Fujikura Limited

Satake Corporation

Japan Rice Millers Association

Electric Power Development Co., Ltd.

Kazuo Amano

Shotaro Yoshida

Hiroyuki Maehara

Takeshi Fukumori

Nobuhiro Matsumoto

Shigeharu Kanemoto

Michiko Matsuda

Yuka Kuribayashi

Takamasa Mesaki

Yuji Kumamoto

Keishi Shibayama

A quality evaluation method and apparatus for non-bran rice evaluate quality or taste of non-bran rice by identifying proportions of a hull layer, an aleurone layer, an endosperm layer, which adhere to a surface of the non-bran rice according to luminance levels of self-emitted fluorescence obtained by irradiating the non-bran rice with excitation light.

Quality evaluation method and apparatus for non-bran rice

A temperature abnormality detecting structure for a fluid pipe detects a temperature abnormality location by laying an optical fiber serving as a temperature detecting portion of a Ramam scattering optical fiber distribution type temperature sensor along a fluid pipe. The fluid pipe is divided into a plurality of sections in the longitudinal direction, independent optical fibers are laid along the fluid pipe in the respective sections. A portion of the optical fiber laid along one of the adjacent sections is superposed to be laid on a portion of the optical fiber laid along the other of the adjacent sections in the vicinity of each of the respective boundaries of the sections. Since the portion of the optical fiber laid along the pipe of one of the two adjacent sections is superposed on the portion of another optical fiber laid along the pipe of the other of the adjacent sections, if an abnormal temperature change occurs due to a trouble such as leakage or outflow of the fluid from the pipe in the boundary area, the temperature change peak position, i.e., the abnormality occurrence locations is detected by the two different optical fibers. Thus, the detecting accuracy is remarkably enhanced as compared with a case wherein the abnormality is detected by only one optical fiber.

Temperature abnormality detecting structure for fluid pipe

In an optical fiber laying structure for an electric power cable line trouble occurrence location detecting system for detecting a trouble occurrence location by laying an optical fiber along an electric power cable line, the portion of the optical fiber laid along the cable of one of the two adjacent sections is superposed on the portion of the optical fiber laid along the cable of the other sections in an area in the vicinity of the boundary of the electric power cable line. Thus, if a temperature rise occurs due to a trouble such as a ground-fault in the boundary area, the temperature peak position, i.e., the trouble occurrence location can be detected by the two different optical fibers. Therefore, the trouble occurrence location in the boundary area can be accurately detected.

Optical fiber laying structure for electric power cable line trouble

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