| MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD. Patent applications |
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| 20120136589 | NUCLEAR-POWER-PLANT SOUNDNESS EVALUATION SYSTEM - A nuclear-power-plant soundness evaluation system includes a stress-distribution calculating unit that outputs a stress distribution and an identified crack generating part; a crack-growth prediction unit that predicts how the crack will grow from the crack generating part; and a soundness maintenance unit that has a maintenance database in which crack-growth prediction results and maintenance measures are associated and reads out from the maintenance database a maintenance measure corresponding to the crack-growth prediction result and presents the read-out maintenance information to a user. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120135561 | PHOTOELECTRIC-CONVERSION-DEVICE FABRICATION METHOD - An object is to obtain a high-efficiency photoelectric conversion device having a crystalline silicon i-layer in a photoelectric conversion layer. Disclosed is a fabrication method for a photoelectric conversion device that includes a step of forming, on a substrate, a photoelectric conversion layer having an i-layer formed mainly of crystalline silicon. The method includes the steps of determining an upper limit of an impurity concentration in the i-layer according to the Raman ratio of the i-layer; and forming the i-layer so as to have a value equal to or less than the determined upper limit of the impurity concentration. Alternatively, an upper limit of impurity-gas concentration in a film-formation atmosphere is determined according to the Raman ratio of the i-layer, and the i-layer is formed while controlling the impurity-gas concentration so as to have a value equal to or less than the determined upper limit. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120135164 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD - Provided are a plasma processing apparatus and a plasma processing method, wherein a substrate supporting table is supported such that nonuniformity of heat release is eliminated and maintenance is facilitated. In the plasma CVD apparatus ( | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120134846 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - Provided is a wind turbine generator that prevents an increase of weight of a wind turbine blade and a reduction in ventilation efficiency and that realizes good ventilation cooling of a rotor head with a simple structure. The wind turbine generator includes: a hollow interior space formed in a wind turbine blade; an exhaust path provided through a wind-turbine-blade forming member at a tip end of the wind turbine blade or in a vicinity of the tip end, so as to allow the interior space to communicate with an outside of the wind turbine blade; and an opening that allows the interior space to communicate with a rotor head main body. Ventilation cooling inside the rotor head main body is performed by using a pressure difference between the tip end of the wind turbine blade and the rotor head main body, produced by a rotation of the wind turbine blade. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120134827 | PITCH DRIVING UNIT FOR FOR WIND-TURBINE ROTOR BLADE AND WIND POWER GENERATOR EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A pitch driving unit according to the present invention is equipped with hydraulic actuators that change the pitch angles of wind turbine blades; a hydraulic pump that supplies oil to the hydraulic actuators; a high-pressure oil line that guides the oil discharged from the hydraulic pump to the hydraulic actuators; a low-pressure oil line that returns the oil discharged from the hydraulic actuators to the hydraulic pump; and a pressure control unit that stores a surplus amount of the oil and that refills the low-pressure oil line with the oil so as not to generate negative pressure at an oil intake portion of the hydraulic pump, wherein the hydraulic actuators | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120134818 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - A wind turbine generator includes: a rotor hub configured to be provided inside a rotor head and contain apparatuses; a hatch configured to be provided in a front of the rotor hub; and a heat exchanger configured to be provided in an opening of the hatch. The heat exchanger includes: a partition portion configured to be put on the opening, and heat exchanging members configured to be provided so as to penetrate the partition portion, a side of one end being located inside the rotor hub and a side of the other end being located outside the rotor hub. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120134801 | BLADE PITCH CONTROLLER, WIND TURBINE GENERATOR, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING BLADE PITCH - A hydraulic cylinder is coupled to blades of a wind turbine generator and actuated to change a pitch angle of the blade. A variable displacement hydraulic pump supplies hydraulic oil to the hydraulic cylinder, and a discharge pressure of the pump does not follow a load pressure. When the discharge pressure of the hydraulic pump becomes a set pressure, a pressure control valve is opened to change a discharge amount of the hydraulic pump, and to make the discharge pressure of the hydraulic pump to be a pressure smaller than a cut off pressure. Further, a setting control unit sets the set pressure based on the hydraulic pressure that the hydraulic cylinder requires such that the set pressure becomes a minimum pressure required to change the pitch angle to a predetermined angle by the hydraulic cylinder. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120133342 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND SURPLUS ENERGY CONTROL METHOD FOR WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - A wind turbine generator includes a synchronous generator that generates electric power via rotation of a rotor provided with blades that receive wind and that supplies the generated electric power to a utility grid, and a sea water resistor in which sea water serves as a resistive element. When the output power of the synchronous generator drops suddenly because of a momentary power interruption caused by a fault occurring on the utility grid, thus producing surplus energy, the sea water resistor consumes, in the form of electric power, the surplus energy that cannot be supplied to the utility grid from among the electric power generated at the synchronous generator. Because the sea water resistor uses sea water as the resistive element, the problem of heat generation hardly ever arises, and because the sea water can be easily exchanged, it is not affected by lifetime or on-time limitations. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120133147 | TURNING DEVICE FOR WIND TURBINE ROTOR AND WIND TURBINE GENERATOR INCLUDING THE SAME - A turning device includes a brake disc, functioning as a driven-side friction pulley, which is disposed on an output shaft of a gearbox and rotates together with the output shaft; a motor-side friction pulley, which can move between an engagement position, where the motor-side friction pulley frictionally engages with an outer circumferential surface of the brake disc, and a free position, where the motor-side friction pulley is a certain distance away from the outer circumferential surface of the brake disc; a pulley pressing mechanism, which moves the motor-side friction pulley from the free position to the engagement position by manual power of an operator to frictionally engage the motor-side friction pulley with the outer circumferential surface of the brake disc; and pulley driving means (electric motor, etc.) for rotationally driving the motor-side friction pulley. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120133146 | DETECTING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING LIGHTNING STRIKE, WIND TURBINE BLADE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME, WIND TURBINE GENERATOR, METHOD FOR DETECTING LIGHTNING STRIKE - A lightning-strike detecting apparatus comprises: receptors (lightning members) that are provided at a plurality of locations on a wind turbine blade; lightning conductors that extend from these receptors to guide lightning-strike current to ground; a plurality of optical-fiber current sensors that are provided on the respective lightning conductors, detect lightning-strike current flowing in the lightning conductors, and output an optical signal; an optical signal converter that receives the individual optical signal output from these optical-fiber current sensors, converts the optical signals to the respective characteristic electrical signals, and outputs the electrical signals; and a controller that identifies the type of the electrical signal input from the optical signal converter, determines a lightning-strike spot on the basis of the type, and reports the lightning-strike spots. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120133143 | LIGHTNING STRIKE DETECTOR FOR HOLLOW STRUCTURE, WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE, AND WIND TURBINE GENERATOR EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A lightning strike detector that can promptly detect a lightning strike to ensure safety and can accurately determine the position struck by the lightning with a simple, inexpensive, and highly reliable structure, is provided. The lightning strike detector includes an environment-detecting sensor member that detects a change in the environment of the internal space of a wind turbine blade, serving as a hollow structure, when the wind turbine blade is struck by lightning and is damaged, converts the environmental change into an electrical signal, and outputs the electrical signal; and a control unit (nacelle-side control system and ground-side control system) that receives the electrical signal, judges whether a lightning strike has occurred, and takes countermeasures against the lightning strike. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120133132 | WIND-POWER-STATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND WIND-POWER-STATION CONTROL METHOD - A wind-power-station control apparatus is provided in a wind power station having a plurality of wind turbine generators. To reduce the electrical power supplied from the wind power station to the utility grid, the wind-power-station control apparatus performs, for a wind turbine generator whose actual output electrical power is small relative to the maximum electrical power that can be output, among the plurality of wind turbine generators, output-power reduction control for reducing the output power thereof and increasing the rotational speed of the rotor thereof. Thus, even when control for reducing the output power is performed for the wind turbine generator, it is possible to suppress waste of the wind energy received by the blades and to increase the total annual amount of generated electrical power. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120132619 | GAS EXHAUST STRUCTURE, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PLASMA PROCESSING - A gas discharge structure, and a device and a method for plasma processing which are capable of a uniform gas discharge and have improved maintainability. A pendulum gate valve ( | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120132265 | PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - A photovoltaic device that exhibits superior electric power generation efficiency due to suppression of diffusion of oxygen from a transparent electrode layer into a microcrystalline silicon p-layer. A photovoltaic device ( | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120131891 | MOISTURE SEPARATOR - A moisture separator where a corrugated plate | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120131869 | BUILDING - The building of the present invention includes a wall making a boundary of a room, an inner wall formed by a group including first and second tubular structures and arranged on the wall as one body, and an air conditioner arranged in the room. The first tubular structure has a first ventilation hole, where gas blown into the first tubular structure from the air conditioner and passed through the first tubular structure with substantially no leakage is blown out, at a to-be-arranged position of a first storage equipment which is to be arranged in the room. The second tubular structure has a second ventilation hole, where the gas blown into the second tubular structure from the air conditioner and passed through the second tubular structure with substantially no leakage is blown out, at a to-be-arranged position of a second storage equipment which is to be arranged in the room. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120130678 | WIND TURBINE MONITORING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Status monitoring of a wind turbine is automatically performed, and evaluation of that status is quantitatively performed according to an appropriate criterion. Provided is a wind turbine monitoring device including a first storage unit in which a diagnostic data file is stored; a second storage unit in which a normal data file is stored; a diagnostics setting unit that that extracts and sets a plurality of datasets to be used in diagnosis from the first storage unit and that extracts and sets a plurality of datasets to be used in diagnosis from the second storage unit; an index-value calculating unit that calculates status index values representing the status of the wind turbine using a statistical calculation method, on the basis of the set datasets in the diagnostic data file and the datasets in the reference data file; a fault determining unit that evaluates the status of the wind turbine on the basis of the status index values; and a notification unit that notifies the result of this evaluation. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120130640 | DIFFUSION STATE PREDICTION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Diffusion calculation is performed with a shorter processing time and superior precision. Provided are a calculation-grid determining unit ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120129042 | BATTERY MODULE - A battery module includes: a first electrical cell and a second electrical cell, each including a battery case having an electrode terminal with one between a concave portion and a convex portion; a fixing member for fitting to the one; and an interconnection member including an interconnection material, a waterproof resin for covering the interconnection material other than a portion that the interconnection material contacts the electrode terminal, and a first projection extending from the waterproof resin and formed around the contact portion, wherein the interconnection member is fixed between the first and the second electrical cells by the fitting, and the first projection surrounds the electrode terminal to improve air-tightness of the interconnection member. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128540 | AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DEVICE - An air pollution control device is an air pollution control device for reducing the amounts of NOx and Hg contained in flue gas | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128114 | NUCLEAR FUEL STORAGE RACK CONNECTION STRUCTURE AND CONNECTION METHOD THEREOF - The nuclear fuel storage rack connection structure is used for connecting a plurality of nuclear fuel storage racks which are stored so as to be arrayed and arranged underwater inside a storage pit, with nuclear fuel assemblies being accommodated. The nuclear fuel storage rack connection structure is provided with an engagement receiving portion which is installed on an outer circumference of the nuclear fuel storage rack and which has an engagement hole opened above or an engagement groove. An engagement member is inserted and engaged with the engagement receiving portion in a vertical direction to connect the mutually adjacent nuclear fuel storage racks. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126150 | TRANSPORTATION CONTAINER OF FUEL ASSEMBLY - There are provided: a container body ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120125891 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD - Provided are a plasma processing apparatus and a plasma processing method wherein particles generated due to the inner potential of an inner cylinder disposed inside of a vacuum container are reduced. The plasma processing apparatus has, inside of a metal vacuum chamber ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120125522 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING JOINTED MEMBER AND FRICTION STIR WELDING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a technique for producing a jointed member by subjecting two to-be-jointed members which are contacted each other to friction stir welding. The method for producing a jointed member executes a dwelling step in which a probe is rotated only for a predetermined period at least one of a probe starting point position which is a position of the probe for forming a joint starting point in the to-be-jointed member and a probe end point position which is a position of the probe for forming a joint end point in the to-be-jointed member. