Abstract: The invention concerns an energy storage system and method to install the energy storage elements, subsequently called “energy tiles”, of the system on solid or flexible, flat or curved surfaces of any orientation. Individual energy tiles are identical in size, capacity and voltage and shaped like ceramic tiles. They cover free surfaces by a combination of serially and parallel connected energy tiles. The installation produces a pattern similar to that of ceramic tiles. An energy tile can be a lithium battery or a supercapacitor cell. Candidates for the installation are wall surfaces of buildings, internal and external roof surfaces, the back side of solar panels, tents and internal and external vehicle surfaces. The storage elements are individually removable without disturbing the remaining energy tiles of the system.

Abstract: Biocompatible nanoparticles 1 which entrap a bioactive substance and whose surface is positive-charge-modified are electrically adhered to a balloon portion 9 of a catheter main body 5 through a negatively charged resin layer 11, and thus a nanoparticle layer 12 is formed. After the catheter main body 5 is indwell in vivo, the nanoparticles 1 are gradually eluted from the nanoparticle layer 12 and are effectively delivered to cells.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical preparation comprises nano-level particles (nanospheres) of a biocompatible polymer having, as held on their surfaces, an NF?B decoy capable of binding to NF?B to inhibit its activity. With penetration of the nanoparticles inside cells, the NF?B decoy may be delivered to an affected site and the NF?B decoy may be released from the surfaces of the nanoparticles and may be thereby efficiently and specifically introduced into the affected site.

Abstract: A passenger detection device that determines whether a passenger sits in a passenger seat or backseat, and if YES, determines whether the passenger is an adult or a child, and whether the passenger is sitting in a normal attitude. A pair of thermopile sensors 13 and 14 are disposed on a dashboard 11 at a predetermined distance from each other in a horizontal direction. The pair of thermopile sensors 13 and 14 are disposed such that they monitor a predetermined same position P on a surface of the passenger seat 12 when a passenger 15 does not sit in a passenger seat 12. Output signal which are output from the pair of thermopile sensors 13 and 14 are subtracted by a subtraction circuit 25, an output difference signal of the pair of thermopile sensors 13 and 14 is taken out, and it is detected whether a passenger sits in the seat by this signal.

Abstract: A mattress vibrator comprises a mat having a hard plate and an elastic plate which are laminated on each other, and the mat is provided with a vibration generator, a vibrator which generates vibration by operating a moving body in an axial direction of the vibrator is used as the vibration generator, the vibrator is disposed on substantially a central portion of one end of the hard plate, an axis of the vibrator is disposed within a plate thickness of the hard plate.

Abstract: A thermopile far infrared radiation detection apparatus for crime prevention that is capable of detecting with certainty an intruder who is entering a monitoring space regardless of temperature changes of the space or how fast the intruder enters the space. The detection apparatus utilizes three or more thermopiles to detect an intruder into the space and in which output difference between detection values outputted from a pair of said thermopiles is obtained, and then, the intruder is detected by the comparison between these output differences obtained from different pairs of the thermopiles.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for producing thermoplastic resin granules, comprising compression-molding a powdery raw material of a thermoplastic resin, which is obtained by polymerizing a plurality of materials and then drying the obtained polymer by passing the powdery raw material between two rolls arranged parallel with a minute gap therebetween at a temperature of 40° C. or higher, and crushing the obtained compression-molded product into granules having grain diameter of 10 mm or less, wherein concavities are formed all around the rolls so as to be arrayed in a direction inclined relative to axes of the rolls, the concavities each having an elliptical opening of which a major-axis diameter measures 10 mm or less.

Abstract: A flash drying apparatus has a vertical, cylindrical enclosure. In a lower portion of this enclosure is disposed a rotating disk. Above this disk is provided a crusher that, using blades formed radially thereon, crushes a raw material into a powdery or granular material. The crusher is provided with a material feeder that feeds the raw material to the crusher by letting the raw material fall onto the crusher. A hot wind feeder feeds a hot wind to the powdery or granular material from under the blades. The powdery or granular material blown upward inside the enclosure by the hot wind is exhausted through an exhaust duct provided in an upper portion of the enclosure. This flash drying apparatus prevents degradation in performance resulting from deposition of a raw material.

Abstract: A weft yarn feeding device includes a feed roller which rotates at a circumferential speed equal to a running speed of a weft and a pinch roller which moves in and out of contact with the circumference of the feed roller with the weft in between. The rollers are provided between a length measuring device and a main nozzle for injecting a fluid. Upon commencement of feeding of the weft, the feed roller and the pinch roller are brought into mutual pressure contact to positively feed the weft toward the main nozzle. Further, the feed roller surface has a large frictional coefficient and the pinch roller surface has a very small frictional coefficient.

Abstract: By the side of a powdery or granular material stacked in a conical pile on a horizontal surface, a sensor that emits sensor light and, by receiving light reflected from a spot illuminated by the sensor light, detects the distance to the pile of the powdery or granular material is placed with the optical axis of the sensor light horizontal. While the sensor is moved in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the sensor light, the distance to each of a plurality of measurement points arranged horizontally at regular intervals along a line that runs on said pile of the powdery or granular material so as to face the movement path of the sensor. This step is performed every time the sensor is moved vertically a predetermined distance at a time. In each session of the step, a point is extracted that is closest to the sensor, and a function describing a straight line approximating the curve through all of the thus extracted points is determined by the least-squares method.

Abstract: A weft control method capable of adjusting weft feed rate correctly and easily. The control method is for looms which include a weft length measuring system having a length measuring roller 1a and a pinch roller 1b, a weft feeding system having a gripper (4) and a nozzle (3), and weft arrival sensors (6, 7) installed in a weft arriving position in the loom. In accordance with the weft control method, a weft arrival measurement value measured by weft arrival sensors is stored, an average weft arrival value for a certain number of picks is calculated, then the calculated average arrival value is compared with a preset reference target value; and the weft length measuring system is controlled based on the result of the comparison.

