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20090087805 | In-Furnace Gas Injection Port - Tertiary nozzle of port for gas injection into furnace includes a contracted flow producing channel provided obliquely toward central axis from the upstream side of gas flow so that the gas flow has a velocity component heading from the outer circumferential side of the port toward the central axis and a velocity component heading along the central axis toward the interior of the furnace, and including louver disposed for guiding so that the gas flows along the surface of throat wall of enlarged pipe configuration wherein the gas channel is enlarged at a furnace wall opening disposed at an outlet area of the contracted flow producing channel. Accordingly, there can be provided a gas injection port that not depending on conditions, such as the flow rate of gas injected from the port, without inviting any complication of apparatus structuring or cost increase, enables preventing of the growth in lump form of clinker caused by ash adhesion and fusion on the wall surface of throat enlarged pipe portion of the furnace. | 04-02-2009 |
20100064986 | BURNER, AND COMBUSTION EQUIPMENT AND BOILER COMPRISING BURNER - The present invention provides a solid fuel burner, which, while rendering the capacity larger than that in the conventional art, can suppress an increase in an unignited region and thus can realize the prevention of an increase in NOx concentration in a combustion gas and the prevention of a lowering in combustion efficiency, and a combustion equipment and boiler including the burner. The burner includes a fuel-containing fluid supply nozzle ( | 03-18-2010 |
20100162930 | SOLID-FUEL BURNER, COMBUSTION DEVICE USING SOLID-FUEL BURNER, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE COMBUSTION DEVICE - Provided is a solid fuel burner ( | 07-01-2010 |
20140116359 | BURNER, AND COMBUSTION EQUIPMENT AND BOILER COMPRISING BURNER - A burner including a fuel-containing fluid supply nozzle which supplies a fuel-containing fluid, from a connecting part in a fluid transfer flow passage for transferring a fuel-containing fluid including a fuel and a medium for transfer of the fuel, toward an outlet part provided on a furnace wall surface. The nozzle in its cross section perpendicular to the direction of flow of the fluid has a rectangular, elliptical, or substantially elliptical form having major and minor axis parts from a connecting part in the fluid transfer flow passage toward the outlet part provided on the furnace wall surface. Further, the area of a cross section perpendicular to the direction of flow of the fluid is gradually increased from the connecting part in the fluid transfer flow passage toward the outlet part. Air supply nozzle(s) for supplying combustion air are provided on the outer peripheral part of the nozzle. | 05-01-2014 |
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20090008122 | Electrical junction box to be mounted on motor vehicle - An electrical junction box for a motor vehicle is configured to prevent loss of a fuse that falls down during maintenance. Fuse-containing sections are provided on a vertical surface of a casing of an electrical junction box. The fuse-containing sections are opposed to a trim cover provided with an opening for maintenance in the motor vehicle. Fuse-receiving plates project toward the trim cover integrally on or detachably from the casing surface at the position below the fuse-containing sections. The fuse-receiving plate has a length in which a distal end contacts the trim cover or the distal end is spaced away from the trim cover by a clearance through which a fuse cannot pass. The fuse-receiving plates can receive a fuse that falls down during a fuse attachment or detachment operation. | 01-08-2009 |
20090023307 | Electrical junction box - An electrical junction box reduces the number of components to be contained in an electrical junction box and simplifies a structure of the box. The electrical junction box has a casing assembly including an upper casing and a lower casing. A laminated unit including bus bars and insulation plates is contained in the upper casing, while a first printed circuit board, a second printed circuit board and a spacer made of an insulation resin material are contained in the lower casing. The first printed circuit board is disposed on one side of the spacer, while the second printed circuit board is disposed on the other side of the spacer. Shorter size fixing bars and longer size fixing bars project from an inner surface on a top wall of the upper casing. The shorter size fixing bars penetrate the laminated unit, first printed circuit board and spacer. Screws are inserted upward into the shorter size fixing bars via through-holes in the spacer to secure the unit, first printed circuit board, and spacer to the shorter bars. Longer size fixing bars penetrate the laminated unit, first printed circuit board, spacer, second printed circuit board, and lower casing. Screws are inserted upward into the longer size fixing bars via through-holes in the lower casing to secure the unit, first and second printed circuit boards, spacer, and lower casing to the longer bars. | 01-22-2009 |
20130114217 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD LAMINATE - A printed circuit board laminate is provided of a novel structure that is not only capable of enhancing a degree of freedom in design and achieving a further size reduction, but also capable of enhancing heat releasing performance in a space sandwiched in between two printed circuit boards. A lattice-like portion formed of a plurality of connection walls crossed with one another is provided to an insulating plate interposed between two printed circuit boards, and the connection walls are positioned with clearances from the two printed circuit boards, respectively, by a plurality of supporting ribs protruding from the connection walls toward at least one of the two printed circuit boards. | 05-09-2013 |
20130115790 | BOARD TERMINAL AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD PROVIDED WITH BOARD TERMINAL - A board terminal has a flat-plate shaped connection portion to be connected to an electric component at one end and an insertion portion to be inserted in and soldered to a through-hole of a printed circuit board at the other end and is formed in a crank shape by being provided with a support plate portion protruding in a plate thickness direction of the connection portion between the connection portion and the insertion portion. Also, the insertion portion is formed in a location on only one side in a width direction of the support plate portion. | 05-09-2013 |
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20130049695 | ELECTRIC POWER CONTROL APPARATUS AND GRID CONNECTION SYSTEM HAVING SAME - An electric power control apparatus enables a surplus electric power from a distributed power source to be stored in a storage battery in a consumer unit provided with a distributed power source and a storage battery. The electric power control apparatus is characterized in being provided with a compensation calculating unit which calculates the compensation of electric power by using a unit price of electricity for sale when charging the storage battery and a unit price of electricity for purchase when discharging from the storage battery. | 02-28-2013 |
