor consisting of a single magnet or two or more axially juxtaposed single magnets
A centrifugal compressor includes: a housing including an intake flow path; a compressor impeller arranged in the intake flow path and including a plurality of blades; an accommodation chamber formed upstream of the blades in a flow of intake air in the housing; a movable member arranged in the accommodation chamber and movable to a protruding position where the movable member protrudes into the intake flow path and to a retracted position where the movable member is retracted from the intake flow path; a plurality of slits formed closer to the blades with respect to the accommodation chamber in the housing and connected to the intake flow path; a plurality of compartment walls circumferentially separating the plurality of slits; and an outer circumferential wall connecting radially outer ends of the plurality of compartment walls.
This centrifugal compressor CC comprises: an intake passage 130 connected to an intake port; a compressor impeller 9 disposed in the intake passage 130; a movable member (first movable member 210) that is provided in the intake passage 130 more on the intake port side than the compressor impeller 9, and that is movable between a protrusion position at which the movable member protrudes into the intake passage 130 and a retraction position at which the movable member is retracted from the intake passage 130; a first end 216, which is an end on the compressor impeller 9 side of an inner peripheral surface S3 of the movable member; a second end 217, which is an end on the intake port side of the inner peripheral surface S3 of the movable member; and an extending part 218 that is provided between the first end 216 and the second end 217, and extends in a direction corresponding to the rotational axis direction of the compressor impeller 9.
A turbine includes a turbine wheel, a housing having a flow path for a gas, a variable geometry device to guide the gas from the flow path to the turbine wheel, and a biasing member. The variable geometry device includes one or more nozzle vane member, each having a nozzle vane, a nozzle shaft and a nozzle link plate. The biasing member is in contact with the nozzle link plate of the nozzle vane member, to urge the nozzle vane member against a contact surface of the turbine.
This turbine T includes an impeller 2 and a housing 5 that houses the impeller 2. The housing 5 includes an inlet that is in fluid communication with an exhaust port of an engine, a first space S1 that houses the impeller 2, a second space S2 that is positioned downstream of the first space S1 along the direction in which exhaust gas flows from the engine, a first flow passage 51 that connects the inlet and the first space S1, and a second flow passage 52 that directly connects the inlet and the second space S2 without connecting the inlet and the first space S1.
A power transmitter includes: a first coil that wirelessly transmits the electric power to a second coil of a power receiver; a converter including a DC/AC converter that converts DC electric power into AC electric power and supplies the AC electric power to the first coil; and a controller that brings a power value of the DC electric power or the AC electric power close to a power command value by frequency control of changing a frequency of the AC electric power. The controller performs, when the frequency at which the power value reaches the power command value is included in a used frequency band used by another device, frequency change process of changing the frequency so that the frequency becomes a frequency different from the used frequency band while performing constant power control of maintaining a state in which the power value matches the power command value.
H02J 50/12 - Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling of the resonant type
B60L 53/122 - Circuits or methods for driving the primary coil, i.e. supplying electric power to the coil
H02J 50/80 - Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
30.
GEOPOLYMER COMPOSITION, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR, AND CONCRETE STRUCTURE
Provided is a geopolymer composition manufacturing method that does not cause deterioration of strength development even in the case in which an alkaline solution added in a manufacturing step is replaced with an alkaline powder and water. The method is configured: so as to include an alkaline-powder pulverizing step in which all or a portion of an aggregate is introduced into a mixer first, water employing a portion or all of kneading water as a primary water volume is added to and mixed with the aggregate such that the water is uniformly held at a surface of the aggregate in the mixer, and an alkaline powder is added to and mixed in the mixer to pulverize the alkaline powder; and so that a geopolymer composition is generated by adding and mixing remainder materials containing an active filler after the alkaline-powder pulverizing step. Therefore, the alkaline powder is finely pulverized in the alkaline-powder pulverizing step, the specific surface area thereof is increased, and thus, it is possible to increase the rate at which the alkaline powder dissolves in water. Accordingly, it is possible to increase the chemical reaction rate.
This shaping device comprises a table, a forming unit that forms a shaped object, and a controller that controls an operation of the forming unit. The table rotates in a rotation direction. The forming unit has a feeder for forming a powder bed, a heater that can pre-heat each of a plurality of regions on the powder bed at different temperatures, and a beam source that irradiates the pre-heated powder bed with an energy beam. The controller includes: a region dividing unit that divides the powder bed into a plurality of small regions; a region setting unit that sets, as a first region, a small region including a planned irradiation section to be irradiated with the energy beam by the beam source, and sets, as a second region, at least one small region among the other regions not set as the first region; and a heater control unit that controls the output of the heater such that the first region and the second region are pre-heated at mutually differing temperatures.
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
B29C 64/153 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only solid materials using layers of powder being selectively joined, e.g. by selective laser sintering or melting
Provided is a powder mixture that allows easy production of a geopolymer solidified material on-site and that allows production of a high-strength geopolymer solidified material. Also provided is a geopolymer solidified material made using the powder mixture. The powder mixture, which results from mixing an active filler and an alkali powder, is configured such that a geopolymer solidified material can be produced by adding water or water and an aggregate to the powder mixture and stirring the resulting mixture. Accordingly, a geopolymer solidified material can be produced on a production site by delivering the powder mixture prepared in advance to the site and mixing the powder mixture with water or water and an aggregate on the site. Also, the alkali powder included in the powder mixture can be any powder of: sodium metasilicate; sodium metasilicate and sodium hydroxide; or sodium metasilicate and potassium hydroxide. Accordingly, a high-strength geopolymer solidified material can be produced as a result.
B28B 1/32 - Producing shaped articles from the material by applying the material on to a core, or other moulding surface to form a layer thereon by projecting, e.g. spraying
B28B 1/38 - Producing shaped articles from the material by applying the material on to a core, or other moulding surface to form a layer thereon by dipping
A parking area management device (30) comprises a cable connection information processing unit (352) and a notification processing unit (354). The cable connection information processing unit (352), upon sensing that a first electric vehicle (C1) has entered a parking area (10), acquires information indicating whether the first electric vehicle (C1) and a charger (14) installed in the parking area (10) are connected by a charge cable. The notification processing unit (354), upon determining that the first electric vehicle (C1) and the charger (14) are not connected by the charge cable on the basis of the acquired information, transmits, to a first user terminal (20-1) carried by the user of the first electric vehicle (C1), first notification information indicating that the first electric vehicle (C1) and the charger (14) are not connected by the charge cable.
