PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To determine active state of floating cells, and to culture the cells by reusing the cells, even after the state of cells are observed.

SOLUTION: A camera 104 images an image (phase contrast image) in a cell culture container A, which is observed by using a phase-contrast microscope for observing floating cells being cultured in the cell culture container A and acquire...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make unpolished rice more penetrable by water and easier to cook, and to make it tasty by decreasing its inherent odor and hardness.

SOLUTION: A method for cooking unpolished rice includes: an immersion process 21 for immersing washed unpolished-rice in water; a dewatering process 22 for dewatering the unpolished rice having been immersed in water; a penetration pro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce noise due to vibration of a gradient magnetic field coil without narrowing an imaging space gap or enlarging (enlarging in the height direction) an MRI apparatus.

SOLUTION: This magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a static magnetic field generator for generating a static magnetic field in the perpendicular direction to the imaging space 1, the gradi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a honeycomb structure body that is not easily damaged even if it is used at a high temperature.

SOLUTION: The honeycomb structure body having a first end face and a second end face substantially parallel to each other and an outer circumferential face that connects the two end faces, with the shape of the outer circumference of the first end face and that of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To supply slurry to a wire of a multi-wire saw to have uniform adhesion amount.

SOLUTION: This multi-wire saw is provided with a slurry supply part to supply slurry 33 including abrasive grains to the wire 25. The slurry supply part has: slurry supply containers 29 arranged at upstream and downstream positions of a wire moving direction in relation to a slicing positio...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ejection head which can eject a liquid droplet with a high degree of accuracy for a long period of time, an ejector, and a manufacturing method for the ejection head.

SOLUTION: Since a nozzle hole 22 is formed in an inorganic substrate such as a silicon substrate or a glass substrate, not only positional accuracy but also durability is high. Since a thin ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an ink cartridge in which negative pressure in an ink storage chamber does not propagate into an ink ejector when the ink cartridge is attached to the ink ejector.

SOLUTION: When an ink cartridge is filled with ink, the ink storage chamber 40 in the cartridge body 20 is decompressed through an atmosphere interconnecting section 32. After ink is introduced thr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermoplastic multi-layer resin sheet having thermoformability, rigidity and oxygen barrier properties, and easily providing notch breaking properties after thermoforming.

SOLUTION: The thermoplastic multi-layer resin sheet in which a notch is formed from one face side, is prepared by laminating styrene resin layers on both faces of an oxygen barrier resin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mold for molding tire capable of efficiently exhausting gas without lowering exhausting efficiency in vulcanization even when densely arranging siping blades in the tire tread part, and capable of vulcanizing and molding without causing defects such as dents in the center block.

SOLUTION: On the mold surface 1 of the mold for molding tire, a plurality of s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a glass run capable of being easily mounted on a door frame and assuring a good sealing and sound insulating characteristics at a corner part.

SOLUTION: The glass run 10 has a straight portion 11 and a corner part 12 formed through a molding die and connecting the straight portion. The body of glass run is composed of extra-vehicle side-walls 20, intra-vehic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle transmission for running having an intra-transmission case structure in which a plurality of follower shafts having a clutch are installed around the main drive shaft and which is embodied in a simple component construction, capable of precluding the risk to make a corrective installation again owing to a wrong installation work.

SOLUTION: The vehi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a steering device for a vehicle capable of sensing accurately a turbulence generation even in a region with a small steering torque and of achieving a low-cost and simple constitution.

SOLUTION: The steering device for vehicle is equipped with a road surface reaction torque sensor 12 to sense the actual road surface reaction torque Talign which each tire 9 o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly set allowable driving force which can be output from a driving device when constant speed traveling is performed at a target vehicle speed, and to output driving force in the range from a driving device for performing constant speed traveling.

SOLUTION: Request torque Tr* is calculated as torque to be output for performing constant speed traveling at a targ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for a hybrid drive device capable of sufficiently protecting an energy storage device even in an environment for generating rotational slippage of a sensor by up-shifting of an automatic transmission.

SOLUTION: During the up-shift of the automatic transmission 22, a hybrid drive control means 130 (a motor output limiting control means) prohibits...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To keep inappropriate vibration-damping control from being executed when a brake control device for a vehicle is inoperable, in a pitching/bouncing vibration-damping control device for a vehicle that is based on drive output control using a quantity of state of wheel slip indicating the slipped state of wheels obtained by the brake control device.

SOLUTION: The vibrati...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving support method of a vehicle and a driving support device of a vehicle for optimally supporting driving according to different conditions when the vehicle collides with a following vehicle having different conditions.

SOLUTION: When determined that rear-end collision with a following vehicle cannot be avoided while rear-end collision with a precedin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a newly constituted torsion beam type suspension easily positioning a vehicle body mounting member and reducing welding processes.

SOLUTION: This torsion beam type suspension is furnished with: a torsion beam with an arm part formed by bending both end parts of a pipe material on it; and the vehicle body mounting member 15R welded on a bending part 14R forme...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To much more properly control an electric motor even in changing the shift level of a transmission in a vehicle equipped with an electric motor which outputs a power through the transmission to a driving shaft.

SOLUTION: In shifting transmission (S140), an anticipated revolving speed Nm2est anticipated in control is set as a revolving speed Nm2* for control by multiply...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an engine from stopping more frequently than needed and to prevent the rotational frequency of a sun gear connected to a first MG from becoming excessively high.

SOLUTION: The first MG is connected to the sun gear, and an automatic transmission is connected to a ring gear. An engine is connected to a carrier. When the rotational frequency NR of the ring gear...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid a voltage of a power source device from being largely descended when two electric motors connected to the same power source device are operated according to the same operation instruction.

SOLUTION: When the electric motor is started, a large starting current flows. The maximum value of the starting current is larger than a current flowing at true operation of...