PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel culture method and device in which living cells or subcellular biocatalysts are immobilized by the opposition of a centrifugal force field and a liquid flow field.

SOLUTION: The immobilized cells or biocatalysts are ordered into a three-dimensional array of particles, the density of which is determined by the particle size, shape, intrinsic density a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the precision in detecting the dose of X rays for controlling the dose of X rays applied without adverse effects on the detection of images by a solid detector in an X-ray imaging apparatus using the solid detector as an X-ray image detecting means.

SOLUTION: The X-ray imaging apparatus comprises the solid detector 20 for recording image information by recei...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To use solid detectors with different sizes interchangeably and to improve the precision in detecting the dose of X rays applied for controlling the dose of X rays without adverse effects on the detection of images by the solid detector in a mammography apparatus using the solid detector as an X-ray image detecting means.

SOLUTION: The mammography apparatus 1 has a det...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress an erroneous determination of a road surface state since a value of a slip ratio difference specified from wheels according to the type of a tire does not properly correspond to a determination value even when the determination value is properly set in advance and has a possibility of leading to the erroneous determination of the road surface.

SOLUTION: An ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driver model constructing method for constructing a driver model including switching judgement conditions of sub-driver models.

SOLUTION: This driver model constructing method relates to constructing of the driver model by connecting a plurality of sub-driver models. The method includes a step S1 for determining the structure of each polynomial constitutin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more properly cope with the lowering of power outputted from an internal combustion engine.

SOLUTION: When an engine is operated and an engine demand power Pe* becomes lower than an engine stop determination value Pstp, the operation of the engine is stopped (S330 to S370). When the operation of the engine is stopped and the engine demand power Pe* becomes higher th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact output transmission for a vehicle having high torque transmission efficiency of a reduction gear mechanism and high reduction gear ratio, and a vehicle-driving electric machinery system using it.

SOLUTION: The output transmission comprises a motor 10, a reduction gear unit 12 for decelerating the rotation of the motor 10, and a differential gear un...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular control device capable of controlling the kinetic characteristics of a vehicle while accurately meeting the requests of a driver.

SOLUTION: An ECT_ECU executes a program including a step (S130) of detecting an accelerator opening (S120) and calculating the temporal rate A of change when the power-on down-shift is determined (YES in S110), and a S...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving operation auxiliary device for a vehicle performing an operation reaction force control and a braking/driving force control according to a state around the vehicle.

SOLUTION: The driving operation auxiliary device 1 for the vehicle calculates a compression amount of a resilient member which is virtually provided in the front of a vehicle concerned ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving operation auxiliary device for a vehicle performing an operation reaction force control and a braking/driving force control according to a state around the vehicle.

SOLUTION: The driving operation auxiliary device 1 for the vehicle calculates a compression amount of a resilient member which is virtually provided in the front of a vehicle concerened...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle behavior control device capable of preventing an inappropriate vehicle behavior control when an air pressure of a tire drops.

SOLUTION: When the air pressure of the tire for the vehicle is lower than an air pressure drop first threshold Thp1, the threshold to start the behavior control is set (S22) so that the behavior control is hard to start. Ear...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a vehicle mounted with a continuously variable transmission capable of preventing shock at manual speed change accompanying with torque control of a power source.

SOLUTION: The control device for the vehicle mounted with the continuously variable transmission is provided with a forbidding condition determination means (step S3, S4, S5, S...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving apparatus for a hybrid vehicle, which driving apparatus can be applied to the driving apparatus for an existing vehicle without performing a large scale modification, and has high versatility.

SOLUTION: The driving apparatus for the hybrid vehicle is provided with a power source (an engine 1) and a speed changing mechanism (a transmission 4) mounte...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To judge a danger of a rear-end collision from the results of braking operations of a driver in the past.

SOLUTION: Braking deceleration of one's vehicle occurred during braking the one's vehicle is calculated by a CPU 21 from acceleration/deceleration Aa, a gradient θ of a road surface in the forward direction, and operating conditions of the brake. The data of the br...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rotary automatic packer equipped with an inexpensive side heat seal bar opening/closing cam.

SOLUTION: The rotary automatic packer 1 has a side seal mechanism 5, which comprises side heat seal bars 51, which hold or release a folded packaging film 131 between the heat seal bars 51 and form a side seal 134 on the film 131, and the side heat seal bar opening...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rotary automatic packer which forms well a side seal.

SOLUTION: The rotary automatic packer 1 is equipped with a side sealing mechanism 5, which has a fixed side sealing bar 512, and an opening/closing side sealing bar 511 that is pivoted on the fixed side sealing bar 512 to be turnable, and pinches a packaging film 131 in the width direction by pivoting t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive force control device for a vehicle, in which a range where a motor is stably drivable can be enlarged.

SOLUTION: Output of an engine 2 is transmitted through a transmission to right and left front wheels 1L and 1R, while it is transmitted to a power generator 7. Power generation voltage of the power generator 7 is supplied to the motor 4, and right a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lightened and cost-reduced autotensioner with an improved sliding characteristic on a contact face between a stationary member or a movable member and a friction material.

SOLUTION: This autotensioner for appropriately holding tension of a belt comprises a stationary member 2 fixed to a vehicle body and the like, a movable member of an arm-like structure r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a protection controlling device of a rotating electrical machine of a drive system for responding to a drive request in a condition for providing original safe rotating electrical machine performace without irreversible demagnetization at a request for driving the rotating electrical machine while achieving an effective device in terms of cost and space by using...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent reduction in driving force even when mode switching from a fixed transmission ratio mode to a continuously variable transmission ratio mode at the generation of the maximum driving force is finished within the allowance of rotational speed.

SOLUTION: When switching from the fixed transmission ratio mode to the continuously variable transmission ratio mode at...