Abstract: The invention provides a composite from which concrete featuring a sufficiently high heat resistance can be produced, as well as a high-safety sealed concrete cask having no opening (shielding defect) to offer high shielding performance that can prevent corrosion of an internal canister and release of radioactive material to the exterior. A concrete cask of the invention includes a cask body having a bottom but no lid in itself, and a lid which can open and close off a top opening of the cask body. Both the cask body and the lid are made of concrete manufactured by using a composite including Portland cement or blended cement containing Portland cement, which is mixed with water in such a manner that the content of calcium hydroxide falls in a range of 15% to 60% by mass after hardening through hydration reaction. Metallic heat-transfer fins are embedded in the cask body.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a shearing force reinforced structure of an existing RC structure body that can simply and surely ensure a predetermined pulling-out rigidity.

Abstract: An image-generating system for generating data of an image on the basis of data of a photographic image obtained by capturing an image of an object. The image-generating system includes a color sample to be arranged in the proximity of an object, an illumination unit, an image pick-up unit, a color sample specifying unit and an image processing unit. The illumination unit can illuminate the object and the color sample with light lower in light quantity than ordinary light. The image pick-up unit obtains a photographic image by capturing an image of the object together with the color sample illuminated by the illumination unit. The color sample specifying unit specifies the color sample in the photographic image. The image processing unit converts colors of the object in the photographic image, taking the color sample specified by the color sample specifying unit as a reference.

Abstract: A non-magnetic concrete structure having no magnetism or a very small magnetic permeability without reinforcing steel bars arranged, a sidewall for a guideway, and a method for installing the sidewall for the guideway are provided. The reinforcing steel bars-free sidewall 11 for the guideway 10 is constructed by using a non-magnetic concrete structure constructed by using a fiber-reinforced cement-based mixed material and having no reinforcing steel bars therein. The fiber-reinforced cement-based mixed material is produced by mixing non-metallic fibers or non-magnetic metal fibers into a cement-based matrix in a mixing amount of 1 to 4% for an entire volume of the cement-based matrix. The cement-based matrix is obtained by mixing a composition with water. The above composition is composed of cement, aggregate grains having a maximum grain diameter of not more than 2.5 mm, pozzolanic reaction particles having particle diameters of not more than 15 ?m and supper plasticizer.

Abstract: This invention provides a novel gene that can impart salt stress tolerance to plants for a long period of time and salt stress tolerant transgenic plants to which such gene has been introduced. Such novel gene encodes the following protein (a), (b), or (c), and such salt stress tolerant transgenic plant has such gene introduced therein: (a) a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 in the Sequence Listing; (b) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 in the Sequence Listing by deletion, substitution, or addition of one or several amino acid residues and having activity of imparting salt stress tolerance to plants; or (c) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 in the Sequence Listing by deletion, substitution, or addition of one or several amino acid residues and having UDP-glucose 4-epimerase activity.

Abstract: A method of cleaning air, including a humidifying operation for humidifying the air containing chemical contaminants by a humidifier and taking a part of the gaseous contaminants in the air into excessive moisture to remove the contaminants from the air, and a dehumidifying operation for dehumidifying the humidified air by a condenser and taking the gaseous chemical contaminants remaining, without being removed, in the humidifying operation into condensed water for removal. By using an oblique honeycomb having both front and rear faces and both upper and lower faces disposed in open state, air is led from the front opening part of the oblique honeycomb and water is fed from the upper opening part thereof to one or both of the humidifier and condenser.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to obtain a containment concrete cask which has heat removal capacity maintained at the conventional level or beyond it and which prevents radiation from leaking to the outside. In a concrete cask, a shielding body composed of concrete and heat transfer fins made from metal are provided between an inner shell and an outer shell made from metal, and an accommodation portion for accommodating a radioactive substance is provided inside the inner shell. The accommodation portion has a containment structure to be insulated from the outside of the cask. In the heat transfer fins, the portions thereof at the outer shellside are provided in contact with the outer shell and the portions thereof at the inner shell side are cut so as to form a separation portion with respect to the inner shell.

