Abstract:
A power conversion device which reduces switching losses and stabilizes the output power. A switching-mode changer generates a reference signal for switching a mode of operation of the full-bridge circuit to a first switching mode or a second switching mode. In the first switching mode, an upper arm and a lower arm are switched synchronously, and a lower arm and an upper arm are non-conducting. In the second switching mode, the lower arm and the upper arm are switched synchronously, and the upper arm and the lower arm are non-conducting. The switching-mode changer adjusts the phase of the reference signal so that the reactive power is reduced.
Abstract:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide: elements, in particular, a display element and an optical element, which are obtained by controlling orientation of liquid crystals in a liquid crystal bulk without using a liquid crystal orientation film; and/or a photoreactive liquid crystal composition for manufacturing the elements. The present invention provides: a photoreactive liquid crystal composition comprising (A) a photoreactive polymer liquid crystal which includes a photoreactive side chain in which at least one type of reaction selected from the group consisting of (A-1) photocrosslinking and (A-2) photoisomerization occurs, and (B) a low molecular weight liquid crystal; and an optical element or display element which is formed having a liquid crystal cell including the composition.
Abstract:
A three-phase inverter includes three series circuits that are connected in parallel to a capacitor connected in parallel to a DC voltage source. Each of the three series circuits includes two semiconductor switching elements connected in series. A connection point between the two semiconductor switching elements is used as an AC output terminal for each phase. The three-phase inverter generates PWM pulses of three phases including a PWM pulse of one phase, whose pulse width of a positive side pulse in one switching cycle is the largest, and including PWM pulses of the other two phases such that a positional relationship between positive side pulses of the other two phases is a positional relationship in which an overlapping range on a time axis is smaller as compared with a state in which a positive side pulse of one phase encompasses a positive side pulse of the other pulse.
Abstract:
A switching element with a small current capacity is provided to be able to be used in a DC-DC converter. The DC-DC converter includes a switching circuit in which a first switching element, a second switching element, a third switching element, and a fourth switching element are connected in series, a flying capacitor that is connected between a connection portion between the first switching element and the second switching element and a connection portion between the third switching element and the fourth switching element, a reactor that is connected between a connection portion between the second switching element and the third switching element and a positive electrode of an input unit, and a control circuit that turns on/off the switching element, in which the control circuit turns on/off the switching elements so that a peak value in a reactor current becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.
Abstract:
A high-voltage pulse generator may include a number “n” (n is a natural number of not less than 2) of primary electric circuits connected in parallel to one another on the primary side of a pulse transformer, and a secondary electric circuit of the pulse transformer, which is connected to a pair of discharge electrodes disposed in a laser chamber of a gas laser apparatus. The “n” primary electric circuits may include a number “n” of primary coils connected in parallel to one another, a number “n” of capacitors respectively connected in parallel to the “n” primary coils, and a number “n” of switches respectively connected in series to the “n” capacitors. The “n” primary electric circuits may be connected to a number “n” of chargers for charging the “n” capacitors, respectively. The secondary electric circuit may include a number “n” of secondary coils connected in series to one another, and a number “n” of diodes each connected to opposite ends of each of the “n” secondary coils, to prevent a reverse current flowing from the pair of discharge electrodes toward the secondary coils.
Abstract:
A power generation system includes: a heat source having a temperature being changed over time; a flow passage through which a heat medium heated by the heat source passes; a power generation device including a power generation element and a first electrode, the power generation element being electrically polarized by temperature change thereof depending on temperature change of the heat medium, the first electrode extracting electric power from the power generation element; a temperature detection device being disposed on an upstream side relative to the power generation device in the flow passage and detecting the temperature of the heat medium; a voltage application device that applies voltage to the power generation element; and a control device that activates the voltage application device when the temperature increase of the heat medium has been detected and deactivates the voltage application unit when the temperature decrease of the heat medium has been detected.
Abstract:
Provided are a vulcanizate of a chloroprene rubber composition containing carbon black that generates a smaller amount of heat when used and a method for producing the same by a simpler and more convenient method. First, an unvulcanized rubber composition at least containing a chloroprene polymer and carbon black is vulcanization-molded, to give a semivulcanized molded article having a cure characteristic value, as determined by the method specified in JIS K6300-2: 2001, in the range of t10 to t80. Then, the semivulcanized molded article obtained by semivulcanized film-forming step is additionally vulcanized in the state as it is deformed entirely and the deformation is removed, to give vulcanizate in a desired shape.
Abstract:
A modified natural rubber particle having carbon-carbon double bands assigned to multifunctional vinyl monomers graft-copolymerized onto the surface of the modified natural rubber particle, which is prepared by graft-copolymerization of multifunctional vinyl monomers having two or more carbon-carbon double bonds onto natural rubber particles or deproteinized natural rubber particles. One of the methods for producing a modified natural rubber particle includes the steps of: forming inclusion complex of the multifunctional vinyl monomers having two or more carbon-carbon double bonds with a guest-protecting agent to protect at least one of the double bonds of the multifunctional vinyl monomers; graft-copolymerizing the resulting inclusion complex onto natural rubber particles or deproteinized natural rubber particles; and deprotecting the protected double bonds by removing the guest-protecting agent from the obtained graft-copolymer.
Abstract:
Provided are a structure for producing a high-quality single crystal diamond, and a method for manufacturing the structure for producing diamond. A structure for producing a diamond is composed of a base substrate and an Ir thin film formed on the base substrate. The thermal expansion coefficient of the base substrate is 5 times or less of the thermal expansion coefficient of diamond and the melting point of the base substrate is 700° C. or higher. The peak angle in the X-ray diffraction pattern of the Ir thin film is different from the peak angle in the X-ray diffraction pattern of the base substrate.
Abstract:
A negative electrode active material for a sodium ion secondary battery is provided, in which the negative electrode active material has a low initial irreversible capacity. The negative electrode active material for a sodium ion secondary battery includes a crystallized glass formed by precipitation of metallic Bi in a matrix containing at least one compound selected from Fe2O3 and CuO, and SiO2.