NYK Line Testing Hybrid Transfer Crane at Tokyo Container Terminal.Tokyo, Japan, Aug 26, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - Nippon Yusen Japan-based Nippon Yusen Kaisha (日本郵船株式会社 K.K.and TCM (1) (Trellis-Coded Modulation/Viterbi Decoding) A technique that adds forward error correction to a modulation scheme by adding an additional bit to each baud. TCM is used with QAM modulation, for example. Corporation have announced plans for testing the practical use of a hybrid transfer crane that has been jointly developed by the two companies. The test experiment will be conducted at NYK's Tokyo Container Terminal in Shinagawa for 12 months starting in mid-September. The hybrid transfer crane is the first hybrid type transfer crane developed in Japan. Energy generated when lifting containers is saved in an electric storage device and recycled. Both fuel consumption and CO2 emissions will be reduced by 40 percent. The size of the engine generator has also been reduced in order to minimize noise during the loading operation. NYK NYK New York Knicks NYK Nippon Yusen Kaisha (shipping company) NYK Not Yet Known sais in a statement that it is committed to developing environment-concerned technology development not only for cargo but also cargo handling equipment, including transfer cranes. Copyright [c] 2006 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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