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Last Updated on June 16, 2008
１種 ■ Technical Committees (The 1st category)
　

 ■ Masatsu no kagaku (The 1st category)

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E-mail   Shoji Noguchi < nog rs.noda.tus.ac.jp >
E-mail   Atsushi Korenaga < korenaga-a aist.go.jp >

 ■ Internet-Tribo-Museum　Committee (The 1st category)

  　 This committee was set up in 2008 to establish INTERNET-TRIBO-MUSEUM which shows the scientific knowledge and technical achievements in all fields of tribology. Tribological phenomena in nature will be explained. Tribological technologies and products will be introduced and explained.
E-mail   Koji Katou < koji mech.ce.nihon-u.ac.jp >

 ■ Tribological Heritage Research Committee (The 1st category)

  　 The purpose of this research committee is to make a record of technical advances in the field of tribology and deepen knowledge related to the history of tribology while also pursuing activities to foster the general public’s understanding regarding this field. For that purpose, we began in 2007 to investigate tribological heritages and preserve and register various types of materials in order to promote broader general interest and understanding concerning this field.
  　 In 2008, with the cooperation of Japanese Society of Tribologists member companies, we plan to conduct surveys regarding tribological heritages, carry out heritage registration and certification work, and investigate museums, reference rooms, exhibition rooms, etc. in order to grasp the current situation.
E-mail   Makoto Mikami < makoto.mikami toshiba.co.jp >
E-mail   Minoru Takeda < minoru_takeda jtekt.co.jp >

二種 ■ Technical Committees (The 2nd category)
　

 ■ Additive Technology for Lubricants (The 2nd category)


  Technical Committee on Additive Technology for Lubricants was set up in 1987 to discuss the technology on additive for lubricants. Due to the increasing concern about global environment problems, demand for lubricating additives has become more and more severe, and ground-breaking technological development for additives has been strongly needed. In order to satisfy the needs of the times, we aim at the development of breakthrough additive technology for lubricants.
E-mail   Masabumi Masuko < mmasuko chemeng.titech.ac.jp >
E-mail   Akihito Suzuki < asuzuki chemeng.titech.ac.jp >


 ■ Solid lubricants (The 2nd category)



  The activity of the society is supported by the fee of the company members (21 companies, March 2003 ). Last year was the 30th anniversary of the society. We holds the meeting 5 times a year and symposium every 5 year. We also lively cooperate with other societies on research activities.
E-mail   Fumihiro Honda < harugakitax2 ybb.ne.jp >
E-mail   Masahiro Kawamura < masahiro gol.com >

 ■ Grease (The 2nd category)



  This working group repeated a study of Grease Lubrication Life (The study results were submitted to a memoir). At this session, we analyzed the various type of factor affecting the lubrication life and the process run into the duration of life of the Urea Type Grease which was used in numerous cases recently. Our working group was made up of 17 members who are the Grease Manufacturers, Users (Bearing Manufacturers, Railway Companies, etc.) and the academic of university. Based on the verification test which we use the SODA type and ASTM type test machines which were owned by each members and the analysis of the under test grease, we inquire into the results.
E-mail   Kunio Takemura < takemura nihonkoyu.co.jp >
E-mail   Atsushi Yokouchi < yokouchi nsk.com >

 ■ Life for Rolling Bearings (The 2nd category)



    This committee was set up in June 2005 and consist of 1４ members including 6 companies.   To make clear the relation between fatigue life and influential factor, fatigue tests of rolling bearings are conducting with common theme. The ball bearings from one manufacturing lot and test machines of identical design are adopted in a same experimental condition with several load levels and lubricating oils made by one specific maker. The committee is getting the load-life and the viscosity-life indices.

