PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simple method of producing seasonings which contain Lactobacillus sakei live bacteria, and which is superior in taste and preservation stability.

SOLUTION: This method for producing the lactic acid bacterium-containing seasoning comprises a process of culturing Lactobacillus sakei in seasoning (A), which contains a raw material derived from soybeans, and a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a peel-resistant and easy-to-apply decorative structure for a fishing rod by devising the pasting method of a decorative seal, and to provide a method for producing a rod that has the structure.

SOLUTION: A narrow-width decorative seal layer 5 having a narrow width along the rod axial line is formed on the coated layer 4 of a rod material, and an undercoatin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a knockdown furniture unit that is lightweight and inexpensive and can be really used as a piece of furniture even for a single member and as the furniture even when a child grows.

SOLUTION: The knockdown furniture unit has an oblong and horizontal member and square and perpendicular members which consist of sheetlike and paper honeycombs with the same width...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suitably protect a needle tip in a catheter device.

SOLUTION: The diameter and length of a sleeve are preferably selected so that the sleeve positioned at a needle tip protector is engaged with a curved portion on the needle tip. A system for retaining a tip protector (10) on a needle (32) having a curved or bent portion (20) adjacent the tip. A Braun clip tip prote...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for deodorization effective as a measure against odors emitted when odorant sources stored in a hopper are discharged out of the hopper.

SOLUTION: The method and apparatus are used to deodorize odors produced around facilities when odorant sources stored in the hopper are discharged out of the hopper. A first spray nozzle 11 is arra...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cultivation composition which rapidly creates anaerobic conditions and preferentially proliferate bacteria concerning the reductive dechlorination reaction of organochlorine compounds.

SOLUTION: The cultivation composition is employed for being added to a substance to be treated for purifying the substance to be treated contaminated by organochlorine compo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a copper-clad plate which has high dimensional stability, a proper modulus of elasticity, and has slidability by generating surface projections by adding fine inorganic particles, uses a polyimide film applicable to an automatic optical inspection system (AOI), and is suitable for a high performance flexible printed circuit board.

SOLUTION: In the copper-cla...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a curtain airbag device in which the possibility of coming out of an inflatable bag in deployed state to the outside of a window is reduced.

SOLUTION: This curtain airbag device comprises: the inflatable airbag stored at the upper edge of the window of a vehicle in a compressed state and inflated and deployed toward the inside of the vehicle during the opera...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air conditioner for a vehicle and its controlling method, capable of automatically setting the optimum air conditioning in accordance with the thermal sensing of an occupant.

SOLUTION: This air conditioner for the vehicle has: an air conditioning section (10) supplying conditioned air to the inside of the vehicle; a storage section (61) storing as a first...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operation control device capable of preventing second accident such as rear-end collision by not performing unnecessary deceleration control even though it is detected that a door is not properly closed.

SOLUTION: This operation control device is provided with an operation control ECU. Data of average lateral acceleration A by which the improperly closed ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a following travel controller enabling a vehicle to safely start from a stopped state.

SOLUTION: The following travel controller 1 for controlling following travel to a preceding vehicle is equipped with: a driver state detection means 11 for detecting the face direction or visual line direction of a driver; first instruction means 20 and 50 for instructing ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress a battery from being charged with a power which exceeds input restriction in braking concerning a vehicle equipped with a motor for driving which inputs/outputs a power to an axle.

SOLUTION: When a charging power Pin with which a battery for transferring a power with a motor is charged is input restriction Win or less (step S160) in braking, a cam shaft con...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress degradation in drivability while appropriately controlling driving wheels for starting a vehicle when a travelling device controls a rotational speed of driving wheels provided for the vehicle so that the rotational speed becomes a preset target rotational speed.

SOLUTION: A traveling device 100 is mounted in a vehicle 1 and causes the vehicle 1 to travel. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly output braking force from a power output device equipped with two motors and a gear-shift transmission means to a driving shaft.

SOLUTION: In a hybrid car 20, when a brake pedal 85 is stepped on by a driver while the hybrid car 20 is traveling in two motor traveling modes accompanied by the release of a clutch C0 and the stop of an engine 22, motors MG1 and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely output power when a rotation detection means of an electric motor for outputting power to a drive shaft is suspected to be in an abnormal state.

SOLUTION: A hybrid vehicle 20 drives and controls a motor MG1 and an engine 22 to start the engine 22 when a state of a rotational position detection sensor 44 for detecting a rotation state of a motor MG2 is not det...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely detect a state of a rotation detection means when the rotation detection means of an electric motor for outputting power to a drive shaft is suspected to be in an abnormal state.

SOLUTION: A hybrid vehicle 20 prohibits connection between a rotation shaft 48 and a ring gear shaft 32a by a transmission 60 and controls a motor MG2 so as to detect the state of a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress a shock during switching from a drive force non-transmitting state to a drive force transmitting state in a control device for a vehicular drive unit including an electric differential part in which a differential state of rotating speed of an input shaft and an output shaft connected to an engine by controlling the operating state of an electric motor connecte...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the controller for an engine and a transmission which can shorten a shift time and can improve the durability of a clutch.

SOLUTION: This controller is provided with: an engine control means 2 for performing at least one of the fuel injection control and ignition control of an engine; a shift control means 12 for performing the shift control of a transmissio...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller, capable of suppressing high-speed rotation of an electric motor or the like by appropriately controlling connection/disconnection of a power transmitting path.

SOLUTION: A first electric motor rotating speed NM1is predicted when switching of a clutch and a brake of an automatic transmission part 20 is performed according to operation o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a hybrid power transmission device including an electric differential part and a stepped transmission part, capable of attaining both suppression of deceleration failure and suppression of transmission shock of the vehicle.

SOLUTION: This control device comprises a coast-down shifting control means 100 which executes coast-down transmiss...