Abstract: According to one embodiment, a radar device comprises a panel including clusters and a controller. The controller is configured to cause a first cluster of the clusters to transmit an electromagnetic wave to a target, cause the first cluster and at least one second cluster adjacent to the first cluster to receive a reflected wave from the target, and cause the first cluster and the at least one second cluster to output a reception signal. At least one cluster other than the first cluster and other than the at least one second cluster does not output the reception signal.

Abstract: Steel has a chemical composition that contains 0.050% to 0.40% of C, 0.50% to 3.0% of Si, 3.0% to 8.0% of Mn, and 0.001% to 3.0% of sol. Al, by mass %, and has a metallographic structure that contains 10% to 40% of austenite in terms of % by volume. The average concentration of C in austenite is 0.30% by 0.60%, by mass %, structure uniformity, which is represented by a value obtained by subtracting the minimum value from the maximum value of Vickers hardness that is measured, in the metallographic structure is 30 Hv or less, and the tensile strength is 900 MPa to 1800 MPa.

Abstract: Provided is a hot-formed member according to the present invention, having a predetermined chemical composition and having a metallographic microstructure containing austenite at an area ratio of 10 area % to 40 area % and in which total number density of particles of the austenite and martensite is equal to or greater than 1.0 number/?m2, in which tensile strength is from 900 MPa to 1300 MPa.

Abstract: A production energy management system is provided, including a production and energy flow model definer configured to define a production and energy flow model wherein the production and energy flow model represents, by directed lines, a flow with regard to an input and output of a production-related material between apparatuses disposed in a plant and a flow with regard to an input and output of energy and associates index values of the production-related material and the energy with a kind of metered data measured in the plant, a data collector configured to collect the metered data from the plant, and an energy calculator configured to perform an energy calculation for each apparatus based on the collected metered data and the defined production and energy flow model.

Abstract: A stainless steel sheet used for a separator of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, wherein the steel sheet has a volume ratio of M2B boride-based metal precipitates of 8% or higher and a volumetric-basis particle-size frequency distribution of M2B boride-based metal precipitates having sphere-equivalent diameters of 6.72 ?m or less of 99.5% or higher, in a surface layer which has a depth of 0.2 t from at least one of surfaces (t is an overall thickness of the steel sheet), and the steel sheet has an apparent density of 0.995 or higher, assuming a real density to be 1. A polymer electrolyte fuel cell in which the stainless steel sheet is used for a separator is given an excellent cell performance without high-cost surface treatment such as expensive gold plating for the reduction of the contact resistance of a surface.

Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel material contains, by mass %, C: 0.02 to 0.15%, Si: 0.01 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.5%, P: 0.035% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 22.5 to 35.0%, Mo: 0.01 to 6.0%, Ni: 0.01 to 6.0%, Cu: 0.01 to 1.0%, N: 0.035% or less, V: 0.01 to 0.35%, B: 0.5 to 1.0%, Al: 0.001 to 6.0%, rare earth metal: 0 to 0.10%, Sn: 0 to 2.50%, and the balance: Fe and impurities, and a value calculated in mass % as {Cr+3×Mo?2.5×B?17×C} ranges from 20 to 45%. The ferritic stainless steel material has a parent phase comprising only a ferritic phase. At least composite metallic precipitates including M23C6 carbide-based metallic precipitates precipitated on surfaces and at peripheries of M2B boride-based metallic precipitates serving as precipitation nuclei are dispersed and exposed on a parent phase surface.

Abstract: An industrial demand response enabling system according to an aspect of the present invention includes a first determination device configured to specify a first facility and a second facility among facilities installed in an industrial installation, the first facility being capable of addressing reduction of electric power used by the facility by partially stopping the facility or reducing capacity, and the second facility being capable of addressing reduction of electric power used by the facility by changing an operating time period of the facility and calculate a first reducible amount of the electric power reducible by the first facility and a second reducible amount of the electric power reducible by the second facility.

Abstract: A stainless steel member for a separator of a solid polymer fuel cell has excellent cell properties with little deterioration in performance over long periods of operation without worsening of the corrosion resistance of a stainless steel separator. The stainless steel member has a stainless steel base metal, and a passive film and electrically conductive precipitates both provided on a surface of the stainless steel base metal. The electrically conductive precipitate penetrates the passive film and includes a substance originating from the stainless steel base metal. An electrically conductive layer comprising a nonmetallic electrically conductive substance is preferably provided on the surface of the passive film, and the electrically conductive layer is preferably electrically connected to the stainless steel base member through the electrically conductive precipitates.

