Hirose Electric Company, Ltd.

Citizen Watch Company, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Ge Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC

Yoshino Gypsum Co., Ltd.

Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Ge Yokogawa Medical Systems, Limited

Masaru Yoshida

Mitsuru Kawai

Yoshihiro Sasaki

Akimichi Takeda

Satoshi Kimura

Akira Tsuzuki

Hideshi Ohno

Yoshio Iinuma

Toshiaki Oguchi

Masahiro Fujimoto

Junji Miyata

Hiroya Sakamoto

Kenji Sato

Ernest S Smith

Maurice Zauderer

Tomomi Murakami

Shigeru Futakami

Shinichi Miura

Kouzou Uekido

Osamu Matsumura

Kenichi Sugano

Yuichi Hirooka

Akira Miyajima

Tetuya Yasuda

Keiji Sodeno

Hiroyuki Uematsu

Kotaro Takahashi

Tooru Siraisi

Seigo Ishibashi

Akio Inoue

Tooru Arii

Kouichi Nakajima

Yusuke Ichino

Tetsuya Yasuda

Yuzo Maekawa

Koichi Nakajima

Takeshi Takenaka

Toshikiyo Kato

Shigeru Adachi

Kouji Nitoh

Takashi Ogura

Kenichi Nukihara

Shigeru Futami

Katuo Matsuyama

Kensaku Morita

Toshio Sakaguchi

Hiroki Nagae

Yasuhiko Takayama

Noritaka Arai

Yoshiro Sasaki

Eiji Kunii

Koji Yamamoto

A warehouse facility for transporting and storing transporting tools for placing articles thereon or putting articles therein when the articles are transported is disclosed in which the transporting tools handled by a plurality of users can be appropriately managed. If an unloading request is made from a target block management unit Mb, a comprehensive management unit Mt gives a storage area management unit Ms an unloading transport instruction to perform unloading transport for a transporting tool P for which the unloading request has been made, under an unloading permission condition that the relationship between a tool code Cp designated in the unloading request and a user code Ch of a target user H1, H2 is stored in usage-related information Ih.

Warehouse facility

A fluidized-bed-type apparatus and method for treating gypsum, which activates or improves fluidity of gypsum powder to promote an effect of treatment of gypsum, such as modification or homogenization of the gypsum powder. The apparatus for treating gypsum includes a reactor vessel, a conditioned air supply port, a horizontal partition wall and a plurality of stationary vanes. The wall allows a conditioned air flow to flow upward into a reaction region. The vanes are arranged at an angular interval in a circumferential direction. A fluidized bed of calcined gypsum is provided in the vessel. The vane deflects the conditioned air flow flowing upward into the reaction region, toward a radially outward and circumferential direction of the reaction region. The calcined gypsum makes a saltational fluid motion or saltational movement in the vessel with the air flow.

Apparatus and method for treating gypsum

Provided is a gypsum-based board producing apparatus including: a mixer configured to prepare a gypsum slurry; a foaming apparatus; and a pump configured to convey foam generated by the foaming apparatus to the mixer, wherein the pump is a positive displacement pump.

Gypsum-based board material producing apparatus

The present invention intends to provide a practically valuable insolubilizing material for a designated hazardous substance (a heavy metal or the like) and an insolubilization method using the insolubilizing material for a designated hazardous substance, the insolubilizing material and method: making it possible to conduct treatment in a neutral region from start to finish to effectively insolubilize and immobilize a heavy metal or the like, which is contained in soil and the vicinity of the surface of the soil and which has adverse effects on health, by adding the insolubilizing material to the soil to mix with the soil, or spraying the insolubilizing material on the soil; and making the treated matter reusable, environmentally friendly, and neutral without fail. In order to achieve the purpose, the present invention provides an insolubilizing material for a designated hazardous substance, making it possible to conduct treatment to soil so that the soil does not reach a strongly basic region of a pH of 11 or more from start to finish, the insolubilizing material containing: a water-soluble aluminum compound not being strongly basic and not being amorphous; and at least one concomitant component selected from the group consisting of calcium compounds, magnesium compounds, and phosphate compounds each not being strongly basic.

Insolubilizing material for specific hazardous substance and method for insolubilizing specific hazardous substance with same

For the purpose of making available an RF coil which makes possible a reduction in elements to be controlled in varying the size of the RF coil, there are provided an original loop unit, a conductor so connected to the original loop unit as to split the original loop unit into split loop units, a capacitor connected in series to the conductor, and switching means which makes the conductor either conductive or non-conductive, wherein the electrostatic capacitance of the capacitor is so set as not to allow the split loop units to interfere with each other when the conductor is made conductive by the switching means.

RF coil and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus capable of receiving magnetic resonance signals with a plurality of coils while uniformly exciting such signals is to be provided. An RF coil of the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus is provided with an original loop unit, and a conductor which is so connected to the original loop unit as to split the original loop unit into split loop units. A control unit applies a high frequency magnetic field with the original loop unit and receives magnetic resonance signals with the split loop units.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and RF coil

An RF coil which can restrain coupling while enhancing the freedom of design and arrangement of coils is to be provided. The RF coil unit of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus is provided with a central coil surrounding a subject around its body axis, an auxiliary coil disposed toward one end of the central coil and having first loop units mutually opposed with the body axis in-between, and another auxiliary coil disposed toward the other end of the central coil and having second loop units mutually opposed with the body axis in-between, wherein one of the first loop unit and one of the second loop unit are arranged to be on mutually reverse sides with respect to the body axis and so connected that the directions of currents resulting from increases in magnetic fluxes in the same direction are in mutually reverse directions.