In a detection method of a loading anomaly, relationship between a steering control value of a vehicle and a proper turning radius for the steering control value is constructed as a control map. An actual turning radius of the vehicle is calculated by using a self-location detection function of the vehicle. A difference between the proper turning radius and the actual turning radius is calculated by using the control map. It is determined that a loading anomaly of a cargo loaded on the vehicle has occurred when the difference lies outside a predetermined first reference range.
B60K 31/00 - Vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle speed, i.e. preventing speed from exceeding an arbitrarily established velocity or maintaining speed at a particular velocity, as selected by the vehicle operat
B62D 6/00 - Arrangements for automatically controlling steering depending on driving conditions sensed and responded to, e.g. control circuits
37.
METHOD OF PROCESSING SEISMIC DATA ACQUIRED BY REFLECTION SEISMIC SURVEY
A method of processing seismic data by a reflection seismic survey includes: calculating a first pseudo-water-surface reflection wave by virtually propagating a direct wave represented in the seismic data in a progressing direction of a time axis by a time in which the acoustic wave propagates in the water at a distance twice a depth of the seismic source, and further correcting an amplitude of the direct wave so that the amplitude is approximated to an amplitude of a water-surface reflection wave of the acoustic wave represented is the seismic data; and subtracting a component corresponding to the first pseudo-water-surface reflection wave from the seismic data.
The power control device for a hydrogen production system according to one embodiment comprises: a power generation device that generates power using a renewable energy; a hydrogen production device that produces hydrogen using the power generated by the power generation device; and a connection unit that connects the power generation device and the hydrogen production device to a power system. The power control device determines, on the basis of the power generated by the power generation device and the power reversely flowed to the power system, a power command value supplied to the hydrogen production device so that hydrogen is produced in a state in which the reverse power flow to the power system always occurs.
Provided are an operation method and an operation device (1) for a mechanical parking device (10). The operation method and the operation device (1) comprise an operating panel (3) for a user to operate the opening and closing of an exit/entry door (21) of an ingress/egress chamber (2) a vehicle (C) enters into or exits from. The operating panel (3) comprises an authentication device (31) capable of authenticating the user. The operation method and the operation device are configured to use the authentication device (31) to perform authentication of the user, confirmation of absence of persons in the ingress/egress chamber (2), and operations for opening and closing the exit/entry door (21).
E04H 6/18 - Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions
A turbocharger includes: a housing; a plurality of covers each of which encloses at least a part of an outer surface of the housing, the plurality of covers including at least a first cover and a second cover, each of the plurality of covers accommodating an insulator between the cover and the outer surface of the housing; and a connecting piece directly arranged on the outer surface of the housing and connecting the first cover and the second cover.
This motor rotor comprises a shaft portion having a magnet and a holding tube fitted onto an outer circumferential surface of the shaft portion. The shaft portion has the magnet and a large-diameter portion having an outer diameter longer than the outer diameter of the magnet. An inner circumferential surface of the holding tube is in abutment against each of an outer circumferential surface of the magnet and an outer circumferential surface of the large-diameter portion.
H02K 1/274 - Inner rotors the magnetisation axis of the magnets being perpendicular to the rotor axis the rotor consisting of two or more circumferentially positioned magnets
This substrate fixing structure secures, to a fixing destination member, a substrate comprising a heating component on a first surface so that a second surface faces the fixing destination member side. A first spacer is disposed between the second surface of the substrate and the fixing destination member. A metal screw is inserted into a substrate hole provided in the substrate, and thus, a leading end section thereof is mounted on the fixing destination member. The screw sandwiches the substrate and the first spacer between the fixing destination member and a screw head section. A rear surface of a flange portion of the screw head section is in contact with the heating component.
This triple gear pump comprises one driving gear, and a first and a second driven gear that each engage with the driving gear and that respectively constitute a first and a second gear pump; moreover, said triple gear pump discharges a fluid used as fuel. This triple gear pump comprises: a housing that surrounds the first gear pump and the second gear pump; a driving shaft that is linked with the driving gear so as to rotate integrally with the same, and that is drawn out of the housing; a driving shaft bearing that rotatably supports the driving shaft, that is capable of floating in the axial direction, and that receives pressure from the fluid and abuts the driving gear; a mechanical seal that is interposed between the driving shaft and the housing and that prevents the fluid from leaking outside of the housing; and a seal that is interposed between the driving shaft bearing and the mechanical seal and that prevents the pressure of the fluid from being transmitted to the mechanical seal.
Provided is a fuel supply system that can identify an internal leak model of a gear pump with high accuracy. The system comprises: a gear pump; a measurement section including an orifice and a check valve that are connected in parallel to each other downstream of the gear pump; a minimum pressurization check valve disposed downstream of the measurement section; and a control device. The check valve closes when a gear pump rotational speed is less than an upper threshold, and opens when the gear pump rotational speed is greater than or equal to the upper threshold. The minimum pressurization check valve comprises a cylinder and a piston that partitions the interior of the cylinder into a first chamber in communication with a measurement section outlet, and a second chamber in communication with a system inlet. The piston is biased in a direction toward the first chamber. A cylinder lateral wall has an outflow port of which the opening degree is adjusted by reciprocation of the piston. The minimum pressurization check valve is configured to maintain a constant differential pressure between the system inlet and the measurement section outlet when the gear pump rotational speed is between a lower threshold and an intermediate threshold, both inclusive.
F02C 7/232 - Fuel valves; Draining valves or systems
F04C 14/24 - Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, machines, pumps or pumping installations characterised by using valves controlling pressure or flow rate, e.g. discharge valves
F23R 3/28 - Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel characterised by the fuel supply
In an external gear pump (P), a pair of gears (G1, G2) are accommodated inside a pump body (B). An intake chamber (2I) is formed on one side of a portion at which the pair of gears (G1, G2) mesh, and a discharge chamber (2O) is formed on the other side. Rotation of the pair of gears (G1, G2) sends a fluid from the intake chamber (2I) to the discharge chamber (2O) along the circumferential direction. A cylindrical bushing (F) that holds the rotation shaft (GS1) of at least one (G1) of the pair of gears (G1, G2) in a rotatable manner is provided, with a lubricating liquid film being formed between the bushing (F) and the rotation shaft (GS1). One end (P3) of the bushing (F) faces fluid on the high-pressure discharge chamber (2O) side, and the other end thereof faces fluid on the low-pressure intake chamber (2I) side. A discharge groove (107) formed in the inner circumferential surface (100) of the bushing (F) has one end which is on the high-pressure side and which is closed, and another end which is on the low-pressure side and which is open. The discharge groove (107) has a length which is not less than half the length of the bushing (F) in the direction of the rotation shaft.
