Abstract
This study focuses upon an innovative industrial product that one of the smaller firms in Higashiosaka city developed. The aim of this paper is to clarify how the industrial product, the PA13-A, contributes to life support when disaster occurs. As a research method this study uses informal interviews. If disaster occurs and the city gas line stops, ‘the PA13-A Gas Generator' will be able to keep on offering gas for people. There are achievements with the introduction of PA13-A in the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake, the Niigata Chuetsu Offshore Earthquake and the Great Tohoku Japan Earthquake. In addition, the diffusion situation of the innovative product and the problems which confront us for diffusion will be clarified.