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120125006 | GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR AND GAS TURBINE - In a gas turbine combustor and a gas turbine, an air passage ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120124984 | POWER GENERATING APPARATUS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY TYPE - A power generating apparatus includes a rotating shaft, a hydraulic pump driven by the rotating shaft, a hydraulic motor driven by operating oil supplied from the hydraulic pump; and a generator coupled to the hydraulic motor. The apparatus further includes an oil line connected to the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor for circulating the operating oil between the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor, an oil cooler connected to the oil line for cooling the operating oil by heat exchange with a cooling medium, a cooling-medium line supplying the cooling medium to the oil cooler; a bypass line diverging from at least one of the oil line and the cooling-medium line and merging into at least one of the oil line and the cooling-medium line to bypass the oil cooler; and a flow regulating valve in at least one of the oil line and the cooling-medium line. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120123699 | FLAW-DETECTION APPARATUS AND FLAW-DETECTION METHOD - Noise included in detection signals is distinguished with a simple configuration. Provided is a flaw-detection apparatus ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121447 | ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN TURBOCHARGER DEVICE - Inside of a gas-tight housing, an electric motor, an inverter and a compressor are housed. Further, an intake air pipe is connected to the gas-tight housing. Inside of the gas-tight housing, an intake air flow passage is formed. Further, a connection opening of an outside air induction pipe provided with a flow rate regulating valve is arranged so as to face a suction opening of a compressor. When the delivery air flow rate as well as the delivery air pressure of the compressor is reduced due to the pressure loss and the like of the intake air ‘a’ which passes through the air flow passage and cools the electric motor and the inverter, an outside air ‘o’ of low temperature is induced so that: the capacity shortage as well as the performance deterioration of the compressor is constrained; and the over-heating of the compressor is constrained. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121400 | COMPRESSOR OF EXHAUST GAS TURBOCHARGER - A compressor of an exhaust gas turbocharger has an inlet slit, an outlet slit and the recirculation passage can formed at the same time when the compressor housing assembled. Ease of assembly and the reduction of the production cost is achieved. The structure of the inlet slit, the outlet slit and the recirculation passage can be compact and can be easily adjusted. Noises generated in the compressor impeller can be reduced without providing a noise insulation cover. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121394 | TURBINE AND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE - An object is to provide a turbine and a turbine rotor blade in which it is possible to ensure the strength of the turbine rotor blade and to improve the performance thereof. The turbine includes: rotor blades that rotate about a rotational axis in a main flow channel of a casing; stator vanes that are disposed in the casing; a tip shroud that is disposed at a radially-outward end of each of the rotor blades and whose length in the direction along the rotational axis is reduced as the distance from the rotor blade increases; and a cavity portion that is formed at a position in the casing facing the rotor blades and in which the tip shroud is accommodated. An inclination angle of the inner periphery of the tip shroud is larger than an average inclination angle that is an inclination angle of the inner periphery of the casing, averaged from the trailing edge of the stator vanes disposed at the upstream side of a main flow to the cavity portion disposed at the downstream side of the main flow. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121055 | OPERATIONAL SUPPORT DEVICE AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT METHOD FOR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - Provided are an operation support device and an operation support method for a nuclear power plant which are capable of accurately grasping the condition of a nuclear power plant and capable of offering support for instantly performing a predetermined operation by an operator when an unusual situation occurs. The operation support device for a nuclear power plant is provided with an operation state check display unit ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119733 | INSPECTION DEVICE - An inspection device that is capable of inspecting all heat-transfer-tube sealing portions in a steam generator and that is also capable of analyzing a defect shape is provided. An inspection device that employs the eddy-current flaw detection method to inspect the presence/absence of a defect in a welded portion ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119688 | CONTROL BOARD, INVERTER DEVICE AND INTEGRATED-INVERTER ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR - An object is to provide a control board, an inverter device, and an integrated-inverter electric compressor that are capable of improving electromagnetic compatibility (EMC property) and improving reliability against input/output of electromagnetic noise, which shows a tendency towards greater complexity and intensity. A control board ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120118539 | VEHICLE HEAT-EXCHANGE MODULE - An object is to provide a vehicle heat-exchange module that is capable of reducing abnormal sound generated by interference between rotor blades of a propeller fan and high-static-pressure regions generated at leading edges of stator blades, while decreasing the input power of a fan motor by providing the stator blades on the downstream side of the propeller fan. In a vehicle heat-exchange module including a fan motor that drives a propeller fan, the fan motor is supported to the fan shroud at a downstream side of the propeller fan via motor support struts formed into stator blades in a radiating pattern, and a distance between stator blades formed of the motor support struts and rotor blades of the propeller fan for a narrowest portion at the same position in the radial direction is at least 0.018D | 05-17-2012 | |
| 20120118360 | SOLAR CELL MODULE, SOLAR CELL PANEL, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SOLAR CELL MODULE, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SOLAR CELL PANEL - A solar cell module, a solar cell panel, a process for producing a solar cell module and a process for producing a solar cell panel that are capable of inhibiting EVA protrusions and recesses, and capable of inhibiting penetration of moisture into the interior of the solar cell module. The solar cell module comprises a transparent substrate and a back substrate disposed across a photovoltaic layer, an inner seal portion disposed between, and surrounding the periphery of, the transparent substrate and the back substrate, a gap formed in a portion of the inner seal portion and linking a region in which an encapsulant is disposed with the outside, an encapsulant disposed inside the region surrounded by the transparent substrate, the back substrate and the inner seal portion, and an outer seal portion that covers the gap. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120118350 | ORGANIC DEVICES, ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICES AND ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS - An organic device, including an organic compound having charge-transporting ability (i.e., transporting holes and/or electrons) and/or including organic light emissive molecules capable of emitting at least one of fluorescent light or phosphorescent light, has a charge transfer complex-contained layer including a charge transfer complex formed upon contact of an organic hole-transporting compound and molybdenum trioxide via a manner of lamination or mixing thereof, so that the organic hole-transporting compound is in a state of radical cation (i.e., positively charged species) in the charge transfer complex-contained layer. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120117928 | MULTI-STAGE STEAM-WATER SEPARATION DEVICE AND STEAM-WATER SEPARATOR - In a multi-stage steam-water separation device and a steam-water separator, a first swirl vane ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120117774 | REACTOR VESSEL REPAIR METHOD - In a reactor vessel ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120115224 | CULTURE METHODS OF BONE MARROW STROMAL CELLS AND MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS, AND MANUFACTURE METHOD OF GRAFT CELLS FOR CENTRAL NERVE SYSTEM DISEASES THERAPY - In a culture method of the present invention, by culturing bone marrow stromal cells or mesenchymal stem cells under a pseudo micro-gravity environment generated by multi-axis rotation, bone marrow stromal cells or mesenchymal stem cells having an average cell size smaller than that before the culture are obtained. The bone marrow stromal cells or mesenchymal stem cells thus cultured are suitable as graft cells for a central nerve diseases therapy. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115021 | BATTERY AND BATTERY MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A battery includes: an electrode terminal that includes a fastening member; and an electrode plate that includes an electrode tab provided with a through-hole. The through-hole is a part of an outer shape of the electrode plate, and the electrode terminal and the electrode plate are electrically connected to each other through the through-hole by the fastening member. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114994 | ELECTRICAL CELL - An electrical cell includes a first battery block including a first stacked electrode body formed by stacking a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate through a separator and a first spacer arranged on the first stacked electrode body; a second battery block that including a second stacked electrode body formed by stacking a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate through a separator and a second spacer arranged on the second stacked electrode body; a battery case containing the first battery block and the second battery block to contact the first spacer and the second spacer; and a sensor, wherein the sensor is arranged in a sensor arrangement region formed between the first spacer and the second spacer. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114987 | BATTERY - A battery includes: an electrode stacked body; a battery case that accommodates the electrode stacked body; positive and negative electrode terminals that are provided so as to communicate inside and outside of the battery case with each other; a lead that electrically connects tabs of the electrode stacked body to the electrode terminals; and an insulated lead insulating cover in which a space is formed so that the lead enters and a terminal through-hole is formed so that one end of the electrode terminal enters the space therethrough. An insulated lead insulating cover includes a first cover component and a second cover component that cooperatively form the space and the terminal through-hole with each other, and the first cover component and the second cover component respectively include engagement portions engaging removable with each other. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114487 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - Provided is a wind turbine generator including an electric pitch-control device that efficiently utilizes the entire circumferential teeth of a ring gear of a wind turbine blade so as to eliminate the need for work at high elevation using a crane or the like even when the teeth of the ring gear are partly broken. A wind turbine generator having an electric pitch-control device that performs pitch-angle control by using a motor to drive a pinion gear that meshes with a ring gear of a wind turbine blade includes a plurality of pinion-driving-mechanism securing supporters or a fixing/releasing switching part as a meshing-region changing mechanism that changes a pitch-angle-control meshing region of the ring gear that meshes with the pinion gear during the pitch-angle control. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112458 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND YAW ROTATION CONTROL METHOD FOR WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - There is provided a yaw rotation control method for a wind turbine generator that does not require a yaw motor and is advantageous for a reduction in cost and a reduction in size and weight of a nacelle. A control unit performs, according to a deviation between wind direction information (θw) obtained from a wind direction detecting unit and a present state yaw angle (θz) obtained from a yaw rotating position detecting unit, yaw rotation control for outputting pitch angle command values (θ | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120111502 | STRUCTURE OF SUBSTRATE SUPPORTING TABLE, AND PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - Disclosed is the structure of a substrate supporting table wherein corrosion of a bellows is eliminated, generation of dusts from the bellows is suppressed, and the volume and the weight of the sections to be driven are reduced. A plasma processing apparatus is also disclosed. In the substrate supporting table for the plasma processing apparatus ( | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120110937 | FOUNDATION FOR BUILDING IN NUCLEAR FACILITIES AND METHOD FOR BUILDING FOUNDATION - To include a lower foundation | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120107681 | SECONDARY BATTERY - Provided is a secondary battery including: a battery case; a stacked body that is housed inside the battery case and includes a plurality of electrode plates; and a frame that is arranged between the stacked body and the battery case and engages a plurality of insulating plates with each other to surround the stacked body in an annular shape, wherein end surfaces of two of the insulating plates engaging with each other are respectively provided with an engaging portion or a engaged portion, and wherein the engaging portion formed in the end surface of one of the two insulating plates engages with the engaged portion of the other of the two insulating plates, so that the stacked body is surrounded in an annular shape by the insulating plates. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104755 | WIND FARM CONTROL SYSTEM, WIND FARM, AND WIND FARM CONTROL METHOD - To prevent disconnection of wind turbine generators due to changes in wind conditions even if the wind turbine generators is operated to limit the power output. A plurality of wind turbine generators that generate electric power by the rotation of rotors are provided in a wind farm are interconnected and are operated while the power outputs are limited in advance so as to be able to further supply electric power to a utility grid in response to a decrease in the frequency or voltage of the utility grid. The rotational speed of the rotor, which is a physical quantity related to increase and decrease in the power output of the wind turbine generator, is measured for each of the wind turbine generators by a wind-turbine control system, and the limitation amount of the power output of the wind turbine generator is set for each of the wind turbine generators by a central control system on the basis of the rotational speed of the rotor measured. