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Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Kanazawa Engineering Systems Inc.

Osamu Nishikawa

Shigeki Nomura

Setsuo Nakajima

Toshiya Sugimoto

Toshimasa Takeuchi

Itaru Honma

Naomichi Saito

Takashi Kaito

Takaya Yagyu

A diesel engine fuel supply control device which supplies mixed oil containing petroleum-based fuel oil and unpurified waste oil to a diesel engine as fuel is configured to regulate the amount of waste oil supplied from a first fuel tank to fuel mixing means and the amount of petroleum-based fuel oil supplied from a second fuel tank to the fuel mixing means by controlling waste oil quantity regulating means and petroleum-based fuel oil quantity regulating means on the basis of a mixing ratio set by mixing ratio setting means of an ECU. This makes it possible to stably operate the diesel engine for an extended period of time and greatly increase the ratio of use of waste oil.

Fuel supply control device for diesel engine

To provide a plasma processing apparatus capable of enhancing insulation between an electrode and a casing and adjusting the temperature of the electrode from outside. An electrodeis provided at its discharge space forming surface with a solid dielectric. The electrodeis received in a casingsuch that the solid dielectricon the discharge space forming surface is exposed. An in-casing spacebetween the casingand the electrodedisposed in the casingis filled with substantially pure nitrogen gas. This nitrogen gas pressure is more increased than the pressure in the discharge space. Preferably, nitrogen gas is allowed to flow.

Plasma processing apparatus

To prevent occurrence of arcing caused by difference of thermal expansion between the electrode and the solid dielectric in a plasma processing apparatus. The bottom part of a casingof processing unitsL,R is open, this opening part is closed with a solid dielectric plate, and an electrodeis received in the casingsuch that the electrodeis free in the longitudinal direction. The solid dielectric platehas such strength as capable of supporting the dead weight of the electrodesolely by itself. The electrodeis placed on the upper surface of the solid dielectric plateis a non-fixed state such that the dead weight of the electrodeis almost totally applied to the solid dielectric plate

A proton-conducting membrane, excellent in resistance to heat, durability, dimensional stability and fuel barrier characteristics, and showing excellent proton conductivity at high temperature and a method for producing the same. A proton-conducting membrane includes a carbon-containing compound and inorganic acid, characterized by a phase-separated structure containing a carbon-containing phase containing at least 80% by volume of the carbon-containing compound and inorganic phase containing at least 80% by volume of the inorganic acid, the inorganic phase forming the continuous ion-conducting paths. The method for producing the above proton-conducting membrane includes steps of preparing a mixture of a carbon-containing compound (D) having one or more hydrolyzable silyl groups and inorganic acid (C), forming the above mixture into a film, and hydrolyzing/condensing the hydrolyzable silyl group contained in the mixture formed into the film, to form a three-dimensionally crosslinked silicon-oxygen structure (A). The above proton-conducting membrane is incorporated in a fuel cell.

Proton-conducting membrane, method for producing the same, and fuel cell using the same

According to the invention, in selecting an analyzed area of a scanning atom probe (SAP), there is adopted a method of using a tip of the lead-out electrode of SAP as a scanning probe of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and drawing a surface shape of a sample to thereby select the analyzed area and with regard to the tip of the lead-out electrode of SAP, there is formed an exclusive probe in a needle-like shape by a CVD micromaching technology or a lithographic method using focused ion beam in order to promote accuracy of the scanning probe of STM. Further, a conical dome of a conductive material is formed at the tip of the conical electrode mechanically formed by using a CVD fabricating method using focused ion beam and the tip is shaped by sputter etching to thereby form the lead-out electrode near to an ideal shape.

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Tsukuba, Japan

Osamu Nishikawa