A sanitary napkin having an absorbent core with three longitudinally oriented trisections, a central trisection flanked by two outboard trisections. The absorbent core is formed of a single layer of tissue. The single layer of tissue is folded on itself to provide a two-ply thickness at each of the outboard trisections and a single thickness at the central trisection. The two plies of the outboard...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate X-ray beams adversely affecting the formation of images when an electron beam hits a tungsten wire by forming a conductor path using a material with a smaller number of nuclear positive charges than that in tungsten. SOLUTION: This apparatus is so arranged in an area of a target 1 to detect or evaluate the cross section, the position and the orientation of an ele...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a failure of brake switches in two systems to be detected. SOLUTION: Brake switches BRK1 and BRK2 in two systems are mechanically cooperated with a striding action of a brake pedal to change over their ON/OFF states. A first brake switch BRK1 is a normal-opened switch and its ON/OFF signal is inputted to an input port PORT 1 of a CPU 50. A second brake switch BRK2 i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To recognize following a forward traveling vehicle with a simple signal processing method by connecting a means for comparing characteristics in optional spaces on spatial positions timewise and determining the condition of following the advance vehicle based on this comparison to a vehicle controller. SOLUTION: In a vehicle controller, the image information signal of a camer...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve drivability in a traveling zone just before a traffic jam by executing control for suppressing the driving force of a vehicle when a detecting means detects a traffic jam ahead of a vehicle. SOLUTION: Determination is made as to whether a traffic jam exists or not ahead of a vehicle by the GPS antenna 15 of a first position detecting part 7 and a second position de...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain a target fuel-air ratio so as to reduce fuel costs and improve exhaust cleaning performance by setting the target fuel-air ratio according to target engine torque and an engine revolving speed and controlling the quantify of air taken in and the quantity of fuel supplied to an engine based on the set ratio. SOLUTION: A target fuel-air ratio calculating part E calc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of an unstable running condition caused by one side braking when the mower is traveling while being lifted up. SOLUTION: A brake pedal 15 for braking a left front wheel, a right brake pedal 16 for braking a right front wheel, a main brake pedal capable of simultaneously braking the right and left front wheels, and a mower capable of being elevated, a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent overlapping of arithmetic processing common to a plurality of vehicle motion control operations while suppressing the reduction of controlling accuracy so as to share a processing result by prohibiting other vehicle motion control operations except common processing during the execution of a specified vehicle motion control operation among the plurality of vehicle ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent braking force from being unbalanced between wheels regardless of a change in load burden and a difference in driving torque. SOLUTION: A target vehicle deceleration XB* is operated (1) based on brake pedal footing force FB, a target wheel braking force for generating the deceleration Xg * in response to load burden per each wheel, is computed (2), and concurrently ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To seal a transmission case with gaskets formed at a relatively low cost regardless of type changes by inserting the gaskets extrusion-molded into a cord shape and having a constant cross sectional shape between a case section and a cover while both end sections of the gaskets are arranged near to each other. SOLUTION: Fitting grooves for fitting gaskets 401 are provided on t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify work for cleaning and simultaneously clean a pipe line system and a packing nozzle by providing an adaptor which is detachably mounted to a swingable part and encloses the packing nozzle to form a cleaning fluid flow passage when mounted to the swingable part. SOLUTION: An adaptor 71 is provided which is detachably mounted to a swingable part 62 to enclose a packi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eject unerringly a packaged item affected by overheat. SOLUTION: A heat welding part 3 is provided with a proximity switch 11, as a detection means, which detects whether both heaters 3a and 3b are in the state of releasing both ends of a packaging material 1 or biting them during the stay of a packaged item in the heat welding part 3 and outputs a detection signal corresp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent slipping out of a yarn end or surface layered yarn from a yarn tying member at the time of moving the yarn tying member to tie the yarn end and the surface layered yarn wound up on the package before one turn of the yarn end in the circumference of the package. SOLUTION: A surface layered yarn wound up on a package before one round of a yarn end is caught buy a rin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a light and flexible lining fabric of multi-layer structure, high in heat retaining properties. SOLUTION: This lining fabric comprises an outer surface layer, an outer back layer at the skin side and an intermediate layer. At least one layer comprises a sunlight absorber-containing filament. The sunlight absorber is preferably selected from carbon black, chromium ox...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To lower the loss of steam, and while to safely stop an exhaust heat recovery boiler. SOLUTION: In a combined cycle plant, steam is generated by heat exchange of the exhaust gas of a gas turbine and the water supply of an exhaust heat recovery boiler, and this steam is supplied to a steam turbine for drive, and on the other hand, the steam turbine is bypassed through a turbin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the excessive rise of temperature of the operating oil of an automatic transmission without giving the uncomfortableness to a driver at the time of traveling in an up-slope road. SOLUTION: In the case where a condition that a difference between the engine speed Ne and the revolution of an automatic transmission input shaft NT1 exceeds the predetermined value &utri ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrict the acceleration to be applied to an automobile by braking, and to improve the comfortableness. SOLUTION: An automatic transmission A is connected to an engine 1 of an automatic vehicle, and the engine 1 is driven by the control of an injector 21, an igniter 27 and an OCV 41 or the like. Each of the injector 21, the igniter 27 and the OCV 41 is controlled by an E-...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain a shock due to a speed change caused by a change in output characteristics of a driving power source according to the speed change by controlling the change in output characteristics according to the speed change before completion of the speed change in an automatic transmission in which the output characteristics of the driving power source with respect to an acc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To roughly uniformly apply a radial load to the outer peripheral surface of a supporting shaft so as to improve a fatigue life by fitting and supporting both end parts of the planetary gear supporting shaft in a supporting plate and a locking plate freely rotatively and preventing axial direction displacement. SOLUTION: Both end parts of a supporting shaft 7 are fitted in a s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize a differential device having torque amplifying action and to make it lighter. SOLUTION: The rotating power of a propeller shaft 12 is distributed to the first drive pinion 30 and a cylindrical part 36 by a differential mechanism 18, and the power of the first drive pinion 30 is speed-reduced by the first speed reducing mechanism 34, namely amplifying its torque...