An apparatus for conveying and scanning a document includes a document conveying mechanism and a scanning chassis. The document conveying mechanism provided with a conveying roller and many dependent rollers is used to convey a document. The dependent rollers are pressed onto the circumference of the conveying roller. The document is conveyed between the conveying roller and the dependent rollers....

Centrifugal separator (10) for separation of solid and/or liquid particles suspended in gas media, comprising a rotor (12) which is rotatably mounted in a surrounding stationary housing (20). The housing has, firstly, an outlet (32) for cleaned gas which, when passing through the rotor, has been freed of solid and/or liquid particles, secondly, an outlet (34) for the solid and/or liquid particles ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electret-improved filter medium manufactured from a fiber, for example, a meltblown superfine fiber.

SOLUTION: This electret filter medium contains a nonwoven web of thermoplastic, nonconductive microfibers having trapped charge. This method of charging the electret filter media comprises a step (1) to make a jet water or a water droplet stream impinged a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laser processing device which is useful particularly for cutting short-circuited parts provided on silicon wiring, prevents the splash of molten silicon, is excellent in the accuracy of machining, and is capable of boring or cutting a silicon substrate efficiently.

SOLUTION: The laser processing device comprises a means of adjusting the surface roughness (...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To optimize use of a strap mounted on a strip material for supporting and to retain precision of adjustment of actuation parameter of a pressing machine.

SOLUTION: The rotary pressing machine consists of an actuating cylinder 2 provided with an embossed plate 16 with a material pattern, an anvil cylinder 4, means 2b, 10a and LM for moving the actuating cylinder, a mean...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately presume road surface friction state without being affected by the road surface disturbance even if steered suddenly.

SOLUTION: A SAT presumption part 23 presumes a SAT presumption value TSAT, and supplies it to a grip degree presumption part 30. An accumulator 29 adds a front wheel slip angle αEfilter-processed with a high pass filter 25...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To calculate a SAT reference value which is a determination reference for presuming a road surface friction state with high precision.

SOLUTION: A SAT presumption part 23 obtains the SAT presumption value based on the sum of steering torque and assist torque. A SAT model value calculation part 25 calculates a SAT model value based on a slip angle. A SAT ratio calculati...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle starting smoothing device, a vehicle starting method and a vehicle starting control program for improving fuel economy in the vehicle starting smoothing device having a prime mover, such a vehicle starting method and such a vehicle starting control program.

SOLUTION: This starting smoothing device has an actuator/sensor for controlling-operating an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that a hydraulic actuator for an automatic brake is disposed separately from an actuator of a cam type brake in a braking device provided on a rear axle of a tractor, and the required space and the parts number are increased.

SOLUTION: In a rear axle of a tractor to transmit the power to a rear axle via a reduction gear from a reduction shaft exten...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce gear-change shocks in a stepped automatic gear-change mechanism of a car.

SOLUTION: A car control device comprises an input torque operating unit 131 to obtain the input torque Tt of a stepped automatic gear-change mechanism from the engine speed Ne and the turbine speed Nt, a gear-change start recognizing unit 134 to recognize the actual mechanical gear-chan...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the number of defective sheets due to switching to new print production, that is, to reduce the number of printed matter that cannot be sold.

SOLUTION: This method and device are for setting a crop mark for/in a print product in which printed matter is printed successively on a web, and at least a kinematic pair for printing on a web is provided. A device for...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for hybrid vehicle formed to avoid an uncomfortable shock easy to be generated in a current one as much as possible by appropriately controlling the number of revolution of a motor when a brake is operated during the creep traveling driven by the revolution of the only motor.

SOLUTION: This control device is provided with a motor control mea...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a driver's driving operation even when lowering vehicle speed to give an alarm.

SOLUTION: In a traveling control system, the probability of a forward object making contact with a vehicle is detected by a radar device 30, an obstacle detection processor 2, and a controller 5, and the generation quantity of a drive torque to the operation quantity of an acceler...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shaft insertion tool easy to align to a seal retainer and automatically detachable.

SOLUTION: A shaft guide hub 12 is divided into half hubs 12a, 12b, and the half hubs 12a, 12b are supported openable/closable around a supporting pin 14 and energized to an unfolding direction by a compression spring 15. In mounting the tool, the half hubs 12a, 12b are grip...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the size of an internal gear 4, and to enhance mechanical strength.

SOLUTION: A sun gear 6 is concentrically fitted inside the internal gear 4 to be rotatable. A plurality of planet gears 8 held by a planetary carrier 10 are arranged between the internal gear 4 and the sun gear 6, and are meshed with the internal gear 4 and the sun gear 6. The planetary carri...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain torque from varying, while at the same time enhancing seizure-resisting properties.

SOLUTION: The surface roughness of the large diameter side end face 4A of a tapered roller 4 is specified at a value satisfying both of the following conditional expressions: 0.04μm≤Ra(r)≤0.1μm (1) and 0.8≤Ra(r)/Ra(c)≤1.1 (2) wherein Ra(r) is the arithmetic mean of the radia...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a traveling route generation device that ensures a steering route which gives a smooth and quite normal feeling by conducting automatic steering based on the traveling trajectory path of a preceding vehicle, when the possibility to encounter an obstacle is increased, while keeping traveling along a fixed route as much as possible.

SOLUTION: This is an automa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead acid storage battery which is low in failure rate of assembly and excellent in large current discharging performance and life performance while an element is retained under high pressure.

SOLUTION: In the lead acid storage battery equipped with an electrode plate group (element) obtained by laminating positive and negative electrode plates through a s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-quality and low-running-cost method of manufacturing a chip which permits the manufacturing of an extremely thin chip without causing chipping or cracking to a wafer when dicing and without using either a protective tape or a dicing tape.

SOLUTION: The use of the protective tape for protecting a front surface of the wafer is eliminated by carrying out...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain a smooth traveling state, by reducing the occurrence of shocks to a vehicle from torque fluctuations, when speed is changed by an automatic transmission.

SOLUTION: An ECU 20 controls the drive of the hydraulic actuator of each synchronizing clutch and the speed-changing operations of the automatic transmission 15, according to a clutch oil pressure command ...