Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetizing inrush current suppressing device is configured to measure a three-phase alternating current flowing from the power supply bus to the load, detect a first interruption phase as a phase of an electric current which is interrupted first among the three phases, detect a phase of a phase voltage zero point through which a phase voltage of the first interruption phase of the three-phase AC voltage passes when changing from the same polarity as that of an electric current immediately before interruption of the first interruption phase to an opposite polarity, and close the circuit-breaker at a phase within 60° from the detected phase.

Abstract: A client apparatus according to an embodiment includes a communication mode setup device, a communication pattern determination device, and a communication execution device. The communication mode setup device sets up an operation mode for executing the communication process in accordance with the individual process or a test mode for executing the substitute process. The communication pattern determination device determines a predetermined communication pattern name representative of a local pattern if the test mode is set up. The communication execution device acquires from the communication pattern management device communication component names and an order associated with the determined communication pattern name, and executes communication components in order.

Abstract: An inexpensive Cu-diamond based composite material having excellent heat conductivity and heat resistance. Conventionally, an infiltration method does not provide a Cu-diamond based composite material having high heat conductivity; an ultrahigh pressure method is expensive; and electric current pressure sintering provides relatively high heat conductivity, a low cost, but insufficient heat resistance. A Cu-diamond based solid phase sintered body contains 2 vol % or more and 6 vol % or less of Cr, and 30 vol % or more and 80 vol % or less of diamond particles containing 20 vol % or more of a high crystallinity diamond component.

Abstract: A colored optical fiber including a glass optical fiber; a primary coating layer that covers the glass optical fiber; a secondary coating layer that covers the primary coating layer; and a colored layer that coats the secondary coating layer. The relaxation modulus after 24 hours at 60° C. of of the layers coated is 140 MPa or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a colored optical fiber that shows anti-microbend property and hot-water resistance, an optical fiber ribbon that utilizes the same, and an optical fiber cable. It is a colored optical fiber 1, which comprises two coating layers of a primary coating layer 31 and a secondary coating layer 32, wherein either one of the primary coating layer 31 or the secondary coating layer 32 is colored, both coating layers have equilibrium elastic moduli of 60 MPa or less, and the secondary coating layer 32 has a relaxation modulus of 410 MPa or more, an optical fiber ribbon 4 that utilizes it, and an optical fiber cable 8.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetizing inrush current suppression device. A closing phase determination unit determines a phase position for suppressing the magnetizing inrush current among phase positions in which the prospective magnetic flux calculated by the prospective magnetic flux calculation unit and the residual magnetic flux calculated by the residual magnetic flux calculation unit coincide between the lines of the minimum residual magnetic flux determined by the minimum residual magnetic flux determination unit, as a closing phase position. A closing unit simultaneously closes the three phases of the circuit-breaker at the determined closing phase position.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, when a transformer that is connected to a first power supply through a first breaker as well as to a second power supply through a second breaker is detected to be disconnected from the power supplies, a specific phase of the three phases of the first breaker is closed to suppress an excitation inrush current, based on calculated residual magnetic fluxes and a voltage of the first power supply, and thereafter, the remaining two phases are closed. Based on the calculated residual magnetic fluxes and a voltage of the second power supply, a specific phase of the three phases of the second breaker is closed to suppress an excitation inrush current, and thereafter, the remaining two phases are closed.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a method is disclosed that includes measuring a waveform of a power source side voltage of a circuit breaker; measuring a waveform of a transmission line side voltage of the circuit breaker; calculating a waveform of a voltage between contacts of the circuit breaker that is a difference between the waveform of the power source side voltage and the waveform of the transmission line side voltage; calculating a waveform of an absolute value of the waveform of the voltage between contacts; extracting a waveform of a component in a frequency band which is lower than a frequency of the power source and higher than a frequency of a DC component from the waveform of the absolute value; detecting a cycle of the extracted waveform; and closing the circuit breaker based on the cycle.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an excitation inrush current suppression device for suppressing excitation inrush currents flowing through a breaker of the three-phase collective operation type for opening and closing connection is configured to measure a three-phase AC voltage of the power supply bus bar to calculate prospective magnetic fluxes of the transformer, and to measure a three-phase AC voltage on the transformer side to calculate residual magnetic fluxes of the transformer after shutoff, so as to set the breaker closed when polarities of the prospective magnetic fluxes respectively agree with polarities of the residual magnetic fluxes in all of the phases respectively.

Abstract: A substation instrument control system is disclosed. The substation instrument control system includes a plurality of transformers that generate a plurality of waveform signals representing electric properties of a substation instrument main body. A merging unit is communicatively coupled to the plurality of transformers and includes a signal processing unit and a control unit. The signal processing unit receives the plurality of waveform signals from the plurality of transformers and converts the plurality of waveform signals to a digital signal. The control unit controls operation of the signal processing unit using a setting data. An intelligent electronic device is communicatively coupled to the merging unit and receives the digital signal from the merging unit.

Abstract: An overvoltage suppression device which suppresses overvoltage that occurs when breakers which turn on/off the connection between a power source bus and a power transmission line, are turned on after the breakers are turned off. The overvoltage suppression device measures the waveform of voltage on the side of the power source and the voltage on the side of the power transmission line, and extracts the waveform of a component in a predetermined frequency band on the basis of the waveform obtained by multiplying the wave shape of the voltage on the side of the power source by the waveform of the voltage on the side of the power transmission line. The breakers are turned on on the basis of a cycle wherein the waveform is peaked.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an inrush current suppression apparatus that suppresses an inrush current generated when shunt capacitors are connected to a power system. The apparatus includes a power supply voltage measurement unit measuring a power supply voltage, a circuit breaker current measurement unit measuring a circuit breaker current, a residual voltage polarity determination unit determining the polarities of three phases of a residual voltage, a specific phase determination unit determining a specific phase, a closing phase detector detecting a closing phase, and a circuit breaker closing unit closing the circuit breaker in the closing phase.

