Abstract: Provided is a constant current drive circuit that can improve accuracy of a stop timing of quick charge and prevent an overshoot, an insufficient quick charge, and the like from occurring. The constant current drive circuit includes a resistor R5 connected between the output side of the gm amplifier 6 and the input side of the transistor M1. The comparator 9 serving as a charge stopping circuit includes a voltage Vof, and stops charging by the quick charge circuit 8 based on a comparison result of the voltage Vof and the voltage Vs2 generated in the resistor R5.

Abstract: Provided is a constant current drive circuit that can improve accuracy of a stop timing of quick charge and prevent an overshoot, an insufficient quick charge, and the like from occurring. The constant current drive circuit includes a resistor R5 connected between the output side of the gm amplifier 6 and the input side of the transistor M1. The comparator 9 serving as a charge stopping circuit includes a voltage Vof, and stops charging by the quick charge circuit 8 based on a comparison result of the voltage Vof and the voltage Vs2 generated in the resistor R5.

Abstract: A vibration measuring apparatus for nuclear reactor internal structure includes a holder which has an opening contact on a surface of a pressure vessel of a nuclear reactor; a vibrator accommodated in the holder so as to transmit or receive an ultrasonic wave; a couplant with which the holder is filled up; and, a bias component applies a biasing force to the vibrator in the direction of the opening; The couplant is a solid state of metal material at normal temperature and change to liquid stage by heat transfer from the pressure vessel.

Abstract: An electromagnetic flow meter comprises: an excitation member (5) in which a plurality of magnets (5a, 5b, 5c) are arranged spaced apart from one another along an outer circumferential surface of a flow channel (1) through which liquid metal flows, and in which a magnetic field is formed in a direction perpendicular to the outer circumferential surface of the flow channel (1); and electrodes (6a, 6b) provided between the magnets (5a, 5b, 5c) of the excitation member (5), for measuring the voltage generated when the liquid metal crosses the magnetic field. A pulse excitation electric-current supply device (7a) for supplying a pulsed excitation current to the excitation member (5) is provided, whereby a flow speed distribution can be suppressed from being generated in the circumferential direction of the channel (1) even when the flow speed of the liquid metal is low, and the flow rate can be accurately measured.

Abstract: A nuclear reactor vibration surveillance system has a first ultrasonic transducer for transmission, an ultrasonic transmitter, a second ultrasonic transducer for reception, an ultrasonic receiver, a signal processor, and a display unit. The first ultrasonic transducer for transmission is arranged on the outer surface of a reactor pressure vessel and is configured to convert a transmission signal into an ultrasonic pulse signal and allow the ultrasonic pulse to be transmitted to a reactor internal component. The second ultrasonic transducer for reception is arranged on the outer surface of the reactor pressure vessel and is configured to receive a reflected ultrasonic pulse reflected by the reactor internal component and convert the received reflected ultrasonic pulse into a reception signal.

Abstract: An electromagnetic flow meter comprises: an excitation member (5) in which a plurality of magnets (5a, 5b, 5c) are arranged spaced apart from one another along an outer circumferential surface of a flow channel (1) through which liquid metal flows, and in which a magnetic field is formed in a direction perpendicular to the outer circumferential surface of the flow channel (1); and electrodes (6a, 6b) provided between the magnets (5a, 5b, 5c) of the excitation member (5), for measuring the voltage generated when the liquid metal crosses the magnetic field. A pulse excitation electric-current supply device (7a) for supplying a pulsed excitation current to the excitation member (5) is provided, whereby a flow speed distribution can be suppressed from being generated in the circumferential direction of the channel (1) even when the flow speed of the liquid metal is low, and the flow rate can be accurately measured.

Abstract: A vibration measuring apparatus for nuclear reactor internal structure includes a holder which has an opening contact on a surface of a pressure vessel of a nuclear reactor; a vibrator accommodated in the holder so as to transmit or receive an ultrasonic wave; a couplant with which the holder is filled up; and, a bias component applies a biasing force to the vibrator in the direction of the opening; The couplant is a solid state of metal material at normal temperature and change to liquid stage by heat transfer from the pressure vessel.

Abstract: A container stock management technique in a hospital and a culture center is provided. A stock management device (1) manages both transfer (outgoing transfer) of cells sampled at the hospital to the culture center, and transfer (incoming transfer) of the cells cultured from the sampled cells at the culture center, to that hospital, with one working code. The ID of containers used individually for the outgoing transfer and the incoming transfer are made to correspond to an identical working code. The optimum transfer route including the procurement of containers is determined by examining the container stock in each of the hospital and the culture center.

Abstract: In a safety stock control system, safety stock is changed in response to updating of a setting value so as to be continuously maintained as a proper value. The safety stock control system is comprised of a demand prediction means, an actual value calculating means, a predicted remainder calculating means, a parameter calculating means, and a safety stock calculating means for calculating safety stock based upon a parameter calculated by the parameter calculating means. In response to updating of the setting value, data of an area, which is different from such a data read when a plan is made, is temporarily read from a data storage means to the respective means, and then, various sorts of calculating process operations are carried out either one time or plural times.

Abstract: In a physical distribution model of the circulation type, synchronization is established between a reuse plan and a delivery/fabrication plan to thereby reasonably reduce the excess and deficiency of inventory articles at a confluence point of regenerated reusable articles and newly delivered component parts. With regard to newly delivered lower-level items, predict a variation or fluctuation of stock quantity based on at least a delivery schedule of them and a present stock amount along with usage plans in manufacturing processes. As for lower-level items of regenerated articles, predict a delivery due date and an expected number of such regenerated lower-level items based on at least a stock quantity of recovered items collected for reuse purposes and a lead time for taking regenerated lower-level items out of the collected items, thereby controlling, based on the both prediction results, the stock quantity of the lower-level items in manufacturing processes.

