Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing, without a step of soaking soybeans in water, tofu firmer than tofu produced with known soybean-soak-free production methods. A method described herein is a method for producing tofu, comprising grinding a first mixture of soybeans and water until particles of the soybeans in the first mixture have a median diameter less than or equal to 250 ?m, heating the ground first mixture, separating the ground and heated first mixture into soymilk and solid soy pulp, and preparing tofu by coagulating a second mixture of the soymilk and a coagulant.

Abstract: A reactor includes a plurality of square pillar-shaped honeycomb structures each having an outer peripheral wall and partition walls defining cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face. The structures are arranged such that their outer peripheral walls are in direct or indirect contact. In a cross section orthogonal to a cell extending direction, an outer peripheral region surrounding one or more structures in a central region includes one or more honeycomb structures having a pressure loss smaller than that of the structures in the central region. This configuration manages pressure loss when a process gas containing a capturing-target gas passes through the structures, facilitating efficient gas recovery in a gas recovery device.

Abstract: When a plurality of articles corresponding to a first order is arranged in two or more storage areas, a control apparatus selects a first storage area in which a part of the articles corresponding to the first order is arranged, controls material handling equipment of the first storage area so that the part of the articles is moved out from the first storage area, specifies a carry destination WS that is a work station to which the part of the articles is moved out, and controls the first carry apparatus on which the first order container corresponding to the first order is loaded so as to move to a stop area corresponding to the carry destination WS. After the part of articles are placed in the first order container, the control apparatus controls the first carry apparatus so as to move to a stop area corresponding to a second storage area in which another part of the articles corresponding to the first order is arranged.

Abstract: A tofu manufacturing apparatus is provided that can more easily control firmness of tofu while preventing decrease in yield. A tofu manufacturing apparatus includes: a coagulation machine that produces coagulated soymilk T that is tofu dough; a cutting unit that cuts the coagulated soymilk T in the coagulation machine into a polyhedral shape; a conveying machine that conveys the coagulated soymilk T downstream, the coagulated soymilk T having been cut into a polyhedral shape by the cutting unit; a collapse prevention unit that is provided in at least one of the coagulation machine and the conveying machine and prevents collapse of the coagulated soymilk T; and a forming machine that compression-forms the coagulated soymilk T conveyed from the conveying machine.

Abstract: A shutoff system that shuts off a current path includes a shunt resistor provided in the current path, and a pyroswitch that includes an internal resistor and shuts off the current path by performing detonation in accordance with a current that flows in the internal resistor. The shunt resistor and the internal resistor are connected in parallel to each other.

Abstract: A reactor includes: at least one honeycomb structure having an outer peripheral wall and partition walls provided on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition walls defining a plurality of cells through which a process gas containing a capturing target gas can flow, each of the cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face of the honeycomb structure; and a cylindrical member for housing the honeycomb structure. At least a portion of the outer peripheral wall of the honeycomb structure is not in contact with the cylindrical member. The honeycomb structure has at least one communication pore group P comprised of a plurality of communication pores Px provided at the outer peripheral wall and the partition walls so as to be positioned on one straight line L1 orthogonal to an extending direction of the cells.

Abstract: A reactor including at least one honeycomb structure having an outer peripheral wall and partition walls provided on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition walls defining a plurality of cells through which a process gas containing a capturing target gas can flow, each of the cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face of the honeycomb structure. The honeycomb structure has at least one communication pore group composed of a plurality of communication pores provided at the outer peripheral wall and the partition walls so as to be positioned on one straight line L1 orthogonal to an extending direction of the cells. The communication pore group is located closer to the outflow end face side than a center C1 in the extending direction of the cells.

Abstract: A reactor including a plurality of honeycomb structures each having an outer peripheral wall and partition walls provided on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition walls defining a plurality of cells through which a process gas containing a capturing target gas can flow, each of the cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face of each honeycomb structure. The honeycomb structures are provided so that the outflow end faces and the inflow end faces of adjacent honeycomb structures face each other and central axes of the cells of the adjacent honeycomb structures are aligned with each other. The partition walls have at least one protrusion protruding into the cells and extending from the inflow end face to the outflow end face. The protrusions on the partition walls of the adjacent honeycomb structures are provided at different positions.

Abstract: A reactor includes a honeycomb structure including: an outer peripheral wall; porous partition walls provided on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the porous partition walls defining first cells, second cells, and third cells through which a process gas containing a trapping target gas, each of the first cells, the second cells, and the third cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face of the honeycomb structure; first plugged portions provided at the first cells on the inflow end face side; second plugged portions provided at the second cells on the outflow end face side; and third plugged portions provided at the third cells on the outflow end face side, the third cells being interposed between the first cells and the second cells, and a functional material having a pellet shape, the functional material being filled in the third cells.

