PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to surely regulate the moisture content of generated steam in a short time period and carry out moisture baking in addition to elimination of uneven baking for materials to be processed and controlling of uniform diffusion of heat.

SOLUTION: An oven apparatus is composed by forming radiant heat flow channels of lower heat sources 4 so as to guide ra...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a stent for implanting in the body, that is to provide a flexible stent which minimally shrinks, in the longitudinal direction, during expansion.

SOLUTION: The stent is formed of a tube having a patterned shape which has, in an expanded and developed state: a. first meander patterns having an axis extended in a first direction; and b. second meander patterns...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rotor for a centrifuge suppressing occurrence of abnormal vibration by preventing rotation in an non-connected state to a drive shaft, and a centrifuge equipped therewith.

SOLUTION: The rotor 1 for the centrifuge is provided with: a rotor body 2 rotating while containing a sample; a nut (fastening member) 4 fastening the rotor body 2 to the drive shaft 35;...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a viscous soil cleaning method for cleaning viscous soil contaminated with a heavy metal by separating the heavy metal or heavy metal ions from the soil to reduce the heavy metal content of the soil to a level not higher than an environmental standard value.

SOLUTION: The viscous soil cleaning method comprises the steps of (S1) transferring the viscous soil ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing an embossing-including type design sheet having an excellent emboss form by suppressing the embossing form from being deformed.

SOLUTION: The method of manufacturing the design sheet comprises: a process for applying vinyl chloride-based paste sol onto an embossing sheet having an irregular surface to form the coated surface roughly...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heat shrinkable tube which reduces surface staining of a thin soft tube and dissolves defective drawing of the tube and, at the same time, facilitates the insertion of core material with an automatic machine.

SOLUTION: This heat shrinkable tube manufacturing method comprises: a heating process of heating a tube in which resin material is at least partially...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pneumatic tire capable of making compatible a performance on snow and a partial abrasion resistance with each other.

SOLUTION: In a tread pattern 9, the ratio of the tire circumferential maximum length of a block 81 forming block rows 11, 12 at a tread center part 21 to the tire lateral maximum width thereof is set within the range of 1.4-1.9, the ratio of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device that can estimate a roll angle before height adjustment.

SOLUTION: A plurality of displacement characteristics are obtained in advance as parameters using an internal pressure value shown by each of right and left suspensions having the same displacement characteristics for a load. Among them, the displacement characteristics of an inte...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle control device for controlling the braking of a vehicle by use of signal information and capable of reducing the possibility that a driver will feel unsafe by preventing a preceding vehicle and the driver's own vehicle from suddenly approaching each other during braking control.

SOLUTION: The vehicle control device 1 performs braking control by sto...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the running stability of a vehicle when executing control by which a plurality of wheels are made to generate different driving forces.

SOLUTION: A maximum driving force that can be generated at each of a plurality of wheels generating driving forces is calculated (step S101). An adjustment frame is created using a maximum driving force and a maximum yaw mo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a braking/driving force control device for controlling a driving force based on the positional relationship between a vehicle and a preceding vehicle and capable of controlling the driving force so that the driver will feel it best suited.

SOLUTION: The braking/driving force control device sets a target value 402 for the positional relationship between a veh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure proper lubricant supply quantity, and to reduce the pumping loss of an engine and the loss of an oil pump while a hybrid car travels by a motor.

SOLUTION: This control device of a hybrid car is provided with: an engine; two motor generators; and a power distribution device composed of a planetary gear mechanism wherein the oil pump which supplies lubricant to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for controlling the attitude of a vehicle body during a stop that is capable of controlling or preventing the swinging back of a change (nose dive) in the attitude of a vehicle body during the stop, without increasing a stopping sight distance.

SOLUTION: When a vehicle body inertial force Fi works on the center G of gravity of the vehicle body b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a driver from being annoyed with collision avoidance control.

SOLUTION: A vehicle control controller 12 selects a collision avoidance route corresponding to the steering of a vehicle 1 by a driver, and controls the vehicle 1 to travel based on the selected collision avoidance route. Thus, it is possible to prevent a vehicle operation of the driver from being...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a driving feeling from deteriorating when effecting engine starting control and downshift control.

SOLUTION: An electric vehicle drive control device has a first and a second electric motor; a differential gear having first to third rotating elements, with the first rotating element connected to the first electric motor, the second rotating element connected...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sheet processor capable of increasing the number of folded sheets loadable on a sheet loading section, and an image forming device provided therewith.

SOLUTION: This sheet processor includes: a sheet introducing port 53; a sheet discharging port 54b discharging sheets inside to the outside; a sheet conveying section having a sheet conveyance path 57 commun...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem that occurs in confirming enlargement and opening of an enlarging blade in a fluid pressure type enlarging head of cylinder one-way driving type by confirming a pressure gage and a flow meter visually.

SOLUTION: In this device for confirming enlargement and opening of the enlarging blade in the enlarging head, a pressure transmitter and a flow rate t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To rapidly and smoothly discharge sand by suppressing the excessive energy consumption of an SCP construction method.

SOLUTION: In a sand compaction pile driving method, the sand pile is driven by applying air pressure on sand 3 in a casing pile 1. In a sand discharge method for the sand compaction pile driving method, the sand 3 in the casing pipe 1 is discharged out ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tunnel construction method in which use of a main line tunnel is started in an early stage, and a ramp tunnel and a junction are constructed while using the main line tunnel.

SOLUTION: According to the tunnel construction method, the main line tunnel 1 is excavated prior to the ramp tunnel 2, and a roof shield machine 5 is started from the main line tunnel...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a concrete foundation of high pull-off resistance by devising the shape and structure of piles usable in combination with the foundation even with small-scale excavation.

SOLUTION: At a center of an excavation hole, a connecting rod 13, a resistance plate 14 having a flat surface part at a lower end, and vertical wall parts roughly vertically erected from bo...