F04C 2/18 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type with toothed rotary pistons with similar tooth forms
This rotary device (100) comprises: an impeller 1; a plurality of movable-type vanes 2 which are disposed upstream or downstream from the impeller 1 and operated so as to adjust the cross-sectional area of a flow passage; and an inner wall 3 and an outer wall 4 which define the flow passage. In a radial direction r of the impeller 1, or in a direction inclined with respect to both the axial direction x and the radial direction r of the impeller 1, the inner wall 3 and the outer wall 4 include a plurality of groups of flat surfaces 31, 41 which are parallel to each other and face each other with the movable vanes 2 therebetween. When viewed in the axial direction x of the impeller 1, the inner wall 3 and the outer wall 4 have polygonal shapes corresponding to each other.
This radial foil bearing comprises: a top foil provided with an opposing surface opposing a rotating shaft; a bump foil arranged outward, that is, on the opposite side to the opposing surface, of the top foil; and a bearing housing arranged so as to surround the bump foil. The bump foil comprises: a tubular portion that surrounds the top foil in a tubular shape; and resilient piece portions which are adjacent to the tubular portion in an axial direction of the rotating shaft, are capable of deforming independently of the tubular portion, and are capable of extending in a circumferential direction. The resilient piece portions are supported by the bearing housing.
A combustion device includes: a liner including an opening at an end, the liner inside of which is formed with a combustion chamber; an air flow path communicating with the opening of the liner; an ammonia supply pipe inserted through the opening of the liner; and a starting fuel supply pipe disposed between the ammonia supply pipe and the air flow path.
This external gear pump is provided with: a pair of a driving gear (2) and a driven gear (3); a pump casing (1); a gear accommodation room (13) that is formed inside the pump casing (1) and accommodates the driving gear (2) and the driven gear (3) in a meshed state; an inlet chamber (14) that is formed on one side of a mesh portion between the driving gear (2) and the driven gear (3) inside the pump casing (1); and an outlet chamber (15) that is formed on the other side of the mesh portion inside the pump casing (1). A slit (16) of which only one end is opened is formed in a circumferential direction inside a sliding wall of the pump casing 1 that slides with the driving gear (2) or the driven gear (3) nearer the inlet chamber (14). By the formation of the slit (16), a cantilevered sliding piece (17) is provided in the sliding wall.
F04C 2/18 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type with toothed rotary pistons with similar tooth forms
A combustion system 10 comprises: a combustion chamber 13c; a cylindrical air chamber 31 which has an injection hole 31a facing the inside of the combustion chamber 13c; a fuel supply path 41 connected to the air chamber 31; and an air supply path 32 connected to a side surface of the air chamber 31.
This aircraft hybrid motive power source system is installed in an aircraft and comprises: a gas turbine engine (20) that includes a low-pressure shaft (27) and a high-pressure shaft (28) as rotating shafts; a first electric generator (31) that is drivably connected to the high-pressure shaft (28); a second electric generator (32) that is drivably connected to the low-pressure shaft (27); a fuel cell (40) to which fuel gas and oxidant gas are supplied; a fuel gas generation unit (50) that generates fuel gas from a raw material through heating using exhaust gas of the gas turbine engine (20); and a control unit (60) that, on the basis of information indicating the running state of the gas turbine engine (20) and/or demand for electric power in the aircraft, supplies, to the first electric generator (31) or the second electric generator 32, electric power of the fuel cell (40) obtained through the supply of fuel gas.
B64D 27/24 - Aircraft characterised by the type or position of power plant using steam, electricity, or spring force
B64D 27/10 - Aircraft characterised by the type or position of power plant of gas-turbine type
F01D 25/36 - Turning or inching gear using electric motors
F01K 23/02 - Plants characterised by more than one engine delivering power external to the plant, the engines being driven by different fluids the engine cycles being thermally coupled
F02C 7/00 - Features, component parts, details or accessories, not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups ; Air intakes for jet-propulsion plants
F02G 5/02 - Profiting from waste heat of exhaust gases
H01M 8/04014 - Heat exchange using gaseous fluids; Heat exchange by combustion of reactants
H01M 8/04111 - Arrangements for control of reactant parameters, e.g. pressure or concentration of gaseous reactants using a compressor turbine assembly
A combustion device includes: an ammonia tank; a combustor connected to the ammonia tank; an air supply source; and an ammonia autothermal cracking device having inlets connected to the ammonia tank and the air supply source and an outlet connected to the combustor.
F02C 3/22 - Gas-turbine plants characterised by the use of combustion products as the working fluid using a special fuel, oxidant, or dilution fluid to generate the combustion products the fuel or oxidant being gaseous at standard temperature and pressure
F23R 3/28 - Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel characterised by the fuel supply
A three-dimensional modeling device models a three-dimensional object by irradiating a powdered material with an electron beam to melt and stack the powdered material. The three-dimensional modeling device includes a beam emitting unit that irradiates the powdered material with the electron beam by emitting the electron beam. The beam emitting unit irradiates the powdered material with the electron beam while scanning the electron beam in a direction orthogonal to a contour line of a modeling region in at least a contour portion of the modeling region that is a cross-section of the object.
B29C 64/268 - Arrangements for irradiation using electron beams [EB]
B22F 10/366 - Scanning parameters, e.g. hatch distance or scanning strategy
B29C 64/153 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only solid materials using layers of powder being selectively joined, e.g. by selective laser sintering or melting
B22F 10/28 - Powder bed fusion, e.g. selective laser melting [SLM] or electron beam melting [EBM]
B29C 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
Provided is a gas turbine system, including: an ammonia tank; a combustor connected to the ammonia tank; an exhaust flow passage connected to the combustor; a turbine provided in the exhaust flow passage; a cracked-gas reservoir connected to the combustor; and an ammonia cracking catalyst, which is arranged on a downstream side of the turbine in the exhaust flow passage, and is connected to the ammonia tank and the cracked-gas reservoir.
F23R 3/40 - Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel characterised by the use of catalytic means
F02C 3/22 - Gas-turbine plants characterised by the use of combustion products as the working fluid using a special fuel, oxidant, or dilution fluid to generate the combustion products the fuel or oxidant being gaseous at standard temperature and pressure
F02C 9/40 - Control of fuel supply specially adapted to the use of a special fuel or a plurality of fuels
56.
POWER CONTROLLER FOR LINEAR ACTUATOR IN DOCKING DEVICE
A power controller of a linear actuator 10 in a docking device 1 including a six-axis parallel link mechanism 5, wherein a motor driver 11 configured to control rotation speed of a motor M of the linear actuator 10 on the basis of a load produced on the link 4 includes a speed controlling unit 31 that outputs a current command, a current controlling unit 32 that converts the current command to a voltage command, and a current command limiter 33 that limits the current command of the speed controlling unit 31 so that power consumption per one linear actuator 10 is one sixth or less of the power supply capacity for the motor power, thus allowing for mounting the docking device 1 even for a spacecraft with a small power supply capacity, without requiring modification of the power supply capacity.
