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20110152980 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACTIVATING PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS - With a method and an apparatus for activating physiological functions, a thermal stimulus at 31° C. to 34° C. and a cold stimulus at 18° C. to 22° C. are alternately given to the human body to activate the human physiological functions, in particular, the motor functions of peripheral blood vessels. As a result, the blood pressure regulatory functions, the blood circulation regulatory functions, and the thermoregulatory functions are enhanced thereby to achieve the effects of preventing hypertension, preventing reduction in metabolism and repair functions, accelerating recovery from fatigue, and preventing heat strokes. The apparatus for activating physiological functions includes, for example, a heat pump type air conditioner that selectively generates hot air and cool air. The hot air blown out from the air conditioner into a room interior is utilized as the thermal stimulus, and the cool air also blown out from the air conditioner is utilized as the cold stimulus. | 06-23-2011 |
20140135571 | ENVIRONMENT ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM, ENVIRONMENT ADJUSTMENT METHOD, AIR CONDITIONER, AND REMOTE CONTROLLER - An environment adjustment method mainly includes changing a color tone and lowering ambient temperature. The color tone of an image displayed or projected on a display is changed to one having a calming effect. Then, the ambient temperature is lowered after changing the color tone. | 05-15-2014 |
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20140030155 | COMPLEX SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING COAL IN MANUFACTURE OF CHAR AND RAW MATERIAL GAS AND ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION - Most of the abundant naturally occurring low rank coal, which has a high moisture content and a high oxygen content, is transported with poor efficiency; utilized for heating with degraded thermal efficiency because of the loss of heat due to sensible heat for heating moisture and latent heat for vaporizing moisture; and utilized in existing coal combustion facilities with difficulty due to a high volatile component content. A complex system of the present invention for utilizing coal for manufacture of char and raw material gas and electric power generation is adopted to include: a drying unit for drying low rank coal of a high moisture content; a reformer for reforming the low rank coal that has been dried in the drying unit; a fluidized bed combustor for employing, as a fuel, the reformed coal obtained in the reformer; a producer gas supply pipe for supplying a combustion exhaust gas from the fluidized bed combustor as a pyrolytic and gasifying agent to the reformer; and a catalyst reforming unit for reforming a volatile component and the producer gas obtained from the low rank coal reformed in the reformer. | 01-30-2014 |
20150218971 | POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - Provided is a power generation system in which the combustion heat of hydrocarbon gas is used to heat the steam for power generation; at the same time, the exhaust heat thereof is used to dry and dry-distill low rank coal. Due to the use of a moving bed dry distillation furnace, it is possible to keep the product gas temperature reduced; further, fewer restrictions are imposed on materials such as those for gas pipes, etc., and it is possible to achieve excellent maintainability. Further, due to low-temperature dry distillation, the product gas temperature is low, and it is possible to solve problems due to a tar component; further, fixed carbon is produced by utilizing the exhaust heat of the combustion step and of the power generation step, so that the system is excellent in energy-saving efficiency and resource-saving efficiency, making it possible to utilize low rank coal, which is of high moisture content and difficult to use in places other than the point of origin, in places other than the coal-producing region. The power generation system includes: a dry distillation step for dry-distilling low rank coal of high moisture content; a cooling step for cooling the fixed carbon obtained in the dry distillation step; a combustion step in which hydrocarbon gas obtained in the dry distillation step is used as the main fuel; and a power generation step in which there are provided a power generator moving a steam turbine by main steam generated in the combustion step and a condenser. | 08-06-2015 |
20150247091 | FIXED CARBON PRODUCTION DEVICE - Provided is a fixed carbon production device excellent in operation stability and safety which has high strength and may have a compact device volume, which makes possible production of high-quality fixed carbon with high yields and in large amounts, which is capable of keeping the dry distillation temperature low, which has few restraints in the compositional material, which, having a low dry distillation temperature and low heat input amount, has excellent energy-saving efficiency, and which is capable of solving problems due to a tar component. This fixed carbon production device is provided with: a quench chamber for collecting fixed carbon; a dry distillation furnace which is erected and fixed in the quench chamber and into which raw material coal is fed; a dry distillation unit which is polygonal in horizontal cross-section and is partitioned by a separating wall which partitions the inside of the dry distillation furnace in the vertical direction; a dry distillation mini-furnace which is polygonal in horizontal cross-section and which is partitioned by a partition which partitions the inside of the dry distillation unit in the vertical direction; a pipe-shaped heating means which is arranged on the separating wall of the dry distillation unit and the partition of the dry distillation mini-furnace and which dry-distills the raw material coal; and a collection path for collecting fixed carbon collected in the quench chamber. | 09-03-2015 |