Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Osaka Gas Company Limited

Suzuye and Suzuye

Takashi Matsuzaka

Toshihiko Saito

Satoshi Hisaoka

Kazuo Saito

Masamichi Ippommatsu

Hirotsugu Sakata

Tsutomu Sakuma

Takeshi Matsumoto

Shigeto Sumitani

Akihiko Sugiyama

Shigemi Nagatomo

Toshio Ohtsuki

Minoru Komori

Hiroyuki Araya

Mitsuyoshi Chiba

Katsuyuki Kuroki

Masami Yodo

Shingo Yakushizi

An air-conditioning apparatus includes an air-conditioner and an oxygen ratio increasing device. The air-conditioner has an indoor unit having an indoor heat exchanger and arranged in a room to be air-conditioned, and an outdoor unit having an outdoor heat exchanger and arranged outdoors. These units are connected to each other through a coolant pipe. The increasing device has an oxygen ratio increasing mechanism for producing oxygen-ratio increased air having a high oxygen concentration, and an air supply pipe for supplying the produced oxygen-ratio increased air into the room. The mechanism is arranged in the outdoor unit, and includes an adsorbing material for adsorbing nitrogen in air to produce the oxygen-ratio increased air and an air compressor for supplying air to the air supply pipe through the adsorbing material.

Air-conditioning apparatus

A gas sensor using an n-type metal oxide semiconductor and a method for manufacturing such a gas sensor is provided. More particularly, a gas sensor for detecting an inflammable gas and a method for manufacturing the same.

Gas sensor and method of manufacturing the same

A pulse combustor has a casing in which a combustion chamber is defined. Air is supplied to the combustion chamber through an air supply pipe. A valve mechanism for controlling the air supply to the chamber is provided in the air supply pipe. The valve mechanism has a base plate with a plurality of air supply holes for the passage of air, and a flapper valve for opening and closing the air supply holes in accordance with the change of pressure inside the chamber. The flapper valve is composed of a plurality of ring-shaped segments with different diameters. These segments are arranged concentrically with one another.

Pulse combustor

A pulse combustor has a main body in which a cylindrical mixing chamber and a combustion chamber are formed. An air inlet port and a fuel inlet port are formed in the body to open into the mixing chamber. These inlet ports are located on the same circumference of the inner periphery of the mixing chamber and spaced from each other. An air supply pipe for introducing air into the mixing chamber is connected at one end to the air inlet port, and a fuel supply pipe for introducing fuel gas into the mixing chamber is connected at one end to the fuel inlet port. The air supply pipe extends in a predetermined direction so as to cause the air introduced into the mixing chamber to flow while rotating in one direction along the inner periphery of the mixing chamber. The fuel supply pipe extends in a predetermined direction to cause the fuel to be introduced into the mixing chamber along a direction opposite the direction in which the air rotates.

A silencer unit has charging- and exhaust-side silencers which are integrally formed into a double-cylinder housing. The housing has an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder disposed in the outer cylinder. The charging-side silencer is connected to an air charging pipe of a pulse combustor to attenuate noise generated from the charging side of the combustor. The exhaust-side silencer is connected to an exhaust pipe of the combustor to attenuate noise generated from the exhausing side of the combustor. The charging-side silencer has a first low-frequency sound arresting chamber defined in the inner cylinder and a first high-frequency sound arresting chamber defined between the inner and outer cylinders. The exhaust-side silencer has a second low-frequency sound arresting chamber defined in the inner cylinder and a second high-frequency sound arresting chamber defined between the inner and outer cylinders.

Silencer unit

A turbine for use in refrigeration cycle comprising a closed casing, a turbine runner housed in said casing, an injection nozzle through which refrigerating medium having at least one of pressure-based and knetic energies is blown to rotate the turbine runner, a liquid refrigerating medium receiving section arranged at the lower end of said casing to collect liquid refrigerating medium, and a refrigerating medium discharging outlet through which refrigerating medium is fed to an evaporator arranged in a refrigeration cycle.

Turbine for use in refrigeration cycle

Disclosed are a catalyst carrier for purification of waste gas which comprises a carrier comprising a calcined clay material composed of 1 to 5% by weight of lithium oxide (Li.sub.2 O), not less than 20% by weight of aluminum oxide (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3) and not less than 60% by weight of silicon dioxide (SiO.sub.2), the total thereof being substantially 100; an aluminum oxide supported on the surface of the said clay material; and a platinum group element having further supported on said aluminum oxide; and a process for preparing the same.

Catalyst carriers for purification of waste gas and process for

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Fuji, Japan

Takashi Matsuzaka