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104753 | CONTROL SYSTEM OF WIND POWER GENERATOR, WIND FARM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WIND POWER GENERATOR - A wind power generator generates power through a rotation of a rotor and is interconnected, and operated with its power generation output previously limited in order to be able to further supply the power to a power system in response to a decrease in system frequency. Thus, a concentrated control system derives a required restricted amount corresponding to a power generation output required to respond to the decrease in system frequency, derives a value by subtracting an amount corresponding to a latent power generation output with which the power generation output can be increased, from the required restricted amount, and sets a restricted amount of the power generation output in each wind power generator to perform the operation with the power generation output previously limited to respond to the decrease in system frequency, based on the above value. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104752 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND TIDAL CURRENT GENERATOR AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - An object of the invention is to provide a wind turbine generator or a tidal current generator which is equipped with a hydraulic transmission and achieves a superior power generation efficiency, and a operation method thereof. The wind turbine generator | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120103401 | SOLAR CELL PANEL - A solar cell panel that is capable of preventing damage to the edge portions of the panel. The solar cell panel is provided with a pair of first protective ribs ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120103227 | GUIDE RAIL TYPE VEHICLE WITH GUIDE DEVICE - In a guide rail type vehicle, a guide wheel includes a main guide wheel that rolls in contact with a main guide rail and a branch guide wheel that rolls in contact with a branch guide rail, a guide frame includes a guide arm that extends in a vehicle width direction and a guide link, the guide arm and the guide link are rotatably connected to each other via a first rotational shaft, the guide link includes a second rotational shaft in which the main guide wheel and the branch guide wheel are rotatably mounted to both ends, a buffer mechanism is provided between the guide arm and the guide link, and when the guide link rotates around the first rotational shaft with the guide wheel contacting with the guide rail, the buffer mechanism suppresses rotation of the guide link. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120100002 | WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE - Provided is a wind turbine rotor blade that can secure a sufficient strength in a coupling portion without significant increase in weight even though a blade is increased in size because beams, which are main strength members of the separated blades, are coupled to each other by metallic coupling members. A wind turbine rotor blade including: a skin that forms a long hollow shape; and a beam that is vertically passed in a longitudinal direction to reinforce the skin from inside, wherein the beam is separated into at least two portions in the longitudinal direction, and ends of the adjacent beams are coupled to each other through a metallic coupling member having: a first flange portion opposed to the one end; a second flange portion opposed to the other end; and a connecting portion that connects these first flange portion and second flange portion, and the skin is separated into a coupling portion skin arranged at a position corresponding to the coupling member, and a main body skin arranged at a position corresponding to the beam. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099695 | FUEL GUIDE PIN, FUEL GUIDE PIN ATTACHMENT METHOD, CORE PLATE, AND NUCLEAR REACTOR - A fuel guide pin to be fixed to a core plate includes a shrink fit portion | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099690 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT OF MODERATOR AND METHOD FOR MEASURING TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT OF MODERATOR - A moderator temperature coefficient measuring device include a control rod driving device; a reactivity measurement processing unit capable of measuring the reactivity of the reactor; an inflow temperature sensor for sensing the inflow temperature of a reactor coolant flowing into the reactor; an outflow temperature sensor for sensing the outflow temperature of the reactor coolant flowing out of the reactor; an average temperature measurement processing unit for measuring the average temperature from the sensed inflow and outflow temperatures; an power control unit for providing control so that the reactor delivers constant thermal power; and a temperature coefficient calculating unit for calculating the temperature coefficient of the reactor coolant based on the amount of change in reactivity between before and after the insertion of the control rod and the amount of change in average temperature between before and after the insertion of the control rod under the constant thermal power. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120097287 | DUCT ARRANGEMENT, DUCT EQUIPMENT, DUCT REINFORCEMENT CONSTRUCTION METHOD, SUPPORT REINFORCEMENT STRUCTURE, AND REINFORCEMENT STRUCTURE FOR SUPPORT FIXING UNIT - Provided is duct equipment including a duct body, a heat insulating material, a external cover, a fiber-reinforced sheet, and fiber-reinforced moldings. The duct body includes a duct wall, a duct passage defined by the duct wall, and duct corners formed in the duct wall when viewed in a cross-section in a direction intersecting a direction in which the duct passage extends. The heat insulating material is installed on an outer circumference of the duct body. The external cover includes a external cover wall installed on an outer circumference of the heat insulating material, and external cover corners formed alone the duct corners. The fiber-reinforced sheet is disposed on the outer circumference of the duct body via an adhesive layer. The fiber-reinforced moldings are disposed adjacent to the fiber-reinforced sheet along the external cover corners via adhesive layers, and have a substantially L-shape when viewed in the cross-section. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120097065 | BOGIE FOR GUIDE RAIL TYPE VEHICLE - A bogie for a vehicle of a guide rail type which is guided by guide wheels that rotate while keeping contact with a guide rail arranged along a guideway of the vehicle, comprises: a guide frame which includes a pair of transverse beams and a connecting member arranged between the pair of the transverse beams, each of the traverse beams being equipped with the guide wheels rotatably on both ends thereof; an axle which is supported on a non-turning part of the bogie such that the axle is capable of turning; and running wheels which are attached to both ends of the axle, wherein the running wheels are rigidly fixed to the axle and the guide frame is fixed to the axle so as to steer the guide frame, the axle and the running wheels integrally. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120093656 | WIND TURBINE BLADE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING WIND TURBINE BLADE - A wind turbine blade having a spar cap disposed between layers constituting an outer skin or disposed on an inner side of the outer skin and a method of manufacturing the wind turbine blade are provided, wherein in manufacture of the wind turbine blade, generation of manufacturing defects, such as misalignment and wrinkles in fabrics, can be suppressed and the time required for repairing the defects as well as for laminating the layers can be reduced. In the method of manufacturing the wind turbine blade having the spar cap as a main structural member of the blade disposed between the layers constituting the outer skin or disposed on the inner side of the outer skin, the spar cap is formed as a separate piece from the outer skin, and the spar cap, dry fiber fabrics for the layers constituting the outer skin, and a sandwich core member are collectively impregnated with resin under a vacuum process. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120091725 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - A wind turbine generator including a low-cost drive train that allows for reduced weight and reduced length in the axial direction is provided. In a wind turbine generator that generates electricity by driving a generator coupled, by means of a drive train, to a rotor head that has wind-turbine rotor blades attached thereto and rotates together therewith, a gear box ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120090718 | TUBE BODY FOR PRESSURE TRANSDUCER - A highly practical tube body for a pressure transducer is provided which has excellent pressure resistance, corrosion resistance, and tensile strength; which can be manufactured at low cost in comparison with cases of using stainless steel; and which makes it possible to keep inside diameter precision high. In this tube body for a pressure transducer, the pressure applied to the interior is varied periodically, and a seal layer ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120090664 | PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - A photovoltaic device in which leakage current is suppressed and the conversion efficiency is improved. A photovoltaic device ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120089247 | WORKPIECE MEASURING DEVICE, COLLISION PREVENTING DEVICE, AND MACHINE TOOL - A workpiece measuring device, a collision preventing device, and a machine tool acquires 3D data of the shape of a workpiece used to prevent a collision between the workpiece and part of the machine tool. A measuring section measures the distance to the workpiece through scanning in a non-contact manner; and a shape recognition section generates a 3D mesh structure. The coordinates of a measurement point on the workpiece based on distance information about the measured distance to the workpiece, and that generates a measurement geometry map such that, when the ratio of the number of times the calculated measurement point is included in one unit of the 3D mesh structure to the number of times a position of the workpiece corresponding to the one unit is scanned is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, the one unit is regarded as part of the workpiece are included. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087839 | EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT SYSTEM - It is intended to provide an exhaust gas treatment system, which allows for VOC removal at lower temperatures and thereby improves the durability of catalysts and suppresses carbon monoxide generation at the final outlet of the system. The present invention provides a treatment system of an exhaust gas containing a nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, and a volatile organic compound comprising: an exhaust gas treatment means for removing the nitrogen oxide by reduction with ammonia and partially oxidizing the VOC to CO; and a CO/VOC removal means for oxidizing the CO and partially unreacted VOC, in this order from the upstream flow of the exhaust gas. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087720 | DISSIMILAR MATERIAL JOINT STRUCTURE - In a dissimilar material joint structure that joins together an anti vibration bar (first member) | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086405 | BATTERY STATE-OF-CHARGE CALCULATION DEVICE - The battery state-of-charge calculation device ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086136 | AERATION APPARATUS AND SEAWATER FLUE GAS DESULPHURIZATION APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An aeration apparatus is immersed in diluted used seawater which is water to be treated and generates fine air bubbles in the diluted used seawater. The aeration apparatus includes: an air supply line L | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120085239 | AERATION APPARATUS WITH ATOMIZING UNIT AND SEAWATER FLUE GAS DESULPHURIZATION APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An aeration apparatus is immersed in water to be treated and generates fine air bubbles in the water to be treated. The aeration apparatus includes: an air supply pipe for supplying air through discharge unit; aeration nozzles | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120082886 | ASSEMBLED BATTERY - In this assembled battery, connections between electrode terminals of electrical cells and connection members for the electrode terminal are reliably maintained for a long period of time. The electrode terminal is formed in a tapered pillar shape whose width decreases from the front end of the electrode terminal toward a battery case. Also, a groove, which is shaped from the front end toward the battery case and divides at least a portion of the front end into segmented portions, is provided to the electrode terminal. The segmented portions are elastically deformable to move close to or away from each other. The bus bar (connection member for the electrode terminals) includes a through-hole whose width decreases from the front end of the electrode terminal toward a battery case. The bus bar is fitted to the electrical terminal, by elastically deforming and moving the segmented portions close to each other. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120079969 | COMBUSTION CONTROLLER - The combustion controller controls the fuel and air that are supplied to the combustion furnace for burning substances, and addresses the aforementioned object by including: fuel supply unit for supplying fuel and air into the combustion furnace; air supply unit for supplying air into the combustion furnace, the air supply unit being disposed downstream of the fuel supply unit in the direction of flow of combustion air; concentration measuring unit for measuring the concentration of hydrogen sulfide of the combustion air by passing a measurement beam of light through the combustion air at a measurement position downstream of the fuel supply unit in the direction of flow of the combustion air; and control unit for controlling the amount of air supplied from the fuel supply unit based on a measurement result provided by the concentration measuring unit. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120074711 | WIND TURBINE GENERATING APPARATUS - In a wind turbine generating apparatus, a heat generating device is provided inside the rotor head and has a hermetically-sealed structure from outside. A rotor head cooling air passage is formed through the periphery of the heat generating device to the inside of a wind turbine blade. A cooling air introduction portion through which cooling air flows and an air outlet from which the cooling air is discharged are provided in the rotor head cooling air passage to thereby form the air outlet in the wind turbine blade. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120066544 | REMOTE MONITORING APPARATUS, WIND TURBINE GENERATOR SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING REMOTE MONITORING APPARATUS - A SCADA system includes a main switching hub and a backup switching hub that relay transmission data between a wind turbine generator and terminals provided in another SCADA system and client terminals, and a network switch for performing switching between the main switching hub and the backup switching hub for relaying transmission data between the wind turbine generator and the terminals. A backup remote I/O connected to the backup switching hub causes the network switch to perform switching based on a switching command from a SCADA terminal input via the backup switching hub. This serves to solve a data transmission problem caused by a problem in a switching hub on the wind turbine generator side from a remote location. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063929 | HYDRAULIC PUMP STRUCTURE FOR WIND TURBINE GENERATOR OR TIDAL CURRENT GENERATOR AND METHOD OF MOUNTING HYDRAULIC PUMP - An object of the present invention is to provide a hydraulic pump structure which improves the ease of mounting the hydraulic pump on the main shaft, and a method of mounting the hydraulic pump which can be performed in a simplified manner. A hydraulic pump unit | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063915 | VIBRATION CONTROL APPARATUS OF WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - A vibration control apparatus of a wind turbine generator that can be installed in a small space inside a tower, without a weight increase of the tower, and that can change the natural frequency thereof is provided. Included is a swinging rod extending in the vertical direction and suspended from beams provided on an upper part of the tower via a first universal joint; a flange part extending outward from the upper end outer surface of the swinging rod in the radial direction along the circumferential direction; a pendulum including a bob attached to the swinging rod and capable of moving up and down in the vertical direction; and a plurality of attenuation devices each of whose upper end is attached to the beams with a second universal joint and whose lower end is attached to the flange part with a third universal joint. