Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation

Actuator Solutions Gmbh

Kyocera Corporation

Yusuke Suzuki

Kazuhiro Saito

Masayuki Tanaka

Katsuya Yamashita

Shogo Iwai

Kunihiko Wada

Takeo Suga

Asako Inomata

Takao Inukai

Yasuteru Kawai

Hiroshi Ohno

Takahiro Terada

Makoto Sasaki

Yutaka Ishiwata

Markus Köpfer

Alex Chen

Yoshikazu Ninomiya

Shanying Pan

Shiguma Kato

Hideshi Nakano

Aya Watase

Masaya Kawakita

Seiji Yamada

Kotaro Kobayashi

Morihiro Machida

Masaki Tano

Markus Koepfer

Yasutaka Kawada

Shota Nakajima

Shinichi Terada

Kazunari Iwakawa

Koji Saijo

Tetsuya Shitaka

Yuka Tsukada

Ray Hu

Osamu Tanaka

Yuujiro Nakatani

Masayoshi Kondo

Tom Nicolaisen

Romaric Peri

Tomohiro Hamaguchi

There is provided a pit initiation evaluation system or the like capable of predicting pit initiation effectively and at low cost. In a pit initiation evaluation system of an embodiment, a pit initiation evaluation unit creates and retains, based on a dry-wet alternate time data, a deposit impurity concentration data, and a pit initiation data on pitting corrosion initiated in each of a plurality of turbine stages when an operation is actually performed in the steam turbine, a pit initiation evaluation table presenting a relationship between a dry-wet alternate time, a deposit impurity concentration, and pit initiation. Further, the pit initiation evaluation unit is configured to evaluate, by using the pit initiation evaluation table, pitting corrosion to be initiated in each of the plurality of turbine stages in an operation planned for the steam turbine.

Pit initiation evaluation system, and, pit initiation evaluation method

A damage evaluation device evaluates damage of equipment, including an operation data obtaining unit which detects a state of the equipment to obtain the state as operation data; an operating state quantity evaluation unit which calculates an operating state quantity including at least one of temperature and generated stress at a predetermined evaluation-target site of the equipment, based on the operation data; a material deterioration evaluation unit which evaluates a material deterioration quantity of a material forming the equipment, based on the operating state quantity; a risk evaluation unit which evaluates at least one of a cumulative damage quantity of the material forming the equipment and failure risk, based on the operating state quantity and the material deterioration quantity; and a recommended maintenance time presentation unit which presents a recommended maintenance time of the equipment based on a result of the evaluation of the risk evaluation unit.

Damage evaluation device, damage evaluation method

A blade damage evaluation apparatus includes: a registration unit for design information of a turbine and maintenance information; an acquisition processor for detection data of sensors; a first discrimination processor for first facility states of the turbine at a plurality of past time points; a classification processor for classes Cof a plurality of first facility states; a first determination processor for first operating state values of the turbine; another registration unit for first damage rates at past time points; a setting processor of a characteristic function for each of the classes C; a second discrimination processor for a second facility state of the turbine at the current time point; a second determination processor for a second operating state value of the turbine at the current time point; and an analyzer for a second damage rate at the current time point.

Blade damage evaluation apparatus, blade damage evaluation method, and blade damage evaluation program

An aperture device actuated by a shape memory alloy wire controls two overlapping shuttering surfaces. The two shuttering surfaces control the amount of light transmitted through a lens assembly. The shape memory alloy wire is actuated by a flexible printed circuit which controls a lever slotted to both shuttering surfaces. By Joule heating, the electric current controls the shape of the wire, actuating the aperture device.

Variable iris device with shape memory alloy element

An electronic device according to a first aspect comprises an imaging device and a processor. The imaging device has a predetermined imaging region, and is configured to capture images having different focal distances. The processor is configured to execute a first process of identifying two or more focus identification regions included in a first imaging region included in the predetermined imaging region by comparing the captured images in the first imaging region, and a second process of interpolating a focal distance of a middle region not belonging to the two or more focus identification regions in the first imaging region. The second process includes a process of interpolating the focal distance of the middle region based on a focal distance of an interpolation focus region that is located inside or outside the middle region and that is one of the two or more focus identification regions.

Electronic device, method, and program

A device for manufacturing a layered object includes a container, a vibration unit, and an energy beam irradiation unit. The container includes a stage, a wall surrounding the stage, and a lid. The vibration unit vibrates raw material powder to planarize a face of the raw material powder supplied into the container. The energy beam irradiation unit irradiates part of the raw material powder with an energy beam to form part of the layered object. The lid presses the raw material powder when the vibration unit vibrates the raw material powder. A space is formed between the wall and the lid in the container when the lid is in contact with the raw material powder. The raw material powder is allowed to flow into the space.

Device for manufacturing layered object and method of manufacturing layered object

A nozzle device according to an embodiment includes a first opening, a plurality of second openings, and a first duct part. The first duct part includes at least one first branching part having a first part extending in a first direction and a plurality of second parts connected to a first end of the first part and extending in respective directions intersecting with the first direction. The first duct part connects the first opening and the second openings and is branched at least once by the first branching part in a path extending from the first opening to the second openings. The path lengths and the numbers of first branching parts between the first opening and the respective second openings are the same. The cross-sectional area of the first end of the first part is smaller than the cross-sectional area of a second end of the first part.

Nozzle device and processing apparatus

An autofocus actuator for camera modules and control method thereof, the autofocus actuator incorporating a shape memory alloy wire as actuating element, at least 4 spheres as sliding aids, and including a return elastic element mounted between an autofocus housing and a lens carrier and exerting a force only in the optical axis direction.

Camera module autofocus actuator and control method thereof

An auto-focus actuator unit including a lens carrier slidably received within a stationary housing frame for a reciprocating motion provided by an actuator is described. The housing frame being carried by a bottom plate provided with an opening, in correspondence with one or more lenses carried by the lens carrier, and with a dust barrier projecting towards the lens carrier and having such a height as to maintain a vertical overlap with the lens carrier over the whole travel of the latter.

Auto-focus actuator unit with dust barrier for camera module

A steam turbineof an embodiment has seal ringsbetween an inlet sleevefor introducing steam and an inner casingand an outer casinginto which the inlet sleeveis inserted. The seal ringshave high-temperature side seal ringswhich are disposed their inner circumferences contacted to the outer circumference of the inlet sleeve, and low-temperature side seal ringswhich are formed to have inner and outer diameters larger than those of the high-temperature side seal ringsand disposed with their outer circumferences contacted to the inner casingor the outer casing. A thermal barrier layeris disposed between the inner circumferences of the high-temperature side seal ringsand the outer circumference of the inlet sleeveand between the high-temperature side seal ringsand the low-temperature side seal rings

Steam turbine

In one embodiment, a steam device includes a high-temperature member and a low-temperature member. One surface of the high-temperature member is exposed to high-temperature steam, and the other surface is cooled by cooling steam having a temperature lower than the high-temperature steam. The low-temperature member is disposed to face the high-temperature member with a passage for the cooling steam therebetween and is formed of a material having a heat resistance lower than that of the high-temperature member. The steam device has at least one high-reflectance film selected from a first high-reflectance film, which is formed on the surface of the high-temperature member which is exposed to the high-temperature steam and has a higher reflectance with respect to infrared rays than the high-temperature member, and a second high-reflectance film, which is formed on the surface of the low-temperature member facing the high-temperature member and has a higher reflectance with respect to infrared rays than the low-temperature member.

Steam device

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Yokohama, Japan

Yusuke Suzuki