Abstract: A nuclear reactor vibration surveillance system has a first ultrasonic transducer for transmission, an ultrasonic transmitter, a second ultrasonic transducer for reception, an ultrasonic receiver, a signal processor, and a display unit. The first ultrasonic transducer for transmission is arranged on the outer surface of a reactor pressure vessel and is configured to convert a transmission signal into an ultrasonic pulse signal and allow the ultrasonic pulse to be transmitted to a reactor internal component. The second ultrasonic transducer for reception is arranged on the outer surface of the reactor pressure vessel and is configured to receive a reflected ultrasonic pulse reflected by the reactor internal component and convert the received reflected ultrasonic pulse into a reception signal.

Abstract: This invention relates to a technique for enhancing the accuracy of sale quota information used in allocation for reservation of a delivery date reply to thereby shorten a sale-quota reply response time. Disclosed herein is a delivery date reply system which permits preallotment of a sales quota of a sellable distribution item and which is responsive to receipt of a delivery date inquiry for allocating for reservation the content of such inquiry from within the sale quota to thereby reply a delivery date and, when the inquiry content is not allocated to the sale quota, issues a reply as to a delivery date after having performed sale quota alteration simulation for alteration to a sale quota with maximal satisfaction of a customer's desired delivery date, quantity and item contents.

Abstract: According to a region dividing device, a region dividing member generates a plurality of primary region groups, each of which includes a plurality of primary regions. Each of the plurality of primary regions is characterized by each measured value of feature values. A basic region group generating member generates a single basic region group that includes a plurality of basic regions produced by dividing the target image. Each basic region is characterized by each measured value of feature values. Each measured value is obtained based on the measured values of the plurality of primary regions of the plurality of primary region groups. A region integrating member integrates similar adjacent basic regions into a corresponding integrated region, based on a weighted Euclidean distance between the similar adjacent basic regions.

Abstract: For planning a production plan which satisfies a plural number of target values of management indices, upon calculating out production amount, supply amount and/or transportation means of plural products, various kinds of target values of management indices and estrangement values thereof are set into restriction conditions when those restriction conditions are formulated into a linear programming problem, and then feasible production plan is calculated out, so that the estrangement between the management indices being calculated from executable solutions of the above-mentioned linear programming problems and the target values thereof comes to be minimal.

Abstract: Fee imposition system and method for application software, in which a software providing corporation can collect the fee without fail and charge a fair fee to a customer, and thereby the customer can use the application software with a paying method easy to estimate. The fee imposition system includes a server machine installed in a management center for managing the software, a client machine installed in a customer's office and connected with the server machine through a communication means, a ticket issue unit for issuing a ticket file on the basis of a predetermined fee schedule, and a data copy/writing unit for copying data corresponding to the information designated by the ticket file from a data source memory unit and recording the copied data on a data target memory unit.

Abstract: The present invention gives techniques for using an information system, including a computer, to provide a user, such as a manufacturer, with reusable parts for use in the building of or maintaining a product. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method, using a computer, for buying a reusable part for use in manufacturing a product is provided. The method includes a user sending to a supplier requirements for the reusable part; Next the users receives information on a plurality of available reusable parts meeting or exceeding said requirements from the supplier (or broker). The information includes individual historical information for each available reusable part. The user then orders an available reusable part and uses the reusable part in manufacturing the product.

Abstract: A container stock management technique in a hospital and a culture center is provided. A stock management device (1) manages both transfer (outgoing transfer) of cells sampled at the hospital to the culture center, and transfer (incoming transfer) of the cells cultured from the sampled cells at the culture center, to that hospital, with one working code. The ID of containers used individually for the outgoing transfer and the incoming transfer are made to correspond to an identical working code. The optimum transfer route including the procurement of containers is determined by examining the container stock in each of the hospital and the culture center.

Abstract: The invention proposes a method for devising a production plan of a product to be produced through multiple production steps having different characteristics in a supply chain across multiple companies and/or multiple factories. The method divides a production step of the product into multiple production steps in advance based on a constraint to be considered when the production plan therefor is devised, defines identifiers for the multiple production steps, prestores the defined identifiers in a storage portion as step identification information, and prestores step information having at least correspondences between the production steps and items.

Abstract: Fee imposition system and method for application software, in which a software providing corporation can collect the fee without fail and charge a fair fee to a customer, and thereby the customer can use the application software with a paying method easy to estimate. The fee imposition system includes a server machine installed in a management center for managing the software, a client machine installed in a customer's office and connected with the server machine through a communication means, a ticket issue unit for issuing a ticket file on the basis of a predetermined fee schedule, and a data copy/writing unit for copying data corresponding to the information designated by the ticket file from a data source memory unit and recording the copied data on a data target memory unit.

Abstract: According to a region dividing device, a region dividing member generates a plurality of primary region groups, each of which includes a plurality of primary regions. Each of the plurality of primary regions is characterized by each measured value of feature values. A basic region group generating member generates a single basic region group that includes a plurality of basic regions produced by dividing the target image. Each basic region is characterized by each measured value of feature values. Each measured value is obtained based on the measured values of the plurality of primary regions of the plurality of primary region groups. A region integrating member integrates similar adjacent basic regions into a corresponding integrated region, based on a weighted Euclidean distance between the similar adjacent basic regions.