Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.

Hitachi Cable, Inc.

Shigeki Hirasawa

Kinji Mori

Masayuki Orimo

Hiroshi Fujise

Katsumi Kawano

Yuichi Yagawa

Michio Morioka

Hitoshi Suzuki

Tadashi Kuwabara

Tomochika Ozaki

Wataru Nakayama

Yutaka Kaneko

Tohru Watanabe

Tadakatsu Nakajima

Katsuhiro Kuroda

Fumio Murai

Yoshinori Honda

Masakazu Sugaya

Takeiki Aizono

Toshihiko Nakata

Hiroyuki Ohta

Takanori Ninomiya

Akihiro Yaguchi

Hiroshi Yoshiura

Takahiro Daikoku

Tomoharu Nakamura

Nobuo Owada

Shigeo Ohashi

Sueo Kawai

Norio Ishitsuka

Mineo Nomoto

Kazuo Honma

Norio Nakazato

Heikichi Kuwahara

Hiroyuki Ishibashi

Isao Echizen

Tomoaki Nakamura

Takuji Torii

Akiomi Kohno

Masato Ikegawa

Shigetoshi Sameshima

Masuyuki Takeuchi

Akio Yajima

Hisashi Hashimoto

Tomoji Watanabe

Nobuyoshi Andou

Masafumi Kanetomo

Atsushi Kobayashi

Junichi Toyouchi

Kunio Fujie

Takaji Takenaka

Hiromitsu Kato

Koki Nakashiro

Tatuharu Yamamoto

Masato Nakanishi

Masataka Okayama

Kousuke Anzai

Kimio Kakizaki

Yusuke Hino

Akihiko Sakai

Toshihiro Komatsu

Hiromi Ukai

Junji Nakata

Yasuko Shiga

Yoko Saito

Yuko Teranishi

Shoji Iwamoto

Tetsuya Takagaki

Hiroaki Kawamichi

Toru Yamada

Shigeki Kawano

Isao Wachi

Masahiro Sekoguchi

Ichitaro Koai

Akihiro Gunji

Eiichi Yukino

Toshiyuki Uchino

Juichiro Atsumi

Hiroto Nagazomo

Shoji Masukawa

Masanori Kaminaga

Kosho Aikawa

Shuichi Tago

Hisayuki Magoroku

Yuichi Nagayama

Nobukage Takahashi

Katsumi 1-17-503 Fujinokidai Kawano

The present invention relates to a system for controlling microgrid facilities. In particular, the microgrid control system provided is capable of controlling multiple facilities according to characteristics of the facilities in order to achieve economic efficiency, environmental friendliness, and continued operability. The microgrid control system for controlling the operations of the multiple power facilities is provided with: a power supply activation/suspension planning unit that has a prediction unit for predicting outputs or loads of power supply facilities or load facilities and a prediction unit for predicting prediction errors contained therein; and an economical load allocation unit that determines command values related to the distribution of loads to be borne by currently running power supply facilities.

Microgrid control system

Electric-power management system, an area controller transmits, to each of section controllers, information about a target voltage and information about the present voltage, each of the section controllers calculating a difference between the target voltage and the present voltage, received from the area controller, and calculating a power's demand-supply-adjustment request amount based on difference between the information about the voltages, each of facility-equipment controllers transmitting power-reception/power-release capable equipment information to each section controller, being information about a power-reception/power-release capable equipment in a facility into which the facility-equipment controller is installed, the section controller, based on the power-reception/power-release capable equipment information about the equipment, transmitting the equipment's demand-supply-adjustment request amount and the facility-equipment controller transmitting a control signal to the equipment based on the equipment's demand-supply-adjustment request amount received from the section controller to the facility-equipment controller in the facility.

Electric-power management system, electric-power management method, and section controller

An apparatus having a crucible () for holding a raw material, a heating means () for heating the raw material in the crucible () and a crystal transporting means () for transporting a seed crystal () upwards from the inside of the crucible (), which further comprises a heat conducting member () which extends upwards at least from the vicinity of the upper end of the crucible (), surrounds a single crystal () formed, and is made of a material having heat conductivity, and an interface portion radiation heat blocking member () for blocking, at least during cooling after the formation of a single crystal, the radiation heat toward an upper portion above the interface between a taper portion () of the formed single crystal () connecting with the seed crystal () and a straight bulge portion () having a cylindrical shape connecting with the taper portion () of the formed single crystal (). The use of the apparatus reduces the temperature difference in the radius direction of the single crystal (), resulting in the reduction of the occurrence of defects or cracks, which leads to the reduction of the fraction defective in production of single crystals.

Apparatus and method for producing single crystal

A method for using digital contents is provided. In the method, a request is made to a provider apparatus for a certificate containing a first provider ID embedded therein by a certification authority, and the certificate is received from the provider apparatus. A decision is made by using the certificate as to whether or not the provider is authorized by the certification authority. A request is made to the provider apparatus for a digital content having a second provider ID embedded therein by a contents guarantee authority when the provider is authorized by the certification authority, and the digital content is received from the provider. The first provider ID is read from the certificate, the digital content is correlated with the second provider ID, and the digital content is stored in a storage medium. The second provider ID is detected from the digital content in response to a request to use the digital content. The first provider ID is compared with the second provider ID when the second provider ID is detected. The digital content is used when the first provider ID and the second provider ID match. The use of the digital content is restricted when the first provider ID and the second provider ID do no match.

