Abstract:
There are disclosed a method for separating a liquid mixture in which a permeation performance enhances, and a composition of the liquid mixture containing a hydrocarbon liquid and an alcohol liquid at supply and a composition after membrane permeation are changed by a separating operation, and a device for separating a liquid mixture. The liquid mixture containing the hydrocarbon liquid and the alcohol liquid is used as a supply mixture liquid, and at least part of the supply mixture liquid is, in a liquid state, brought into contact with a membrane supply side of a separation membrane, and discharged in a vapor state through a membrane permeation side of the separation membrane, whereby a composition of a mixture vapor which is balanced with the supply mixture liquid becomes different from a composition of a vapor on the membrane permeation side.
Abstract:
There is provided a zeolite separation membrane-provided article having gaps or pores larger than pores inherent to zeolite crystals and controlled within an appropriate range and being capable of achieving both high permeability and high separability for components with small difference in adsorption properties or a component having a smaller molecular diameter than the diameter of the pores, a method for producing the same, a method for separating mixed fluids, and a device for separating mixed fluids. The zeolite separation membrane-provided article is provided with a zeolite membrane having an N2 gas permeation speed at room temperature of 1.0×10−6 mol·m−2·s−1·Pa−1 or more and a permeation speed ratio of 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene/N2 at room temperature of 0.17 or more and being free from dyeing caused by the impregnation with Rhodamine B.
Abstract:
A tracing device and a tracing method for realizing a real-time trace of a moving object such as a person from a time-varying image by method of a light processing load, and for learning features through the trace thereby to realize a trace of higher precision. The tracing device divides time-varying data inputted into partial images (in a strip or rectangle shape), and compares the background image containing no tracing object thereby with the current image thereby to extract the divided image having the tracing object. In order to discriminate the tracing object, moreover, the tracing device calculates the color high-level local self-correlated data, from which the features of color and shape can be extracted all at once, and performs the discrimination on the basis of a distance from the featuring data of the tracing object registered. The tracing device updates the background image and the registered featuring data into the latest ones. The features are acquired while tracing the tracing object, and the object is discriminated by utilizing the features so that a strong and highly precise trace can be realized.
Abstract:
There is provided a method for producing a honeycomb segment bonded article, the method inhibiting decrease in strength properties due to a variance in a texture of the bonding material layer between a plurality of honeycomb segments unitarily bonded together by means of the bonding material layer formed of the bonding material. After producing a preliminary block by unitarily bonding a plurality of honeycomb segments having a plurality of cells being partitioned by partition walls and passing through in the axial direction with a bonding material at a bonding face of each of the honeycomb segments and drying the honeycomb segments, the preliminary blocks are integrally bonded together, or honeycomb segments of one layer are bonded on an outer peripheral face of the preliminary block.
Abstract:
A porous fired body including a structure that aggregates are bonded by a bonding material, wherein the aggregates include oxide particles having a larger thermal capacity per unit volume than an SiC particle and SiC, the bonding material includes metallic Si, volume ratio of the metallic Si in the whole porous fired body is between 8 and 43% by volume, volume ratio of the particles of the oxide in the whole aggregates is between 14 and 55% by volume, the SiC particles and the oxide particles respectively include one or more particle groups, and an average particle size of each particle group is within a range of between 5 and 100 μm.
Abstract:
A silicon carbide-based porous body comprising a plurality of silicon carbide (SiC) particles as an aggregate and a binder which binds the silicon carbide particles to each other, wherein the content of the binder, i.e. [100×binder/(silicon carbide particles+binder)] is 5 to 70% by volume, the open pore ratio is 30 to 70%, and the binder contains at least one member selected from the group consisting of a Ti silicide, a Zr silicide, a Mo silicide and a W silicide, in an amount of at least 60% by volume of the total binder. The silicon carbide-based porous body can avoid excessive temperature elevation when it is used as a filter and the particulate matter (PM) captured thereby is burnt and removed.
Abstract:
In a data decision circuit: a clock generation unit generates a clock signal based on a phase difference signal so that the clock signal has an optimum phase with respect to a phase of an input data signal; a data determination unit determines data values carried by the input data signal, by using the clock signal; a phase-difference detection unit detects a rising-side phase difference and a falling-side phase difference, where the rising-side phase difference is a phase difference between a rising of the input data signal and a next transition in the clock signal, and the falling-side phase difference is a phase difference between the transition and a next falling of the input data signal; and a phase-difference-signal generation unit generates the phase difference signal so as to represent a difference between the rising-side phase difference and the falling-side phase difference.
Abstract:
An exhaust gas-purifying catalyst system is provided with a plurality of catalyst layers including a first and a second catalyst layers, supported on a support structure. The first catalyst layer comes into contact with an exhaust gas stream firstly among the plurality of catalyst layers. The second catalyst layer is provided adjacent to the first catalyst layer. The first catalyst layer contains a first noble metal active component including rhodium, together with a powder of a barely soluble barium compound in an amount of 0.05 mol to 0.2 mol per volume in liter of the support structure. The second catalyst layer contains a second noble metal active component.
Abstract:
Switching equipment in provided for performing a switching process of a fixed length cell consisting of data and a cell header. A line interface provided in the switching equipment accommodates a plurality of lines and, at the same time, processes the data from each line on a cell unit. The line interface includes individual units and a common unit. The individual units are individually connected to the plurality of lines accommodated therein and individually process the cells. The common unit is connected to the individual units and, at the same time, effects batch-processing of the cells processed by the individual units.
Abstract:
A phase shift circuit used in a regenerating repeater, includes a separating unit for separating an input signal into two separate signals having a phase difference of a phase angle of 90.degree. therebetween, one separated signal having a "0" phase and the other separated signal having a ".pi./2" phase. A distributing unit distributes the "0" phase separated signal and ".pi./2" phase separated signal as three distributed signals having phase difference of phase angles of 90.degree. and 180.degree. therebetween, one distributed signal having a "0" phase and the others being a ".pi./2" phase distributed signal and a ".pi." phase distributed signal. A weighting/compounding unit analyzes the "0" phase distributed signal, ".pi./2" phase distributed signal, and ".pi." phase distributed signal regarding a plurality of phase signals each having a phase shift extent, compounds each of the phase signals after being weighted by each amplitude, the weighting being performed by a weight control signal applied from an external stage, and generates an output signal adding a phase shift proportional to the weight to the input signal.