An earth-boring drill bit having a bit body with a cutting component formed from a tungsten carbide composite material is disclosed. The composite material includes a binder and tungsten carbide crystals comprising sintered pellets. The composite material may be used as a hardfacing on the body and/or cutting elements, or be used to form portions or all of the body and cutting elements. The pellet...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent change in posture of an article being carried by a feed conveyer without an increase in manufacturing cost and to well transfer the article from a disk feeding means to the feed conveyer. Ž

SOLUTION: A pair of article guides 26 and 26 for guiding the article to an article passage port to a bag maker are provided on both sides across an article conveyance path ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic stopping/starting device whereby a shock of a hydraulically-operated automatic transmission can be prevented when an internal combustion engine is restarted after automatically stopped, and power consumption is also suppressed at car stopping time by not using an electric motor-driven oil hydraulic pump. SOLUTION: When an internal combustion engine 1 i...

In an automatic transmission having a torque converter interposed between an engine and a transmission mechanism, the torque converter includes a lock-up clutch capable of directly coupling an output shaft of the engine and an input shaft of the transmission mechanism. A speed difference detector is provided for detecting a difference between engine rotational speed and input shaft rotational spee...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure the exhaust emission controlling performance and the operability even when a trouble related to the control system of an adjustable valve mechanism occurs. SOLUTION: When a trouble related to the control system of the adjustable valve timing mechanism (VTC) is detected (S2, S3), the operation region of the engine is detected and the trouble-time control is executed ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a slip controller of an automobile and an integrated controller of a continuously variable transmission 56 that does not reduce performance of slip suppression control of an anti-skid brake system 33, does not reduce performance of slip suppression control by a traction control system 35, and can secure restart performance. Ž

SOLUTION: While the anti-skid brak...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a booming noise prevention control device for an engine for a vehicle capable of suppressing generation of lock-up shock or booming noise, while improving fuel economy. SOLUTION: Generation of booming noise to damage a driving environment can be suppressed, even if an engagement region or a slip region of a lock-up clutch 26 is expanded, since a driving cycle of th...

A vehicle control device performs a program including the step of obtaining a target point for movement based on information from a vehicle exterior camera, the step of obtaining a distance X to the target point, the step of resetting a distance counter, the step of causing the vehicle to enter accelerated running at set acceleration, the step of causing the vehicle to change from the accelerated ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a connection structure of a driving device and an internal combustion engine capable of improving efficiency of a space and degree of freedom of layout. Ž

SOLUTION: This connection structure connects the driving device 1 provided with a drive shaft 13 with the engine 4 provided with a mounting part 6 for mounting a starter motor 5 and a crank shaft 8. Distance...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving operation auxiliary device for a vehicle to perform an operational reaction force control and a braking/driving force control in which balance is well taken between transmitting the risk potential and the driving will of a driver. Ž

SOLUTION: A controller calculates the risk potential to express the degree of the own vehicle approaching an ahead lyin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the structure of an axle housing which prevents oil leakage from a recess notch to let a ring gear pass through in an opening where a final drive unit is attached. Ž

SOLUTION: The axle housing (10) houses the final drive unit (2) including a pinion gear (3), a ring gear (4), and a differential gear (5) and a rear axle shaft driven by the final drive unit (2). ...

The present invention describes the use of a variety of merocyanine dyes and substituted merocyanine dyes for detecting and quantifying poly(amino acids), including peptides, polypeptides and proteins. The labeled proteins or peptides are highly colored, but are also detected by their strong fluorescence enhancement. Poly(amino acids) are detected in solution, in electrophoretic gels, and on solid...

Focal spot position determination systems having a high sensitivity to focal spot movement for use in connection with multi-slice computed tomography imaging systems are described. In one embodiment, the determination system is configured for application in a two slice system. Signals from adjacent detector cells in separate rows are compared to determine focal spot position. More particularly, th...

A package of polyester type conjugate fiber of either a side-by-side type or an eccentric sheath/core type in which two kinds of polyester components are adhered to each other to form a single filament, wherein at least one of the components consisting of the single filament is polytrimethylene terephthalate containing repeating units of trimethylene terephthalate of 90 mol% or more, which package...

Nonmetallic materials (18, 28) are welded without solder or adhesive by a laser (202) and preferably fiber optics (204) that direct laser light (220) through one of the materials (18) to create a seam weld. Through use of fiber optics the beam is optimally (Fig. 11) converted to heat, avoiding weld flaws due to underheating and material damage due to overheating. Welding is rapid and reproducible ...

The present invention relates to a shredder 200 having a thickness triggering device 203. The shredder 200 includes a sensing assembly 204 that senses the movement of said thickness triggering device 203. If the movement of the thickness triggering device 203 is above a threshold level then the sensing assembly 204 interrupts the shredding operation in order to avoid jamming. During the shredding ...

An electromagnetic actuator comprises an armature 21 and first and second coils 30, 31 formed around a common axis, which are spaced apart along the said axis. Each of the coils 30, 31 has respective pole pieces. The actuator is arranged such that on activation of the first and/or second coils 30, 31 the armature 21 will move between separate first and second axial positions. A permanent magnet 36...

The unit is designed so that conventional printing machine consisting of at least two printing turrets (31-34) is provided with a following arranged doping unit for the application of a final doping coat. So that the printing turrets, for the squeezing of at least two inking systems vary from each other, concerning their absorption ability for the final inking coat. Optional driers (111,112) are a...

A mobile terminal is provided that includes a housing having an opening formed therein, a cover disposed in the opening of the housing, the cover including at least one light transmission opening, an input switch located beneath the opening of the housing and the at least one light transmission opening, a light emitter to illuminate the at least one light transmission opening, and a light constrai...

For use in a drilling operation that includes uphole electronic equipment (120) and a drill string (12) suspended in an earth borehole (11), the drill string having at least one downhole tool (100) thereon, the drill string having a section of wired drill pipe (WDP) that is part of a communication link between the downhole tool and the uphole electronic equipment; an interface (140) for communicat...