Hitachi, Ltd.

Schlumberger Technology Corporation

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Tokico, Ltd.

Pentel Kabushiki Kaisha

Yuichi Kobayashi

Hiroshi Furukawa

Shigeru Sasaki

Tsunehiro Tobita

Yoshifumi Sato

Nalin Weerasinghe

Ichiro Ote

Junichi Nagasawa

Teiji Karasaki

Kun Wang

Takeaki Nakayama

Alex Olson

Eric Jeanson

Jun Watanabe

Kazuo Watanabe

Jun Takahashi

Junichi Ikeda

Yuji Miyagawa

Shuji Terada

Shigeru Sakurai

Masami Murai

Hiroaki Washimi

Motohiro Nakanouchi

Takeshi Nakatani

David Santoso

Masamori Kashiyama

Milos Milosevic

Hiromasa Nishisaka

Kazuhiro Soeda

Tetsuo Nakano

Kazuaki Tanaka

Akihiro Sato

Mitsuhiro Kitani

Satoshi Hirano

Kazutaka Okamoto

Hiroyuki Higaki

Tatsuaki Osafune

Shinichiro Fukushima

Katsuya Miyata

Nobutoshi Sagawa

Yasuharu Namba

Shinji Suzuki

Seunghwan Park

Theodorus Tjhang

Noboru Kiyama

Keisuke Nanri

Yoji Taniguchi

Yoshitaka Morimoto

Hirokazu Aoshima

Masumi Moritani

Keisuke Shirai

Kenji Endo

Yasuhisa Omata

Atsushi Honzawa

Makoto Kitamura

Kazutoshi Kato

Takahisa Hirasawa

Yoshiyasu Takahashi

Aya Otsubo

Takahiro Tokunaga

Yoshimasa Matsui

Hiroshi Yoshikura

Yuzuru Fukuda

Kiyokazu Nakane

Tomoyuki Mochizuki

Takeshi Murakami

Toshiyuki Fukaya

Natsumi Koide

Shoichi Kamiya

Hiromi Yamauchi

Osamu Kato

Satoshi Saito

Hiromi Hieno

Kiyotaka Nomura

Yasumasa Fujisawa

Thi Huong Lien Nguyen

Tsubasa Tanaka

Jian Zheng

Tsuyoshi Kawase

Yoshiyuki Tamukai

According to the method for producing chromium plated parts, a plurality of workpieces are immersed in a chromium plating bath, a plating treatment is performed by using a pulse current, and chromium plating layers that have compressive residual stress and suppressed cracking are deposited on surfaces of the plurality of workpieces. A direct current from plating separation lower limit current density up to a range in which the chromium plating layers have compressive residual stress is superimposed during downtime of application of the pulse current.

Method for producing chromium plated parts, and chromium plating apparatus

In a production support system, process knowledge information is updated using machine learning on the basis of implementable process information, and implementable process information is output as a production plan of a product. Accordingly, production can be carried out considering factors, such as restart cost of facilities used in each of processes, for which skilled experience and knowledge are required with respect to the production of the product, and therefore the product can be produced effectively with low cost. Further, even when limitation conditions such as production capacity or quantity of a product exist for each of processes, suitable production can be carried out that satisfies these limitation conditions.

Production support system using multiple plan candidates and different types of learning devices

Systems and methods for inter-tool communication in toolbus systems in cable telemetry. The systems can include downhole equipment deployable into a wellbore via a cable, The downhole equipment can include a toolbus, a toolbus master node including a buffer, and nodes operatively coupled to the toolbus master node via the toolbus. Each of the nodes includes a buffer. Of the one or more nodes, a sending node sends a message, and a receiving node receives the message via the toolbus master node and sends a buffer full message to the toolbus master node when the buffer of the receiving node is full. The toolbus master node sends a buffer full message to the sending node and the receiving node when the buffer of the receiving node is full, and buffers the message at the toolbus master node until the receiving buffer is not full.

Inter-tool communication flow control in toolbus system of cable telemetry

Toolstring topology mapping systems having a downhole toolstring including a master node controller and a plurality of nodes and related methods. The methods involve querying each of the plurality of nodes in the downhole toolstring for actual topology information, receiving actual topology information from each of the plurality of nodes in the downhole toolstring in response to querying, and generating a topology map of the downhole toolstring based on the actual topology information from each of the plurality of nodes in the downhole toolstring. The methods can also involve comparing the topology map with the input topology information to identify topology mismatch and then take remedial actions if needed.

Toolstring topology mapping in cable telemetry

Methods and systems for failure point diagnostics in cable telemetry at a wellsite. The methods involve providing a system includes a cable operatively coupling between a surface modem and a downhole modem that is operatively coupled to a downhole toolstring of one or more downhole tools via a toolbus. The methods further involve generating a plurality of test signals, sequentially applying the test signals across one or more test loops in the cable telemetry system, and generating a failure point alert when at least one of the test signals fails in at least one of the test loops. The failure point alert identifies which component of the cable telemetry system caused the test signal to fail.

Failure point diagnostics in cable telemetry

A steel base material () is subjected to a quenching step, a machining step, a plating step, and a tempering step to form a rod (). In the quenching step, two axially spaced portions of the steel base material are quenched to form quenched portions (and). In the machining step, plastic working or cutting is performed on a portion of the steel base material between the two quenched portions to form a full-circumferential groove (C) in a machined portionC. In the plating step, the quenched portion () is not plated, but a region of the steel base material including the quenched portion () is plated to form a coating layer (). In the tempering step, the quenched portions are tempered.

