PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an actuator which inhibits or reduces a noise during operation, and ensures a stable action over a long period of time.

SOLUTION: In this actuator 10, a partition wall 110 extends from a lid body 16 toward a case body 14 side and a motor accommodation part 18 and a first gear accommodation part 32 are partitioned by the partition wall 110 in the assembled st...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cylindrical lead storage battery which solves such problems that, although it is easy to put high pressure on an element, a separator can not maintain enough repulsion force due to the excessive pressure to exert an expected performance, or that the separator should be broken due to complex force of tension and compression at winding up or be likely to short-c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead storage battery equipped with an excellent inter-cell connecting part.

SOLUTION: With the lead storage battery provided with a connecting part with a first connecting body and second connecting body laid in opposition with a partition wall having a transparent hole interposed fusion bonded in the transparent hole, an area of void at the bonded face of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve a long service life of a battery by controlling the discharging rate of a batter consisting of set cells.

SOLUTION: An electric cell, fallen into deep discharged state during discharging of a battery is detected in a step S1. If a single cell, fallen into deep discharged state is detected, updating to decrease the discharging rate is performed in principle b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make use of low-cost, general-purpose electronic components and detect overcharging and insufficient charging of a valve-regulated lead acid battery with accuracy.

SOLUTION: A threshold time τ2and a threshold time τ1are set as margins, respectively before and after time t3, when charging to a usage-based charging amount is completed. If th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method capable of relatively easily preparing a program for management and control corresponding to an individual transmitting device and smoothly operating the prepared program.

SOLUTION: A function information file 400 conforming to the specification of a control target device (NE) is prepared, and an execution information file 500 is prepared by using t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a program with which a test is easily performed.

SOLUTION: When it is judged that processing so far has been normally finished, the state of the processing is changed to a state where it is judged that the processing so far has not been normally finished and processing is then performed. A processing program is provided for performing a unit step several tim...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable quick toll reception by a toll receiving system even to a vehicle having a contradictory content of a passing ticket or to a vehicle to which an unprescribed toll is applied, to shorten a time required for toll reception, and to reduce a load of a reception watchman.

SOLUTION: This monitoring board for the toll receiving system of a toll road is equipped with...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a facility using communication system capable of performing guide display by a user instrument mounted by each facility user, preventing a facility user from being puzzled when using a facility, preserving automatically in the user instrument, personal data of the user generated simultaneously on facility use, and utilizing the data on the facility side.

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a space-saving and easily-mountable route passage control device having a simple structure, consistency and versatility, capable of easily reducing a cost.

SOLUTION: Operation input necessary for driving an admission blocking bar 20 included in a first casing 26 is performed by an admission operation part 32a arranged on the back of a second casing 34, and o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce traffic congestion, environmental pollution or the like at a place determined beforehand, and to utilize effectively a parking lot on the periphery of the place.

SOLUTION: A parking fee calculation device 1 is equipped with a discount time calculation part 3 and a fee calculation part 4. The discount time calculation part 3 calculates a moving time required w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a charge receiving system and a roadside wireless installation capable of receiving a charge required for movement of a vehicle by generating a wide radio range without forming a shade of the vehicle and without controlling time division or frequency division, on lanes where the vehicle can move at high speed.

SOLUTION: This charge receiving system is equipp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that alarm program processing prepared for coping with an emergency, by which an alarm is outputted from an in-vehicle unit when a driver forgets pulling out a card from the in-vehicle unit at a finish time of driving, imposes an unnecessary burden on application program processing for the regular time.

SOLUTION: This in-vehicle unit is equipped wi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an on-vehicle device for narrow area communication of high-level road traffic system capable of fixing a desirable communication frequency with high efficiency and reliability.

SOLUTION: A frequency switching determination means 7 is provided, whereby: a priority sequence for switching local frequencies in correspondence with types of on-road equipment is pr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flexible printed circuit board for a head suspension assembly which suppresses the dielectric breakdown of a magnetic head.

SOLUTION: The flexible printed circuit board 1 is a flexible printed circuit board for directly relaying the magnetic head placed on a suspension of the head suspension assembly of a magnetic disk device and a connecting end at the ba...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To block a head carriage from being moved from a prescribed position independently of a loaded/unloaded storage medium instantaneously in response to the occurrence of a shock with a simple and downsized configuration.

SOLUTION: The storage device, which uses an optical head to apply data recording/reproduction/deletion to a storage medium, is characterized in the conf...

The invention provides a process for removing steam-volatile fluorinated emulsifiers in their free acid form, from aqueous fluoropolymer dispersions. The process comprises adding a nonionic emulsifier to the aqueous fluoropolymer dispersion and, at a pH-value of the aqueous fluoropolymer dispersion below 5, removing steam-volatile fluorinated emulsifier by distillation until the concentration of s...

A method for providing electronic redemption of product discounts. The method includes creating an electronic database of product discounts. The electronic database is connected to and accessible by a network of data processing systems. Customers are then provided access points to said database from outside of the network. The electronic database is expanded to include customer information and eac...

The present invention is a system and method for converting purchaser check-based bill payments with which the majority of consumers are most comfortable, into a stream of payments with efficiency equal to online presentment and payment methods. A paper-based consolidated billing and payment form is created by an issuing financial institution or exchange by way of direct billet downloads, and the ...

The present invention discloses, inter alia, a composition useful for producing a homogeneous, semipermeable membrane, the composition comprising (1) a polysulfone compound, (2) a solvent, such as sulfolane, antypyrine, delta -valerolactam, diethyl phthalate, and mixtures thereof, and (3) a non-solvent, such as poly(ethylene glycol), di(ethylene glycol), tri(ethylene glycol), glycerol, and mixtur...