PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize radiographic tomography method and system capable of photographing plural tomographic images different in slice thickness at once photographing. SOLUTION: The projected image of an examinee formed by a radiation beam 40 with spreading and thickness is divided by detector arrays 240 and 242 in the direction of the thickness of the radiation beam and each projection ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable all of cut wastepaper generated in an office or the like to be standardly and constantly used in a distribution industry. SOLUTION: The wastepaper packaging apparatus comprises a hopper 1 positioned on an upper part for throwing in wastepaper, a cylindrical casing 2 provided connectedly below the hopper, a conveyer screw 3 having an outer diameter slightly smaller t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly shape a belt-like sheet into a cylindrical sheet and also support a change in width size of the belt-like sheet by shaping the belt-like sheet into a bent sheet and then by folding both side ends of the bent sheet. SOLUTION: A belt-like sheet S is formed into a bent sheet R by a shaping guide 31. A width of the belt-like sheet S is such that end rims E of the bent...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for vertical bag-forming, filling, and packaging and a method for packaging for automatically and reliably fixing a freshness preservative inside a packaging bag to be formed by using the apparatus. SOLUTION: Packaging bags 80 are continuously formed of a sheet-like packaging material 50 induced by a sailor 61 inside an outer sailor cylinder equipped w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To sufficiently heat the fuel without setting the pressure of the heated water to be used for heating the fuel, high, and surely prevent the generation of the steaming, by mounting a heat exchanger on an exhaust heat recovery boiler, and supplying the heated water generated from the heat exchanger to a fuel heating device. SOLUTION: An inlet side of a heat exchanger 36 is con...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To alternate the control patterns of a plurality of actuators together according to target value, by providing a neurocomputer having a plurality of input and output ports, and alternating the weighting of the neurocomputer or the like according to the difference between an output signal of a certain output port, and a set point of the same. SOLUTION: A neurocomputor comprise...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clad type electrode plate that can improve discharge and lasting time characteristics of a clad type sealed lead-acid battery. SOLUTION: A plurality of core metals 3 are arranged in a flat powder active material forming body 12 being in parallel with each other and also in parallel with two wide surfaces of the power active material forming body 12. The powder ac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the lowering of instant discharge voltage due to the generation of lead monoxide by dipping a positive electrode, which includes lead dioxide in the active material therof, in the solution including water, in which fine powder of tin or tin compound is suspended, or tin ion, and drying it. SOLUTION: After washing a positive electrode plate, which is formed in a tan...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain the generation of non-formation part in an electrode plate by giving the same vibration with the natural frequency of a battery to the battery in a battery jar formation process. SOLUTION: Lead powder and dilute sulfuric acid are kneaded so as to form the paste, and after filling a positive electrode collector grid with this paste, aging and drying are performed s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently regenerate the braking energy at a decelerating time even in a low-speed region without increasing the capacity of a battery, by selectively charging an electrical double layer capacitor and the battery with the electricity generated from a motor during regenerating operations, and recharging the battery with the electricity of the charged capacitor. SOLUTION: ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the increase of the number of starts of a predetermined gas turbine. SOLUTION: A combined cycle power plant controller 6a is provided with an entrance temperature measuring means 7 by which the temperatures of the turbine entrances of a plurality of bas turbines are measured, a memory means 8a in which the hysteresises of the turbine entrance temperatures of a plural...

A method and device for reeling a paper or board web in a drum reel-up or equivalent, in which, when a paper or board reel formed on a reel spool situated in a reeling position becomes complete, a new reel spool is brought by transfer members into a stand-by position and accelerated up to the web speed. The reel spool with the complete reel is transferred into an exchange position apart from the r...

A garden umbrella includes upper and lower support ribs, a runner sleeved slidably on a pole, stretchers, and connecting rods pivotally interconnecting upper and lower support ribs. Each stretcher has one end pivotally attached to a runner and an opposite end pivotally attached to the corresponding upper and lower support ribs. As such, the pivotal attachments described above constitute a pantogra...

A bag structure for carrying objects, such as mail, on the inner forearm between the elbow and the hand on either the right or left arm. The bag structure includes a divided container comprising of a front wall, a dividing wall spaced from the front wall, a back wall spaced from the dividing wall, spaced apart end walls, a floor, and an open top. A VELCRO armband which straps to the inner forearm ...

Systems and methods for heating body tissue place a multi-function structure having an exterior wall in contact with body tissue. The structure includes an array of electrically conducting electrode segments carried by the exterior wall. An electrically conductive network is coupled to the electrode segments, including at least one electrically conductive path individually coupled to each electrod...

A catheter for delivering electrical energy to a selectable region of a patient's body has at least one layer of fibers with at least one electrically conductive fiber stranded over a flexible core. Each layer of fibers is stranded over the flexible core and underlying layers opposite in direction from that of the immediately preceding layer so as to provide a catheter with good torque transfer pr...

A flexible electrode support is bent to define an arcuate shape that extends beyond the distal end of an associated guide body. At least one of the ends of the support is free of attachment to the distal end. By moving the free end, a user can push upon or pull against the structure to alter its arcuate shape to assure intimate contact with tissue.

A radio-frequency ablation system is disclosed in which the power, voltage, or temperature delivered to multiple electrodes may be dynamically controlled, and in which the electrodes may be simultaneously energized in phase with each other to achieve a desired lesion pattern. The system comprises a multiple electrode ablation catheter, each electrode having a temperature sensor operatively associa...

A pneumatic vehicle tire having a belt layer at the outside of a carcass layer of the tread, wherein a plurality of mutually parallel reinforcement cords are wound back and forth in a spiral at a predetermined angle to the longitudinal direction and embedded in a matrix of a lateral flattened tubular cross-section to form a continuous tape and the continuous tape is continuously wound around the o...

There is now provided a method for making a polyisocyanate based rigid closed cell foam by reacting an organic isocyanate and a polyol composition containing a polyol having polyester linkages and a number average molecular weight of 400 or more, and at least about 8 php of a silicone-containing surfactant polymer, in the presence of an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic C4-C7 hydrocarbon blowing agent. ...