PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To image a body range performing a periodic motion of an inspection object by reduced dosage. SOLUTION: In this method in which an inspection object, an X-ray radiation source and a detector system are relatively moved one another in the direction of a system axis line during rotation of the X-ray radiation source and an image of a body range performing at least a periodic mo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ligament reinforcing material capable of reinforcing strength of a self-tissue, achieving simplicity and stable result, providing tensile elongation matching with an intracorporeal tissue, fixing a cut end at a desired position, reducing an endo-dwelling volume of fixing material, reducing operation time, reducing remaining wounds, reducing a bone tunnel volume, ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apheresis method for increasing the purity and yield of a platelet separated form whole blood collected from the human body with a centrifugal separator. SOLUTION: The whole blood in the centrifugal separator 11 is diluted at a first flow rate by a circulating liquid like blood plasma or a physiological saline solution and, when blood-collecting further advances...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of laser machining with which a byproduct is not generated, the deposition of the thermal energy converted during the laser machining is thoroughly prevented from being accumulated in a work of a resin or the like, and the melting and the thermal expansion of the work do not take place, thus a precise machining is carried out, and to provided a method of m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a following travel speed from becoming unstable due to influence of a traveling condition of a leading vehicle traveling in front of a preceding vehicle when follow up travel control is carried out with an inter-vehicle distance to the preceding vehicle maintained within a set distance range. SOLUTION: A travel detection unit 1 for other vehicle measures a distance...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inter-vehicle distance controller and the like predicting behavior of its own vehicle and another vehicle for performing smooth vehicle speed control and giving a relief to a driver. SOLUTION: On the basis of image data photographed by means of photographing devices 1, 2, an obstacle detecting means 3 detects a distance and a relative speed to an obstacle existi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a traveling state indicating device capable of clearly and understandably presenting an automatic driving control time traveling state imparting anxiety for a fellow occupant since a control state cannot be understood. SOLUTION: This traveling state indicating device displays an image of a displaying brake pedal, an image 611 of a pedal position corresponding to a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the positional deviation of an article fed in a cylindrical film between a holding and transferring end of an auxiliary feeding means and a transverse sealing mechanism in stopping/starting the operation of each mechanism. SOLUTION: An endless conveyor 44 to subsidiarily transfer the article 24 onto the downstream side in a pressed condition via the film is arrange...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a double feed detecting mechanism capable of improving the double feed detecting accuracy by ultrasonic wave by forcibly forming an air layer between sheet materials even in the double feed of sheet materials such as the paper or the like. SOLUTION: In this double feed detecting mechanism for sheet material transmitting the ultrasonic wave from an ultrasonic wave t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for holding paper sheets high capable of certainly retaining and holding the paper sheets high in any head of the paper sheets and of preventing scratch from occurring in the paper sheets. SOLUTION: This device holds the paper sheets high for forming a clearance during the operation of a paper sheet treating machine for forming a pile 9, especially a paper...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a paper sheet from slipping to shift its position when inserting a pile support auxiliary member to separate a pile. SOLUTION: A paper sheet receiving member 20 is inserted into a pile forming region in order to take out the pile during an operation of a machine. The front edge of a following paper sheet 4 for forming a new pile 21 is hooked by the paper sheet rece...

A method of fabricating the drill bit includes employing known layered-manufacturing techniques to fabricate the bit crown, positioning a bit gage mold adjacent the bit crown, and disposing a core material within an interior of the bit crown and a cavity of the bit gage mold. A mold that may be employed to fabricate the drill bit includes an initially conforming mold region, in which the prefabric...

An imaging system which, in one embodiment, includes a timing algorithm which identifies the proper projection data to be used and a modified halfscan image reconstruction algorithm which provides improved image quality along with the benefits of an enhanced temporal response, is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the timing algorithm includes the steps of determining a diastolic period of a p...

"APARELHO E MéTODO DE PREVENçãO DE ACELERAçãO SúBITA DE VEìCULO" A presente invenção se refere a um aparelho e método de prevenção de aceleração súbita de um veículo, tendo uma transmissão automática, por meio da detecção da aceleração súbita com o uso de informação de estado de transmissão e de rpm. Um controlador determina que a aceleração súbita ocorre, se a rpm aumentar abruptamente dent...

Methods for producing medium-density articles from recovered high-density tungsten alloy (WHA) material, and especially from recovered WHA scrap. In one embodiment of the invention, the method includes forming a medium-density alloy from WHA material and one or more medium- to low-density metals or metal alloys. In another embodiment, medium-density grinding media, such as formed from the above me...

The invention relates to a decanter for separating two liquid phases of an initial mixture optionally containing solid matter. Said phases have different densities. The inventive decanter comprises an inlet (6) for leading the initial mixture into the area of a screw (2), an immersion disc (3) upstream in relation to the outlet for the liquid phase of higher density, whereby said phase is situated...

A cover for a tight top mattress includes an upper panel, a lower panel and a border panel. A zipper connects the border panel to either the upper or lower panel. At least one of the upper of lower panels is a quilted foam and fabric assembly which is dimensioned and configured as a pillow top. The upper, lower and border panels define an enclosure for closely fitting and receiving the mattress.

An apparatus having a back region for attachment to a surface, a front region for engagement of the item of personal property, and a substantially vertical aperture region defined within and between the front and back region. The aperture region has a topward opening for initial, vertical slidable engagement of at least a portion of the item and for retention of the item after engagement, and a ch...

An ablation catheter is disclosed having proximal and distal ends and an external surface, a lumen contained within the catheter body, a plurality of openings in the surface of the catheter, wherein the openings are in communication with the lumen, one or more electrodes secured within the catheter within the lumen and a source for conductive media to be introduced into the lumen to contact the el...

A puncture preventive sealant capable of reducing the content of cellulose fibers for suppressing the cost of the sealant while keeping a high sealing performance due to the cellulose fibers. A sealant, which is filled in a sealant chamber defined in a tube adjacently to an air chamber, contains synthetic fibers and cellulose fibers in a solvent. The content of the synthetic fibers is in a range o...