Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Kyocera Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Koyo Seiko Company, Ltd.

Yoshihiro Nakagawa

Takuya Nakao

Shuji Furui

Toshio Ishizaki

Makoto Sakakura

Toshiaki Nakamura

Koichi Ishida

Koji Hashimoto

Toru Yamada

Koichi Ogawa

Nobuki Matsui

Hideki Uchida

Shuzo Hirakushi

Yasunori Okamoto

Yoshiaki Hamasaki

Kouji Kitahata

Mitsuhiko Yamamoto

Takao Tamagawa

Akira Murai

Nobuhiro Imada

Naofumi Takenaka

Hidetaka Nakane

Kenji Nagashima

Nobuyuki Ishibashi

Tetsurou Iwata

[Object] To realize control that, in control of facility equipment, reduces electricity charges, taking into consideration fluctuation in power amount charge unit prices, and also a relation between a prediction value of power usage and a greatest value in a relevant period. [Solution] A control device that generates control information for controlling facility equipment of a consumer includes an information acquisition unit that acquires information of a power amount charge unit price that fluctuates and information of power usage of the consumer, and a control information generating unit that, on the basis of the power amount charge unit price in an object interval that is an interval in which control of the facility equipment is performed and information of power usage of the consumer in an interval after the object interval, generates control information for the facility equipment of the consumer in the object interval.

Generating device, system, and program

A power control system performs power control such that a target power set for a group including a plurality of units of power consumption is not exceeded. The system includes a limit value setting unit that sets, for each of the units of power consumption, a limit value of power usage for a predetermined time period based on the target power, and an adjustment unit that adjusts, within the predetermined time period, the limit value of each of the units of power consumption based on an actual result of power usage within the predetermined time period.

Power control system and program

A power control system performs power control such that a target power set for a group including a plurality of consumers is not exceeded. The system includes a first prediction unit that performs prediction on power usage of each consumer in the group over each of predetermined time periods, a limit value setting unit that sets limit values of power usage of each consumer based on a prediction result obtained by the first prediction unit, a second prediction unit that predicts the power usage of the consumers in the group over a current time period, and a control unit that controls power usage of equipment devices of each consumer based on predicted values of the power usage of the consumers over the current time period, such that the limit values of power usage of the consumers for the current time period are not exceeded.

[Object] To suppress increase in load on a calculator for processing electricity charges, in a case in which an electricity retailer that purchased power of which the price fluctuates sells power on the basis of metered charges in accordance with an amount of power usage of a consumer, by controlling facility equipment of the consumer on the basis of a relation between purchase prices and metered charges of the power. [Solution] A control device serving as a generating device that generates control information for controlling facility equipment of a consumer that purchases power from an electricity retailer includes an information acquisition unit that acquires purchase price information, which is information relating to a purchase unit price of power that the electricity retailer purchases at a predetermined increment of time and that also acquires metered charge information, which is information relating to a unit price of a metered charge of power that the electricity retailer sells at the predetermined increment of time, and a control information generating unit that generates control information for controlling the facility equipment of the consumer by using the purchase price information and the metered charge information.

Generating device, system, and program for controlling use by facility equipment of purchased power

A controller controls the operations of a humidity control apparatus and an air conditioner. The controller includes a power consumption detector, a target value setting processor, and an operation control unit. The power consumption detector detects the power consumption of the humidity control apparatus and the air conditioner. The target value setting processor performs optimal target value setting processing by performing first or second processing. The first processing lowers a target operating frequency of a humidity controlling compressor and a target evaporation temperature in a utilization-side heat exchanger. The second processing raises the target operating frequency and the target evaporation temperature. The optimal target value setting processing sets the target operating frequency and the target evaporation temperature so as to minimize the power consumption. The operation control unit controls the humidity control apparatus to achieve the target operating frequency and the air conditioner to achieve the target evaporation temperature.

Controller and air conditioning processing system

An wiring board of the present invention includes an insulating board, a pair of signal external connection pads, a pair of ground external connection pads, a pair of signal through-hole conductors, a pair of around through-hole conductors, a core ground conductor layer having an opening, a via-hole conductor, a strip-shaped wiring conductor, an upper-side signal connection conductor, and a lower-side signal connection conductor, in which the pair of the ground through-hole conductors is arranged across the opening from each other.

