Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd.

Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation

Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd.

Inpex Corporation

Jx Nippon Oil Energy Corporation

Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd.

Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd.

Subaru Corporation

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Nippon Oil Corporation

Kyocera Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

S.t. Corporation

S.t. Chemical Co., Ltd.

Yuichi Tanaka

Kazuhiko Tasaka

Marie Iwama

Hiroshi Fujimoto

Hironobu Shinohara

Hiroshi Shirasawa

Shinji Kiuchi

Yasutake Akizuki

Toshiki Fukui

Takuya Niitsuma

Fumiyuki Moriya

Kenichi Kawazuishi

Kazuki Furuta

Yasumasa Morita

Katsuhiko Fukumoto

Hidekatsu Honda

Shinya Takahashi

Toshihiko Kaneko

Hiroshi Ienaga

Kazuhito Sato

Hiroko Watanabe

Hiroshi Tatekawa

Sze Yun Set

Norihiko Ookouchi

Hirohito Ayame

Toshiaki Matsumura

Chikako Hirohashi

Tatsuro Ohira

Naoyuki Matsui

Mark Kenneth Jablonski

Kazuki Fujisawa

A battery pack to be mounted on a vehicle includes a battery, a passage unit, a gas pump, a first valve, and an arithmetic and control unit. The passage unit is disposed on at least one of sides of the battery. The passage unit allows fluid to flow through an inside of the passage unit. The gas pump operates with electric power of the battery. The gas pump draws gas in the inside of the passage unit. The first valve shuts off a fluid passage through which the gas is to be supplied to the inside of the passage unit. The arithmetic and control unit controls the gas pump and the first valve, and performs a first temperature regulating process. The process includes driving the gas pump while the first valve is not shut off, and then drawing the gas from the inside of the passage unit.

Battery pack

An HEV-CU determines whether a traveling state requires giving priority to a front and rear driving force control (e.g., whether a vehicle is cornering) on the basis of a traveling state of the vehicle. If the traveling state requires giving priority to the front and rear driving force control (e.g., the vehicle is cornering), the HEV-CU-preferentially controls of an engine and a motor generator as well as engagement force of a differential limiting clutch in accordance with friction force between front and rear wheels and a road surface. If the traveling state does not require giving priority to the front and rear driving force control (e.g., the vehicle is traveling straight), the HEV-CU preferentially controls the driving of the motor generator to cause a charged state (SOC) of a high-voltage battery that supplies electric power to the motor generator to fall within a predetermined range.

Control apparatus for all-wheel-drive hybrid electric vehicle

An RFID tag includes an RFID device, an output device and a controller. The RFID device includes a storage from and into which information is readable and writable from a reading/writing apparatus through wireless communication. The output device outputs information. The controller reads information for output from the storage and controls the output device. The storage includes a first region into which the information for output is written and a second region separate from the first region. The controller updates data of the second region in response to updating output of the output device.

RFID tag and RFID tag system

An RFID tag includes an RFID device and a controller. The RFID device includes a storage into which data is writable from a writing apparatus through wireless communication. The controller reads object information of output stored in the storage and causes an output device to output the read object information. In response to the object information being written into the storage, the controller reads the object information after an elapse of a set waiting time. The storage includes a storage region into which setting data of the waiting time is writable from the writing apparatus.

A control apparatus for hybrid electric vehicle includes a shift operation detector and an electric motor controller. The shift operation detector detects an input of a shift operation. The electric motor controller controls an electric motor of the hybrid electric vehicle to generate motor torque directed to decreasing of torque difference, on a condition that: the input of the shift operation from a first stage into a second stage is detected by the shift operation detector; and first torque and second torque are different in magnitude from each other by the torque difference. The first torque is torque that is to be transmitted to a drive wheel during shifting of the automatic transmission. The second torque is torque that is to be transmitted to the drive wheel after the shifting of the automatic transmission is completed.

Control apparatus for hybrid electric vehicle

A cooling apparatus for an in-vehicle device includes a cooler, a traffic congestion determining unit, a cooling amount calculator, and a cooler controller. The cooling amount calculator calculates first and second cooling amounts respectively based on a heat-generation amount of a heat-generating device and a noise level inside a vehicle. The cooler controller controls the cooler on the basis of a set cooling amount. The cooler controller controls the cooler to cool the heat-generating device on the basis of the set cooling amount larger than the first cooling amount and equal to or smaller than the second cooling amount and limits a decrease rate of the set cooling amount to be smaller than an increase rate of the set cooling amount, on a condition that the traveling road is determined by the traffic congestion determining unit as being congested and the first cooling amount is smaller than the second cooling amount.

Cooling apparatus for in-vehicle device

This invention provides a base material comprising a plastic-containing support and, on its surface, a hydrophilic layer comprising an ethylene glycol chain (an EG chain) composed of one or more ethylene glycol units, as well as a method for producing such base material. A polysiloxane-containing primer layer is provided on the support comprising a plastic material on its surface, and the EG chain is covalently bound to a polysiloxane side chain of the primer layer. Thus, a hydrophilic layer comprising the EG chain can be provided on the surface of the plastic-containing support.

