tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21348386103415612562024-03-18T20:35:37.159-07:00High-Tech Industry in JapanIt is indispensable to keep watching rapid developments of the high-tech industry worldwide.Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.comBlogger800125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-31450785840242424702018-11-22T00:02:00.002-08:002018-11-22T00:07:34.617-08:00No. 895: Tires are entering into the stage of IoT (November 22, 2018) <b style="color: blue; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Technology:</span></i></b><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.bridgestone.com/">Bridgestone</a> will put more management resources
to business involved in automated driving and car sharing to survive in the
days of IoT where everything is connected on the Internet. The future automobile industry
is said to be featured by CASE that stands for connected,
automated, sharing, and electric. World automobile sales are estimated at 100
million units in 2023, about 2 million units, or 2%, of which will be for car sharing thereafter because
of the shift from owning to utilizing. Thanks to the shift, the world tire
market is expected to grow by 2% per year from about 4,000 billion yen in 2017
to 4,700 billion yen in 2025. The shift increases automobile utilization rate,
and increased automobile utilization rate increases exchange frequency of tires.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be ready for the shift, data analysis is
crucial. A sensor is attached to a tire to collect data on travel distance and operational
status. These data are helpful to know the timing of inspection and service in
advance. Bridgestone has been accumulating the know-how to collect such data using
mining vehicles. Michelin of France is monitoring the air pressure and inside
temperature of a tire using the sensor attached to a tire. It informs the tire
administrator of the current status when data go down below the standard values.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://home.komatsu/en/">Komatsu</a> installs its remote control
monitoring system named <a href="https://sanki.komatsu/en/index.html">Komtrax</a> all its construction machines operating in the
world for preventive maintenance and energy-saving operation. <a href="http://www.hitachi.com/">Hitachi</a> that concluded
a nearly 30 years’ maintenance contract with the high-speed railway of Great
Britain installs about 40,000 sensors installed on each railway car, through
which it collects data for efficient maintenance. Competition in the sales of vehicles
and machines in the construction business has already entered into a new stage
that asks manufacturers to realize added-value with the help of 5G, the
next-generation communication standard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XUxSMeYT4Ww/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XUxSMeYT4Ww?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The truth about Bridgestone Tires</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x45OJxbi3Cg/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x45OJxbi3Cg?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Komatsu’s Komtrax service</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3zL4-R1YR9U/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3zL4-R1YR9U?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">24 Hours at Hitachi’s Ashford Train Maintenance
Center</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-58562434025294922802018-11-21T19:48:00.001-08:002018-11-21T19:56:41.342-08:00No. 894: A new organization to make space travel a reality is set up in Japan (November 21, 2018)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<h4>
<b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Market trend:</span></i></b></h4>
<h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A total of six companies including </span><a href="https://www.ana.co.jp/group/en/" style="font-weight: normal;">ANAHoldings</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span><a href="https://www.marubeni.com/en/" style="font-weight: normal;">Marubeni Corporation</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span><a href="http://www.airbusjapan.com/" style="font-weight: normal;">Airbus Japan</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span><a href="https://www.sptvjsat.com/en/" style="font-weight: normal;">Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, and
</span><a href="https://www.mitsuifudosan.co.jp/english/" style="font-weight: normal;">Mitsui Fudosan</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> have establish an organization to open a base with a runway
necessary for landing and takeoff of space ship to realize space travel by the
private sector. Naoko Yamazaki, an astronaut, will be the representative
director of this organization. The new organization named </span><a href="https://www.spaceport-japan.org/" style="font-weight: normal;">Space Port Japan</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> plans
to open a base with a 3,000-meter-long runway to allow an airplane-type space
ship to depart to and return from space toward 2021.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ANA Holdings is actively strengthening and expanding
space-related business through investing in venture companies developing space
ships. There are currently about 10 commercial space ports in the U.S., and
European countries including Great Britain, Italy, and Spain have a plan to
construct a space port. It plans to construct the first space port in Asia in
2021 to take initiative in the space business.</span></span></h4>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PLxZPK15yzs/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PLxZPK15yzs?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The world’s first space port in the State of New Mexico, the U.S.</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hDI-ri_t2Rs/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hDI-ri_t2Rs?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Space travel channel by <a href="https://www.club-t.com/">Club Tourism</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-79334321131291541162017-08-30T05:24:00.001-07:002017-08-30T15:34:35.320-07:00No. 893: Earth observation satellite that can travel at a low altitude for shooting (August 30, 2017)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><i>Technology:</i></b></span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The
Japanese government is scheduled to launch a testing model of earth observation
satellite that travels low over the ground within 2017. While most existing earth
observation satellites travel at 600-800 km above the ground, the testing model
can travel at 180-300 km above the ground. Because a satellite has 1,000 times
more air resistance at a low altitude than it has in space, it goes down unless
some measures are taken. The testing model keeps its altitude by emitting a highly
efficient ion propulsion engine, and its airframe is modified to reduce air
resistance. </span></div>
<span lang="EN-US"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://global.jaxa.jp/" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> is scheduled to launch the testing model
using the H2A rocket within 2017. Because it travels low over the ground, <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">it can take clear photos using a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>low performance sensor.</span> It is
nicknamed “Tsubame (Swallow).” In addition to the ability to take clear
photos for conventional earth observation, it can hopefully be used for security. </span></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nQaDZZUMS4Q/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nQaDZZUMS4Q?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:RelyOnVML/>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:DoNotShowComments/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>
<w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>2</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>JA</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:SpaceForUL/>
<w:BalanceSingleByteDoubleByteWidth/>
<w:DoNotLeaveBackslashAlone/>
<w:ULTrailSpace/>
<w:DoNotExpandShiftReturn/>
<w:AdjustLineHeightInTable/>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
<w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/>
<w:OverrideTableStyleHps/>
<w:UseFELayout/>
