PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a convenient flower vase which is not bulky but light and portable, is easily assembled in using, has excellent and stable self-supporting property even when flowers are inserted, and is not broken, so as to dissolve the problem that the absence of a flower vase is inconvenient when a person brings the flowers in visiting or celebrating.

SOLUTION: The flower...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multi-piece solid golf ball, in which spin quantity of the ball, when fully shot by a driver is reduced to increase the carry of the ball, and approach performance is proper.

SOLUTION: This multi-piece sold golf ball is provided with a solid core, an enclosure layer covering it, an intermediate layer covering it, and a cover having a number of dimples in t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control the temperature of a laminated microchip with high precision when a chemical reaction is made to advance by using the laminated microchip.

SOLUTION: A flow passage through which a chemical substance is made to pass and which has ≤1 mm width is formed on both surfaces of a silicon substrate 10. The formed flow passages are communicated with each other by a ho...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nanoporous titanium oxide membrane bearing a Group IIIV element such as platinum and a method for removing a volatile organic compound such a methanol using the membrane.

SOLUTION: The nanoporous titanium oxide membrane bearing platinum of the invention almost completely decomposes methanol regardless of the methanol supply concentration and shows approxim...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an application device capable of keeping the temperature of a coater constant regardless of the temperature of an atmosphere or an application liquid in a flow rate restriction-type application device such as an extrusion, a slide or a curtain type application.

SOLUTION: In the application device for supplying the application liquid to an application liquid ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a contact mechanism in a driving tool excellent in operability without causing indentations such as flaws and dents to a driven material compared with the conventional safety mechanism with no consideration for a cushion.

SOLUTION: The contact arm mechanism (A) for a pneumatic tool is provided with a contact arm 11 vertically movably provided along an ejecti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely prevent the idle driving, and also to secure safety.

SOLUTION: A nailing machine is provided with a hammering mechanism for driving out a magazine 5 and fasteners and a contact mechanism for enabling the operation of a trigger. A first idle-driving prevention lever 17 is horizontally rotatably provided so as to be retractable into/from a fastener feed passage...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To naturally drive a nail into a driven material without damaging the material even in a narrow part.

SOLUTION: A contact arm 15 for a driving tool is vertically movably provided along an ejection passage of a nose part 4 that is provided to the lower part of a tool body 2 and drives nails. The tip of the contact arm is protruded farther than the tip of the nose part 4...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for safely manufacturing a magnesium gear by treating magnesium to prevent its ignition.

SOLUTION: This magnesium gear manufacturing method comprises a cut-processing step for cutting a material mainly made of light magnesium into a disk-like shape, a lathe processing step including inside-diameter lower hole processing for fitting a cut-processed m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that the conventional water submersion fine aggregate metering method enables fine aggregate to be just immersed in water and no water temperature to be controlled and therefore causes a concrete construction built by using concrete made in summer to be cooled in winter and cracked with temperature or concrete made in winter to be frozen.

SOLUTION:...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving operation auxiliary device for a vehicle to perform an operational reaction force control and a braking/driving force control in which balance is well taken between transmitting the risk potential and the driving will of a driver.

SOLUTION: A controller calculates the risk potential to express the degree of the own vehicle approaching an ahead lyin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ground speed measurement device, and a vehicle for measuring a ground speed by using the existing configuration for the vehicle.

SOLUTION: The device freely rolls at least one wheel among a plurality of wheels (S15), and calculates a peripheral speed of the free rolling wheel (S16). Then, the device calculates a ground speed of a vehicle on the basis of th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an electric storage means such as a secondary battery from being charged beyond the limit of charged capacity.

SOLUTION: In a hybrid automobile 20 in a power output device, idle time suction air capacity Qidl is corrected so that an output power Pe almost matched with a request power Pe* can be outputted by an engine 22 just after the start of the engine 22,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an input device for a vehicle never giving a sense of incongruity to a driver even when operation different from an operating content intended by the driver is carried out.

SOLUTION: This input device for the vehicle is constituted to nullify operation of a control switch 16 which is an operation switch concerning a preceding car following control system in ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the rotating fluctuation of an axle in traveling of a vehicle and consequently retain good drivability.

SOLUTION: An engine 14 as a power source is provided on the front side of the vehicle 10, and a motor-generator 32 as a power source is provided on the rear side thereof. On the rear side of the vehicle, the motor-generator 32 and an air conditioning comp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an operator from being given any sense of incompatibility by cooperatively operating a four wheel steering device and an ACC system.

SOLUTION: The steering control characteristics of a wheel is set by the traveling controller of a vehicle so as to be matched with the intention of an operator when the set inter-vehicle distance of an ACC is set. Concretely, w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speed change system capable of extending the variable range of the transmission gear ratio and enhancing the power transmission efficiency.

SOLUTION: A controller CONT performs the electric pass between motor generators MG1, MG2 by respectively performing the regenerative operation and the power running of one and the other of the motor generators MG1, MG2...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for providing a compact drive unit, improving fuel costs and for improving acceleration performance in the speed change of a stepped change gear in the driving unit for a vehicle equipped with a differential mechanism and a transmission installed on a power transmission path from the differential mechanism to a driven wheel.

SOLUTION: A transmis...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle deviation prevention device capable of giving warning torque of suitable strength according to traveling condition of a vehicle and peripheral condition.

SOLUTION: A vehicle speed V is read (step S1), V and a first threshold value Vth1 are compared with each other (step S2) and when V is Vth1 or more, it is set such that the warning torque becomes ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform automatic cruise control so as not to cause a sudden change of vehicle speed even in a case where a vehicle in front makes a lane change immediately before the own vehicle during acceleration or a vehicle in front traveling at low speed makes a lane change immediately before the own vehicle.

SOLUTION: In S11, a basic acceleration/deceleration ABfor ...