PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for creating a prerequisite for more easily determining a region for which a volume data set is to be acquired in a method for determining the position and size of a marking which is mixed into a topogram of an organism imaged by a computed tomograph and defines a region of the organism for which a volume data set of the organism is to be acquired. SOLUTIO...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of extracting a useful component in a liquid material efficiently without changing the properties. SOLUTION: The method of extracting the useful component in the liquid material, is performed by treating the liquid material with an adsorbing agent to absorb the component to be adsorbed to the adsorbing agent, and carrying out a supercritical fluid extracti...

PCT No. PCT/EP92/02367 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 5, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 5, 1994 PCT Filed Oct. 14, 1992 PCT Pub. No. WO93/07981 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 29, 1993.Lathe with a workpiece spindle (28) defining a Z-axis as well as a tool carrier slide (56) bearing a tool carrier in the form of a tool turret (112) having a turret body and a turret head, the slide being displaceable in the direction of a firs...

PURPOSE:To provide an electromagnetic clutch capable of obtaining large locking force with a small electromagnet and desirable in locking force control response without the fluctuation of locking force. CONSTITUTION:There are provided an electromagnet 77 supported in the non- rotatable state on the fixed member 25 side, a rotary member 21, rotated receiving torque, a cam 81 receiving the torque of...

PURPOSE:To prevent generation of a strange sound depending on the residual torque of a transmission output shaft when the speed is shifted from the P stage to the R stage in an automatic transmission, by providing a residual torque reducing means to reduce the residual torque of the transmission output shaft in a parking locking condition. CONSTITUTION:A residual torque reducing means to reduce th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow to rotate following a pinion gear without bending a thrust washer, by providing the teeth same as the pinion gear, on the outer periphery of the thrust washers neighboring the pinion gear, of the thrust washers. SOLUTION: This planetary gear reduction device furnishes thrust washers 14a, 14a, 14b and 14b to receive the thrusts of a pinion gear 10 and a niddle form ro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve heat efficiency by providing a sea for restraining the coolant flowing in a coolant flow passage in a rotor of a gas turbine, from leaking to the outside of the coolant flow passage, and providing a path for leading the coolant leaking through this seal, to a high temperature part of the gas turbine. SOLUTION: In a turbine rotor 5, four discs 51a... with moving bla...

"SISTEMA DE APLICAçãO DE DROGA DE LIBERAçãO PROLONGADA, E, MéTODOS PARA O TRATAMENTO DE UM ORGANISMO DE MAMìFERO, PARA FORNECER ADMINISTRAçãO CONTROLADA E PROLONGADA DE UM AGENTE EFICAZ PARA SE OBTER UM EFEITO FISIOLóGICO OU FARMACOLóGICO LOCAL OU SISTêMICO DESEJADO, E DE FABRICAçãO DE UM SISTEMA DE APLICAçãO PROLONGADA DE DROGA". é fornecido um método e um dispositivo para tratar um organismo de ...

"LâMINA COMPóSITA". Trata-se de um método de fabricação de uma lâmina compósita (300 a 313) tendo pelo menos duas partes de lâmina (101, 201) para um molde de cura de pneu que tem as etapas de proporcionar uma primeira tira (100) de material metálico comumente usado para formar lâminas para moldes de cura de pneu; estampar ou perfurar da tira diversos formatos para fazer partes de lâmina principal...

A beach blanket for receiving an umbrella so that the umbrella is positioned over the blanket includes a panel having an upper side, a lower side and a peripheral edge. The panel comprises a flexible material. The panel has at least one opening extending therethrough for receiving a bottom end of an umbrella handle. A cover has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is attached to...

A device and associated method for attaching an electronic device to a tether so that it cannot be stolen or inadvertently lost. The device includes a housing. Within the housing is contained a spool and a spring for rewinding the spool. A tether extends from the spool out of the housing. The tether terminates outside of the housing with a connector element. The connector element is selectively at...

A foldable ski carrier pack assembly having 1) a main ski support frame assembly; 2) ski anchor assemblies secured to the main ski support frame assembly and operable to anchor snow skis thereto; and 3) a back support harness assembly connected to the main ski support frame assembly and operable to be placed about shoulder areas of a snow ski person for conveyance similar to a camper's backpack as...

A biaxially oriented polyester film for magnetic recording media which has (1) a Young's modulus in a machine direction of 5.0 GPa or less and a Young's modulus in a direction perpendicular to the machine direction of 8.0 GPa or more, (2) a surface roughness on one side of 0.3 to 1.5 nm when measured for a measurement area of 246.6x187.5 mum and 0.1 to 3.0 nm when measured for a measurement area o...

A system and a method for positioning an autonomous mobile unit for docking, wherein a slot-shaped light beam which stands perpendicular to the drive surface of the unit is provided, which beam is emitted by a docking device, and position-sensitive detectors for this light beam are present on the unit, these being arranged parallel to the drive surface of the unit. With the aid of the light beam a...

The present invention provides a method and system for providing a reset after an operating system (OS) hang condition in a computer system, the computer system including an interrupt handler not accessible by the OS. The method includes determining if an interrupt has been generated by a watchdog timer; monitoring for an OS hang condition by the interrupt handler if the interrupt has been generat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mineral-containing food composition having excellent absorbency of the mineral. SOLUTION: This food composition contains a mineral yeast containing manganese, copper or molybdenum as a mineral component. In other embodiment, the food composition contains a material highly containing one or more kinds of minerals selected from calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, selen...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a server which can provide a chance of communication with other players while enabling further enhancing of the attachment to characters. SOLUTION: Address information of users presently using characters and users previously using the characters are stored as database and by retrieving the database, a chance can be provided to make users as strangers acquainted wit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a server which allows operators to feel attached to characters by a method wherein common use of information is achieved while making the characters available easily and handily to connect the operators in real spaces integrally with the characters in virtual spaces to such an extent that the characters will come together to make up a part of the lives of the opera...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a steam iron that is simple in structure, safe, thermally efficient and lightweight. SOLUTION: A preheating circulating passage 32 is formed in an iron body 1 by omitting a preheating pot vacancy portion, steam is made to flow in the preheating circulation passage 32 to heat the iron body 1. A branch passage 31 that can be made to communicate and cut off by an oper...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clamping device for hydraulic forming equipment which is small in size, capable of quick clamping, simple in construction requiring little maintenance, small in the mass of movable part and large in allowance for the inclination of a ram. SOLUTION: Preferably a plurality of load return type cylinders 11 are located on the inner bottom face of a clamping frame 10 ...