</w:Compatibility>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="267">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="59" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:標準の表;
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:10.5pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Century","serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Century;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Century;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-font-kerning:1.0pt;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tsubame (Swallow) earth observation satellite</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">
</span></span>Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-59193031155885104832017-08-28T23:46:00.002-07:002017-08-28T23:48:20.341-07:00No. 892: New titanium material that is three times as strong as existing titanium material (August 29, 2017)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><i>Technology:</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="http://www.jwri.osaka-u.ac.jp/~dpt6/index_en.html">Katsuyoshi Kondo</a>, professor at
Osaka University, developed a new titanium material, which is three times as
strong as the existing titanium material jointly with <a href="http://www.e-tokko.com/eng_index.htm">Takefu Special Steel </a>in
Fukui Prefecture and <a href="http://www.charmant.com/us/united-states/">Charmant</a> that is one of Japan’s leading glassframe makers
in Fukui Prefecture. They consolidated oxidized titanium at high temperature
and high pressure, and successfully increased the strength of the existing
titanium material by three times. They plan to translate the new technology
into practical application for medical apparatus and aircraft materials in
three years.</span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">For the development, they adopted
the method of power metallurgy that consolidates power materials. They mixed titanium
and powder of oxidized titanium at 1,000 degrees centigrade and consolidated
them at 60-80 pressure. The new material has tensile strength of 1250 mega,
which is three times as high as that of the existing titanium material. Professor
Kondo told that because the new titanium material is free from rare earths, it
is low-priced and as safe as a kitten. He eyes the possibility of applying it
to parts of aircraft engine and apparatus for brain surgery. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/losgLiyR-QQ/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/losgLiyR-QQ?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Subaru Impreza: Sound through </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">an
exhaust pipe made of titanium <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-47564049631103121692017-08-27T23:44:00.001-07:002017-08-27T23:56:55.309-07:00No. 891: Bendable organic electroluminescence for vehicle lighting is developed by Pioneer (August 28, 2017)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><i>Technology:</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="http://global.pioneer/en/?ref=footer" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Pioneer</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> developed bendable electroluminescence
device applicable to vehicle lighting unit, allowing automakers to develop
highly-designed lighting units that can be tailored to vehicle shape. The company
successfully opened the way for the practical use by doubling the product life
to 10 years, while meeting the requirements of automakers, such as color and
brightness. Practical applications are scheduled for 2020. Pioneer has already
started marketing the new technology to automakers both at home and abroad. It
focuses on the application for tail lamps of luxury cars and self-driving cars because
bendable organic electroluminescence allows automakers to pursue originality in
car design.</span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The existing organic electroluminescence
is hardly bendable because it made of glass substrate. Pioneer has been
developing bendable electroluminescence made of resin substrate. Water makes
inroads into resin more easily than into glass, makes resin deteriorate fast. The
company reduced the influence of water by improving the constituent materials
like luminous elements and resin substrate. Pioneer established </span></span><a href="https://www.kompo.jp/en/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Konica MinoltaPioneer OLED</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> last June by integrating the organic EL lighting business of Pioneer
and</span><a href="https://www.konicaminolta.com/us-en/index.html" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Konica Minolta</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> on an equal basis.</span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RDkZ-QVaId4/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RDkZ-QVaId4?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Bendable organic electroluminescence developed by <a href="http://global.pioneer/en/?ref=footer">Pioneer</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AUPM97DXm04/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AUPM97DXm04?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Flexible 4K organic EL display developed by </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.sel.co.jp/en/index.html">Semiconductor Energy LaboratoryCo., Ltd</a>.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-46509379741486965352016-12-23T06:43:00.003-08:002017-08-27T10:48:03.023-07:00No. 890: Lithium-ion battery that allows travel distance of 400 km per charge (December 23, 2016)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><i>Technology:</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="http://www.hitachi.us/">Hitachi</a> developed a technology of
lithium-ion battery that allows an EV to travel about 400 km per charge. The
new lithium-ion battery has two times higher capacity than the existing
lithium-ion battery and increases the travel distance per charge of an EV by
about 40%. Nissan’s Leaf can travel 280 km per charge that is currently the
longest travel distance per charge. Hitachi aims to achieve energy density of
320 watts per kg that is about two times higher than the current level. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/krB3zW40JJ0/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/krB3zW40JJ0?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nissan's Leaf<br />It can travel 280 km per charge</span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The newly developed battery uses an
anode composed mainly of nickel that is two times as thicker than the existing
anode. The cathode is composed mainly of silicone instead of carbon-based
materials. Hitachi’s research team covered the anode with an oxidized material and
added a fluorinated additive to the electrolyte to reduce the generation of membranes.
It successfully kept the capacity of the lithium-ion battery at 90% of the initial
level even after repeating charge and discharge for more than 100 times. Furthermore,
it estimates that the cost of the new lithium-ion battery will not increase
greatly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br />
<a href="http://www.nedo.go.jp/english/index.html" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">New Energy and IndustrialTechnology Development Organization (NEDO)</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> that supports the development
activities estimates that the new lithium-ion battery will be put into
practical used in 2020. Because the performance of a lithium-ion battery is
approaching the limit, NEDO is currently developing a totally new type battery
to realize a longer travel distance per charge with a view to translating it into
practical applications in 2030. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
</div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-69969649999392297172016-03-26T02:36:00.002-07:002016-03-26T04:40:30.830-07:00No. 889: Hokkaido Shinkansen is inaugurated on March 26, 2016 (March 26, 2016)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><i>Technology:</i></b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The long-cherished Hokkaido
Shinkansen (Bullet train) was inaugurated on March 26, 2016. It travels 149 km
between Aomori in Honshu and Hakodate in Hokkaido in about one hour through the
tunnel under the Tsugaru Straits. Now you can travel from Tokyo to Hakodate in
four hours and two minutes. The Hokkaido Shinkansen is scheduled to be extended
up to Sapporo, the largest and prefectural capital of Hokkaido, by the end of 2018.
