The intending seller (3) sends details of the property, guide price, reserve price, etc., to the server (1) via the internet (4) and a web-site (5). After the auction starts, bids from clients (2) are shown on the web-site. When a bid exceeds the unpublished reserve price, a clock starts allowing half an hour for a higher bid. Each time a higher bid is received, the clock restarts. If no bid is re...

The intending seller (3) sends details of the property, guide price, reserve price, etc., to the server (1) via the internet (4) and a web-site (5). After the auction starts, bids from clients (2) are shown on the web-site. When a bid exceeds the unpublished reserve price, a clock starts allowing a set time for higher bids. At the end of the set period, the most recent and highest bidder gets the ...

PURPOSE: To provide a sporty transmission feeling intended by a driven by lowering a gear shift shock reduction quantity during selection of a manual transmission mode in comparison with that during selection of an automatic transmission mode. CONSTITUTION: On the basis of an output from a vehicle speed sensor S5 detecting a value complying with a vehicle speed, an output from a throttle opening s...

PURPOSE:To improve economical advantage and solution retaining property by inserting a separator having extruded parts in one or both sides between a positive and a negative electrodes and filling the gap between the electrodes and their periphery with an inorganic powder. CONSTITUTION:A separator 3 in which extruded parts 4 are formed in one or both sides discontinuously by embossing process is l...

PURPOSE:To eliminate gas tightness failure, etc., due to attached grains on a sealed part for stabilizing quality and improving productivity by sealing a grain filling port doubly. CONSTITUTION:A storage battery is provided with grains 3, and a pole plate group 2 embedded in the grains, where necessary electrolyte for charge and discharge is held by the grains. A cover 5 of the storage battery is ...

PURPOSE:To enhance the welding strength of tabs of electrode plates and a strap to each other by installing a plurality of electrode plates, each having a tab, belonging to the same polarity group in a single row arrangement, and moving a gas burner over the tabs in the direction in which the plates are arranged and also in the direction perpendicular thereto. CONSTITUTION:Positive electrode tabs ...

PURPOSE:To improve effectiveness of an engine brake by changing an engaging condition in an automatic transmission from its present speed change shift to a lower speed side speed change shift to increase a speed of an internal combustion engine, and controlling its operating condition transferred to a fuel cut region. CONSTITUTION:By a control means 86, an automatic transmission 70 is placed in an...

PURPOSE: To form a thin layer of an electrode active material and at the same time provide high output power of a battery by applying lead compound slurry mainly consisting of lead powder and water with no addition of sulfuric acid to a supporting body, immersing the resulting supporting body in diluted sulfuric acid, and then carrying out aging process in air. CONSTITUTION: A process 4 to prepare...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a shift shock by judging that shift starts when fastening reaction detected by detecting means exceeds a predetermined value, judging that shift finishes when the pseudo speed ratio of a torque convertor, found by pseudo speed ratio calculating means, reaches the predetermined value, and changing the output of a prime mover during shift. SOLUTION: During engine oper...

A method and a device is provided which allows the connection of coaxial cable termini to one another with minimum long-term loss of RFI shielding. The method comprises the removal of metal oxides from the concentric conductor portions of the two cable termini, applying a sealant to the concentric conductor termini and then connecting the central conductor termini to one another and the concentric...

The recovering of a polyester polymer from a mixed polymer recycle stream (I), while maintaining the polyester polymer in polymer form, comprises: contacting (I) comprising 50 wt.% or more polyester polymer, lesser portions of other polymers, including polyolefins(s), and impurities, with a chemical wash solvent that dissolves portions(s) of the impurities and substantially rejects dissoln. of the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance portability and productivity. SOLUTION: An ultrasonic vibrator 2 oscillating ultrasonic vibration, a horn part 3 amplifying ultrasonic vibration and having a processed surface 3A provided to the leading end part thereof, a grip member 4 holding them integrally at its one end part 4A and the press member 9 engaged with the grip member 4 in a freely revolvable manner...

PCT No. PCT/EP94/01370 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 4, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 4, 1995 PCT Filed Apr. 29, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO94/26821 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 24, 1994Polyester resins containing up to 5% by weight of a polymeric liquid crystal and an upgrading agent capable of increasing the I. V. of the resin by polyaddition reaction in the solid state with the end groups of the resin. Fibres, films and biax...

PURPOSE:To obtain a linear pressure by an even distribution of roll load along the axial center direction of a roll, and to realize a linear conveying property of the conveying condition of plate form bodies, by inclining the shaft center of either one side feed roll to the shaft center of the other side feed roll at a desired angle. CONSTITUTION:When a plate form body such a veneer, a plywood, or...

PURPOSE:To guarantee the linear conveying of a plate form body, and to remove a resin component attached to rolls, by changing the roll diameters of the upper side and the lower side feed rolls so as to generate the rotation-speed difference, as well as inclining the shaft-centers of the feed rolls which consist of a pair of the upper and the lower rolls, at a desired angle each other. CONSTITUTIO...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and precisely synthesize a color image by color-separating and recording light. SOLUTION: At the time of photographing, incident light from an image pickup optical system 12 is recorded in the image pickup area of each recording medium in a recording medium unit 30 through a color separation unit 50, and simultaneously illuminating light emitted from a light source ...

A reflection type projector includes a light source, a reflection type light modulating element, a projection lens, a condenser lens, and first and second adjusting mechanisms. An illumination light emitted from the light source passes through the condenser lens and enters into the reflection type light modulating element. The reflected light from the element passes through the condenser lens and ...

PCT No. PCT/SE94/00331 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 11, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 11, 1995 PCT Filed Apr. 14, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO94/23703 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 27, 1994Porous cellulose matrices with a defined particle size and a significantly higher porosity (i.e. pore volume) than conventional formulations, such as pellet formulations containing cellulose and binders are prepared. The cellulose is mechanica...

Method of introducing instruments/measuring equipment/tools into formations ( 9 ) in the earth's crust or other solid materials, such as ice, by means of a drilling device ( 1 ), material being liberated by, for example, rotation of a drill bit ( 2 ), or by melting, for example by means of a heating element, the liberated material thereafter flowing, or being pumped, past/through the drilling devi...

A method, of logging a borehole, for use in a cased oil well for detecting the gas/oil or water/oil contact in a hydrocarbon reservoir, using a neutron capture technique to detect one or more properties of fluid includes comparing the count rates from two or more radiation detectors spaced at respective first and second distances from an isotopic source of continuous neutron radiation. The contact...