E-mail   Junzo Okamoto < j_okamoto msi.biglobe.ne.jp >
E-mail   Masao Sato < satoum01 kanagawa-u.ac.jp >

３種 ■ Technical Committees (The 3rd category)
　

 ■ Engine Tribology (The 3rd category)


  This research group was established in 1979 in order to facilitate further development of engine tribology and free exchange of opinions among engineers/researchers concerned. Since then, a number of people from related corporations and research institutes have participated in this group (the current number of members: 50) who are taking active parts with the key word of engine tribology. Four or five meetings are　being held per year with a couple of interesting subjects presented at each meeting. The participants consist of wide ranges of generation and specialty - from the young to the veteran with expertise in various fields concerned such as chemistry, mechanical engineering, materials science, etc. which contribute to the active introduction and exchange of useful knowledge and information in engine tribology.
E-mail   Masaaki Takiguchi < takiguchi eng.me.musashi-tech.ac.jp >
E-mail   < enjyun eng.me.musashi-tech.ac.jp >

 ■ Rolling Contact Fatigue (The 3rd category)


  This technical committee is concerned with the understanding of rolling contact fatigue. The committee members include researchers and engineers conducting research in not only machine elements such as gears and bearings but also metallic materials and lubricating materials, and discuss rolling contact fatigue phenomena in an open-minded and a sociable atmosphere from various viewpoints of machine elements, lubricants, materials and so on.
E-mail   Hiroaki Ohba < ohba toyodenki.co.jp >
E-mail   Takumi Fujita < takumi_fujita ntn.co.jp >

 ■ Seals (The 3rd category)


  Emission control is critical in industrial equipment, machinery and transportation systems, and failure of a seal produces hazardous results. The aim of research group on sealing technology is to exchange and discuss important and interesting information and new insight into old problems in order to improve sealing reliability and effectiveness. The meeting is held three to four times a year, usually in Tokyo and once in another city. More than 40 members would like to invite you to this group.
E-mail   Johichi Sugimura < sugi mech.kyushu-u.ac.jp >
E-mail   Yuuki Sato < satou nok.co.jp >

 ■ Tribology for Railways (The 3rd category)


  　Railway system consists of a lot of parts related to Tribology such as wheel/rail, overhead contact line/contact strip, brakes, bearings, and lubricant oils. Our aim is that this committee could contribute a development of railway technology through exchange and discussion of subjects concerned about Tribology in railway with researchers.
E-mail   Atsushi Sugahara < asw rtri.or.jp >
E-mail   Kazuya Gushima < gushima rtri.or.jp >

 ■ Tribology in File Storage (The 3rd category)


  　The tribology technical committee of the file storage systems consists of more than sixty technology experts from various industrial companies, and research and academic institutions. Committee meetings are usually held two to three times a year mainly to discuss recent topics on tribology of storgae devices such as hard disk drives and tape drives.
E-mail   Norio Tagawa < tagawa ipcku.kansai-u.ac.jp >
E-mail   Hiroshi Chiba < chiba.h jp.fujitsu.com >

 ■ Mamou (The 3rd category)


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E-mail   Hiroshi Mishina < mishina faculty.chiba-u.jp >
E-mail   Kenichi Hiratsuka < hiratsuka sea.it-chiba.ac.jp >

 ■ Maintenance Tribology (The 3rd category)


  The maintenance of mechanical systems embraces a great number of tribological machine elements, such as bearings, gears, screws and seals. Tribology therefore recognizes its significance largely through the maintenance activities regarding them. Technical Committee on Maintenance Tribology aims at exchanging information on finding the causes of the machine troubles and failures, understanding the manners of these problems and taking measures against them. Although maintenance has so far been recognized as subordinate to production, the committee intends to systematize the maintenance technology for the purpose of establishing it as a science and thus to contribute toward the progress of both engineering and scientific regions. The main activities of the committee are presentation of recent topics, discussion on them and visiting related facilities. Its members consist of nearly 50 engineers and researchers from companies, universities and official research institutes in the wide range of maintenance fields.
E-mail   Toshiaki Wakabayashi < twaka eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp >
E-mail   Hiroki Mano < hiroki.mano aist.go.jp >
E-mail   Akira Fujii < fujii.akira1 nsc.co.jp >

 ■ Tribology in Metalforming (The 3rd category)


