A system and method assists a driver of a motor vehicle. Driver operation, vehicle motion and vehicle environment are detected. The detected driver operation, vehicle motion and vehicle environment are evaluated. Based on the evaluation, the driver is prompted to effecting a change in driver operation by applying at least one of braking torque to the motor vehicle and additional reaction force at ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for feeding materials to be packaged, at regular intervals. SOLUTION: A first conveyor 15 is rotated continuously, while a second conveyor 16 and a tube film 14 are stopped for stand-by. When a material 17 to be packaged placed on the first conveyor 15 is sensed by a timing sensor 36, the movement amount of the material 17 to be packaged is measured by a co...

The present invention provides nucleic acid sequences coding Cyn dI, or at least one fragment thereof or the functional equivalent of such nucleic acid sequences. The present invention also provides expression vectors comprising such nucleic acid sequences and host cells transformed therewith. The present invention further provides isolated Bermuda grass pollen protein allergen Cyn dI or fragments...

A cache system buffers data stored in a main memory (11) and utilized by a processor (12). The cache system includes a first cache (23), a second cache (14), first transfer means (26,10), second transfer means (25,26,10), third transfer means, and an access means. The first cache (23) is fully associative. The second cache (14) is directly mapped. The first transfer means (26,10) transfers data li...

PURPOSE: To make a clutch shaft into speed-up rotation in order to compactify a hydraulic clutch structure, and simultaneously forming it into a geared structure to secure a difference of elevation lying between both input and output shafts as well as to promote a reduction in cost so as to make it composable with one housing irrespective of divergence in the difference of elevation between these ...

An apparatus is disclosed for imaging a patient's breast (18) by scanning an imaging signal (58) and a receiver (30) across the patient's breast (18) and then constructing a time-delay integration composite image based on the scan. The receiver (30) includes an array of radiation sensitive detector elements (132). Read out of the array (132) is synchronized with the scanning motion of the receiver...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To drive driven wheels for rotation without using a propeller shaft and a differential gear device by providing an internal combustion engine and a driving motor to be used for driving each front and rear wheel for rotation, and transmitting the rotary driving force of the driving motor to the other axle through a viscous coupling. SOLUTION: Driving force of an engine 1 is tr...

In a speed change gear drive for a transmission, a change spindle 121 is supported by a transmission case 48, and a shift drum 122 is supported by the transmission case 48 so that the shift drum can be rotated. The shift drum is driven by the turning of a change arm 124 fixed to the change spindle 121. A shift fork rod 127 supports a shift fork 130, whose position can changed by rotation of the sh...

A screw for a solid-bowl screw-type centrifuge, comprising: a screw body having a circumference, a cylindrical section and a conical section; at least one screw blade surrounding the screw body several times and forming several screw spirals; a delivery path for conveying material to be centrifuged formed between the screw spirals; blade segments arranged in the delivery path between adjacent scre...

The present invention provides a biaxially oriented film of a polylactic acid resin that is suitable for films for bags and packaging films for various windows, particularly films for outlook window envelopes. The film is biodegradable and, as films for outlook window envelopes, is superior in the coating adaptability for an antistatic agent, a lubricant and an antiblocking agent or the like and i...

A dual sensor intruder alarm (DSIA) for detecting an intruder in a security zone monitored by the DSIA comprising: a PIR sensor; an additional sensor, and a controller that determines an operating difference between the ambient temperature and a normative surface temperature of an intruder in the security zone; wherein if the operating difference is equal to or greater than a predetermined thresho...

A liquid crystal device is provided that comprises a layer of liquid crystal material ( 2 ) disposed between two cell walls ( 4, 6 ) in an arrangement such that the liquid crystal material ( 2 ) can adopt any one of two or more stable liquid crystal configurations that will persist in the absence of an applied electric field. The liquid crystal device is operable in two modes; a first mode in whic...

A first stage tire building drum (5) and a method of building a tire carcass is disclosed. The tire building drum (5) has a central segment support mechanism including a plurality of central support segments (151) that are radially movable and covered by inflatable bladders (5A, 5B). The building drum (5) has bead locks (112) and a pair of annular support rings (130). The method employs the steps ...

A method and device for forming and picking up packs (2) off a stack (3) of sheets (4) supported on a pallet (6) at a work station (7), whereby the packs (2), each defined by a first number (n) of sheets (4), are formed and picked up successively to leave on the pallet (6) a last group (9) of sheets (4) defined by a second number (m) of sheets (4) smaller than the first number (n); a supporting de...

A compound having CRTH2 receptor antagonism, represented by the following formula (I). The compound is useful for the treatment of allergic diseases having a relation to eosinophils and the like. A compound of the formula (I): wherein a group represented by the formula: is a group represented by the formula: and the like, R<1> is carboxy and the like, R<3> is -(CH2)n-N(-Y)...

A flat-panel liquid crystal display. The display includes a flat sheet of bistable chiral nematic liquid crystal material activated by a drive circuit that individually controls the display state of multiple picture elements. The driver circuitry activates the liquid crystal domains with various drive schemes which have any number of different phases to attain various addressing sequence times. At...

The invention aims at preventing a clutch as a frictional engagement element from being damaged and ensuring a driver of the operation feeling even if an accelerator pedal is depressed when an automatic transmission is shifted from its driven state to its non-driven state. If a neutral position has been selected and if an accelerator has been depressed, an ECT_ECU performs normal control before th...

A single polar driving method for a cholesteric liquid crystal display. The method comprises the steps of selecting the pixels by applying a first signal switching between a ground and a first level to the common line of the selected pixels, driving the selected pixels into a reflecting state by applying a second signal out of phase with the first signal and that switches between a second and thir...

An X-ray CT system capable of performing scattered radiation correction more highly precisely. The position of a collimator (17) and the width of a slit (S) are adjusted so that direct radiation will fall on one of a plurality of arrays of detectors (22). A predetermined phantom is scanned. The scan is performed relative to each of the plurality of arrays of detectors (22). Based on data detected ...