Abstract: Provided is a quay crane which includes a seismic isolation device formed from laminated rubber, and which is capable of withstanding a large-scale earthquake. Particularly, provided is a quay crane including a seismic isolation device with a slide length of 1000 mm or over. In a quay crane including a seismic isolation device, the seismic isolation device includes: laminated rubber formed by laminating a steel plate and a rubber material; and an auxiliary support mechanism. The auxiliary support mechanism includes: a supporting body fixed to one of a top plate side and a bottom plate side of the seismic isolation device; and a contacting plate fixed to the other thereof. The supporting body and the contacting plate constituting the auxiliary support mechanism come into contact with each other at least in the event of an earthquake, and the auxiliary support mechanism supports a weight of the quay crane.

Abstract: The dynamo of the present invention is provided in the flow field of a fluid, and has: a columnar oscillating body, one end of the oscillating body being supported in the flow field of the fluid by a shaft that is parallel to the flow direction of the fluid, and the oscillating body being moved reciprocally by self-excited oscillation about the shaft; and an electricity generation unit for generating electrical energy in response to the reciprocal oscillation of the oscillating body.

Abstract: FRET measurement uses a FRET probe that includes a probe element X containing a donor fluorescent substance and a probe element Y containing an acceptor fluorescent substance and enables FRET to occur when the probe element X and the probe element Y approach to each other or bind together. The modulation frequency of laser light with which the FRET probe is irradiated is adjusted to an optimum modulation frequency that maximizes a difference between the phase difference of donor fluorescence emitted from the donor fluorescent substance with respect to intensity modulation of the laser light at the time when FRET occurs and the phase difference of donor fluorescence emitted from the donor fluorescent substance with respect to intensity modulation of the laser light at the time when FRET does not occur.

Abstract: A cathode material for Li ion secondary batteries has high output and high energy density with excellent electron conductivity and Li ion conductivity. The cathode material contains an electrode active material base containing Li, which is capable of electrode oxidation/reduction accompanied by desorption and absorption of Li ions in a potential range of 4 V or more and 5 V or less based on a metal Li negative electrode and has a reversible charge/discharge capacity accompanying the electrode oxidation/reduction in the potential range described above of 30 mAh or more per 1 g. Surfaces of primary particles of an electrode active material base are coated with a layer containing a conductive polymer and a negative ion that enables the conductive polymer to produce electron conductivity equal to or higher than the electron conductivity of the electrode active material itself.

Abstract: To provide an induction heating apparatus that employs a batch-type heating system for heating a large-diameter wafer and can perform uniform heating with a high precision, an induction heating apparatus (10) that heats an inductive-heating target member using a magnetic flux generated from a solenoid-type induction heating coil (18) and heats a wafer (40) using the heat generated from the inductive-heating target member, wherein a plurality of inductive-heating target members 14 (14a, 14b, and 14c) of which principal surface is arranged perpendicularly to a core axis direction of the induction heating coil (18) are interspersed. In the induction heating apparatus (10) described above, a susceptor (12) may be configured by housing the inductive-heating target member (14) in a single holder (16) made of a member having magnetic permeability and heat conductivity.

Abstract: Provided is a quay crane including auxiliary equipment (20), which is equipment other than main equipment (10a) for performing main operations of the quay crane. The auxiliary equipment (20) includes: a main equipment cooling device for cooling the main equipment (10a); a loading and unloading lighting device for lighting a loading and unloading operation range of the main equipment (10a); a room cooling device for cooling a room; and a room lighting device for lighting the room. If an operating condition of the main equipment (10a) or a room condition satisfies a predetermined electric power reduction condition while the quay crane is in operation, the auxiliary equipment (20) that is keeping the operating condition of the main equipment (10a) or the room condition is put into a power saving mode in which the auxiliary equipment (20) consumes less electric power than in a normal operation.

