Two or more parties can be granted access to information entered into a database by the creditor in a given debt case, and action is carried out to collect this debt, either by the information processing system or one of the two or more parties. The entered information relates to the debtor and the debt(s) owed by them. Independent claims are also included for; (1) a computer program for carrying...

The present invention involves a buffing apparatus (10) which enables faster and more uniform buffing of tire casings (2) prior to application of replacement treads. In particular, a buffing apparatus for preparing a tire casing for retreading includes a tire casing rotating assembly (16). This assembly includes a system for mounting the casing in a vertical plane and for rotating the tire casing ...

PURPOSE:To improve water repellency, resistance to abrasion and the like by a method wherein a first layer is formed by treating a treating agent, containing a compound capable of forming a surface having a specified value of contact angle with respect to water, while a second layer is constituted of a heat resistant polymeric thin film layer obtained by treating with treating agent containing a c...

When on-going down-shifting state of an automatic transmission is detected, an output torque of an engine is lowered after expiration of a first predetermined period, which is set between detection of down-shifting and a timing immediately before completion of down shifting, and for a second predetermined period which is set for a given period to completion of down-shifting from expiration of the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular total power transmission involving a start clutch, a selector clutch and a change gear, capable of easily changing speeds while suppressing resultant shocks and noises at an upshift operation to every speed gear in a range from the first-speed gear to the final-speed gear by applying braking force to the output member of the start clutch. SOLUTION: An o...

PURPOSE:To prevent a reduction in output caused by improper slip control when a reserve wheel is mounted onto one of driving wheels with driving force restrained as well as to enhance reliability for slip control when the reserve wheel is mounted onto one of driven wheels in a slip control device for a vehi cle. CONSTITUTION:When a reserve wheel is mounted onto one of driving wheels, a flag F2a or...

PURPOSE:To provide an ultrasonic welding machine for bonding cloths by a simple method. CONSTITUTION:An ultrasonic generator which can move freely in the XY directions by means of an orthogonal-coordinates robot is moved down to the position for pressing a cloth A and a cloth B by an air cylinder 19 at the time of welding to radiate an ultrasonic wave at the position in which the cloths A and B ar...

The present invention is characterized in that it comprises signal detecting means located before the automatic transmission mechanism for detecting the timing that torque outputted from a torque converter of said automatic transmission at the moment of shifting up changes from clutch before shift to clutch after shift, signal detecting means located after the automatic transmission mechanism for ...

A centrifugal fluid separation system separates a composite fluid into components. The system includes a rotor that has a composite fluid containment area, an inlet channel, a peripheral separation channel, outlet channels and separated component collection areas, which together form a processing area. The separation channel may be semi-spiraled. The inlet channel may connect to the center of the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reinforced earth structure preventing the working of partial large force to a reinforcing body and a concrete block for retaining and capable of surely maintaining the connecting state of the reinforcing body and an earth retaining wall. SOLUTION: An earth retaining wall 21 is constituted by superposing a plurality of concrete blocks for retaining 25, 26, upper-s...

PURPOSE:To provide a sharp grain size distribution so that good image quality is obtd. when spherical particles are used as the spacer particles of the display device by laminating metal oxide layers consisting of the material different from the material of the spherical particles on these particles, thereby forming the spacer particles. CONSTITUTION:The structure constituted by using the spherica...

Polypeptides which are derived from the ligand-binding portion of an Integrin alpha subunit are disclosed as are their use for modulation of Integrin ligand binding. Anti-peptide antibodies, hybridomas secreting these antibodies, as well as methods of making and using such antibodies, and recombinant DNA molecules that define the structural gene coding for the polypeptides are also contemplated as...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve display characteristic and mass productivity by successively laminating and forming a color filter, a flattening layer, a common electrode and a liquid crystal oriented film on an upper substrate and a reflector, an insulating layer, a segment electrode and the liquid crystal oriented film on a lower substrate, and making the stripe direction of the color filter or...

Isocyanate-based foams are produced by reacting 1) polyisocyanates with 2) compounds having a molecular weight of from 400 to 10,000 which contain at least two hydrogen atoms which are active towards isocyanates, in the presence of 3) hydrocarbons which can be evaporated under the foaming conditions as blowing agent, optionally in the presence of 4) compounds containing at least two hydrogen a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an insert material for joining steel which is turned into the inexpensive paste by mixing the amorphous powder which contains the B concentration of the prescribed weight ratio, and the balance equal to the composition of the steel to be joined with the binder and the organic solvent. SOLUTION: The insert material contains, by weight, 2-4% B concentration. B is the...

A biaxially oriented polyester film wherein the ratio (=IMD /IND) of the peak intensity (IMD) in the longitudinal direction to the peak intensity (IND) in the thickness direction determined at 1615 cm<-1> by laser Raman scattering method is not less than 6; and a process for production of a biaxially oriented polyester film which comprises the steps of controlling the ratio (A/B) of the maximum th...

The combination of a master vehicle which may be an agricultural tractor, transport or self-propelled implement, and one or more satellite vehicles which also may be tractors, agricultural transports or self-propelled agricultural implements. The satellite vehicle is controlled by a control system from the master vehicle, such control being exercised radiographically or by cable via a tramline sys...

Disclosed is a method of detecting a target body in a specimen field of multiple candidate bodies by differential fluorescence labeling of different portions of the target body. The flexibility provided by the use of fluorophores allows for rapid detection of any rare target body with high efficiency and accuracy.

The invention relates to a system ( 100 ) for allocating service resources to users ( 20 ) thereof, which service resources are intended to be provided at at least one service point ( 10 ) for service at one or more associated operator positions. The system comprises at least one user terminal ( 30 ) arranged for two-way communication with the device ( 13 ) via a first and/or a second communicatio...

PURPOSE: A production method of C/SiC composite materials comprising carbon fibers is provided to decrease manufacturing time and costs greatly by one-shot process including carbonization, thermal treatment, impregnation and formation of oxidation resistant layer unlike conventional chemical vapor infiltration process. CONSTITUTION: The C/SiC composite materials with good heat resistance for missi...