Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

The Coca-cola Company

Panasonic Corporation

Funai Electric Company Ltd.

Amano Enzyme Inc.

Ensuiko Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.

Bio Research Corporation of Yokohama

Matsushita Denkisangyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroyuki Hashimoto

Kenichi Terai

Isao Kakuhari

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Toshio Inoue

Akira Takahashi

Takashi Nishiyama

Kazuaki Mizukami

Hisashi Sano

Yoshihisa Tachibana

Kazuhide Saito

Yasutoshi Nakama

Takeshi Ishii

Yoshio Nakamura

Tsuyoshi Yamashita

Tadashi Tamura

Koichi Hashimoto

Koki Fujita

Kozo Hara

Hiroyuki Kotani

Masamichi Okada

Kazue Satoh

Shigeharu Mori

Toshihiko Ohashi

Tomokazu Suzuki

Hiroshi Hamanaka

Takahisa Hachuda

Suzuki Ryoji

Terai Kenichi

Nakama Yasutoshi

Hironari Ogata

Chie Yano

To provide a beverage dispenser capable of appropriately and smoothly supplying a supercooled beverage. According to the present invention, there is disclosed a beverage dispenser including a beverage supply circuitwhich supplies a carbonated beverage to the outside a primary cooling device, a secondary cooling device, and a heat exchangerfor supercooling which allows these components to cool the carbonated beverage flowing through the beverage supply circuitinto a supercooled state at a temperature of a solidifying point or less. The heat exchangersupplies the carbonated beverage in the supercooled state to release the supercooled state in the outside, and the carbonated beverage on standby for serving in a portion of the beverage supply circuitcooled by at least the heat exchangerfor supercooling is maintained in an unsaturated state.

Beverage dispenser

To provide a beverage dispenser capable of appropriately and smoothly supplying a carbonated beverage as a supercooled beverage. According to the present invention, there is disclosed a beverage dispenser including a carbonatorfor manufacturing carbonated water; a beverage supply circuitfor supplying a carbonated beverage manufactured by the carbonatorto the outside; a heat exchangerfor supercooling; and a primary cooling device, the carbonatormixes a carbonic acid gas supplied from a gas regulatorwhich supplies a pressurized carbonic acid gas, syrup and diluting water to manufacture the carbonated beverage, and the heat exchangerfor supercooling cools the carbonated beverage flowing through the beverage supply circuitinto a supercooled state at a temperature of a solidifying point or less to release the supercooled state in the outside.

A beverage dispenser capable of supplying a supercooled beverage without being influenced by a type of raw water. In various embodiments, the beverage dispenser includes a raw water treatment device that deaerates or filters raw water, a primary cooling device that cools the raw water to an ice point or so, and a secondary cooling device that cools the raw water into a supercooled state. In certain embodiments, the beverage dispenser further includes an anti-freezing liquid tank, a refrigerant circuit that cools the anti-freezing liquid to a supercooling temperature, and a brine circuit that circulates the anti-freezing liquid. According to certain aspects of the embodiments, a supercooled beverage can be quickly and reliably phase-changed to a different state when discharged to the outside.

To provide a beverage dispenser capable of appropriately and smoothly supplying a supercooled beverage. [Solving Means] The present invention provides a beverage dispenserwhich supplies a beverage brought into a supercooled state at a solidifying point or less and which releases the supercooled state in the outside, and the beverage dispenser includes a primary cooling devicewhich cools the beverage to an ice point or so, a beverage supply circuitwhich supplies the beverage cooled by the primary cooling deviceto the outside, a brine circuitthrough which an antifreezing liquid cooled to the solidifying point or less of the beverage is circulated, and a heat exchangerfor supercooling the beverage, which performs heat exchange between the beverage flowing through the beverage supply circuitand the antifreezing liquid flowing through the brine circuit

A signal processing apparatus includes an input attribute determination section for determining an input attribute representing at least one of a type of an audio codec, a sampling frequency and a number of channels of an input signal; and an input signal processing section for processing the input signal. The input signal processing section determines whether the input attribute has been changed based on a determination result provided by the input attribute determination section; and when a calculation remainder generated in the input signal processing section by the change in the input attribute, the input signal processing section assigns at least apart of the calculation remainder to processing of the input signal.

Signal processing apparatus

A wide frequency range signal from a test sound source is reproduced successively by a plurality of speakers, and the reproduced sound is detected by a plurality of microphones, after which the frequency characteristics are obtained at FFTs, while obtaining the frequency characteristics of the wide frequency range signal at an FFT. A high frequency range level is normalized with a low frequency range level, and a determination section compares the normalized value with a reference value stored in a reference value storage section to determine the number and positions of people in the sound field. The transfer functions between the speakers and the microphones are calculated at transfer function calculators, and impulse responses are obtained at IFFTs, after which a reverberation time calculator calculates the reverberation time based on the impulse responses. An audio signal is adjusted based on the results.