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063901 | WIND TURBINE BLADE PITCH-CONTROL SYSTEM, AND WIND TURBINE ROTOR AND WIND TURBINE GENERATOR PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A pitch-control system according to the present invention includes a cylinder support portion provided on a rotor hub, a support point thereof being located away from a front end face (unsupported end) of the rotor hub on the opposite side of the rotor hub; a decentered coupling point provided at a decentered location on a root-side end face of the wind turbine blade; and a cylinder that is installed so as to pass through the unsupported end of the rotor hub, a coupling portion that is provided on a portion that protrudes to the outer side from the unsupported end being coupled in a freely rotatable manner to the support point via a spherical joint, and a coupling portion that is on the inner side of the unsupported and being coupled in a freely rotatable manner to the decentered coupling point via a spherical joint. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063898 | POWER GENERATING APPARATUS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY TYPE - It is intended to provide a power generating apparatus of renewable energy type in which a hydraulic pipe between a hydraulic pump installed inside a nacelle and a hydraulic motor installed near a bottom part of a tower can handle the turning motion of the nacelle. In the power generating apparatus of renewable energy type ( | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120061971 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - An object of the present invention is to provide a wind turbine generator in which a communication channel can be added in communication between a hub and a nacelle, without making a modification to the design of a slip ring. The present invention provides a wind turbine generator in which communication between the hub and the nacelle is performed by superimposing an information signal onto AC power carried over an AC power line between the hub and the nacelle via the slip ring. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120061969 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND TIDAL CURRENT GENERATOR - An object of the present invention is to provide a wind turbine generator and a tidal current generator equipped with a hydraulic transmission with a combination of a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic motor and which has a superior productivity and maintainability. The wind turbine generator | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120061962 | BLADE PITCH CONTROL SYSTEM, WIND TURBINE GENERATOR, AND BLADE PITCH CONTROL METHOD - A wind turbine generator generates power through rotation of a rotor to which a plurality of blades are pivotally coupled and includes a pitch-angle control section that outputs a pitch-angle command value that indicates the amount of change in the pitch angle of each of the blades, hydraulic cylinders each of which changes the pitch angle of the corresponding blade based on the corresponding pitch-angle command value output from the pitch-angle control section, and load measurement sections that measure blade-root loads. A set value indicating that wind received by the wind turbine generator has a biased wind speed distribution is set in advance in the pitch-angle control section. Only when a calculated pitch-angle command value exceeds the set value, the pitch-angle control section outputs a pitch-angle command value beyond pitch command limit values. Therefore, in the wind turbine generator, a higher load than necessary is not imposed on a drive unit for the pitch angle of each of the blades in a case of a normal wind speed or a wind speed distribution caused by the normal wind speed, and the blade-root load can be sufficiently reduced even in a case of a wind speed distribution that occurs when a strong wind is received. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120061961 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to, if a frequency decrease has occurred in a power system, avoid a trip in a wind turbine generator and reliably contribute to recovery of the frequency of the power system. The present invention provides a wind turbine generator that, if a predetermined frequency decrease that requires PFR has occurred in the power system, calculates a marginal active power based on the difference between a predetermined rotational speed lower limit value, which is obtained by providing the parallel-off rotational speed with a predetermined margin, and a measured value of the shaft rotational speed, and generates an active power command value based on the marginal active power. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120061960 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR SYSTEM AND WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - An object of the present invention is to make use of wind energy as effectively as possible and increase the amount of generated energy that is supplied to a power system. A power storage apparatus is interposed between and electrically connected to a wind turbine generator and a power system. The wind turbine generator outputs, to the power system side, an amount of active power obtained by subtracting auxiliary machine loss, which is power consumed by an auxiliary machine, from the maximum active power that can be output by a generator, and if the amount of active power output from the wind turbine generator exceeds a limited power value set for the power transmission end, a charge/discharge controller that controls the power storage apparatus causes the power storage apparatus to be charged with part of the power output from the wind turbine generator. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120061958 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - An object of the present invention is to provide a wind turbine generator and an operation control method thereof, which takes measures against issues such as noise, bird strike and a friction heat of a bearing shaft. The wind turbine generator | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120058544 | BIOMASS DECOMPOSITION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF, AND SUGAR-SOLUTION PRODUCTION SYSTEM USING BIOMASS MATERIAL - To include a hydrothermal decomposition unit | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120058383 | ASSEMBLED BATTERY - An assembled battery includes: a plurality of electrical cells that includes a battery body and an electrode terminal protruding from the battery body; and a terminal connection member that connects a pair of electrode terminals between two of the plurality of electrical cells, wherein the terminal connection member includes: a pair of electrode sockets each allowing the electrode terminal to be inserted thereinto, and a conductor electrically connecting the pair of electrode sockets to each other, and wherein each electrode socket includes: an opposite conductive wall extending from the conductor along the electrode terminal and facing the electrode terminal, and an elastic portion provided at a position facing the opposite conductive wall toward the electrode terminal and pressing the electrode terminal to the opposite conductive wall. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120058036 | CO SHIFT CATALYST, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND CO SHIFT REACTOR USING CO SHIFT CATALYST - A CO shift catalyst according to the present invention reforms carbon monoxide (CO) and is prepared from one or a mixture of platinum (Pt), ruthenium (Ru), iridium (Ir), and rhodium (Rh) as an active ingredient and at least one of titanium (Ti), aluminum (Al), zirconium (Zr), and cerium (Ce) as a carrier for supporting the active ingredient. The CO shift catalyst can be used in a halogen-resistant CO shift reactor ( | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057993 | ASPIRATOR AND VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONER USING THE SAME - An object is to provide an aspirator capable of increasing the amount of aspirated secondary air and improving performance and to provide a vehicle air conditioner using the same. The aspirator includes a nozzle | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057668 | REACTOR CONTAINMENT STRUCTURE - The reactor containment structure is provided with a reactor containment vessel, a reactor containment chamber installed inside the reactor containment vessel to contain a nuclear power reactor, a pool installed inside the reactor containment vessel so as to be below the reactor containment chamber adjacently and in which an emergency cooling liquid is stored, an opening part for allowing the emergency cooling liquid to flow from the reactor containment chamber into the pool, a sump installed below the pool, a debris filtering body installed at the sump to filter debris contained in the emergency cooling liquid, a pumping system which sucks the emergency cooling liquid from the sump and discharges the emergency cooling liquid into the reactor containment chamber, and a debris trapping part installed in the pool to trap the debris, wherein the debris trapping part intersects with a flow path of the emergency cooling liquid. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057667 | RESONANCE CALCULATION PROGRAM AND ANALYZING APPARATUS - [Solving Means] A resonance calculation program is configured to calculate an effective cross section including Step S | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120055184 | CENTRIFUGAL-CHILLER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Provided is a centrifugal-chiller including one variable-speed centrifugal-compressor and one constant-speed centrifugal-compressor and capable of high-efficiency operation. A centrifugal-chiller comprising a variable-speed centrifugal-compressor whose rotational frequency can be varied by an inverter and which compresses a refrigerant; a constant-speed centrifugal-compressor connected in parallel with the variable-speed centrifugal-compressor and operated at a constant rotational speed to compress the refrigerant; and a control unit that controls the operations of the variable-speed centrifugal-compressor and the constant-speed centrifugal-compressor, wherein in the case where a required load factor of the centrifugal-chiller is less than a predetermined value, the control unit selects a variable-speed-compressor priority operating mode in which only the variable-speed centrifugal-compressor is activated, and in the case where the required load factor of the centrifugal-chiller is the predetermined value or greater, the control unit selects a combined-use operating mode in which the variable-speed centrifugal-compressor and the constant-speed centrifugal-compressor are activated. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120055024 | METHOD OF REPAIRING BEARING OF WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - A method of repairing a bearing of a wind turbine generator is provided which is able to more permanently repair a gap which occurred between a constituent member of the wind turbine generator and a bearing ring of the bearing. For example, in the case of repairing the gap | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120045725 | COMBUSTOR - Provided is a combustor that is made compact and achieves NOx reduction. In the combustor ( | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120045353 | INVERTER-INTEGRATED ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR - Provided is an inverter-integrated electric compressor in which the layout of a wiring path connected to an IPM is optimized, the wiring path is simplified, and the noise interference due to disturbance is suppressed, thereby improving the controllability. In an inverter-integrated electric compressor in which an inverter box is provided on the outer periphery of a housing accommodating a compressor and a motor, the inverter box integrally accommodating an inverter device, the inverter device includes an IPM constituting an inverter circuit, and UVW output terminals arranged on one side of the IPM are disposed, in the inverter box, so as to face a glass-sealed terminal that applies power from the inverter device to the motor. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120042819 | STERN STRUCTURE OF SHIP - A stern structure of a ship includes a plurality of propellers, a plurality of propeller shafts and a stern structural body. A plurality of propeller shaft tubes is provided correspondingly to the plurality of propellers, and the plurality of propeller shafts connected to the plurality of propellers is inserted into the plurality of propeller shaft tubes. The stern structural body extends backwardly from the stern body, spreads externally with respect to a ship body center line C, and contains portions of the plurality of propeller shafts extending backwardly from the stern body. An inner side of the stern structural body is equivalent to an interior portion of a ship body. The stern structural body supports the plurality of propeller shaft tubes in the interior portion of the ship body. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120042658 | Fuel supply system for gas turbine combustor and fuel supply method for gas turbine combustor - A consumption amount of high-calorific gas such as coke oven gas (COG) during operation of a gas turbine is reduced, halt of the gas turbine due to clogging of a pilot system, a malfunction of a compressor which compresses high-calorific gas is prevented, and reliability of the gas turbine is improved. When operation of the gas turbine ( | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120040494 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - A process for producing a photovoltaic device having high photovoltaic conversion efficiency by suppressing light absorption in the visible light short wavelength region. The process for producing a photovoltaic device ( | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120037031 | LOW FLOOR VEHICLE - A the low floor vehicle includes a journal member which couples a pair of wheels and is attached to a truck frame; and a truck frame lateral beam arranged along a vehicle width direction closer to the center of the truck frame than the journal member. The journal member is turnable with respect to the struck frame. A pair of left and right stub links extending between the journal member and the truck frame lateral beam, are provided. Axes passing both ends of the pair of stub links are arranged to tilt so as to widen a space between the ends in the vehicle width direction with going from the truck frame lateral beam toward the journal member. Both the ends of the stub links are attached to be pivotable respectively around axes which extend in a height direction to the journal member and the truck frame lateral beam. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120035865 | LOAD MEASURING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A load is based calibrate on data collected under wide observation conditions and promptly calibrate loads of a plurality of wind turbine blades. A load measuring apparatus is applied to a wind turbine in which a pitch angle of a wind turbine blade is variable. The apparatus includes a sensor for obtaining a distortion of the wind turbine blade; a load calculating unit having a function expressing a relation between the distortion of the wind turbine blade and a load on the wind turbine blade, for obtaining the load on the wind turbine blade by applying to the function the distortion based on measurement data of the sensor; and a calibration unit for calibrating the function based on the measurement data of the sensor obtained in a pitch angle range and a rotational speed range of the wind turbine blade in which a variation between maximum and minimum aerodynamic torques is equal to or less than a predetermined value. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120035806 | METHOD FOR CLOCKING CUMULATIVE OPERATING TIME FOR A CARGO-HANDLING VEHICLE, AND THE CARGO-HANDLING VEHICLE BY USE OF THE METHOD - An accumulated use time measuring method for cargo handling vehicles and a cargo handling vehicle both enable accurate continuation of the use time till a display unit containing a time measuring device is replaced even if the time measuring device fails and prevention of false alteration after shipping while infallibly resetting the time measuring device to zero when the time measure device is shipped from the factory. The function units such as a display unit and a control unit of the cargo handling vehicle each include a time measuring device and a storage device. A synchronization mode in which the difference between the accumulated use times of both devices is made the same and a synchronization inhibition mode in which the accumulated use times are not changed and the time measurement is continued are provided. The accumulated use times are communicated between the function units, and the accumulated use time of the cargo handling vehicle and the absolute value of the difference between the accumulated use times of both measuring devices of the function units are taken into consideration. The corresponding mode is selected from the two modes, and thereby the time measurement using the accumulated use time stored in the storage device is carried out in the selected mode. