Isuzu Motors Limited

Nec Corporation

Sony Corporation

Transtron Inc.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Other

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Nippon Steel Corporation

Taiheiyo Cement Corporation

Yasushi Yamamoto

Nobuyuki Iwao

Susumu Yoshimoto

Makoto Abe

Kazuhiko Kobayashi

Hiroyuki Arai

Hiroyuki Kawanishi

Kouhei Takama

Yoshihiro Takei

Kazuhiko Ishimaru

Yoshihiro Takahashi

Hitoshi Hagimori

Hiroshi Kawahara

Genta Yagyu

Shou Ozaki

Ryuuji Kajihara

Masaki Ishihara

Hideyuki Nakamura

Takaaki Fukushi

Minoru Sakai

Tatsunori Onzuka

Isao Anai

Keiko Abe

Kazuo Akaike

Masaaki Kondo

Masahiko Hayashi

Toshimasa Tsuda

Hirofumi Murakami

Yoshiaki Nishizaki

Koji Terashima

Tadaaki Tsuda

Junichiro Yamakawa

Izuru Yamamoto

Tadahiro Ohata

Katsuhiko Aihara

Mikio Takano

Hirotsugu Yabe

Naoki Ueno

Satoru Shimazu

Hiroyuki Yanagisawa

Tomohisa Sako

Koichi Sato

Hideaki Nakahata

Masahiro Kubo

Naoki Yamada

Kenjiro Higaki

Satoshi Fujii

Shin-ichi Shikata

Hiroyuki Kitabayashi

Masaaki Mizumura

Toshio Ohashi

Tatsutoshi Kitajima

Nobuyuki Nishimura

Satoshi Shirakami

Tetsuya Arimoto

Takayuki Kimura

Shoji Kogo

Masafumi Taki

Hidetaka Koga

Atsushi Yamazaki

Yoshiaki Kadoma

Takashi Shimamura

Kenji Kawahata

Seiichi Daimaru

Yoshihiro Yamada

Koji Inoue

Hiroshi Hoshigami

Tomoaki Shimozawa

Masaaki Nishito

Takamiki Tamashige

Kietsu Saito

Yoshihisa Sugimura

Yusuke Takahashi

Natsuhiko Sakairi

Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Yoshiaki Maeda

Tomohisa Yoshikawa

Takanobu Kuribayashi

Naoto Kimura

Chuji Yamada

Joji Shimizu

Taku Honda

Takahiro Kuwata

Hisanori Aoyama

Takemi Aizawa

Norihiko Misaki

Michio Matsuno

Yoshimasa Muraoka

Kenji Mikajima

Kouji Kamada

Kazushi Izumi

Tadaaki Tuda

Kousaku Suzuki

Wataru Nakatsuka

Hiroshi Miyanokoshi

Nobutaka Sakai

Naoki Hori

Tooru Yamano

A treatment method and apparatus is provided to effectively use a combustible waste such as waste plastic, waste tires, rice husk, wood shavings, PKS, RDF and sludge while maintaining stable operation; to improve the combustion efficiency of a fossil fuel such as coal and coke; and furthermore to reduce the NOx concentration in a cement kiln exhaust gas. An apparatusfor treating a combustible, the apparatus comprising: a mixerfor mixing a combustible C with a preheated raw material R2, which has a temperature of 600° C. or higher and 900° C. or lower and which is drawn from a preheater cyclone of a cement burning device, to gasify the combustible; and a feederfor feeding the gasified combustible and the preheated raw material (mixed raw material M) to a region from an inlet endof the cement burning device to a calciner. When the combustible and the preheated raw material are mixed, moisture may be added to cause water gas shift reaction, and the resultant water gas and the preheated raw material may be introduced to the region from the inlet end of the cement burning device to the calciner.

Method and apparatus for treating combustible substance

To provide a fractionating device capable of stably fractionating powders such as cement raw materials by a simple configuration. A fractionating devicefor fractionating some of a powder (cement raw material) R falling in a chute (main body), wherein the fractionating device is equipped with a screw conveyorwhich passes through the chute, a part of a casingopening inside the chute, and receives part of the powder from an opening (inlet), and a collision separation member (collision separation rod)which is provided above the screw conveyor in the chute and collides with an object when an object of a predetermined size or larger falls, and prevents the object from falling directly onto the screw conveyor. A rotation shaftof the screw conveyor may be inclined from 5° to 20° with respect to the horizontal plane so that the end of the discharge port side of the screw conveyor is positioned above the other end and may be equipped with a guide memberthat guides the powder falling in the chute in the direction of the opening of the screw conveyor.