Abstract: {Problems} The present invention is contemplated for providing a thermoplastic resin foam and a light reflecting material having a high reflectivity when being made thin, as well as a method of producing the thermoplastic resin foam. {Means to Solve} A thermoplastic resin foam, prepared by using a thermoplastic resin composition containing a melt-type crystallization nucleating agent (B) in a crystalline thermoplastic resin (A), which foam comprises a bubble having a mean bubble diameter of less than 1 ?m in the inside thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical fiber in which transmission loss is not easily increased when the optical fiber is dipped in water and then dried and also which has a solvent resistant property and a micro-bend resistant property. An optical fiber according to one embodiment of the present invention is an optical fiber in which at least two layers of coating resin coat the circumference of a glass optical fiber. When a Yang's modulus of the first coating layer of the coating resin is defined by PY (MPa) and an elution rate of the coating resin after dipping in 60° C. hot water for 168 hours is defined by E (mass·%), a formula of 1.8?E?8.61×PY+1.40 is satisfied.

Abstract: Provided is a high hardness ultra-fine cemented carbide with a Ni binder phase for a wear resistant tool. An ultra-fine cemented carbide having high specularity and/or high strength, high hardness, and high wear resistance is obtained by using an ultra-fine raw powder of WC, controlling the amount of Ni, and the contents of V and Cr, so that a third phase containing V and Cr precipitates in a microstructure of the cemented carbide in a finely dispersed state, and at the same time, the size of Ni pool is controlled to a value equal to or less than the average grain size of WC. By using this cemented carbide, the range of application to an aspherical glass lens mold, an ultrahigh pressure generation container for neutron diffraction experiment, a non-ferromagnetic corrosion resistant and wear resistant tool, and the like is expanded.

Abstract: Inrush current suppression apparatus for suppressing a transformer inrush current including a transformer side voltage measurement unit which measures a voltage at a side of a transformer, a residual magnetic flux calculation unit which calculates three line-to-line residual magnetic fluxes, a power supply side voltage measurement unit which measures a voltage at a side of a power supply, a stable-state magnetic flux calculation unit which calculates three line-to-line stable-state magnetic fluxes, based on the voltage at the side of the power supply, a phase determination unit which determines a phase in which phases of the three line-to-line stable-state magnetic fluxes are respectively the same in polarity as phases of the three line-to-line residual magnetic fluxes, and a closing unit which closes the circuit breaker in the phase determined by the phase determination unit.

Abstract: A multilayer insulated wire, comprising: a conductor; and at least three extruded insulation layers covering the conductor, which extruded insulation layers comprise: (A) an outermost layer composed of an extruded covering layer of a resin whose elongation rate after heat treatment by immersion in a solder at 150° C. for two seconds is at least 290% and at least equal to elongation rate before the heat treatment; (B) an innermost layer comprising a resin whose elongation rate after heat treatment by immersion in a solder at 150° C. for two seconds is at least 290% and at least equal to elongation rate before the heat treatment; and (C) an insulation layer that is placed between the outermost layer and the innermost layer and that is composed of an extruded covering layer of a crystalline resin with a melting point of at least 280° C. or an amorphous resin with a glass transition temperature of at least 200° C.; and a transformer having the multilayer insulated wire.

Abstract: A charge managing system including an image forming apparatus and a charge managing server is provided. The image forming apparatus includes plural applications each configured for executing a specific process on input data, a counter unit that counts a number of result items output as a result of executing at least one of the applications, a count value storage unit that stores a count value corresponding to the number of result items counted by the counter unit, and a storage area setting unit that secures a plurality of storage areas within the count value storage unit each of which storage areas is configured for storing a corresponding count value obtained for each of the applications. The charge managing server manages charging a fee for using the image forming apparatus based on the corresponding count value stored in each of the storage areas secured for each of the applications.

Abstract: The system of the invention includes a circuit breaker switching control section (100) and a setting control section (700) connected therewith through a communication network (500). The circuit breaker switching control section (100) transmits a circuit breaker state quantity acquired by a signal input section (120) through the communication network to a set value calculation section (740) of the setting control section (700). The set value calculation section (740) of the setting control section calculates a set value to be set in the switching control section (100) of the circuit breaker, using the state quantity of the circuit breaker that was transmitted thereto. The setting control section (700) transmits to the circuit breaker switching control section the set value calculated by the set value calculation section (730) through the communication network.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic flux measuring device and magnetic flux measuring method for stationary induction electrical apparatus which can accurately measure the magnetic flux without being influenced by the DC offset component which superimposes on the measurement system, and can constantly and continuously measure the magnetic flux without setting a limit in the magnetic flux measurement period. The magnetic flux measuring method which measures a magnetic flux of a stationary induction electrical apparatus 2 using a voltage waveform of the stationary induction electrical apparatus 2, wherein the magnetic flux 151 of the stationary induction electrical apparatus 2 is determined by the steps of: inputting a voltage waveform 121 of the stationary induction electrical apparatus 2 into a negative-feedback amplification means 14 of which feedback circuit is constructed by a low pass filter; and integrating output of the negative-feedback amplification means 14 by integration means 15.