Abstract: A building includes an outer wall, a roof arranged so as to be orthogonal to the outer wall and inclined with respect to the ground, and a flashing arranged at a boundary between the roof and the outer wall. The flashing includes an attachment configured to extend along the outer wall, a guide connected to the attachment and arranged above the roof, and a water draining portion arranged so as to intersect the attachment and the guide.

Abstract: This draining member is disposed on a lower section of an exterior part of a building. The draining member comprises a coupling part for coupling a draining member other than the draining member.

Abstract: A support member is a member for supporting a first outer wall surface material, and includes a support fixing part, a support extension, and an end surface support part. The support fixing part is fixed to a second surface of a wall base material provided in a manner of surrounding an opening, the second surface being located more to an outdoor side than a first surface adjacent to the opening. The support extension extends from the support fixing part to a region opposed to the first surface toward the opening side to support the first outer wall surface material from an indoor side. The end surface support part has an abutting surface that extends from the support extension to the outdoor side and abuts on one end surface of the first outer wall surface material on the opening side to support the one end surface.

Abstract: This anchor support tool supports an anchor provided in a foundation, the anchor support tool comprising: a support plate having at least one support part for supporting an anchor; a spacer for positioning the support plate with respect to a form of the foundation in the height direction; and a fixing jig for fixing the support plate to the form. The fixing jig supports the support plate while the support plate is disposed above the form with the spacer therebetween.

Abstract: This foundation construction method for a building includes: a first step for creating a foundation base; a second step for installing reinforcement on the foundation base; a third step for installing a frame for creating a foundation to be provided to the foundation base; a fourth step for arranging a plurality of anchors so as to follow the inner periphery of the frame; and a fifth step for placing concrete inside the frame. In the fifth step, the concrete is leveled such that the upper surface of the concrete is the same height as the upper end surface of the frame.

Abstract: A building includes a hipped roof, an erected part, and a water guide body. The hipped roof includes a first roof part, a second roof part, and a hip that is provided at a boundary part between the first roof part and the second roof part, and that protrudes upward from a roof upper surface of the first roof part. The erected part is erected on the first roof part while extending from a part of the hip, the part being below a ridge beam, toward a side opposite to the second roof part, and includes a side surface facing the ridge beam. The water guide body is provided over the first roof part and the side surface of the erected part to guide water flowing along the first roof part to a lateral side of the erected part. Then, the water guide body is connected to the hip, and has a shape for restricting accumulation of water in a region between the hip, the first roof part, and the erected part.

Abstract: A flashing member is arranged on a building at a section where a first exterior wall joins a second exterior wall. The second exterior wall includes a wall body covered by a cover member. The flashing member is arranged between the wall body and the cover member at the section where the first exterior wall joins the second exterior wall.

Abstract: A building includes an outer wall, a roof arranged so as to be orthogonal to the outer wall and inclined with respect to the ground, and a flashing arranged at a boundary between the roof and the outer wall. The flashing includes an attachment configured to extend along the outer wall, a guide connected to the attachment and arranged above the roof, and a water draining portion arranged so as to intersect the attachment and the guide.

Abstract: A solar heat receiver includes a casing having an aperture, and a piping system provided in the casing and discharging a heat medium, which is sent from a fluid supply source, to a fluid supply destination after the heat medium is heated by the solar light. The piping system includes: heat receiver tubes that heat the heat medium flowing therein; an inlet header tube that distributes the heat medium, which is introduced from the fluid supply source, to each of the heat receiver tubes, and an outlet header tube that collects the heat medium passing through each of the heat receiver tubes, and leads the heat medium to the fluid supply destination. The inlet header tube and the outlet header tube have a larger inner diameter than each of the heat receiver tubes.

Abstract: The invention provides a solar/air turbine generator system that reduces construction and power generating costs and does not require the use of fossil fuel. A solar/air turbine generator system comprises: a compressor for drawing in and compressing air; a solar receiver for heating the air compressed by the compressor with the use of solar heat collected by a solar collector; an air turbine for driving the compressor and a generator by receiving the compressed air heated by the solar receiver; a regenerative heat exchanger, located between the compressor and the solar receiver, for heating the air compressed by the compressor using the exhaust of the air turbine as a heating medium; and a distribution device, located between the compressor and the regenerative heat exchanger, for distributing the compressed air to the side of the regenerative heat exchanger and to a bypass side, the bypass side being the inlet side of the air turbine.

Abstract: The invention provides a solar/air turbine generator system that reduces construction and power generating costs and does not require the use of fossil fuel. A solar/air turbine generator system comprises: a compressor for drawing in and compressing air; a solar receiver for heating the air compressed by the compressor with the use of solar heat collected by a solar collector; an air turbine for driving the compressor and a generator by receiving the compressed air heated by the solar receiver; a regenerative heat exchanger, located between the compressor and the solar receiver, for heating the air compressed by the compressor using the exhaust of the air turbine as a heating medium; and a distribution device, located between the compressor and the regenerative heat exchanger, for distributing the compressed air to the side of the regenerative heat exchanger and to a bypass side, the bypass side being the inlet side of the air turbine.

