Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation

Mitsubishi Engineering-plastics Corporation

Japan Polyethylene Corporation

Satoshi Nagai

Kazuhiro Saito

Mitsuyoshi Okazaki

Toshihiro Fujiwara

Hirotsugu Kodama

Kazunari Fujiyama

Hitoshi Kichise

Shigeru Harada

Takahiro Miura

Makoto Ochiai

Jun Semboshi

Setsu Yamamoto

Kazumi Watanabe

Seiichi Asatsu

Takayuki Iwahashi

Masanori Minowa

Kazuya Fukuhara

Masahiro Yoshida

Hiroshi Nishimura

Fumiharu Ishii

Taiji Hirasawa

Taiji Hirawawa

Mamoru Sudo

Kei Takahashi

Hiroyuki Adachi

Satoshi Tanaka

Yoshihiro Fujita

Masamitsu Itoh

Kenji Kawano

Yasuhiro Komori

Tsuyoshi Ogawa

Satoshi Yamamoto

Takeshi Hoshi

Kentaro Takagi

Satoru Asai

Ryusuke Yamada

Hironori Sasaki

Tomonori Uchiyama

Masaru Otsuka

Masayuki Nagai

Kunihiko Fujimoto

Masafumi Komai

Tadahiro Mitsuhashi

Junichi Takabayashi

Takehiko Suzuki

Yoshinori Usui

Yasunari Akikuni

Masao Arimura

Katsunori Matsushita

Shozo Hirano

A minute bubble generator includes a flow path member including a flow path allowing a liquid to pass therethrough; and a colliding part provided in the flow path and generating minute bubbles in the liquid passing through the flow path by locally reducing a cross sectional area of the flow path. The colliding part is formed integrally with the flow path member and is provided closer to an upstream end or a downstream end relative to a lengthwise center of the flow path.

Minute bubble generator, home appliance provided with minute bubble generator, and method of manufacturing minute bubble generator

A washing machine includes: a washing tub in which clothes are stored; and a water supply mechanism for supplying water into the washing tub through a water supply path, the water being supplied from a water supply source. The water supply mechanism includes a water supply valve for opening and closing the water supply path, a water filling case for filling water into the washing tub, and a fine bubble generation device provided between the water supply valve and the water filling case and for generating fine bubbles.

Washing machine

The invention is a polyacetal resin composition containing a polyacetal resin (A) and a polyethylene resin (B), in which the blending proportion of the polyacetal resin (A) occupying in the total mass of the polyacetal resin (A) and the polyethylene resin (B) is 10 to 90 mass %, the melt flow rate of the polyacetal resin (A) measured at a condition of 190&#xb0; C. and 2.16 kg load is 30 g/10 minutes or less, and the polyethylene resin (B) consists of a modified polyethylene resin and the modification rate is 0.01 mass % or more based on 100 mass % of the total mass of the polyethylene resin and the melt flow rate of the polyethylene resin (B) measured at a condition of 190&#xb0; C. and 2.16 kg load is 2.5 g/10 minutes or less.

Polyacetal resin composition, composite molding using the same, and method for producing the same

An ultrasonic flaw detector including an ultrasonic probe for emitting an ultrasonic wave on an object to be inspected and receiving a reflected ultrasonic wave from the object, a drive element control unit for controlling a plurality of ultrasonic elements to emit an ultrasonic wave from the ultrasonic probe and to control a reflected ultrasonic wave from the object, and a calculation unit for obtaining, by using a refraction angle of the ultrasonic wave at a time of the ultrasonic wave entering the object, an incident position of the ultrasonic wave on a surface of the object, and a surface shape of a surface of the object at the incident position, the incident angle of the ultrasonic wave entering the incident position, and obtaining a plurality of ultrasonic elements to be driven, based on the incident position and the incident angle.

Ultrasonic flaw detector and ultrasonic flaw detecting method

An ultrasonic test equipment includes: a signal generating mechanism that generates a voltage waveform; an ultrasonic transmitting mechanism that excites ultrasonic vibrations having a lower frequency than a predetermined frequency to an object to be tested; an ultrasonic receiving mechanism that receives an ultrasonic response from the object to be tested; an AD converting mechanism that digitizes the received ultrasonic waveform; an analyzing mechanism that performs frequency analysis of the digital ultrasonic waveform digitized by the AD converting mechanism; an evaluating mechanism that extracts a variation of a nonlinear ultrasonic component from a frequency component of the digital ultrasonic wave obtained by the frequency analysis, compares the variation with defect data information in a defect information database, identifies a physical quantity of defect information of the object to be tested, and evaluates a defect in the object to be tested; and a control mechanism that partly or entirely controls a measurement system.

