Abstract: A dropping model electrostatic levitation furnace which puts a charged sample in levitation state by an electric field generated between electrodes and subjects the sample to heat treatment, in which a drop tube evacuatable in vacuum is connected vertically at the lower side of a furnace body to allow the sample to drop through the drop tube with a beam irradiating optical system having a heating laser beam. This brings experimental results which the influence of an electric field and gravity is eliminated sufficiently by means of a furnace having comparatively simple constitution, and also enables to reduce the cost drastically with high experimental environment.

Abstract: A vegetation detector 10 includes a first imaging section 11, a second imaging section 12, a reflectance ratio calculating section 13, a determining section 14 and a recording section 15. The first imaging section 11 images light with a predetermined wavelength band of near infrared light. The second imaging section 12 images light with a water absorption wavelength band in short wave infrared light. The reflectance ratio calculating section 13 calculates a ratio of the reflectance of light with the near infrared light wavelength band to the light reflectance of light with the water absorption wavelength band as a reflectance ratio. The determining section 14 determines whether observed subjects are vegetations or not by comparing the reflectance ratio calculated by the reflectance ratio calculating section 13 with a threshold value recorded in the recording section 15.

Abstract: An end burning type gas generator includes a hollow cylindrical combustor, a propellant which is densely charged in the combustor concentrically and in a plurality of layers without leaving a large void in an internal cross section and which has the same sectional area in each of the layers, and an interstructure which separates the plurality of layers from each other and which connects only at a turning portion at an axial end. The end burning of the propellant sequentially progresses via the turning portion, beginning with an outermost layer or an innermost layer. The turning portion includes an end outer plate which continuously surrounds the ends of an inner propellant and an outer propellant, and a burning rate increasing member which is provided along the inner surface of the end outer plate to increase the burning rate of the propellant. The end outer plate is shaped such that the burning area at the turning portion remains substantially constant.

Abstract: The present invention is an image pickup device provided with a CMOS camera which is provided with a telecentric lens to photograph a sample put in a levitation state at the center inside an electrostatic levitation furnace, a metal halide light source which is positioned on the opposite side of the sample from the CMOS camera to irradiate light with a wavelength of 400 to 450 nm toward the sample, and a digital signal processor which performs image processing for enhancing an edge of an image captured by the CMOS camera in real time to output a position of center of gravity of the sample put in the levitation state, where a blue filter is attached to the CMOS camera. Even if the sample becomes incandescent due to a high temperature, contrast of the sample against a background can be obtained by the image pickup device.

Abstract: An electrostatic levitation furnace wherein main electrodes opposed to each other within a vacuum chamber are arranged at intervals to form interspaces between them. Auxiliary electrodes are arranged to correspond to each of the electrostatic field generating interspaces, and laser irradiators are arranged above the uppermost main electrode and under the lowermost main electrode, and the main electrode positioned midway between the uppermost and lowest one has a through-hole on an optical path of laser beam which a sample can be passed through. When two species of samples are fused together, regardless of whether or not the samples are conductors, the furnace has the function of melting the levitated samples and fusing them together while maintaining each of the temperatures of the samples, and consequently this permits realization of fusion in a state free of external interference.

Abstract: A multiprocessing method suitable for realizing satisfactory online processing by synchronizing data processing in respective element processor nodes in spite of a loosely coupled system used with the plural element processor nodes driven with individual clocks, the method is characterized in that the plural element processor nodes driven with the individual clocks and an information transfer medium through which the respective element processor nodes provide and acquire data each other are used, the respective element processor nodes start cyclic data processing according their own judgment at timing of providing or acquiring trigger data, perform predetermined calculation after acquiring the input data from the data source so as to provide calculation result into the information transfer medium, and acquire a plurality of calculation result provided by other element processor nodes from the information transfer medium to determine operation result obtained from the plural calculation result through logical

Abstract: There is disclosed a gradient structure material comprising a substrate 1 and a functional material 2 formed on the substrate. The gradient structure material is thermally treated while a desired gradient temperature is applied to a specific direction and a specific region of the functional material on the substrate. Consequently, without adding “gradient structure” of a component concentration, a content of oxide, or a crystal structure, the functional material on the substrate is provided with useful function which is not heretofore existed, or a performance can be enhanced unlike a conventional technique.

Abstract: An apparatus for growing a biological macromolecular crystal by vaporizing biological macromolecular solution into an oversaturated state. The apparatus includes a first sealed room that receives first crystallizing agent solution, and a communicating tube that communicates with the first sealed room and has a small sectional area for suppressing convection of air. A plurality of droplets of solution dissolving a biological macromolecule and a crystallizing agent therein are held in the communicating tube with the plurality of droplets being separated from each other.

Abstract: An electrostatic levitation furnace is improved by providing three pairs of electrodes opposed to each other respectively on three axes perpendicularly intercepting each other at a position where the sample is to be levitated in the vacuum chamber, and disposing a plurality of access ports, which are directed to the position of the sample, to the vacuum chamber tree-dimensionally, whereby the accessible direction against the sample is diversified, it becomes possible to improve the degree of freedom in distribution of various apparatuses and easily cope with increase of apparatuses.