A variable capacity turbocharger includes a turbine impeller, a gas inlet passage fluidly coupled to the turbine impeller, a nozzle vane located in the gas inlet passage, a drive assembly that rotates the nozzle vane, a drive chamber accommodating the drive assembly and including a region configured to store liquid in the drive chamber, and a liquid passage fluidly coupled with the drive chamber and configured to discharge the liquid from the drive chamber. A surface of the liquid passage has a greater surface roughness than the region of the drive chamber.
The present invention relates to a non-hydrogenated transition metal-doped diamond-like carbon (DLC), wherein the non-hydrogenated DLC comprises at least one transition metal selected from groups 4d, 5d and 6d of the periodic table of elements. A part of the at least one transition metal is present in the form of carbide of the at least one transition metal in the non-hydrogenated DLC as a matrix, and another part is present as metal droplets. The non-hydrogenated transition metal-doped DLC has an indentation hardness of ≥35 GPa, preferably of ≥40 GPa. Due to the presence of metal droplets, the doped DLC is highly effective in improving wear resistance and/or reducing friction of a surface when a coating of the material is applied on the surface. Further, the present invention provides a cathodic arc discharge deposition method for depositing a coating of the non-hydrogenated transition metal-doped DLC according to the present invention.
This combustion system 100 is provided with: a vaporizer 2 that heats liquid ammonia with a heating medium; a boiler 3 that is connected to the vaporizer 2 and burns an ammonia-containing fuel coming from the vaporizer 2; an induced draft fan 6 that is arranged in a flue L4 connected to the boiler 3 and guides a discharged gas from the boiler 3; and a heat exchanger 4 that is arranged upstream of the induced draft fan 6 in the flue L4. The heat exchanger 4 is connected to the vaporizer 2 in a circulating manner through a circulating flow path L5 through which the heating medium flows. The heat exchanger 4 cools a discharged gas flowing through the flue L4 with the heating medium that receives a cold thermal energy from the liquid ammonia.
F23L 17/00 - Inducing draught; Tops for chimneys or ventilating shafts; Terminals for flues
F23J 7/00 - Arrangement of devices for supplying chemicals to fire
F23C 1/12 - Combustion apparatus specially adapted for combustion of two or more kinds of fuel simultaneously or alternately, at least one kind of fuel being either a fluid fuel or a solid fuel suspended in air gaseous and pulverulent fuel
F23J 15/06 - Arrangements of devices for treating smoke or fumes of coolers
F23K 5/00 - Feeding or distributing other fuel to combustion apparatus
This combustion system 100 is provided with: a vaporizer 2 that heats liquid ammonia with a heating medium; a boiler 3 that is connected to the vaporizer 2 and burns an ammonia-containing fuel coming from the vaporizer 2; an air preheater 4 that is arranged in a flue L4 connected to the boiler 3 and heats air with a discharged gas from the boiler 3; an induced draft fan 8 that is arranged downstream of the air preheater 4 in the flue L4 and guides the discharged gas; and a first heat exchanger 5 that is arranged downstream of the air preheater 4 and upstream of the induced draft fan 8 in the flue L4, wherein the first heat exchanger 5 is connected to the vaporizer 2 in a circulating manner through a circulating flow path L5, heats the heating medium by means of the discharged gas, and supplies the heated heating medium to the vaporizer 2.
F23L 17/00 - Inducing draught; Tops for chimneys or ventilating shafts; Terminals for flues
F23J 7/00 - Arrangement of devices for supplying chemicals to fire
F23C 1/12 - Combustion apparatus specially adapted for combustion of two or more kinds of fuel simultaneously or alternately, at least one kind of fuel being either a fluid fuel or a solid fuel suspended in air gaseous and pulverulent fuel
F23K 5/00 - Feeding or distributing other fuel to combustion apparatus
Provided is a gas turbine system, including: an ammonia tank; a combustor including a combustion chamber, which is connected to the ammonia tank; an intake flow passage connected to the combustor; a compressor provided in the intake flow passage; a cracked-gas reservoir connected to the combustor; and an ammonia cracking catalyst arranged in a bleed flow passage connected to the compressor, between the compressor and the combustor in the intake flow passage, or in a space in the combustor, which brings the combustion chamber and the intake flow passage into communication with each other, the ammonia cracking catalyst being connected to the ammonia tank and the cracked-gas reservoir.
F02C 3/24 - Gas-turbine plants characterised by the use of combustion products as the working fluid using a special fuel, oxidant, or dilution fluid to generate the combustion products the fuel or oxidant being liquid at standard temperature and pressure
F02C 9/40 - Control of fuel supply specially adapted to the use of a special fuel or a plurality of fuels
F02C 7/232 - Fuel valves; Draining valves or systems
F02C 7/14 - Cooling of plants of fluids in the plant
A radial foil bearing, which surrounds a rotating shaft and supports the rotating shaft, includes a bearing housing, an insertion hole which is formed in the bearing housing and through which the rotating shaft is inserted, a recessed groove provided in the inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole and recessed toward the radially outer side, a pin hole base end side having an opening formed in the groove and extending to the outer peripheral surface of the bearing housing, a restricting pin that is inserted into the pin hole base end side and that passes through the groove, and a top foil placed in the insertion hole, the groove being formed so as to reach an axial end surface of the bearing housing, a circumferential end part of the top end foil being placed in the groove, and the restricting pin intersecting the inner side surface of the groove at multiple locations.
A centrifugal compressor includes: a housing including an intake flow path; a compressor impeller arranged in the intake flow path; an accommodation chamber formed upstream of the compressor impeller in a flow of intake air in the housing; a movable member arranged in the accommodation chamber; and an annular path formed in the housing, the annular path being connected to an outside of the housing, a heating medium supplied from the outside of the housing flowing through the annular path, at least a part of the annular path being located between the accommodation chamber and a leading edge of the compressor impeller.
Provided is a method for manufacturing a ceramic matrix composite including a matrix and reinforcing fibers provided in the matrix. The method includes infiltrating a fiber body with powder of a ceramic material that becomes a part of the matrix. The fiber body is constituted by the reinforcing fibers. The method includes arranging, in a liquid material for the matrix, the fiber body infiltrated with the powder. The method includes heating the fiber body in this state, thereby bringing the liquid material into a film-boiling state such that ceramic derived from the liquid material is generated as a part of the matrix in the fiber body.
