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Japan Science and Technology Agency(JST) commissioned projects
Industry-Academia Collaborative R&D Programs
Kyoto Area Core Cluster
Introduction to Industry-Academia Collaborative
R&D Programs (Super Cluster Program)
This
program aims to form a globally competitive Super Cluster through
wide-range collaboration in order to create innovation with high-impact in
Japan. While exploiting the achievements of science and technology promotion measures in each area thus far, the government will initiate selection and
concentration, finding the best match, based on social and market needs.
The "Core Cluster" will enhance potential of the new market development,
strengthen the international competitiveness and revitalize R&D activities in
the regional industrial sector under close cooperation with "Satellite Clusters"
focusing on the seeds of technology and business models accumulated in the
respective areas.
Kyoto Area Super Cluster Program
Construction of
Highly-efficient Energy
Utilization System for Realizing Clean and Low-environmental Load Society
京都高度技術研究所
Advanced Scientific Technology &
Management Research Institute of KYOTO
Super Cluster Program Promotion Department
Industry-Academia-Government
Collaboration Business Div.
TEL +81-75-366-5269 FAX +81-75-366-5341
134 Chudoji Minamimachi, Shimogyo-ku,
Kyoto-City, Kyoto, Japan 600-8813
http://kyoto.supercluster.jp
公益財団法人 京都高度技術研究所（ＡＳＴＥＭ）
産学公連携事業本部
スーパークラスター事業推進部
〒600-8813 京都市下京区中堂寺南町134番地 ASTEM棟 5階
SiC Power Electronics Promotes 'Construction of Highly-efficient Energy Utilization System for
Realizing Clean and Low-environmental Load Society'
Silicon (Si) power devices, which are used in a variety of electric transformations
during a series of processes from generation to utilization of electricity, waste
larger amount of electric energy due to thermal loss. Such a loss can be significantly
reduced upon using compact, highly-efficient and simple cooling type Silicon
Carbide (SiC) power devices, a remarkable energy-saving effect of which attracts
increasing recent attention. This Super Cluster program aims at industrialization
and public application of the SiC power devices, thus realizing a sustainable, clean
and low-environmental load society. The R&D on new products equipped with SiC
power devices have been undertaken through industry-academia and industry-industry collaborations, accelerating widespread application of SiC power devices to
electrical and electronic appliances in various fields such as motor, EV automobile,
robotics, big data server, train, power transmission and others.
PC
Enhance the efficiency of
power conditioners.
Save more energy for
air conditioners.
Train
Reduce the power loss
and the size of various
production facilities.
The Organization of Super Cluster
for Promoting the Project
Factories
JST Kyoto Office
Sei-ichi Nishimoto
Professor
Graduate School of
Engineering, Kyoto
University
Takashi Hikihara
Professor
Department of Electrical
Engineering, Kyoto
University
R&D Group for Promoting
Industry-Industry
Collaboration
Application R&D
Group
Kiyoshi Agusa
Guest Professor / Academic Center for
Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto
University / President / Advanced
Scientific Technology & Management
Research Institute of KYOTO(ASTEM RI /
KYOTO)
Universities
industry
Takashi Nakamura
Group General Manager
Research and Development
Headquarters
ROHM Co., Ltd.