Ultrasonic test equipment and evaluation method thereof

A welding inspection method has steps of: generating transmission laser light for generating an ultrasonic wave and transmitting the transmission laser light to an object to be inspected during or after welding operation for irradiation; generating reception laser light for detecting an ultrasonic wave and transmitting the reception laser light to the object to be inspected for irradiation; collecting laser light scattered and reflected at surface of the object to be inspected; performing interference measurement of the laser light and obtaining an ultrasonic signal; and analyzing the ultrasonic signal obtained by the interference measurement. At least one of the transmission laser light generated in the transmission laser light irradiation step and the reception laser light generated in the reception laser light irradiation step is irradiated onto a welded metal part or a groove side surface.

Welding inspection method and apparatus thereof

An exposure method has irradiating a mask with light based on an exposure performing condition, a first mask pattern and a second mask pattern being formed in the mask, and projecting images of the first mask pattern and second mask pattern onto a wafer through a projection lens, a lower-layer film material and a photoresist being sequentially laminated on the wafer, wherein the exposure performing condition is a condition on which, when exposure is performed on a predetermined exposure condition, the predetermined exposure condition is adjusted such that a difference between a wafer position at which a best focus is obtained for the image of the first mask pattern and a wafer position at which a best focus is obtained for the image of the second mask pattern falls within a predetermined range, the wafer position of the first mask pattern and the wafer position of the second mask pattern being predicted using film thicknesses and optical characteristics of the photoresist and the lower-layer film material.

Exposure method, mask data producing method, and semiconductor device manufacturing method

A photomask unit includes a mask substrate having patterns arranged at a pitch P; and a pellicle which protects the mask substrate, wherein the pellicle is configured so that transmittance of incident light of an incident angle &#x3b8; (0&#xb0;&#x3c;&#x3b8;&#x3c;90&#xb0;) is higher than transmittance of incident light of an incident angle 0&#xb0;.

Photomask unit, exposing method and method for manufacturing semiconductor device

An operation-supporting apparatus includes: an operation request input unit that inputs information relating to operation request items of plant equipment; an operating conditions setting unit that converts operation request input information to operating parameters; an operation history creation unit that creates an operation history by chronologically processing the operating parameters; a breakdown statistics database that stores an event tree of the plant equipment; an event simulator that calculates the degree of unreliability corresponding to the operating parameters, the operation request information, and the operation history information, and in compliance with the event tree; a risk-cost calculation unit that calculates risk-cost by determining the aggregate product of the degrees of unreliability and restoration costs; an operating method determination unit that determines whether operating conditions are suitable by comparing the risk-cost with profit gained by continuing operation; and an operating method specification unit that specifies specific operation conditions for the plant equipment.

Plant apparatus operation support device

An acoustic-propagation-time measuring apparatus includes an acoustic transmitting and receiving section having an acoustic element capable of transmitting and receiving acoustic waves, an A/D converter which converts an echo signal reflected from a target object to be measured into a digital signal, an inverse-analysis section that converts the digital echo signal into an impulse signal through inverse analysis where the digital echo signal is multiplied by an inverse matrix, a calculating section that measures an acoustic propagation time and a time difference based on the digital echo signal converted to the impulse signal, and a display section which displays the acoustic propagation time and time difference calculated by the calculating section.

Acoustic-propagation-time measuring apparatus

The present invention provides a method of inspecting a target component part (e.g., valve casing) of an apparatus (e.g., steam control valve) included in a steam turbine system. When a time period in a range of 24 to 100 hours passes from the shutting-down of the turbine system, or before a temperature of an atmosphere surrounding the component part is lowered to 100&#xb0; C., the width of the opening of the crack formed in the component part or a clearance relating to the component part is measured without disassembling the target component part and an enclosing member (e.g., valve casing) from the apparatus. As the measurement is performed when a thermal stress is induced in the component parts or when the temperature distribution is wide, the risk level of the crack or the clearance is determined accurately.

Steam turbine system inspecting method

Data on inspection, diagnosis, repair and operation histories are entered in a plant-maintenance apparatus for equipment that constitute a plant to be maintained. Failure-event tree breakdown is performed on failures to be expected for the equipment. Unreliability is predicted of at least one starting item in the failure-event tree breakdown. Unreliability of each item in the failure-event tree is calculated based on a failure unreliability function. Unreliability and a cost of recovery from each failure event in the failure-event tree are multiplied and results of the multiplication are accumulated in accordance with the tree breakdown to obtain a recovery cost. Preventive maintenance expenses are calculated for preventing failure events. Maintenance timing and technique are decided through comparison between the recovery cost and the preventive maintenance expenses.

Plant maintenance method and apparatus

An apparatus for maintaining plant equipment incorporates an input unit to receive information on targets and ranges of plant equipment to be maintained and a failure-event tree breakdown unit to perform tree-breakdown on failures to be expected from events to be inspected. A failure-unreliability function calculation unit calculates unreliability of each item in failure-event tree breakdown and a failure-derived monetary loss calculation unit multiplies each unreliability and a cost of recovery from each event in accordance with the failure-event tree breakdown. A preventive maintenance expense calculation unit calculates preventive maintenance expenses for preventing failure events and a maintenance decision-making unit decides maintenance timing and technique through comparison between the recovery cost and the preventive maintenance expense.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Satoshi Nagai