  The tribological issue as reduction of energy and development of surface qualities in metalforming process, such as rolling, extrusion, drawing, forging, sheet metalforming and so on must be resolved in order to perform successfully metalforming process. Knowledge concerning with these metalforming tribology has recently increased greatly. In parallel with these developments of these problems, recent social circumstances have brought about a new mission for lubricant science, namely harmony with our environment. In the field of lubricants in metalforming processes, this mission is clearly to find a new lubricant technology. In the committee of “Tribology in Metalforming”, these problems will be discussed by researchers.
E-mail   Akira Azushima < azu ynu.ac.jp >
E-mail   Masatada Tanaka < mtanaka parker.co.jp >

 ■ Tribology of Ceramics (The 3rd category)


  Advanced ceramics give low friction in water, and show superior wear resistance that cannot be obtained by any metals. Their practical uses as tribological elements have steadily spread.
　This research group provides a place for “introduction and discussion of new research results and information exchange on the latest technologies” from the viewpoints of tribological fundamentals, new material development and new applications.
E-mail   Koji Kato < koji mech.ce.nihon-u.ac.jp >
E-mail   Koshi Adachi < koshi tribo.mech.tohoku.ac.jp >
< URL > http://www.tribo.mech.tohoku.ac.jp/koshi/ceramics-E.html

 ■ Tribochemisty (The 3rd category)


  The aim of the Tribochemisty Research Committee is to clarify the basic mechanism of tribochemical reactions that traditional chemical reaction processes do not explain, and to develop application technologies of the tribochemisty to the solution of tribological problems. The research committee, which consists of 37 members of scientists, basic researchers and application engineers, exchanges information with other fields of science and technologies to acquire the basic knowledge of tribochemisty through holding tribochemisty symposiums and international tribochemisty forums.
E-mail   Keiji Nakayama < k.nakayama aist.go.jp >
E-mail   Tomoko Hirayama < thirayama mail.doshisha.ac.jp >

 ■ Tribology in the Field of Automobile Industry (The 3rd category)


  　The present study group deals with tribology issues related to the field of automobile industry with the objective to upgrade skills and exchange on a variety of subjects. Members include 10 professors from 7 universities and 60 engineers from 44 companies operating in various fields related to the automobile industry such as bearings, lubricant, fuel and automobile parts makers. Four seminars are held every year in order to provide and share information on the latest advances in tribology.
E-mail   Yoshio Fuwa < fuwa giga.tec.toyota.co.jp >
E-mail   Masago Yamamoto < yamamoto-m teikokupr.co.jp >

 ■ Aluminium Tribology (The 3rd category)


  This committee consists of 66 member who belong to the aluminium rolling maker, the aluminium foil rolling maker and the can maker. I hold three or four times a year in Tokyo or Nagoya. An aim of this committee is to obtain the basic technology about the aluminium tribology and to exchange wide information through each other's arguments. Usually we discuss about the topics of the aluminium tribology offered by the each maker or the university professor. Depending on a case, we enlarge the field about the outskirts technology of the processing technique of the aluminium. We always hold a simple party after the committee. It has become the place of valuable exchange of opinions.
E-mail   Yasuhiro Hosomi < YASUHIRO_HOSOMI mail.Sumitomo-LM.co.jp >
E-mail   Takamichi Watanabe < TAKAMICHI_WATANABE mail.Sumitomo-LM.co.jp >
E-mail   Takashi Ichikawa < ichikawat saf.co.jp >
E-mail   Junichi Shibata < junichi.shibata eneos.co.jp >

 ■ Polymer Tribology (The 3rd category)


  The research group makes studies of the friction, wear and lubrication of polymers, especially plastics, rubbers and elastomers.  The studies on the tribology of polymer composites are made together with that of unfilled polymers.  The utility goods, such as plastic bearing, sliding parts, gears, clutches, brakes, tires, belts, seals and shoe soles, are also investigated.  The research meeting is held four times in a year as a rule.
E-mail   Kuniaki Iwai < kuni101 maple.ocn.ne.jp >
E-mail   Masaki Egami < masaki_egami ntn.co.jp >

 ■ Environmental Friendliness of Tribomaterials (The 3rd category)


  The purpose of this technical committee is to promote the exchange of tribological information concerning environmental problems, which are the environmental friendliness of material, lubricant, system and so on. This committee is made up of 80 members at present and the meeting is held two or three times a year. Two or three topics are presented every meeting and sometimes company visit is arranged.
E-mail   Takahisa Kimijima < takahisa_kimijima ihi.co.jp >
E-mail   Jyunichi Yoshihisa < jyunichi_yoshihisa ihi.co.jp >

