A method for detection of ionizing radiation comprises the steps of (i) directing ionizing radiation towards an object to be examined; (ii) preventing Compton scattered radiation, preferably at least 99% of the radiation Compton scattered in said object, from being detected; and (iii) detecting ionizing radiation spatially resolved as transmitted through said object to reveal a spatially resolved ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive force control device hardly imparting both lack of acceleration performance and uncomfortable feeling caused by the occurrence of dead zone to a driver. SOLUTION: This drive force control device controls a stepped automatic transmission (5) in which a shift stage is controlled based on a shift line, a map for setting a target drive force according to car sp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gear device reducing the vibration generated by engaged gears and lessening the vibration and noise from a gear box surface. SOLUTION: In the shaft bearing structure of the gear device equipped with a pair of gears, a gear shaft integrally rotating with the pair of the gears, a bearing rotatable and bearing the gear shaft, a gear box 33 having a bearing supportin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bearing structure of a gear change compatible with making the gear change compact and reducing the vibration and the noise. SOLUTION: The bearing structure of the change gear consists of a drive pinion shaft 1 having a reduction driven gear 2 at an end and acted upon by an axial load and a radial load, and a four-pointed contact ball bearing 5 bearing the drive p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bearing structure of a gear change compatible with making the gear change compact and reducing the vibration and the noise. SOLUTION: The bearing structure of the change gear is provided with an output shaft 1 in which a driving force which speed is changed in a change gear mechanism 3 is transmitted, a reduction drive gear 4 is installed at an end and axial load...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a test method capable of efficiently carrying out a work for testing required before shipping sheet-like lens products. SOLUTION: A sheet-like Fresnel lens sheet 1 on which a masking material 7 is stuck at a light entering surface 4 is disposed on a working surface 12a with a black color family background 12c so that the light incident surface 4 is on the upper sid...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cylindrical secondary battery solving problems such as poor airtightness due to buildup of the internal pressure in the battery, shaking of a secondary battery body and a metallic container, and the probability of a short circuit occurring between a lead and the metallic container, without causing a decrease in weight energy density. SOLUTION: The cylindrical sec...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control valve type lead-acid battery enduring a long period of use. SOLUTION: The control valve type lead-acid battery has a battery jar and a lid which are made from resin. At least a portion of the inner walls of the battery bar and the lid is made water-repellent.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent short circuits in a control valve type lead-acid battery used with the plate surfaces of a group of electrode plates looking in the horizontal direction, thus prolonging the service life of the battery. SOLUTION: A separator 3 for use in the control valve type lead-acid battery is allowed to be greater than a positive electrode plate 1 and a negative electrode plat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device where a transistor having different thicknesses of a gate insulating film can be formed easily. SOLUTION: In a semiconductor device that comprises a plurality of regions A, B set by a semiconductor substrate 1 and MISFETs 13, 14 formed on each region A, B respectively and where the thicknesses of the gate insulating film of a transistor are d...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To overcome the problem of a prior art such that a shock has occurred in a transitory step when a loaded operation for power generation is shifted to an unloaded operation for idling or motoring and the like in a hybrid automobile. SOLUTION: In a power-output device of a hybrid type wherein a generator is mechanically connected to an engine, output torque of the generator is ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and device for simultaneously analyzing NOX and NH3 in the exhaust gas within a flue of an electric power facility, for example. SOLUTION: A device for simultaneously measuring nitrogen oxide(NOX) and ammonia(NH3) in an exhaust gas 11 comprises first and second measurement lines 12A and 12B for measuring the exhaust gas 11 blanched in two lines, an ammonia...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate processing for an operation data, and reduce a burden for program preparing work, when a program for operation-controlling facility equipment is prepared. SOLUTION: An individual definition file about the desired equipment is read out by a prepaing and processing means 10A out of a definition file 1 in which the operation data used in the facility equipment are ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simply generate a skeleton program 6. SOLUTION: This automatic program generator is provided with an object attribute table 11 storing the attribute information of a plurality of kinds held by individual attributes to be stored in an object module when an input/output apparatus 2 is made virtual as the theoretical object module, a template file 18 storing a command for gen...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device capable of correcting errors at a higher code rate in N: N+1 channel codes. SOLUTION: This method includes a process for categorizing 2N+1 code word (N+1) turples into M (M is an integer of 2 or above) code word (N+1) tupple subsets, a process for forming a reference table by matching 2N message N tupples with 2N code word (N+1) tupples in eac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a home page making renewing program allowing a user to easily and automatically make a home page by simply indicating a start of home page making processing by selecting a desired image. SOLUTION: Since a computer is made to realize the function for displaying stored plural images, and for the user to select the desired image, the function for the user to indicate ...

L'invention concerne un véhicule de manutention de charges.Elle se rapporte à un véhicule qui comprend un châssis (1), une roue (8) disposée sur le châssis (1), une table (2a, 2b) de support de charges fixée à une extrémité avant du châssis (1), la table (2a, 2b) étant destinée à supporter une charge, et une section de commutation de mode destinée à commuter entre des modes de fonctionnement co...

LOS DISPOSITIVOS DE ALMACENAMIENTO DE CARGA ELECTRICA POLARIZADOS PROVEEN UNA ALTA CAPACITANCIA DISPONIBLE DE MANERA ECONOMICA. LA PRESENTE INVENCION EMPLEA DIRECTAMENTE DISPOSITIVOS DE ALMACENAMIENTO DE CARGA ELECTRICA POLARIZADOS (PECS) TALES COMO CAPACITORES POLARIZADOS O BATERIAS ELECTROQUIMICAS EN APLICACIONES GENERALES DE CA CON UNA TOPOLOGIA DE CIRCUITO NOVEDOSA, EN UNA REALIZACION, SE UTIL...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an access management method which remedies drawbacks of a conventional technique in an access management such as sales promotion, an access fee or the like on the Internet. SOLUTION: This access manager obtains an access to a destination belonging to a group including site A and/or a service corresponding to a started and/or received privileged access link (URL 1),...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method to integrate checkout of merchandise selected from multiple electronic merchants (e-merchant). SOLUTION: According to an embodiment of this invention, multiple independent electronic merchants are integrated into a integration campaign to shoppers to enable the shoppers to experience online shopping at ease.