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Power Grid Peak Load in summer

JIUJIANG, CHINA - JULY 22, 2025 - Staff members of Jiangxi Jiujiang Company of National Energy Group are measuring the temperature and vibration of the open pump motor of Unit 5. Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, China on July 22, 2025.

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(EyesOnSci) CHINA-ANHUI-HEFEI-FUSION ENERGY RESEARCH FACILITY-CRAFT (CN)

(240427) -- HEFEI, April 27, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Staff members carry out vibration testing on high speed power transmission shaft at the park of Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT) in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, April 25, 2024. Scientific researchers and engineers are speeding up the construction of CRAFT as the project, a facility in pipeline, serving as a platform on which key components for fusion energy reactors are developed and tested, is expected to be finished in 2025. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)

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AUTO CHINA 2024

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 25, 2024 - Visitors visit the "Zero vibration engine" at the AUTO CHINA 2024 Parts exhibition area in Beijing, China, April 25, 2024.

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China Manufacturing Industry Piano Products

HUZHOU, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 7, 2023 - A worker performs a piano vibration test in Huzhou city, Zhejiang province, China, Sept 7, 2023.

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JR East's ambition: electricity generation by train riders

TOKYO, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. will be testing piezoelectric devices (photo) at Tokyo Station on Jan. 19 to produce electricity through vibration power as train riders walk through railway ticket gates. JR East engineers estimate the power generated by one person walking past a piezoelectric floor device laid at a gate will be enough to light up a 100-watt electric bulb by 0.01 second, or 80 minutes of lighting per day. Piezoelectric devices in speakers produce vibration, and sound, when activated by electric current. Using the reverse principle, JR East engineers have been testing the use of vibration on pieozoelectric devices to produce electricity. The tests at Tokyo Station's Yaesu North entrance will run until early March. The amount of electricity produced will be shown on a monitor near the gate.

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Hello Kitty cameras to go on sale in Japan Nov. 28

TOKYO, Japan - Sanrio Co. said Nov. 2 Hello Kitty digital cameras (photo) will go on sale in Japan Nov. 28. The lens and the flash light are built into the kitten's ribbon, while the shutter is on top of the ear. The kitten's face lights up in red when the shutter is pressed. A 5 mega-pixel camera with anti-vibration functions retails in Japan for 26,040 yen.

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Shinkawa Electric's vibration monitoring sensor "Zerk X8

The connected sensors acquire analog data such as temperature, pressure, water level and flow rate as well as vibration. The data is sent via wireless LAN to an antenna several dozen meters away. The data is collected in the "Machine Dossier" cloud system. The data is displayed in an easy-to-understand manner using graphs and other data. Amazon's Amazon Web Services (AWS) is used as the system infrastructure. The data can be easily viewed on smartphones and other devices. The annual fee for using the system is 48,000 yen (excluding consumption tax) for each eight-point sensor. SEC of America (North Carolina), a wholly owned subsidiary in the U.S., develops and produces the system. Shinkawa Sensor Technology (Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo), a subsidiary in Japan, will develop and produce higher-specification non-contact vibration sensors. (Photo taken on February 6, 2020, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

★Handout photo dated November 30, 2016 of what looks like a teleporter from science fiction being draped over NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, is actually a "clean tent." The clean tent protects Webb from dust and dirt when engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland transport the next generation space telescope out of the relatively dust-free cleanroom and into the shirtsleeve environment of the vibration and acoustics testing areas. In two years, a rocket will be the transporter that carries the Webb into space so it can orbit one million miles from Earth and peer back over 13.5 billion years to see the first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe. Last summer, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) set an October 31, 2021, launch date for the $ 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, but it's having to delay the science observ

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Piezo Sonic's PSM60N-ET ultrasonic motor. Motor (front) and driver (back)

Piezo Sonic (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo) has released a high-torque ultrasonic motor, the PSM60N. The ultrasonic motor rotates by minute vibrations and frictional force. Since it does not use coils and magnets, it can be used in high magnetic field environments such as magnetic resonance tomography (MRI) systems.The company's ultrasonic motor uses a piezoelectric element to vibrate a ring with a comb-shaped slit. When the rotor (rotating body) is brought into contact with the ring, the vibration of the teeth is transmitted to the rotor, which rotates. The comb tooth structure amplifies the vibration. We chose a material with high friction to increase the torque. The maximum torque is 1.2 Newton meters, which is 5 to 10 times higher than a DC motor of the same size. The motor is also equipped with an optical encoder. (Photo taken on December 4, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Helical gears manufactured using a new method of vibration press