For the purpose of changing the geometry of and spacing between loop coils incorporated into an RF coil without moving the RF coil, a first plurality of loops having a geometry optimized for a square sum method employing a phased array, and a second plurality of small loops having a geometry optimized for a sensitivity encoding method are switched by switching elements for an open/close operation using a diode, and at the same time, a first decoupling means and a second decoupling means are switched. Thus, an operator is not required to replace the RF coil positioned on a cradle, and the first plurality of loops for the square sum method employing a phased array and the second plurality of small loops for the sensitivity encoding method can be switched by electronic switching and can be used as RF coils.

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus is provided for collecting magnetic resonance signals while applying a static magnetic field, a gradient magnetic field and an RF magnetic field to a subject to be imaged, and producing an image based on the magnetic resonance signals, the apparatus comprising: an RF coil for conducting at least one of the application of the RF magnetic field and reception of the magnetic resonance signals, in which RF coil, ratios of the electric currents flowing through a plurality of coil elements connected in parallel are adjusted by adjusting device.

RF coil apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus

To provide a strip connecting apparatus and a method therefor which are less costly, short in welding time and high in welding quality. A strip connecting apparatus is provided with: a surface coating removing device for removing insulative surface coating of end portions, to be welded, of a leading strip and a trailing strip before cutting the strips; a cutting device for cutting the end portions, to be welded, of the leading strip and the trailing strip; and a welding device for overlapping the cut end portions of the leading strip and the trailing strip and seam welding the cut end portions with each other.

Strip connecting apparatus and method therefore

A strip joining apparatus is provided wherein a time which a line is stopped is shortened, a number of installation spaces is decreased and precise notching may be performed. The strip joining apparatus comprising a first carriage comprising a shearing means for shearing each of the back end of the preceding strip and the lead end of the succeeding strip in a direction approximately orthogonal to the traveling direction of the strips, a welding means for sequentially welding, along a shearing surface, a location where the back end of the sheared preceding strip and the lead end of the sheared succeeding strip are contacted by abutting or overlapping, and a first side notching means for side notching a weld lead end portion of the weld location provided extending approximately above a weld traveling direction of the weld location, the first carriage provided so as to be capable of moving in the weld traveling direction; and a second carriage disposed facing the first carriage and comprising a second side notching means for side notching a weld back end portion of the weld location and constituting a pair together with the first side notching means

Strip joining apparatus

An abutting end portions of the strips are heated from below to a temperature range where annealing effects are obtained by means of a movable heating apparatus which performs high-frequency induction heating and a laser beam (or arc or electron beam) is irradiated from above, at the same speed as that of the movable heating apparatus, to laser beam weld (or arc or electron beam weld) the abutting end portions.

Method of joining strips in a steel strip continuous processing line

In order to provide a receive coil comprising a plurality of coils that make no coupling, and a magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus employing such a receive coil, when a receive coil is formed by disposing a plurality of loops of conductor,having series capacitors,, a low input-impedance amplifier,is provided with its input circuit connected in parallel to both ends of the capacitor,via an inductor,to achieve decoupling between the loops by a high impedance caused by parallel resonance of an LC circuit.

Receive coil and magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus

A welding quality decision apparatus having a high precision and a welding machine provided with the apparatus are provided. The welding quality decision apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a temperature detection apparatus for detecting a surface temperature of a member to be welded at a welding point after welding, a decision apparatus for comparing a temperature detection value detected thereby with a comparative reference value, and a control apparatus for controlling a welding machine on the basis of the decision result. Also, the welding machine according to the present invention is provided with above-described welding quality decision apparatus.

Welding quality decision apparatus and welding machine provided with the

In a welding electrode protecting machine, welding electrodes are protected against a surface treating agent on strips to be welded by applying a proper amount of electrode protecting agent onto surfaces of welding electrodes prior to or during welding operation. A seam welding machine includes a carriage (6) adapted to move in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which strips (1a, 2a) to be welded are fed, a pair of rotatable disk-like welding electrodes (8a, 8b) disposed on the carriage (6) for welding together the strips (1a, 2a) by pressing the strips (1a, 2a) to each other at surface portions thereof along which the strips are to be welded together as the carriage (6) is moved, electrode protecting agent application roll-like members (21a, 21b) for applying an electrode protecting agent (29) onto rotating surfaces of the welding electrodes (8a, 8b) while being in physical contact with the welding electrodes (8a, 8b) under pressure, the electrode protecting agent (29) which is charged from tanks (30a, 30b) by pumps (31a, 31b), and removing roll-like members (25a, 25b) disposed on the carriage for removing the electrode protecting agent (29) remaining on surface portions along which the strips (1a, 2a) to be welded were welded together at a work side relative to the welding electrodes (8a, 8b).

Seam welding machine and method for protecting welding electrodes

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Masaru Yoshida