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Vehicles (1-1) or ships (1-2) each carry a magnetic force line sensor (11), a GPS position detector (12), and a data transmitter (13) and travel within an observation area transmitting magnetic field data and position data of each point to an earthquake prediction center (4). A telluric current induction field estimation unit (43) of the earthquake prediction center (4) estimates telluric current induction fields based on the observation data that it receives and collects. A telluric current estimation unit (44) estimates telluric currents based on the results of estimating the telluric current induction fields. A telluric current induction field intensity change pattern generation unit (45) generates patterns that indicate the change over time of the intensity of telluric current induction fields. An earthquake prediction unit (46) analyzes the state of distribution of the telluric currents and the patterns of change in the intensities of the telluric current induction fields and estimates a seismofocal zone, seismic intensity, and time of occurrence of a seismic event.

Redistribution of multimedia signals or the like within a service area is performed by identifying one or more pieces of white space in the VHF / UHF spectrum, selecting a carrier frequency for each piece of white space spectrum, parsing the signal into a like number of components and modulating each component over a carrier frequency. The receiving device performs the reverse operation for reconstructing the signal.

A cross flow filtration apparatus for nanofiltration or reverse osmosis has pressure vessels with a plurality of filter cartridges in each vessel. A feed port is provided at an intermediate position on the side of the vessel, and two permeate flows or branches exit opposite ends of the vessel, and the first branch has a characteristically high “upstream” flux and quality, while the second is of lesser flux and / or quality. The system provides a high degree of moduarity, enhancing flux or yield at a reduced driving pressure or overall pressure drop. Centered or off-center port, and a stop or valve in the permeate stream may apportion flows between the two outlets. Staged systems may employ a first stage bypass to achieve a target quality with increased yield. A flow divider or adaptor permits the cartridges to fit and seal in the vessel and an installation tool or sleeve may facilitate installation or replacement of cartridges having a directional perimeter seal. A tool permits modules to be bi-directional installed in the pressure vessel. Other embodiments involve adapting a conventional vessel designed for end-to-end feed flow utilizing a restrictor, obstruction or valve inside the filter cartridge to bifurcate or otherwise split or apportion the permeate. RO elements may be modified to movably position an obstruction or valve along a string of the elements and vary the take-off to two or more permeate outlets, or to provide pressure relief valves that present different pressure conditions for different elements of a string. A pressure vessel may have an intermediate inlet, with symmetric or asymmetric branching of permeate flow to opposed ends of the vessel, enhancing permeate flux, permeate quality and / or energy efficiency.

The present invention has for its object to provide a process for manufacturing multilayer printed circuit boards which is capable of simultaneous via hole filling and formation of conductor circuit and via holes of good crystallinity and uniform deposition can be constructed on a substrate and high-density wiring and highly reliable conductor connections can be realized without annealing.The present invention is related to a process for manufacturing multilayer printed circuit boards which comprises disposing an interlayer resin insulating layer on a substrate formed with a conductor circuit, creating openings for formation of via holes in said interlayer resin insulating layer, forming an electroless plated metal layer on said interlayer resin insulating layer, disposing a resist thereon, performing electroplating, stripping the resist off and etching the electroless plated metal layer to provide a conductor circuit and via holes, wherein the electroplating is performed intermittently using said electroless plated metal layer as cathode and a plating metal as anode at a constant voltage between said anode and said cathode.

An automatic metering system in accordance with the principles of the invention comprises a plurality of groups of geographically related utility meters. Each utility meter comprises an interface unit operable to accumulate usage data and to transmit the usage data over power lines utilizing power line carrier. The system further comprises a plurality of data forwarding apparatus each comprising power line carrier communication apparatus operable to receive usage data from each utility meter in its group of utility meters. Each data forwarding apparatus comprises a first wireless communication module. Each data forwarding apparatus has a geographic relationship to its corresponding group of utility meters. A computer is located geographically apart from the plurality of data forwarding apparatus. The central computer comprises a second wireless communication module and operates cooperatively with each data forwarding apparatus to upload usage data from all of the utility meters via the plurality of data forwarding apparatus.

A downlink signal and WDM-PON signal from an OLT 1 are separated by an optical filter part 11, and a downlink signal is split by a power splitter part 12. A WDM-PON signal is also split in each wavelength by a demultiplexer part 13, and a downlink signal and a WDM-PON signal of either one of the wavelengths are outputted to each ONU, in an optical filter part 14. Moreover, an uplink signal from the ONU is introduced to the power splitter part 12 via the optical filter part 14, and outputted to the OLT 1 via the optical filter part 11. Therefore, it is possible to realize a hybrid splitter module which allows upgrading a downlink signal to a WDM-PON without adding changes to a device on a subscriber side.

This invention relates to a method for processing oil sand bitumen including solvent deasphalting and visbreaking oil sand bitumen to yield de-oiled asphalt (DOA) and components capable of being transmitted in pipeline. The method for processing oil sand bitumen provided by this invention can effectively transmit oil sand bitumen in pipeline with the advantages of simple operation low equipment cost and significantly reduced operating cost. This method not only can solve the problems arising from enormous working capital required for purchasing diluting agent needed by the traditional unit for processing oil sand bitumen and complications in looking for users, but also can drastically reduce the high investment and high processing cost of such main upgrading avenues as coking and converting heavy oils to light distillates. This invention can enhance the effective products yield and increase the sales income. This method for processing oil sand bitumen can make the recovery of sulfur contained therein by means of the downstream processes easier to significantly reduce the sulfur recovery cost and ensure compliance with the pollutants emission standard.

