PURPOSE: A method and a device for generating electricity is provided to use a wind force being generated by a natural force as a wind as well as a driving force being generated by a motor for driving an electric generator. CONSTITUTION: An electricity generating device is composed of:an electricity generating unit(800) for generating an electricity; a main driving force generating unit(600); a su...

PURPOSE: A device for storing and converting energy is provided to store the surplus energy and to generate the work energy or the energy in a state of various kinds of useful types from the stored energy. CONSTITUTION: The device for saving and converting energy installs:a compressed air storing tank(30) storing the compressed air after generating the air by driving a compressor(10) with the surp...

PURPOSE:To simplify an interlocking means and mount a power connecting disconnecting piece and a differential lock operating piece in a compact state when an interlocking means to interlock the two operating pieces with each other so that the differential lock operating piece is automatically interlocked with the power connecting/disconnecting operating piece to produce a differential lock state w...

PURPOSE:To enable following travel to various types of vehicles in front such as a passenger car or a big motor lorry so as to improve operability and safety by adjusting the safe spacing distance between the front vehicle and one's own vehicle automatically according to the type of the front vehicle. CONSTITUTION:The travel status such as the spacing distance and relative speed to a vehicle in fr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plant having effective cooling, appropriate cooling supply and recovery, by forming a turbine rotor blade in such a way that a front edge is made to execute impinging cooling and film cooling of cooling steam and a rear edge is made to execute convection cooling by a high heat transfer coefficient in which a flow speed of cooling steam is increased. SOLUTION: In ...

PURPOSE:To allow a drive to so guide as to travel a fuel use regulating type hybrid electric motor vehicle without depending upon an internal combustion engine. CONSTITUTION:A hybrid electric motor vehicle comprises a battery l which can be charged by external charging means, a drive motor 2 for driving wheels 3A, 3B by power from the battery 1, an internal combustion engine 7 for driving a genera...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a filling-packaging machine which does not generate a defective product of a packaging bag by a method wherein a printing pitch displacement of a register mark of a film is detected, and the displacement is notified to a worker, or the filling-packaging machine is stopped. SOLUTION: A longitudinal sealing mechanism (feeding mechanism) 5 feeds a film F. A register m...

A deformable grating aparatus for modulating light is made by forming an insulating layer on a substrate, forming a first conductive layer on the insulating layer and then forming a sacrificial layer thereon. The sacrificial layer and the first conducting layer are then etched to define bit lines and busses to bonding pads. Then a layer of resilient material is formed onto the etched layers and a ...

The present invention relates to a compression device in connection with x-ray examinations, said device comprising a frame (1) that support means (9; 9') to compress an area of a body of a patient, said area preferably being the abdomen. In connection with x-ray examinations it is important to be able to compress a portion of an examined body of a patient. By such an arrangement the absorbed dose...

An automobile includes a steering angle detector means (62), a television camera (2) that takes pictures of lanes ahead of the car, and a computer (5) for processing the images taken by the television camera. A reference line is obtained by processing the image of lane markers taken by the television camera. A cubic is approximated from the reference line, and a reference steering angle is determi...

PURPOSE:To provide fine resolution pictures by forming an electroluminescence(EL) layer with independent island area groups with each area located in each of a plural number of areas surrounded by paired electrodes. CONSTITUTION:An EL element is formed by laminating a plural number of transparent electrodes 2 e.g. ITO and the like, a positive hole transport layer 10, a plural number of independent...

An organic EL element comprises a cathode (1), an EL layer (3) of organic compound, a first hole transport layer (4) of organic compound, a second hole transport layer (4a) of organic compound and an anode (2) which are laminated in sequence, wherein the second hole transport layer (4a) is made of a substance represented by the following chemical formula 1: where R each independently repres...

PURPOSE:To obtain the title cyanoethylpulluan which is suited for use as a binder for an EL element reduced in uneven luminescence and excellent in life and luminescence efficiency by reacting low-molecular pullulan with acrylonitrile in the presence of a caustic alkali catalyst. CONSTITUTION:Low-molecular pullulan obtained by hydrolysis with sulfuric acid in an aqueous solution is reacted with ac...

In one embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus and method for determining a path or series of paths at a work site for a mobile machine capable of operating autonomously or semi-autonomously is provided. The present invention determines a series of rows that are substantially parallel to the machine's heading. The width of the rows is based on the width of the path worked by one or more ...

A patio umbrella that includes a dining table and a fuel-burning radiant heater avoids overheating of the upper canopy by mounting the support on which the upper canopy rests in the shadow cast by a reflector that converges upwardly to a chimney portion. The reflector is affixed to the housing of the combustion chamber. In addition to reflecting radiant heat downwardly onto the table and the diner...

This invention relates to devices and methods for detecting and monitoring the concentration, level or amount of a target molecule in solution. More particularly, the invention is directed to sensors that evaluate changes in conductivity produced by the reaction of a target molecule with a sensor composition. The invention is particularly well suited for determining the concentration of carbohydra...

A laryngeal-mask airway device including provision for drainage of the oesophagus comprises an inflatable main-cuff and a backplate having a laryngeal-side and a pharyngeal-side. The backplate also has an external tube-joint adjacent to the proximal region of the main-cuff. The backplate is hermetically bonded to the periphery of the main-cuff establishing separation between a laryngeal-chamber re...

The invention relates to an electrode pattern arranged on the freely vibrateable legs on a tuning fork-controlled gyro. The electrode pattern comprises drive electrodes for generating a vibration in the legs of the tuning fork and sensing electrodes for sensing vibrations which occur in the legs. The sensing electrodes comprise a first electrode configuration (sensor electrodes) for sensing vibrat...

PURPOSE: An advertising method is provided to enhance advertising effect by displaying an advertisement in a standby time happened when data file is downloaded or the display is changed in the web browser. CONSTITUTION: In the advertising method using the file download, if a download button is clicked to receive data files from a public data storage or a data storage of a specific company, the dat...