Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Nipro Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.

Phc Holdings Corporation

Matushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Susumu Kobayashi

Kazuhito Hatoh

Yuji Kuwahara

Hideo Ohara

Hiroki Kusakabe

Shinsuke Takeguchi

Teruhisa Kanbara

Nobuhiro Hase

Naoaki Yasumura

Yukinori Ebara

Kazuhisa Ishihara

Satoshi Okuda

Yoshihiro Ujiie

Toshihiro Matsumoto

Masaki Yamauchi

Takeshi Tomizawa

Kunihiro Ukai

Koji Arita

Nobuyuki Yoshiike

Yuichi Tamaoki

Masato Hosaka

Yuuichi Yakumaru

Toshikazu Tomioka

Katsumi Tomita

Tadahisa Saga

Hikaru Murakami

Ryuichi Tsuruma

Satoshi Suzuki

Masaya Miyazaki

Toshiaki Masuda

Ryuichi Okamoto

Junji Niikura

Eiji Ueda

Soichi Shibata

Katsumi Tokuda

Mariko Kawaguri

Toru Nakamura

Katsuya Morinaka

Hideaki Harumoto

Akio Higashi

Kiyoshi Owada

Hiroyuki Sato

Tomohiro Uchimura

Takehiro Maruyama

Hidetoshi Shinya

Shunsuke Kikumoto

Keisuke Hirama

Eiichi Koiso

Katsuzou Kokawa

Takuya Masuda

Masakazu Adachi

Susumu Hatano

Ryuzo Tobe

Keisuke Muto

Mikio Takezawa

Takayuki Onishi

Hirohiko Haniu

Takashi Arai

Jiro Yuzawa

Maiya Sanuki

Mitsuaki Morita

Takashi Akiba

Masaki Horiuchi

Shin-ichi Kawamura

Masanori Nakanishi

Masayo Sugou, Legal Representative

Tatsuto Yamazaki

Yasuhiro Seki

Masayo Sugou

Takehito Itoh

Hideyuki Tomita

Yoshimi Nishii

Tetsuji Sumita

Hiroshi Yamawaki

Tomoyuki Tejima

Hiroyuki Satou

Sunsuke Kikumoto

Michio Mineshima

Takeshi Ohmura

Rikio Tadano

Tatsuto (deceased) Yamazaki

Hitoshi Kudo

Mikio Sei

Yuichiro Yasuda

Zhongmin Fei

Takao Otsuki

Minoru Suto

Fukuji Yoshida

An ultralow binary refrigeration apparatus, which cools an enclosed space to an ultralow temperature of &#x2212;80&#xb0; C. or lower to be used for storing cells or microorganisms, for example, without posing worries in regard of Ozone Depletion Potential (ODP) and Global Warming Potential (GWP), and which is excellent in refrigerant stability, can dispense with an oil separator, and enables a reduction in the amount of refrigerant, or a reduction in the power output of the compressor. The object is achieved by a binary refrigeration apparatus configured by connecting a high temperature refrigeration cycle and a low temperature refrigeration cycle via a cascade condenser, in which the high temperature refrigeration cycle is filled with propane as a refrigerant and a refrigerator oil, while the low temperature refrigeration cycle is filled with a hydrocarbon having a boiling point of &#x2212;80&#xb0; C. or lower as a refrigerant, a refrigerator oil, and an oil return agent.

Binary refrigeration apparatus

An adsorption refrigerator comprising a first adsorber containing a first adsorbent capable of adsorbing and desorbing a first adsorbent refrigerant, a second adsorber containing a second adsorbent capable of adsorbing and desorbing the first adsorbent refrigerant, a first evaporator capable of evaporating the first adsorbent refrigerant under reduced pressure to cool a first working fluid, a first condenser capable of condensing the first adsorbent refrigerant in gaseous state, a third adsorber containing a third adsorbent capable of adsorbing and desorbing a second adsorbent refrigerant, a fourth adsorber containing a fourth adsorbent capable of adsorbing and desorbing the second adsorbent refrigerant, a second evaporator capable of evaporating the second adsorbent refrigerant under reduced pressure to cool a second working fluid, a second condenser capable of condensing the second adsorbent refrigerant in gaseous state, a first heat exchanger capable of applying heat absorbed from a first heat source to a first heating medium, a second heat exchanger capable of removing and releasing heat from a second heating medium, and a heat recovery path where a third heating medium performs recovery of adsorption heat generated by adsorption-driving of the first adsorber or the second adsorber and performs heat application of regeneration-driving of the third adsorber or the fourth adsorber.

Adsorption refrigerator, method for controlling adsorption refrigerator, and cooling system

A fuel cell system includes: a reformer to generate a fuel gas from a raw material gas, reforming water, and air supplied to the reformer; an SOFC to generate electric power through a power-generating reaction by utilizing the fuel gas and air; a combustor to combust an anode off gas discharged from the SOFC; a hot module housing the reformer, the SOFC, and the combustor, which are covered with a heat insulating material; and a hydrodesulfurizer to remove a sulfur component from the raw material gas by hydrodesulfurization. The anode off gas is supplied to the combustor and the hydrodesulfurizer in a distributed manner. The hydrodesulfurizer performs the hydrodesulfurization of the raw material gas by utilizing the anode off gas as a hydrogen source and utilizing an exhaust gas discharged from the hot module as a heat source, the exhaust gas containing at least combustion heat from the combustor.

