A method for cutting a circuit substrate which includes a substrate with an upper surface and a lower surface and electric circuitry provided on the upper surface of the substrate, includes the steps of: irradiating a laser beam onto the lower surface of the substrate so that a stress is generated inside the substrate using an irradiated spot of the laser beam as a heat source; and cutting the sub...

The power transmission mechanism reliably starts an internal combustion engine that is stopped during travel of a vehicle. While the internal combustion engine is stopped and the internal combustion engine and the transmission are disengaged by the main clutch, it is determined whether the mode is the EV travel mode, corresponding to the driving mode by the electric motor. In the case of the motor...

A packaging unit (1) for continuously producing aseptic sealed packages (2), containing a pourable food product, from a tube (14) of packaging material filled with the food product and fed along a vertical supply path (A); the unit (1) has a first and second chain conveyor (10, 11) respectively having a number of jaws (12) and a number of counter-jaws (13), which interact with the tube (14) to gri...

Bulus yüzeyinde ve hacminde anti-mikrobiyal ve/veya bakteri öldürücü ve/veya mantar öldürücü tesire sahip amonyum motifleri, tercihen benzalkonyum ile yamalanmis, polimerik madde bazli bir anti-mikrobiyal gözenekli parça ile ilgilidir. Bulusun özelligi, parçanin; uygun viskoziteye sahip bir sivinin yüzeyden geçebilmesi için yeterince yüksek ve bulasici mikroplarin adi geçen yüzey üzerinde tutulmas...

A floating detection circuit detects the floating state of an input node which can receive an externally applied DC input signal, and includes a pulse generator, a counter and a floating state discriminator. The pulse generator is coupled to the input node and supplies a pulse signal to the input node when the input node is in a floating state. The counter receives the pulse signal and counts the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the three-dimensional drawing method of a wood article using a press die capable of preventing cracks generated on the four corners of the wood article. SOLUTION: By this three-dimensional drawing method of the wood article, the center part of a wood laminated plate 60 is pressurized in a heated state by the press die 10 composed of a male die 20 and a female die 3...

A cable tie with a strap guide ramp includes a strap, a locking head secured to the first end of the strap, a plurality of walls on the locking head forming a strap positioning channel, a pawl positioned within the channel and pivotally mounted to the locking head and strap guide ramp contiguous to the pawl for directing the tip of the strap during initial insertion of the strap into the channel a...

A sheet post-treating apparatus includes a gripper that moves a pile of sheets from a sorting tray to a discharge tray. The position of the pile of sheets on the tray is selected between alternative discharge positions so that successive piles can be jogged. A stapler is provided along the path to a discharge position to engage the edge of the pile if stapling is desired.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent erroneous operation de to erroneous recognition of the indication of a signal lamp for a driver, in the running control of a moving body whose operation is controlled with the indication of the signal lamp. SOLUTION: This controller is provided with an indication detecting circuit 4 which receives an optical signal from a signal lamp L mounted along a railway 1, di...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a stable electric arc having a specified shape by adding a control operation to a difference between each of reference values for electric arc current and voltage satisfying an electric arc characteristic and a value detected by a detector, mixing obtained control amounts with each other to perform common compensation and controlling an electric arc driving mechani...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an editor for easily preparing a control program. SOLUTION: The graphic editor displays a part list 43 on an editor screen for each equipment constituting a system to be controlled, and arranges parts on a base screen 42 according to an operation for moving the arbitrary parts from the part list 43 to the base screen 42. Then, a part setting dialog box for promotin...

A vehicle control method for use in an automatic driving system which transmits drive support information stored in each of markers (12) buried in a road (11) at regular intervals, to a vehicle (6) which passes the marker (12), in order to support driving of the vehicle (6), characterized by comprising the steps of storing, in the marker (12), positional information (24) indicative of the position...

A method to obtain configuration data for a data processing apparatus by calculating ( 110 ) a time interval between the commencement of a mode ( 104 ) and a subsequent event ( 108 ). The calculated time interval is then compared ( 112 ) with one or more reference values ( 114 ). The result of the comparison is used to derive configuration data ( 116 ). The method may be further refined by includi...

A method to obtain configuration data for a data processing apparatus by calculating ( 110 ) a time interval between the commencement of a mode ( 104 ) and a subsequent event ( 108 ). The calculated time interval is then compared ( 112 ) with one or more reference values ( 114 ). The result of the comparison is used to derive configuration data ( 116 ). The method may be further refined by includi...

A method of diagnosing predisposition to, or presence of ovarian cancer, breast cancer and/or lung cancer in a subject is provided. The method comprises determining a level of SIM2 in a lung tissue, breast tissue and/or ovarian tissue of the subject, the level being correlatable with predisposition to, or presence or absence of the ovarian cancer, breast cancer and/or lung cancer, thereby diagnosi...

Tire building drum and tire building method, capable of assembling tire component members with high accuracy. A tire building drum is used, which includes at least one core body, which is disposed at an axial inside of a pair of bead lock means, and which comprises a plurality of sheets of rigid support members disposed in a toroidal shape and adapted to be displaced and thereby expanded or contra...

A metallic porous media being made from a porous base structure having a plurality of link strands extending throughout the porous base structure to define a plurality of open cells. The porous base structure is sprayed with an atomized molten metal spray such that each of the plurality of link strands is generally coated on all sides with the atomized molten metal spray to produce a porous metall...

Compositions and methods have been developed for transporting compounds across membranes with little or no toxicity and, when targeted through the appropriate routes of administration (i.e., lung, gastrointestinal (GI) tract), little or no immune stimulation. The compositions can mediate cellular delivery of compounds that would otherwise not enter cells and enhance the intracellular delivery of c...

A method of conducting a financial transaction by a purchaser over a communications network is provided where the purchaser does not transmit his or her "real" payment card information over the network but instead secure payment application software is provided which allows for the transmission of a pseudo account number that is cryptographically processed for purposes of responding to an authoriz...