Panasonic Corporation

Nippon Piston Ring Co., Ltd.

Nippon Itf, Inc

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha

Suntory Holdings Limited

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Masataka Ozeki

Akinari Nakamura

Yoichiro Tsuji

Yoshihiro Ito

Makoto Uchida

Yasushi Sugawara

Hiroyuki Sugiura

Junji Morita

Soichi Shibata

Shinya Kosako

Katsuaki Ogawa

Takashi Nishikawa

Takayuki Urata

Shigeaki Matsubayashi

Takahiro Umeda

Tadashi Saito

Takahiro Okazaki

Hideki Moriguchi

Tetsumi Arahi

Tetsuya Ueda

Shinji Miyauchi

Masami Funakura

Yoshiyasu Maeda

Tsuneko Imagawa

Naonobu Noda

Akinori Shibata

Ryutaro Aida

Terumaru Harada

Sanae Sato

Toshiyuki Uno

Satoshi Hongo

Provided are transformedplants having blue flower color, their self-fertilized progenies or cross-fertilized progenies thereof, a vegetative propagated plants thereof, and a part, a tissue or a cell of the plant body. Anthocyanin 3',5&#x2032;-O-glucosyltransferase gene (CtA3&#x2032;5&#x2032;GT) derived fromand flavonoid 3&#x2032;,5&#x2032;-hydroxylase gene derived from(CamF3&#x2032;5&#x2032;H) are coexpressed inpetals.

Creation of chrysanthemum with blue flower color

Provided are a coating film, a manufacturing method for the same, and a PVD device that not only sufficiently improve the balance of low-friction properties and wear resistance, but also improve chipping resistance and peeling resistance. This film is coated on a substrate surface, wherein the coating film has a hard carbon that presents relatively black and white when observed in a cross-sectional bright-field TEM image, a mesh-shaped hard carbon layer is formed using a PVD method, said layer having white-colored hard carbon in a mesh shape extending in the thickness direction and black-colored hard carbon dispersed into the cavities in the mesh, and the ID/IG ratio is 1-6 when the mesh-shaped hard carbon layer is measured using Raman spectroscopy, said ratio being the ratio of the Raman spectrum D band peak area intensity and G band peak area intensity.

Coating film, manufacturing method for same, and PVD device

Provided are a coating film, a manufacturing method for the same, and a PVD device that not only sufficiently improve the balance of low-friction properties and wear resistance, but also improve chipping resistance (defect resistance) and peeling resistance. This coating film coats a substrate surface, wherein a hard carbon layer is formed extending in columns-shape perpendicular to the substrate when observed in a cross-sectional bright-field TEM image, the hard carbon layer is formed using a PVD method, and the ID/IG ratio is 1-6 when the hard carbon layer is measured using Raman spectroscopy, said ratio being the ratio of the Raman spectrum D band peak area intensity and G band peak area intensity.

A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell; a fuel gas supplying unit supplying the fuel gas into the fuel cell on the anode side thereof; an oxidizing agent gas supplying unit supplying the oxidizing agent gas into the fuel cell on the cathode side thereof; a raw material gas supplying unit supplying the raw material gas into the fuel cell; and a controlling unit controlling the supply of the fuel gas, the oxidizing agent gas and the raw material gas. After switching the output of electric power or the fuel cell off, the fuel gas supplying unit suspends the supply of the fuel gas, the oxidizing agent gas supplying unit suspends the supply of the oxidizing agent gas and the raw material gas supplying unit supplies the raw material gas into the fuel cell to purge the fuel cell on the cathode side.

Fuel cell system and method for stopping operation of fuel cell system

A control unit operates a fuel-cell power generation apparatus efficiently according to power consumption and supplied hot-water heat consumption which are different in each home. A generated-power command-pattern creation section creates a plurality of generated-power command patterns which are obtained from a combination of a start time and a stop time of the fuel-cell power generation apparatus, based on a power-consumption prediction value. A hot-water storage-tank heat-quantity calculation section calculates a stored hot-water heat quantity for a predetermined period in a hot-water storage tank, based on a supplied hot-water heat-consumption prediction. A fuel-cell system-energy calculation section calculates fuel-cell system energy which indicates the energy of a fuel required in hot-water supply equipment and electricity required in electric equipment when the fuel-cell power generation apparatus is operated in each generated-power command pattern. Additionally, an optimum command-pattern selection section operates the fuel-cell power generation apparatus in a generated-power command pattern which minimizes the fuel-cell system energy.