With the extension, you can travel from Tokyo to Sapporo in about five hours. </span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AG7AqzUp34I/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AG7AqzUp34I?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The 149 km from Hakodate to Aomori, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">in most of which the train travels under the water.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Various highly sophisticated
technologies have been developed to make the Hokkaido Shinkansen a reality. For
example, it uses the existing line for the first time as a Shinkansen Line. That
is, a Shinkansen train and a freight train go by each other on the existing
line as shown in the following video. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q4bM5KIUfDE/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q4bM5KIUfDE?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">A Shinkansen train and a freight
train go by each other on the existing line.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now you can visit Hokkaido aboard
a Shinkansen train and enjoy wonderful cuisines in Hokkaido without being
worried about flying above the ground. Japan wishes people from every part of the
world to enjoy Tokyo and Hokkaido during their stay in Japan. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4Vy4B0btOts/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4Vy4B0btOts?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Can you believe this? A bar in Tokyo
has a miniature Hokkaido Shinkansen to </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">entertain customers. This is typically
Japanese hospitality.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-1669017923186231842016-01-06T07:09:00.000-08:002017-08-28T19:54:54.148-07:00No. 888: Reducing the price of graphene to less than half (January 5, 2016)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><i>Technology:</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="http://www.osakagas.co.jp/en/index.html">Osaka Gas</a> developed a technology
to reduce the price of graphene to less than half. The company mixed coal-derived
fluorene and water, etc. With the help of an additive, it successfully made the
resulting product collide with graphite to extract graphene. Because the traditional
method to extract graphene needs equipment that creates a vacuum state, it
costs more than 20,000 yen to produce 1 kg of graphene. The newly-developed
method increases the production efficiency by more than two times besides
reducing the production cost to less than half. The company will begin full
production within the year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.adk.co.jp/en/index.html">ADEKA</a> is
scheduled to start commercial production of graphene under license from the University
of Tokyo. The company will mix graphite and special chemicals and extract
graphene while radiating micro waves to graphite. The company thinks that it is
possible to reduce the production cost to about 10,000 yen per kg. If the price
of graphene is reduced to half of the present level, it will be mixed with resin
to build stronger and lighter automotive parts, radiation material, conducting
material, touch panel, electrode of smartphone. <a href="http://www.nedo.go.jp/english/index.html">New Energy and IndustrialTechnology Development Organization (NEDO)</a> reckons that the world market of graphene
will grow from 1.3 billion yen in 2013 to 100 billion yen in 2030. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mHud4YUlHsU/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mHud4YUlHsU?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Graphene: The future of solar energy
technology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wuhbXTh-SvE/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wuhbXTh-SvE?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">World's smallest ENE-FARM </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">with high generation efficiency from Osaka Gas</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-58551260126713315452015-12-07T17:46:00.002-08:002017-08-27T08:19:39.566-07:00No. 887: Automotive industry is making a step forward for the next 100 years (2/2) (December 7, 2015)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><i>Technology:</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">It is said that a vehicle loaded
only with an engine cannot survive in the future. Toyota plans to decrease
sales of vehicles loaded only with an engine to zero by 2050. Following Toyota,
Honda will introduce fuel-cell vehicles, and preparations for mass production are
under way in its plant in Tochigi Prefecture. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Future vehicles change the entire
industry structure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 2.2in;" valign="top" width="211"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Information
technology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 302.8pt;" valign="top" width="404"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;">◆</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Artificial intelligence decides the destination. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;">◆</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sensors avoid a risk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 2.2in;" valign="top" width="211"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Driving <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 302.8pt;" valign="top" width="404"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;">◆</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Automated driving spreads, and taxies and buses will be automatically
operated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;">◆</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Driver’s license will not be required for driving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 2.2in;" valign="top" width="211"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Parts and
components<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 302.8pt;" valign="top" width="404"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;">◆</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Progress of automotive parts will change part and component
formation drastically. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 2.2in;" valign="top" width="211"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Energy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 302.8pt;" valign="top" width="404"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;">◆</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">From gas station to charging and hydrogen stations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 2.2in;" valign="top" width="211"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Materials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 302.8pt;" valign="top" width="404"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;">◆</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Instead of iron, resin and carbon will increase their shares. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 2.2in;" valign="top" width="211"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Engine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 302.8pt;" valign="top" width="404"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;">◆</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">From gasoline engine vehicles to motor-driven like EV and FCV<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
</div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">As the above table shows, the
automotive parts industry needs to prepare for the drastic change. <a href="http://www.npr.co.jp/english/index.html">NipponPiston Rings</a>, one of Japan’s leading manufacturers of piston rings, is
diversifying its business by producing aluminum parts for semiconductors and dental
implant. According to a survey company, economic effect created by fuel cell
vehicles will amount to 4.4 trillion yen in 2030. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JjjULWNQGco/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JjjULWNQGco?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Toyota i-road test driving in Tokyo</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ByQ1hkv1rj4/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ByQ1hkv1rj4?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Toyota i-road test driving</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-36311346479210108612015-12-05T19:34:00.003-08:002015-12-05T19:34:46.373-08:00No. 886: Automotive industry is making a step forward for the next 100 years (1/2) (December 5, 2015)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><i>Technology:</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.zmp.co.jp/?lang=en">ZMP</a>, a venture company developing autonomous
driving, is increasing its presence in the automotive industry quite rapidly. Because
the government laid down a policy to ease the regulations on autonomous
driving, it is highly likely that experiments on autonomous driving will be
conducted on the public road in 2017. The company has already founded <a href="https://robottaxi.com/en/?noredirect=en_US">Robot Tax</a>,
which operates unattended taxies, in alliance with <a href="http://dena.com/intl/">DeNA</a>, to connect airports
and venues by taxi by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Under the initiative of Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe, the Japanese government is supporting companies with the
challenging spirit in their attempts to create innovations. Insurance companies
are quick to respond to the move toward the experiment of autonomous driving. <a href="http://www.ms-ins.com/english/">MitsuiSumitomo Insurance</a> and <a href="http://www.aioinissaydowa.co.jp/">Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance</a> jointly developed an
insurance product that covers damage caused in the experiment of autonomous
driving for the first time in Japan. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZZm77ov426I/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZZm77ov426I?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Toyota's intelligent driving</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/piIkWmJ1UMM/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/piIkWmJ1UMM?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
Nissan's intelligent driving</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-67114164852593638702015-11-14T00:10:00.001-08:002015-11-14T00:10:54.165-08:00No. 885: Hitachi unveils its first prototype autonomous driving vehicle (November 14, 2015)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><i>Technology:</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Hitachi built its first autonomous
driving vehicle as a concept car. Based on Subaru’s vehicle, Hitachi’s
prototype vehicle carries such important parts as control unit and sensors that
are totally made by Hitachi. They include stereo camera, sound camera to tell
the situation of the four areas around the vehicle, various sensors like long
distance surveillance radar, a high-precision map that can tell the lanes on
the express way precisely in coordination with GPS, and inter-vehicle
communication device to detect the situation ahead. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Hitachi’s
strategy is to be an Intel of the autonomous driving technology, saying “Hitachi
inside.” Leading automakers are developing the autonomous driving technology
independently, but Hitachi wishes to sell its system to small- and medium-size
automakers. The autonomous driving market is expected to grow from 300 billion
yen in 2015 to more than 1 trillion yen in 2020. Hitachi plans to increase its
share in the autonomous driving market from the present 5% to 20% in 2020. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/f7yOvSrXc8k/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f7yOvSrXc8k?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitachi's autonomous driving technology</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1TTpRfaJ_MA/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1TTpRfaJ_MA?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Toyota's autonomous driving technology</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/piIkWmJ1UMM/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/piIkWmJ1UMM?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nissan's autonomous driving technology</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-68786843808794282732015-11-09T23:53:00.000-08:002015-11-09T23:53:18.010-08:00No. 884: Reducing the price of an LED material to one tenth (November 10, 2015)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.rengo.co.jp/english/index.html">Rengo</a>, Japan’s leading cardboard manufacturer,
is scheduled to start mass production of an LED material, which is one tenth in
price of the existing material, at the beginning of 2016. The company
successfully developed a fluorescent material to make LED lighting red without using
rare earths. Combined with purple LED, it can create white color close to natural
light. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The new product is a fluorescent
material that grows red when it absorbs ultraviolet light. An LED light bulb uses
several milligrams of this new product. It is created by applying the technology
to mix lots of silver with zeolite that is used to make cardboards antibacterial.
