PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently and economically recover a massive amount of CO2 discharged from a thermal power plant using LNG for fuel. SOLUTION: This hydrogen separation type power generation system 1 is provided with a reforming and separation device 4 for conducting reforming of natural gas and separation of hydrogen in parallel by integrating a reforming means for reforming natural gas...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate a problem of occurrence where a sufficient sensing cannot be carried out due to breakage or embedding into a packaging material and the like in a bag manufacturing and filling machine even if some foreign materials bite into a lateral sealer. Ž

SOLUTION: An apparatus for sensing a bitten state of a lateral sealer in a bag manufacturing and filling machine is...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain excellent hydrophobicity by coating an oxide coating film consisting essentially of SiO2 with a sol consisting essentially of a silane coupling agent having a fluorinated carbon chain so as to have surface hardness equal to or above a specific pencil hardness, integrally forming the oxide film on the dense layer and making the whole surface to be a fine rugged layer...

A drive system includes an output shaft of an engine connected to a sun gear of a planetary gear assembly. An electric motor is connected, via gears, to a carrier rotatably supporting a planetary pinion gear that rotates around the outer circumference of the sun gear while rotating on its axis in engagement with the sun gear. An input shaft of a STEPTRONIC(TM) transmission is connected to a ring g...

An image-forming apparatus allows duplex print to be performed using tabbed sheets. A plurality of paper sensors A, B, C, D, E, and F are installed on a paper output side of a paper tray 20 in a direction perpendicular to a sheet transport direction. The location of a tab 12 and the tab length in the transport direction are determined from a difference in timings of the rise or fall of output sign...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of a driving power source capable of avoiding at least one of two conventional problems including generation of torsional vibration at a torque transmitter provided between the driving power source and a rotation device and suspension of control to adjust rotation speed of the driving power source. Ž

SOLUTION: The control device of the driving...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify control by reducing the number of mode changes and selection of fastening/release of a low brake in a range wherein much difference is not made on the reduction of fuel consumption whichever mode is selected. Ž

SOLUTION: When an operating point of an EIVT mode range is moved to an operating point of an arbitrary range Z (EIVT-LB, EIVT), EIVT mode, which does ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress booming noise occurring when an engine is operated. Ž

SOLUTION: When a drive request power P* comes within a booming noise area, the history of a drive request power P* is determined (step S140), the target power Pe of the engine is set to a threshold Pl, which is the lower limit value of the power in the booming noise area, or a threshold PH, which is the up...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of a hybrid vehicle capable of achieving the stable mode transition even when a target rotating frequency is discontinuously changed accompanying the transition of mode. Ž

SOLUTION: In this control device of the hybrid vehicle, a boundary of a continuously variable change gear ratio mode zone and a fixed change gear ratio mode zone has a trans...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress deterioration of fuel consumption by energy loss by making preliminary operation to the just before fastening state of a clutch and/or a brake enhancing shift mode switching response to the minimum. Ž

SOLUTION: When High mode is selected at hybrid (HEV) traveling, a shift mode where selection is predicted when increase of required driving force exists is show...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a friction controller of a motor four-wheel drive vehicle which can improve fuel consumption by suppressing surrounding resistance to be low by early reducing unit friction by lubricating oil at a 2WD selecting time. Ž

SOLUTION: Left and right front wheels 1L, 1R are driven by an engine 2. Left and right rear wheels 3L, 3R are driven by a motor 4. In the motor...

The invention relates to a device for loading a fragmenting machine, such as a hammer crusher, including a front and rear upper drive roller which are equipped, independently of each other, with a drive mechanism and arranged above the feed plane of a feed chute. The drive rollers are mounted on a displaceable and pressure exerting system of levers, such that a continuous, pre-pressed and controll...

A computer-implemented method of identifying suspect masses in digital radiologic images and a system for computer-aided diagnosis of such images in which the images are thresholded at a large number of threshold levels to discriminate spots and a two stage classifier is applied to the spots. The first classification stage applies multiple rules predetermined from a training set of images, to a re...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an integrated control torque in response to an operator' intention to brake a torque control equipment, by reducing a time lag between a frictional control torque generation against a regenerative control torque generation, in the braking torque control equipment equipped with a regenerative brake torque control equipment and a frictional brake torque control equipm...

A device for measuring the frictional condition of a highway measures the self-aligning torque (21) on a tire, a slip angle (23) a cross force on the tire and has low- and high-pass filters (25,28) followed by a summing region for slip angles. The degree of grip of the upper road surface and the self-aligning torque are then determined. An Independent claim is also included for a process for the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To arrange a PTO clutch and the end face of a machine body housing so as to be close to the center line of an axle for rear wheels or front wheels by arranging a lift case on the upper face of the machine body housing so as to block the opening part, and arranging the PTO clutch and a PTO brake in the range of the opening part. SOLUTION: A hydraulic lift case 13 is formed int...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid system for a vehicle comprising a transmission for changing the rotating speed of an input shaft and transmitting it from an output shaft to wheels, a first clutch for disconnecting the output shaft of an engine from the input shaft of the transmission, a dynamo-electric machine combining a motor and a generator, a power transmission mechanism for connecti...

A method of fabricating an encapsulated micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) and making of same that includes forming a dielectric layer, patterning an upper surface of the dielectric layer to form a trench, forming a release material within the trench, patterning an upper surface of the release material to form another trench, forming a first encapsulating layer that includes sidewalls within t...

The present invention is particularly, but not exclusively, useful for reducing wear of component parts of impact-type rock-crushing machines caused by earth aggregate flows during operation of impact crushers. The present invention includes a central feed body and impeller shoe that has hard material insert bars fixed therein to reduce wear. The exposed top surface of the central feed body and fr...

The shredder consists of at least one driven rotary shaft (11) with teeth (8), located inside a container holding non-metallic articles to be shredded. The teeth are designed to interact with others (15) on one or more fixed combs (4, 4a, 4b) between upper and lower compartments of the container, and each comb has an electrically-conducting base (41, 42) that is raised to a given potential, and a ...