PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attach a worm, a wheel and a shaft to a transmission case while preventing slip-off in a good assembling property by minimal parts.

SOLUTION: In the tending machine 10, a wheel 34 is attached to a tilling shaft 71 for a tillage tine and wheel 34 is engaged with a worm 33 and a shaft 35 is extended from one end of the worm 33 and the shaft 35 is connected to an engin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a plaster mold used in a method for manufacturing a metallic mold for vulcanizing a tire with which the plaster mold developing no crack around a sipe when the metallic mold is cast, can be easily and quickly manufactured without applying boring and a grooving-work around a siping material.

SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laser beam machining device capable of cutting a workpiece without causing an unwanted crack and melt on the surface of the workpiece.

SOLUTION: The laser beam machining device 400 has a laser beam source 101 which emits a laser beam L with a pulse width of 1 μs or below, a power adjusting means 401 which adjusts the power of the laser beam on the basis of...

The invention is in one embodiment a means for holding a hairstyle. The means for holding a hairstyle includes a first member, a second member, and a connecting means for rigidly coupling the first member to the second member. In another embodiment the invention is a styling device. The hair styling device uses a first elongated portion, a second elongated portion, and an intermediate portion that...

A catheter includes a steering mechanism for manipulating the distal end of the catheter to obtain a plurality of deflection profiles. The steering mechanism comprises two steering tendons. The first steering tendon is attached to the distal-end region and the second steering tendon is attached to the distal-end region at a location proximal the attachment point of the first steering tendon. The s...

A biaxially oriented polyester film capable of lining the interior and/or exterior of a container, including a polyester containing about 93 mol % or more of ethylene terephthalate. The film has a breaking elongation in the machine direction. (S MD) and the breaking elongation in the transverse direction (S TD), satisfying the relationships 140%<=(S MD+S TD)/2<=300% and |S MD-S TD|<=60%. The film ...

A process for preparing tropenol (I)or an acid addition salt thereof, the process comprising:(a) reducing a scopine ester of formula (II) whereinR is C1-C4-alkyl or C1-C4-alkylene-phenyl, each optionally substituted by hydroxy or C1-C4-alkoxy,or an acid addition salt or hydrate thereof, using zinc in a suitable solvent in the presence of an activating metal salt; and(b) saponifying the product of ...

A robot cleaning system using a mobile communication network capable of controlling a cleaning robot from a long distance, the robot cleaning system transmitting an image data after converting the image data photographed at self-contained cameras by means of a mobile communication signal. The robot cleaning system has: a cleaning robot for cleaning by moving freely in a cleaning space in accordanc...

A rail system comprises a track for a rail-mounted vehicle (18-20) and units (7-14) which are adapted to send information to the rail-mounted vehicle (18-20). It comprises at least one group of units with at least one pair of units (7-14), which are arranged in a spaced-apart manner in the transverse direction of the track and which are adapted to send information about the position of each unit ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thread tension device, capable of suitably adjusting the tension of a thread and the amount of thread used.

SOLUTION: A piezoelectric element 106 generates elongating force according to the supplied voltage, a pre-load spring 110 generates energizing force regardless of the voltage supply to the piezoelectric element 106. The resultant of forward forces by...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a polyester film which has excellent antistatic performance and small optical defect and which prevents a dust from being adhered.

SOLUTION: The polyester film comprises a coating layer on one side surface so that a surface specific resistance on the surface of the layer is 1×1013Ω/square or less, and an amount of a polyester oligomer on the surface...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a resistor having a low-resistance/low-stress heating layer formed stably at a high film forming speed.

SOLUTION: In the resistor having the heating layer 3 formed in a film of amorphous silicon on a substrate 1 by a catalyst CVD method, a catalyst body used in the catalyst CVD method is formed of a catalyst element selected from Ta, W and Mo and the catalys...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a resistor having a low-resistance/low-stress heating layer formed stably at a high film forming velocity.

SOLUTION: In the resistor having the heating layer 3 formed in a film of amorphous silicon on a substrate 1 by a catalyst CVD method, a catalyst body used in the catalyst CVD method is formed of a catalyst element selected from Ta, W and Mo. The catalys...

An adjustable hanging sunshade umbrella is provided which comprises a side standard, a transverse arm joined to the side standard in cantilevered fashion, a central rod, support and operation means for a protective covering connected to the central rod, and a position-adjusting device adapted to cause rotation of the central rod relative to the axis of the transverse arm and l...

A data conferencing system includes at least two computer workstations linked by a data network. Each computer workstation is able to store and display an electronic sheet, the electronic sheet being logically divided into a set of cells, each cell being able to contain a single character. A user can select a portion of the electronic sheet, a portion comprising at least one cell, and then perform...

The invention provides pellets of a saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer which are excellent in feedability, cause little fluctuation of extruder torque or discharge during molding, and yield shaped articles with high dimensional accuracy such as the high accuracy of form and thickness. The pellets of the invention are such that the differential curve representing the magnitude of change in...

A dichroic polarizing film is made, for example, by, first combining polyvinyl alcohol and a second polymer, such as, polyvinyl pyrrolidone or a sulfonated polyester, in a solvent. The ratio of polyvinyl alcohol to second polymer is between about 5:1 to 100:1 by weight. The film is coated on a substrate, dried, and then stretched to orient at least a portion of the film. The film incorporates a di...

An expandable vinyl chloride resin composition that the expansion ratio of a vinyl chloride resin can be greatly increased by the use of thermally decomposable inorganic blowing agents without the use of organic solvent blowing agents, and which comprises 100 parts by weight of a vinyl chloride resin, 0.5 to 30 parts by weight of, as a processing aid, a (meth)acrylic acid ester polymer having a sp...

A process for producing amino resin particles includes: a reaction process for obtaining a reaction solution containing an amino resin precursor which is obtained by a reaction of an amino compound with formaldehyde, and having a viscosity in a range of from 2x10-2 Pa.s to 5.8x10-2 Pa.s at a temperature in a range of from 95° C. to 98° C.; an emulsion process for obtaining an emulsion by emulsifyi...

A method of providing Internet hosting and access is described. A database is used to store hosting and access descriptors. The hosting and access descriptors describe the configuration of Internet services such as HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and FTP for a hosted site. When a client over the Internet, or other network, requests a service from the hosted domain, the DNS system is interfaced to the dat...