Development of Micro Flowreactor, a Device for Evaluating Combustion Characteristics of Fuels in Automobiles
Group of researchers at Tohoku University in Collaboration with IHI has successfully developed “Micro Flowreactor” a fuel characterization device for evaluating combustion characteristics such as gasoline in automobiles through use of micro combustion technologies which enables the gas combustion with in a narrow tube where flames can be survived. The Micro Flowreactor is used for measuring the octane ratings an essential measurement for engine development. The newly developed consists of air-fuel mixture generating system, a small-inside-diameter glass tube, an external heater and imaging device with special optical filters. The way it works is that the temperature of air-fuel mixture within micro-diameter glass tube increases as it goes toward downstream where a temperature is maintained at high level due to an external heater. Read more
Development of Perovskite Thin-Film EL Device by AIST
Paving the way for a new optical application of perovskite materials, AIST has successfully developed a perovskite thin film electroluminescent device. Through this development AIST (Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) has obtained the complete epitaxial growth of all of the layers as well as very flat interface with monoatomic steps. Read more
Development of high Precision Temperature Sensing device by MURATA
With miniaturization of electronic equipment and with their increasing mounting density, temperature control is becoming an ever vital issue to tackle. Also use of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries as the energy source for electronic equipment such as note-size PCs and electronic tools and HEVs is becoming more common creating a stronger demand for overheat detection of their battery cells. To address this need Murata manufacturing has developed and commercialized “Thermo-String” a tiny high-precision temperature sensing device which uses Chip POSISTOR or a chip NTC thermistor as the detector element. Read more
Development of New Temperature-Compensated Crystal Oscillator by Epson Toyocom
Epson Toyocom made an announcement on development of new TCXO (Temperature-Compensated Crystal Oscillator) with an OCXO (oven-controlled crystal oscillator) class frequency/temperature coefficient of ±0.1 × 10-6, helping the network equipment manufacturers with their power and space saving requirements. The new TCXO has been designed to satisfy the high accuracy requirements for frequency/temperature coefficient of ±0.1 × 10-6 or better for reference clocks which are used in ultra-compact cellular base stations for home as well as office use. Read more
Development of world’s first device capable of encoding and decoding JPEG format imaging in Real-Time
NTT-At has developed a Codec device capable of delivering 4k size images on a IP networks in a real-time by using the JPEG 2000 format making it ideal for applications such as movie theaters and high definition CG reproductions, etc. For what it believes to be the only device capable of doing this in a real-time, the new device features high transmission error prevention functionality capable of restoring lost data in insuring reliable high transmission as well as Multi-format responsiveness capable of adjusting resolution, frame rate and color space and depth to correspond to a wide variety of formats. Read more