The carbide production system (1) comprises a combustion furnace (10) that contains a combustion chamber (12) having a first biomass supply port (17) that supplies a first biomass and combusts the first biomass in air and a carbide recovery device (40), connected to the combustion furnace (10), that recovers carbide generated from a second biomass. The second biomass is heated by the combustion of the first biomass via a second biomass supply port (18) provided downstream from the first biomass supply port (17) and is supplied to a carbonization zone where low-concentration oxygen gas, having a lower oxygen concentration than air, is present due to combustion of the first biomass.
C10B 49/20 - Destructive distillation of solid carbonaceous materials by direct heating with heat-carrying agents including the partial combustion of the solid material to be treated with moving solid heat-carriers in divided form in dispersed form
C10B 47/22 - Destructive distillation of solid carbonaceous materials with indirect heating, e.g. by external combustion with moving charge in dispersed form
C10B 53/00 - Destructive distillation, specially adapted for particular solid raw materials or solid raw materials in special form
66.
SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCH DRIVE CIRCUIT AND POWER CONVERTER
This semiconductor switch drive circuit comprises a drive power source and a semiconductor switch drive unit. The semiconductor switch drive unit comprises: a connection switching unit; a capacitor that generates a positive voltage; a capacitor for power charging; and a capacitor that generates a negative voltage. The connection switching unit alternately switches between: a first connection state, in which a positive voltage application closed circuit is formed to apply a positive voltage to a gate terminal of the semiconductor switch; and a second connection state, in which a negative voltage application closed circuit is formed to apply a negative voltage to the gate terminal of the semiconductor switch. Between the drive power source and the semiconductor switch, a movement restriction unit is provided which restricts movement of an electric charge from a path through the positive voltage application closed circuit to another path that passes through a positive terminal of the capacitor without passing through the gate terminal of the semiconductor switch.
Provided is a hydrogen production system including at least one first osmosis device, a circulation flow path, and an alkaline water electrolyzer. The at least one first osmosis device includes a semipermeable membrane which separates a first chamber to which water to be treated is supplied and a second chamber to which an alkaline aqueous solution having a higher osmotic pressure than that of the water to be treated is supplied, and which permeates water in the water to be treated from the first chamber to the second chamber. The circulation flow path is connected to the second chamber and the alkaline aqueous solution is circulated therethrough. The alkaline water electrolyzer is provided in the circulation flow path, and electrolyzes water in an alkaline aqueous solution supplied from the second chamber and produces hydrogen.
A combustion device includes: a combustion chamber; a plurality of hydrogen injection holes facing inside of the combustion chamber; a first air injection hole facing the inside of the combustion chamber and extending in the circumferential direction on a radially outer side with respect to the plurality of hydrogen injection holes; a second air injection hole facing the inside of the combustion chamber and extending in the circumferential direction on a radially inner side with respect to the plurality of hydrogen injection holes, the first and second air injection holes being annular; first swirling blades provided in the first air injection hole and inclined in the circumferential direction with respect to a combustion-chamber-side axial direction; and second swirling blades provided in the second air injection hole and inclined to the same side as the first swirling blades in the circumferential direction with respect to the combustion-chamber-side axial direction.
F23R 3/14 - Air inlet arrangements for primary air inducing a vortex by using swirl vanes
F23D 14/24 - Non-premix gas burners, i.e. in which gaseous fuel is mixed with combustion air on arrival at the combustion zone with separate air and gas feed ducts, e.g. with ducts running parallel or crossing each other at least one of the fluids being submitted to a swirling motion
A power generation system 10 comprises: a boiler 3 that combusts fuel containing ammonia; a turbine 41 that is circulatively connected to the boiler 3 and driven by steam from the boiler 3; a condenser 5 that is circulatively connected to the boiler 3 and the turbine 41, cools the vapor discharged from the turbine 41, and supplies condensed water to the boiler 3; an evaporator 2 that is connected to an ammonia supply source 1 and the boiler 3, heats liquid ammonia from the ammonia supply source 1, and supplies the heated ammonia to the boiler 3; and at least one line L4 that thermally connects the evaporator 2 and the condenser 5 and transmits cold energy of the liquid ammonia flowing in the evaporator 2, to the condenser 5.
A driving assistance device (60) comprises a vehicle information acquisition unit (632) and a driving assistance information generation unit (633), and assists with driving of a vehicle that is switchable between an automatic driving mode and a manual driving mode. The vehicle information acquisition unit (632) acquires current position information of the vehicle and information that indicates whether the vehicle is operating in the automatic driving mode or operating in the manual driving mode. When it is determined on the basis of the acquired information that the vehicle is operating in the manual driving mode and that the current position is not on a preset automatic driving travel route, the driving assistance information generation unit (633) generates driving assistance information for guiding the vehicle to the travel route.
A hydrogen production apparatus includes: a first heating furnace including: a first accommodating tank in which a moving bed of a catalyst containing any one or more of iron, nickel, copper, and aluminum is formed; and a heating tube, which is provided in the first accommodating tank, and through which a heat medium passes; a second heating furnace including: a burner that burns fuel to generate an exhaust gas; and a second accommodating tank in which a fluidized bed of the catalyst discharged from the first heating furnace is formed with the exhaust gas; and a furnace for the pyrolysis including a third accommodating tank in which a fluidized bed of the catalyst discharged from the second heating furnace is formed with a raw material gas containing hydrocarbon.
B01J 8/18 - Chemical or physical processes in general, conducted in the presence of fluids and solid particles; Apparatus for such processes with fluidised particles
B01J 8/26 - Chemical or physical processes in general, conducted in the presence of fluids and solid particles; Apparatus for such processes with fluidised particles according to "fluidised-bed" technique with two or more fluidised beds, e.g. reactor and regeneration installations
72.
SECONDARY FLOW FORMATION DEVICE, SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATION DEVICE, AND SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATION SYSTEM
RR), which is a flow passage width (w) divided by a flow passage height (h), is within a range of 3-100. Inner walls forming the flow passage (7) include a top wall (3a) as a first wall and a bottom wall (4c) as a second wall, which are oriented toward each other in the direction in which the flow passage height (h) is defined. The plurality of baffle plates (5) each have a rod-shaped part disposed to the second wall so as to protrude toward the first wall. The extension direction of the baffle plates (5) is parallel to the second wall and is inclined at a fixed inclined angle with respect to the extension direction of the flow passage (7).
Provided is a novel technique for obtaining, in a ceramic-based composite material, a matrix having heat resistance and inhibited from cracking. This method, which is for producing a ceramic-based composite material comprising a matrix and reinforcing fibers disposed in the matrix, comprises disposing the reinforcing fibers in a liquid raw material for the matrix (step S2), heating the reinforcing fibers in the liquid raw material to a matrix formation temperature (step S31), and heating the reinforcing fibers in the liquid raw material to a heat-resistance impartation temperature (step S32). The heat-resistance impartation temperature is higher than the matrix formation temperature, and step S31 and step S32 are repeatedly conducted.