Dual (redundant) operation support servers are used to improve the reliability of a video conferencing system and ensure the stability of communication. Switching automatically one operation support server to another enables a video conference to be smoothly continued without interruption. Multiple operation support servers are provided, each including a synchronization function which synchronizes site connection information and live camera information between the operation support servers and prevents an operation support server in a standby state from writing live camera information in a folder for each site. Each site PC 14 includes an automatic server change function which, when an operation support server 11 in service fails, switches connection from the operation support server 11 to an operation support server 12 in a standby state. When the operation support server in service fails, the operation support server in a standby state writes live camera information into a folder for each site and each site PC changes connection from the operation support server that was in service to the operation support server in a standby state.

A method for synthesizing ZnO, comprising continuously circulating a growth solution that is saturated with ZnO between a warmer deposition zone, which contains a substrate or seed, and a cooler dissolution zone, which is contains ZnO source material.

The present invention has for its object to provide a process for manufacturing multilayer printed circuit boards which is capable of simultaneous via hole filling and formation of conductor circuit and via holes of good crystallinity and uniform deposition can be constructed on a substrate and high-density wiring and highly reliable conductor connections can be realized without annealing. The present invention is related to a process for manufacturing multilayer printed circuit boards which comprises disposing an interlayer resin insulating layer on a substrate formed with a conductor circuit, creating openings for formation of via holes in said interlayer resin insulating layer, forming an electroless plated metal layer on said interlayer resin insulating layer, disposing a resist thereon, performing electroplating, stripping the resist off and etching the electroless plated metal layer to provide a conductor circuit and via holes, wherein the electroplating is performed intermittently using said electroless plated metal layer as cathode and a plating metal as anode at a constant voltage between said anode and said cathode.

An object is to provide a nondestructive inspection device of a low equipment cost, and a crane equipped with the nondestructive inspection device. The nondestructive inspection device is provided for a quay crane, on a transporting route of the container. The nondestructive inspection device irradiates radiation from radiation sources to a container which has entered into an inspection area, and detects radiation that has transmitted through the container using the same detector, and nondestructively inspects the entire inside of the container based on information of intensity of the radiation and information of detection position of the radiation. The nondestructive inspection device is provided with; a modulation device which assigns different modulations to each radiation emitted from each of the radiation sources, and an identification device that distinguishes the modulation assigned to the radiation incident on the detector based on the output of the detector, and identifies which one of the radiation sources this radiation has been emitted from.

In a method of manufacturing a display having a display panel, a transparent protective plate, which is placed in front of the display panel, and a layer formed of a transparent organic medium, which is placed between the display panel and the protective plate, a liquid organic medium is applied to, or a sheet-like organic medium is formed on, a surface of one of the display panel and the protective plate, the display panel and the protective plate are bonded together in a reduced pressure atmosphere, and thereafter the liquid organic medium is cured.

A rotary valve assembly for use in a process provides fluid communication and enables variable conduit interconnection and flow passage. Process cycle time is variable by means of rotational speed of through one or more apertures of a third valve member and respective alignment with one or more apertures of a first valve member and one or more apertures of a second valve member. Process step time is variable by means of adjustable position and variable alignment of aperture(s) of the first valve member and the second valve member. The rotary valve assembly provides for gradual transition and flow passage between process steps, flow metering, mixing, reversal, or any combination thereof. Process systems including the rotary valve include an adsorption process, humidity control process, heat pump process and / or water purification process among others.

A method is provided for forming a photoactive coating having a photoabsorption band in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The method includes depositing a precursor composition over at least a portion of a float glass ribbon in a molten metal bath by a CVD coating device. The precursor composition includes a titania precursor material and at least one other precursor material selected from chromium (Cr), vanadium (V), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), scandium (Sc), yttrium (Y), niobium (Nb), molybdenum (Mo), ruthenium (Ru), tungsten (W), silver (Ag), lead (Pb), nickel (Ni), rhenium (Re), and mixtures thereof.

A thermosiphon device includes a closed loop evaporator section having one or more evaporation channels that are fed by a liquid return path, and a condenser section with one or more condensing channels. The condenser section may include a vapor supply path that is adjacent one or more condensing channels, e.g., located between two sets of condensing channels. Evaporator and / or condenser sections may be made from a single, flat bent tube, which may be bent about an axis parallel to the plane of the flat tube to form a turnaround and / or twisted about an axis along a length of the tube at the tube ends. A single tube may form both evaporator and condenser sections of a thermosiphon device, and an axially extending wall inside the tube in the evaporator section may separate an evaporator section from a liquid return section.

The invention relates to a refining and reclaiming technology of a tail gas absorption solvent in the production of toluene diisocyanate (TDI). The solvent containing little phosgene, toluene diisocyanate and di-Et-1,3-benzenedicarboxylate (DEIP) performs two-stage refinement in an atmospheric refining tower and a vacuum refining tower, and a falling-film evaporator and a storage tank are arranged between the two towers. The overhead non-condensable gas phase of the atmospheric refining tower is returned to a phosgene absorption tower to recycle phosgene, the refined solvent is drawn from theside of the atmospheric refining tower, the temperature of the tower bottom is controlled to be 3-8 DEG C higher than the boiling point of the solvent, the discharged material of the tower bottom enters the falling-film evaporator, the evaporating temperature is 20-30 DEG C higher than the boiling point of the solvent, the unevaporated material enters the storage tank for storage, the material inthe storage tank performs batch vacuum rectification under the absolute pressure of 0.1-0.25bar, and the unevaporated residual material enters the residue evaporator of a TDI device to recycle TDI and DEIP. By using the solvent refining technology provided by the invention, the useful components in the solvent can be completely recycled, and the technology has the advantages of simple and stable operation and lower cost and energy consumption.