An advancing arrangement for moving a thin sticky band through a cutting unit comprises a pulling unit (14), cord band edge (21) gripping pliers (15) under an upper blade (3) of the cutting unit (4), and a band roll (6). The cutting unit is drawn over the transport band, and a clamping unit is used to hold the band. The band is held down by a holder (10) which consists of a plate with cut-outs, an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To constitute a reclining seat, which won't reveal the inside of a device when a lip element of a side cover is turned over or prevents passenger's fingers from getting in because of infolded and deformed lip element of the side cover, by easy alterations of the structure. SOLUTION: The structure of a reclining seat is as follows: A side cover 6 with an U-shaped cross section...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a showcase which has a lower door sliding easily and has an improved appearance. SOLUTION: A showcase is equipped with the following parts: Sliding, upper doors 8, 9 close a front opening 7 of an upper displaying room 6 in a manner that the upper doors 8, 9 can open and close the upper displaying room. Lower rails 71, 71 for upper doors are equipped on a lower edge...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an X-ray fluoroscopic radiography table allowing easy approach of an operator to a subject on a top plate from the inner side. SOLUTION: In this table, a post 3 retains an X-ray tube 1 with a collimator 2, is supported by a linear guide 10 on a side face of a main frame 4, and moves in the longitudinal direction of the top plate 7 by a motor 9 through a gear 13 and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a biocompatible composite formed of a first fiber layer and an internally communicating continuous cell type three-dimensional porous foam, having a gradient in the composition and/or the microstructure in one or more directions and attached to the first fiber layer. SOLUTION: The foam can be formed of a mixture of bioabsorbable and biocompatible polymers, and the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a needle thread changer with excellent versatility for sewing machines of various types by achieving the simplification and automation of work of changing color of needle threads or changing threads during the sewing operation. SOLUTION: A plurality of needle thread holders 2 each holding a needle thread role 20 extending the end of a needle thread by a specified l...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide wastewater disposal equipment capable of reducing a running cost in the treatment of dehydrated sludge. SOLUTION: The wastewater disposal equipment 1 is constituted so as to successively treat wastewater in a methane fermentator 2 and an activated sludge tank 3 and equipped with a stream generation means 7 for generating steam by the combustion of the biogas genera...

In a data conversion apparatus (101) of a copyright protecting system, a dat a format judging portion (103) judges whether or not the data is of a super distribution format, attribute information obtaining unit (105) identifies t he audio contents of the data and obtains the attribute information correspondi ng to the identified audio contents from the external equipment via said data transmission...

"DISPOSITIVO DE TRANSPORTE DE FOLHAS". O dispositivo de transporte de folhas, utilizado em uma prensa de enformação de folhas de papel ou de papelão, comportando pelo menos uma estação de introdução das folhas, uma estação de enformação, uma estação de ejeção dos dejetos e uma estação de recepção das folhas enformadas, compreende duas esteiras sem fim (5,6) ajustadas para transportar as folhas da ...

The present invention is directed to a wet shaving system having an electronic indicator for indicating when the blades are becoming dull and in need of replacement. As razor blades dull, the user must exert greater force during shaving to achieve a satisfactory shave. Upon exertion of this extra force, a piston which is adjacent to the blades moves away from the blades in response to the increase...

A case having a rectangular parallelpiped shape includes a rigid board inserted into a pocket defined in a lateral and bottom sides of the case. The board maintains the shape of the case in cooperation with wheel housings and a bracket attached to the bottom and lateral sides. A telescoping handle is also attached to the reinforcing board.

A mold for molding a tread, in particular of a tire, having first elements in relief and second elements in relief for cooperating in the molding configuration to form a molding element intended to mold a single cutout opening both on to the running surface of the tread and on to one of the lateral edges of said tread and to define at least one orifice intended to allow the rubber mix to pass duri...

A medical device in one embodiment includes an electrode which is connected to a flexible, tubular, movable member, such as a catheter shaft or an outer sheath, which is slidably extended over a guide wire, flexible shaft, or other tubular member. A displacement mechanism is connected to the movable member, and may be actuated one or more times to displace the movable member in successive, predete...

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for the formation of nearly spherical particles, particularly for the formation of metal or metal alloy particles with an induced duplex microstructure. The present invention provides an atomization apparatus having a nozzle positioned at the bottom of a cooling chamber. Rayleigh wave instability may be induced by imparting vibrations to a s...

Method and apparatus for highly efficiently forming a tire reinforcing layer, such as a carcass ply or belt ply, either directly or indirectly on a rubber member which is supported on a rigid core having a toroidal shape. According to the invention, a continuous strip of reinforcing material comprised of a plurality of single cords or twisted cords is cut into reinforcing elements having a predete...

A method of forming a fine wiring pattern by sputtering and patterning which is characterized in that the potential difference between the anode and cathode in the sputtering apparatus is lower than 570V. The resulting fine wiring pattern is free of defects due to splash. This method is effective particularly in the production of array substrates for the flat-panel display device which needs alumi...

A polyester polyol composition comprising a phthalic anhydride-initiated polyester polyol, a C4-C6 hydrocarbon blowing agent, and an oxyethylated fatty acid or fatty alcohol compatibilizing agent having an HLB of from about 7 to about 12. The blowing agent is soluble in the polyol composition, thereby reducing the risks associated with such blowing agents in processes for making rigid polymer foam...

Composites of at least two different plastics materials joined directly to one another, whereinA) is a thermoplastic polymer or a thermoplastic mixture of polymers which contain at least one polar compound of at least one of the metals of the 1st to the 5th main group or of the 1st to 8th subsidiary group of the Periodic System as an extremely finely divided powder, andB) is polyurethane.

A system for inspecting indicia on a golf ball is disclosed herein. The system uses a multitude of cameras to analyze indicia that has been printed on the surface of the golf ball in order to accept or reject each golf ball. In a preferred embodiment, the system is placed in-line with the printing of the indicia on the golf ball surface, and prior to the curing of the indicia in order to easily re...

A path is determined in the following iterative way: An arcuate path around the reference position having a predetermined spacing is determined step-by-step. The existence of an obstacle along the arcuate path is checked. The arcuate path is lengthened as long as no obstacle is found. When an obstacle is found, the spacing is enlarged by a prescribable value and the method is continued in a new it...