Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Yuichi Watanabe

Sei Uemura

Manabu Kitazawa

Yoshinori Wada

Toshihide Kamata

Takashi Nakamura

Satoru Ohashi

Hiroyasu Koto

Masato Miyakawa

Masateru Nishioka

A microwave heating method using a microwave, including: controlling a frequency of the microwave, to form a single-mode standing wave; disposing an object to be heated in a magnetic field region where a strength of a magnetic field formed by the single-mode standing wave is uniform and maximum; and heating the object to be heated by magnetic heat generation by magnetic loss caused by an action of the magnetic field of the magnetic field region, and/or induction heating by an induced current generated in the object to be heated due to the magnetic field of the magnetic field region.

Microwave heating method, microwave heating apparatus, and chemical reaction method

A membrane switch in which a first conductive part is formed on a first substrate, a second conductive part is formed on a second substrate, and the substrates are layered via a spacer such that the conductive parts face each other with a space therebetween, and an organic material showing piezoelectricity is filled, or disposed in the space such that an air gap is present, are useful for obtaining an output signal corresponding to an applied pressure.

Membrane switch and object employing same

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Tsukuba, Japan

Yuichi Watanabe