Sound field measurement device

A novel method of very efficiently elevating the yield of oligosacchrides containing &#x3b1;-galactosyl, compared with the conventional methods, which comprises treating galactose or a galactose-containing material with a specific &#x3b1;-galactosidase and thus performing a dehydrocondensation reaction at a high substrate concentration. Anti-candida compositions originating in foods, having a high safety and excellent anti-candida effect and not being restricted in the supply, which contain as the active ingredient oligosacchrides obtained by treating galactose or a galactose-containing material with an &#x3b1;-galactosidase and thus performing a dehydrocondensation.

Method of elevating yield of oligosaccharides containing &#x3b1;-galactosyl and anti-candida compositions

A sound image control system which is able to concurrently perform sound image localization control for two persons is provided. The sound image control system controls a sound image localization position by reproducing an audio signal from a plurality of loudspeakers. The sound image control system includes at least four loudspeakers for reproducing the audio signal and a signal processing section. The signal processing section sets four points corresponding to both ears of two listeners as control points, and performs signal processing for the audio signal input into the plurality of loudspeakers so that two target sound source positions indicating sound image localization positions of the respective two listeners are set in the same direction with respect to the two listeners. The two target sound source positions are set so as to satisfy the following condition, T=T&#x2266;T&#x3c;T

Sound image control system

An active noise control system is capable of canceling out noise in the passenger compartment of a vehicle based on low-frequency road noise. The active noise control system has a feed-forward control unit for being supplied with reference signals highly correlated to noise from a noise source and generating a noise cancellation signal which is out of phase to noise in the passenger compartment of the vehicle, and a canceling sound generating unit disposed in the passenger compartment for generating a noise canceling sound in response to the noise cancellation signal from said feed-forward control unit. The active noise control system also has microphones for generating reference signals which are positioned respectively near the base of the front seat, near the center of a roof, and within a trunk compartment, i.e., respectively at vibrational antinodes of a primary or secondary acoustic normal mode of the passenger compartment in the longitudinal direction thereof. Output signals from the microphones are supplied as the reference signals.

Active noise control system

A sound-amplification apparatus comprises: an acoustic signal source for outputting an acoustic signal; an amplified sound source for receiving the acoustic signal from the acoustic signal source and radiating an amplified sound; a control sound source provided in a vicinity of the amplified sound source for radiating a control sound; and signal processing means for producing a control sound signal by controlling at least one of an amplitude and a phase of the acoustic signal from the acoustic signal source so that an acoustic space having a desired directionality is formed by interference between the amplified sound and the control sound, and providing the control sound signal to the control sound source.

Public addressing system

A first rectifying net, a rectifying grid and a second rectifying net are attached, as a rectifying part upstream of a duct through which air for cooling flows. A noise detection microphone detects noise within the duct. An error detection microphone is placed in the downstream side of the noise to detect error noise. An arithmetic circuit inputs a noise signal of the noise detection microphone, carries out an arithmetic of a transfer function so that an output signal of the error detection microphone becomes minimum, and outputs a control signal to a control sound source. The control sound source radiates a control sound having approximately the same sound pressure as and an opposite phase of the noise within the duct. Thus, the coherence between the noise in the upstream and downstream parts increases, thereby enhancing a sound-muffling effect.

A digital AV signal processing apparatus includes a buffer for storing digital data input to the digital AV signal processing apparatus, and outputting the digital data as output digital data, a D/A converter for converting the output digital data to analog data, a voltage-controlled oscillator for generating a clock signal to control a conversion rate of the D/A converter, and a voltage-controlled oscillator controller for detecting a data amount of the digital data stored in the buffer, and controlling a frequency of the clock signal based on a deviation in the detected data amount from a first predetermined value and a time integral of the deviation value.

Digital AV signal processing apparatus

An active noise control system for reducing road noise of low frequency generated inside the cabin of a vehicle is provided. The active noise control system includes a noise detector, a signal generator for processing the input noise signal to generate a signal for producing noise canceling waves, a limiting amplifier having a specified threshold value for variably amplifying the processed signal so that the amplitude of output signal will not exceed the threshold value, and an electrical acoustic converter for producing noise canceling acoustic waves in accordance with the output signal.

A signal processing apparatus includes an input attribute determination section for determining an input attribute representing at least one of a type of an audio codec, a sampling frequency and a number of channels of an input signal; and an input signal processing section for processing the input signal. The input signal processing section determines whether the input attribute has been changed based on a determination result provided by the input attribute determination section; and when a calculation remainder generated in the input signal processing section by the change in the input attribute, the input signal processing section assigns at least a part of the calculation remainder to processing of the input signal.

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Hiroyuki Hashimoto