Many makers are penetrating into the EV market. The common problem is the paucity of capacity of lithium-ion battery. The running distance of “i-MiEV”, which is made by Mitsubishi Motors and mounts the battery, is only 160km on one full charge. It is inadequate for the long running distance.
 Indeed the [...]

 On May 13th, 2010, Suzuki announced that the company carries out the demonstration experiment of PHV (Plug in Hybrid Vehicle) from this fall. The company sets several tens of PHVs in its agents within Japan in order to collect the information of driving data in various transportation conditions and maintenance [...]

 On May 7th, 2010, NEC announced that the company developed the technology which can detect illegal animations in web video site automatically. Even if they were illegal movies, which were secretly filmed in a movie, and were images with caption, it can detect them immediately. The company has an intention [...]

 It is an undeniable fact that the temperature in a big city is increasing because of car exhaust, building’s cooling & heating and so on. It is one of provisions to green roof of a building in order to reduce it. And also it saves heating and cooling cost. In [...]

 NEDO (New Energy Development Organization), “Toda Construction Co., Ltd.” and “Daioh Shinyo Co., Ltd.” developed the new technology jointly, which renders the waste material used in building a house that includes hazardous asbestos harmless by making use of high-temperature vapor. Compared with usual way, which takes it up at high [...]

 On May 12th, 2010, SHARP announced to develop 3D camera module for mobile device, which can take a picture some hi-vision image of 720 pixels as 3D image. The company will release its sample from July 2010 and finally has a plan to mass-produce it within 2010.
 In order to make [...]

 The patent related to the basic structure of Parallel Link Robot expired on August 2007. ABB owned it. Therefore, some Japanese makers, “Fanuc Ltd.”, “Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.”, “Yasukawa Electric Corporation” and so on, penetrated and penetrate into this area. According to the research of “Fuji-Keizai”, its market size was [...]

 ”Nippon Steel Engineering Co. Ltd.” announced that the company starts to sell the plant, which produces ethanol from food wastes of business and home activities, against autonomous bodies and big recycle business companies. This plant is to select, crush, glycosylate, ferment, distill food wastes, and then to produce the ethanol [...]

 On April 26th, 2010, Nihon Kotsu Co. Ltd., one of the biggest taxi companies in Japan, started the taxi service by using three Electric Vehicles. One of defects related to EV is that it needs plenty of times to be charged. In ordinary case, it needs at least 7 hours. [...]

 On April 2nd, 2010, Sharp, which had developed 3D liquid crystal panel in 2002, announced to start the production of 3D liquid crystal touch panels within 2010. We can find 3D (three-dimensional) image without glasses for exclusive use by it. And also it will be mounted on “Nintendo 3DS (tentative [...]