Traditionally, it costs much to produce the same kind of product because rare
earths are required, and the traditional product is too hard to process. Because
the new material can be mass produced without rare earths, it can simplify the
production process of LEDs and will be applied to create anticounterfeit ink. </span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eVPnXvjS8Zo/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eVPnXvjS8Zo?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rengo's advanced technology active in business </span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nyE24Q-MYJM/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nyE24Q-MYJM?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rengo's advanced technology active in logistics </span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
</div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-8566463684012966382015-11-01T22:27:00.001-08:002015-11-01T22:27:40.195-08:00No. 883: Smart forestry is growing widespread (November 2, 2015)<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Technology:</span></span></span></b></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Smart forestry that utilizes
information technology to forestry is growing widespread. <a href="http://sfc.jp/english/">Sumitomo Forestry</a> has
decided to exert more energy in forest management consulting in alliance with
<a href="http://www.nnk.co.jp/en/">Nakanihon Air Service</a> and a data analysis firm. Laser beams are irradiates form
a helicopter to know the number of trees and forest density, and data and
photos are analyzed constantly. A database is constructed and submitted to
local governments to help them formulate guidelines for their forest management
policies.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Using Geographical Information
System (GIS) is also increasing popular. The University of Tokyo started to survey
using GIS with <a href="http://www.jitsuta.co.jp/">Jitsuta</a> that is a survey company in Matsuyama of Shikoku. With
the help of 3D scan system, they measure the number and figure of trees with
three times more operating efficiency than in the past. <a href="http://kamamorikumi.jp/">Kamaishi Forest Owner’s Association</a> actually used this system and found that the data amount increased
three to four times bigger than in the past. The system currently costs 180,000
yen per hectare, but the cost is expected to go down as it grows more
popular. </span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Japanese
forest land is 25 million hectare, and the volume of wood is 4.9 billion cubic
meters that is 20% bigger as compared with that of 10 years ago. The number of forest
workers was about 70,000 people, about 30% smaller than in 1990. Smart forestry
is expected to make up for the decrease of forest workers. <a href="http://www.iwafuji.co.jp/">Iwafuji Industrial</a>
developed a system to several trees simultaneously using wires. This system increased
the transportable amount of trees from 300,000 cubic meters to 500,000 cubic
meters per day.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YNCQJRJsMMo/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YNCQJRJsMMo?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is smart forestry?</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V0_VPDgK1WY/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V0_VPDgK1WY?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">High school students are learning about forestry.</span> </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-67748082453553626432015-11-01T04:29:00.001-08:002015-11-01T04:29:20.462-08:00No. 882: Nihon Kohden’s latest technology to keep watching the elderly (November 1, 2015)<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.nihonkohden.com/">Nihon Kohdan</a> that is Japan’s
largest maker of automated external defibrillators will launch a service named “Sukoyaka
(Being healthy)” on November 30 to participate in the service to keep watching
the elderly. A sensor installed inside the house detects such actions as
standing up, getting seated, and walking of the elderly and digitalize them. The
figures will be divided into 100 levels and uploaded on the special site every
day. A figure that goes down suddenly indicates possible trouble, and an e-mail
will be sent to family members to inform them of the possible trouble. The
sensor is a little bigger than a PET bottle. Because it can also measure room temperature
and humidity, it can prevent family members from suffering heat stroke. It
comes with a meter to measure the amount of activity that can be carried whenever
leaving home. It will be distributed by <a href="http://www.yamada-denki.jp/company_e/">Yamada-Denki</a>, Japan's largest distributor of home lectronics, that has already started
to sell the service by subscription. The service is 89,800 yen excluding tax
for the system, and the basic usage charge is 2,980 yen excluding tax per month is
needed.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.secom.co.jp/english/">Secom</a> that is Japan’s largest
security company is scheduled to launch a wearable terminal in 2-3 years for keeping
watching the elderly. The company has already started the service to keep
watching the elderly for 24 hours in alliance with <a href="http://www.tsukui.net/">Tsukui</a> that is one of the leading
nursing service companies in Japan. When a user pulls a string, Secom’s terminal
will be activated and security staffs will be dispatched. <a href="http://www.post.japanpost.jp/english/index.html">Japan Post</a> will start
demonstration experiments of a service for the elderly in alliance with IBM. The
elderly respond to a question coming from the tablet “Have you taken medicine?”
The answer the elderly make by pushing buttons will be transmitted to family
members living apart to let them confirm the health of the elderly. Hitachi collects
consumption of electricity and water supply of a household, and immediately
informs people concerned of an irregularity whenever it occurs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AQqLG1eGdPs/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AQqLG1eGdPs?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Nihon Kohden's electrocardiogram</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8hFAbczjZIQ/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8hFAbczjZIQ?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Secom is active around the world</span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span>Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-30728167659177156232015-11-01T00:57:00.000-07:002015-11-01T00:57:14.658-07:00No. 881: TDK develops a highly heat resistant magnet without rare earth (October 31, 2015)<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Technology:</span></span></b></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.global.tdk.com/">TDK</a> developed a rare earth-free
highly heat resistant magnet for the first time in the world. The new magnet
does not deteriorate its property even at such as high temperature as 130
degrees centigrade. The company succeeded in eliminating the necessity of dysprosium
that is very expensive because of limited source of supply: Dysprosium was close
to 3,000 dollars per kilogram in 2011 because China is virtually the only
source of supply. It improved the structure of materials and heat treatment
process, and thereby it successfully made the new product entirely without dysprosium.