Abstract: A volume reducer for reducing the volume of a powder material by removal of some air has a cylindrical casing having an inlet and an outlet for letting powder material in and out. In the casing, a rotor rotatable on the center axis of the casing is provided. The rotor has a cylindrically formed porous plate and a plurality of inner and outer chambers formed in the inside and outside of the porous plate. The outer chambers are loaded with the powder material. A rotary valve that rotates together with the rotor is provided. The rotary valve has a plurality of ventilation openings communicating with the respective inner chambers in an axial direction. The rotary valve is embraced in a stationary valve. The stationary valve has a cavity that communicates with a ventilation opening when the rotary valve is positioned within a predetermined range of its rotation angle. The stationary valve has a compressed air injection opening with which the ventilation opening communicates.

Abstract: A pulverizer is provided with: a ring-form rotary hammer supported by a rotary shaft and having a pulverizing blade including a plurality of concaves and convexes on its outer surface; a liner fixed so that a gap is left between the rotary hammer and the liner and having a plurality of concaves and convexes on its surface which faces the hammer; and a rotary classifying fan for discharging toward an exit a material pulverized between the rotary hammer and the liner into a predetermined particle diameter or smaller and directed to an upper part. The pulverizing blade is provided substantially on an entire periphery, and a circulation passage for directing downward a material not discharged toward the exit is provided below the pulverizing blade.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a superconducting material having the steps of: milling and mixing a powderly primary material in a casing of a dry type milling mixer; heat-processing the primary material obtained from the milling/mixing step; and again milling and mixing the primary material obtained from the heat-processing step in the casing of the milling mixer so as to obtain a secondary material. The milling mixer includes a casing for holding the primary material therein and friction-pulverizing mixing elements for frictionally pulverizing, stirring and mixing the primary material inside the casing. The two milling/mixing steps are effected under a high-speed rotation of the casing where a centrifugal force resulting from the casing rotation presses the primary material against an inner surface of the casing and a layer of the material formed on the surface is frictionally pulverized, stirred and mixed by the friction-pulverizing mixture elements.

Abstract: A stirring device having a casing for forming a stirring chamber, a driving rotary shaft disposed in the casing, a plurality of stirring paddles fitted on the rotary shaft as being dispersed axially of the shaft and a plurality of projections attached to an interior wall surface of the casing. The projections are provided adjacent each other at least one in number on each operational track of a leading edge of the paddle so as to remove excess substance adhered to the paddle thereby preventing frictional wear of the casing by the substance. Also, because of an interspace provided between an axially adjacent pair of projections, the projections do not obstruct the stirring operation of the device.

Abstract: A ball mill comprising a container for receiving a material to be pulverized and pulverizing balls, and an agitator including arms rotatable on a vertical axis. The arms carry elongate agitating members extending along and revolvable about the vertical axis. All of the arms are disposed in a position above the material and the balls in the container. The agitating members are arranged substantially equidistantly on a circle or circles around the vertical axis. The container defines gas inlet ports in a bottom region thereof for receiving a gas during a pulverizing operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating a particulate material comprising a casing defining a treating chamber and rotatable at high speed to produce a centrifugal force for pressing the material in the casing against an inside wall surface of the casing. Treating members such as pulverizing members are disposed in the casing for revolution relative to the inside wall surface of the casing. The treating chamber has a discharge opening for permitting overflows of the material under treatment. The discharge opening is disposed adjacent a center of rotation of the casing, and a limiting device is provided adjacent the discharge opening for limiting the overflows of the material under treatment. A classifier is provided to communicate with the discharge opening of the treating chamber for receiving treated material.

Abstract: A method for drying a water retentive substance such as okara which comprises adjusting the shape of a water retentive substance having a water content of 55 to 95% by weight to particles having a particle size of 1.5 to 13 mm and drying by using a novel improved pneumatic conveying drying apparatus comprising a dryer section, a pulverizer section provided at the lower part of the dryer section and a classifier section at the upper part of the dryer section, the substance to be dried being fed to the dryer section at a site at least 500 mm above the pulverizer section. The novel drying apparatus is also provided.

Abstract: A reader/printer apparatus includes a main frame having an optical system for exposure of photocopy paper with the image on a film carrier in combination with an integrated modular developing station which is adapted to receive any one of a plurality of different developer modules. Each module is a self-contained plug-in type structure and includes a dry silver paper developer module and an electrostatic developer module are provided. Each module includes an infeed unit and a discharge unit for passing the paper from the exposure unit through the developer module. The dry silver module includes a suitable transfer roll and mating heating bars for developing the exposed dry silver paper. The electrostatic module includes a magnetic toner brush assembly to deposit toner particles in the image area. Each module includes an essentially identical rectangular frame structure corresponding to a rectangular developer chamber having a suitable guide means.

Abstract: A film reader includes individual drive systems for driving a storage reel to rewind a film strip and a take-up reel to unwind the film strip by pulling the film strip from the opposite reel. Each drive system is the same and includes a fast drive motor and a slow drive motor. A speed reduction pulley train has a first stage and a second stage connected in series with a first stage output pulley in drive coupling to an input pulley of the second stage by a one-way clutch. A slow speed motor is connected to the first stage. A one-way clutch connects a high speed motor in drive coupling to the opposite side of the input pulley. The output shaft is connected to the pulley train by a spring output clutch having a pulsed release control to disconnect the output shaft from the pulley train and permit free rotation thereof.