PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the load following property by selecting open loop control or proportional integral feedback control in response to the deviation between the load instruction value of a central power feed station instructed to a sequential control system supervising multiple shaft power generating systems and the overall actual load output value of the shaft power generating syste...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To feed dry air to a gas turbine vane so as to remove residual cooling steam and prevent water droplet from being generated when a gas turbine is stopped. SOLUTION: This plant is provided with a compressor 1, a combustor 2, a gas turbine system A with a gas turbine 3 and a generator, an exhaust heat recovery boiler 6 to generate steam by the introduction of exhaust emission f...

The invention provides a fluid composition for a fluid coupling, which is excellent in viscosity stability and torque stability, and comprises a polyorganosiloxane base oil having a viscosity of 3,000-500,000 mm2/sec at 25 DEG C. and at least one 5-membered heterocyclic compound incorporated in a proportion of 0.01-3.0 wt. % based on the total weight of the composition, said 5-membered heterocycl...

The rust preventive lubricating oil of the present invention concerns a base oil and a rust-preventive agent in an amount of 2-20% by weight on the basis of the whole rust preventive lubricating oil, wherein the base oil contains an ether oil in an amount of at least 20% by weight on the basis of the whole rust preventive lubricating oil. The rust preventive lubricating oil can be applied to the s...

A method and apparatus for playing back a sequence of images from a run of component images successively supplied in digital form by a remote source to a receiver apparatus having the function of playing back the images of the sequence at a given rate, and in which each image constitutes an independent set that is received in the form of data trains. The apparatus includes verification that each r...

A method and system for the automated detection of lesions such as masses and/or tissue (parenchymal) distortions in medical images such as mammograms. Dense regions and subcutaneous fat regions within a mammogram are segmented. A background correction may be performed within the dense regions. Hough spectrum within ROIs placed in the breast region of a mammogram are calculated and thresholded usi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure that heating effect is not excessively changed at the intensity on an extended area by extending some wires along divergent lines, and extending the wire arrangement substantially over the whole transparent part of a window. SOLUTION: A window 20 is formed of a laminated body formed by bonding an outside ply 40 forming an outer surface 44 of a curved sheet glass lam...

The invention provides dental cement compositions and methods of using them for binding hard tooth material, metal and ceramic. The cement compositions include shelf stable complexes of ethylenically unsaturated monomers reacted with cations. The cements have superior adhesion to tooth without separtely acid etching dentin or enamel. Compositions are useful as dental luting cements, liners, pit an...

A cement composition including spodumene which has been heated to at least 1000 DEG C. which is capable of inhibiting expansion of the concrete due to the alkali-silica reaction. The present invention also provides a method of reducing expansion in cement compositions.

A system for thermophilic aerobic destruction of pathogenic organisms and organic matter within waste water treatment sludge includes a tank for maintaining the sludge and an air transfer apparatus for injecting air into the sludge near the bottom thereof so as to bubble up through the sludge and react exothermically with the thermophilic microorganisms therein so as to kill or destroy the mesophi...

A fluidized bed reactor operating under countercurrent gas-solid flow conditions wherein the reactor is supplied with horizontal baffles having separate passages through which the gas and the solid flow, such that the ascending gas leaves the baffle in a point higher than the point in which the descending solid leaves the same baffle, and the use of the reactor to perform reactions under countercu...

Concentrated fungicidal compositions, in the form of water-dispersible granules are disclosed which contain: 5 to 95% of phosphite-type active substance in solid or soildified form, 0.1 to 8% of a wetting agent, 0.3 to 15% of a dispersing agent, 0 to 50% of a support. These granules have a particle size of between 0.1 mm and 10 mm.

An apparatus is provided for improving quality and increasing syrup yield within a beverage blending system. The apparatus and the associated method are adaptable to existing proportioning and blending systems or the appropriate control and measurement equipment may be installed alone to provide a highly accurate control of the blend. This control is a function of the mass flow of at least one of ...

A magnetic disk has a magnetic layer and a protective layer disposed on the magnetic layer. A multiplicity of lands having sizes within a predetermined range of sizes and generally equal heights within a predetermined range are formed on the surface of the protective layer at a density within a predetermined range. The lands serve to effectively remove contaminants attached to the floating surface...

Leaded electrical circuits and components, typically receivers and amplifiers used in micro-miniature hearing aids, are closely physically mounted by their leads extending within laser-drilled through-holes, typically three such holes, to multiple buried-substrate capacitors within a monolithic ceramic multiple capacitor. Electrical connection to the leads does not transpire within the holes, but ...

A substrate has a plurality of circuit traces having ends which terminate in raised contacts and an integrated circuit (IC) chip has a plurality of circuit traces terminating in contact ends which engage the raised contacts when the IC chip is positioned onto the substrate. The substrate also has a plurality of raised features thereon which are higher than and spaced from the raised contacts. The ...

Disclosed is a method for installing an electronic component and its electrical connections on a support provided with a cavity to house said component. A metallic layer is cut out into zones on which there is deposited a layer of polyimide which mechanically holds the said zones during the operations for the electrical connection of the electronic component and for encapsulation and installation ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a ridger which fertilizes a formed ridge at the position where the root of a crop requires most while forming the ridge, etc., eliminates the need to additional fertilizing, and enables covering operation and is improved in labor saving. SOLUTION: Earth tilled by a rotary 3 mounted on a traveling machine body is formed into a ridge and a groove by multistripe ridger...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more efficiently breed Zosteraceae. SOLUTION: Concerning a structural body for breeding Zosteramarina for which the seeds of Zosteramarina from 1 to 50 are contained for every 10cm<2> on the surface of variously formed such as semicylindrical or rope-shaped clods composed of clay or clayey materials having specific gravity heavier than seawater, this structural body is emb...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the reliability of an apparatus by limiting the ink refill of an set value or more. SOLUTION: The apparatus is composed of an actuator 30 movable up and down in accordance with the level of ink within an ink tank 10, buoyance means 32 for giving buoyance to the actuator, elasticity means 90 for elastically urging the actuator downward against the buoyance caused by...