Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Sony Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Disco Corporation

Kajima Corporation

Tomy Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Other

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Tdk Corporation

Subaru Corporation

Sae Magnetics (h.k.) Limited

Resonac Corporation

Makoto Saito

Fumitake Unezaki

Yasutaka Ochiai

Shogo Tamaki

Masaki Toyoshima

Akira Fukushima

Ryo Oya

Shoichi Okazaki

Noriyuki Hiramatsu

Shunichi Momiki

Yuji Nakamura

Kazuhito Kurita

Makoto Koizumi

Yoshinori Kakinuma

Masaki Ohura

Hajime Aoi

Yasuhide Ouchi

Shin Iima

Yasuhiro Katoh

Tadami Nakamura

Naoki Sato

Reijiro Tsuchiya

Nobumasa Nishiyama

Yasuhiro Habara

Yoshikuni Migiyama

Manabu Takayama

Daisuke Akita

Koji Yamashita

Haruo Shiba

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Takashi Mori

Masatoshi Okamura

Hiroshi Ikeda

Takashi Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Fukui

Hiroshi Uchida

Ryuji Fujii

Osamu Morimoto

Yutaka Sugita

Yoshihiro Shiroishi

Hiroaki Kitano

Moriaki Fuyama

Yoshibumi Matsuda

Yoshihisa Kamo

Katsuhiro Kuroda

Toru Yamamoto

Emiko Kawamura

Kazuetsu Yoshida

Kazumasa Takagi

Shinji Narishige

Yohei Kato

Yoshikazu Suzuki

Norihiro Nagai

Takashi Kawabe

Makoto Morijiri

Takeo Yamashita

Masanori Nomura

Kazuhiro Komatsu

Yokuo Saitoh

Tadayuki Iwakura

Norikazu Tsumita

Sadao Hishiyama

Tomoyuki Ohno

Satoru Yanachi

Sadanori Nagaike

Shinichi Namioka

Koji Fukui

Takeshi Nakagawa

Eiji Ashida

Nobuaki Uehara

Shigeyuki Akihama

Makoto Aihara

Fumiaki Hisamatsu

Masatoshi Tsuchiya

Junji Hori

Shunichiro Kuwatsuka

Masanobu Baba

Shin Miyakawa

Hideki Yamazaki

Naoki Wakuta

Atsuhiro Yamagishi

Kazuya Orii

Kiyoshi Yoshimura

Koji Hosaka

Tetsuya Sugiyama

Ryota Uchino

Kazuki Sugiura

Yasushi Kitazaki

Mitsuru Ikushima

Yunqing Fan

Katsuyuki Namiki

Ryoji Abe

Yoshihiko Umeki

Tadashi Banno

Takumi Nakamura

Soushi Urakawa

Ichiro Fujita

Shinya Horie

Satoshi Fukada

Atsushi Fujie

Physiological processes in plants are regulated and reinforced, and crop vitality, yield, quality and post-harvesting storage life are improved. A plant vitalizer comprising an exogenous elicitor and an endogenous elicitor is applied to plants.

Plant vitalizing agent containing exogenous elicitor and endogenous elicitor and use thereof

A grinding method includes a first grinding step of executing grinding feed of a rough grinding unit and grinding the workpiece to a predetermined thickness while supplying grinding water with a first grinding water amount that allows suppression of wear of grinding abrasive stones and a second grinding step of, after executing the first grinding step, promoting dressing of the grinding abrasive stones to prepare for processing of the next workpiece through executing grinding feed of the rough grinding unit and grinding the workpiece to the finished thickness while supplying the grinding water with a second grinding water amount that increases wear of the grinding abrasive stones and promotes self-sharpening through reduction relative to the first grinding water amount.

Grinding method of workpiece

A hard wafer grinding method includes a rough grinding step of forming a section along the diameter of a hard wafer into a centrally recessed shape by roughly grinding the hard wafer such that a central part of the hard wafer is thinner than a peripheral part of the hard wafer, a finish grinding step of expanding a ground area of the hard wafer from the peripheral part in an annular shape to the central part while dressing lower surfaces of finish grinding stones by the peripheral part of the hard wafer of the centrally recessed shape after the rough grinding, then setting the whole of a radius part of the hard wafer as the ground area, and further finish-grinding the hard wafer so as to obtain a predetermined thickness.

