Abstract: A generation method using a fuel cell generation system, comprising the steps of: supplying a fuel gas 14a to a fuel electrode 21 through fuel gas passages 14 at a low pressure, supplying an oxidizer gas 15a to an oxidizer electrode 22 at a low pressure, generating electricity by causing electrochemical reaction between the fuel gas 14a and the oxidizer gas 15a supplied, and controlling the fuel utilization ratio on the fuel electrode 21 so as to prevent the fuel gas passages 14 from being clogged with condensed water. Decrease in performance and local deterioration of materials are less likely to occur while component devices are not required of wide turn-down ratios.

Abstract: To provide a fuel processor provided with a heat insulating shaped body which has high heat resistance and heat insulating properties, which is good in formability, which is strong against external impacts, and which can be easily fixed to the fuel processor 1 or can be filled into a narrow space or the like in the fuel processor without forming any gap. A fuel processor 1 for reforming a raw material gas G into a fuel gas J mainly composed of hydrogen, having a combustion chamber 13 for generating heat for the reforming, a solid first primary heat insulating material 17 for thermally insulating the combustion chamber 13 from an outside, and a fabric-like secondary heat insulating material 19 covering the outside of the first primary heat insulating material 17 for heat insulation.

Abstract: A generation method using a fuel cell generation system, comprising the steps of: supplying a fuel gas 14a to a fuel electrode 21 through fuel gas passages 14 at a low pressure, supplying an oxidizer gas 15a to an oxidizer electrode 22 at a low pressure, generating electricity by causing electrochemical reaction between the fuel gas 14a and the oxidizer gas 15a supplied, and controlling the fuel utilization ratio on the fuel electrode 21 so as to prevent the fuel gas passages 14 from being clogged with condensed water. Decrease in performance and local deterioration of materials are less likely to occur while component devices are not required of wide turn-down ratios.

Abstract: A tread unit of a passenger conveyor includes: a tread, a tread reinforcing member and a riser which are made of fiber reinforced plastic made by knitting fibers together. The surfaces of the cleat portions of the tread and the riser are provided with surface treated layers in which the wear resistance and coefficient of friction are controlled. As a result of this construction, the aesthetic design of the tread unit and of the passenger conveyor system can be improved. In addition, the reduced weight of the tread unit contributes to labor-saving at the time of mounting, and a passenger conveyor system using these tread units can be reduced in size and weight as a whole.

Abstract: A triaxial textile fabric for use as a reinforcing textile fabric for a composite material wherein the modulus of elasticity is made isotropic and which can be readily deformed into a three-dimensional configuration without causing special changes in orientation angles and a process by which such a textile fabric can be easily produced. The fabric comprises a large number of oblique yarns extending in a radial direction from the center of the textile fabric, and a circumferential yarn woven spirally in a circumferential direction between the oblique yarns. Each adjacent ones of the oblique yarns are interlaced with each other and the circumferential yarn is woven between the thus interlaced oblique yarns such that such interlacing may appear between each adjacent coils of the spirally woven circumferential yarn. Such an interlacing step takes place after insertion of the circumferential yarn and before an upward and downward movement of the alternate oblique yarns.

Abstract: A spherical cloth weaving machine in which radially stretched warp yarn and circumferentially running weft yarns are woven into a desired spherical shape, the machine being constructed with a mechanism for moving the warp yarns alternately by shuttle chucks which hold required numbers of the warp yarns at their outer peripheral part. A mechanism is provided for hooking the circumferential weft yarn and beating the same toward the center of the warp yarns for compact weaving. A weft yarn rotating mechanism causes the weft yarn to pass through the warp yarns which are being moved by the warp yarn moving mechanism. A mechanism is provided for maintaining the woven cloth in a spherical shape.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for continuous shaping of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic tubes, a carbon fiber prepreg in tape form impregnated with a first thermosetting resin is laminated on and around a mandrel; the laminate provided on said mandrel is preheated; and the preheated laminate is pulled in and through a hot die together with the mandrel, during which it is gelled, cured, and shaped into a carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic tube, wherein a second thermosetting resin is uniformly supplied onto the outer circumference of the laminate in a resin squeezing zone in the hot die.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for continuous shaping of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic tubes, wherein a carbon fiber prepreg in tape form impregnated with a thermosetting resin is laminated on and around a mandrel, then the laminated carbon fiber prepreg tape on the mandrel is preheated, and the thus preheated laminate is pulled in and through a hot die together with the mandrel so as to subject the carbon fiber prepreg to gelling, curing and shaping into a predetermined carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic tube, the pulling operations being continuously carried out by alternate motion of first and second grasping mechanism in such a manner that the pulling force is generated in the second grasping mechanism, while the first grasping mechanism still retains its pulling force, and finally the gellation of the laminate is completed at the first half part of the hot die.