Abstract: This desalinization system, which obtains industrial-use water and drinking water from seawater and wastewater, is provided with: a purification device that purifies wastewater by removing activated sludge therefrom; a first RO membrane that removes salt from the output of the purification device by transferring said salt to first concentrated water, thereby producing industrial-use water; a UF membrane that seawater passes through and that removes particulates from said seawater; a second RO membrane that removes salt from the treated output of the UF membrane by transferring said salt to second concentrated water, producing drinking water; an agitation device to which the second concentrated water from the second RO membrane and the first concentrated water from the first RO membrane are sent to be agitated; and a third RO membrane removing salt from the liquid mixture agitated by the agitation device by transferring said salt to third concentrated water, producing industrial-use water.

Abstract: This desalinization system, which obtains industrial-use water and drinking water from seawater and wastewater, is provided with: a purification device that purifies wastewater by removing activated sludge therefrom; a first RO membrane that removes salt from the output of the purification device by transferring said salt to first concentrated water, thereby producing industrial-use water; a UF membrane that seawater passes through and that removes particulates from said seawater; a second RO membrane that removes salt from the treated output of the UF membrane by transferring said salt to second concentrated water, producing drinking water; an agitation device to which the second concentrated water from the second RO membrane and the first concentrated water from the first RO membrane are sent to be agitated; and a third RO membrane removing salt from the liquid mixture agitated by the agitation device by transferring said salt to third concentrated water, producing industrial-use water.

Abstract: By supplying a pulse signal to sensor wires to make the sensor wires generate heat, instead of applying DC electric voltage to the sensor wires, an amount of energy supplied to the sensor wires is decreased while maintaining a signal intensity supplied to the sensor wires, or the signal intensity supplied to the sensor wires is increased while maintaining the amount of energy supplied to the sensor wires. Thereby, a method for measuring a mass flow rate by a thermal type mass flow meter, which can reduce heat generation from the sensor wires while suppressing decrease in measurement accuracy, or can improve measurement accuracy while suppressing increase in heat generation from the sensor wires, is provided.

Abstract: In order to provide a technology enabling efficient visual recognition of notification information by a user, provided is an information presentation device, including: a display adjustment unit configured to display, using processing information for displaying information based on a start condition, the information on a plurality of display areas; and a storage unit configured to store condition information associating a predetermined start condition with notification information being the information to be displayed when the predetermined start condition occurs, in which the display adjustment unit is configured to, when satisfaction of the predetermined start condition is detected: identify the display area for displaying the notification information that is associated with the predetermined start condition in the storage unit; cause display of the notification information on the display area; and restrict display on other display areas other than the display area.

Abstract: A heat treatment furnace includes: a processing vessel configured to accommodate therein at least one object to be processed; a cylindrical heat insulating member covering a periphery of the processing vessel; and a heater disposed along an inner circumferential surface of the heat insulating member. The heater includes strip-shaped corrugated heater elements disposed along the inner circumferential surface of the heat insulating member, each of the heater elements having valley portions protruding outward and mountain portions protruding inward.

Abstract: A jacket heater placed in adjacent to an object to be heated so as to heat and keep warm said object, which comprises: a heating element, an outer covering member that envelops and accommodates the heating element, wherein the outer covering member is configured to comprise a first shaped body that is provided on a side thereof facing the object, and a second shaped body that is provided on a side opposite from said side facing the object, the second shaped body is a resin shaped body that has a porous structure, and the second shaped body has larger thickness than the first shaped body has. Provided is a jacket heater capable of efficiently keeping warm an object heated by this configuration.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a jacket heater having a heating element built therein, the jacket heater containing: the heating element having a watt density of 0.15 W/cm2 or more, a metal foil disposed adjacently to the heating element, and a surrounding body which surrounds the heating element and the metal foil.

Abstract: A mass flow controller and mass flow meter are disclosed. The mass flow controller and mass flow meter include a sensor tube configured to transport a fluid, and an upstream heater element and a downstream heater element which are formed of heating resistance wires provided in an outer periphery of the sensor tube. At least one weld terminal is electrically connected to an end of one or more of the heating resistance wires by spot welding material. A temperature difference between the melting point of the weld terminal and a melting point of the heating resistance wires does not exceed 100 degrees Celsius, and one or more coat layer(s) is provided on a surface of the weld terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cover film, which includes at least a base layer, an intermediate layer, a releasing layer and a heat seal layer that can be heat-sealed to a carrier tape, and wherein the heat seal layer contains, as a main component, a styrene-acrylic copolymer that has a mass average molecular weight of 5000 to 20000. This cover film is suppressed in variation in release strength when separated from the carrier tape, and is capable of reducing problems in the mounting process of electronic components such as rupture of the cover film during the separation.

