PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system to confirm the optimum connection of a mutual connection cable in an imaging system. SOLUTION: In a confirmation system 108 of one embodiment, a confirmation system 112 changes patterns supplied from an electrocardiogram (EKG) subsystem 100 to confirm the action of mutual connection cable 104. More clearly, the continuity of the mutual connection cable is ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the engine performance desired by individual drivers by setting the drive force characteristic based on the relationship between the detected or estimated traveling environment, the predetermined traveling environment and the drive force to be realized to control an engine and a transmission. SOLUTION: A target drive force setting part calculates the target drive f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fluid pressure brake device capable of always displaying sufficient vehicle braking force. SOLUTION: An ECU detects energization limit pressure PLIM of master cylinder pressure PM/C by a brake booster 12. This energization limit pressure PLIM is determined according to the size of booster negative pressure acting on the brake booster 12 from an intake manifold 20...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a power generation efficiency. SOLUTION: A horizontal shaft 9 extending from a rear side machine casing 8 above a support 7 to a front side is provided, a main wind mill 10 is arranged to be rotatable to a tip of the horizontal shaft 9, a nozzle 11 surrounding the main wind mill 10 is provided, and an auxiliary blade 23 which rotates a nozzle 11 in a direction reve...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To permit smooth forward/reverse change-over by allowing a forward- reverse hydraulic clutch shifted by a shuttle lever, to be shifted by a clutch pedal, and allowing the hydraulic clutch to be controlled in pressure by the clutch 'in' start action of the clutch pedal when operating a shuttle lever. SOLUTION: Engine power is transmitted to front and rear wheels via a forward-...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase rigidity of a differential case serving as an input side rotor and a case cover and to stably carry out differential restriction so as to improve durability by setting an axial displacement quantity of the differential case and the case cover within a specific range with respect to a given driving force. SOLUTION: This differential gear is provided with an input s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve quietness and durability by boring multiple holes through the inside and outside diameters in a differential case, planting pins prepared as separate components in the holes, forming a recess part in the outside diameter part of a ball holder, and engaging the recess part with the pins planted in the differential case together. SOLUTION: When a driving force from a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a size and to improve assembling workability by arranging a fitting hole for supporting a ball bearing in an input shaft and a through hole for a shift shaft in a bearing housing and storing the bearing housing inside a chain case. SOLUTION: In a rotary working machine provided with an input shaft 15 to a chain case 11 and a shift shaft 25 for a clutch connecting/di...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent power generation efficiency from lowering due to surface temperature rise of a solar cell by disposing the solar cell in a water heater utilizing solar heat and circulating water. SOLUTION: A solar cell 3 is disposed in a black container 1 utilizing solar heat and the surface of the solar cell is cooled by supplying water into the container from a supply water inle...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent hot water temperature from dropping even when a water heater is operated in the vicinity of limit capacity of a hot water storage tank by providing a control means for closing and resetting an automatic valve when water supply reaches a level stored in a hot water quantity memory means. SOLUTION: A control means 7 opens an automatic valve 6 when a solar water heate...

A protective article to cover part of a wearer's body, e.g. the back, when in contact with a surface as during abdominal exercises comprises a pad (56) and a harness for attaching the pad to the wearer's body, the connection (58, 60) between pad and harness allowing relative movement to accommodate flexing of the body. The pad may be of a resilient material or may have a chamber filled with a pres...

In an electron beam tube arrangement, such as an IOT amplifier, an input cavity 5 surrounds an electron gun 1. The cavity 5 includes parts which are at high and low relative electrical potentials. These are separated by RF chokes 16 and 17 to provide dc isolation whilst acting as a short circuit to high frequency radiation coupled into the cavity 5. The arrangement also includes a bypass capacitor...

A centrifuge instrument and a rotor therefor which is loaded with sample containers automatically by gravity through an opening in a cover located over a core and, subsequent to centrifugation, is unloaded automatically, again assisted by gravity, through an opening in a floor disposed beneath the core. A sample container loading arrangement is provided to hold a plurality of sample containers and...

Graphite powder having a mean particle size not larger than 30 mu m is added to a negative electrode plate for a lead storage battery. Preferably, the amount of graphite powder added is in the range of from 0.3 % to 2 % by weight. Preferably, vein powder is used as the graphite powder. More preferably, 0.3 % or more by weight of an organic expander is added.

A method and apparatus are disclosed for establishing communication in a cased wellbore with a data sensor (16) that has been remotely deployed, prior to the installation of casing in the wellbore, into a subsurface formation (20) penetrated by the wellbore. Communication is established by installing an antenna (18) in an opening in the casing wall (24). A data receiver (60) is inserted into the c...

A composition capable of scavenging oxygen composed of (i) a copolymer having long chain branches comprising units derived from monomers of ethylene and at least one vinyl unsaturated alicyclic monomer; (ii) a transition metal catalyst; (iii) preferably, with a photoinitiator; and (iv) optionally, a polymeric diluent.

A process for modifying a uniformity of a tire comprising a radial carcass ply of rubberized organic fiber cords is modifications of radial force variation (RFV) and conicity force (COF), which is carried out by dividing RFV- or COF-rejected fire into two portions and applying different thermal hysteresis to these portions under specified conditions.

In an electron beam tube arrangement, such as an IOT amplifier, an input cavity (5) surrounds an electron gun (1). The cavity (5) includes parts which are at high and low relative electrical potentials. These are separated by RF chokes (16 and 17) to provide dc isolation whilst acting as a short circuit to high frequency radiation coupled into the cavity (5). The arrangement also includes a bypass...

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the parallel displacement of a material web (1) in that the material web (1) is, between two driven bending rollers (6, 8), caused to form a freely depending bight or loop (11) whose lower end is read-off by a sensing device (12). The sensing device (12) controls the speed of the first bending roller (6), while the second bending roller (8) is...

The utility model relates to a telescopic all-weather shed solar water heater which designs an absorber plate of a solar energy water heater into a telescopic and retractable all-weather shed for the first time and collects the solar energy water heater and the telescopic and retractable all-weather shed into integration. The external appearance of the all-weather shed presents an arc. The utility...