Abstract: An excavating drive (22) movable backward/forward is accommodated in a turnable body (9) which in turn is turnable about an axis perpendicular to an axis of and in a skin plate (7). A cutter device (38) ahead of a rotor (22) in the excavating drive (22) is composed of a center cutter (40) supported by the excavating drive (22) and a plurality of face plate shaped expansion cutters (44) fitted to an outer periphery of the center cutter (40) for pivotal movement backward/forward. Tunneling is effected by the expanded cutter device with the expansion cutters (44) being pivoted forward. Upon replacement of bits (35; 35?), the expansion cutters (44) are pivoted backward for contraction of an assembly of them and the cutter device (38) is accommodated in a turning trajectory (R) of the turnable body (9) so that the turnable body (9) is turned backward for replacement of the damaged bits (35; 35?) backward.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel easily-cuttable tunnel segment structure used for the departure of a shield machine from a main tunnel to a branch tunnel or the return to the main tunnel from the branch tunnel, and provides an easily-cuttable tunnel segment structure 1 constructed by connecting a plurality of easily-cuttable tunnel segment pieces 2 in the longitudinal direction of a tunnel, wherein at least an easily-cuttable area 3 is formed by concrete 7 in which easily-cuttable reinforcement members are arranged, and a join disposed at least in the easily-cuttable area 3 in the longitudinal direction has an easily-cuttable join structure.

Abstract: The present invention has as its object to provide an air filter not only for trapping suspended particulate substances but also for not generating hazardous contaminates in the air, which cause trouble in the manufacture of semiconductor devices. As a binder to bind fibers of the air filter together, a polymer dispersion is used in which a copolymer of a hydrophilic monomer and a hydrophobic monomer is dispersed in water. As an initiator for polymerization of the copolymer, an organic peroxide is used. When an air filter (8) is installed downstream of a chemical filter (7), the space (4) placed downstream of the air filter (8) is made substantially free of organic substances and/or inorganic substances that cause trouble in the manufacture of semiconductor devices.

Abstract: A material not releasing gaseous organic substances during use is used as a filter medium and a sealing material for tightly sealing between the medium and a frame. Specifically, a synthetic paraffin not containing an aliphatic hydrocarbon having not more than 19 carbon atoms or less is used as a non-silicone type water repellent contained in a treatment agent for forming fibers into a cloth-like filter medium. A carboxylic acid ester having 400 or more molecular weight is used as a plasticizer and a phenolic compound having 300 or more molecular weight is used as an antioxidant to be added to the treatment agent and the sealing material. This enables that the gaseous organic substances are not present in a clean room, a semiconductor production apparatus or the like.

Abstract: In a cutter structure for a shield machine which advances by boring through a tunnel wall from inside an existing tunnel, the shape of an excavating surface on a work face formed by a cutter is set so as to have a smaller curvature than or an equal curvature to the curve of a surface to be excavated on the outer face of the tunnel wall to be excavated. Since the shape of the excavating surface on the work face formed by the cutter is set by a curvature, upon advance of the shield machine by boring through the tunnel wall, the tunnel wall to be excavated, the shape of which is cylindrical, can be cut into by opening a hole which extends diametrically outward from the central portion of the cutter. As a result, the sections that are not cut into remain connected to the existing tunnel and will not enter the cutter chamber in lumps.

Abstract: An electric wire with coating of polyvinyl chloride family resin composition is characterized by having a coating layer including polyvinyl chloride family composition obtained from adding more than one of any calcium soap, zinc soap and hydrotalcite to resin including polyvinyl chloride resin as a main constituent, and further adding thereto plasticizer so as to obtain a heat-stable vinyl chloride composition, and further adding thereto as stabilization auxiliaries high-melting-point ?-diketone compound having a melting point more than 100° C. out of ?-diketone compounds expressed by a general formula of R.CO.CH2.CO.R?.

Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing facility has a proper strength and an anti-vibration effect. The semiconductor facility contains processing apparatuses, installation tables and an installation floor. An apparatus having a vibration source is installed on an installation table having a rigid structure. The installation table is installed on the installation floor having a floor construction including a plurality of columns, which support a floor member extending in horizontal directions. An interval of the columns is 4 m to 12 m.

Abstract: An air-supply machine cleans outside air. The cleaned outside air is dehumidified by cooling by performing heat exchange between the cleaned outside air and an exhaust air from a lithography apparatus by a first heat-pipe. The dehumidified outside air is heated by performing heat treatment between the dehumidified outside air and an exhaust air from a vertical heat treatment apparatus by a second heat-pipe. The heated outside air is supplied to inside the housing of the vertical heat treatment apparatus. Thereby, the consumption of air in the clean room is reduced and the running cost of the clean room is reduced.

Abstract: A method of cleaning air, comprising a humidifying step for humidifying the air containing chemical contaminants by a humidifying means and taking a part of the gaseous contaminants in the air into excessive moisture to remove the contaminants from the air and a dehumidifying step for dehumidifying the humidified air by a condensing means and taking the gaseous chemical contaminants remaining, without being removed, in the humidifying step into condensed water for removal, wherein, by using a oblique honeycomb having both front and rear faces and both upper and lower faces disposedin open state, air is led from the front opening part of the oblique honeycomb and water is fed from the upper opening part thereof to one or both of the humidifying and condensing means.

Abstract: An amount of energy consumption in a semiconductor fabrication facility can be reduced by using cooling water drained from a semiconductor fabrication apparatus as a heat source of another semiconductor fabrication apparatus. Cooling water of 80° C. drained from a heating furnace of a heat processing apparatus (10) is supplied to a deionized water heating apparatus (32) of a cleaning apparatus (30). The deionized water heating apparatus (32) raises a temperature of deionized water of a room temperature to 60° C. through heat exchange with the cooling water of 80° C. The cooling water, whose temperature falls to 30° C. after the heat exchange, is reutilized for cooling of the heating furnace (12).

Abstract: In order to reliably form a coating layer on the interior surface of a primary lining such as an underground pipe, etc., in a short time and form a coating layer having a uniform thickness, a spray gun 62 is attached to a revolving ring 30 attached to a running truck 2, right and left drive wheels of the running truck 2 are respectively independently driven and controlled to moving the running truck 2 in a primary lining 90 while the revolving ring 30 is rotated at a steady peripheral velocity to blow out a coating material from the spray gun 62, whereby a homogenous coating layer is formed with a fixed thickness on the interior surface of the primary lining 90.

Abstract: An air cooling device includes at least one cooling unit which includes an oblique honeycomb having front, rear, upper, and lower openings and disposed so that air to be cooled is introduced into the front opening and cooled air is discharged from the rear opening, a cooling water supply means which supplies cooling water to the upper opening of the oblique honeycomb, and a water receiving section which receives discharge water discharged from the lower opening of the oblique honeycomb, and a blower means which introduces air to be cooled into the front opening of the oblique honeycomb and allows cooled air to be discharged from the rear opening of the oblique honeycomb, wherein the height of one oblique honeycomb in the cooling unit is 200 to 800 mm. The air cooling device has high thermal efficiency, a small liquid-gas ratio, and a small pressure drop, and is capable of saving space and energy.

Abstract: The invention provides a composite from which concrete featuring a sufficiently high heat resistance can be produced, as well as a high-safety sealed concrete cask having no opening (shielding defect) to offer high shielding performance that can prevent corrosion of an internal canister and release of radioactive material to the exterior. A concrete cask of the invention includes a cask body having a bottom but no lid in itself, and a lid which can open and close off a top opening of the cask body. Both the cask body and the lid are made of concrete manufactured by using a composite including Portland cement or blended cement containing Portland cement, which is mixed with water in such a manner that the content of calcium hydroxide falls in a range of 15% to 60% by mass after hardening through hydration reaction. Metallic heat-transfer fins are embedded in the cask body.