Sorting device

To treat organic sludge while keeping facility costs, cement production efficiency, and a reduction in clinker production amount to a minimum. An organic sludge treatment device includes: a fractionation devicethat fractionates a preheated raw material Rfrom a preheater cycloneC excluding a bottommost cyclone of a cement burning devicea mixing devicethat mixes an organic sludge S with the fractionated preheated raw material, and that dries the organic sludge using sensible heat of the preheated raw material; and a supply device (mixture chutedouble-flap dampershut damper) that supplies a mixture M from the mixing device to a calciner furnaceof the cement burning device or to a duct disposed between a kiln inlet portion of a cement kilnand the calciner furnace. The treatment device may be provided with an introduction device for introducing an exhaust gas Gincluding dust, odor and water vapor from the mixing device to a gas outlet of a bottommost cycloneA of the cement burning device.

Organic sludge treatment device and treatment method

An apparatus for reducing mercury content of cement kiln exhaust gascomprising: a mixing and heating devicefor mixing cement kiln dusts D, Dincluded in a cement kiln combustion exhaust gas Ginto a cement raw material Rwithdrawn from a cycloneC (orB) other than the highest stage cycloneD and the lowest stage cycloneA of a preheaterfor preheating cement raw material Rwhile heating the cement kiln dusts D, Dthrough sensible heat of the cement raw material R; a mercury recovery devicefor recovering mercury Hg vaporized from the cement kiln dusts D, Dby the mixing and heating; and a feeder for feeding mercury-removed dusts D, Ddischarged from the mixing and heating deviceto a cycloneB (orA) positioning at a lower stage from the cycloneC (orB) from which the cement raw material Ris withdrawn.

Method and apparatus for reducing mercury content of cement kiln exhaust gas

Industrial-scale production of diiodosilane through reaction between phenylsilane and iodine is safely and efficiently performed. Provided is a diiodosilane producing method wherein reaction is started between phenylsilane and iodine at a low temperature, the method including at least the step of, after dropping and mixing step finishes, pumping a reaction solution little by little continuously while raising a temperature thereof.

Diiodosilane producing method

A dual clutch device includes a first piston applying a first clutch by a hydraulic pressure supplied into a first hydraulic pressure chamber and releasing the first clutch by a first spring, a second piston applying a second clutch by a hydraulic pressure supplied into a second hydraulic pressure chamber and releasing the second clutch by a second spring, a first supply line supplying a hydraulic pressure into the first hydraulic pressure chamber and a second hydraulic pressure canceling chamber, a second supply line supplying a hydraulic pressure into the second hydraulic pressure chamber and a first hydraulic pressure canceling chamber, a first valve allowing or cutting the supply of hydraulic pressure into the first hydraulic pressure chamber and the second hydraulic pressure canceling chamber, and a second valve allowing or cutting the supply of hydraulic pressure into the second hydraulic pressure chamber and the first hydraulic pressure canceling chamber.

Dual clutch device

A thermoacoustic heating device capable of effectively utilizing streaming, and including a prime mover in a first pipeline that forms a loop line, and a heating device in a second pipeline that forms another loop line. The first and second pipelines are connected to each other via a branch pipeline. A branch pipeline on the prime mover side and the second pipeline on the heating device side are positioned adjacent to each other, and a low-temperature side heat exchanger of the heating device is integrally formed with or held in contact with the branch pipeline on the prime mover side.

Thermoacoustic heating device

An actuator control method and an actuator control device that perform energy evaluation control that compares kinetic energy of a controlled object and work that can be done by braking and switches driving to braking at a point of time at which the kinetic energy of the controlled object and the work become equal, and also repeatedly makes a comparison between the kinetic energy of the controlled object and the work at each preset time, as a new control method that replaces PID control in mechanics for effectively utilizing vehicle energy to improve vehicle fuel consumption and control methods thereof, a control result is obtained by a simpler method.

Actuator control method and actuator control device

An actuator control method and an actuator control device that incorporate an element of feedback control in time optimal control, including: a calculation step of calculating a switching time at which an acceleration output is switched to a deceleration output and an end time of the deceleration output expressed by time elapsed from a calculation time at which calculation for control is performed using a maximum acceleration and a maximum deceleration, which are measured in advance, at the time of the maximum output of control force of an actuator; a control output step of setting the control force of the actuator to a maximum acceleration output from the calculation time to the switching time, setting the control force of the actuator to a maximum deceleration output from the switching time to the end time, and ending the output of the control force at the end time, and an update step of calculating and updating the switching time and the end time by repeating the calculation step at each preset time.

