PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide coating chocolate having deliciousness as favorite food, a solidification speed suitable for coating use, luster after solidification, and hardly separated from a coated object when eaten, and to provide an oil and fat composition for producing the coating chocolate, and chocolate containing trans-unsaturated fatty acid as little as possible.

SOLUTION: The o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine which prevents a game from being interrupted by alarming a player before the game is interrupted by the fact that a tray is filled with tokens.

SOLUTION: A slot machine includes: a hopper device 50 provided with a rotary disk 63 to be rotated when paying off the tokens, a count arm 70 to be abutted to the outer peripheral edge of the token pus...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine capable of arousing a player's interest in the play by adding new game properties.

SOLUTION: When the mode of the play is shifted to a BB (Big Bonus) mode, the number of betting to be announced is determined, and this number of betting is announced. If a minor winning combination, a "Bell" combination, is internally won in the BB mode, the ord...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine capable of performing the game ball shooting motion without disposing a ball feeding member separately from a shooting rod, and capable of miniaturizing a shooting device for easily stabilizing the shooting direction and the flying distance.

SOLUTION: A moving operation mechanism 46 can operate the shooting rod 45 to advance or retreat. If the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for preparing a beverage which keeps operation simple, and the reliability of the operation high, and enable to form wide variety of beverages.

SOLUTION: In the method for preparing the beverage from a cartridge (1) which holds one or more kinds of beverage ingredients (200) during an operation cycle, the step of passing a water medium through the c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce equipment cost and promote practical use in a small-scale plant.

SOLUTION: While wastewater D is introduced into a tank 2 accommodating aerobic granules G, it is aerated. The wastewater D is left to stand still after aeration so that the aerobic granules G precipitate, and after being left to stand still, treated water W is discharged. Such a cycle is repeate...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To propose an improved method and a device for controlling a robot, specifically, those enabling to share resources between different layers/units.

SOLUTION: A robot controller comprises a multitude of simultaneously working robot controller units. Each unit (Un) comprises a means for receiving an input signal, a means for receiving top-down information (T...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve sealing performance and an improvement of durability in a joint driving device of a robot.

SOLUTION: An oscillating internally meshing type reduction mechanism is arranged at the side of an external gear 162B in an axial direction so as to be taken out of first and second carriers 176A and 176B. A center shaft member 136 integrally has the first and second c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the occurrence or amplification of vibration in the longitudinal direction of a vehicle or the deterioration of damping effect in a pitch/bounce vibration damping control device of the vehicle by drive output control.

SOLUTION: This damping control device of a vehicle comprises a noise frequency component determining means that includes a driving torque compen...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a running control device of a slave vehicle, allowing the slave vehicle running according to a master vehicle to safely run parallel to a curvilinear path, and to provide a transport system using this.

SOLUTION: The slave vehicle 20 running parallel to the master vehicle 10 has a parallel running control ECU (Electronic Control Unit) 21. On a rectilinear pat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a travel controller capable of accurately learning the travel control even while a vehicle is automatically driven.

SOLUTION: This travel controller calculates a target travel track for automatic driving and performs the travel control along the target travel track for automatic driving by a steering angle command section 13. The travel controller comprises ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a running control unit for controlling running with safety even when a driver does not ensure the safety.

SOLUTION: A driver attention level set section 106 sets the degree of attention to be paid by the driver according to environment and a running condition. A driver attention level detection section 108 detects the degree of attention paid by the driver t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a constant speed travel controller and a constant speed travel control method capable of learning the vehicle speed variation when the vehicle speed is set and varying the set vehicle speed in response to the operation by a driver, in order to avoid a situation where the timing in which the driver lifts off an accelerator that has been depressed during accelerat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a vehicle crash damper device for use in dampening a damage occurred upon a crash of a vehicle to prevent a rear-end collision with a rearward vehicle from being produced when a brake is operated.

SOLUTION: A crash damper controller operates an item to be controlled (a brake) in order to assist a driver's avoiding operation when a crash time becomes a value l...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To implement practical running control by preventing unnatural automatic termination of control.

SOLUTION: When losing a preceding vehicle during following running control, a running control unit 5 switches to cruising control not immediately but in a holding time T. The holding time T is set longer in a low speed range of lost state vehicle speed Vlost (=T2) than in a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an airbag device capable of inflating an outer bag by suppressing the floating of a part of a storage part on a peripheral edge side in the outer bag during the inflation from the peripheral edge of the storage part.

SOLUTION: An airbag 10 of an airbag device M1 comprises an outer bag 15 constituting an outer peripheral wall of the airbag 10, and an inner ba...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an airbag device capable of inflating an outer bag by suppressing the floating of a part of a storage part on a peripheral edge side in the outer bag during the inflation from the peripheral edge of the storage part.

SOLUTION: An airbag 10 of an airbag device M1 comprises an outer bag 15 constituting an outer peripheral wall of the airbag, and an inner bag 2...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly shift a transmission and to improve fuel consumption of a vehicle.

SOLUTION: When an up-switch 81 is operated, the fuel of an engine 32 is cut and a regeneration torque, reducing a torque being output to a driving shaft 35, is output from a motor 36. When the torque of the driving shaft 35 becomes a threshold or lower, a transmission 34 is upshifted. It is p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To start an internal combustion engine more reliably in a vehicle having the internal combustion engine for outputting motive power for running, an electric motor for inputting/outputting the motive power between the output shaft of the internal combustion engine, and a capacitor as an exclusive electric storage device.

SOLUTION: The engine is started by motoring the e...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driver characteristic detection apparatus for evaluating driver characteristic with high reliability by comparing a driver model of a driver 4 which is identified based on sensors 2, 3, 5 mounted on a vehicle 1 with the other driver model.

SOLUTION: The apparatus includes: a driver model identifying means 6 for identifying the driver model indicating an in...