Wiring board to mount a semiconductor element

In the wiring board of the present invention, the land pattern for power supply, connected to the semiconductor element connection pad for power supply through a via conductor and arranged below the segment region, includes a strip-shaped continued portion in the position corresponding to the outer peripheral portion except the outer peripheral side of the mounting portion in the segment region, and the strip-shaped continued portion and the power supply plane arranged therebelow are connected through a via conductor.

Wiring board

The wiring board in the present invention includes: an insulating board; external connection pads for a differential signal and external connection pads for grounding or a power supply formed on a lower surface of the insulating board; and a through-conductor formed in the insulating board. Each of the external connection pads is formed in a two-dimensional arrangement, a diameter and an arrangement pitch of the external connection pad for a differential signal are smaller than a diameter and an arrangement pitch of the external connection pad for grounding or a power supply, and an arrangement pitch of the through-conductor connected to the external connection pad for a differential signal is less than or equal to an arrangement pitch of the external connection pad for a differential signal.

An air conditioning system processes sensible heat load and latent heat load of a target space, and adjusts temperature and humidity of the target space. The air conditioning system includes a cooling heat exchanger circulating a heat exchanging medium to cool and dehumidify air blown into the target space, a heater heating the air cooled and dehumidified by the heat exchanger, a staged variable speed fan creating a flow of the air blown into the target space through the heat exchanger and the heater, and a control unit. The control unit has a cooling adjusting unit adjusting a quantity of cooling supplied from the heat exchanging medium to the air in the heat exchanger, a heating adjusting unit adjusting a quantity of heating supplied from the heater to the air, and an air flow adjusting unit adjusting an air flow volume supplied by the fan.

Air conditioning system for adjusting temperature and humidity

A facility working apparatus includes objects (), a management apparatus (), and an exterior information source () such as a weather company, a power company or the like. Each object () and the management apparatus (), the exterior information source () and the management apparatus () are connected via a network. Each object () includes a facility () such as a heat storage air conditioner, power storage air conditioner or the like, and a controlling apparatus () for working and controlling the facility () and for extracting facility information of the facility () and user determination information. The management apparatus () includes a database () and a data processing section (). The data processing section () in the management apparatus () carries out processing based upon facility information, user determination data, and exterior information, and generates working and controlling information. The information is transferred to corresponding controlling apparatus (). Performance required for the control apparatus for controlling each facility can be suppressed to be low performance, and sufficient working accuracy of each facility can be maintained.

Facility operating method and apparatus, facility operating system, managing method and apparatus, and facility

In a one-way clutch, an outer retainer includes tapered surfaces formed by chamfering axially opposite side edges of an outermost part at a projection of the outer retainer, thereby facilitating the assembly of the clutch in an outer ring. In addition, a sufficient contact width is provided between the outer ring and the projection by forming the tapered surfaces at axially opposite ends of the outer retainer, thereby preventing the occurrence of cracks in the outer retainer.

One-way clutch

A voltage-controlled resonator is fabricated by laminating, one on top of the other, a first dielectric which has a resonant circuit and on the upper surface of which a variable-capacitance element is mounted, and a second dielectric which has a through-hole formed in a position thereof corresponding to the position of the variable-capacitance element and which has a dual function of shielding and resonant frequency tuning. With this structure, the height of the resonator can be further reduced compared with the prior art while retaining the shielding effect, and moreover, further precise resonant frequency tuning can be accomplished as compared with the prior art.

Voltage-controlled resonator, method of fabricating the same, method of

A coupled capacitor substrate having thereon a plane capacitor which is integrally bonded on a dielectric resonator and a varactor which is mounted on the coupled capacitor substrate so as to couple the dielectric resonator via the plane capacitor.

Frequency tunable resonator including a varactor

A hydraulic transmission coupling apparatus which is used instead of a center differential or a viscous coupling being usually mounted between a front wheel drive shaft and a rear wheel drive shaft of a four-wheel drive vehicle, and transmits driving force existing between the two shafts. The hydraulic transmission coupling apparatus is provided with a vane-type hydraulic pump which generates hydraulic pressure corresponding to a relative rotation speed difference of the two drive shafts and a variable throttle valve being disposed in the passage connecting a discharge port of the hydraulic pump with a tank, whose opening area varies according to the hydraulic pressure generated by the hydraulic pump, thereby driving force to be transmitted being increased or decreased steeply as the rotation speed difference becomes larger.

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshihiro Nakagawa