Abstract: In a fuel cell power generation system that includes a fuel cell that generates power by an electrochemical reaction with a supply of a fuel gas and an oxide gas, a control portion that controls the amount of power generated by the fuel cell, and a hot portion that is hot while the system is operating, the control portion and the hot portion are disposed separated from one another in the same package. Accordingly, even though the control portion and the hot portion are housed within the same main package, the control portion is not easily effected by the hot portion while the system is operating because it is separated from the hot portion. As a result, the control portion is able to perform its function well.

Abstract: The power generation mode of fuel cells included in a fuel cells power generation system, the quantity of power generation by the fuel cells, the working power used for a load, the amount of hot water kept in a hot water tank, the time, the occurrence of an abnormality in the system, and a request for regular inspection are displayed on a display unit of an operation display panel as numerical values and stepwise-variable graphical expression representing variations in quantity. The user is accordingly informed of the current driving conditions of the system and the working power used for the load, and sets the power generation mode of the fuel cells based on these pieces of information. This enables the user to adequately and readily control the operations of the system.

Abstract: In a fuel cell power generation system that includes a fuel cell that generates power by an electrochemical reaction with a supply of a fuel gas and an oxide gas, a control portion that controls the amount of power generated by the fuel cell, and a hot portion that is hot while the system is operating, the control portion and the hot portion are disposed separated from one another in the same package. Accordingly, even though the control portion and the hot portion are housed within the same main package, the control portion is not easily effected by the hot portion while the system is operating because it is separated from the hot portion. As a result, the control portion is able to perform its function well.

Abstract: A rolled metal strip which is free of torsion and on which a superior gloss is obtained by a combination of cross rolling and parallel rolling upon cold rolling a metal strip and by rolling the material in a parallel rolling manner in either at least the final stand (in the case of a tandem mill array) or at least the final pass (in the case of a single stand mill such as a reversible mill or the like). If necessary, the metal strip is preliminarily rolled by cross rolling at a rolling reduction rate of over 5% and then cold rolled by either parallel rolling or a combination of cross rolling and parallel rolling.

Abstract: A variable-crown roll is disclosed, which comprises a curved arbor, and a plurality of antifriction bearings which are mounted on said arbor, said bearings being asymmetrically disposed with respect to the lengthwise center of said arbor, and bearings on one side of the lengthwise center of said arbor being symmetric with respect to said bearings on the other side of the lengthwise center.

Abstract: The invention relates to a speed control system for a multiple engine air conditioning system in which two or more engines are used to drive respective compressors for operation of two or more heat pump circuits. According to the invention, the engine speed control system has a negative pressure generating circuit connected in common to the intake manifolds of two or more engines.

Abstract: A variable-crown roll comprises a straight arbor, and a plurality of antifriction bearings which are mounted on the arbor, each of the bearings having a cylindrical outer surface which is sloped with respect to the outer surface of the arbor, the bearings being symmetrically disposed with respect to the lengthwise center of the arbor, the slopes of the outer surfaces of the bearings on one side of the lengthwise center of the arbor being symmetric with respect to the slopes of the outer surfaces of the bearings on the other side of the lengthwise center.

Abstract: A tandem mill has a plurality of stands and has at each stand one mill suitably selected from a common four-high mill, a sleeve sliding mill, an intermediate back-up roll shifting mill, and a sleeve expanding mill.

Abstract: In a leveling line, the shape of a rolled material is corrected by applying a longitudinal tensile force to the material on the entrance or the exit side or both the sides of a roller leveler or within it, a warp of the material is corrected by applying a bending tension to the material within the roller leveler, and a camber of the material is corrected by applying a larger plastic elongation to either one of the widthwise edges of the material than to the other, on the entrance or the exit side or both the sides of the roller leveler or within it.

Abstract: According to the invention a jacket for floppy disk is provided. The jacket comprises an exterior layer and an interior layer. The exterior layer is made of an antistatic styrene base resin composition. The interior layer is a non-woven cloth layer.

Abstract: A rolling mill having an upper set of rolls which has a work roll and a backup roll, and a lower set of rolls which has a work roll and a backup roll. Two parallel intermediate rolls are arranged between the work roll and the backup roll of either upper set or lower set or both sets, each of the intermediate rolls being supported by corresponding support rolls. The support rolls can be shifted toward and away from the corresponding intermediate rolls.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a character recognition process which extracts white regions surrounded by strokes of character pattern information and recognizes characters by determining the directions in which said white regions are opened. The process is provided by processing apparatus, for conversion of mesh information, disposed so as to convert a white mesh point present between two black mesh points to a black mesh point during one scanning period for scanning said character pattern information in one direction. The directions of openings of the white regions are determined based on the converted character pattern information obtained by the processing apparatus.

Abstract: A widthwise distribution of thickness of a metal strip is changed by passing the metal strip through a tool train including a plurality of tools disposed in zigzag and applying a bending under tension to the metal strip in the lengthwise direction thereof. A widthwise bending of the metal strip may be performed at the same time with said bending under tension, and a light reduction rolling of the metal strip may be performed before said bending under tension.

Abstract: A film and a laminate using the film as a substrate which both are suitable for heat sealing and a process for heat sealing the film and the laminate are disclosed. The film comprises a blend of (I) at least one member selected from the group consisting of (A) elastomeric block copolymers of vinyl-aromatic compounds with conjugated diene compounds, (B) resinous block copolymers of vinyl-aromatic compounds with conjugated diene compounds and (C) vinyl-aromatic resins and/or modified vinyl-aromatic resins, and (II) an olefinic polymer.

Abstract: Wandering of a strip in a hot rolling line is prevented by the provision of a hot roller leveler and a side guide between a finishing mill and a coiler. At least one of the leveler rolls is made angularly adjustable in a horizontal plane and/or in a vertical plane with respect to the strip.

Abstract: A film and a laminate using the film as a substrate which both are suitable for heat sealing and a process for heat sealing the film and the laminate are disclosed. The film comprises a blend of (I) at least one member selected from the group consisting of (A) elastomeric block copolymers of vinyl-aromatic compounds with conjugated diene compounds, (B) resinous block copolymers of vinyl-aromatic compounds with conjugated diene compounds and (C) vinyl-aromatic resins and/or modified vinyl-aromatic resins, and (II) an olefinic polymer.

Abstract: A pattern recognition processing system in which variations in a character, pattern or the like, especially in a handwritten one, are suppressed to extract its invariable characteristics, ensuring accurate recognition of the character, pattern or the like. The pattern to be recognized is divided into circumscribed quadrangular areas and scanned in horizontal and vertical directions to extract reflection segments between the vertical frames of the circumscribed quadrangular areas and particular segments between adjacent ones of pattern strokes. Further, endpoints of these reflection and particular segments are checked in directions across the scanning directions to extract those endpoints which are not blocked by the pattern strokes, and the corresponding positions of the co-ordinates of these endpoints on a figure frame in the directions across the scanning directions are encoded to extract characteristics of contours of the pattern to be recognized.