Hard wafer grinding method

A protective component forming apparatus includes a chuck table, a resin supply unit having a pump and a pipe that supply a liquid resin from a tank to a resin sheet held by the chuck table, a pressing unit that presses a workpiece against the liquid resin supplied to the resin sheet held by the chuck table, a curing unit that irradiates the liquid resin pressed by the pressing unit with ultraviolet and cures the liquid resin, a resin inspecting part that senses the viscosity of the liquid resin, and an informing unit.

Protective component forming apparatus

A structure and a method for mounting thermocouple on an intermetallic compounds such as TiAl by suppressing occurrence of cracks are provided. A thermocouple mounting structure is provided with a substrate, a coating formed on the substrate and a foil joined on the coating, and sandwiches a thermocouple between the substrate and the foil. A thermocouple mounting method includes forming a coating on a substrate and welding a foil on the coating, and the welding includes arranging a thermocouple so that the substrate and the foil sandwiches the thermocouple. Occurrence of cracks in the substrate formed with intermetallic compounds can be suppressed by providing a thermal spray coating between the substrate and the foil.

Thermocouple mounting structure and thermocouple mounting method

An air-conditioning ventilation system includes a ventilation device configured to ventilate an air-conditioned space while controlling a ventilation rate, an air-conditioning apparatus that includes a heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between refrigerant and air and that is configured to operate while controlling an air-conditioning capacity thereof to bring an indoor temperature in the air-conditioned space to a setting temperature, and a controller. The controller performs normal control that causes the ventilation device to operate to ventilate the air-conditioned space at a ventilation rate corresponding to the air-conditioning capacity of the air-conditioning apparatus, and recovery control that controls the ventilation rate of the ventilation device such that an integrated value of an amount of ventilation for a time duration from activation of the ventilation device under the normal control falls within a standard ventilation range including a standard integrated value of an amount of ventilation obtained by causing the ventilation device to operate to ventilate the air-conditioned space at a standard ventilation rate for a time duration having a same length as the time duration.

Air-conditioning ventilation system

A protective sheet disposing method of disposing a protective sheet on a top surface of a wafer in which a device region having a plurality of devices formed thereon and a peripheral surplus region surrounding the device region are formed, the protective sheet disposing method including: a first protective sheet preparing step of preparing a first protective sheet having a non-adhesive portion corresponding to the device region and an adhesive portion having an adhesive layer laid on a periphery of the non-adhesive portion; a protective sheet affixing step of affixing the first protective sheet to the peripheral surplus region; a liquid resin dropping step of dropping a liquid resin onto a region of a second protective sheet; an integrating step of integrating the first protective sheet and the second protective sheet with each other; and a cutting step of cutting the first protective sheet and the second protective sheet.

Protective sheet disposing method

A user management server, a terminal, an information display system, a user management method, an information display method, a program, and an information storage medium are provided to enable a user to have less trouble than with existing techniques in registering users disclosing their real names. In response to a first operation to designate a user, a friend management data registration part registers the user as a user in a first relation involving disclosure of a nickname. In response to a second operation to designate a user already registered as a user in the first relation, the friend management data registration part registers the user as a user in a second relation involving disclosure of a real name as well. In response to a third operation to designate a user not registered as a user in the first relation, the friend management data registration part registers the user as a user in the first and the second relations.

User management server, terminal, information display system, user management method, information display method, program, and information storage medium

An internal gear pump includes an outer rotor, an inner rotor, and a pump housing. The inner rotor is rotatably disposed inside the outer rotor having internal teeth, forms pump chambers between the outer rotor and the inner rotor, and has external teeth. The pump housing has an inhalation port, a discharge port, and a first notch formed within a first land surface that extends from an end of the inhalation port to an end of the discharge port. The first notch is formed along a projection trajectory obtained by projecting a trajectory of chip points on the first land surface, where each chip point is a middle point between a corresponding one of the internal teeth and a corresponding one of the external teeth at a location at which the internal and external teeth substantially face each other above the first land surface and are closest to each other.

