Abstract: Provided is a toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a. silica fine particle, wherein a total content of a polyvalent metal elements in the toner particle is 0.10 to 2.50 ?mol/g, a number-average particle diameter of a primary particle of the silica fine particle is 40 to 500 nm, and in the DD/MAS measurement of solid 29Si-NMR of the silica fine particle, peak PD1 corresponding to a silicon atom represented by Sia in a structure represented by formula (1) and peak PD2 corresponding to a silicon atom represented by Sib in a structure represented by formula (2) are observed, and when an area of the peak PD1 is defined as SD1 and an area of the peak PD2 is defined as SD2, SD1 and SD2 satisfy: 1.2?(SD1+SD2)/SD1?10.0.

Abstract: The toner contains binder resin-containing toner particles and silica fine particle S1, wherein the weight-average particle diameter of the toner is 4.0-15.0 ?m, both inclusive, peaks originating with the silica fine particle S1 are observed in 29 Si-NMR measurement of the silica fine particle S1, and, in the spectrum obtained by 29Si CP/MAS NMR or 29Si DD/MAS NMR, the peak area of a peak corresponding to the D1 unit structure in the silica fine particle S1, the peak area of a peak corresponding to the D2 unit structure in the silica fine particle S1, and the peak area of a peak corresponding to the Q unit structure in the silica fine particle S1 satisfy a prescribed relationship.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heating apparatus for effectively heating a gas container, and more particularly a liquified gas filled in the gas container. The heating apparatus comprises a mounting base having a first space and a second space, each formed in its inside, and an air fan heater for supplying heated air to the first space of said mounting base. In said mounting base, a first through hole communicating with said first space and second through holes communicating with said second space are formed inside of a mounting area, and third through holes communicating with said second space are formed outside of said mounting area. When a gas container is mounted on the mounting base, the heated air is blasted from said first space onto the bottom face of said gas container through said first through hole, whereby heat is effectively transmitted from the bottom face of the gas container to the liquified gas contents of the gas container.

Abstract: A method and system of transformer protection in which parallel admittance currents indicative of the apparent excitation state of a transformer to be protected are evaluated from the transformer terminal voltages and currents sampled at a proper interval, and discrimination between an internal defect and excitation inrush is made in response to a magnitude of the parallel admittance current, and a breaker opening command is issued in response to a judgement of internal defect. The method and system enables high-accuracy and high-sensitivity fault detection through a simple computation.

Abstract: In a transformer protection system, data of voltages and currents detected at individual terminals of a transformer connected to an electric power system are supplied to a computer. The computer computes driving point admittances or shunt admittances of the transformer on the basis of the voltage and current data and predetermined transfer admittances of the transformer and decides that an internal fault has occurred in the transformer when the values of the driving point admittances or shunt admittances deviate from pre-set reference values, thereby disconnecting the transformer from the electric power system.

Abstract: In a carrier relay system in which protective relay apparatus are disposed in terminal stations respectively and interchange information between the terminal stations via a signal transmission line for detecting a trouble occurred in power transmission lines on the basis of the exchanged information, specific information K is inserted in a predetermined position of a signal transmitted from the first terminal station to the second terminal station, and the specific information K is inserted intact in another predetermined position of a signal returned from the terminal station to the terminal station. In the terminal station, the specific information K inserted in the signal transmitted therefrom is compared with the specific information K inserted in the signal returned from the terminal station for deciding the presence or absence of a trouble occurred in the power transmission lines.

Abstract: A system for sampling and collecting simultaneously data from terminal apparatus installed at a plurality of data measuring locations (data sources) distributed in a system to be monitored or controlled by using at least a single optical fiber includes means for initiating sampling of measured quantities in response to a synchronizing signal supplied-from a master station, and means for allotting to the terminal apparatus respective particular time slots during which the data as measured is transmitted to the master station through at least a single optical fiber.

Abstract: In a parallel digital signal delivered from an AD converter, "1" appearing in a bit position nearest to the most significant digit (MSD) is detected, and the parallel digital signal is converted into a serial digital signal consisting of a weight character indicating this specific bit position and a data character indicating the numerical value of the data. Further, a weight bit is provided for changing the weight of the output of the AD converter depending on the analog quantity subjected to AD conversion so as to reduce the number of bits required for coding the parallel signal.

Abstract: Protection of an electric power system is attained under control of a digital computer. Voltage and current of the electric power system to be protected are subjected to sampling at a predetermined sampling frequency and are applied to the computer after being converted into digital signals. The computer computes the product of these two digital signal inputs. The signal thus obtained is added to a preceding signal representing the product of voltage and current taken at time before a predetermined period of time so that unnecessary frequency components included in these signals can be removed. Then, the level of the resultant signal (which is free from the unnecessary frequency components) is compared with the level of a reference signal. When the former is greater than the latter, there is a fault in the electric power system, and necessary protective measures are taken to protect the electric power system.