A turbine T comprises: housings 3, 5 including an accommodation space 29 that accommodates a turbine impeller 15, a turbine scroll flow path 31a disposed radially outside the turbine impeller 15, a communication flow path 33 through which the turbine scroll flow path 31a and the accommodation space 29 communicate, and a discharge flow path 27 that is continuous with the accommodation space 29 in the rotational axis direction of the turbine impeller 15; a vane member 35 that is provided in the communication flow path 33 and that includes a plurality of vane parts 35b opposite a first inner wall part W1 facing the communication flow path 33 from the side opposite to the discharge flow path 27; and an elastic member 39 enclosed between the vane member 35 and a second inner wall part W2 facing the communication flow path 33 from the side having the exhaust flow path 27.
A determination apparatus of a center of gravity position includes a vehicle on which a cargo is loadable, a self-location detector that acquires self-location data of the vehicle, a turning parameter generator that calculates a turning parameter based on the self-location data, a steering detector that detects a steering control value of the vehicle, a memory that stores reference data, a comparator that compares the turning parameter calculated by the turning parameter generator and the steering control value detected by the steering detector with the reference data, and a determiner that determines a center of gravity position of the vehicle or the cargo based on comparison results of the comparator.
A turbocharger includes: a shaft; a rolling bearing including an inner ring mounted on the shaft and an outer ring arranged around the inner ring; a housing including a bearing hole accommodating the rolling bearing; a compressor impeller provided on the shaft at an outside the bearing hole; and an annular bearing retainer plate arranged between the bearing hole and the compressor impeller in the central axis direction of the shaft and including an end face facing a side face of the outer ring, the end face including an annular circumferential oil groove continuously extending along the entire circumferential direction of the shaft and a protrusion located inside the circumferential oil groove in a radial direction of the shaft and protruding in a central axis direction of the shaft.
F04D 17/10 - Centrifugal pumps for compressing or evacuating
F04D 29/42 - Casings; Connections for working fluid for radial or helico-centrifugal pumps
F04D 29/063 - Lubrication specially adapted for elastic fluid pumps
F02B 37/00 - Engines characterised by provision of pumps driven at least for part of the time by exhaust
F02B 39/14 - Lubrication of pumps; Safety measures therefor
F16C 19/18 - Bearings with rolling contact, for exclusively rotary movement with bearing balls essentially of the same size in one or more circular rows for both radial and axial load with two or more rows of balls
78.
ELECTRODE FOR DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME
According to the present invention, a discharge surface treatment is carried out by means of an electrode which comprises a sintered body that is produced by: forming an electrode powder which is composed of a small-diameter metal powder having a median diameter of 3 µm or less and a large-diameter metal powder having a median diameter of more than 3 µm but not more than 10 µm, the small-diameter metal powder and the large-diameter metal powder containing Cr and oxygen; mixing and granulating the small-diameter metal powder and the large-diameter metal powder; compression molding the granulated powder at a pressure of 20 MPa to 300 MPa; and sintering the thus-obtained powder compact at a temperature of 450°C to 950°C. With respect to this electrode, the sintered body is formed by sintering the small-diameter metal powder having a median diameter of 3 µm or less and the large-diameter metal powder having a median diameter of more than 3 µm but not more than 10 µm with each other; the small-diameter metal powder and the large-diameter metal powder contain Cr and oxygen; and the oxygen content ratio of the sintered body is 1.5% by mass to 4.0% by mass.
B22F 1/052 - Metallic powder characterised by the size or surface area of the particles characterised by a mixture of particles of different sizes or by the particle size distribution
B22F 1/10 - Metallic powder containing lubricating or binding agents; Metallic powder containing organic material
B22F 5/00 - Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the special shape of the product
B22F 9/08 - Making metallic powder or suspensions thereof; Apparatus or devices specially adapted therefor using physical processes starting from liquid material by casting, e.g. through sieves or in water, by atomising or spraying
C22C 1/04 - Making non-ferrous alloys by powder metallurgy
C22C 19/05 - Alloys based on nickel or cobalt based on nickel with chromium
C22C 19/07 - Alloys based on nickel or cobalt based on cobalt
A centrifugal compressor includes: a housing including an intake flow path; a compressor impeller arranged in the intake flow path and including a plurality of blades; an accommodation chamber formed upstream of the blades in a flow of intake air in the housing; a movable member arranged in the accommodation chamber and movable to a protruding position where the movable member protrudes into the intake flow path and to a retracted position where the movable member is retracted from the intake flow path; and one or more grooves formed over an inner circumferential surface and a side face closer to the blades in the movable member.
A thrust foil bearing includes: a base plate including an insertion hole through which a shaft is inserted, and a supporting surface expanding in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the insertion hole; a step member placed on the supporting surface and formed of a different body from the base plate; and a back foil extending in a circumferential direction of the insertion hole and in which one part of the back foil is supported by the supporting surface and another part of the back foil next to the one part in the circumferential direction is supported by the step member.
A power-receiving coil device is installed inside an exposed part housing. The power-receiving coil device includes a power-receiving-side coil part that receives power from a power-transmitting-side coil part of a power-transmitting coil device, and a power-receiving-side core magnetic body. The power-receiving-side coil part has a first power-receiving coil and a second power-receiving coil which are arranged along a direction of a coil axis. An outer width of the first power-receiving coil is smaller than an outer width of the second power-receiving coil when viewed along a front-back direction perpendicular to the coil axis.
Provided is a technique that stably adjusts energy exchange with an outside and quickly returns received power in a case in which a deviation between a target value and an actual value increases. A power control device controls an operation of a power adjustment device in a microgrid that is capable of exchanging energy with an outside and includes the power adjustment device adjusting an internal power usage. The power control device includes a control unit that controls the power adjustment device such that an actual value of the energy exchange with the outside is close to a target value and, in a case in which a state of the energy exchange changes such that a deviation between the target value and the actual value becomes larger, performs change control to change a content of control such that an amount of change in the deviation increases.
H02J 13/00 - Circuit arrangements for providing remote indication of network conditions, e.g. an instantaneous record of the open or closed condition of each circuitbreaker in the network; Circuit arrangements for providing remote control of switching means in a power distribution network, e.g. switching in and out of current consumers by using a pulse code signal carried by the network
H02J 3/32 - Arrangements for balancing the load in a network by storage of energy using batteries with converting means
83.
