Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings Llp

Gc Corporation

Yoshiko Watanabe

Tomoaki Komatsu

Kiyohiko Nouno

Shotaro Nakanishi

Michael J Wenzel

Sudhi R Sinha

Mohammad N ElBsat

Robert D Turney

Junichi Okada

Masayuki Nonaka

Kazuhiro Takagi

Zhizhong Pang

A model predictive maintenance system for building equipment including an equipment controller to operate the building equipment to affect a variable state or condition in a building. The system includes an operational cost predictor to predict a cost of operating the building equipment over a duration of an optimization period, a maintenance cost predictor to predict a cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment, and a cost incentive manager to determine whether any cost incentives are available and, in response to a determination that cost incentives are available, identify the cost incentives. The system includes an objective function optimizer to optimize an objective function to predict a total cost associated with the building equipment over the duration of the optimization period. The objective function includes the predicted cost of operating the building equipment, the predicted cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment, and, if available, the cost incentives.

Model predictive maintenance system with incentive incorporation

To provide an examination method of buffer capacity of saliva and an examination instrument of buffer capacity of saliva, by which the buffer capacity of saliva of a subject can be examined simply without being influenced by an amount of saliva and preciously without being influenced by the subjectivity of an examiner, an end portion of an absorptive material in a predetermined shape, containing a pH indicator at least having one or more color transition range of pH 4.0 to 7.0 and an acid, is dipped in saliva to allow the saliva to penetrate into the absorptive material, and a buffer capacity of the saliva is examined from a distance where a color to be exhibited by the pH indicator has changed by the penetrated saliva from a predetermined place of the absorptive material and a distance where the saliva has penetrated from a predetermined place of the absorptive material.

Examination method of buffer capacity of saliva and examination instrument of buffer capacity of saliva

A pressure-sensitive recording sheet, comprising: a synthetic resin support sheet; a color developer layer coated on one face of the support sheet; a color former layer overcoated on the color developer layer and containing a microcapsulated color former; a first water-impermeable layer adhering on the other face of the support sheet through an adhesive; and a transparent second water-impermeable layer covering directly over the color former layer; and wherein the outer peripheries of the first and second water-impermeable layers are liquid-tightly closed to protect the support sheet, the color developer layer and the color former layer from attack by any aqueous liquid. The pressure-sensitive recording sheet or the support sheet is shaped to have a horseshoe-like contour to be used as an occlusion pressure detecting sheet. A wax coating layer may be provided on at least one surface of the occlusion pressure detecting sheet to record the dental arch pattern.

Pressure-sensitive recording sheet and occlusion pressure detecting sheet

Occlusion pressure detecting sheet

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshiko Watanabe