Industries
Public Research Institutes
Fukui Prefecture
Fukui Industrial Support Center
Universities
Seeds
Needs
Application R&D Group
Seeds
● Develop a new class of technology with integration of energy and ICT
● Develop technology sensing variable information
● Develop fundamental technology applicable to next-generation power
packet transmission
Circuit and System Design R&D Group
● Develop optimum circuits for electric power conversion using SiC power devices
● Develop compact and light-weight equipment leading to a large energy conservation effect
● Develop generalized technology of circuit design to drive SiC power devices
High-functional Material and Device R&D Group
● Develop next-generation SiC power devices with higher performances
● Develop high-functional component materials applicable to higher-temperature operation of electronic circuits
● Develop technology for integration of SiC power electronics with solar cells and rechargeable batteries
Industries
Public Researh Institutes
Shiga Area Satellite Cluster
Integration with
Component Technologies
Shiga Prefecture
The University of Shiga Prefecture
Commercialization and public
application research
Needs
Industries
Fukui Area Satellite Cluster
Constructing high-efficiency
energy utilization system
Seeds
Nagano Techno Foundation
Universities
Trial manufacture of prototype products and evaluation
of public application
Clean and
Low-environmental
Load Society
Needs
Public Research Institutes
Chairman
Advanced Scientific Technology & Management Research Institute of KYOTO
(ASTEM RI / KYOTO)
Chairman
Kyoto Municipal Institute of Industrial Technology and Culture
Tsunenobu Kimoto
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Offices, Industry-academia collaboration,
Industry-industry collaboration,
Patent and knowledge management,
Global marketing
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Nagano Area Satellite Cluster
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Kyoto Area Core Cluster
Device R&D Group
● Support small and medium enterprises to develop and commercialize products with SiC power devices
SiC power devices produces:
Reduce the size and weight
of cooling system.
High-functional Material and
● Promote public application of SiC power devices through industry-academia and industry-industry collaborations
as promoted public application of
EV automobile
Reduce the size of AC adapter to
be embeded within a notebook PC.
Kyoto Prefecture,
Kyoto City
Reduce power energy loss of the
server machines as used in the
big data center.
R&D Group for Promoting Industry-Industry Collaboration
Green innovation
Solar Cells
Home Electronics
The Kyoto Area Core Cluster is composed of 4 R&D groups through industry-academia
and industry-industry collaboration, thereby promoting application of the SiC power
devices to a wide variety of commodities. Achieving this objective, the 4 R&D groups
collaborate closely with one another as in a gear system involving a rational cycle of
providing technology seeds, evaluating technology, and requesting new technological
needs.
Reduce the power energy loss
of inverter equipment with
minimized size and weight.
Big Data Server
Promoting Public Application of SiC Power Devices to Realize a Clean and Low-environmental
Load Society
The goal of Kyoto Area Core Cluster is "Construction of
Highly-efficient Energy Utilization System for Realizing Clean
and Low-environmental Load Society" through close
collaboration with 3 Satellite Clusters in Nagano, Fukui and
Shiga areas, which produce component technologies
according to demands by the Core Cluster.
Nagano Area Satellite Cluster
Fukui Area Satellite Cluster
Shiga Area Satellite Cluster
▪Development of heat dissipation insulating materials
▪Development of wet plating process to fabricate SiC devices
▪Development of high efficiency, thin film solar cell systems
and heat-resistant composite materials
▪Development and benchmark of battery materials for integrated with SiC-based invertors
▪Development of optical probe current sensor
energy storage system using SiC devices
▪Development of optimum charge control system from [Universities] Kyoto University; Kyoto Institute of Technology; Osaka University; Kobe University; Nara Institute of Science and Technology; Doshisha University; Ritsumeikan University
▪Development of high-efficiency technology for ▪Development and benchmark of incorporated system for unstable electric power to Li-ion battery
[Public Research Institutes] Kyoto Municipal Institute of Industrial Technology and Culture; Kyoto Prefectural Technology Center for Small and Medium Enterprises
wireless power transfer
battery-equipped HEMS with new materials
▪Development of a small cooling device applying the Organizations Participating in Kyoto Area Core Cluster
[Industries] IKS Japan Co., Ltd.; OMRON Corporation; KYOCERA Corporation; SAMCO Inc.; SHIMADZU CORPORATION; Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.; NICHICON CORPORATION;
NIDEC Corporation; HORIBA, Ltd.; Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.; ROHM Co., Ltd.; and others as participate later.
Universities
Industries
Public Research Institutes
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