 ■ Technological History of Mechanical Engineering and Components (The 3rd category)


  The development of new technology is always influenced by the past of history of engineering. It is much important for us to have precise understanding on phenomena in practical fields and various kinds of devices including theories made by predecessor. We focus on Technological History of Mechanical Engineering and Components related to the field of Tribology. We are much interested in (1)the development of products and components based on Tribology and the future trend of them, (2)investigating the background of the process in progress from original theories and ideas to present situation in technology and the forecasting of them, ?deepening the understanding on the history of engineering, (3)studying future trends of new technology on raw materials, devices and engineering in processing.As for our activity in 2004, we held the meeting by three times. We took a field trip to a shipbuilding company in the second meeting and discussed with staff engineers on tribology in the actual field. We also had a joint- meeting with the seal committee of JAST in the third meeting.
E-mail   Minoru Nonogaki < nonogaki mech.nara-k.ac.jp >
E-mail   Yoshinobu Fujii < fujii moresco.co.jp >

 ■ Micromachines Tribology (The 3rd category)


  The important issues on developing micromachines from multiple points of views relating to various engineering and scientific fields such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, surface physics, and bio-physics.  We have 18 discussing members and 12 advisory observers, and have invited specialists.　We have focused on such subjects as surface physics, surface modification, friction/wear model, bio-motor, scanning probe microscope.
E-mail   Motohisa Hirano < hirano cc.gifu-u.ac.jp >
E-mail   Akihito Matsumuro < matsumuro everest.mech.nagoya-u.ac.jp >

 ■ Bearing Technologies for Extremes (The 3rd category)


  The aim of this workshop is to openheartedly discuss the possibility of developing new bearing technologies for various kinds of extreme.  The meeting is to be held four or five times a year.  All kinds of bearing, such as a rolling element bearing, an oil film bearing, a gas film bearing, a dry friction bearing, a magnetic bearing and so on, are focused at the meeting.  All of the members enthusiastically discuss the problems not only to improve the conventional technologies but also to develop the new ones.  A social gathering is held after every meeting for the members to more frankly talk with each other flying over the fence between their organizations.

Chairman: Atsunobu Mori (Kansai University)
Secretariat: Tomoko Hirayama (Ryukoku University)
Secretariat: Masayasu Noma (Maizuru Nat’l College of Technology)

E-mail   Atsunobu Mori < morikk kyoto.zaq.ne.jp >
E-mail   Tomoko Hirayama < thirayama mail.doshisha.ac.jp >
E-mail   Masayasu Noma < noma maizuru-ct.ac.jp >
< URL > http://www.maizuru-ct.ac.jp/control/noma/trib/tribology.html

 ■ Space Tribology (The 3rd category)


  The purpose of STRG (Space Tribology Research Group)is to create a community of researchers and engineers in the field of space tribology. In the community, the members can share their experiences, knowledge and information thorough "hot" information exchange. In STRG meetings which will be held 3-4 times every year, selected speakers will talk about their "hot" experiences in detail, including lessons learned. Related facility tour and free discussions will be helpful for mutual understanding among the participants. Some of tribological technologies in industries might be useful in space applications, thus we hope that tribologists in various filed join in our research group.
E-mail   Akira Sasaki < a-sasaki kjjp.nec.com >
E-mail   Takashi Nogi < nogi.takashi jaxa.jp >

 ■ Eco-machining and Tribology (The 3rd category)


  Technological advances in environmentally friendly machining, i.e. eco-machining, necessitate solutions to such tribology-related problems as enhancing the tribological characteristics of tools, increasing the performance of cutting fluids, improving and developing machining methodology or machine tools as a tribosystem, and so on. In order to solve these problems, therefore, on the topics of eco-machining, Research Group on Eco-machining and Tribology aims at clarifying its advantages and disadvantages or conditions of its application, overcoming its present difficulties and contributing to its further progress and diffusion.
E-mail   Takashi Nakamura < tnakamur nitech.ac.jp >
E-mail   Fumihiro Itoigawa < itoigawa nitech.ac.jp >

