| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100075201 | FUEL CELL WITH ELECTRODE HAVING AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE NANO-COLUMN AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - In a fuel cell including an electrolyte membrane and a pair of electrodes disposed on both sides of the electrolyte membrane, at least one of the electrodes has an electrically conductive nanocolumn that is oriented with an inclination of 60° or less with respect to a planar direction of the electrolyte membrane, a catalyst supported on the electrically conductive nanocolumn, and an electrolyte resin coating the electrically conductive nanocolumn. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100260655 | AMMONIA SYNTHESIS APPARATUS AND PROCESS - An ammonia synthesis apparatus includes: a first gas channel; a second gas channel disposed outside the first gas channel; a third gas channel disposed outside the second gas channel; an air supply unit that supplies air to the second or third gas channel; a water supply unit that supplies water to the first gas channel; and a heat supply unit that supplies heat to the first gas channel. A metal or a metal oxide that reduces water to produce hydrogen is placed in the first gas channel. An ammonia synthesis catalyst is placed in the second gas channel located downstream of the downstream end portion of the first gas channel. The second and third gas channels are at least partially partitioned by an oxygen permeation membrane, or a nitrogen permeation membrane, so that oxygen is supplied to the third gas channel, and nitrogen is supplied to the second gas channel. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20110286907 | AMMONIA SYNTHESIS PROCESS - The invention provides a process for efficient synthesis of ammonia. The process includes a water-splitting step in which water is decomposed to obtain a first source gas comprising hydrogen and oxygen, a first oxygen removal step in which the oxygen contained in the first source gas is at least partially separated and removed by an oxygen separating membrane or hydrogen separating membrane to obtain a second source gas having a lower oxygen concentration than the first source gas, a second oxygen removal step in which the oxygen in the second source gas is reacted with hydrogen to produce water for removal, or is adsorbed onto an adsorption medium for removal, to obtain a third source gas having a lower oxygen concentration than the second source gas, and an ammonia synthesis step in which the hydrogen in the third source gas is reacted with nitrogen to synthesize ammonia. | 11-24-2011 |
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| 20090140688 | Inverter Device - This invention provides an inverter device that can detect a step-out state of an AC motor by a simple process without depending on a rotation speed of the AC motor and also surely hold an abnormal state in the step-out state of the AC motor. The inverter device | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090237027 | INDUCTION MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE - An induction motor control device includes an inverter circuit for driving an induction motor by outputting a command voltage, a current detector for detecting an output current, a magnetic flux estimation observer for generating an estimated magnetic flux, an estimated current, and a phase command for the motor using the command voltage and the output current, a primary angular speed estimator for estimating a primary angular speed using the estimated magnetic flux, a slip compensator for calculating a slip angular frequency using the output current, a first angular speed estimator for estimating a first angular speed using the primary angular speed and the output current, a second angular speed estimator for estimating a second angular speed using the output current, the estimated magnetic flux, and the estimated current, and a resistance estimator for estimating a secondary resistance value of the motor using the first and second angular speeds. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090256516 | ELECTROMECHANICAL MACHINE CONTROL SYSTEM - There is provided an electromechanical machine control system for variable speed controlling an electromechanical machine which can realize a desired control response and a stable control system by online regulating the gain of a linear differential controller by current feedback based on an electric parameter or mechanical parameter of the electromechanical machine. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20100207555 | ALTERNATING-CURRENT MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS - An alternating-current motor control apparatus includes a voltage controller configured to output a command voltage vector so that the command voltage vector is time-averaged for time periods, a square-wave voltage generator configured to control, every time period, amplitudes and phases of voltages to be applied to an alternating-current motor, a current detector configured to detect motor currents at a timing synchronized with periods 1/N-th of the time periods, where N is equal to or larger than one, a coordinate transformation section configured to perform coordinate transformation to transform the motor currents into two-phase currents, an envelope extractor configured to extract two-phase currents as waveforms having amplitudes that periodically change from the two-phase currents, and extract envelopes of the waveforms, and a magnetic-pole-position computing section configured to compute a magnetic-pole position using the envelopes. | 08-19-2010 |
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| 20100106297 | WORKPIECE DETECTING SYSTEM, PICKING APPARATUS, PICKING METHOD, AND TRANSPORT SYSTEM - A workpiece detection system includes: a plurality of transmitters disposed on a workpiece, each transmitter transmitting a first signal; three or more receivers receiving the first signal transmitted from the transmitter; and a position calculator detecting a location of the transmitter based on the first signal received by each of the receivers. The position calculator detects a posture of the workpiece from information on the detected locations of the plurality of transmitters. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100119146 | ROBOT SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROBOT - A robot system includes a robot having a movable section, an image capture unit provided on the movable section, an output unit that allows the image capture unit to capture a target object and a reference mark and outputs a captured image in which the reference mark is imaged as a locus image, an extraction unit that extracts the locus image from the captured image, an image acquisition unit that performs image transformation on the basis of the extracted locus image by using the point spread function so as to acquire an image after the transformation from the captured image, a computation unit that computes a position of the target object on the basis of the acquired image, and a control unit that controls the robot so as to move the movable section toward the target object in accordance with the computed position. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121489 | ROBOT AND ROBOT SYSTEM - A robot system includes a robot including a movable portion, a plurality of transmitters that is provided on the movable portion and transmits wireless signals, three or more receivers receiving the wireless signals transmitted from each of the transmitters, and a position calculating unit detecting locations of the transmitters based on the wireless signals that the plurality of the receivers receives. In the system, the position calculating unit detects a pose of the robot from information on the locations of the detected plurality of the transmitters. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20110026762 | MARKER PROCESSING METHOD, MARKER PROCESSING DEVICE, MARKER, OBJECT HAVING A MARKER, AND MARKER PROCESSING PROGRAM - A marker processing method includes: (a) binarizing a shot image; (b) labeling one or more constituents of the image detected based on the image binarized in step (a); (c) obtaining a region centroid of each of the constituents corresponding to the respective labels processed in step (b); (d) obtaining a degree of overlap of the region centroids of the constituents corresponding respectively to the labels, obtained in step (c); and (e) detecting a marker based on the degree of overlap of the region centroids obtained in step (d). | 02-03-2011 |