Abstract: A reactor includes: a honeycomb structure including an outer peripheral wall and porous partition walls provided on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition walls defining first cells and second cells through which a process gas containing a trapping target gas can flow, each of the first cells and the second cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face of the honeycomb structure, the first cells and the second cells being adjacent to each other via the partition walls; and a functional material having a pellet shape, the functional material being filled in the second cells.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon material that is large in specific surface area, and moreover, capable of easily forming an electrode film even when any binder is substantially not contained. Provided is a carbon material that has a BET specific surface area of 100 m2/g or more, with the weight of the carbon material remaining on a sieve after shaking being 90% by weight or more with respect to 100% by weight of the carbon material put in the sieve, when 0.2 g of the carbon material packed in a cylindrical syringe of 2 cm in diameter is compressed at a pressure of 16 kN, the whole of the compressed carbon material is taken out from the syringe and put in the sieve with an aperture of 4.75 mm, and the sieve is shaken for 1 minute.

Abstract: Provided is a power storage device having excellent withstand voltage performance and enabling high-voltage driving. This power storage device includes: an electrode formed of an electrode material containing a carbon material and essentially free of a binder; and an electrolytic solution including an ionic liquid including, as components, a cation and an anion.

Abstract: Provided is a composite material in which a carbon material and nanoparticles are efficiently combined to enhance the battery characteristic of a secondary battery. The composite material including a carbon material having a plurality of recesses and a plurality of protrusions and including nanoparticles that are at least partially combined with the carbon material, the composite material having a rate of the nanoparticles combined in the carbon material and the nanoparticles of 11% by weight or more.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon material, which can increase the capacitance in an electrical storage device. Provided is a carbon material including a carbon material that has a graphene laminated structure, where the carbon material has a BET specific surface area of 240 m2/g or more, and has a powder density of 0.5 g/cc or more when 0.1 g of the carbon material is put in a container with a cross-sectional area of 3.14 cm2 and compressed at a pressure of 16 kN.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon material that is large in specific surface area, and moreover, capable of easily forming an electrode film even when any binder is substantially not contained. Provided is a carbon material that has a BET specific surface area of 100 m2/g or more, with the weight of the carbon material remaining on a sieve after shaking being 90% by weight or more with respect to 100% by weight of the carbon material put in the sieve, when 0.2 g of the carbon material packed in a cylindrical syringe of 2 cm in diameter is compressed at a pressure of 16 kN, the whole of the compressed carbon material is taken out from the syringe and put in the sieve with an aperture of 4.75 mm, and the sieve is shaken for 1 minute.

Abstract: To provide a carbon material that can enhance capacity and rate characteristics of an electricity storage device. A carbon material containing a carbon material having a graphene layered structure, the carbon material having a mesopore, the mesopore having a volume measured in accordance with BJH method of 0.04 mL/g or more, and the carbon material having a BET specific surface area of 240 m2/g or more.

Abstract: There is provided an electrode material for electricity storage devices, which enables suppression of heat generation in charge and discharge at large currents. The electrode material for electricity storage devices comprises a first carbon material having a graphite structure wherein graphite is partially exfoliated, and a second carbon material different from the first carbon material, wherein the ratio A/B, where A represents a weight of the first carbon material and B represents a weight of the second carbon material, is within the range of 0.01 or higher and 100 or lower.

Abstract: Provided is a composite body capable of increasing the capacity of an electricity storage device and improving rate characteristics. The composite body includes a carbon material having a graphene layered structure and fine particles, the composite body has mesopores, a volume of the mesopores measured according to the BJH method is 0.15 mL/g or more, and a BET specific surface area of the composite body is 900 m2/g or more.

Abstract: Provided is a carbonaceous material capable of enhancing the initial charge and discharge efficiency and the cycle characteristics of lithium ion secondary batteries. The carbonaceous material is used as an electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery and has a volume resistivity of 0.7 ?·cm or less as measured at a pressure of 13 MPa in the form of a mixture of 5 wt % of the carbonaceous material and 95 wt % of lithium cobaltate.

Abstract: A synthetic resin bottle prevents a trunk from undergoing unsightly deformation in response to reduced pressure inside the bottle and also increases flexibility in terms of container design and secures a label attachment area sufficiently. A synthetic resin bottle includes a mouth, a trunk, and a bottom, with a reduced pressure absorbing region configured to be displaced toward the inside of the bottle in response to reduced pressure inside the bottle. The trunk includes a cylindrical-shaped straight region, which has a length of not less than 100 mm in an axis direction extending along a center axis of the trunk and in which no irregularities are provided. The straight region has a weight of not less than 11 times a weight of the reduced pressure absorbing region.