Amada Holdings (HD) has developed a method to reduce the machining time of gears used in transmissions with Subaru by 75% and the total cost by 30% compared to the conventional method. The new method replaces machining with presses instead of machine tools. A servo press machine with a high degree of freedom in control presses the material intermittently as if it were vibrating. The company devised a method of pressurizing the material and filling the dies with oil. The company aims to put this new method to practical use as soon as possible, as it enables mass production of high-precision gears at low cost. This is a new method of fluid pulse forging for helical gears (helical gears) with diagonal tooth threads, and is the result of Amada Orii (Isehara City, Kanagawa Prefecture), an affiliate of Amada HD, and Subaru. A related patent has been jointly applied for. (Photo taken on June 7, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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JR East's ambition: electricity generation by train riders

TOKYO, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. will be testing piezoelectric devices (photo) at Tokyo Station on Jan. 19 to produce electricity through vibration power as train riders walk through railway ticket gates. JR East engineers estimate the power generated by one person walking past a piezoelectric floor device laid at a gate will be enough to light up a 100-watt electric bulb by 0.01 second, or 80 minutes of lighting per day. Piezoelectric devices in speakers produce vibration, and sound, when activated by electric current. Using the reverse principle, JR East engineers have been testing the use of vibration on pieozoelectric devices to produce electricity. The tests at Tokyo Station's Yaesu North entrance will run until early March. The amount of electricity produced will be shown on a monitor near the gate. (Kyodo)

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World's largest vibration platform

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Engineers conduct a durability test in Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture on Nov. 13 for nuclear plant pipes using world's largest vibration platform. (Kyodo)

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Scandal-rocked Toyo Tire holds shareholders' meeting

A Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. shareholder heads for an extraordinary shareholders' meeting at the firm's headquarters in the western Japan city of Osaka on Nov. 12, 2015. The meeting was held to seek approval for a revamped management team that hopes to win back public trust after the company falsified performance data or did not conduct required tests on its vibration-absorbing rubber products. President Takuji Yamamoto resigned at the end of the meeting to take responsibility for the scandals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scandal-hit Toyo Tire admits another data falsification over rubber

Yasushi Takagi (R), senior corporate officer of Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Oct. 14, 2015. Takagi said the company falsified performance data or did not conduct required tests at all on its vibration-absorbing rubber products used mainly in trains and ships. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fujitsu develops drowsiness-alerting sensor for motorists

Fujitsu Ltd. unveils in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2015, a sensor device which prevents a driver from nodding off. With a sensor attached to the earlobe and the smartphone-like body hung from the neck, the device awakens the driver through vibration by sensing his or her drowsiness via pulsation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Old buildings beefed up with quake-resistant technology

Photo taken Sept. 28, 2016, shows two pieces of shock-absorbing rubber beneath a vibration control system called a Tuned Mass Damper, or TMD, installed on top of the Shinjuku Nomura Building in Tokyo. The rubber, installed at the four corners of the system, can alleviate shaking, especially that caused by winds and smaller quakes. The linear slider (black parts at its center) work to absorb tremors caused by bigger earthquakes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Old buildings beefed up with quake-resistant technology

Photo taken Sept. 28, 2016, shows on the left a model of a vibration control system called a Tuned Mass Damper, or TMD, on top of a miniature of Tokyo's Shinjuku Nomura Building. On the right is a larger-scale model of the TMD system installed on top of a block which represents a building. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hello Kitty cameras to go on sale in Japan Nov. 28

TOKYO, Japan - Sanrio Co. said Nov. 2 Hello Kitty digital cameras (photo) will go on sale in Japan Nov. 28. The lens and the flash light are built into the kitten's ribbon, while the shutter is on top of the ear. The kitten's face lights up in red when the shutter is pressed. A 5 mega-pixel camera with anti-vibration functions retails in Japan for 26,040 yen. (Kyodo)

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World's largest vibration platform

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Engineers conduct a durability test in Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture on Nov. 13 for nuclear plant pipes using world's largest vibration platform. (Kyodo)

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World's largest vibration platform

TAKAMATSU, Japan - The world's largest vibration platform, built to conduct durability test of nuclear plant pipes. Picture taken Nov. 13 in Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)