Method and apparatus for using contents

A device and method of displaying images and data on a display device. The device and method displays still and moving images in which at least one icon is associated and displayed with each image on a screen. A single screen may contain several images which change over time. As the images change so do the icons associated with them. Upon selection of an icon by a viewer, the device and method will display one of several possible advertisements or information associated with the icon. The selection of which advertisement or piece of information is based on information stored about the viewer. This information would include data concerning the viewer's age, income, address and hobbies. A list of selections made by a viewer is maintained and may be displayed at the viewer's request. The system may also force the display of advertisements if desired by advertisers.

Method and apparatus for displaying an image and data related to the image conditioned on user identifier

An electronic apparatus, including a plate-like member, enclosing a heat-accumulating material of latent heat type within an inside thereof; a semiconductor element, being connected with the member, thermally; and a housing covering the semiconductor element and the member. A surface of the member, in contact with the semiconductor element, is provided with recess-portions in plural numbers thereof, each being recessed in a direction of the heat-accumulating material of latent heat type, so as to enclose the heat-accumulating material of latent heat type into the recess portions. The plate-like member and the housing are connected with each other, thermally, thereby providing a cooling device, being able to cool the electronic circuit component(s) building up the electronic apparatus, as well as being superior in operability.

Electronic apparatus with plate-like member having plural recesses containing heat accumulating material

In a service providing system, a plurality of information acquiring computers for acquiring informations are connected via a network to a plurality of information providing computers for providing information. A service providing computer for executing an information providing service with respect to apparatuses for acquiring information is interposed between a plurality of in information acquiring apparatuses and a plurality of information providing apparatuses. The service providing computer receives a content of a request of the information acquiring computer, and determines a sort of information to be provided with a user based upon a quality of this request content, individual information and past historical information of the user, and also various sorts of conditions when the request is received. The service providing computer requests at least one of these information providing computers to provide the information. The information obtained from the request result is integrated by the service providing computer to be transmitted to the information acquiring computer.

Service providing system and method which divides a request into plural service requests and provides an integrated service based on service utilization history information in response to the request

In a distributed processing system including a plurality of programs distributed in a plurality of processing units and in which a program on reception side performs processing using a message transmitted from a program on transmission side, a management table for managing start of programs on reception side is provided in a processing unit in which the program on reception side is provided. A program utilizing the message transmitted from the transmission side is recognized and the recognized program is started at the start timing indicated in the management table. The start timing of the program set in the management table may be registered previously or the message may include information indicating the start timing.

Execution management method of program on reception side of message in distributed processing system

An information receiver comprising a unit receiving information having a package number identifying the information, a first storage section where said package number is stored, a second storage section where reception information indicating whether or not said information associated with said package number was received, and a third storage section where display information indicating whether or not said information associated with said package number was displayed.

Information receiver and information transmission and reception method providing information usage status

In an information sending and receiving system in which an information sending equipment and at least one information receiving equipment send and receive information through a transmission medium, a management message is sent from the information sending equipment to the information receiving equipment thereby to create a list of a content code expressing a data message registered on the information receiving equipment side within the information receiving equipment. Then, a data message containing a content code and data is transmitted from the information sending equipment to the information receiving equipment. The information receiving equipment selects a data message by comparing a content code of a data message and a list of its own content code. The content code list may be created within the information sending equipment based on a property value in an answer message from the information receiving equipment.

Method of sending and receiving information and system using such method

So as to provide a substrate temperature control system capable of unifying the temperature of the substrate and capable of shortening the temperature elevation time (temperature lowering time), the substrate temperature control system is equipped with a temperature control plate (heating or cooling plate) having a plurality of projections on the surface and serving to set the temperature of the substrate, and a chuck mechanism to fix the substrate in contact to a plurality of the projections by chucking the substrate toward the direction of the temperature control plate.

Substrate temperature control system and method for controlling temperature of substrate

Information associated with broadcasting, information associated with a network, and information associated with a package are included in data. A terminal device has means for acquiring data from broadcasting, data from the network, and data from the package. The terminal device further has a means for displaying the data acquired by the above-mentioned means together or a means for displaying information included in the data as a link. This novel constitution allows positive information provision to users by a combination of three types of media, broadcasting, network, and package. At the same time, this novel constitution allows provision of new services by making the most of mass storage provided by package and up-to-date information provided over network.

Media-integrating system, terminal device, recording medium and broadcasting method for use in the media-integrating system

To provide a substrate temperature control system capable of unifying the temperature of the substrate and capable of shortening the temperature elevation time (temperature lowering time), the substrate temperature control system is equipped with a temperature control plate (heating or cooling plate) having a plurality of projections on its surface and acting to set the temperature of the substrate. A chuck mechanism is provided to fix the substrate in contact with a plurality of the projections by chucking the substrate toward the temperature control plate.

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Sagamihara, Japan

Shigeki Hirasawa