POWER REGULATION METHOD AND POWER REGULATION DEVICE
There is provided a power adjustment method in a microgrid connected to an external power supply system and having a power storage unit capable of adjusting an amount of stored power by charging and discharging and a power consumption unit capable of adjusting power consumption of the power. The power adjustment method includes adjusting transmission and reception of the power by simultaneously controlling the power consumption in the power consumption unit and charge/discharge power in the power storage unit in order to transmit and receive power based on a planned value determined for each planned section to and from the external power supply system.
A compressor impeller includes: a hub provided at one end of a shaft; a blade arranged around an outer circumference of the hub; a leading edge formed on the blade and having a nonlinear shape different from a straight line connecting a shroud side end and a hub side end; and a blade surface formed between the leading edge and a trailing edge of the blade and having a curved-surface shape drawn by a trajectory of a movement of a generating line that is a straight line connecting the shroud side end and the hub side end.
This hydrogen production device comprises: a storage tank 110; a heating unit 120 provided within the storage tank 110; a first air diffuser 130 provided below the heating unit 120 within the storage tank 110; a second air diffuser 140 provided below the first air diffuser 130 within the storage tank 110; a catalyst supply unit 150 for supplying a catalyst containing one or more of iron, nickel, copper, and aluminum from a supply port 116a formed above the heating unit 120 within the storage tank 110; a catalyst discharge unit 160 for discharging the catalyst from a discharge port 114a formed below the second air diffuser 140 within the storage tank 110; and a raw material gas supply unit 170 for supplying a raw material gas containing at least a hydrocarbon to the first air diffuser 130 and the second air diffuser 140.
C01B 3/30 - Production of hydrogen or of gaseous mixtures containing hydrogen by decomposition of gaseous or liquid organic compounds of hydrocarbons using moving solid particles using the fluidised bed technique
B01J 21/02 - Boron or aluminium; Oxides or hydroxides thereof
C01B 3/26 - Production of hydrogen or of gaseous mixtures containing hydrogen by decomposition of gaseous or liquid organic compounds of hydrocarbons using catalysts
86.
WORKPIECE CUTTING DEVICE AND WORKPIECE CUTTING METHOD
Provided is a workpiece cutting device capable of reliably cutting a workpiece in a short period of time without damaging portions other than seams and without leading to an increase in size of the device in a case where the device is used to cut a workpiece formed into a sheet shape by partially coupling a plurality of small pieces to each other, for example. A workpiece cutting device that cuts a sheet-shaped or thin plate-shaped workpiece into a first-side workpiece and a second-side workpiece includes a securing mechanism that secures the first-side workpiece, a gripping and turning mechanism that grips the second-side workpiece and turns the second-side workpiece about a seam with the first-side workpiece as an axis, and a separating piece insertion mechanism that separates the first-side workpiece and the second-side workpiece at a vulnerable portion formed at the seam through a turning operation of the second-side workpiece performed by the gripping and turning mechanism.
A power supply device includes a first coil part and a second coil part, a power transmission request part configured to transmit a power transmission request to the movable object, a power reception information acquisition part configured to acquire first power reception information of the first coil part and second power reception information of the second coil part, a movable object position determination part configured to determine whether the movable object is positioned at a first power supply position or a second power supply position, and a power transmission control part configured to cause the first coil part to transmit power when it is determined that the movable object is positioned at the first power supply position, and to cause the second coil part to transmit power when it is determined that the movable object is positioned at the second power supply position.
B60L 53/126 - Methods for pairing a vehicle and a charging station, e.g. establishing a one-to-one relation between a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver
B60L 53/122 - Circuits or methods for driving the primary coil, i.e. supplying electric power to the coil
H02J 50/90 - Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
H02J 50/40 - Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using two or more transmitting or receiving devices
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TURNING CHARACTERISTIC SETTING METHOD OF AUTOMATIC VEHICLE DRIVING SYSTEM AND AUTOMATIC VEHICLE DRIVING SYSTEM
According to the present invention, a navigation pattern for acquiring parameters of turning characteristics is automatically generated in a turning characteristic setting method of an automatic vehicle driving system (step S4). Data pertaining to the turning characteristics of a vehicle is acquired while causing the vehicle to automatically navigate in the generated navigation pattern (step S5). The parameters are set on the basis of the acquired data (step S6).
B60W 40/12 - Estimation or calculation of driving parameters for road vehicle drive control systems not related to the control of a particular sub-unit related to parameters of the vehicle itself
B60W 60/00 - Drive control systems specially adapted for autonomous road vehicles
89.
METHOD FOR REMOVING DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT FILM
This method for removing a discharge surface treatment film (14) coated on the surface of a component (12) comprises a main washing step (S10) for performing main washing on a discharge surface treatment film (14) by using a main washing liquid containing a sodium permanganate and a primary alkali metal hydroxide, wherein the discharge surface treatment film (14) contains chromium.
A centrifugal compressor 100 is provided with an impeller 3, and a housing 6 that accommodates the impeller 3. The housing 6 includes a main flow path 20 that accommodates the impeller 3, and a sub-flow path 30 that surrounds the main flow path 20 in a cross section perpendicular to an axial direction of the impeller 3. The sub-flow path 30 includes, in the flow of air inside the main flow path 20, a first end 30A that opens to the main flow path 20 at a position upstream of the impeller 3, and a second end 30B that opens to the main flow path 20 at a position downstream of the first end 30A. The first end 30A opens to the main flow path 20 in the direction opposite to the impeller 3 in the axial direction of the impeller 3, and the sub-flow path 30 is continuous with the first end 30A and includes a narrowed part 30C narrowed toward the first end 30A.
In this method for manufacturing a layered product, a plurality of sheets are layered to produce a layered product. The method for manufacturing a layered product includes: a first placement step in which, on a transport path for transporting sheets, first sheet members are placed consecutively side by side in the transport direction; and a second placement step in which, over the first sheet members that have been placed side by side on the transport path, second sheet members are placed consecutively side by side in the transport direction. In the second placement step, the second sheet members are placed at a location on the transport path that is downstream of the placement location of the first sheet members. In the first placement step and the second placement step, the first sheet members or the second sheet members are placed at an angle with respect to the transport direction, thereby enabling the adjustment of the placement pitch for the first sheet members or the second sheet members in the transport direction.
A power generation device (1) comprises: a power generator (10); a power conversion circuit (21); a first interrupting circuit (23); a second interrupting circuit (24); a first monitoring circuit (25) that monitors output current flowing from the power generator (10) to the power conversion circuit (21) and also outputs a first interrupt signal when the absolute value of the output current exceeds a first predetermined value; and a second monitoring circuit (26) that monitors the total value of the output voltages of the respective phases of the power generator (10) and also outputs a second interrupt signal when the absolute value of the total value exceeds a second predetermined value. The first interrupting circuit (23) electrically interrupts the connection between the power generator (10) and the power conversion circuit (21) in accordance with the output of the first interrupt signal or the second interrupt signal. The second interrupting circuit (24) electrically interrupts the connection between three-phase coils (Lu, Lv, Lw) and a neutral point (N) in accordance with the output of the first interrupt signal or the second interrupt signal.