Because the existing product can stand the heat up to 90 degrees centigrade, it
can only be used for motors of hard disc drive. But the new product can be
applied to electric power steering of vehicles because it does not deteriorate the
property of magnet even at 130 degrees centigrade. The company already started the
commercial production for several tons per month.</span>
</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The market of magnets for industrial
purposes is estimated at 100 billion yen worldwide, and Japanese companies,
such as TDK, <a href="http://www.hitachi-metals.co.jp/e/index.html">Hitachi Metals</a>, and <a href="https://www.shinetsu.co.jp/en/">Shin-Etsu Chemical</a>, have strong presence in
the world market. Magnet manufacturers are actively involved in developing magnet
with increased heat resistance. A magnet that can stand the heat up to 180
degrees centigrade can be used for motors of electric vehicles. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AQJrBozDL_o/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AQJrBozDL_o?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The world of TDK products</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/F9skr6Pf1yI/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F9skr6Pf1yI?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">TDK's advanced techology for HDD heads</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-55868397628052891242015-10-19T18:30:00.001-07:002015-10-20T00:48:49.556-07:00No. 880: Controlling flood damage with the aid of information technology (October 19, 2015)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Technology: </span></span></b></i></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Responding to the increasing
number of flood disasters lately, leading IT companies are accelerating their
efforts to develop IT-based disaster prevention systems. NTT Data has developed
a system to manage disaster information on such issues as landslide quickly using
its cloud technology. Fujitsu made it possible to forecast the place where
sewage flood occurs and predict the time when it occurs. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The system developed by NTT Data
collects weather data by dividing the target area into one-kilometer square and
displays such data as rainfall on a PC or tablet. Thereby, local residents can
collect data with their terminals as soon as they foresee a possible landside
and flood disaster to sound a red alert well in advance of the arrival of the
disaster. By utilizing cloud computing and smartphones, the company succeeded
in reducing the construction cost of the system to one third of the existing
product to about 100 million yen. It is planning to sell this system not only
in the domestic market but also in foreign markets. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Fujitsu developed a system to
detect damage caused by water flown out from sewage in big rainfall. The system
installs a measurement device with sensor on the sewage pipe at intervals of
about one kilometer and measures level and amount of water in real time. Collected
data will be analyzed and used to predict place and time of flooding to call on
residents to evacuate. The annual running cost of the system is 10 million yen
for every 1,000 measuring devices. The running cost is less than one tenth of
the current level. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Major companies working on the
control of damage caused by global warming</span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
<tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 135.45pt;" valign="top" width="181"><div align="center" style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Company name</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 325.75pt;" valign="top" width="434"><div align="center" style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Activities</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 135.45pt;" valign="top" width="181"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Fujitsu</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 325.75pt;" valign="top" width="434"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It developed a system to estimate flood of sewage</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 135.45pt;" valign="top" width="181"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">NEC</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 325.75pt;" valign="top" width="434"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It developed a system to detect a landside disaster</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 135.45pt;" valign="top" width="181"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">NTT Data</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 325.75pt;" valign="top" width="434"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It developed a disaster management system combined with
elaborate weather forecast. It has already put this system on the market. </span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 135.45pt;" valign="top" width="181"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">IBM Japan</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 325.75pt;" valign="top" width="434"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It developed an integrated system that can manage disaster
information and products in evacuation centers. </span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 135.45pt;" valign="top" width="181"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<a href="http://www.metawater.co.jp/eng/"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Metawater</span></a></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 325.75pt;" valign="top" width="434"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It is conducting demonstration experiments of a system to predict
flood and torrential rainfall. </span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Some researchers predict that world damages
caused by flood will increase 170 times from 2015 to about 1 trillion dollars in
2050 unless measures are worked out. </span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gfii1F2skQk/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gfii1F2skQk?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe> </div>
<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What reaction do people show when they get an alarm mail on their smartphones?</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An experiment in Osaka that covered more than 8 million people</span></div>
<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ObQA4GrRXaQ/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ObQA4GrRXaQ?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Restoration activities after the Great East Japan Earhthquake</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></span></div>
</div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-16973598279908479682015-10-07T20:59:00.002-07:002015-10-22T09:42:45.065-07:00No. 879: Increasing the competitive edge of Japanese agriculture (October 8, 2015)<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Technology:</span></span></b></span></i></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It goes without saying that Japan
has to increase the competitive edge of its agriculture to cope with the agreement
on the picture of the PPT negotiations. <a href="http://www.hitachi.com/">Hitachi</a> and the <a href="http://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/">Softbank Group</a> have jointly
announced that they will launch the “e-kakashi (scarecrow or bird scanner),
which is the support system to help farmers confirm crop’s growing environment,
on the 14th of October. Farmers can confirm easily the growing environment of
their crop by installing a device that incorporates a senor in their fields to secure
the quality of their products. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The new service asks farmers to
install a special device with a sensor to measure such data as temperature, amount
of insolation, and soil moisture. Collected data will be transmitted to cloud
automatically and farmers can see them with their smartphones. No initial
setting is required, and what farmers have to do is just switching on the
system. Every farmer can operate this system quite easily. The special device
can run continuously for three years on the condition that it measures the