Abstract: A drive unit of a magnet coupling pump, in which leakage of the magnetic flux to the outside and the effect of the external magnetic field are suppressed. The drive unit includes: a driving magnet (219) positioned at an outside of the driven magnet (19) of the magnetic coupling pump (100) with respect to a rotation axis (A) of the magnetic coupling pump (100) to face the driven magnet (19) with a gap; a cup tube portion (221) made of a ferromagnetic material and in a tubular shape centered on the rotation axis (A); a case main body (231) including a cup (220) in which the driving magnet is fixed inside of the cup tube portion; a motor (210) rotating the cup around the rotation axis, and a tube portion (232), which is tubular in shape. The cup is provided in the tube portion (232) with a gap.

Abstract: A solar receiver is disposed on a top portion of a tower provided upright on the ground for heating a compressible working fluid by means of heat converted from sunlight collected by heliostats disposed on the ground, to raise the temperature of the compressible working fluid. The solar receiver has modules disposed back-to-back, and each of which includes a casing having a bottom plate to be fixed to the top-portion upper surface of the tower. A heat-transfer-tube unit is accommodated in the casing and includes heat transfer tubes. A sunlight inlet port having a circular shape in front view or an elliptical shape in front view is provided at the center portion of a plate-like member whose lower end is connected to an outer circumferential end of the bottom plate to constitute the casing and that extends obliquely upward from the outer circumferential end.

Abstract: The concentrating heat receiver (10) is provided with a casing (41) which has an opening portion (15) into which sunrays are made incident, a heat receiving portion (42) which is accommodated inside the casing (41) so that a working fluid flows therethrough and receive heat from sunrays made incident from the opening portion, thereby raising the temperature of the working fluid, and hanging members (61, 62) in which the upper end sides thereof are coupled to an upper angle (14) and the other end sides thereof are loosely inserted into through holes (44a, 44b) of the casing (41), thereby supporting in a hanging manner the heat receiving portion (42) inside the casing (41).

Abstract: A solar heat receiver includes a casing having an aperture, and a piping system provided in the casing and discharging a heat medium, which is sent from a fluid supply source, to a fluid supply destination after the heat medium is heated by the solar light. The piping system includes: heat receiver tubes that heat the heat medium flowing therein; an inlet header tube that distributes the heat medium, which is introduced from the fluid supply source, to each of the heat receiver tubes, and an outlet header tube that collects the heat medium passing through each of the heat receiver tubes, and leads the heat medium to the fluid supply destination. The inlet header tube and the outlet header tube have a larger inner diameter than each of the heat receiver tubes.

Abstract: A solar heat receiver includes a heat receiver tube support member that holds, with regular distances, longitudinally intermediate potions of a plurality of heat receiver tubes arranged in parallel and in plane. The support member extends to cross a longitudinal direction of the heat receiver tubes, and thus does not naturally move in the longitudinal direction of the heat receiver tubes, and when a predetermined force is applied in the longitudinal direction of the tubes, a position of the support member is maintained by a frictional force such that there is a slide between the heat receiver tube support member and the heat receiver tubes. Also, a plurality of heat receiver tube support members are provided in one solar heat receiver, and the heat receiver tubes are divided into a plurality of groups by the plurality of heat receiver tube support members.

Abstract: A solar-thermal gas turbine generator is equipped with a compressor, a heat receiver, and a turbine. Additionally, there is a generator that is driven by the solar-thermal gas turbine to generate power; and a steam power generation cycle in which high-temperature air exhausted from the turbine is introduced into a steam generator and in which a steam turbine that is operated with steam generated at the steam generator drives a generator to generator power, wherein a solar-thermal steam generator that generates steam by being heated with heat collected by the light collector is provided upstream of the steam turbine of the steam power generation cycle, and a distribution ratio for distributing the sunlight collected by the light collector to the heat receiver and the solar-thermal steam generator is adjusted in accordance with the sunlight intensity.

Abstract: A solar receiver is disposed on a top portion of a tower provided upright on the ground for heating a compressible working fluid by means of heat converted from sunlight collected by heliostats disposed on the ground, to raise the temperature of the compressible working fluid. The solar receiver has modules disposed back-to-back, and each of which includes a casing having a bottom plate to be fixed to the top-portion upper surface of the tower. A heat-transfer-tube unit is accommodated in the casing and includes heat transfer tubes. A sunlight inlet port having a circular shape in front view or an elliptical shape in front view is provided at the center portion of a plate-like member whose lower end is connected to an outer circumferential end of the bottom plate to constitute the casing and that extends obliquely upward from the outer circumferential end.

Abstract: The concentrating heat receiver (10) is provided with a casing (41) which has an opening portion (15) into which sunrays are made incident, a heat receiving portion (42) which is accommodated inside the casing (41) so that a working fluid flows therethrough and receive heat from sunrays made incident from the opening portion, thereby raising the temperature of the working fluid, and hanging members (61, 62) in which the upper end sides thereof are coupled to an upper angle (14) and the other end sides thereof are loosely inserted into through holes (44a, 44b) of the casing (41), thereby supporting in a hanging manner the heat receiving portion (42) inside the casing (41).

Abstract: In order to optimize the clearances between both end surfaces of a sleeve 5 and each of the end surfaces of the fixed bodies 3 and 5, respectively, magnetic forces of repulsion being caused by each of the permanent magnets 3a, 5b, 5c and 8a is adjusted. At this time, by adjusting each of the distances between the permanent magnets 3a, 5b, 5c, 8a, respectively, by adjusting the quantity of the adjustment rings 9, the magnetic force of repulsion being caused by each of the permanent magnets 3a, 5b, 5c and 8a is adjusted.