Internal gear pump

A refrigeration cycle apparatus is provided with a compressor, a condenser, a pressure-reducing device, and an evaporator. The refrigeration cycle apparatus comprises a refrigeration cycle configured to circulate refrigerant; and a control unit configured to control the refrigeration cycle. The control unit causes the refrigeration cycle to operate when an operation condition is satisfied, the operation condition including elapse of a preset time after the control unit stops the refrigeration cycle. The control unit detects abnormality of the refrigeration cycle based on state data indicating a state of the refrigeration cycle after the control unit causes the refrigeration cycle to operate.

Refrigeration cycle apparatus and refrigeration cycle apparatus abnormality detecting system

A refrigeration apparatus is equipped with a heat source unit, a cooling unit, a low-pressure gas tube, and a bypass circuit. In the heat source unit, a compressor, a condenser, and a tube are housed. The compressor has a variable operating capacity, and sucks, compresses, and discharges refrigerant. The condenser condenses the refrigerant compressed by the compressor. The tube connects the compressor with the condenser. In the cooling unit, an expansion valve and a cooler are housed. The expansion valve decompresses the refrigerant condensed by the condenser. The cooler evaporates the refrigerant decompressed by the expansion valve. The low-pressure gas tube connects the cooler with the compressor. The bypass circuit connects the tube located in the heat source unit with the low-pressure gas tube located in the cooling unit.

Refrigeration apparatus and method for operating refrigeration apparatus

An image of a folder linked to one program is displayed on a display section by a simpler operation than a conventional operation. A control section displays a program icon image on a display section, the program icon image being an image associated with a program, and being an image causing processing related to the program to be performed in response to reception of a predetermined operation on the image. The control section changes the program icon image displayed on the display section and associated with the program to a folder corresponding image in response to reception of an instruction to generate a folder linked to the program, the folder corresponding image being an image associated with the folder linked to the program, and being an image causing the program corresponding image associated with the program linked to the folder to be displayed on the display section in response to reception of the predetermined operation on the image.

Information processing device, information processing method, program, and information storage medium

Provided is a refrigeration cycle apparatus including: a refrigerant circuit formed by connecting, by a refrigerant pipe, a compressor, a condenser, an expansion device, an evaporator and a liquid reservoir; a liquid level detection sensor including a plurality of heat generating units and a plurality of temperature detection units, the heat generating units being paired with the temperature detection units, and provided in the liquid reservoir, the liquid level detection sensor being configured to detect a liquid level of a refrigerant accumulated in the liquid reservoir, based on a temperature of each of the heat generating units, in which the liquid reservoir includes a container for accumulating the refrigerant, an inlet pipe connected to the refrigerant circuit and configured to allow a portion of the refrigerant flowing out of the container to flow into the container, and in which in the container, a shielding portion is provided between an discharge outlet for the refrigerant of the inlet pipe and the liquid level detection sensor, to prevent the portion of the refrigerant flowing out of the discharge outlet from directly coming into contact with the liquid level detection sensor.

Refrigeration cycle apparatus and liquid level detection sensor

A mode selection unit selects a continuous operation mode when a dehumidifying operation is started. When an indoor temperature is less than or equal to a set first temperature threshold and indoor humidity is greater than a set humidity threshold in the continuous operation mode, the mode selection unit selects an intermittent operation mode. When the indoor temperature is less than or equal to a set second temperature threshold that is greater than the first temperature threshold and the indoor humidity is less than or equal to the set humidity threshold in the intermittent operation mode, the mode selection unit selects an operation stop mode.

Air-conditioning apparatus

A liquid reservoir includes at least one liquid surface level detection unit in the liquid reservoir. The at least one liquid surface level detection unit includes a plurality of liquid surface level detection units. The plurality of liquid surface level detection units each include a plurality of self-heating sensors. The plurality of self-heating sensors are positioned at different heights.

Liquid reservoir with a plurality of liquid level detection units

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Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Saito