Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Shingo Nagatomo

Takayoshi Tanizawa

Naofumi Kodama

Kunihiro Ukai

Akira Maenishi

Yuji Mukai

Toru Nakamura

Yoshifumi Kariatsumari

Shinya Hirota

Masaya Tsujimoto

Shin Matsugi

Woo-Hyeun Jeong

A water supply apparatus is arranged inside a house body and includes a watering apparatus that performs watering to a cluster of plants from above. The watering apparatus supplies water to the plants and controls an ambient temperature of the plants due to heat transfer utilizing vaporization heat by watering. A control apparatus acquires an environment information including the ambient temperature of the plants from an environment sensor, and performs the watering by driving the water supply apparatus in a watering period determined according to the environment information, and prohibits the watering by the water supply apparatus in an idle period that is set after the watering period so as to obtain a temperature and a humidity appropriate for growth of the plants.

Agricultural house

An installation evaluation apparatusfor a greenhouse includes an input device, an insolation evaluation unit, and a presentation device. The input deviceis configured to receive input of position information relating to a planned location for installing the greenhouse. The insolation evaluation unitis configured to determine variation, according to the date and time, in an insolation amount in the planned location by performing a computer simulation using the position information input into the input device. The presentation deviceis configured to visualize and present the variation in the insolation amount according to the date and time, determined by the insolation evaluation unit

Installation evaluation apparatus for greenhouse, insolation regulation apparatus for greenhouse, and program

A hydrogen generator () includes: a heater () which combusts a mixture gas of combustion fuel and combustion air to generate a combustion gas; a preheat evaporator () which heats a raw material and water by the combustion gas generated by the heater to generate a mixture gas of the raw material and the water; a reformer () which generates a hydrogen-containing gas by causing the mixture gas generated by the preheat evaporator to pass through a reforming catalyst () heated by the combustion gas; and a shift converter () which incorporates a shift catalyst () which reduces, by a shift reaction, carbon monoxide contained in the hydrogen-containing gas generated by the reformer, and further includes a water trapping portion () which traps liquid water discharged from the preheat evaporator, and the hydrogen generator () is configured to carry out heat exchange between the hydrogen-containing gas supplied from the reformer to the shift converter and the water in the water trapping portion.

Hydrogen generator and fuel cell system including the same

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Osaka, Japan

Shingo Nagatomo