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120035774 | GENERATING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Voltage of a utility grid is reliably and swiftly restored, which decreased due to a utility grid failure or the like, to reference voltage. A generator is connected to a utility grid. A voltage detecting section detects voltage of a utility grid. A control section determines reactive current corresponding to the voltage obtained from the voltage detecting section based on voltage current correlation information in which the voltage of the utility grid and the reactive current to be supplied to the utility grid are correlated with each other. An electric power converting section regulates the reactive current to be supplied to or absorbed from the utility grid. An information changing section changes the voltage current correlation information to increase an amount of the reactive current with respect to a variation in the voltage in the voltage current correlation information, in the case where the voltage of the utility grid is not in a predetermined range set in advance after a predetermined time period has passed since the voltage of the utility grid varied by a predetermined amount. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034526 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY AND BATTERY SYSTEM - This lithium ion secondary battery includes a cathode ( | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033780 | AXIAL POWER DISTRIBUTION CONTROL METHOD AND AXIAL POWER DISTRIBUTION CONTROL SUPPORTING DEVICE - Parameters DAO | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033778 | AXIAL POWER DISTRIBUTION PREDICTION METHOD AND AXIAL POWER DISTRIBUTION PREDICTION DEVICE - An axial power distribution control device includes an axial offset calculation unit 52, a parameter calculation unit 53, and an axial offset determining unit 55. The axial offset determining unit 55 predicts whether a core axial offset of the power distribution is increased or decreased after a current time, based on a major axis of an ellipse drawn by the xenon parameter and the iodine parameter calculated by the parameter calculation unit 53 and the xenon parameter and the iodine parameter at the current time. This makes it possible to predict a change of the axial offset of the power distribution of a reactor for suppressing a xenon oscillation in the reactor. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033776 | NUCLEAR REACTOR - A nuclear reactor comprises a fuel rod into which nuclear fuel is enclosed and a control rod that controls nuclear reactions of the nuclear fuel. A concentration of a neutron absorber in a primary coolant at a full power operation of the nuclear reactor, when an operation of the nuclear reactor is started, is set equal to or lower than a value that is obtained by adding a predetermined value to a value obtained by subtracting a concentration of the neutron absorber that is required for maintaining a cold shutdown state of the nuclear reactor when an operation of the nuclear reactor is started from a concentration of the neutron absorber that is required for maintaining cold shutdown of the nuclear reactor when an operation of the nuclear reactor is completed. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032546 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND MAINTAINANCE METHOD THEREOF - A wind turbine generator includes: a main shaft; a generator having a rotor and a stator; and a sleeve coupled to the rotor and inserted onto the main shaft. The stator includes: stator magnetic poles arrayed circumferentially of the main shaft; and first and second stator plates rotatably coupled to the main shaft to support the stator magnetic poles. The rotor includes: rotor magnetic poles and at least one magnetic pole supporting structure coupled to the main shaft to support the rotor magnetic poles and provided between the first and second stator plates such that the rotor and stator magnetic poles are detachable from the sleeve. Positions at which the rotor and stator magnetic poles are detachable from the sleeve are closer to the main shaft from a closer end of the main shaft to the generator. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032448 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - The present invention provides a wind turbine generator, in which a rotor head that rotates by receiving external wind with turbine blades generates power by driving a generator installed inside a nacelle and in which the nacelle is installed at a top end of a tower, wherein an introducing vent that takes the external wind into an internal space in the wind turbine generator is provided at a portion of an outer circumference surface of the tower or the nacelle that receives positive pressure due to the external wind; and an exhaust vent that externally exhausts cooling air in the internal space is provided at a portion of the outer circumference surface of the tower or the nacelle that receives the negative pressure due to the external wind. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031591 | VEHICLE HEAT-EXCHANGE MODULE - In a vehicle heat-exchange module in which a fan unit is provided at the downstream side of a rectangular heat exchanger, and the fan unit is provided with a shroud having a bell-mouth and an annular opening, a propeller fan that is disposed in the annular opening, and a fan motor that rotationally drives the propeller fan, the fan unit is a unit having a single-fan configuration in which motor input power is at a predetermined level or less, and the propeller fan is provided with two sets of winglets that are respectively constructed upright, with a prescribed gap therebetween in the radial direction, along the circumferential direction on both a pressure surface and a suction surface of the root side of the blades. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031557 | BONDING UNIT CONTROL UNIT AND MULTI-LAYER BONDING METHOD - A multi-layer bonding method of the present invention includes: forming a first bonded substrate by bonding a first substrate and an intermediate substrate in a bonding chamber; conveying a second substrate inside said bonding chamber when said first bonded substrate is arranged inside said bonding chamber; and forming a second bonded substrate by bonding said first bonded substrate and said second substrate in said bonding chamber. According to such a multi-layer bonding method, the upper-side substrate can be bonded with an intermediate substrate and then a first bonded substrate is bonded with a lower-side substrate without taking out the first bonded substrate from the bonding chamber. For this reason, a second bonded substrate can be produced at high speed and at a low cost. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031298 | TRACK-GUIDED VEHICLE WHEEL TRACK - In a track-guided vehicle wheel truck, a guide frame can be turned relative to a steering axle of a running wheel. A support shaft is adjustably provided on the guide frame. A receiving member is provided projecting toward the vehicle end side. A link lever capable of interlocking the turning of the guide frame and the steering of the running wheel, is provided along the vehicle front and rear direction. A center-side end part of the link lever is rotatably mounted to the receiving member. A vehicle end-side end part of the link lever is rotatably mounted to a connecting rod that enables the steering of the running wheel. A long hole extending in the vehicle front and rear direction, is provided in an intermediate part of the link lever. The long hole and the support shaft are rotatably engaged with each other at a given position. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031274 | AERATION APPARATUS, SEAWATER FLUE GAS DESULPHURIZATION APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME, AND HUMIDIFICATION METHOD FOR AERATION APPARATUS - An aeration apparatus is immersed in diluted used seawater which is water to be treated and generates fine air bubbles in the diluted used seawater. The aeration apparatus includes: an air supply line L | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120029889 | CENTRIFUGAL CHILLER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SYSTEM - Design COP is iteratively computed. Provided is a centrifugal chiller performance evaluation system including a data acquisition section for acquiring operating data from a centrifugal chiller as input data; a storage section storing a design COP estimation formula obtained by adding correction values corresponding to losses occurring in an actual environment to a computational formula for ideal actual-machine COP expressed using COP characteristics of a reverse Carnot cycle; and a computing section for estimating a design COP at a current operating point using the operating data acquired by the data acquisition section and the design COP estimation formula stored in the storage section. The correction values include a first correction value calculated from a first computational formula including the load factor of the centrifugal chiller as a variable and a second correction value calculated from a second computational formula including a difference between cooling water outlet temperature and chilled water outlet temperature as a variable. The second correction value contains an offset from the first correction value depending on cooling water inlet temperature. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027659 | CO SHIFT CATALYST, CO SHIFT REACTOR, AND METHOD FOR PURIFYING GASIFIED GAS - A CO shift catalyst according to the present invention reforms carbon monoxide (CO) contained in gas. The CO shift catalyst is prepared from one or both of molybdenum (Mo) and cobalt (Co) as an active ingredient and an oxide of one of, or a mixture or a compound of, titanium (Ti), silicon (Si), zirconium (Zr), and cerium (Ce) as a carrier for supporting the active ingredient. The CO shift catalyst can be used in a halogen-resistant CO shift reactor ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027154 | NOZZLE STUB WORKING SYSTEM FOR REACTOR VESSEL - Disclosed is a nozzle stub working system for a reactor vessel that performs work inside a nozzle stub of the reactor vessel, the nozzle stub working system for the reactor vessel including: a platform unit that is provided at an upper portion inside the reactor vessel and includes a substantially cylindrical side wall portion and a bottom portion blocking the lower end of the side wall portion; an access window that is provided at the side wall portion of the platform unit to allow the inside of the platform unit to communicate with the nozzle stub; an access window moving device that opens and closes the access window; a working device that advances from the inside of the platform unit to the inside of the nozzle stub to perform work inside the nozzle stub; and a control device that is provided at the outside of the reactor vessel and controls the access window moving device and the working device, wherein the control device drives the access window moving device to open the access window, drives the working device to perform work inside the nozzle stub, and then drives the access window moving device to close the access window after the performance of the work. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027153 | OPENING AND CLOSING DEVICE FOR ACCESS PORT THAT OPENS TO WORKING PLATFORM OF REACTOR VESSEL - An opening and closing device that opens and closes an access port opened from a substantially cylindrical working platform disposed inside a reactor vessel and used to access a nozzle stub of the reactor vessel from the inside of the working platform, the opening and closing device includes: a cover that is slidable along an outer peripheral surface or an inner peripheral surface of the working platform from a closing position where the access port is closed to an opening position where the access port is opened; and moving device for sliding the cover. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025541 | WIND TURBINE GENERATING APPARATUS - A wind turbine generating apparatus includes a rotor head that rotates upon receiving outside wind on a wind turbine blade, a generator that generates electricity, and a nacelle interior air passage through which outside air flows isolatedly from an interior space of the nacelle. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120023988 | DESICCANT AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM - To reduce energy consumption, a desiccant air-conditioning system is provided with: an air supply channel | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120021503 | BIOMASS HYDROTHERMAL DECOMPOSITION APPARATUS, TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND ORGANIC RAW MATERIAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM USING BIOMASS MATERIAL - A biomass hydrothermal decomposition apparatus that feeds a solid biomass material | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019060 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD AND TEMPERATURE CONTROLLER - A temperature control method is used for controlling a temperature of an electric storage device | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018272 | TORQUE LIMITING DEVICE - Providing a torque limiting device by which a high torque limitation can be set without spoiling the superior stability and wear-resistance. A torque limiting device, including, but not limited to: a clutch disc clamp plate | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017800 | BOGIE FOR GUIDE RAIL TYPE VEHICLE - The present invention provides a bogie for a guide rail type vehicle that runs along a predetermined guideway. The bogie includes a turn frame connected to a vehicle body; an axle turnably mounted to the turn frame via bearings and; a guide frame mounted to the axle; a first pair of guide wheels rotatably provided at a vehicle body end side portion of the guide frame; a second pair of guide wheels rotatably provided at a vehicle body center side portion of the guide frame; a stopper provided so as to project from an upper surface on a vehicle body side of the axle toward the vehicle body; and a pair of stopper receivers arranged facing each other at intervals from the stopper in a vehicle lateral direction. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017585 | CONTROL DEVICE OF PREMIX COMBUSTION ENGINE - A control device of a premix combustion engine includes a hybrid turbocharger including a turbocharger having a compressor and a turbine, and a motor generator coupled with the compressor. A control unit controls the motor generator based on the operating conditions regarding a generator or the premix combustion engine and includes: an airflow rate computing unit for computing the necessary airflow rate required for the premix combustion engine, and an arithmetic unit for computing the power output or the rotation speed regarding the hybrid turbocharger to obtain the necessary airflow rate required for the premix combustion engine. Feedback control regarding the power output or the rotation speed as to the hybrid turbocharger is performed based on the computed results obtained by the arithmetic unit. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120016622 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING INNER WALL TEMPERATURE FROM OUTER WALL TEMPERATURE OF TUBE - The present invention relates to the field of measurement technology, and offers a method for calculating an inner wall temperature from a measurement result of an outer wall temperature of a tube in relation to a problem of a two-dimensional, unsteady heat flow in tube. The evaluation method includes the steps of measuring outer wall temperatures at a plurality of points under a two-dimensional unsteady flow in the tube; and estimating inner wall temperatures on the basis of the measured values of the outer-wall temperatures. The approach of the present invention makes it possible to correctly estimate change over time of the inner wall temperature of the tube from the outer wall temperature of the tube with high accuracy, and requires a relatively short calculation time. For these reasons, the present invention is applicable to the problem in that the inner wall temperature of a tube is difficult to measure, in relation to flow in the tube in the industrial production and the scientific research. Therefore, the present invention has a wide range of possible applications. