PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the number of times of biopsies deemed as necessary and to improve the reliability of lesion detection by visualizing a breast lesion with high quality. SOLUTION: For a breast examination, a contrast medium is injected to the breast of an examination object, X-ray beams are emitted in the direction of the breast and plural digital images are obtained from the X-ray ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture an adequate tire by reproducing a spike so as to apply a large force from floor of a road to the tire having the spike and by producing an adequately improved tire. SOLUTION: In a spike for running surface of the vehicle tire, especially a winter season tire, a no-round, slender, and plate-like spike root 2 in the plan view, the largest entending part of the sp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly start an engine from its stop state with superior responsiveness and without causing shock in starting the engine in a driving device for a vehicle transmitting a power from the engine and an electric motor to a transmission via a planetary gear mechanism. SOLUTION: The electric motor, the engine, and the transmission are locked up to three rotating elements compr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid system for a vehicle comprising a transmission for changing the rotating speed of an input shaft and transmitting it from an output shaft to wheels, a first clutch for disconnecting the output shaft of an engine from the input shaft of the transmission, a dynamo-electric machine combining a motor and a generator, a power transmission mechanism for connecti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a transmission case 12 reduceable in vertical width and compact. SOLUTION: This tractor comprises a front face plate 84 fixed to the front side of the transmission case 12, a bearing plate 93 provided in the transmission case 12 and a hydraulic change gear case 25 provided on the front side of the front face plate 84, wherein a PTO clutch 37 is provided at a high posi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular travel control device for adequately controlling the speed of an owned vehicle even if a vehicle traveling in front of the owned vehicle cannot be detected. SOLUTION: The vehicular travel control device for controlling the deceleration of a vehicle in accordance with a relative positional relationship between the vehicle and an article, so that the vehi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize operating burden on a driver for prohibiting the unnecessary stop of follow-up travel and resetting follow-up travel during follow-up travel with an ACC system. SOLUTION: ACC control is temporarily suspended when braking operation by the driver is detected. The ACC control which is temporarily suspended is resumed if a braking operating time is less than five seco...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a synchronizing load and to shorten synchronizing time at the time of gear shift on a hybrid system of a vehicle furnished with a transmission to transmit rotation of an input shaft from an output shaft to a wheel by changing its speed, a first clutch to connect and disconnect the output shaft of an engine and the input shaft of the transmission, a revolving electri...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To issue an alarm indicating an approach to a stop line and perform automatic braking in consideration of deceleration adjusting time for relieving the generation of a nose dive immediately before stopping. SOLUTION: Information on an object to be stopped, such as the stop line and road surface information and road linear information are received from a facility on the road s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a vehicle from deviating from the intended lane or road resulting from improper operation of a driver without giving any unnatural feeling while a maximum respect is paid to the intended operation of the driver. SOLUTION: A target yaw rate setting part 52 of a controlling characteristic altering part 50 calculates the first target yaw rate based upon the radius of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chopstick feeder of an automatic chopstick packaging machine which can feed two independent chopstick materials while they are placed side by side synchronously with a packaging sheet. SOLUTION: The chopstick feeder (2) of the automatic chopstick packaging machine holds a plurality of independent chopstick materials (5) in a stacked state on a runway of the packa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improving method and device of preventing or suppressing the formation of non-electrically derived oxygen bubbles. SOLUTION: This method of manufacturing glass includes a) a process step of forming a glass melt from the starting material in a melting device, in which the melting device includes at least one metallic parts having metallic surfaces in contact with...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal medium for ML, TN or STN display having no or few defects associated with the conventional technology, preferably having a very large resistivity and a low threshold voltage at the same time. SOLUTION: This liquid crystal medium is obtained by using a compound represented by the formula I. The compound is excellent in a high clearing point, a low r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an additive and additive composition for a rubber composition that improves processability in the working environment and preserving properties of the rubber, and is stable and does not cause any problem on the surface state of the rubber, particularly blended with a natural rubber-containing rubber, whether it is vulcanized or not, and to provide the rubber compos...

Patente de Invenção: "SISTEMAS E MéTODOS PARA O CONTROLE DA PROFUNDIDADE DE UM CORTE A LASER". Um processo para uma padronização ou um corte de precisão de um material bruto de folha, tal como uma fita adesiva, inclui a etapa de irradiação de uma superfície de um material bruto de folha com uma fonte de irradiação, para padronizar ou cortar uma parte no material bruto de folha e ajustar pelo menos...

A belt mounted support and a group of bags for support on the belt mounted support is used in the harvest of produce. The belt mounted support includes a tube and a belt mounting loop connected to the tube. A bag supporting rod is threaded through the tube to freely rotate with two hooked bag supporting ends. A group of bags is supported on the belt mounted support, each bag formed from perforate ...

An apparatus and method for installing a deck on an offshore substructure is provided. The apparatus comprises a deck supported by lifting mechanisms that are in turn attached to pontoons. The apparatus floats on the water with the lifting mechanisms compressed until transported to an offshore substructure having an upper end located above the water surface. The lifting mechanisms are then extende...

A container apparatus for use in combination with an umbrella having an umbrella mast and umbrella canopy includes a food container having a container top wall, a container side wall and a container bottom wall together defining a container interior, with an umbrella mast passing port, a mast engaging structure, and a container interior access door; so that the umbrella mast of may be inserted int...

The run-flat tire (10) of this invention includes spaced apart bead areas (30) having a unique design to include first (34) and second (36) bead fillers adjacent a bead core (32). The second bead filler (36) is bounded by the first bead filler (34) and bead core (32). The method for manufacturing the tire to eliminate voids at the bead core (32) of the cured tire is also provided. The bead fillers...

A niobium powder is described which when formed into an electrolytic capacitor anode, the anode has the capacitance of at least 62,000 CV/g. Methods of making flaked niobium powder which have high capacitance capability when formed into electrolytic capacitor anodes is also described. Besides niobium, the present invention is also applicable to other metals, including valve metals.