PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a traction mechanism for a soil preparation plate for puddling, with which traction power of a tractor can surely be transmitted to a soil preparation plate for puddling and, even in the case of leveling hard soil, the soil preparation plate can stably be pulled while suppressing shaking. SOLUTION: This traction mechanism for the soil preparation plate for puddling...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a visual acuity testing device and visual acuity testing system capable of easily testing the practical visual acuity of a subject. SOLUTION: This visual acuity testing device comprises a target presentation means for successively presenting visual acuity testing targets to the subject, an input means for inputting the answer of the subject, and a means for whether...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an absorber valued from multifaceted viewpoints according to actual using state and hardly causing a problem such as flowback in the actual use. SOLUTION: This absorber comprises a water absorptive resin in which the total sum of deformation repelling forces of gels swollen 10 times, 20 times and 30 times the dead weight with physiological saline is 100 kPa or more...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image generation system, a program or the like which can raise the degree of devotion of players into games by intensifying elements of game supporting the fight against enemy moving bodies. SOLUTION: The enemy moving bodies as counterparts in the fight against a player's moving body are arranged in sections on a course and images are displayed as an option scre...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an antibacterial deodorization material for adsorbing harmful substances from a gas or a liquid and its production method, more particularly, an antibacterial deodorization material usable in fields relevant to improvement of living environments and industrial work environments, for example, for adsorbing harmful substances for toilets, garbage, bedding, residences...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a water treatment apparatus in which strong bactericidal activity is exhibited and stable sterilization is performed in the water treatment apparatus for sterilizing water to be treated using an electrolytic cell. SOLUTION: In the water treatment apparatus provided with a water tank storing water to be treated, the diaphragmless electrolytic cell for sterilizing th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new rotary plastic worked body which is used for a wheel and a rim for a vehicle, an inner or outer ring for bearings or the like, a preferable method for working it and a working apparatus by a simple operation method which is satisfactorily simplified. SOLUTION: By rotating a cylindrical base stock made of an aluminum based alloy material and inserting and fitt...

A method for determining the characteristics of a subterranean formatio n penetrated by an existing or drilled well is disclosed. The method uses a mathematical model to estimate formation parameters as fluid exits the formation through a hole and into the wellbore or tool. The model may be adapted to wells having a perforation extending from the wellbore into the formation by mathematically adjus...

To produce sponge iron (4,21) in a shaft furnace, from iron ore (8,19), it is reduced in a solid bed reduction zone (6). The reduction of the iron ore and an intermediate product is characterized by a specific reduction gas (5) consumption (RV(m3/t)). From the reduction zone, a metal oxide A has a chemical-physical transit into a metal oxide B according to RVB/RVA. At least part of the reduction g...

A convertible bag has a front panel peripherally engaging a rear panel. The front panel defines an harness pouch encompassing an upper portion of the front panel. A flap 60 may be positioned over the harness pouch closing it with a zipper 70. The flap 60 alternately is positionable to one side of the front panel 30 to expose a carry harness 80. The lower portion of the elongated bag 13 is adapted ...

A cooler (ice chest) with an integrated umbrella stand. A cooler serves as the base of an umbrella stand. A receptacle for the umbrella pole is provided on a side of the cooler. In one embodiment, the receptacle includes two hinged rings. In another embodiment, the receptacle is molded into a recess in the side of the cooler. In an alternative embodiment, a conventional cooler is converted to an u...

The present invention concerns a method of preparing PM products by high velocity compaction of iron or iron-based powers having irregular powder particles.

A fluorescent retroreflective article comprising a polymer resin comprising poly(1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol-co-ethylene terephthalate) and a fluorescent dye selected from the group consisting of perylene imide and perylene ester dyes, thioxanthene dyes, benzoxanthene dyes, and benzothiazine dyes exhibits good color and fluorescent durability.Said PETG fluorescent resin matrix can be used to enhance...

A target selection object is selected by providing N (N is an integer of not less than two) keys used for pointing, dividing a screen into N areas in correspondence with the N keys and displaying the N areas such that they can be distinguished, enlarging, when the key corresponding to the area where the target selection object exists is operated by a user, only the area corresponding to the key to...

A method and apparatus for destroying blood borne pathogens is disclosed which utilizes a low intensity direct current to generate positive particles from various metals which destroy viral pathogens. A first electrode comprised of a metal such as silver is inserted into a patient's venous system. Then, a second electrode is placed on the patient's exterior in the vicinity of the first electrode. ...

The present invention provides an apparatus method for performing rf intraluminal reduction and/or occlusion with a virtual electrode. An apparatus in accord with the present invention includes a catheter and a guide wire. The guide wire includes a conductive core having a proximal end electrically connected to a generator of rf current and an exposed distal end. An insulative material having disp...

The behavior of the bogie of a muliple-axle vehicle is monitored. Accelerations of at least two axles of the bogie are measured with acceleration sensors allocated to the axles. The sensor signals are subjected to a Fourier transformation in FFT units. The frequency profiles resulting from the Fourier transform are compared with profiles that are stored in memory. Differences that are detected are...

If an obstacle (74) is detected, its position is stored in obstacle memory unit (41) on the assumption that the obstacle (74) is common to a plurality of vehicles (2, 2). As vehicles (2, 2) pass by, the content of the obstacle memory unit (44) is updated. When the vehicles (2, 2) are supplied with position data of the respective goal point (72, 72), the vehicles (2, 2) are guided by their goal poi...

Methods and devices are provided for detecting the application of a fluid sample onto a test strip surface when the test strip is inserted into an optical meter. In the subject methods, reflectance data is obtained from a portion of the optical meter in which the sample application region of the test strip is located, where the reflectance data covers a period of time ranging from a point at least...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the productivity of a tire by saving an installation space and reducing an equipment cost and increase the replacement operating efficiency of a vulcanizing mold and further, facilitate the automatic replacement of the vulcanizing mold. SOLUTION: A vulcanizing station 1 is installed which is structured of a receiving space of the vulcanizing mold 10 and a vulcanizi...