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014861 | CO2 RECOVERY UNIT AND METHOD THEREFOR | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014841 | EXHAUST GAS TREATING CATALYST AND EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An exhaust gas treating catalyst further improved in denitrification performance is provided. It is an exhaust gas treating catalyst containing a complex oxide represented by the general formula ABO | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014804 | WIND TURBINE BLADE WITH SUFFICIENTLY HIGH STRENGTH AND LIGHT WEIGHT - A wind turbine blade is provided with an outer skin layer formed of fiber-reinforced plastic, and a plurality of main structural members formed of fiber-reinforced plastic integrally with the outer skin layer to extend in a blade length direction. The main structural members include a plurality of main dorsal structural members positioned on a dorsal side of the wind turbine blade, and a plurality of main ventral structural members positioned on a ventral side of the wind turbine blade. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014775 | METHOD FOR HOISTING AND LOWERING DEVICE IN ROTOR HEAD OF WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - There is provided a method for hoisting and lowering a device in a rotor head of a wind turbine generator, that can easily perform a device hoisting and lowering operation in the rotor head without an external crane. The method for hoisting and lowering a device in a rotor head includes a step of mounting a temporary winch rail to a rail support portion previously provided in the rotor head, a step of installing a temporary winch on the temporary winch rail, a step of opening a maintenance hatch provided in the rotor head, and a step of hoisting and lowering a replacement device to be attached or removed in the rotor head through a hoisting and lowering opening in the maintenance hatch by the temporary winch. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014494 | PRESSURE-LOSS ADJUSTING MEMBER REACTOR - [Problem to be Solved] To suppress problems due to a flow of a primary coolant while easily distributing a flow rate of the primary coolant to fuel assemblies. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014492 | INSPECTION HOLE PLUG - [Problem to be Solved] To easily perform assembly at the time of plugging an inspection hole. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013063 | FOLDING MACHINE - Signatures of various paper types can be discharged and guided properly to impellers by providing a pair of discharging rollers | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013033 | SECURING METHOD AND SECURING APPARATUS FOR BEARING HOUSING - Turbine casings LP | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012168 | PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - A film thickness configuration for a triple-junction photovoltaic device that is suitable for obtaining high conversion efficiency. The photovoltaic device comprises, on top of a substrate, a transparent electrode layer, a photovoltaic layer containing three stacked cell layers having pin junctions, and a back electrode layer, wherein an incident section cell layer provided on the light-incident side has an amorphous silicon i-layer having a thickness of not less than 100 nm and not more than 200 nm, a bottom section cell layer provided on the opposite side from the light-incident side has a crystalline silicon-germanium i-layer having a thickness of not less than 700 nm and not more than 1,600 nm, and the ratio of germanium atoms relative to the sum of germanium atoms and silicon atoms within the crystalline silicon-germanium i-layer is not less than 15 atomic % and not more than 25 atomic %, and a middle section cell layer provided between the incident section cell layer and the bottom section cell layer has a crystalline silicon i-layer having a thickness of not less than 1,000 nm and not more than 2,000 nm. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120012028 | TRACK GUIDED VEHICLE WHEEL TRUCK - A track-guided vehicle wheel truck facilitates vehicle maintenance and enables reduction in costs. The track vehicle wheel truck includes guide frames arranged along the forward and rearward directions of the vehicle on the inside of the vehicle width direction in the running wheels, and fixed to knuckles; a tie rod arranged on the center side of the forward and rearward directions in the vehicle along the vehicle width direction, and interlock with the guide frames; guide wheel receivers disposed toward the inside of the vehicle width direction from the guide frames on the vehicle end side and the center side relative to an axis of the running wheels; and a steering axle arranged along the vehicle width direction, and are able to turn the running wheels, the knuckles, and the guide frames by installing a kingpin at both ends thereof. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120011869 | VEHICLE AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM - A vehicle air-conditioning system ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120009642 | BIOMASS HYDROTHERMAL DECOMPOSITION SYSTEM AND SACCHARIDE-SOLUTION PRODUCTION METHOD USING BIOMASS MATERIAL - A biomass hydrothermal decomposition system includes a hydrothermal decomposition unit | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009626 | BIOMASS PROCESSING SYSTEM AND SACCHARIDE-SOLUTION PRODUCTION METHOD USING BIOMASS MATERIAL - A hydrothermal decomposition apparatus | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009063 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - Provided is a wind turbine generator in which, the specifications of the gears can be designed for the level of a maximum load during driving without decreasing the necessary strength and durability. A wind turbine generator in which a nacelle is installed at an upper end of a tower that is vertically erected on a foundation includes a yaw driving unit that yaws the nacelle and/or a pitch driving unit that controls pitch angles of the wind turbine blades, wherein a drive mechanism of the yaw driving unit and/or the pitch driving unit, which are equipped with an engaging portion of a slewing bearing ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008654 | LASER GAIN MEDIUM AND LASER OSCILLATOR USING THE SAME - A laser gain medium includes an optical medium configured to transmit a laser beam and having an incident face, a first face, a second face opposing to the first face; and gain media configured to amplify the laser beam while reflecting the laser beam. At least one of the gain media is joined on a first face of the optical medium as a first face gain medium, and at least one of the remaining gain media is joined on a second face of the optical medium as a second face gain medium. The laser beam is incident into the optical medium, and is amplified by the first face gain medium and the second face gain medium while being alternately reflected by the first face gain medium and the second face gain medium. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006402 | PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - A photovoltaic device comprising an intermediate contact layer for which the reflection characteristics have been optimized. The photovoltaic device ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006025 | THERMAL POWER PLANT USING LOW-GRADE COAL AS FUEL - A thermal power plant that uses low-grade coal as fuel and allows for increased thermal efficiency of the entire plant is provided. The thermal power plant includes a drying device ( | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120003096 | GEAR BOX FOR WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - In an object to provide a gear box for a wind turbine generator and a wind turbine generator in which the life of the planet bearings are further enhanced, a gear box of the present invention includes a casing, a carrier, planet pins held to the carrier, planet bearings supported to the planet pins, respectively, a plurality of planet gears supported to the planet pin via the planet bearings, respectively, and a ring gear and a sun gear meshed with the planet gears. In the gear box, the carrier has an inclined surface facing the planet bearing as a part of an outer cylinder part provided on both ends of the planet pins in axial direction of the planet pin and surrounding the outer circumference of the both ends of the planet pins and the incline surface inclines such that the farther from an axial center of the planet pin, the longer a distance between the inclined surface and the planet bearing. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002345 | SUBSTRATE SUPPORT TABLE OF PLASMA PROCESSING DEVICE - A substrate support stage of a plasma processing device, which stably controls a substrate at a relatively high temperature. The substrate support stage includes an electrostatic attraction plate ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001438 | WIND POWER GENERATOR - A wind power generator is provided in which a reduction in weight is achieved by reducing the wall thickness of a nacelle, and an increase in the amount of heat input to the interior of the nacelle from sunlight is suppressed. In a wind power generator in which driving/power-generating mechanisms linked to a rotor head to which wind-turbine blades are attached are accommodated and installed inside a nacelle, a coating of high-reflectivity paint is formed on at least part of the outer wall that receives sunlight. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001437 | WIND POWER GENERATOR - Provided is a wind power generator that reduces the amount of heat input into a nacelle from the outside of the nacelle due to the solar radiation, and that improves the heat dissipation performance from the inside of the nacelle to the outside air. In a wind power generator in which a driving mechanism and power generation mechanism that are connected with a rotor head, to which wind-turbine blades are attached, are accommodated and installed in a nacelle, an outer wall surface of the nacelle is provided with, on at least a part of the wall surface where no direct sunlight is radiated, a heat-dissipation-resistance reducing portion that uses a member having a higher thermal conductivity than that of a peripheral wall member. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001426 | HYDRAULIC DETACHABLE COUPLING - A hydraulic detachable coupling, which can transmit rated torque in a manner stable to vibrations, and can fully withstand abnormal torque. For this purpose, in a hydraulic detachable coupling ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001420 | SEALING STRUCTURE FOR CYLINDRICAL BODY - A sealing structure for a cylindrical body has an O-ring holder in which a planar O-ring that provides a seal in the planar direction and a radial O-ring that provides a seal in the axial line direction of the cylindrical body are incorporated in the crossing direction provided at both end parts of the cylindrical body; a pressing means for pressing the O-ring holder in the axial line direction of the cylindrical body via a pressing lid; the O-ring holder is pressed against a tube sheet of the fluid chamber via the pressing lid by the pressing means to press the planar O-ring onto the tube sheet, whereby a fluid tight seal is provided between the fluid chamber and the outside; and the radial O-ring is pressed onto the outer periphery of the cylindrical body to provide a fluid tight seal between the fluid passage and the fluid chamber. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120000391 | BOGIE FOR GUIDE RAIL TYPE VEHICLE | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120000198 | GEOTHERMAL POWER-GENERATION SYSTEM - [Problem to be solved] To achieve a reduction in facility costs in a geothermal power-generation system. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110320067 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE MOUNTED WITH THE DEVICE - There is provided a vehicle control device and a vehicle mounted with this device, capable of properly setting a braking force to bring an operator's feeling into an optimal state. In a control device | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320052 | UTILITY GRID STABILIZATION APPARATUS AND METHOD,AS WELL AS WIND POWER GENERATING SYSTEM - It is an object to supply stable reactive power without requiring large-scale civil engineering work. The invention provides a utility grid stabilization apparatus to be applied to a generating system including a generator having a squirrel-cage induction generator to generate electric power using natural energy and a connection switching section provided between the generator and a utility grid to switch between connection and disconnection of the generator and the utility grid to and from each other, the apparatus including a reactive power regulating section for supplying or absorbing reactive power to or from the utility grid when voltage of the utility grid satisfies a preset variation condition and the generator is disconnected from the utility grid. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318871 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - There are provided a thermal barrier coating material and a thermal barrier coating member that can suppress spalling when used at a high temperature and have a high thermal barrier effect, a method for producing the same, a turbine member coated with a thermal barrier coating, and a gas turbine. The thermal barrier coating member comprises a heat resistant substrate, a bond coat layer formed thereon, and a ceramic layer formed further thereon, wherein the ceramic layer comprises an oxide which consists of an oxide represented by the general formula A | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318697 | GROUND FLARE - Provided is a ground flare in which a low-frequency vibration generated from a ground flare tower, such as a chimney, is properly adjusted to suppress it below a fixture-vibration generation limit, thereby preventing surrounding objects from resonating and vibrating. In a ground flare that burns a flammable exhaust gas with a burner at the lower end of a chimney, in which the lower end of the chimney and the periphery of the burner are surrounded by a windbreak, the low-frequency-noise sound pressure level of a ground flare tower composed of the chimney and the windbreak is reduced by selecting at least one of changing a natural frequency generated from the ground flare tower, using multiple ground flare towers, and installing a low-frequency-vibration absorber in the ground flare tower. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317799 | PRESSURE-LOSS ADJUSTING MEMBER AND REACTOR - [Problem to be Solved] To easily distribute a flow rate of a primary coolant to fuel assemblies. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316237 | SHAFT SEAL AND ROTARY MACHINE WITH SAME - A shaft seal that is constituted by annularly arranging a plurality of seal segments in the circumferential direction of a rotating shaft, in which each seal segment has a plurality of thin plates that are provided in a predetermined arrangement in the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft, side plates that sandwich the plurality of thin plates from both sides thereof in the axial direction, and retention rings that retain the base ends of the plurality of thin plates and the base ends of the side plates; the distal ends of the thin plates protrude farther toward the rotating shaft than the distal ends of the side plates, and the protrusion length of the distal ends of the thin plates in the vicinity of the end portions in the circumferential direction where adjacent seal segments are connected is set to be less than the protrusion length of the distal ends of the thin plates that are located at the middle of the seal segment in the circumferential direction. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315612 | DESALINATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CLEANING THE SAME - A desalination apparatus according to the present invention includes: a pretreatment device having a pretreatment membrane that filters a turbid content contained in raw water; a reverse osmosis membrane device having a reverse osmosis membrane that reduces a salt content contained in filtrate water supplied from the pretreatment device to produce permeated water; a first control valve that is provided between a high-pressure pump mounted on a filtrate water line through which the filtrate water is supplied from the pretreatment device to the reverse osmosis membrane device and the reverse osmosis membrane device, and temporarily decreases a supply pressure of the filtrate water; and the control device that operates the first control valve to perform suck-back control by which a pressure at the entrance of the reverse osmosis membrane device is decreased in a pulse-like manner during operation. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315044 | GUIDEWAY TYPE VEHICLE - To perform the height adjustment of the vehicle body with high precision by improving the sensitivity of measuring the height of the vehicle without making the dead-band smaller, the present invention proposes a guideway-type vehicle comprising: a vehicle body | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110314966 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIRECT REDUCTION IRONMAKING - An apparatus for producing a reducing gas for direct reduction iron-making includes an internal-heating type reformer for reforming a natural gas by adding steam and oxygen to the natural gas and by partially burning the natural gas to generate reducing gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide; a remover for removing carbon dioxide from exhaust gas generated in the direct reduction iron-making; and a line for recycling as the reducing gas the exhaust gas from which the carbon dioxide is removed by the remover. A method for producing direct reduced iron from a raw material containing iron oxide includes the steps of reforming a natural gas by adding steam and oxygen to the natural gas and by partially burning the natural gas to generate a reducing gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide; reducing the raw material containing iron oxide by using the reducing gas to produce the direct reduced iron; removing carbon dioxide from exhaust gas generated in the reducing step; and recycling as the reducing gas the exhaust gas from which the carbon dioxide is removed in the removing step. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110314918 | PIPE INNER SURFACE INSPECTION APPARATUS - A pipe inner surface inspection apparatus that can accurately inspect the inlet portion of a pipe is provided. The pipe inner surface inspection apparatus provides a guide unit ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110314814 | HYDROGEN PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - The amount of high-temperature steam supplied from external equipment is reduced. Provided is a hydrogen production system ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110314664 | PRESSURE-LOSS ADJUSTING-MEMBER INSTALLATION TOOL - [Problem to be Solved] To provide a pressure-loss adjusting-member installation tool that can install a number of pressure-loss adjusting members at desired positions easily. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110313627 | VEHICLE CONTROL UNIT AND VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A vehicle control unit and a vehicle equipped with the vehicle control unit are provided, the vehicle control unit being capable of preventing a shift change from being permitted in a direction opposite to a vehicle traveling direction caused by an erroneous operation of a shift lever during a traveling mode. In the vehicle control unit for controlling the vehicle on the basis of a shift range detecting unit configured to detect a shift range selected by a shift operation and a vehicle speed detecting unit configured to detect a vehicle speed, when the shift range detecting unit detects the shift range in a direction opposite to the vehicle traveling direction in a state where the vehicle speed detecting unit detects a vehicle speed not less than a first speed V | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311356 | SUCTION CASING AND FLUID MACHINE - A suction casing of the present invention includes: a suction nozzle that introduces a fluid from an outer circumferential side to an inner circumferential side in a radial direction; and a chamber that includes a substantially doughnut-shaped space in communication with an inside of the suction nozzle on the outer circumferential side and that guides the fluid, introduced from the suction nozzle, to an inlet opening portion opening in an axial direction and disposed in a substantially annular shape, in which the chamber is formed so that a radial width is narrower in a circumferential direction from a joint portion in communication with the suction nozzle to an opposite side across a central axis. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310417 | PRINTING EVALUATION INFORMATION DISPLAYING APPARATUS AND PRINTING EVALUATION INFORMATION DISPLAYING METHOD FOR PRINTING PRESS - It is an object of the invention to provide a printing evaluation information displaying apparatus and method for a printing press wherein the printing operator can grasp printing evaluation information and printing press operation information to be used as parameters of quality management at the same time. The printing evaluation information displaying apparatus for a printing press | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309804 | CONTROL DEVICE OF WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A control device of a wind turbine generator capable of controlling an active power based on an instruction value, includes a measurement means configured to measure a frequency of a utility grid. The instruction value for controlling the active power is generated to a direction suppressing a variation of the frequency of the utility grid based on conversion information which indicates a predetermined relation between the variation of the frequency and the instruction value when the variation of the frequency of the utility grid measured by the measurement means exceeds a predetermined standard. A wind turbine generator which controls suppression of a disturbance of a grid in its initial stage is realized. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309791 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHARGING TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE WITHOUT CONTACT WIRE - A charging method is used for a transportation vehicle without a contact wire. The transportation vehicle is configured so that when a vehicle ( | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309622 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR, ACTIVE DAMPING METHOD THEREOF, AND WINDMILL TOWER - A wind turbine generator, an active damping method thereof, and a windmill tower in which vibrations of the wind turbine generator itself or the windmill tower can be reduced at low cost are provided. The acceleration due to vibrations of a nacelle is detected with an accelerometer attached to the nacelle. In an active damping unit, a pitch angle of windmill blades for generating a thrust on the windmill blades so as to cancel out the vibrations of the nacelle is calculated on the basis of the acceleration, and the pitch angle is output as a blade-pitch-angle command δθ* for damping. On the other hand, in a pitch-angle control unit, a pitch angle of the windmill blades for controlling the output to be a predetermined value is calculated, and the pitch angle is output as a blade-pitch-angle command θ* for output control. The blade-pitch-angle command δθ* for damping is combined with the blade-pitch-angle command θ* for output control using a subtracter. The pitch angle of the windmill blades is controlled on the basis of the resulting blade-pitch-angle command after combining. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309620 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND NACELLE TURNING METHOD - A wind turbine generator is provided with: a nacelle mounting a wind turbine rotor; a yaw drive device generating drive force for causing yaw turning of the nacelle; a brake mechanism generating braking force for braking the turning of the nacelle; a control system controlling the yaw drive device and the brake mechanism; and a wind speed measurement device measuring wind speed. When detecting occurrence of a high wind speed state based on the wind speed while the nacelle is turned by the yaw drive device, the control device provides braking force for the nacelle by using the brake mechanism in response to the detection of the occurrence of the high wind speed state. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309007 | SPIRAL TYPE SEAWATER DESALINATION APPARATUS - An embodiment of the present invention includes: a spiral type pressure vessel | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110308735 | VACUUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - A discharge chamber formed of a ridge waveguide having ridge electrodes that are disposed facing each other and that generate plasma therebetween; a gas supplying portion that is disposed adjacent to the discharge chamber and that supplies source gas, which is used to form the plasma, toward the ridge electrodes; a substrate that is disposed at a position such that the gas supplying portion is flanked by the substrate and the discharge chamber and that is subjected to the processing by the plasma; a low-pressure vessel that accommodates thereinside at least the discharge chamber, the gas supplying portion, and the substrate; and an exhaust portion that is communicated at a position in the low-pressure vessel such that this position and the gas supplying portion are disposed on either side of the discharge chamber, and that reduces the pressure inside the low-pressure vessel are provided. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110308502 | TURBOCHARGER - In a gas inlet casing of a turbocharger that compresses combustion air for an internal combustion engine and forcibly feeds high-density air into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, a space formed between an inner casing and an outer casing is configured to serve as a first exhaust gas channel for guiding exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine to the outer periphery side of a turbine nozzle. A second exhaust gas channel for guiding exhaust gas that branches at an intermediate point in the first exhaust gas channel to the inner periphery side of the turbine nozzle is formed at the inner periphery side of the inner casing. An intermediate portion of the first exhaust gas channel and a gas inlet of the second exhaust gas channel are communicated through an exhaust gas pipe, and an on/off valve is connected at an intermediate point thereof. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110308495 | CONTROL METHOD OF PRECOMBUSTION CHAMBER TYPE ENGINE - Providing a control method for controlling an engine of a precombustion chamber type, whereby the misfiring in the precombustion chamber is surely prevented. In the control method for controlling an engine of a premix combustion type, the method including, but not limited to the processes of: a first step where the charging air pressure, the charging air temperature and the engine speed are detected; a second step where the air excess ratio of the air fuel mixture supplied to the main combustion chamber is computed as per predetermined relational expressions; a third step where the amount of the fuel to be supplied to the precombustion chamber is duly computed as per the relational expression between the air excess ratio of the air fuel mixture in the main combustion chamber and the fuel amount of the air fuel mixture in the precombustion chamber; a fourth step where the valve opening duration regarding a precombustion chamber fuel supply valve for controlling the amount of the fuel to be supplied to the precombustion chamber is computed as per a relational expression between the valve opening duration and the computed fuel amount of the air fuel mixture in the precombustion chamber. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110308230 | INTEGRATED COAL GASIFICATION COMBINED CYCLE PLANT - Provided is an integrated coal gasification combined cycle apparatus that can operate a coal pulverizer using gas turbine exhaust gas as drying gas even when the concentration of oxygen in the gas turbine exhaust gas to be used as the drying gas is temporarily increased. In the integrated coal gasification combined cycle plant using combustion exhaust gas from a gas turbine as the drying gas for a coal pulverizer and adjusting the temperature of the drying gas by mixing outlet gas from a denitration device installed inside an exhaust gas boiler and outlet gas from the exhaust gas boiler, an auxiliary burner is started when the concentration of oxygen in the drying gas is increased to a predetermined value or more and is installed so as to adjust the concentration of oxygen in the drying gas using the combustion exhaust gas generated thereby. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110304140 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND SOUNDNESS DIAGNOSIS METHOD THEREOF - An accumulator is provided in an oil circuit of the pressure supply device and has a gas chamber for storing the pressure generated by the oil pump. A gas pressure judgment unit judges a soundness on the gas pressure of the gas chamber of the accumulator. A pitch movement judgment unit judges whether the pitch movement is performed soundly by the oil pressure accumulated in the accumulator if the gas pressure judgment unit judges that the gas pressure is sound. A start judgment unit judges a start condition to start the gas pressure judgment unit every predetermined period or when a start switch is operated. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110303606 | CO-PRODUCING APPARATUS FOR SALT AND FRESH WATER AND CO-PRODUCING METHOD OF THE SAME - An embodiment of the present invention includes: a recycle line that brings a part of salt-enriched membrane separation concentrated water | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110303289 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE AND PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - A process for producing a photovoltaic device that suppresses variations in the photovoltaic conversion efficiency within the plane of a large surface area substrate, suppresses fluctuations in the module power output between production lots, and enables an improvement in the productivity. A process for producing a photovoltaic device that includes forming a silicon-based photovoltaic layer on a substrate using a plasma enhanced CVD method that employs a gas containing a silane-based gas and hydrogen gas as the raw material gas, under conditions in which the flow rate of the hydrogen gas per unit surface area of the substrate is not less than 80 slm/m | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110300617 | BIOMASS HYDROTHERMAL DECOMPOSITION APPARATUS, TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND ORGANIC RAW MATERIAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM USING BIOMASS MATERIAL - A biomass hydrothermal decomposition apparatus that feeds a solid biomass material | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298218 | WIND GENERATOR - The present invention provides a wind generator which effectively utilizes an opening of a door opening and a shell plate, and in which an outside air-circulation flow path for introducing outside air into a cooling heat exchanger in a tower is formed. In the wind generator, a cooling medium that cools a heating element disposed in the tower circulates through a cooling heat exchanger, and heat is absorbed by exchanging heat with outside air, an outside air-circulation flow path of a closed space having an outside-air inflow opening and an outside-air discharge opening that are in communication with a door opening of a shell plate is formed in an interior space in the tower, and the cooling heat exchanger is disposed in the outside air-circulation flow path. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298213 | HANDY TERMINAL FOR WIND TURBINE GENERATOR, WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND WIND POWER SITE - A handy terminal for a wind turbine generator that can prevent management of control logics of control devices for controlling operation of the wind turbine generator from becoming cumbersome. The handy terminal for the wind turbine generator comprises, a connecting portion that connects to a connecting end provided on the wind turbine generator, an operating ends group that generate operation signals to selectively enable control logics included in a control circuit that is incorporated in the wind turbine generator, and a display portion that displays the operating state of the operating ends, wherein the operation signals generated by the operating ends group are operation signals that selectively enables the operating or maintenance control logics of the control circuit of the corresponding wind turbine generator connected via the connecting portion, that are common to the other wind turbine generators in the same site. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110297321 | SUBSTRATE SUPPORT STAGE OF PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - An object is to provide a substrate support stage of a plasma processing apparatus, in which electrical discharge from a connection terminal is prevented with a simple structure. In the substrate support stage of a plasma processing apparatus, an electrostatic attraction plate ( | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110296835 | VARIABLE CAPACITY EXHAUST GAS TURBOCHARGER - A variable capacity exhaust gas turbocharger having a small thermal capacity and enabling the structure to be simplified. A exhaust gas inlet hardware ( | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110296829 | VARIABLE GEOMETRY EXHAUST TURBOCHARGER - A variable geometry exhaust turbocharger, wherein bolts which fasten a variable nozzle mechanism do not loosen. A variable geometry exhaust turbocharger is provided with a turbine housing ( | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110296828 | TURBOCHARGING SYSTEM FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A two-stage turbo system using small-sized turbo-superchargers and simply configured. A two-stage turbo system provided with an internal combustion engine ( | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110293483 | FLUE GAS PURIFYING DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a flue gas purifying device that can efficiently decrease nitrogen oxides in flue gas. This object is solved by including: an exhaust pipe that guides flue gas discharged from a burning appliance; a urea-water injecting unit that injects urea water into the exhaust pipe; a catalytic unit arranged on a downstream side to a position where urea water is injected in a flow direction of flue gas and having a urea SCR catalyst; a first ammonia-concentration measuring unit that measures a concentration of ammonia in flue gas at a measurement position in a region where the catalytic unit is arranged; a second ammonia-concentration measuring unit arranged on a downstream side to the catalytic unit in a flow direction of the flue gas, to measure a concentration of ammonia in the flue gas having passed through the urea SCR catalyst; and a control unit that controls injection of urea water by the urea-water injecting unit based on measurement results acquired by the first and second ammonia-concentration measuring units. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110293425 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - There is provided a wind turbine generator that includes an improved grease supply and discharge system of lubricant oil used in a blade rotating ring bearing of a wind turbine blade, and can reliably recover discharged grease. The wind turbine generator includes a pitch control mechanism that can adjust a pitch angle of the wind turbine blade via the blade rotating ring bearing provided between the wind turbine blade and a rotor head, a grease supply and discharge device is provided in the rotor head, and the grease supply and discharge device includes a grease supply device that pumps lubricant oil in a supplied grease tank with a grease supply pump and supplies the lubricant oil to the blade rotating ring bearing, and a grease discharge device that forcibly sucks and recovers the discharged grease from the blade rotating ring bearing. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110293418 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WIND TURBINE - In a conventional technique, a shutdown sequence indicating a sequential operation from a start of the feathering of a wind turbine to the stop is started in response to an alert signal caused by an external factor. In the present invention, when the alert is called off during the shutdown sequence, the shutdown sequence is stopped, and the recovery control by which the pitch angle of the wind turbine blade is controlled toward the fine state is performed. By such a control, the stop period of the wind turbine under the shutdown can be shortened, so that the decrease in the operating rate of the wind farm can be suppressed. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291501 | INTEGRATED-INVERTER ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR - Provided is an integrated-inverter electric compressor with suppressed self-noise interference in an inverter unit, simplified electrical connections between an inverter circuit and a filter circuit, and fewer welded positions. A housing ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291414 | WIND POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Provided is a wind power generation system intending to suppress an increase of torque when a voltage in a utility grid is restored, and to reduce a load to devices due to the torque. The blade control unit controls the pitch angle of the wind turbine blades such that a rotation speed of the power generator becomes equal to or greater than a synchronous rotation speed when the power control unit de-actuates the operations of the converter and the inverter, and controls the pitch angle of the wind turbine blades such that the pitch angle matches a target pitch angle that is determined based on one of a wind speed, a rotation speed of the power generator, and a requested output power when the power control unit re-actuates the operations of the converter and the inverter. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110286871 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided that can reliably prevent a situation in which a product whose performance is degraded due to misassembly of a tip seal is shipped. In the scroll compressor, tip seals of different lengths are embedded in tip surfaces of a fixed spiral wrap of a fixed scroll and an orbiting spiral wrap of an orbiting scroll. Among the tip seals, thicknesses of the shorter tip seals are made thicker than thicknesses of the longer tip seals, and depths of seal grooves in which the tip seals are embedded, respectively, are formed to different depths in correspondence with the thicknesses of the respective tip seals. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286846 | SUN-AND-PLANET SPEED-UP GEAR - A sun-and-planet speed-up gear includes a low-speed-stage sun-and-planet gearing and a high-speed-stage sun-and-planet gearing, in which an input shaft is connected to a low-speed-stage ring gear, the position of a shaft of a low-speed-stage planet gear is secured, a shaft of a low-speed-stage sun gear is connected to a high-speed-stage carrier, and an output shaft is connected to a high-speed-stage sun gear. In order to automatically center the low-speed-stage sun gear to prevent damage to gears and a bearing, a flange formed at a tip of the shaft of the low-speed-stage sun gear and a flange formed at a tip of a coupling that is directly attached to the high-speed-stage carrier or that is formed on the high-speed-stage carrier are coupled via a sleeve. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286844 | LUBRICANT HEATING MECHANISM, GEAR MECHANISM , AND WIND TURBINE GENERATOR USING THE SAME - A lubricant heating mechanism is provided with a tank accumulating therein lubricant; a lubricant pump; a heater provided in the tank to heat the lubricant; and a baffle plate at least partially covering the heater. The tank is provided with a suction port drawing out the lubricant from the tank to the lubricant pump. The baffle plate is provided to convect the heated lubricant toward the suction port. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110284183 | VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS - In a vehicle air conditioning apparatus in which a plurality of air mixing dampers that are driven independently of each other have a drive shaft having a double-shaft structure wherein a hollow drive shaft of one damper is penetrated by a solid drive shaft of another damper, a first shaft-center immobilizing mechanism that secures a shaft center of the hollow drive shaft is provided between a side surface of the unit casing, to which the drive shaft having the double-shaft structure is supported in a freely rotatable manner, and a gear provided at a shaft end of the hollow drive shaft. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110283718 | HEAT-SOURCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A heat-source system includes centrifugal-chillers, cooling-water pumps, cooling towers, cooling-tower fans, chilled-water pumps, and a control unit for controlling them. A plurality of the cooling towers are provided so as to have a cooling-tower capacity corresponding to the total capacity of the rated capacities of the respective centrifugal-chillers, the cooling towers being commonly connected to the plurality of centrifugal-chillers. The control unit preliminarily prepares an optimum cooling-tower capacity relationship representing the cooling-tower capacity with which the heat-source system efficiency, taking into consideration the centrifugal-chillers, the cooling-water pump, the cooling towers, the cooling-tower fan, and the chilled-water pump, is higher, in relation to the outside-air wet-bulb temperature and the centrifugal-chiller partial load factor. The control unit determines the number of cooling towers to be operated by referring to the optimum cooling-tower capacity relationship, on the basis of the outside-air wet-bulb temperature and the partial load factor of the centrifugal-chillers during operation. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110280758 | SCROLL TYPE COMPRESSOR - Provided is a scroll type compressor which reduces variations in the pressing load of a rotating scroll on a fixed scroll, reduces the impact at the start of the compressor and suppresses noises, and can provide excellent durability. A peripheral elastic body | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110280730 | SEMI-FLEXIBLE SUPPORTING STRUCTURE FOR WIND TURBINE - A frame for supporting equipment arranged in a hub of a wind turbine is fixed to the hub at one end and flexibly connected to the hub at another end. The variation of the relative position between the hub and the frame caused by the deformation of the hub associated with a rotation of the wind turbine or the like is absorbed by the flexible connection. A wind turbine whose frame in the hub has high durability against the rotation can be provided. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279828 | INSPECTION DEVICE AND INSPECTION METHOD FOR BOILER FURNACE WATER WALL TUBES - There are provided an inspection device and an inspection method for boiler furnace water wall tubes, which can inspect reduced wall thickness conditions of multiple water wall tubes, extending in an up-down direction along inner wall surfaces of a boiler furnace and arranged adjacent to each other, accurately and efficiently over a wide range based on surface shapes of the water wall tubes measured by a laser displacement sensor. A scanner | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279085 | VOLTAGE EQUALIZATION DEVICE, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND POWER STORAGE SYSTEM - A voltage equalization device of a power storage device provided with battery packs in which a plurality of secondary cells are connected, power converters provided in association with the battery packs, and controllers that control the power converters, and in which the battery packs are connected in parallel via the individual power converters includes a decision portion and a voltage-adjusting portion. The decision portion obtains battery-pack information regarding the states of charge/discharge of the individual battery packs and decides, for each battery pack, whether or not to perform voltage adjustment on the basis of the battery-pack information. When the decision portion decides that the voltage adjustment is to be performed, the voltage-adjusting portion generates offset instructions for adjusting the states of charge/discharge and outputs the offset instructions to the controllers of the power converters associated with the battery packs. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110278996 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - A wind turbine generator is provided with a generator which is provided with a stator and a stator casing accommodating a generator rotor and the stator; a main shaft having one end coupled to a wind turbine rotor and the other end coupled to the generator rotor; a first bearing which rotatably supports the main shaft; a second bearing which is provided on the main shaft to support the stator casing such that the main shaft and the stator casing are rotatable relative to each other; a base to which the first bearing is attached; and a torque support including a coupling member which couples the base portion and a front plate of the stator casing. The load center of force acting between the coupling member and the front plate in a case that torque acts on the stator casing in the circumferential direction of the main shaft is positioned in a range between the front and back surfaces of the front plate. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110278851 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR - The present invention provides a wind turbine generator in which an oil seal structure provided in a blade rotating ring bearing of a wind turbine blade is improved and leakage of lubricant oil to outside is prevented or suppressed. A wind turbine generator in which a rotor head has wind turbine blades, the rotor head rotates when the wind turbine blades receive wind power and drives a power generator disposed in a nacelle to generate electricity, the nacelle is disposed on an upper end of a tower that stands on a foundation such that the nacelle can yaw-slew, a blade rotating ring bearing is disposed between the wind turbine blade and the rotor, the wind turbine generator includes a pitch control mechanism that can adjust a pitch angle of the wind turbine blades, wherein seal mechanisms are mounted on both ends of opposed rolling body holding surfaces of an outer race and an inner race of the blade rotating ring bearing with rolling bodies interposed between both the ends, sides of the seal mechanisms closer to the blade are formed into a double sealed structure in which a space is disposed between seal members and the seal member are disposed in an axial direction of the blade, pressurized fluid is supplied to the space, and lips of the seal members are pushed against a mating sidewall surface. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110278850 | MONOPOLE TOWER AND WIND TURBINE GENERATOR HAVING MONOPOLE TOWER - The present invention provides a monopole tower having a tower supporting structure in which the outer dimension of a tower shell is the maximum dimension by eliminating a base plate which extends toward the outside of the tower shell. In a monopole tower provided upright on a foundation B, a lower end side of the tower | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110277960 | GAS COOLER - The heat transfer performance of a gas cooler provided with a fin tube type heat exchanger is improved. This is a gas cooler | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110277904 | ROOM TEMPERATURE BONDING APPARATUS - A room temperature bonding apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a load lock chamber having an internal space which is pressure-reduced; and a cartridge arranged in the load lock chamber. The cartridge includes an island portion formed to contact a substrate when the substrate is put on the cartridge. A flow passage is formed for the island portion to connect a space between the cartridge and the substrate to outside when the substrate is put on the cartridge. Therefore, in the room temperature bonding apparatus can prevent making the substrate is moved to the cartridge due to gas when the internal space is pressure-reduced. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110277554 | IN-PLANE COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH EVALUATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR - A reduction in cost and improvement in evaluation accuracy are achieved. Provided is an in-plane compressive strength evaluation device ( | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110275468 | TRANSFER INCORPORATING WET BRAKE - An object of the present invention is to provide a transfer incorporating a wet brake which, for example, enables a gear shaft for a second gear and a sun gear to be supported by two bearings without inconveniences such as an increase in the axial dimension of the transfer. Accordingly, a brake hub ( | 11-10-2011 |