 ■ Tribology in the Field of Food Industry (The 3rd category)
   ( F.G.L.：Committee of Food Grade Lubricants)



  　 This Committee consists of 45 members. Members include 4 professors from 4 universities and 40 consulting engineer and sales engineer from 32companies operating in various fields related to the food industry, and one independent administrative institution. Three or four meetings are held every year, in order to exchange information with consultants and scientists of other fields.
E-mail   Miyako Saitoh < miyako.saitoh sunmari.com >
E-mail   Tsutomu Kurokawa < t.kurokawa juntsu.co.jp >
　

 ■ Molecular Simulations for Tribology (The 3rd category)


  The aim of this meeting is to provide opportunities to introduce and discuss the possibilities and applications of molecular simulations for Tribology.
　The meeting also provides lectures for the biginners of molecular simulations. The meeting is held three or four times a year and the each meeting has three presentations for the molecular simulations and other recent topics.

Chairman: Takahisa Kato(The University of Tokyo)
Secretariat: Hitoshi Washizu (Toyota Central R&D Labs.)
Secretariat: Kentaro Tanaka (Tokyo Univ. of Marine Sci. and Tech.)
E-mail   Kentaro Tanaka < kentaro kaiyodai.ac.jp >
E-mail   Hitoshi Washizu < washizu mosk.tytlabs.co.jp >
< URL > http://www2.kaiyodai.ac.jp/~kentaro/MD_meeting/index.html

 ■ Tribology on Transmissions (The 3rd category)


  This technical committee was inaugurated in the fiscal year 2007 and started the activities. The following is the main object of the committee.

1. To promote researches and technology developments between industries and universities in the tribology field that are related to automobile and construction machine transmissions
2. To make the opportunities of the information exchange among engineers, chemists and researchers who work for tribology field that are related to automobile and construction machine transmissions
3. To report the technical information that accumulated with the committee

  Also, this committee is in agreement that it works as a supporting organization of the International Symposium of Tribology on Vehicle Transmissions.
E-mail   Yasuhiro Murakami < yasuhiro.murakami aftonchemical.com >
E-mail   Masahiko Kaneda < masahiko2_kaneda jatco.co.jp >
E-mail   Shiduko Iida < Shiduko_iida jatco.co.jp >

 ■ Ionic liquids for tribology: fundamental & applications (The 3rd category)


  　Ionic liquids are unique compounds that possess thermal stability, non-flammability, non-volatility and high thermal capacity. These properties are desirable for advanced lubricants. In fact, the tribological properties of various ionic liquids have been acquired in laboratory and have been reported. Plenty types of cations and several types of anions are known to be precursors of ionic liquids. Possibility of ionic liquids, prepared by combining anion and cation, is estimated more than one million. Therefore systematic research is required to reveal the tribology of ionic liquids.
    Our research consortium aims to share the technical information regarding the tribology of ionic liquids obtained from the public domain. We welcome any tribologists who are interested in ionic liquids; of course both academic researchers and industrial engineers. For details, do not hesitate to ask us by e-mail; Minami at ichiro iwate-u.ac.jp or Sasaki at s.sasaki rs.kagu.tus.ac.jp.
E-mail   Ichiro Minami < ichiro iwate-u.ac.jp >
E-mail   Shinya Sasaki < s.sasaki rs.kagu.yus.ac.jp >

３種 ■ Regional Committees
　

 ■ Nihonkai Tribology (The regional committee)


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E-mail   Satoru Kaneko < kaneko mech.nagaokaut.ac.jp >
E-mail   Yoshio Matsuzaki < mastu ishikawa-nct.ac.jp >

 ■ Hokkaido Tribology (The regional committee)


  　　Regional Committee of Hokkaido Tribology was set up in 2005 to network tribologists in Hokkaido and discuss the science and technology of tribology and the related subjects in industrial and academic fields, including the basics, application and education.
E-mail   Toshiharu Kazama < kazama mmm.muroran-it.ac.jp >
E-mail   Yasuhiro Kudou < y-kudo noastec.jp >

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