Fuel cell system

A hydrogen generator includes: a reformer configured to generate a hydrogen-containing gas by a reforming reaction of a material gas; a combustor configured to heat the reformer by diffusion combustion of the material gas and combustion air; a supplementary air flow rate adjuster configured to adjust the flow rate of supplementary air added to the material gas; and a controller configured to control the supplementary air flow rate adjuster such that the flow rate of a mixture gas of the material gas and the supplementary air becomes a predetermined value.

Hydrogen generator with a supplementary air flow rate adjustor for a combustor

A refrigerating apparatus includes an insulation housing including an inner box. The inner box has side plates and first and second refrigerating circuits including a first evaporation pipe and a second evaporation pipe, respectively. The first and second evaporation pipes are disposed on the side plates. The first and second evaporation pipes are bent so as to form a first comb shape and a second comb shape, respectively. The first and the second comb shapes form a nested structure. The first and second evaporation pipes include a first straight portion and a second straight portion extending the horizontal direction, respectively. A first distance between the first straight portion of the first evaporation pipe and the first straight portion of the second evaporation pipe and a second distance between the first straight portion of the second evaporation pipe and the second straight portion of the second evaporation pipe are substantially equal.

Refrigerating apparatus

A refrigerating apparatus includes an insulation housing including an inner box. The inner box has first and second side plates and a first curved corner connecting the first and second side plates; and a first refrigerating circuit including a first compressor and a first evaporator constituted by a first evaporation pipe, the first evaporation pipe including a first portion extending a horizontal direction and a second portion extending a vertical direction. The first portion of the first evaporation pipe is disposed to contact to the first and second side plates and the first curved corner of the inner box, and the second portion of the first evaporation pipe is disposed outside of the first portion of the first evaporation pipe at the first curved corner so that the first portion of the first evaporation pipe locates between the first curved corner and the second portion of the first evaporation pipe.

A cogeneration system () of the present invention comprises a SOFC () configured to generate electric power through a power generation reaction by using a fuel gas supplied to the fuel cell and air supplied to the fuel cell; a reformer () configured to generate a reformed gas by utilizing power generation reaction heat and combustion heat; a vaporizer () configured to generate the steam to be added to the fuel gas supplied to the reformer () by utilizing the power generation reaction heat and the combustion heat; an ammonia absorption chiller () configured to cool a target by consuming a portion of the power generation reaction heat and a portion of heat of an exhaust gas having the combustion heat which remain after the reformer () and the vaporizer () have consumed the heat, and cool the exhaust gas by consuming the portion of the heat; and a condensation unit () configured to cool the exhaust gas after the ammonia absorption chiller () has consumed the portion of the heat owned by the exhaust gas, to condense a moisture contained in the exhaust gas to generate condensed water.

Cogeneration system

Blood reservoir and oxygenator in combination

Blood reservoir

Holder for blood reservoir

Electric power conversion device has first and second operation modes. First operation mode is of converting DC power from a first terminal into DC power having a desired voltage to be output to second terminal. Second operation mode is of converting DC power from the second terminal into DC power having a desired voltage to be output to first terminal. Switching section is configured to, in first operation mode, be turned on to cause short-circuiting between both ends of capacitor of rectifying circuit, and, in second operation mode, be turned off. First conversion part is configured to, in first operation mode, supply DC power-from first terminal, from first winding to second conversion part through a conversion circuit, and, in second operation mode, output to first terminal a voltage obtained by adding an output voltage of rectifying circuit to an output voltage of conversion circuit.

Electric power conversion device

A character input prediction apparatus includes: an operation input unit that obtains information of a character input operation by a user using a character key layout display which includes character keys; a dictionary storage unit that stores a dictionary including candidate character strings; an indication movement detection unit that detects an indication position and an indication direction respectively showing a position and a movement direction of the character input operation in the character key layout display, from the information of the character input operation; a filter generation unit that determines a character range located in the indication direction with the indication position as a base point, in the character key layout display; and a dictionary search unit that searches the dictionary for a predictive character string including any character included in the character range.

Character input prediction apparatus, character input prediction method, and character input system

A switching circuit is configured to switch on/off a current that flows through a resonance circuit constituted by a primary winding of a transformer, a capacitance element, and an inductor that are connected in series. Electric power that is induced in a secondary winding of the transformer is rectified by a rectifier circuit. A switch is connected in parallel with the capacitance element. A control unit is configured to control the switching circuit and the switch. The control unit is configured to select a first operation in which an operation frequency of the switching circuit is controlled by switching off the switch, and select a second operation in which a period during which a current flows from the switching circuit to the primary winding of the transformer is controlled by switching on the switch.

An oil separator capable of preventing breakage in a float with an extremely simple configuration is provided. An oil separator is to separate oil in a refrigerant that is discharged from a compressor and return the oil to the compressor. The oil separator includes: a tank, into which a refrigerant discharged from the compressor flows; a float having a hollow therein that is held vertically movably in the tank, the float moving up and down with a change of an oil level in the tank; and a needle valve to return oil in the tank to the compressor in accordance with up/down movement of the float. The float includes an equalizing tube having a lower end that opens at a bottom part in the float and an upper end that opens outside of the float and above the oil level in the tank.

Oil separator and refrigerating cycle apparatus using the same

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Susumu Kobayashi