environment every 10 minutes. Farmers can pick the function to show the optimal
environment depending on such growth stages as seeding and sprouting. The
system is available for 749,600 yen and up excluding tax, and users have to pay
usage charge of 7,980 yen per month. Hitachi builds the device using its internet-of-things
technology. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.yanoresearch.com/">Yano Research Institute</a>, one of
Japan’s leading research firms, predicts that the Japanese domestic market of smart
agriculture, which is supported by IT technology for better efficiency, will
increase to about 31 billion yen in 2020, five times bigger than in 2013. The <a href="http://www.kurikko.or.jp/">JAKurikyo</a> in Miyagi Prefecture is scheduled to introduce the system on trial ahead
of other agricultural cooperatives with the expectation that the system will
help stabilize crop’s quality. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgheZOaBGpH1Vxi9a1uRpXpkkLcd-a7qq1hiqVABvpUYagSHVrR3RiI4ZcA6_S5Zde1xZixj-vEkUBdkRH7ZjE8MVyiFLz3W2ckAlpR-zOlNlF9-gzoTWb4ecThCytq1AeSOSsl9H5Dt2Nt/s1600/46434333001_896183998002_--------------.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgheZOaBGpH1Vxi9a1uRpXpkkLcd-a7qq1hiqVABvpUYagSHVrR3RiI4ZcA6_S5Zde1xZixj-vEkUBdkRH7ZjE8MVyiFLz3W2ckAlpR-zOlNlF9-gzoTWb4ecThCytq1AeSOSsl9H5Dt2Nt/s320/46434333001_896183998002_--------------.jpg" width="320" /> </a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Smartphone to manage rice cropping</span> </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G-I7QFvtOhg/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/G-I7QFvtOhg?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Science changes agriculture and fishery</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-68916793084937919502015-07-30T00:01:00.000-07:002015-11-01T21:14:14.921-08:00No. 878: Transforming a house into a hydrogen plant (July 30, 2015)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Focusing on the next stage of
photovoltaic cells, Panasonic will develop a technology to generate hydrogen at
home using the photocatalyst technology. The existing photocatalyst technology works
only under ultraviolet light, and sunlight contains only a small amount of
ultraviolet light. The company developed photocatalyst of the niobium system,
and it has already confirmed that the self-developed photocatalyst can generate
hydrogen responding to the visible light that has the largest amount of energy
among sunlight.</span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.nikkei.com/content/pic/20150704/96958A9E93819688E2E19BE2908DE2E1E2E5E0E2E3E7869BE3E2E2E2-DSXMZO8885892003072015TI1002-PN1-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.nikkei.com/content/pic/20150704/96958A9E93819688E2E19BE2908DE2E1E2E5E0E2E3E7869BE3E2E2E2-DSXMZO8885892003072015TI1002-PN1-5.jpg" height="245" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:RelyOnVML/>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Panasonic’s panel equipment to generate hydrogen </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">direcdty form natural energy </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "century" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "century" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Panasonic will conduct research to
increase the generation efficiency of hydrogen in alliance with New Energy and
Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and Kyoto University.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Niobium is abundant and relatively free from price fluctuation as
compared with silicone, and its supply is more stable than silicone. Besides, the
mechanism to generate hydrogen is simple, opening the way to generate hydrogen at
low cost. The company plans to generate sufficient amount of hydrogen to supply
energy for household use, excluding energy for vehicle, by hydrogen alone using
panels on the house roof.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> </span>Panasonic wishes to put this
technology into practical use by 2030. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lkZBwMVxzog/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lkZBwMVxzog?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:RelyOnVML/>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Toshiba’s Hydrogen Energy Research and
Development Center </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-46476332274080289832015-06-08T19:26:00.000-07:002015-06-08T19:26:33.107-07:00No. 877: Transforming carbon dioxide to fuel gas in one second (June 8, 2015)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://cheme.eng.shizuoka.ac.jp/~fukuharalab/index.html">Prof. Choji Fukuhara of Shizuoka University</a> and <a href="http://www.cataler.co.jp/en/">Cataler</a>, a catalyst maker in Shizuoka Prefecture, jointly developed
a technology to transform carbon dioxide to fuel gas at a high speed. Carbon
dioxide flowed in a narrow tube to which catalyst is applied is transformed to methane
gas in about one second. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Prof. Fukuhara’s research team applied
a porous material that contains nickelic nanoparticles to aluminum narrow
pipes, each of which is 5 cm long and several millimeters in diameter, and
combined them to build a pipe. A mixed gas made of carbon dioxide and hydrogen flowed
in from one end of the pipe initiates a chemical reaction when it is heated,
and methane gas is flows out from the other end. The research team successfully
transformed 1.5 ml of carbon oxide into methane gas per second using a pipe 2
cm in diameter. The yield is 90%, and mass production will be available by
increasing the number of narrow pipes.</span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The chemical reaction to produce
methane from carbon dioxide and hydrogen has long been known in the academic
circle, but it was very hard to increase the transformation efficiency. The
research team successfully increased the transformation efficiency by
developing the method to make the mixed gas contact nickel nicely. It plans to locate
partners for joint research and verify the technology in a demonstration plant.
The technology is expected to contribute to the reduction of carbon dioxide
emissions. Japanese government plans to reduce greenhouse gases to 26% below
2013 level by 2030. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J3paV6FyHPk/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J3paV6FyHPk?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Introduction to Cataler </span> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-3357004108178591522015-05-07T07:20:00.000-07:002015-05-07T07:20:25.958-07:00No. 876: Supporting Southeast Asian countries in their attempt to improve infrastructure with the help of information technology (May 7, 2015)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"></span></span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Business trend: </span></b></i></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Japanese companies are strengthening
their efforts to help Southeast Asian countries improve their infrastructures using
information technology. The Japanese government will provide them with indirect
support. A syndicate led by <a href="http://world.honda.com/">Honda Motor</a> will start demonstration experiments of
a system to relieve traffic congestion in the Philippines. The system to be
introduced in the Philippine is the<a href="http://www.vics.or.jp/english/vics/index.html"> Vehicle Information and Communication System (VICS)</a> that has already been introduced in Japan. It tells how much the
road is congested using the information available from the positional
information of vehicles and transmits the information on traffic jam to smartphones
and car navigation systems via data broadcasting. <a href="http://www.jvckenwood.com/en/corporate/">JVC Kenwood</a>, <a href="http://www.zenrin-datacom.net/en/index.html">Zenrin</a> that is
Japan’s map publisher, and <a href="http://global-sei.com/">Sumitomo Electric</a> joined the syndicate. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.dentsu.com/">Dentsu</a> that is Japan’s largest advertising
agency is to build a business infrastructure that merges broadcasting and
communications in alliance with the national broadcasting company in Vietnam. It
is developing a system to transmit disaster prevention information to
smartphones.<a href="http://www.hitachi.com/"> Hitachi</a> will start educational-support business that utilizes tablets.
