The method involves selecting a language and outputting the location name in the selected language. The selected language is compared with a stored speech attribute of a location name and the name is output in the form allocated to the attribute associated with the selected language. AN Independent claim is also included for the following: a navigation device for a vehicle and an information bear...

PURPOSE: A method for manufacturing sintered metal is provided to greatly improve wear resistance and durability of the sintered metal so that the sintered metal endures severe friction, and a flange of rotary compressor manufactured by the method is provided. CONSTITUTION: The method comprises sintered metal forming step(31,32,33) of sintering the pressure formed metal powder after kneading metal...

PURPOSE: To provide a sealed lead-acid battery and its usage by which stratification of electrolyte can be restrained without reducing the respective reaction areas of a positive electrode and a negative electrode by a simple means. CONSTITUTION: Belt like vinyl chloride resin-made electrolyte movement restraining members 1 are arranged by two pieces in the direction parallel to a battery jar bott...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fail-safe device in a follow-up traveling system for a vehicle, which can be realized at a low cost, certainly judges the lowering of the awakening degree of a driver due to follow-up traveling, especially, in a low speed range, and can take suitable action. SOLUTION: This fail-safe device is provided with a shift lever actuator 5 which forcibly operates a shift ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively perform jerking suppression control at sudden acceleration or deceleration, in a vehicle which changes load control method according to loads and conducts a low stratified-charge combustion for a predetermined time between a stratified-charge combustion and uniform combustion. SOLUTION: During normal running, a stratified-charge combustion control in which air/...

The invention relates to a method and a device for use when carrying out this method to control the compression force of an X-ray examining device for use in mammography. A breast to be imaged is pressed with an increased compression force between the pressure plate and the object table. In order to obtain a method of the abovementioned type in which an optimum compression pressure is adapted to t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method capable of reducing energy consumption required for a cooling and heating a structural body. SOLUTION: An inside temperature adjusting method for a reinforced concrete structural body comprises burying a CD pipe (concrete duct for wiring) 10 in a sunny side wall and a shady side wall, and forming a closed passage by means of the CD pipe 10. In that case, a...

Nonwoven sheet materials, and pressure sensitive adhesive tapes formed from nonwoven sheet materials are provided. The nonwoven sheet materials comprise a randomly interlaced fibrous web of tensilized nonfracturable staple fibers and binder fibers, wherein the fibrous web is pattern embossed, and is interbonded by a chemical bonding agent, physical entanglement, or a combination thereof, and furth...

A lane boundary recognition system for a self-navigating vehicle which enables the vehicle to self-navigate on an expressway or other such roadway having lane boundaries while simultaneously identifying and discriminating the continuity of the lane boundaries. Vehicle position to the lane boundaries are determined at times T0 and T1. A vehicle locus occurred in a period between the times is estima...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a packaging device in which wrinkles can be prevented from being generated as far as possible at a seal part and a device for feeding a rolled film which can unwind the rolled film in a stable manner even if diameters of the rolled film on the left and right ends thereof are deformed. SOLUTION: The packaging device includes a drive control device 21 which drives a g...

A device (6) for holding and centering yam tubes (3) for processing while in a vertical orientation on transport disks (2), e.g., for removing a yam remnant (4) at a tube cleaning station. During such processing, the tubes are fixed in place by means of a height-displaceable centering arbor (12) coupled with a circuit arrangement which causes the operating height (h) of the centering arbor (12) to...

There are described films and articles formed from blend compositions comprising specified amounts of any polycarbonate and specified amounts of a specific copolyester comprising terephthalic acid, naphthalenedicarboxylic acid, 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid, or mixtures thereof; ethylene glycol; and 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol. The films and sheets produced from the blend compositions are thermof...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing wheat young leaf powder which holds the natural ingredients of the wheat young leaves and has excellent storage stability and excellent palatability. SOLUTION: This method for producing the wheat young leaf powder, comprising (a) a process for washing harvested wheat young leaves, (b) a process for repeating a treatment for steaming the washe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a dry powder, squeezed juice or juice powder of a graminaceous plant containing &gamma -aminobutyric acid (GABA) having hypotensive activity in a high concentration. SOLUTION: The dry powder, squeezed juice or juice powder of a graminaceous plant rich in &gamma -aminobutyric acid is obtained by subjecting the graminaceous plant to anaerobic treatment and/or heat-ret...

A road curvature estimating apparatus for a vehicle includes a vehicle attitude detector which detects an attitude of the vehicle with respect to a road, a front-and-rear wheel steer-angle detector, a vehicle speed detector and a road curvature calculator. The road curvature calculator calculates a curvature of a road ahead of the vehicle on the basis of the measured vehicle attitude, the measured...

Blends of chloroprene homopolymers or copolymers with chloroprene/acrylate or chloroprene/methacrylate graft copolymers provide compositions especially useful as components of latex adhesive formulations.

PURPOSE: To view different video images with improved separation depending on different observation positions and directions regardless of the same display screen and to view them with image quality for which luminance is uniform in a display device used for a video telephone and a video conference system, etc. CONSTITUTION: The display screen 100 provided with microperspectively small dispersion ...

A sufficiently wide viewing angle characteristic is obtained while a sufficient front contrast is ensured. With respect to the light transmitted by a polarizing plate and a phase difference plate before exiting from a liquid crystal display device, the viewing angle in the 12-6 o'clock direction is improved by a phase difference plate. By a light diffusing plate, a sufficient front contrast is ens...

A flame retardant composition that is composed of red phosphorus and melamine or a derivative thereof in amounts satisfying a specified ratio for use in the production of polyurethanes. The polyurethanes produced with this flame retardant composition are particularly useful in the production of rail vehicles.

A novel meat product is provided which comprises a monolithic piece of meat that is injected with yogurt and processed mechanically to distribute the yogurt substantially uniformly throughout the piece. The product may comprise 5 to 50 % by weight of injected yogurt. Said yogurt may have a pH of less than 5.2, preferably about 3.8 to 3.9 to improve the shelf-life of a raw meat product. Alternative...