Cylinder apparatus including plated component and manufacturing method thereof

Provided is a communication system capable of enhancing convenience for remotely operating a movable-body-mounted apparatus mountable in a movable body such as a vehicle. For example, a communication system includes a movable-body-mounted apparatus including: a movable body information storage part which stores movable body information including a received signal quality of a radio wave used for communication to/from a center server and information on a vehicle; a separation determination part which determines whether or not a user who moves along with the vehicle is separated from the vehicle; and a movable body information notification part which notifies the user of the movable body information stored in the movable body information storage part when the separation determination part determines that the user is separated from the vehicle.

Communication system, movable-body-mounted apparatus, terminal device, and center server

An oil-based ink composition for a ballpoint pen has an ink viscosity at 25&#xb0; C. is 200,000 mPa&#xb7;s or more at a shear rate of 0.019 sand 5,000 mPa&#xb7;s or less at a shear rate of 10,000 sand a storage modulus at an angular frequency of 0.019 rad/sec is 10 Pa or more. The ink composition ensures a thin-width writing line, without bleeding or feathering, and prevents ink-depleted regions at the central part of the writing line so that the writing line is uniform and clear.

Oily ink composition for ballpoint pens

A reachable range calculation apparatus for computing a range that a vehicle traveling on stored energy is able to reach, comprising: a storage part for storing beforehand information on a required amount of energy consumed when the vehicle moves, using each of a plurality of areas into which a map has been divided as a unit; an integration part for integrating, with respect to movement of the vehicle from a specified origin to a surrounding area, a required amount of energy on the basis of the required amount of energy stored in the storage part, each time the vehicle moves between areas; and a range determination part for determining, on the basis of a provided specified amount of energy and an integrated required amount of energy obtained by the integration part integrating energy-consumption amounts, a reachable range, which is a range of areas that the vehicle is able to reach using the specified amount of energy.

Reachable range calculation apparatus, method, and program

Systems and methods for toolstring communication in cable telemetry. The methods involve positioning a cable telemetry system in a wellbore. The cable telemetry system can include a surface modem, a downhole toolstring of downhole tools, a downhole modem operatively coupled to the downhole toolstring, a cable operatively coupling between the surface modem and the downhole modem, and a surface data routing module that polls and trains the cable telemetry system. The methods also involve performing a pre-transmission poll of a rate requirement for the downhole toolstring and a telemetry type for the downhole modem, applying a training phase to establish a transmission link between the surface modem and the downhole modem, configuring data obtained by the downhole toolstring for an uplink via the transmission link, and transmitting the uplink via the transmission link.

Toolstring communication in cable telemetry

A disk brake includes a caliper body having a cylinder portion () with a cylindrical shape. The cylinder portion () has a bore () with a bottom () formed by integrally joining together an opening peripheral edge () at the bottom side of the cylinder portion () and a bottom cover member () to be fitted to the opening peripheral edge () through friction stir welding. The bottom cover member () has a disk shape and is friction-stir-welded along the outer periphery thereof. The terminating point of the friction stir welding is within the boundaries of the bottom cover member ().

Disk brake

A disk brake is provided which is free from problems attributed to the obverse-reverse orientation of a cover member as installed. A cylinder portion () slidably accommodating a piston is formed from a plate-shaped cover member () constituting the bottom thereof and a caliper body main part () having an opening () that is closed with the cover member (). The cover member () is joined to the caliper body main part () to close the opening (). A projection () is provided on one side of the cover member () that faces inside the cylinder portion (), and a blind hole () is provided on the other side of the cover member (). When the cover member () has been installed in the normal orientation, the blind hole () remains after the outer surface of the bottom of the caliper body has been subjected to face cutting after the installation of the cover member ().

Disk brake and method of producing the same

A vehicle drive support system, and its method, includes a storage apparatus for storing charging station information to manage attribute information containing position information of charging stations, a communication apparatus for receiving a route search request containing an origin, a destination, and a residual quantity in a battery from a mobile and transmitting a response to the route search request, and a route search processing unit for searching a route passing through the charging stations while maintaining a state in which the residual quantity in the battery is greater than 0 between the origin and the destination by using position information of the charging stations contained in the charging station information in response to the route search request received by the communication apparatus, and giving the searched route as the response to the route search request.

Vehicle operation support system and vehicle operation support method

Methods and systems for borehole telemetry utilizing a tool configured or designed for deployment in a borehole traversing a subterranean formation. The tool includes a downhole telemetry module; a surface telemetry module; and a datalink between the downhole and surface modules configured or designed for transferring data over one or more data communication channels utilizing at least one telemetry scheme selected from a plurality of telemetry schemes based on at least one downhole parameter.

Methods and systems for borehole telemetry

A pulse current from a pulse current supply side is fed to a middle part of an anode holding body to which anodes are connected; both end portions of a cathode holding body, to which cathodes are connected, are connected to a negative pole on the pulse power source side; and inductances of wiring between adjacent anodes and inductances of wiring between adjacent cathodes are set at a ratio of 1:2:3:4 in a direction of spacing from a connection to the pulse power source side. Pulse currents are equally fed to each work and it can be ensured that chromium plating treatment of each work is made equal.

Method of manufacturing chromium plated article and chromium plating apparatus

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Yuichi Kobayashi