PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a greening system suitable for raising plants from the aspect of rooftop greening, excellent in heat insulation or cold insulation effect and snow melting effect on a rooftop, and excellent in retention of water and control of a watering period.

SOLUTION: This greening system is such that a ground circuit and an underground circuit where a liquid heat vehicl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify manufacture processes, to automate manufacture, to perform mass production or to reduce a manufacture cost in an iontophoresis apparatus of a type that first conductivity type medicament ions are doped to a first conductivity type ion exchange membrane arranged on a biological interface or an iontophoresis apparatus of a type that two ion exchange membranes of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved X-ray mammography/tomosynthesis technology.

SOLUTION: A breast x-ray system and method using tomosynthesis imaging in which the x-ray source generally moves away from the patient's head. The system may include an operation mode in which it additionally takes mammogram image data.

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a decorating device, with which a projecting decorating part can be easily and efficiently formed on a matter to be decorated such as chopsticks or the like.

SOLUTION: The decorating device for projectingly adhering resin liquid to the decorating surface 5 of the matter 3 to be decorated is equipped with a vertically movable up and down sticker 9 having rece...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermal transfer image receiving material for obtaining an image with a high density, a high sensitivity and good fixing properties, a thermal transfer recording material, a thermal transfer recording method using the thermal transfer recording material, and a metal-containing compound for thermal transfer recording.

SOLUTION: The thermal transfer recordin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely and effectively suppress driving slip without needing compatibility for every vehicle model.

SOLUTION: When determined that a vehicle is not in non-deceleration (S20), traveling driving torques Twrfl and Twrfr of left and right front wheels are computed (S30), and when the left front wheel is in driving slip state (S40) and the right front wheel is not in the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle traveling controller capable of executing acceleration/deceleration control improved in follow-up property to a preceding vehicle.

SOLUTION: In the vehicle traveling controller which executes acceleration/deceleration control to a following vehicle so that vehicle-to-vehicle relation value between the preceding vehicle and the following vehicle is ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform highly accurate vehicle control considering tire characteristic or vehicle speed.

SOLUTION: The vehicle control system (electronic control device 40) comprises a roll inertia moment computing means computing a roll inertia moment I generated in a vehicle AM based on the roll arm length H, mass M, lateral acceleration Gy, roll rate ψd, roll angular accelerati...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid transmission for shortening a time until the release of a fastening/releasing means, and for reducing a driving force shock in the case of changing a driving mode.

SOLUTION: The hybrid transmission for continuously changing a change gear ratio between a main power source and a driving system is provided with the fastening/releasing means for fixing ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of a hybrid vehicle having an engine and motor generator and capable of suppressing an increase of power loss in the whole of the control device.

SOLUTION: This control device has a clutch arranged in a power transmission path from the engine to wheels and the motor generator for generating regenerative braking force by kinetic energy of the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent shock in mode change of a transmission in a hybrid vehicle.

SOLUTION: In the control device for hybrid vehicle including a power distribution device and a transmission provided in a power transmission route extending from a prime motor to wheels, a first motor generator connected to the power distribution device, and a second motor generator connected to the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain a stability control device capable of improving responsiveness of control at low cost for further improving traveling stability.

SOLUTION: A controller 15 calculates, based on a lateral load on a tread determined by a lateral load measuring means 13 and a self-aligning torque determined by a self-aligning torque measuring means 14, at least either one of a la...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate casting work of a case constituting an outer shell of an outboard motor and to facilitate assembling work of the outboard motor.

SOLUTION: The outboard motor 5 is provided with the case 10 capable of being supported on a hull 3 side; a propeller shaft 16 stored in an internal space 12 at a lower end of the case 10 and made rotatable around an approximatel...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power steering system capable of adjusting the backlash between a worm shaft and a worm wheel simply by a simple construction.

SOLUTION: The first end 18a of a double lead type worm shaft 18 is supported by the output shaft 20 of a motor 16 through a joint 22. It is not required to use any bearing for supporting the first end 18a of the worm shaft 18. The ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve regenerative efficiency of a motor generator in a torque transmission device equipped with the motor generator.

SOLUTION: This torque transmission device 1 for transmitting output torque of an engine 8 to a transmission 9 and assisting the engine 8 is provided with a first input member 21 connected with a flywheel 82; an input shaft 91 of the transmission 9;...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for a hybrid vehicle by which the regenerative efficiency of a regenerative mechanism can be enhanced when decelerating a vehicle.

SOLUTION: The controller of the hybrid vehicle is provided with a planet gear mechanism having a plurality of rotary elements whose differential rotation is possible, wherein the rotary elements of the planet gear me...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for vehicle capable of controlling behavior of an own vehicle based on the presence of an obstacle around another vehicle.

SOLUTION: This control device comprises shift information detection means (steps S11 and S12) detecting shift information of the automatic transmission of the other vehicle by an external information detection device; an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a blood flow improving agent which can improve the symptoms of feeling of cold, shoulder stiffness, edema or the like, and ocular tension and eyesight to recover from eyestrain and activate the metabolism of skin tissues by improving blood flow with the use of a protein raw material derived from a food inexpensive and familiar to daily life.

SOLUTION: Based ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liposoluble medicament composition with improved in vivo absorption of the liposoluble ingredient and stable as a preparation, and to provide the liposoluble medicament composition for capsule.

SOLUTION: The liposoluble medicament composition comprises the liposoluble ingredient and a surfactant, wherein the surfactant comprises diacetyltartaric and unsatu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pneumatic tire excellent in operation at the time of production and excellent in balance of wet performance and snow performance.

SOLUTION: In the pneumatic tire, a tread center area 20 is formed of a rubber composition obtained by compounding a rubber component having -55 to -40°C glass transition point with a large particle-diameter silica having 70-200 ...