A studless pneumatic tire having excellent running performance of the tire on icy road surfaces. The tire has a plurality of block-shaped island portions (4) formed on a cylindrical tread (1) extending between a pair of sidewalls. The island portions (4) have laterally extending sipes (5) and are separated by a plurality of main grooves (2) extending in the circumferential direction as well as by ...

At least one work task to be executed is registered at a reporting point. A database is created containing information on vehicles, on car lease companies, insurance companies and/or lorry park managers, and on the work tasks needing to be executed. The work task is then executed from the reporting point. An Independent claim is also included for the system used to carry out this method, comprisi...

There is provided a molded article which has high shock absorbing capability and load capacity. A resin molded article having a spring structure comprises a three-dimensional structure with voids, which is formed by entwining and gathering adjacent ones of random loops or curls of solid and/or hollow continuous filaments and/or short filaments made from a mixture of a polyolefin resin and VAC, EVA...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rice transplanter for eliminating useless control and improving work efficiency by performing an appropriate deceleration operation corresponding to the state of a field. SOLUTION: A load control means E for decelerating a transmission by a gear shift motor 25 when the increase of loads is detected in an engine rotation number sensor 4S is provided, a discriminat...

A road friction coefficients estimating apparatus for a vehicle comprises a first road friction coefficient estimating section for calculating a first road friction coefficient based on a vehicle behavior in a lateral direction, a second road friction coefficient estimating section for calculating a second road friction coefficient based on a vehicle behavior in a longitudinal direction, a third r...

In an x-ray examination apparatus comprising a frame (2) to which are connected an x-ray source (3) for emission of an x-ray beam and an x-ray detector (5) that is placed opposite the x-ray source, and filter means (31) that are placed between the x-ray source (3) and the x-ray detector (5), the filter means (31) comprising an x-ray absorbing filter body (33) and drive means for positioning the ...

In a rotate rotate CT scanner a plurality of source-detector units are mounted on a gantry displaced from each other in the Z direction and the detector units are arranged to acquire data from large volumes of a subject in a single rotation so that the scanner can provide time-coherent images of large organs.

Encoded spatio-spectral information processing is performed using a system having a radiation source (12), wavelength dispersion device (16) and two-dimensional switching array (18), such as digital micro-mirror array (DMA). In one aspect, spectral components from a sample (24) are dispersed in space and modulated separately by the switching array, each element of which may operate according to a ...

A sports garment (1) for training comprises a supporting fabric (2) which encloses, at least partially, the user's body. The said garment is in the form of a track suit provided at the front with a fastener (3), and reinforced bands (15a-15f) are applied over the supporting fabric (2), to which bands are applied pockets (4a-4e) for accommodating weights (5). Elastic elements (18) may be applied to...

A method of preparing a polyurethane foam having excellent heat insulating properties is provided. A method of preparing a rigid polyurethane foam from (1) an organic polyisocyanate comprising an aromatic polyisocyanate, (2) a polyol comprising a polyether polyol and/or polyester polyol, (3) a blowing agent, and (4) a surfactant, a catalyst and other auxiliaries, characterized in that the blowing ...

PURPOSE:To coat fine particles with a highly viscous substance without using a solvent by charging fine particles in a multi-shaft stirrer crossing the rotary surface formed by a plurality of specific stirring blades. CONSTITUTION:In order to coat the surfaces of fine particles with a particle size of 3mum or less and apparent density of about 0.20g/cm<2> or less with a highly viscous substance wi...

Solutions of segmented polyurethanes are coagulated to form flat circular microporous structures having a substantially continuous pore-free surface and a substantially open pore surface.

PURPOSE: To provide a tire mold transport apparatus capable of selectively, efficiently and safely feeding a tire mold being a heavy article to the region between a vulcanizing station and a mold opening and closing station. CONSTITUTION: When one of a plurality of tire molds 1 in a vulcanizing station completes vulcanization, the tire mold is moved from a third track 13 to a second track 12 by a ...

A synchronous semiconductor device operates in synchronism with clock signal supplied from an external unit. The synchronous semiconductor device can be set in a first mode (a CSUS mode) and a power down mode (a PD mode) as an operation mode when a predetermined external signal (a CKE signal) is in a predetermined state. The synchronous semiconductor device includes a first signal generating circu...

A method for making a rigid polyurethane foam by reacting a polyisocyanate and a polyol in the presence of a urethane catalyst, a blowing agent and a silicone surfactant characterized by employing as a blowing agent a C1-C4 HFC or HCFC, preferably HFC-245fa, and as the silicone surfactant a polyether-polysiloxane copolymer having a total surfactant molecular weight of 12,000 to 100,000 g/mole, a w...

A trajectory generation for a member such as a foot of a legged mobile robot. First, basic trajectories defining some typical motions of the foot including a constraint condition are established on a virtual plane or surface fixed on a coordinate system. The virtual plane is kept fixed on the ground until a time the foot is to be lifted. Then at this period free from the constraint condition, the ...

It is to provide a method for producing a low-fuming rigid polyurethane foam, which is superior in initial activity at low temperature and requires a small amount of a stock liquid. A method for producing a rigid polyurethane foam, which comprises mixing (a) a polyisocyanate component with a polyol component comprising (b) a polyol mixture, (c) a catalyst and (d) a blowing agent, then foaming the ...

A method of compressing data, wherein said data is in the form of discrete units, by determining an overall code specific to the units, comprising the steps of: a) grouping the units in terms of a common behavior pattern; b) for each said group of units, assigning a group specific code, the sizes of said group code being ordered according to the probability of the unit occurring; c) assigning a un...

A method for hot hydrostatic pressing by means of working liquid which tends to become unstable within a transition time when in contact with a blank heated to a high working temperature and at a pressure lower than the liquid's stabilization pressure. The pressing of the blank heated to the high working temperature is carried out by raising the pressure of the working fluid to said stabilization ...

A method of compressing data, wherein said data is in the form of discrete units, by determining an overall code specific to the units, comprising the steps of: a) grouping the units in terms of a common behavior pattern; b) for each said group of units, assigning a group specific code, the sizes of said group code being ordered according to the probability of the unit occurring; c) assigning a un...