PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform work cutting efficiently while effectively reducing only wire tension on the winding side by the use of a tension regulator for bringing the wire tension to prescribed target tension.

SOLUTION: In this wire saw, an advance drive cutting step for cutting the work 28 while advancing the wire W, a first change-over step for reversing the drive direction of the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a piezoelectric element unit which enables elements located at both ends in an element arrangement direction of a piezoelectric element group to function to position by securing an enough rigidity and strength for the elements, and which can suppress generation of connection defects of a wiring board, and to provide a liquid jet head using the unit.

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer which improves a printing speed in one-way printing and can attain a reduction in processing load while preventing breakage of a carriage, and to provide a printing method.

SOLUTION: The printer 10 has a lid detecting means 70 which detects the opening and closing of an opening and closing cover 24, a motor 32 which gives a driving force to move th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for driving a liquid droplet delivering and recording head capable of making an effect for suppressing viscosity increase of a liquid and preventing erroneous delivery of a liquid droplet compatible, and to provide a liquid droplet delivering and recording apparatus.

SOLUTION: When a preliminary wave form for suppressing viscosity increase of the li...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a maintenance system which can cope with the cleaning of a non-scanning liquid jet head such as a line head and a multi-head and can make a cleaning individually for every divided domain formed by dividing nozzle groups for injecting the same kind of liquid into a plural number.

SOLUTION: The opposite arrangement of the maintenance system 10 is made at the l...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a double postal card, in which the quantity of transfer information to describe in a reply postal card part can be provided wider by making a mailing under the description of address information on an information hiding paper stuck to a reply postal card possible even when no address information region for describing address information such as the address, the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a double postal card, in which the quantity of transfer information to describe in a reply postal card part can be provided wider by making a mailing under the description of address information on an information hiding paper stuck to a reply postal card possible even when no address information region for describing address information such as the address, the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique effective for setting a rational visual field of a camera of a single view point in an object detection system for detecting information on an object on an occupant seat by using the camera.

SOLUTION: This object detection system 100 mounted on a vehicle is constituted to set the visual field so that the whole of the object on a front passenger s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an underwater glider having no propeller and capable of compatibly attaining silence, safety, and high maneuverability.

SOLUTION: The underwater glider comprises tail fins 3A, 3B provided on a rear part in the advancing direction of a fuselage, and a pair of main wings 2A, 2B which are protruded in the right-to-left direction of the advancing direction from ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide vehicular brake control device capable of preventing deceleration before sharing from becoming impossible to be kept due to delay of starting of hydraulic brake force at the time of starting sharing.

SOLUTION: Before starting sharing, a number of rotations of a motor 60 is raised so as to make a number of rotations of the motor 60 become a number of rotation...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving force distribution control device for hybrid four-wheel drive vehicle, which can suppress overheat or fatigue of a motor due to its continuous operation or frequent operation by reducing the driving time of the motor while transmitting a necessary transmission torque to sub-drive wheels when driving force distribution control is requested.

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently and effectively reduce catalyst exhaust odor.

SOLUTION: In a vehicle 10, an ECU (electronic control unit) 100 executes shift-up control processing. In the shift-up control processing, a shift point sftpnt for regulating shift-up characteristics of an ECT (electronic controlled transmission) 400 is properly corrected. More specifically, when a catalyst ex...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving operation auxiliary device for a vehicle, which assists a driver's driving operation so as to smooth a traffic flow.

SOLUTION: The driving operation auxiliary device for vehicle calculates a risk potential representing the degree of access to a preceding vehicle by use of the tolerance time and inter-vehicle time between one's own vehicle and the p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform drive force distribution control while suppressing large size of a drive force distribution device.

SOLUTION: Drive force of an engine is inputted from an input shaft 1 to sun gears 17s, 18s of a pair of planetary gears 17, 18, and thereafter, it is directed from carriers 17c, 18c to a front wheel and a rear wheel making ring gears 17r, 18r bonded in a mutua...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately detect a dazzling state for a driver.

SOLUTION: A visual line direction detection part 122 detects the direction of the driver's vidual line based on a tracking result by a tracking part 121 for the driver's face imaged by an internal monitoring camera 111. A light dazzle detection part 125 extracts a visual field image of an area of a predetermined range...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving operation auxiliary device for a vehicle, enabling a driver to easily recognize switching of a vehicle control mode.

SOLUTION: The driving operation auxiliary device for vehicle temporarily changes vehicle characteristics according to the importance of switching every time when the vehicle control mode is switched, and notifies the switching of the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paper container which does not contain any aluminum foil, consists of a packaging material capable of preventing oxygen gas, steam or the like from permeating, is excellent in barrier properties, and is environmentally-friendly, and has excellent easy unsealability irrespective of the direction of texture of a paper.

SOLUTION: The paper container 100 compr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixed-amount ejecting vessel which can rapidly and surely eject a predetermined amount of storage matter.

SOLUTION: This fixed-amount ejecting vessel 10 comprises a vessel body 12 for storing a liquid chemical agent L as the storage matter, a cap 14 which is attached to the vessel body 12 by screwing a screw part 36 into a screw part 22, and a cover cap 16...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paper carton which can be easily collapsed but maintains good appearance, allowing neat collapsing.

SOLUTION: Breaking areas 17a and 19a surrounded by a perforation α are demarcated in respective end face flaps 17 and 19 so as not to overlap a bottom face side end face panel 16. A top face side end face panel 18 is affixed to the bottom face side end face ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paper feeding device capable of stably supplying a large amount of paper sheets.

SOLUTION: A conveyor belt 104 supplies paper sheets P to the horizontal direction and a holding part 100B stacks and holds the paper sheets P in the gravity direction. Due to this structure, an approximately equal number of the paper sheets P are all the time placed on the low...