PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive control device which gives smooth drive performance preventing an oversensitive transmission control while enhancing the response of the engine output control at a constant speed running in a vehicle having an electronic-controlled throttle device and automatic transmission. SOLUTION: A throttle motor control 20 or a transmission controller 15 controls the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a brake device for a hybrid vehicle in which the back pressure of an electric pump for ensuring a negative pressure to be supplied to a master bag is made to negative to reduce the excessive work of an engine, so that the deterioration of fuel consumption can be suppressed. SOLUTION: This rake control device for the hybrid vehicle equipped with an engine 1 and a mo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plain bearing capable of exhibiting bearing characteristics equal to or above those of LBC-3 even without being incorporated with lead at all, even though in a plain bearing used for swash type compressors of car air conditioners, construction equipment or the like, as a bearing alloy, lead-containing LBC-3 has been used as a bearing alloy, but, at the time of pe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vertical decanter type centrifugal separator having a rubber skirt being a solid matter discharge chute free from wear or sticking due to dehydrated solid matter even in the case of treating slurry of an inorganic material having large difference of the specific gravity from a liquid. SOLUTION: In the vertical decanter type centrifugal separator, the main part of...

PURPOSE:To provide means for preventing the opening degree of an electrical throttle valve from being unnecessarily fixed during reverse inhibiting control operation and to enhance the running performance of an automobile which performs the above-mentioned reverse inhibiting control and which fixes the opening degree of the throttle valve upon a speed shift. CONSTITUTION:In a power train PT, a con...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently drive to circulate a heating medium by providing a solar heat water warming system for driving to circulate the medium by a pump of a low dissipation power with a small size at the time of a normal heating medium circulating cycle, effectively preventing sealing of the air in the circuit at the time of charging the medium, and effectively generating a dischargi...

PURPOSE: To prevent the drop of the capacity of a battery by specifying the volume of a battery jar at 10<5> -10<6> mm<3> , and making a battery vessel of material allowing specified water to permeate itself, and besides, putting the compression ratio of a separator at the specified value sought with the expression 1. CONSTITUTION: For the group of electrode plates consisting of a positive electro...

In a reproduction apparatus outputting copy sheets via exit rollers to be stacked in an adjacent stacking tray, which exit rollers are also reversible to feed a selected copy sheet still in the nip back into the reproduction apparatus to be further processed, the previously outputted and stacking copy sheets are prevented from being recaptured by these reversed rotation exit rollers, by automatica...

The properties of (meth)acrylic ester/(meth)acrylic acid copolymer webs, such as films and nonwovens, are improved by blending the ester/acid copolymer with polyethylene glycol. The polymer blend provides a polymeric material which is useful for making personal care products such as diapers and feminine pads in that it can be made water-soluble while exhibiting other properties which are necessary...

Patente de Invenção: "MéTODO PARA UM PORTADOR DECARTãO REQUISITAR O CUMPRIMENTO DE UMAOBRIGAçãO ASSOCIADA AO CARTãO E PARA QUE OEMISSOR RECONHEçA ESSA OBRIGAçãO". Um método paraque um possuidor de cartão requisite o cumprimento de umaobrigação associada ao cartão e para que o emissor reconheçaesta obrigação, cujo método permite uma interação remota daspartes e assegura sua segurança. O emissor emi...

A furniture glide including a stippled bottom surface. A replacement furniture glide may be formed as a cap to be snapped over the existing glide and having a stippled bottom surface. The stipples allow debris on a floor to pass under the glide without becoming embedded in the contact surface between the glide and the floor, thereby preventing the glide from scratching or marring the floor surface...

An ankle holder for carrying condom packages is designed to hold and conceal condom packages to the wearer's ankle, waist, or wrist and is designed to allow the wearer to easily remove a condom package from the ankle holder or to easily open a condom package while the condom package remains in the ankle holder. The ankle holder comprises of a strap which has an adjustable fastening device to shape...

A replaceable accessory cord and hand switch set for an electrosurgical instrument wherein the accessory cord electrically couples an electrosurgical generator to the electrosurgical instrument. The hand switch is electrically coupled with the accessory cord. A button on the hand switch activates the flow of electrosurgical current in the instrument. An insulated mechanical connector on the hand s...

A catheter assembly and method for treatment of cardiac arrhythmia, for example, atrial fibrillation, by electrically isolating a vessel, such as a pulmonary vein, from a chamber, such as the left atrium. The catheter assembly includes a catheter body and at least one electrode. The catheter body includes a proximal portion, an intermediate portion and a distal portion. The intermediate portion ex...

In an electrosurgical instrument susceptible to varying load impedance, particularly varying load reactance, a fixed frequency radio frequency generator has an output stage (Q1, Q2, TR2-TR4, C1, VC2, 42) consisting of at least one output power device and, coupled to the power device, an output network with a load-dependent resonant condition. To compensate for variations in the load reactance, the...

An integrated catheter assembly for enabling diverse endoscopic in situ therapies. The assembly includes a catheter with an irrigation fluid lumen, a distal electrode tip portion that acts as a hemostat, and a cutting wire for making incisions in or ablating tissue. A cutting wire hub provides a sealing entrance for a cutting wire. An operator enables the physician to displace the cutting wire bet...

Metal materials are sintered using microwave energy to provide high strength dental restorations. The metal materials used to manufacture the dental restorations herein are sintered to high density to provide high strength products that have a density close to the density achieved when the same materials are cast. A dense solid having a fine microstructure is achieved using microwave heating. Thro...

Method of preparing a composite yeast fermented beverage such as beer including lager, with predetermined content of flavour compounds, comprising combining separate batches of beverage, of which at least one is a base beverage produced with a yeast strain having reduced or lacking production of one or more flavour compounds or flavour stabilizing compounds. In the method are used yeast strains in...

The invention relates to a blow torch (6) for a cutting process, in particular a steam cutting process, comprising a control device (3), a liquid supply system, in particular a container (5) for a liquid (8), and a power source (2), the blow torch (6) being connected via lines (9, 10) to the power source (2). The blow torch (6) is connected by a supply line (7) to the liquid supply system. At leas...

The present invention provides an apparatus and method for performing rf intraluminal reduction and/or occlusion with a virtual electrode. An apparatus in accord with the present invention includes a catheter and a guide wire. The guide wire includes a conductive core having a proximal end electrically connected to a generator of rf current and an exposed distal end. An insulative material having ...