H02P 9/00 - Arrangements for controlling electric generators for the purpose of obtaining a desired output
H02P 101/30 - Special adaptation of control arrangements for generators for aircraft
H02P 103/20 - Controlling arrangements characterised by the type of generator of the synchronous type
H02M 7/12 - Conversion of ac power input into dc power output without possibility of reversal by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode
H02M 7/48 - Conversion of dc power input into ac power output without possibility of reversal by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode
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SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATOR AND SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATION SYSTEM
A solid-liquid separator that separates solid particles from a fluid in which the solid particles are dispersed includes: a flow channel part where a linear flow channel into which the fluid is introduced is formed; and an ultrasonic vibrator as a secondary flow generation mechanism that generates a secondary flow in a cross-section direction in the fluid flowing on an upstream side of the flow channel. The flow channel includes a rectangular cross section defined by a flow channel width and a flow channel height perpendicular to the flow channel width. An aspect ratio of the cross section at least on a downstream side from the secondary flow generation mechanism in the flow channel is in a range from 10 to 100, the aspect ratio being expressed by a ratio of the flow channel width to the flow channel height.
B01D 29/00 - Filters with filtering elements stationary during filtration, e.g. pressure or suction filters, not covered by groups ; Filtering elements therefor
B01D 29/90 - Filters with filtering elements stationary during filtration, e.g. pressure or suction filters, not covered by groups ; Filtering elements therefor having feed or discharge devices for feeding
A motor rotor 11 includes: a holding portion 131 having a tubular shape, a first shaft 61 inserted into one side of the holding portion 131, a second shaft 62 inserted into the other side of the holding portion 131, a permanent magnet 14 provided between the first shaft 61 and the second shaft 62 inside the holding portion 131, and a partition wall portion 132 provided between the first shaft 61 and the second shaft 62 inside the holding portion 131. The partition wall portion 132 forms a rigid body, together with the holding portion 131, the first shaft 61, and the second shaft 62.
H02K 7/18 - Structural association of electric generators with mechanical driving motors, e.g.with turbines
H02K 1/28 - Means for mounting or fastening rotating magnetic parts on to, or to, the rotor structures
H02K 7/00 - Arrangements for handling mechanical energy structurally associated with dynamo-electric machines, e.g. structural association with mechanical driving motors or auxiliary dynamo-electric machines
A surface magnet rotor includes a shaft member extending along a rotational axis, and a magnet portion formed around the shaft member and forming opposite magnetic poles arranged along a circumferential direction. A cross-section of the shaft member includes an intermediate line extending from the rotational axis to a center point in the circumferential direction between a d-axis and a q-axis of the magnet portion. In the cross-section, a first cross-sectional area delimited by the d-axis and the intermediate line is different from a second cross-sectional area delimited by the q-axis and the intermediate line.
Provided is a turbine, including: an accommodating portion configured to accommodate a turbine impeller; an exhaust flow passage configured to allow communication between the accommodating portion and an exhaust-air introduction port; a discharge flow passage configured to allow communication between the accommodating portion and an exhaust-air discharge port; a bypass flow passage configured to allow communication between the exhaust flow passage and the discharge flow passage while detouring the accommodating portion; and a branching portion between the exhaust flow passage and the bypass flow passage. The branching portion has a flow passage sectional area of 0.6 times or more a flow passage sectional area of the exhaust-air introduction port.
A reaction system (1) comprises: a carbon dioxide collection unit (20) which collects carbon dioxide by an absorption process or an adsorption process; a reaction unit (40) which generates hydrocarbon from a raw material that contains hydrogen and carbon dioxide; and a distillation unit (50) which distills the hydrocarbon, wherein the hydrocarbon is distilled in the distillation unit (50) with reaction heat which has been generated in generation of the hydrocarbon in the reaction unit (40), and carbon dioxide having been absorbed or adsorbed in the carbon dioxide collection unit (20) is separated by a low-temperature heat medium, the temperature of which, as a result of consuming part of the reaction heat in the distillation unit (50), has become lower than that of a high-temperature heat medium that is a heat medium introduced to the distillation unit (50).
C10G 2/00 - Production of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures of undefined composition from oxides of carbon
C07C 1/12 - Preparation of hydrocarbons from one or more compounds, none of them being a hydrocarbon from oxides of carbon from carbon dioxide with hydrogen
C07C 1/22 - Preparation of hydrocarbons from one or more compounds, none of them being a hydrocarbon starting from organic compounds containing only oxygen atoms as hetero atoms by reduction
A method for producing a biochemical product that involves culturing microorganisms in a semisolid medium to generate a biochemical product, wherein: the semisolid medium contains a liquid medium containing a component derived from first lignocellulosic biomass obtained in a pellet production step (S10) for producing pellets from the first lignocellulosic biomass, and a carrier derived from a second lignocellulosic biomass, the carrier being in contact with the liquid medium; and the component derived from the first lignocellulosic biomass contains at least one of sugars obtained from the first lignocellulosic biomass and glycerol generated from oils and fats of the first lignocellulosic biomass.
This stator for a rotary electric machine comprises a stator core 20 and a stator coil 21. The stator core 20 comprises a yoke having a cylindrical shape and teeth 20b protruding radially inward from the yoke. The stator coil 21 is arranged in a slot 20c formed between the adjacent teeth 20b. The stator coil 21 comprises straight-angle conductors 210. The straight-angle conductors 210 are arranged in the slot 20c in a radial direction or a circumferential direction of the cylindrical shape described above. A coolant channel groove 212 is formed on a surface of the straight-angle conductor 210 by press molding.
H02K 3/24 - Windings characterised by the conductor shape, form or construction, e.g. with bar conductors with channels or ducts for cooling medium between the conductors
A steam power plant 100 is provided with: a first tank 1 that houses liquid ammonia; a boiler 2 that is connected to the first tank 1 and that burns fuel containing ammonia; a steam turbine 3 that is connected to the boiler 2 and that runs by means of steam from the boiler 2; a steam condenser 4 that is connected to the steam turbine 3 and that condenses steam discharged from the steam turbine 3 into water; and a vaporizer 5 disposed between the first tank 1 and the boiler 2 along the flow of ammonia. The vaporizer 5 is recirculatingly connected to the steam condenser 4, heats the liquid ammonia from the first tank 1 by means of first water from the steam condenser 4, and returns the first water that has been cooled by the liquid ammonia to the steam condenser 4.
