PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a collecting device capable of preventing dropped packaging bags from getting caught in the device and to be piled in a correct posture at a correct position in order.

SOLUTION: The collecting device consists of a sorting mechanism for guiding packaging bags alternately to the right and left, rotor blade mechanisms 210 and 211 for alternately receiving the s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an output signal device and a sheet material identification device with increased reliability and an image forming device having the same.

SOLUTION: This signal output device comprises an impact adding part adding an impact to a sheet material, an impact receiving part for receiving the impact, and a signal output part positioned on at least one of the impac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for cutting a glass plate by which the high cutting precision for the glass plate is attained, the cut surface is smooth to make rough grinding needless and even the cutting of a glass plate having a curve having small radius of curvature is carried out.

SOLUTION: In the method of cutting the glass plate 5 by drawing a cutting line ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a composition which has a high effect for improving the fatigues eyes.

SOLUTION: This composition contains pranoprofen or its salt, and a vitamin B2 compound, and can remarkably improve the fatigues of eyes. Thereby, the composition is especially useful for dealing the eye fatigues (especially contact lens wearers) caused by eye overworks such as VDT (video ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a soap composition which has a creamy bubble quality and excellent solubility, and gives an excellent sense of use and an excellent moisture-retaining effect after used.

SOLUTION: This soap composition comprising an alkylene oxide derivative (a), a fatty acid alkali metal salt (b), glycerol (c) and water (d) is characterized in that the alkylene oxide deriva...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an intake air amount control device for an internal combustion engine improving vehicle acceleration performance, in an internal combustion engine for a vehicle mounting an automatic transmission thereon changing changing patterns.

SOLUTION: The intake air amount control device is mounted on a vehicle having the automatic transmission 30 for switching the ch...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make torque release/output process in a first half of gear shift in HV-AMT rapid and ease fluctuation of output torque.

SOLUTION: Engine torque is rapidly reduced and is canceled by starting torque assist by a motor in the torque release process in the first half of gear shift of an automatic transmission for vehicle with a motor generator MG. Engine torque is slowl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thrust bearing for an outboard motor excellent in durability and acoustic characteristics, though inexpensive, and a shim for the outboard motor using a bearing washer of the thrust bearing for the outboard motor.

SOLUTION: The thrust bearing for the outboard motor is a thrust bearing 10 to receive the load generated by the rotation of a drive shaft 61 or ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thrust bearing for a transmission with an inexpensive actuator excellent in durability and acoustic characteristics.

SOLUTION: The thrust bearing 10 is arranged between one side member (a front output shaft 238) of either a gear or a shaft, in which transmission condition of a drive force can be changed by changing-over mechanism driven by an actuator, and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential gear unit in which precise fit-holes for planetary gears are bored simply, and the whole cost can be reduced.

SOLUTION: The differential gear unit comprises a 1st sun gear 3 where a 1st shaft 1 is interlocked, a 2nd sun gear 4 where a 2nd shaft 2 is interlocked, 1st planetary gears 5 meshed respectively with the 1st sun gear 3, 2nd planetary g...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To actualize, driver's acceleration intention without delay time in a vehicle which controls at least an automatic transmission to make a distance between two cars into a target distance.

SOLUTION: An ECU (Electronic Control Unit) executes a program which includes steps of detecting an accelerator pedal (S200) during execution of vehicle-to-vehicle distance control (YE...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid vehicle, wherein an increase of power consumption and the degradation of a life is suppressed by eliminating frequent operation of changing over a power dividing mechanism between an operated condition and a non-operated condition.

SOLUTION: The hybrid vehicle uses a planetary gear unit 14 as the power dividing mechanism for transmitting the output ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transmission of a working vehicle capable of using different oil liquids for hydraulic fluid of a hydraulic continuously variable transmission and lubricating oil of a driving force transmission mechanism to an axle to provide functions of both of them sufficiently and reducing stirring resistance of lubricating oil in a transmission case to improve efficiency...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control method for a transmission of a working vehicle for achieving high efficiency of driving force transmission from an engine and a motor, miniaturizing the motor to reduce cost and perform satisfactory and small swivel, and miniaturizing an HST (hydraulic continuously variable transmission) to reduce cost in a configuration provided with the HST (hydrauli...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a conductive roll and an inspection method therefor, stably forming an image and hardly causing a problem such as deletion.

SOLUTION: This conductive roll includes at least one rubber elastic layer formed of conductive rubber where conductivity is applied to the outer periphery of the core bar by carbon fine powder. In the conductive roll, the relationship b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a connecting structure of a reduction gear, flexibly coping with the state of a counterpart machine and the state of own reduction gear ratio.

SOLUTION: This connecting structure of an oscillating reduction gear and an orthogonal reduction gear in reduction gears includes: an oscillating reduction gear 104 provided with external gears 108A, 108B rotated with...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for providing an automatic searching menu to a user, which searches a menu to be selected and displays a searched menu.

SOLUTION: The method and the system are provided for a user interface with the automatic searching menu. An interface indicates each command as a instantly searchable layer to the user, displaying the searchable layers...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithium secondary cell excellent in cycle property and safety such as the prevention of overcharging.

SOLUTION: The lithium secondary cell includes a positive electrode composed of a composite metal oxide containing cobalt or nickel, and lithium, and a negative electrode composed of metallic lithium, a lithium alloy or a material capable of occluding and r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reliable semiconductor device by covering the entire top face of a main electrode with a uniform solder solid film layer to reduce thermal resistance at an interconnection joint consisting of solder and thereby improving the heat dissipation efficiency.

SOLUTION: An emitter electrode 2 is divided by a gate liner 4. To protect the gate liner 4, a polyimide ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a memory device including a ferroelectric gate FET which has a good memory holding property by suppressing an anti-electric field applied to a ferroelectric material of the ferroelectric gate FET.

SOLUTION: The memory device comprises a field effect transistor 10 wherein a channel consists of an extremely thin semiconductor thin film 1 and a gate insulation ...