Abstract: Provided is a brake device (2) which has reduced manufacturing cost, is compact, and can generate sufficient braking force. Also provided is a crane (1) which comprises the brake device (2). The brake device (2) is installed in a movable body (1) which travels. The brake device (2) is provided with a receiving section (22) affixed to the movable body (1) and is also provided with a brake shoe (21) disposed below the receiving section (21). The brake shoe (21) has a brake shoe upper surface (24) provided with sloped sections (24u, 24d). The receiving section (22) has a receiving lower surface (26) corresponding to the brake shoe upper surface (24) and provided with sloped sections (26u, 26d). The brake device (2) is configured so that, when the brake device (2) is activated, the brake shoe (21) drops, and the receiving section (22) rides over the brake shoe upper surface (24) when the movable body (1) moves.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to minimize switching losses of an inverter. An induction heating device includes: a plurality of induction heating coils (20) which are disposed adjacent with each other; a plurality of inverters (30), each of which has a capacitor (40) serially connected to each of the induction heating coils (20), and converts a DC voltage into a square wave voltage; and a control circuit (15) which controls so as to align the phase of coil currents flowing though the plurality of the induction heating coils (20), wherein the control circuit (15) controls the timing at which the square wave voltage transitions such that an instantaneous value of the square wave voltage is preserved in either the DC voltage or a turnover voltage, when the coil current zero crosses.

Abstract: A layer-forming device that enables highly efficient layer formation and has a simplified configuration includes: a substrate feeding mechanism; a plasma-generating electrode; a space-partitioning wall; and a plurality of injectors. The plasma-generating electrode faces towards a feeding pathway of the substrate, and generates plasma using a reactive gas upon a supply of electric power. The space-partitioning wall is disposed between the feeding pathway and the plasma-generating electrode. A plurality of slit-shaped through-holes, through which radicals, ions generated from the plasma, or a portion of the plasma can pass, are formed at predetermined intervals in the space-partitioning wall.

Abstract: A fluid intake/discharge valve body for suction of a cryogenic liquefied gas fluid into a cylinder liner and discharge of the gas fluid with a piston, includes: a valve seat body including a fluid supply portion to supply the fluid and a fluid exhaust portion; an intake valve biased against the fluid supply portion; and a discharge valve biased against the fluid exhaust portion. The fluid supply portion includes a supply pathway connected to a supply pipe; a dividing wall including intake holes facing the intake valve; and a counterbore recessed portion on the dividing wall to surround the intake holes. The intake valve abuts an edge of the recessed portion when biased against the fluid supply portion. The discharge valve receives fluid pressure from a side of the discharge hole including a recessed portion disposed in a region wider than an outer periphery of the discharge hole.

Abstract: An atomic layer deposition apparatus for forming a thin film on a substrate, including a first container that defines a first inner space, a second container provided inside the first container to define a second inner space, the second container being canister-shaped and including a first opening at one end thereof, a source gas that forms the thin film on the substrate flowing to the second inner space through the first opening, and a pressing member including a gas supply port for supplying the source gas to the second inner space through the first opening, the pressing member being configured to press the second container in a longitudinal direction of the second container so that the second inner space be separated from the first inner space.

Abstract: The present invention provides uracil-requiring Moorella bacteria obtained by destroying a gene coding for orotidine-5-phosphate decarboxylase; and transforming-gene-introduced Moorella bacteria obtained by introducing a gene coding for orotidine-5-phosphate decarboxylase and a transforming-gene to a chromosome of the uracil-requiring Moorella bacteria. The present invention was accomplished by uracil-requiring Moorella bacteria, comprising an MTA-D-pF strain that is obtained by destroying a gene coding for orotidine-5-phosphate decarboxylase on a chromosome of Moorella bacteria.

Abstract: When a flow of a liquid body around a measuring object is visualized, a first liquid body as a tracer is supplied from a nozzle hole into a flow field of a second liquid body, and a laser beam having a wavelength optically absorbed by the first liquid body is irradiated in a manner such that the laser beam traverse across the flow field. At this point, the irradiation position of the laser beam is controlled in such a manner that the flow field is scanned with the laser beam. On the other hand, the laser beam that has passed through the flow field is received and a position where the first liquid body traverses the laser beam is obtained using the scan intensity signal of the received laser beam so that the flow of the second liquid body is visualized. The position where the first liquid body traverses the laser beam can be obtained based on a position on a time axis where a value of the scan intensity signal is less than a set threshold.