Abstract: A modulation frequency control unit (36) controls a displacement-use transmission unit (34) such that displacement-use ultrasonic beam (EB) is subjected to modulation processing using a relatively high modulation frequency and a relatively low modulation frequency. A displacement measurement unit (24) measures the displacement of a tissue in a treatment area (P) at each of the modulation frequencies, and a coagulation measurement unit (25) measures local coagulation in the treatment area (P) on the basis of the measurement result of the displacement at the relatively high modulation frequency, and measures wide-area coagulation in the treatment area (P) on the basis of the measurement result of the displacement at the relatively low modulation frequency.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cover film and an electronic component package that uses the cover film as a lid material for a thermoplastic resin carrier tape, the cover film having at least a substrate layer, an intermediate layer, and a heat sealing layer having a thermoplastic resin which can be heat-sealed to a carrier tape, the intermediate layer including a metallocene straight-chain low density polyethylene, the metallocene straight-chain low density polyethylene having a TMA softening temperature of 90 to 109 ° C. according to JIS K7196, and the cover film in some instances having a release layer between the intermediate layer and the heat sealing layer.

Abstract: An air filter for a combustion engine for off-load motorcycles is made from a porous foam material. The air filter has contiguous side surface forming a cavity with at least two openings where the side surface contains at least one filter layer, a bottom surface closing at least one of the two openings where the bottom surface contains at least one filter layer, where the side surface has more air resistant than the bottom surface. The side surface has more air resistant than said bottom surface by arranging any combination of thickness of the surfaces, number of layers, and porosity ratio of the layers.

Abstract: A power converter apparatus is provided, which includes a horizontal switching device, a control switching device connected with the horizontal switching device and for controlling drive of the horizontal switching device, and a heat insulating member disposed between the horizontal switching device and the control switching device and for reducing that heat generated from the horizontal switching device is transferred to the control switching device.

Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes: a first conductive member; a horizontal switching element disposed on the first conductive member; an insulating member disposed on the first conductive member; and a control switching element disposed on the first conductive member via the insulating member, the control switching element being coupled to the horizontal switching element and configured to control driving of the horizontal switching element.

Abstract: An information display apparatus configured to display database information obtained from an outside, includes a control unit configured to execute control for, when newly obtaining the database information from the outside, obtaining history information about the database information to be newly obtained from the outside, earlier than obtaining the database information to be newly obtained, and associating the history information with the database information that has already been obtained, to display the history information including the database information that has already been obtained.

Abstract: A battery including cladding members in which a metal layer, an external resin layer, an inner resin are laminated; an electrode body which includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode; electrolyte which is accommodated in the cladding member; a positive electrode lead which is electrically connected to the positive electrode; and a negative electrode lead which is electrically connected to the negative electrode, the thickness of the heat sealed portions of both end portions of the positive electrode lead is formed larger than the thickness of the heat sealed portion on a center line in a width direction of the positive electrode lead, and the thickness of the heat sealed portions of both end portions of the negative electrode lead is formed larger than the thickness of the heat sealed portion on a center line in a width direction of the negative electrode lead.

Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes: a horizontal switching element with a front face and a rear face, the horizontal switching element including a first electrode and a second electrode on a front face side; a snubber capacitor; and a connecting conductor arranged to be interposed between the horizontal switching element and the snubber capacitor and electrically connecting the horizontal switching element to the snubber capacitor.

Abstract: An air filter for a combustion engine for off-load motorcycles is made from a porous foam material. The air filter has contiguous side surface forming a cavity with at least two openings where the side surface contains at least one filter layer, a bottom surface closing at least one of the two openings where the bottom surface contains at least one filter layer, where the side surface has more air resistant than the bottom surface. The side surface has more air resistant than said bottom surface by arranging any combination of thickness of the surfaces, number of layers, and porosity ratio of the layers.

Abstract: An electrode capable of preventing variations in electrical performance to stabilize performance and improve yields is provided. An electrode structure includes: an electrode including an current collector and an active material layer arranged on the current collector; and an electrode lead arranged on the active material layer, wherein a hole is arranged so as to penetrate the electrode and the electrode lead, and the electrode and the electrode lead are folded back around the hole in a direction away from the hole so that the electrode is placed inside, and the thickness of the active material layer in a region where the electrode lead is not arranged is uniform, and the thickness of the active material layer in a region where the electrode lead is arranged is nonuniform.

Abstract: A power converter includes a switch element, a snubber capacitor, and a connection conductor configured to connect the switch element and the snubber capacitor to each other, and at least a part of the connection conductor is arranged to be held between the snubber capacitor and an electrode of the switch element.