Abstract: An industry demand-response control system of an aspect of the invention has an energy supplying facility, installed in an industrial installation, that supplies electrical energy and non-electrical energy, a production facility, installed in the industrial installation, that uses electrical energy and non-electrical energy to produce a product, and a facility controller that, in response to increasing and increasing the quantity of the product produced by the production facility, controls the proportion between the electrical energy and the non-electrical energy, wherein the facility controller performs control to convert the non-electrical energy that becomes surplus by reducing the quantity of product produced in response to a suppression request from an electricity provider to either supplement the electric power that is reduced or to sell, and to supplement the insufficient electrical energy caused by an increase in the amount of product produced by either stored electric power or purchased electric powe

Abstract: Steel has a chemical composition that contains 0.050% to 0.40% of C, 0.50% to 3.0% of Si, 3.0% to 8.0% of Mn, and 0.001% to 3.0% of sol. Al, by mass %, and has a metallographic structure that contains 10% to 40% of austenite in terms of % by volume. The average concentration of C in austenite is 0.30% by 0.60%, by mass %, structure uniformity, which is represented by a value obtained by subtracting the minimum value from the maximum value of Vickers hardness that is measured, in the metallographic structure is 30 Hv or less, and the tensile strength is 900 MPa to 1800 MPa.

Abstract: Provided is a hot-formed member according to the present invention, having a predetermined chemical composition and having a metallographic microstructure containing austenite at an area ratio of 10 area % to 40 area % and in which total number density of particles of the austenite and martensite is equal to or greater than 1.0 number/?m2, in which tensile strength is from 900 MPa to 1300 MPa.

Abstract: A production energy management system is provided, including a production and energy flow model definer configured to define a production and energy flow model wherein the production and energy flow model represents, by directed lines, a flow with regard to an input and output of a production-related material between apparatuses disposed in a plant and a flow with regard to an input and output of energy and associates index values of the production-related material and the energy with a kind of metered data measured in the plant, a data collector configured to collect the metered data from the plant, and an energy calculator configured to perform an energy calculation for each apparatus based on the collected metered data and the defined production and energy flow model.

Abstract: Provided is an energy management method using estimate models which correspond to each of a plurality of targets of energy management and which estimate energy consumption and/or energy conversion as the respective targets of energy management are activated. The estimate models are subdivided to correspond to each of a plurality of statuses of the targets of energy management, transitioning upon a temporal axis as the targets of energy management are activated.

Abstract: A method for producing a stainless steel three-ply clad sheet for a fuel cell separator comprises heating a source blank and then performing rough rolling, hot rolling and cold rolling thereto, whereby the clad steel sheet for the fuel cell separator or a solid polymer type fuel cell separator thereby is obtained. The source blank for the clad steel sheet is composed of a stainless steel utilizing 0 to 0.3% B as a core component and a stainless steel containing 0.3 to 2.5% B as face component. The source blank is made using face components, a core component, tabs and protectors and performing steps including bonding of the tabs and protectors to the face components, removing portions of the tabs and protectors, piling of the face components to the core component, and further bonding of the face and core components together to form the source blank.

Abstract: A stainless steel member for a separator of a solid polymer fuel cell which has excellent cell properties with little deterioration in performance over long periods of operation without worsening of the corrosion resistance of a stainless steel separator is provided. A stainless steel member has a stainless steel base metal, and a passive film and electrically conductive precipitates both provided on a surface of the stainless steel base metal. The electrically conductive precipitate penetrates the passive film and includes a substance originating from the stainless steel base metal. An electrically conductive layer comprising a nonmetallic electrically conductive substance is preferably provided on the surface of the passive film, and the electrically conductive layer is preferably electrically connected to the stainless steel base member through the electrically conductive precipitates.

Abstract: A separator material effective for decreasing the weight of fuel cells is provided which is lightweight, has good corrosion resistance, and exhibits a minimized increase in electrical contact resistance during use for a long period. Titanium or a titanium alloy is prepared by melting so as to contain not greater than 5 mass % B, thereby forming a titanium-based material in which fine TiB-type boride particles are precipitated and dispersed. The material is then etched in an aqueous acidic solution such that some of the TiB-type boride particles are exposed on the surface through the passive film formed thereon.

Abstract: Provided is a first method for producing a source blank for a clad steel sheet composed of a stainless steel containing 0 to 0.3% B as a core component and a stainless steel containing 0.3 to 2.

Abstract: A separator material effective for decreasing the weight of fuel cells is provided which is lightweight, has good corrosion resistance, and exhibits a minimized increase in electrical contact resistance during use for a long period. Titanium or a titanium alloy is prepared by melting so as to contain not greater than 5 mass % B, thereby forming a titanium-based material in which fine TiB-type boride particles are precipitated and dispersed. The material is then etched in an aqueous acidic solution such that some of the TiB-type boride particles are exposed on the surface through the passive film formed thereon.

Abstract: A probe apparatus, includes: a monitor channel signal receiving section for receiving one monitor channel signal selected from a plurality of monitor channel signals which flow in a plurality of transmission paths on a network to be managed; a monitor signal analyzing section for analyzing the one monitor channel signal received by the monitor channel signal receiving section to grasp a status of one transmission path on the network to be managed; and a monitor channel signal selecting control section for controlling that another monitor channel signal to be received by the monitor channel signal receiving section is selected from the plurality of monitor channel signals in accordance with a control signal outputted based on the status of the one transmission path.

Abstract: The stainless steel product has passive film on the surface, and at least one of a conductive metallic inclusion of carbide and a conductive metallic inclusion of boride protrudes through an outer surface of passive film from stainless steel under the passive film. The stainless steel product has low contact electrical resistance and suitable for use in bipolar plates of a polymer electrode fuel cell.