<a href="http://americas.nttdata.com/">NTT Data</a> is scheduled to launch a system that supports air traffic control this
month. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:RelyOnVML/>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>
<w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>2</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>JA</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:SpaceForUL/>
<w:BalanceSingleByteDoubleByteWidth/>
<w:DoNotLeaveBackslashAlone/>
<w:ULTrailSpace/>
<w:DoNotExpandShiftReturn/>
<w:AdjustLineHeightInTable/>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
<w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/>
<w:OverrideTableStyleHps/>
<w:UseFELayout/>
</w:Compatibility>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="267">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="59" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:標準の表;
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:10.5pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Century","serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Century;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Century;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-font-kerning:1.0pt;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<a href="http://www.necam.com/">NEC</a>
and <a href="http://www.fujitsu.com/us/">Fujitsu</a> will focus on systems to notify information on natural
disasters like flood and earthquake and those to detect cybercrimes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">List of business Japanese companies
develop in Southeast Asian Countries</span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
</div>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
<tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 108.9pt;" valign="top" width="145"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Honda and
others</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 352.3pt;" valign="top" width="470"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Plan to
conduct demonstration experiments of a system to relieve traffic congestion
in the Philippines in alliance with leading Japanese companies in car
navigation and map publishing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 108.9pt;" valign="top" width="145"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Dentsu</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 352.3pt;" valign="top" width="470"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Develops a
system to deliver TV contents via the Internet in alliance with the national
TV broadcasting company in Vietnam. </span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 108.9pt;" valign="top" width="145"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Hitachi</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 352.3pt;" valign="top" width="470"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Plans to
start educational-support system using tablets making the best use of it
successful business of digital textbooks in Japan. </span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 108.9pt;" valign="top" width="145"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Fujitsu</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 352.3pt;" valign="top" width="470"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Has
delivered a system to the disaster prevention bureau in Jakarta, and plans to
collect information on the level of river water from citizens to formulate flood
actions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 108.9pt;" valign="top" width="145"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">NEC</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 352.3pt;" valign="top" width="470"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Develop human
resources to cope with cybercrime in alliance with the Singaporean government.
</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 108.9pt;" valign="top" width="145"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">NTT Data</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 352.3pt;" valign="top" width="470"><div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Scheduled
to put a system that supports air traffic control on the market on May 11. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Japanese government reached an
agreement with the Thai government to strengthen the relations between the two
countries in the field of info-communication technology. Japan made a success in
the export of IT infrastructure to South America: A total of 17 South American
countries adopted the Japanese terrestrial digital broadcasting system. Japanese
companies are expected to upgrade their efforts to export technology and
service in addition to hardware including equipment in the field of IT infrastructure. </span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SAFxbQww1mE/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SAFxbQww1mE?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A driving support system for express highway</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vY26_iQFpJs/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vY26_iQFpJs?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fujitsu's RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) sensor</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
</div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-43693222297483035422015-04-23T17:25:00.002-07:002015-04-23T17:25:56.272-07:00No. 875: IT companies accelerate development of technologies to prevent crimes and terrorist activities (April 23, 2015)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: blue;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Technology:</span></b></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Major IT companies are
accelerating their efforts to develop technologies for anticrime measures
toward the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. <a href="http://www.hitachi.com/">Hitachi</a> developed a technology to detect a
person who handled an explosive when he passes through the ticket gate of railway
stations, and <a href="http://www.necam.com/">NEC</a> developed a system to pinpoint a suspect while monitoring the
city streets by combining image processing technology and security camera and
put it into practical use. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Hitachi’s system puts a device to blow
warm and an analyzing device of fine particles of an explosive to the ticket
gate. When a passenger puts his IC card on the ticket gate, warm air instantly
is sprayed to his hand. The device instantly draws in and analyses fine
particles attached to the hand instantly. When the fine particles agree with
the substances of an explosive, the device gives an alarm and closes the ticket
gate. It works with an image processing system that uses security camera to
chase the person even in the crowd. The company plans to put the technology
into practical use by 2018 in time for the Tokyo Olympics.</span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aGu4mPKZE9E/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aGu4mPKZE9E?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hitachi's technology to detect a person who </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">handled an explosve at the ticket gate of railway stations </span> </span></div>
</div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">NEC developed a crime-prevention system
that can monitor the whole city using NEC’s high precision image recognition
technology. NEC’s system has the world highest precision of image recognition technology,
and it can recognize a face at such a high success rate of 96%. The company has
already shipped the system to Tigre, a resort northwest of Buenos Aires in
Argentine. The system shipped to the resort has 1,000 cameras to cover an area
of 150 square kilometers, and it works with the database of the police
department. The system is managed by a private security company, but the police
department dispatches police officers as soon as it receives a report from the security
company. It has the function to detect the number places of stolen cars. </span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/33DhIzmarz0/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/33DhIzmarz0?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NEC's face recognition system</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A research company in Japan
estimates that the world market of image processing system will grow to 70
million yen in 2017. </span><br />
<br />
</div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-65499220564060841992015-04-21T21:05:00.000-07:002015-04-21T21:05:18.390-07:00No. 874: Reducing the power consumption of a liquid crystal TV by 25% (April 20, 2015)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.nichia.co.jp/en/about_nichia/index.html">Nichia Corp</a>., a major manufacturer
of LEDs in Japan, developed a semiconductor laser that emits more than 1,000
times stronger light than the existing semiconductor laser. Because it can emit
strong light with smaller amount of power, it can reduce the power consumption
of a liquid crystal TV by more than 25%. The company has already started shipping
samples to electronics manufacturers. It plans to commercialize the newly
