Hitachi, Ltd.

Tosuke Hirata

Yuzo Kadomukai

Makoto Yamakado

Yoshio Okamoto

Motoyuki Abe

Tohru Ishikawa

Noriyuki Maekawa

Yoshiyuki Tanabe

Atsushi Sekine

Masahiro Tsuchiya

Sueo Kawai

Tadasi Sonobe

Saburo Usami

Fumio Suzuki

Toshio Hattori

Hiroshi Aoyama

Shigeru Sakamoto

Yumiko Seki

Toshio Ishizuki

A fuel-injection valve includes a fuel-injection hole, a valve element and a valve seat for opening and closing the fuel-injection hole, a force-applying member for applying force to the valve element in a direction of motion of the valve element, and a drive unit for applying force to the valve element in the direction opposite to that of the force applied by the force-applying member; wherein a secondary oscillation system, which interacts with a primary oscillation system including the valve element and the force-applying member, is added to the primary oscillation system, and the phase angle of force applied to the primary oscillation system by the secondary oscillation system is also staggered from that of force applied to the primary oscillation system, which is other than the force applied to the primary oscillation system by the secondary oscillation system, whereby the bouncing of the valve element during opening and closing of the valve is reduced, which in turn makes it possible to achieve very accurate fuel-injection control.

Fuel-injection valve

A superconducting magnet includes a superconducting coil, an inner tank for containing the coil, a shield plate for covering the inner tank, and an outer tank for accommodating the superconducting coil, the inner tank and the shield plate. The inner tank is supported on the outer tank by a load support member and the outer tank forms a vacuum vessel. At least one of the inner tank, the load support member, the shield plate and the outer tank includes a detection arrangement for detecting abnormality and/or deterioration of the inner tank, load support member, shield plate and outer tank associated with the respective detection arrangement.

Superconducting magnet magnetically levitated transportation apparatus

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Ami, Japan

Tosuke Hirata