Abstract: A redundant information processing system with sufficient reliability is provided at a moderate cost without any part that could be a single fault point in the system. In the redundant information processing system in which an actuator 5 is controlled based on a signal from a sensor 4, each of processing devices 1A to 1C collects command signals from other processing devices and determines which command signal to be valid according to a logical decision, for example, a majority decision. When the command signals of more than two of the processing devices including the relevant processing device which determines are valid, the command signals are output according to priority while a control information blocking signal is output to a processing device other than those which are valid.

Abstract: An apparatus for growing a biological macromolecular crystal by vaporizing biological macromolecular solution into an oversaturated state. The apparatus includes a first sealed room that receives first crystallizing agent solution, and a communicating tube that communicates with the first sealed room and has a small sectional area for suppressing convection of air. A plurality of droplets of solution dissolving a biological macromolecule and a crystallizing agent therein are held in the communicating tube with the plurality of droplets being separated from each other.

Abstract: A large-area high-output infrared detecting device S is realized in which a heat-separation-structure diaphragm 2 made of a thermal insulating material is formed through a cavity 7 from a silicon substrate 1, a thermocouple 4 serving as an infrared detection section is formed on the diaphragm 2, a heat absorption area 5 is formed on the thermocouple 4 through insulation layers 3a and 3b so as to have an etching aperture 9 for forming a cavity in the heat absorption area 5 and the cavity 7 is formed in a short time without being influenced by the size of the heat absorption area 5 to secure a structural strength.

Abstract: To realize structure simplification and reduction in manufacturing cost without lowering power transmission efficiency and reliability. The present invention includes a first motor 5 and a second motor 6, and a lead 2 of a ball screw 12 is disposed coaxially with a motor rotary shaft 5a on a first motor 5 side and a nut 3 of the ball screw 12 is disposed coaxially with a motor rotary shaft 6a on a second motor 6 side so that the first motor 5 and the second motor 6 are connected to each other via the ball screw 12.

Abstract: A thermal type-infrared detection device improved in the sensitivity and the power of output signal without deterioration of strength of the diaphragm, which is provided with a silicon substrate with a concave, a diaphragm made of an insulation material substantially covering the concave of the silicon substrate, an infrared detecting section positioned on the diaphragm, and the silicon substrate is formed with a projection made of a thermal conductor for supporting the diaphragm away from the silicon substrate.

Abstract: An infrared detecting device possible to improve SN ratio, which is provided with a semiconductor substrate, a diaphragm set on the semiconductor substrate, a thermopile formed on the diaphragm by arranging a plurality of thermocouples composed of p-type polysilicon and n-type polysilicon in a row and electrically connecting them each other in series, and a heat absorption film formed on the central portion through an insulation layer, and sectional areas of the p-type and n-type polysilicons between hot and cold junctions of each of the thermocouples are made different from each other.

Abstract: A side thruster of a flying object of the invention is provided with a solid gas generating agent, a nozzle arranged in a direction perpendicular to an axis of the flying object, a tube body for flowing the gas generated in accordance with a combustion of the solid gas generating agent to the nozzle, the solid gas generating agent being arranged around the tube body, a plurality of orifices provided on a peripheral wall of the tube body along its circumferential direction and capable of injecting the gas generated in accordance with the combustion of the solid gas generating agent toward an axis of the tube body, and a valve provided within the tube body and rotatable around the axis of the tube body so as to open and close the plurality of orifices.

Abstract: To realize structure simplification and reduction in manufacturing cost without lowering power transmission efficiency and reliability. The present invention includes a first motor 5 and a second motor 6, and a lead 2 of a ball screw 12 is disposed coaxially with a motor rotary shaft 5a on a first motor 5 side and a nut 3 of the ball screw 12 is disposed coaxially with a motor rotary shaft 6a on a second motor 6 side so that the first motor 5 and the second motor 6 are connected to each other via the ball screw 12.

Abstract: A multiprocessing method suitable for realizing satisfactory online processing by synchronizing data processing in respective element processor nodes in spite of a loosely coupled system used with the plural element processor nodes driven with individual clocks, the method is characterized in that the plural element processor nodes driven with the individual clocks and an information transfer medium through which the respective element processor nodes provide and acquire data each other are used, the respective element processor nodes start cyclic data processing according their own judgment at timing of providing or acquiring trigger data, perform predetermined calculation after acquiring the input data from the data source so as to provide calculation result into the information transfer medium, and acquire a plurality of calculation result provided by other element processor nodes from the information transfer medium to determine operation result obtained from the plural calculation result through logical

Abstract: An infrared detecting device possible to improve SN ratio, which is provided with a semiconductor substrate, a diaphragm set on the semiconductor substrate, a thermopile formed on the diaphragm by arranging a plurality of thermocouples composed of p-type polysilicon and n-type polysilicon in a row and electrically connecting them each other in series, and a heat absorption film formed on the central portion through an insulation layer, and sectional areas of the p-type and n-type polysilicons between hot and cold junctions of each of the thermocouples are made different from each other.

Abstract: A large-area high-output infrared detecting device S is realized in which a heat-separation-structure diaphragm 2 made of a thermal insulating material is formed through a cavity 7 from a silicon substrate 1, a thermocouple 4 serving as an infrared detection section is formed on the diaphragm 2, a heat absorption area 5 is formed on the thermocouple 4 through insulation layers 3a and 3b so as to have an etching aperture 9 for forming a cavity in the heat absorption area 5, and the cavity 7 is formed in a short time without being influenced by the size of the heat absorption area 5 to secure a structural strength.