Base material comprising hydrophilic layer

The method for cleaning a reactor of the present invention comprises passing a solvent through a wax-fraction hydrocracking apparatus which is charged with a catalyst and to which supply of a wax fraction is stopped, wherein the solvent comprising at least one oil selected from a group consisting of hydrocarbon and vegetable oils, and having a sulfur content of less than 5 ppm and being in a liquid state at 15&#xb0; C.

Method for washing reactor

There is provided a hydrocarbon distillation separation apparatus for fractionally distilling hydrocarbon compounds discharged from a Fisher-Tropsch synthesis reactor synthesizing hydrocarbon compounds, comprising a heavy hydrocarbon fractionator configured to fractionally distil liquid heavy components of the hydrocarbon compounds discharged from the reactor into a first middle distillate and a wax fraction, a light hydrocarbon fractionator configured to fractionally distil gaseous light components of the hydrocarbon compounds discharged from the reactor into a second middle distillate and a light gas fraction, a light hydrocarbon separator configured to separate hydrocarbon compounds equivalent to naphtha from the light gas fraction; and a mixing section configured to mix the first and second middle distillates, and the hydrocarbon compounds equivalent to naphtha separated from the light gas fraction by the light hydrocarbon separator.

Hydrocarbon compound distillation separation apparatus

A vehicle controller includes a camera unit that detects driving conditions of a preceding vehicle; a re-acceleration determiner that determines based on the driving conditions of the preceding vehicle whether or not a re-acceleration state in which the preceding vehicle decelerates and then accelerates occurs; and a rotation controller that, if it is determined that the vehicle is in a re-acceleration state, maintains the engine speed of the engine not less than a lower limit.

Vehicle controller

A control system allows controlling a nuclear facility in an evacuation area. The control system includes a control device in ordinary use disposed in a non-evacuation area, an emergency control device&#x2014;for emergency in the evacuation area, a plant control facility connectable to the control device&#x2014;and the emergency control device, a signal switching unit that switches from a normal coupling to an emergency coupling based on an emergency switch signal, a first selector switch in the non-evacuation area, a second selector switch-in the evacuation area, an AND circuit configured to output the emergency switch signal to the signal switching unit in the case where the emergency switch signal is input from the first selector switch and the emergency switch signal is input from the second selector switch.

Control system for nuclear facility and control method for nuclear facility

A vehicle controller includes an electric motor connected to wheels, a power storage device connected to the electric motor, a charge/discharge controller that controls charge/discharge of the power storage device, a first traveling controller that controls the electric motor in accordance with a driver's operation, and a second traveling controller that controls the electric motor in accordance with a cruise function that automatically controls a vehicle speed. When the first traveling controller controls the electric motor, the charge/discharge controller controls charge/discharge power of the power storage device within a first charge/discharge range. When the second traveling controller controls the electric motor, the charge/discharge controller controls charge/discharge power of the power storage device within a second charge/discharge range that is wider than the first charge/discharge range.

A nuclear power plant control system () includes a control button () which receives an operation for controlling a control target device (), a notification lamp () which notifies that a control signal corresponding to the operation received by the control button () arrives at a predetermined position on a path connected from a control panel () to the control target device (), and a control signal inhibition unit () which inhibits a control signal from arriving at the control target device () in midstream between the predetermined position on the path and the control target device () in response to an operation received by a test permission button ().

Nuclear power plant control system and method of testing nuclear power plant

A nuclear power control system includes: a safety protection apparatus which outputs a first safety mode operating signal while outputting a first unsafety mode operating signal; a CCF apparatus that outputs a second safety mode operating signal; and a signal input/output circuit that is connected to the safety protection apparatus and the CCF apparatus. The signal input/output circuit includes an OR circuit that outputs a third safety mode operating signal based on the presence or absence of an input of the first safety mode operating signal and the second safety mode operating signal; a NOT circuit that is connected to the output side of the OR circuit; and an AND circuit that outputs a third unsafety mode operating signal, and the presence and absence of an input of a first unsafety mode operating signal.

Control system and method for nuclear power facility

A reactor shutdown system includes a reactor, a control-rod drive unit that can drive a control rod in pulling and inserting directions with respect to a fuel assembly, a power source that can supply power to the control-rod drive unit, and a power converter that is provided between the control-rod drive unit and the power source, in which when power supply is cut off, the control-rod drive unit inserts the control rod into the fuel assembly to stop nuclear reaction in the reactor, and the reactor shutdown system includes a reactor trip breaker provided between the power converter and the control-rod drive unit, a safety protection-system device that controls the reactor trip breaker to cut off power supply to the control-rod drive unit, and a CCF device that controls the power converter to cut off power supply to the control-rod drive unit.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuichi Tanaka