Control unit for fuel-cell power generation apparatus, and control method, control program and computer-readable record medium with control program for the same

A method of operating a fuel cell system including stopping power generation of a fuel cell which generates electric power using a fuel gas and an oxidizing gas, filling and keeping a combustible gas in a cathode of the fuel cell after said step, supplying the oxidizing gas to the cathode, supplying the combustible gas discharged from the cathode in response to the previous step to a combustor capable of heating a fuel generator for generating the fuel gas or an exhaust pipe connected to the combustor via a branch passage branching from an oxidizing gas passage located downstream of the cathode, diluting the combustible gas supplied to the combustor or the exhaust pipe with air supplied to the combustor or exhaust gas supplied to the exhaust pipe such that the combustible gas has a concentration lower than a combustion lower limit, and discharging the diluted combustible gas to atmosphere.

Method of operating a fuel cell system

A method of operating fuel cell system includes generating electricity by a fuel cell using fuel gas and oxidizing gas and allowing cooling water to flow in the fuel cell and thereby cooling the fuel cell. The method includes transferring moisture from exhaust gas to supply gas using a first humidifier, the exhaust gas being discharged from the fuel cell, the supply gas being supplied to the fuel cell, and transferring moisture from the cooling water to the supply gas humidified using a second humidifier. The method includes at least one of detecting humidity of the supply gas humidified, detecting temperature of the cooking water, detecting the flow rate of the supply gas and detecting the amount of electricity generated by the fuel cell. The method also includes controlling the humidity of the supply gas humidified based on the value detected.

Fuel cell system operation method

Problems of acceleration of drying of electrolyte membrane and local reaction, etc. can be properly coped with to attain the stabilization of performance of fuel cell. There are provided a fuel cellwhich generates electric power from a fuel gas and an oxidizing agent gas, a fuel gas feed pipeand a first switch valveas fuel gas supplying unit which supplies the said fuel gas into the said fuel cell on the anode side thereof, an oxidizing gas supplying pipeand a second cut-off valveas oxidizing agent gas supplying unit which supplies the said oxidizing agent into the said fuel cell on the cathode side thereof, a raw material gas supplying pipeand a third switch valveas raw material gas supplying unit which supplies raw material of the said fuel gas into the fuel cell and a control portionwhich controls the supply of the said fuel gas, the supply of the said oxidizing agent and the supply of the said raw material and the control portioncontrols during the starting of electricity generation of the fuel cellsuch that the said raw material gas supplying unit purges the fuel cellat least on the cathode side thereof with the said raw material gas before the oxidizing agent gas supplying unit and the fuel gas supplying unit supply the fuel gas and the said oxidizing agent gas into the fuel cell, respectively.

Fuel cell system, method of starting fuel cell system

A fuel cell system of the present invention comprises a fuel cell (), a load value detecting means () configured to detect a load value of a load of electric power or heat which is generated by equipment () supplied with the electric power or the heat from the fuel cell system, a load value storage means () configured to store a history of the load value which is detected by the load value detecting means (), a load value predicting means () configured to predict a load value which is going to be generated, based on the history of the load value, and to store the predicted load value as load value data, and scheduled start-up time of a fuel cell () is decided based on the load value data.

Fuel cell system

A fuel-cell power generation system includes a fuel-cell power generator, a power measurement section for measuring an actual power-consumption value in a household appliance, and a power-consumption estimation section for estimating a future power-consumption value over a given time-period after a given time point, in accordance with the actual power-consumption value measured by the power measurement section. Moreover, the system includes a power-generation instruction section for determining the need of startup/stop of the fuel-cell power generator in accordance with the estimated power-consumption value from the power-consumption estimation section.

Fuel-cell power generation system and control method therefor

A power generation system () of the present invention comprises a power generation portion () configured to generate power, a load power detecting means () configured to detect a load power supplied from a power source including the power generation portion to a load, an operation stop determination means () configured to stop a power generation operation of the power generation portion based on the load power detected by the load power detecting means and a stop condition; and a stop condition setting means () configured to set the stop condition, wherein the stop condition setting means sets different stop conditions in a plurality of time periods, and wherein the operation stop determination means stops the power generation operation of the power generation portion based on each of the different stop conditions set by the stop condition setting means and the load power detected by the load power detecting means.

Power generation system

A false twist processing apparatus for applying a predetermined processing to chemical fiber filament yarns supplied from a yarn supply device by passing it through treating devices such as a yarn feed device provided on a frame, a heater, a false twisting member, a take-up device, and the like, wherein the frame is composed of at least two support columns which are independent from each other and stood upright on a floor surface, and the treating devices are mounted on the support columns so that a yarn processing route is formed between the two support columns.

False twist processing apparatus

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Kyoto, Japan

Yoshikazu Tanaka