Abstract: An electrode material is composed of an electrode active material represented by the general formula LiMPO4, where M=[FetMn1-t], and t is a number between 0 inclusive and 1 inclusive. Each of the primary particles of the electrode active material has a layer on its surface, said layer having a Li ion conductive substance including Li, one or both of Fe and Mn, P and O, and conductive carbon C. Minute secondary particles are formed from a plurality of the primary particles that aggregate, and bind to each other via the layer comprising the Li ion conductive substance and the conductive carbon C. The electrode material has an area-equivalent diameter of 45 nm or more determined by a specific surface area obtained from the nitrogen adsorption Brunauer, Emmett and Teller (BET) multipoint method.

Abstract: A semiconductor substrate thermal treatment apparatus enables excellent heating control in suppressing influence of mutual induction between induction heating coils even when the induction heating coils are arranged in the vertical direction while providing horizontal magnetic flux to susceptors. The apparatus indirectly heats wafers mounted on horizontally-arranged susceptors including induction heating coils to form alternate-current magnetic flux in a direction parallel to a mount face of the susceptor. The wafer are arranged at an outer circumferential side of the susceptor. The induction heating coils are structured with at least one main heating coil and subordinate heating coils electromagnetically coupled with the main heating coil.

Abstract: A control is performed so that phase angles of outputs from resonant inverters fall within a predetermined range under a mutual induction environment. An inductive heating device (100) includes: a plurality of resonant inverters (30a, 30b) that supply power to a plurality of inductive heating coils (La, Lb), respectively, under a mutual induction environment; and a control circuit (40) that aligns drive frequencies so as to be in common among the resonant inverters and controls the drive frequencies commonly so that phase angles of the outputs from the plurality of the resonant inverters fall within a predetermined range. In addition, the control circuit individually controls coil currents flowing through the inductive heating coils so that the phase angles fall within a predetermined range.

Abstract: Provided is a wave power generation device improved in power generation efficiency and a method of controlling the same, the wave power generation device generating electric power by extracting energy from a wave. The wave power generation device includes: a wave sensor configured to measure the waveform; a position sensor configured to measure a position of a float relative to a column; a drive mechanism configured to apply an external force to the float; and a controller configured to control the drive mechanism. The controller is configured to calculate a speed at which the float is to be controlled to move, from values of the wave sensor and the position sensor, and to control the drive mechanism in such away that the float moves at the calculated speed.

Abstract: An atomic layer deposition apparatus, which forms a thin film on a substrate, includes a first container that defines a first inner space and includes a substrate carrying-in and carrying-out port and a gas introduction port in different positions, the substrate being carried in and out through the substrate carrying-in and carrying-out port, gas being introduced through the gas introduction port to form the thin film on the substrate, a second container that is provided in the first container to define a second inner space separated from the first inner space, the second container including a first opening, a first moving mechanism that moves the second container in a predetermined direction, and a controller that controls the first moving mechanism such that the second container is moved to a first position where the substrate carrying-in and carrying-out port and the first opening are located opposite each other when the substrate is carried in and out, the controller controlling the first moving mechanism

Abstract: A wave power generation device for synchronizing a vertical movement of a float with all the wave periods, and a method of controlling the same. The device has a controller which controls a torque of a power generator, and the controller is configured to estimate a displacement and a speed of a float from data of a rotation number or a rotation speed of the power generator, to estimate a wave period from the displacement and the speed, and to determine a displacement coefficient corresponding to the wave period from a data table stored in advance, and to transmit a calculated product of the displacement coefficient and the displacement as a torque command to the power generator so as to control a torque of the power generator.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fluorescence measuring apparatus capable of determining whether accuracy of measuring fluorescence lifetime is deteriorated or not due to adjustment of the apparatus. The fluorescence measuring apparatus for measuring fluorescence emitted when an objects to be measured are irradiated with laser light includes: a laser light source that irradiates each of the objects to be measured with intensity-modulated laser light; a light-receiving unit that receives fluorescence emitted when each of the objects to be measured is irradiated with the laser light; a signal processing unit that determines a fluorescence lifetime using a signal of the fluorescence received by the light-receiving unit; and a determining unit that determines whether or not a fluorescence lifetime dispersion of the objects caused by amplification of the signal of the fluorescence performed by the light-receiving unit or by the signal processing unit is larger than a predetermined value.