20130229059 | ELECTRIC POWER CONTROL DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER CONTROL SYSTEM USING SAME - A controller installed at each consumer side comprises: a power generation amount acquisition unit acquiring the amount of electricity that has been generated in a solar cell; a power selling amount acquisition unit acquiring the amount of electricity for sale that has been allowed to flow into an electric power system by reverse power flow, among the electricity generated in the solar cell; and a power selling suppression control unit configured to set a threshold value for the amount of the electricity for sale, as proportional to the amount of the generated electricity acquired by the power generation amount acquisition unit, and configured to suppress the reverse power flow into the electric power system so that the amount of the electricity for sale is set to the threshold value or less. | 09-05-2013 |
20130270911 | POWER CONTROLLER - Residential system includes photovoltaic power system including solar battery, and electrical storage device including battery. Electric load of residential system is selectively supplied with energy from power supply system, power generator and electrical storage device. Power generator allows energy to flow back to power supply system. Energy surplus judgment part calculates difference between generating energy of power generator and demand power for electric load (excess generating energy). Overall operation controller applies stored energy in electrical storage device to demand energy for electric load when excess generating energy is produced, and charges electrical storage device without applying generating energy of power generator to demand energy when excess generating energy is not produced. | 10-17-2013 |
20140052310 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM - A controller executes local generation and local consumption pathways of: supplying power from a solar cell to an appliance, and charging a storage cell with power that remains after subtracting power consumed by the appliance from the solar cell power. In the absence of excess power, the storage cell and solar cell supply power. Power supply from a commercial electrical grid covers a power shortage that remains after subtracting solar cell power and storage cell power from the power consumed by the appliance. The controller also executes a second excess power selling mode pathway wherein excess power flows into the commercial electrical grid, and an assist mode wherein all solar cell power flows into the commercial electrical grid, and storage cell power flows to the appliance. | 02-20-2014 |
20140094985 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM - A demand measurement unit measures load demand power and a power generation measurement unit measures solar cell output power. A threshold storage unit stores a discharge control threshold for determining whether to discharge remaining storage cell power. When demand power exceeds generated power, a command unit controls storage cell discharge by comparing remaining storage cell power with the discharge control threshold and transmits a control command to a power conditioner. If the remaining storage cell power exceeds the discharge control threshold, then the command unit commands storage cell discharge. A threshold setting unit sets the discharge control threshold, and updates the discharge control threshold when that value changes. | 04-03-2014 |
20140136010 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An electric power acquisition section acquires a power demand of a load. An assist control section determines that an assist condition is satisfied when the power demand exceeds a threshold value within a time slot for permitting electric power to be supplied to the load. When determining that the assist condition is satisfied, the assist control section presents a selection prompt to inquire whether or not to activate an assist operation for supplying the electric power from a power storage device, on an operation display device through a notification control section. If there is a response for requesting activation of the assist operation from the operation display device in response to the selection prompt, the assist operation is started. The assist condition is set in a storage unit by a condition setting section. | 05-15-2014 |
20140312841 | ELECTRICITY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, ELECTRICITY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A electricity management device increases a counter value as an electric vehicle is charged from grid power that is supplied from an electrical grid, retains the counter value when the electric vehicle is charged from electricity generated by an electricity generation device, and reduces the counter value as electricity in the electric vehicle is discharged to a distribution board. | 10-23-2014 |
20150061592 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED APPARATUS, CHARGER/DISCHARGER, AND CHARGE/DISCHARGE SYSTEM - A vehicle-mounted apparatus comprising: a communication unit which is connected to the charger/discharger and exchanges information with the charger/discharger; an input unit receiving various types of information; a storage unit which uses the information acquired through the input unit and the communication unit to store: a vehicle ID identifying the vehicle; a charger/discharger ID identifying the charger/discharger which can be connected to the vehicle; and history information indicating a history of charges and discharges for the vehicle, which are related to one another; and a presentation unit presenting to a user of the vehicle, the history information stored in the storage unit in relation to a pair of the vehicle ID and the charger/discharger which charges/discharges the vehicle and is identified by the charger/discharger ID. | 03-05-2015 |
20150207323 | POWER FLOW CONTROL SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - A power flow control system controls power flow in a first power network shared by customer facilities. The first power network is shared by a customer facility group that includes first customer facilities each including at least a load device and a power generator, and second customer facilities each including at least a load device and an electric storage device. Each of measurement devices measures, for each unit time period, electric power consumed by a load device and electric power generated by a power generator. A management device instructs timings of charging and discharging of the electric storage devices in the customer facility group such that the power flow at a connection node between the first power network and a second power network transmitting electric power from a power plant to the first power network satisfies a predetermined constraint condition using data on electric power acquired from the measurement devices. | 07-23-2015 |