PURPOSE: An interior muscle of oysters has an intensity considerably and the method of opening oysters for consumption is not easy. A process and device for opening oysters shell is held by a muscle. CONSTITUTION: An oyster is perforated from the upper part and the lower part. The process consists of placing the shellfish (5) on a graphic (6) or mechanical (20) device to enable the shellfish (5) t...

PURPOSE: A method for manufacturing a cylindrical bobbin containing a cover is provided to protect the bobbin in a continuous treating process and while transferring the bobbin to a user. CONSTITUTION: A method for manufacturing a protection cover (1) for use on bobbins (2) is described. The protection cover (1) is used to protect the bobbin (2) during treatment and transportation, including dyein...

PURPOSE: A supercritical hydrogenation relates to heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation of organic compounds under conditions of continuous flow of the reactants. CONSTITUTION: The process consists of continuously hydrogenating the compound over a heterogeneous catalyst where at least one of the components, in addition to hydrogen is under supercritical or near critical conditions, and wherein one...

PURPOSE: Method of forming sputtering layer and equipment for forming sputtering layer and fabricating method of the equipment are provided to control a composition of a chemical compound easily. CONSTITUTION: The method of forming sputtering layer comprises the steps of: supplying alternating voltage or alternating current to all or part of the wall, which is placed external of space between a wa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To compact an X-ray device for mammography so that images can be picked up alternately by film and a solid image converter and so that free and unobstructed access to a patient to be examined is possible. SOLUTION: This X-ray device includes an X-ray tube, a compression device, a breast table, and a large-area solid detector 7 made from amorphous silicon (aSi) integrally arra...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce X-ray exposure dose and to improve X-ray efficiency by providing a process for selecting thickness of an inside slice based on the number of combined detector cells and for making each of two outside slices have fixed thickness based on a setting of a radiation source collimator. SOLUTION: As for cams 82 of a collimator 52, intervals between the cams 82 and the loca...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide foot holders for ski which make the feet painless in spite of long-term use, are formable to a weight half the weight of the conventional holders in terms of their structures, are, therefore, fatigue-free and facilitate easy walking and improve the ease of wearing by removing the foot holders at the time of moving in places, such as on flat grounds and staircases, ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a driving feeling by performing inter-vehicle distance control of vehicle behavior more adjusted to a sense of a driver by paying attention to a rate of an inter-vehicle deviation to a target inter-vehicle deviation. SOLUTION: Target acceleration is calculated by using the ratio of an inter- vehicle distance deviation &Delta d to a target inter-vehicle distance dm....

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve reliability of stopping control in an extremely low vehicle speed area of inter-vehicle distance control. SOLUTION: This inter-vehicle distance control device arithmetically operates a target vehicle speed Vspr to make an inter-vehicle distance detecting value L coincide with a target inter-vehicle distance, arithmetically operates target braking driving force of a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure an allowance of driving force by improving fuel consumption in an engine traveling mode. SOLUTION: In a parallel hybrid vehicle having an engine and a motor connected to an input shaft of a continuously variable transmission and traveling by driving force of the engine and/or the motor, an engine speed table (an &alpha ray table) for attaining power of the engine in...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an engine brake from disturbing the behavior of a vehicle by judging the effect given to the behavior of the vehicle by the engine brake, and controlling the engine brake based on it. SOLUTION: This vehicle behavior control device 10 considers whether an engine brake gives an effect to a vehicle behavior or not and whether inadvertent acceleration occurs on the veh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To sense an abnormality of a former tube ahead. SOLUTION: In a process wherein a pair of pull-down belts 1L, 1R are brought into contact with a former tube 9 by a turnbuckle mechanism 4, a distance from a point when one pull-down belt 1R has come into contact with the former tube 9 to a point when the other comes into contact with, is measured as a pulse number, and when the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an end edge joining device which can accurately superpose the end edge parts of a long-sized film by correcting the slip even when respective end edge parts of the long-sized film have slipped from specified locations. SOLUTION: Two correcting rollers 32a, 32b which are provided in a manner to be confronted with each other across a long-sized film, turning means wh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily re-adjust the detection sensivity of a register mark sensor without requiring a complicated work when a detection abnormality of the register mark occurs. SOLUTION: This packaging material feeding device which feeds a packaging film F on which register marks are placed along a pattern, is equipped with a feeding belt 9 which feeds the packaging film F being fed from...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect any double feed of sheet materials continuously precisely, independently of changes in characteristics of an ultrasonic transmitter and an ultrasonic receiver as well as of errors in assembly among others. SOLUTION: Prior to double sheet feed detection where an ultrasonic transmitter 1 sends ultrasonic waves to an ultrasonic receiver 2 and the output waveform of the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect any double feed of sheet materials precisely by taking only ultrasonic waves passed through them on the receiving side as direct waves or as they are. SOLUTION: For double sheet feed detection where an ultrasonic transmitter 1 sends ultrasonic waves to an ultrasonic receiver 2 and the output waveform of the ultrasonic waves attenuated through the passage through pap...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect any double feed of sheet materials precisely by taking only ultrasonic waves passed through them on the receiving side as direct waves or as they are. SOLUTION: For double sheet feed detection where an ultrasonic transmitter 1 sends ultrasonic waves to an ultrasonic receiver 2, both disposed to hold therebetween a feed line for paper sheets P-1 and P-2, and the outp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce work cost required for hurdle operation and to reduce a safety problem in hurdle operation. SOLUTION: In a hurdle plate 2 for separating paper sheet pile in a discharging device for a paper sheet printer, a plurality of spacer members 4 are connected to the hurdle plate 2, near the surface edge parts of the hurdle plate 2. These spacer members 4 are movable between ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust cleaning catalyst device capable of maintaining a function of the exhaust cleaning catalyst (NOx catalyst) without deteriorating the traveling feeling of a vehicle while operating an internal combustion engine even in the case where a cleaning ability lowering material except for nitrogen oxide (NOx) is adhered. SOLUTION: This exhaust cleaning catalyst d...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a desirable feeling of acceleration, irrespective of variation in gradient of a road surface in a transient zone between a flat surface road and a slope. SOLUTION: A computing means 3 computes a target drive force of a vehicle on a flat surface road, as a normal target drive force, from an accelerator manipulating degree and a vehicle speed which are detected, and a...