developed semiconductor lasers in 2016. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQitdRSIuw-T-rUbmrblS5V2_PihtqOqofC0p5fRpsDvTukgtao" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQitdRSIuw-T-rUbmrblS5V2_PihtqOqofC0p5fRpsDvTukgtao" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nichia's newly developed semiconductor lasers</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that emit strong light</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The element is made of gallium
nitride and 1.2 mm long. A cover or a terminal is used to create laser light. Nichia
successfully allow a semiconductor laser to emit strong light by improving the
structure of the semiconductor element. Because a laser light has a uniform
wavelength and can be emit straight. Therefore, it permits more effective
illumination than an LED should it be employed for the backlight of the monitor
of liquid crystal TV, and power consumption of the monitor will be halved. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.mitsubishielectric.com/">Mitsubishi Electric</a> has already
developed a red semiconductor laser that emits strong light, but it has not
developed a green and a blue semiconductor laser that emits strong light. With
the Nichia’s success, semiconductor lasers of the three elementary colors that emit
strong light have been developed. Nichia plans to exhibit the research results
in the<a href="http://opicon.jp/"> Optics and Photonics International Congress 2015</a> scheduled to be held in
Yokohama between 22nd and 24th of April this year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fz18sdQ3Kp0/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fz18sdQ3Kp0?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nichia's ultraviolet LED light detects </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the repair history of pottery </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
</div>
</div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-84847642884864577472015-04-17T17:54:00.000-07:002015-04-17T17:54:00.331-07:00No. 873: An LED that emits 10 times stronger deep ultraviolet (April 18, 2015)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.nict.go.jp/en/index.html">The National Institute ofInformation and Communications Technology </a>and <a href="http://www.tokuyama.co.jp/eng/index.html">Tokuyama Corp. </a>jointly developed
an LED that emits 10 times stronger deep ultraviolet than the existing LED. Ultraviolet
is highly effective in sterilization. They used a gallium nitride material that
was used by blue LEDs awarded by the Noble Physics Prize in 2014. The newly
developed LED can kill nearly all germs within a 10 cm square area in one
second. They plan to commercialize it by 2020 for sterilization as well as for the
treatment of skin diseases. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/7e/4a/b5050b9fe931eb8556e19b46dbe2d035.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/7e/4a/b5050b9fe931eb8556e19b46dbe2d035.jpg" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A newly developed LED that emits</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10 times stronger deep ultraviolet </span></span>
</div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The newly developed LED allows a
0.1 square mm element to emit up to 90 mw, whereas about 10 mw is the maximum
under the current technology. In addition to gallium nitride, they used aluminum
nitride for the substrate. They lined up bumps, each of which is 500 nm wide,
in an orderly manner on the substrate surface to allow deep ultraviolet to get
out easily. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Deep ultraviolet is ultraviolet
whose wavelength is between 200 and 300 nm. Although it is contained in
sunlight, it hardy reaches to the ground because it is mostly absorbed in the ozone
layer. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.nict.go.jp/press/2015/04/01-2.html#%E8%AB%96%E6%96%87">Further details are available here (in Japanese).</a></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/106/13/10.1063/1.4915255">You can read the details of this newly developed LED in Applied Physics Letters</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-74042679435516868112015-04-17T05:43:00.000-07:002015-04-17T06:02:35.044-07:00No. 872: Toshiba establishes a research center exclusively for hydrogen energy (April 17, 2015)<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Technology:</b></i></span></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.toshiba.co.jp/worldwide/index.html">Toshiba</a> established a research center to
develop a system to produce hydrogen energy that controls the emissions of
carbon dioxide. It plans to put a large-scale system that covers from hydrogen production
to power generation into practical application toward 2020 well ahead of its competitors. Named “Hydrogen
Energy Research and Development Center,” it was established inside Toshiba’s
Fuchu plant in the suburbs of Tokyo. </span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The existing technology inevitably
produces carbon dioxide in the process of taking out hydrogen from oil. The
company plans to develop a system that eliminates the possibility of producing
carbon dioxide in the production process of hydrogen. It plans to produce
hydrogen by dissolving water with the help of photovoltaic generation. The
hydrogen will be stored in special equipment and used for power generation by
large-scale fuel cells. The generated power will be delivered to households. The
company plans to develop a system capable of generating power for 10,000
households by 2020. Toshiba’s planned integrated hydrogen system that covers
from hydrogen production to power generation will be the first system of this
kind in the world. Toshiba plans to increase hydrogen-related sales from 20
billion yen in 2014 to 100 billion yen by 2020. </span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Japanese high-tech companies are
accelerating the efforts to develop new technologies in the field of hydrogen.
<a href="https://www.mhps.com/en/index.html">Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems</a> will put a hydrogen turbine that reduces greenhouse
gas emissions in 2017, while <a href="http://global.kawasaki.com/en/index.html">Kawasaki Heavy Industries</a> will start ocean
shipping of hydrogen toward 2017. The world hydrogen-related market is
estimated to grow 160 trillion yen in 2050. <a href="http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2015_04/j0601/20150406ppt.pdf">A pdf file</a> for further information (in Japanese)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bwBZds8nbZQ/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bwBZds8nbZQ?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Toshiba opens a research center exclusively </span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for hydrogen energy in the suburbs of Tokyo</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></span></div>
</div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2134838610341561256.post-80833793691576232852015-04-16T03:03:00.001-07:002015-04-16T03:03:31.461-07:00No. 871: Reducing oil consumption for resin production with the help of coliform (April 16, 2015)<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Technology:</span></span></b></i></span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.genaris.co.jp/en/index.htm">Genaris, Inc</a>., a bio-venture
company in Yokohama, is conducting research on using coliform to produce
materials for semiconductors and PET bottles. This project is capable to changing
drastically the energy situation in 2050. In this project, researchers are
producing industrial materials from waste PET bottles with the help of coliform
on trial. In the laboratory, special equipment stirs up milky liquid in a
beaker, and the liquid in the beaker becomes brown in several hours. That is, coliform
in the beaker got active and started to create a new substance.</span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Waste PET bottles can be used to
produce such products as fiber. However, rumps like waste liquid are produced
in the process of recycling waster PET bottles. In the rumps, major substances
of PET bottles still exist. The research members are trying to instill the
ability to resolve these major substances into coliform by manipulating
coliform genes. They plan to use the resultant substances as raw materials for semiconductors
and PET bottles. </span></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Oil consumption for resin
production can be reduced to one tenth should the recycling method that uses
coliform be established. The company is confident that it is possible to produce
raw materials equivalent to oil-derived raw materials with the help of plants
and coliform. Coliform cannot be free from a bad image because it causes food
poisoning. However, coliform is mostly harmless, and its genes can be manipulated
easily because it is a single cell. Researchers are trying to change coliform
to super coliform equipped with various abilities. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.nikkei.com/content/pic/20150405/96958A9E93819596E1E29AE39E8DE1E2E2E1E0E2E3E7819A93E2E2E2-DSXMZO8530709004042015SHA001-KB3-15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.nikkei.com/content/pic/20150405/96958A9E93819596E1E29AE39E8DE1E2E2E1E0E2E3E7819A93E2E2E2-DSXMZO8530709004042015SHA001-KB3-15.jpg" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A researcher is woking on rumps produced</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">in the process to recycle PET bottles.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
</div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0