The sales terminals (2) have visible or audible advertisements (3) for the products on offer. The advertisements may be a video screen (3-1), a poster (3-2) or an audio unit (3-3). The user controls the unit via a remote control unit (4-1), a light-pen (4-2) or by a built-in keypad (4-3). Each unit has a memory (8), a processor (10) and a look-up table circuit (11). Each unit is linked by a transm...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control the generation of harmful pollutants such as NO2 and CO generated from combustion equipment by arranging a catalyst for reducing carbon monoxide, a conversion catalyst for converting nitrogen compounds, a denitration catalyst for removing nitrogen compounds in sequence. SOLUTION: In an exhaust gas duct 9, a CO, UHC oxidation catalyst 18, a catalyst 17 which convert...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To alter the direction of papers approaching a rotor so as to be fitted to the characteristics of papers by providing a material slide surface having the first position striking against a shredding rotor and the second position drawn in the shredding rotor to a material to be shredded. SOLUTION: A member fitting a slide thin plate 38 to the gap between vertical side walls is ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle with a work machine in which the work machine is interlocked and prevented from being forcedly moved to a nonoperative position at braking time, and capable of braking and controlling a transmission and a work machine by single operation. SOLUTION: A control device for a vehicle 1 is constituted so as to drive a work part of a work machine by taking out p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically adjust a vehicle speed to a prescribed preset vehicle speed, by respectively controlling speed increase ratio of a continuously variable transmission and action of an engine brake assist means, so that an actual vehicle speed detected by a vehicle speed detection means meets to a target vehicle speed for performing constant speed traveling. SOLUTION: Driving ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an auxiliary brake control device which eliminates the necessity for applying an excessive load to a connecting element in an automatic transmission in a shift down speed change in an engine brake condition using an exhaust brake. SOLUTION: Excessive engine brake torque, by continuously applying braking force output from a retarder 13 through during a shift down sp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vertical bag-making filling machine capable of high speed packaging wherein a film can be sealed vertically and laterally smoothly. SOLUTION: A film 2 is run out along a pipe 8 continuously. At the same time, vertical sealing of the film 2 is continuously performed by heated rotating steel bands 11 and 12 to be in contact with an edge part 4 of the film and heate...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely control a fluctuation in input shaft side revolution number to be produced after shift operation at a down-shift, at all times, without worsening the extent of accelerating performance after gear shifting in a torque- down controlled automatic transmission at the down-shift. SOLUTION: A turbine revolution number Nt during ship operations at a shift-down is processed...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reset input torque to the base torque without delay by reducing a difference between engine output torque and the base torque along with the lapse of time, at the time of torque resetting after the completion of a torque down, in case of engine control. SOLUTION: During vehicle driving, the extent of base torque in the case where torque down control is not carried out is c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the overshoot of superheated steam outlet temperature at the time of starting a combined cycle plant. SOLUTION: The method for controlling the steam temperature of a uniaxial combined cycle plant has the step of controlling the superheat steam of an exhaust heat recovery boiler outlet by pouring spray water by a desuperheater 16, and comprises the step of controlli...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid heat dissipation of a working fluid in a solar thermal collector with simple means. SOLUTION: Water made high temperature by solar thermal water heater is guided in a solar storage tank 2 through a backward side circulation piping 3', and water at a bottom of the hot water storage tank 2 is guided to the solar thermal collector 1 through a forward side circulation pi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To promote reliability of a sealed lead-acid battery having explosion- resistant property, by filling a gas space with a filling material, installing a filter in a valve body, and preventing the filling material from floating up owing to gas generated in a battery. SOLUTION: A group of electrode plates 1 are housed in a battery jar 2 and a lid 3 is attached thereto. A cylinde...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make an electrolyte solution holding body at low-cost and provide a low-cost lead-acid battery, by inserting, between two electrode plates, at least one kind among paper containing a water-absorptive polymer or a water- absorptive textile, a non-woven fabric, and a knit fabric. SOLUTION: A separator is manufactured in such a manner that water- absorptive textile, a thermal...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a separator made of a porous ceramic in a chargeable battery assembly. SOLUTION: A separator has a honeycomb structure in which open cells 12 are parted from neighboring cells by porous ceramic thin walls 14. The open cells 12 and the tin walls 14 are extended in the vertical direction of the honeycomb. The thin walls 14 are porous. The open cells 12 and the fine p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a retarder control apparatus by which a driver is not perplexed with a speed change shock when the driver manually select a deceleration so as to start a shifted-down speed change suddenly after a short time after a changeover. SOLUTION: A driver operates a selection lever 19 at a vehicle speed which is higher than a two-speed prevention line so as to manually reduc...

A guidance system for a self-advancing vehicle such as a floor washing machine is provided in an arrangement which does not spoil the beauty of, for example, a floor surface, which can be reused multiple times, which is low in cost and which more reliably follows a guidance line. A guidance line is drawn with a luminous material or with a coating material mainly consisting thereof along a predeter...

PCT No. PCT/CA94/00027 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 17, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 17, 1995 PCT Filed Jan. 21, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO94/17218 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 4, 1994The invention relates to a process for producing a particle-stabilized metal foam from a composite capable of acting as a precursor composite for the metal foam. The precursor composite is formed by heating a matrix metal, e.g. aluminum or an a...

A method is provided for reducing particle formation during manufacture of shell caps for containers such as pharmaceutical containers. The method entails providing a solid polymeric coating on substantially all surfaces of the shell caps to form coated shell caps before permitting the coated shell caps to contact each other or other objects. A pharmaceutical container which employs the shell caps...

Process for the stabilization of compositions containing hydrofluoroalkanes by addition of at least one salt of at least one metal chosen from lithium and/or the alkaline-earth metals in a sufficient quantity to stabilize the hydrofluoroalkanes and stabilized compositions containing hydrofluoroalkanes.

An image communication apparatus includes a communication unit for communicating a procedure signal associated with communication, and image data, a recording unit for ejecting a liquid droplet onto a recording member in accordance with image data received by the communication unit, a recovery unit for performing a predetermined recovery operation of the recording unit, and a control unit for caus...