A transport system (13) is used to automatically transfer samples between various pre-analysis modules (1-12). An apparatus for carrying out an automated pre-analysis of samples present in holders comprises a number of pre-analysis modules and a transport system for transferring samples between these modules.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transmission case of a working vehicle capable of previously preventing an oil spillage and a penetration of foreign matter by sufficiently securing the face connection strength of mating plane of a transmission case composed of case parts dividable right and left in the advance direction of a machine body. SOLUTION: A transmission case 21 to be attached to a wor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the damage of spline teeth of rotor shafts while shortening the lateral dimension of a hydraulic coupling device of a power transmission for a four-wheel drive vehicle. SOLUTION: The left and right rotor shafts 27L, 27R are provided with through holes 27d piercing in the axial direction, and the end parts of left and right axles 13L, 13R are inserted in the through...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle-to-vehicle distance control device controlling to quickly change vehicle-to-vehicle distance upon the operation of a switch for setting vehicle-to-vehicle time even when the relative speed to a preceding vehicle is low. SOLUTION: This vehicle-to-vehicle distance control device controls vehicle speed to maintain the target vehicle-to-vehicle distance and s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle speed control device capable of accurately and rapidly determining constant speed travel control interruption due to temporary acceleration. SOLUTION: Throttle opening is estimated from a drive signal of a throttle actuator using a control model of the throttle actuator. The actual throttle opening taking account of the response characteristic (integratin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle speed control device having excellent responsiveness in vehicle-to-vehicle distance control and keeping a driver from feeling a sense of incongruity in vehicle speed control in the case of using a vacuum type actuator. SOLUTION: This vehicle speed control device uses a vacuum type actuator and quickens the response characteristics of a vehicle-to-vehicle ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an engine with a synchromesh type automatic transmission, reducing shock during shifting and improving responsiveness and feelings during shifting. SOLUTION: A controller for controlling a throttle actuator and an automatic transmission comprises a means for computing the synchronous engine speed Ns of engine speed Ne in relation to a clutch wh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve drivability by ensuring large output torque even in the case of correcting the target input rotating speed of a continuously variable transmission, that is, the target output rotating speed of a power source, onto the high side. SOLUTION: This control device finds the target output of the power source on the basis of an operating state, finds the target output rota...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve drivability by smoothly changing output torque in transient shift control of making a stepwise cha of target output rotating speed inputted to a continuously variable transmission. SOLUTION: This control device finds target driving force on the basis of an operating state, finds the target output of a power source to attain the target driving force, finds target ou...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving force control device for a vehicle improving efficiency on the whole to improve fuel consumption by suppressing fuel consumption by inertial torque in controlling a change gear ratio by a continuously variable transmission. SOLUTION: A change gear ratio is controlled according to a shift line (a continuous line) set onto the low rotating speed side in a p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate a possibility of the attitude and behavior of a vehicle body becoming unstable due to the abrupt change of a traveling state caused by the sharp turn of front wheels driven in a speed increasing state in the operative state of a front wheel speed increasing device if turning operation is executed during high speed travel on a road in the state of an auxiliary tra...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To rapidly and accurately stick adhesive tape without crashing to a tape sticking face of a shape where two linear parts cross. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a pressing roller 17 rotatably connected to two bodies 11 and 13, a first guide roller 21 rotatably attached substantially in parallel with this pressing roller 17 to the one body 11, a second guide roller 22 at...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a secure and beautiful sealing state even in the high speed operation, make the dropping distance of a material to be packaged small in case of applying for a vertical bagging and filling machine and provide a good sealing state in the high speed operation. SOLUTION: A center sealing device 10 is provided with a pair of sealing mechanisms 16 and 17 to be closed and ...

An umbrella includes a panel attached to a crown and supported by ribs. A runner is coupled to the ribs by stretchers to be movable with respect to the crown. A pole located beside the panel is arranged upright with a slide mounted thereon to be movable along the pole. An arm has an end pivoted to the slide and is further supported by a link pivoted to both the pole and the arm. A first rope to wh...

A coil is located at the distal working end of an electrode catheter. The coil includes two parallel electrically conductive strips separated by a narrow gap. The strips are covered with insulation, and are connected respectively to electrical leads having opposite polarity. Electrodes are formed by removing portions of the insulation from the strips. The coil can be expanded to define an increase...

The present invention is a polyol mixture that is useful for preparing polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams. The polyol mixture of the present invention includes: a polyol that is derived from butylene oxide; and a hydrocarbon blowing agent such as pentane or cyclopentane, for example. Use of butylene oxide polyols of the present invention allow inclusion of a sufficient amount of a hydrocarbon...

The present invention provides a method for improving the biocompatibility of devices, especially medical devices which are invasively present within a patient's body and the improved medical device. The present invention particularly reduces the thrombogenicity of polyurethane materials in contact with the blood of a living patient. The method comprises providing a biocompatible medical device ha...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the subject method capable of easily preserving the shape form made by the surface skin and flesh of a fish. SOLUTION: This method for producing a processed fish product comprises heating a raw or pre-treated fish under reduced pressures. This method has the following advantages: the protein of the fish is solidified by heating and simultaneously, the water is effe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hydraulic accumulator assembly for a hydraulic brake system. SOLUTION: The accumulator assembly 10 includes at least a pump housing 14 having an accumulator bore 42. The accumulator bore is provided with an axis 46 and an inner wall 50. A piston 62 is movably disposed in the accumulator bore to divide the accumulator bore into an accumulator chamber 66 possible o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate a lifting mechanism for elevating a web from a self- advancing bogie used in an automatic web feeding system for supplying a web into a feeder of a rotary press using a self-advancing bogie and to reduce the required number of metallic pieces buried in a floor for positioning. SOLUTION: Based on the diameter of the web 7 measured beforehand, a stop position X for...