In an actuator control method and an actuator control device, time optimal control is used, and a switching time at which an acceleration output is switched to a deceleration output, and an end time of the deceleration output are calculated using a maximum acceleration and a maximum deceleration at the time of a maximum output of a control force. A control force of an actuator is set as a maximum acceleration output from a calculation time to the switching time, the control force of the actuator is set as a maximum deceleration output from the switching time to the end time, output of the control force is ended at the end time, and the switching time and the end time are repeatedly calculated, and updated for each preset time. The control output is reduced along with decrease of residual energy, which is a sum of remaining work and kinetic energy of a control system. From this, an element of feedback control is incorporated in the time optimal control, and the control output is converged after the end of the control.

A roll forming device, for roll forming for the purpose of manufacturing shaped steel the cross-sectional shape of which varies in the longitudinal direction, is equipped with: first die rolls having an annular ridge part the cross-sectional shape of which varies in the circumferential direction; second die rolls having an annular groove part the cross-sectional shape of which varies in the circumferential direction; and a drive device for the first die rolls and the second die rolls. A gap is provided at the side surfaces of the annular ridge part of the first die rolls, across the entire circumference in the circumferential direction, such that the gap with respect to the side surfaces of the annual groove parts of the second die rolls widens inward in the radial direction.

Method for manufacturing shaped steel the cross-sectional shape of which changes in the longitudinal direction, and roll forming device

A free-piston type stirling engineincludes a power pistonwhich partitions the inside of a caseinto a work spaceand a bounce space, a displacer, a communication holeprovided in the power piston, a displacer rodextending from the displacerand passing through the communication hole, a first displacer supporting springelastically supporting the displacer rodat its proximal end, and a second displacer supporting springelastically supporting the displacer rodat its distal end. The power pistonand the displacerreciprocate along a central axis X of the casewith a phase difference therebetween by expansion and compression of a working gas in the work space, and bias forces of the first displacer supporting springand the second displacer supporting springrestrict tilting of the displacerand the displacer rodwith respect to the central axis X.

Free-piston type stirling engine

A gear shifting method and device of a multistage transmission in which gear shift of a main transmission and an auxiliary transmission is mechanically operated by operation of one shift lever The device is provided with: a cam mechanism that has a select operation output member and a shift operation output member, which separate, into shift operation and select operation for each direction, operation by operation of one shift lever that moves along at least one H-shaped shift pattern, a first cam groove that operates by the select operation, and operates a shift mechanism for the auxiliary transmission that shifts a shift fork for the auxiliary transmission, and a second cam groove that operates a select mechanism that selects a target shift fork from among a plurality of shift forks for the main transmission; and a shift mechanism for the main transmission that operates by the shift operation, and shifts the shift fork for the main transmission selected by the select operation.

Multistage transmission gear shift operation device, and vehicle mounted with same

A positive-negative-positive-positive-positive zoom lens changes magnification by moving each of a first group to a fourth group so as to alter the interval between each group. The third group comprises first and second lens components, at least one of which has an aspheric surface, and the first lens component is a positive-negative-positive cemented lens in sequence from the object side. The zoom lens satisfies the conditional expressions, 7&#x3c;&#x3b2;2t/&#x3b2;2w&#x3c;10, 5&#x3c;&#x3b2;3t/&#x3b2;3w&#x3c;12, 0.7&#x3c;(&#x3b2;2t/&#x3b2;2w)/(&#x3b2;3t/&#x3b2;3w)&#x3c;1.65) (where: &#x3b2;2t is the lateral magnification of the second group at the telephoto end; &#x3b2;2w is the lateral magnification of the second group at the wide end; &#x3b2;3t is the lateral magnification of the third group at the telephoto end; and &#x3b2;3w is the lateral magnification of the third group at the wide end).

Zoom lens system, imaging optical device, and digital apparatus

A coasting control device capable of avoiding coasting control during running on road having a small coefficient of friction between a tire and a road surface ('low &#x3bc; roads') includes a low &#x3bc; road running recognition unit which recognizes that a vehicle is running on a low &#x3bc; road and a unit for prohibiting coasting control during low &#x3bc; road running when the low &#x3bc; road running recognition unit recognizes that the vehicle is running on a low &#x3bc; road.

Coasting control device

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yasushi Yamamoto