PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a stable vehicle behavior control where target yaw rate is adequately set during a steering to modify the vehicle behavior, making a driver to feel no uncomfortableness. SOLUTION: A control unit 50 calculates vehicle speed at a vehicle speed calculation part 51, and vehicle sliding angle at a vehicle sliding angle calculation part 52. A target yaw rate time constan...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the possibility of size variation of paper sheets, the deformation of loaded paper sheets, or the instability of paper feeding, etc., when the paper sheets are non-tandem fed using a wire-system etc., or a kind of a cantilever system or horizontally elevating or lowering system, for example, when larger paper sheets in A3 size etc., than that in A4 size are loade...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To monitor paraffining without an additional means by estimating quantity in proportion to a friction coefficient of a surface of a twilling bobbin on a friction drum by continuously finding winding speed of the friction drum and the twilling bobbin in a period of a winding process. SOLUTION: Monitoring of paraffining is carried out by finding a friction characteristic of a s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To condense steam efficiently that is contained in exhaust gas in a carbon dioxide recycle type gas turbine power generation plant. SOLUTION: Exhaust gas from a gas turbine 4 is guided into a condensation separation device 20 that comprises a tube type condensation part 20A and a direct contact type condensation part 20B equipped on the downstream side thereof. Some condensed...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve acceleration performance at the time of stepping on an accelerator pedal of a hybrid vehicle on a low &mu road. SOLUTION: When wheels are slipping travelling driving force TR applied to wheels are detected (S13) from a shift ratio Ip of continuously variable transmission, engine speed Ne and throttle opening TH to obtain grip force TG (S13a) capable of ensuring fri...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve wear resistance by passing a plurality of guide parts through a center plate in a radial direction, movably storing balls, continuously providing bent grooves engaged to the balls on the opposed surfaces of a pair of disc plates in the peripheral direction and making thrust washers alloy steel for which a surface processing is performed. SOLUTION: On the opposed su...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely obtain a differential limiting effect by a simple structure by providing grooves which alternately bend in a shaft direction and extend in a peripheral direction by shifting bent points every other point on the peripheral surface of a revolving body on an output side and rollably fitting balls into the grooves. SOLUTION: On the outer peripheral surface of an inner c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ball transmission type differential limiting device which can transmit power in such a way to gradually increase according to a difference of rotational speed. SOLUTION: When a rotational difference is generated between differential gear call and a ball disk 3, each ball 4 reciprocates in a groove of the differential gear case while rolling along a groove of the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect vehicle speed with stability for the long term. SOLUTION: A gear rotating sensor 60 for detecting vehicle speed is arranged oppositly to a teeth surface of a 3-speed input gear l0 idle roratably arranged on an input shaft 3. The gear rotating sensor 60 is, for example, a non-contact type pick-up sensor using electromagnetic induction technology, and supported by a m...

A swirling type fabric canopy is affixed on an upright mast which can be incrementally rotated on a base to protect a person in one position while the sun travels during daylight. The swirling type canopy can be rotated from right-handed shading to left-handed shading and collapsed when not in use or for portage. An optional semi-circular non-folding canopy can be added on top.

A vehicle has a sensor for detecting a first distance to a first object and a second distance to a second object located on the other side of the first object. The vehicle travels along a path between the first object and the second object based on the detected first and second distances. A vehicle has a sensor for detecting a distance to an object and a working unit which is movably connected wit...

A turkey call holding leg harness is provided including a pair of straps each having a pair of ends including a first free end and a second end. The second finds have buckles mounted thereon for releasably coupling with the first free ends to define closed loops. Further provided is a pair of adjustable plates mounted between the straps for releasably containing a turkey call.

A holster device for supporting a hand held type hair dryer is disclosed. The holster device includes a primary support for mounting the device to a support surface. The device also includes a pair of opposed flexible holster members which define a holster pocket therein. The holster pocket is adapted to receive a hair dryer handle therein to support the dryer in place. The holster members are rel...

A process for the treatment of ectopic atrial tachycardia by use of ablation and/or mapping procedures comprising ablating discrete locations within the right atrium of the heart by use of an ablation catheter and a precurved guiding introducer. Also disclosed is a shape for the guiding introducer to be used for the ablation and/or mapping of the discrete locations within the right atrium for the ...

A wire loop type instrument for an endoscope that uses an elastic wire formed from a stranded wire bent into a U-shape and looped at the rear of the U-shaped bent portion. Each strand of the stranded wire has a non-circular cross-sectional configuration in which the strand is more resistant to bending in other directions than in a direction toward the center of the elastic wire. The stranded wire ...

A method for applying radiant energy through the skin to underlying collagen tissue without substantially modifying melanocytes and other epithelial cells in the epidermis by delivering non-continuous energy. A porous membrane is adapted to receive an electrolytic solution and become inflated to substantially conform a contacting exterior surface of the membrane to a skin layer. The membrane inclu...

A silicone rubber composite comprising a sheet or film made essentially of a crystalline polyester resin, and, formed sequentially on at least one side of the sheet or film, an undercoating layer (A) made substantially of an amorphous polymer and a thin film layer (B) having good affinity for the undercoating layer and containing a silicone resin, wherein a silicone rubber layer (C) made of a sili...

PCT No. PCT/JP97/01630 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 26, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 26, 1998 PCT Filed May 15, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/43332 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 20, 1997A biaxially stretched polyester film for forming a container, characterized by being formed of a polyester substantially consisting of an ethylene terephthalate unit and an ethylene naphthalate unit, the refractive index in the direction of thi...

A process is described for preparing polyols in the form of bifunctional aromatic polyester alcohols from PET wastes and wastes from PET production. The process comprises dissolving the PET wastes in diethylene glycol (DEG), with the ratio of wastes to DEG being selected in such a way that the polyester alcohol obtained after the subsequent transesterification has a hydroxyl number (OHN) greater t...

An acquired (e.g., scanned) image contains an imperceptible periodic signal component (e.g., a sinusoid), decoding of which can be used to automatically determine a linear geometric relationship between the acquired image and the original image in which the signal was embedded, without having the original image available during the decoding process. This known geometric relationship allows for lin...