PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure a braking force from a motor, and to prevent a battery from being fully charged.

SOLUTION: A CVT and the motor are controlled (S240, S250) in such a manner that, when it is determined that the remaining capacity (SOC) of the battery is smaller than a threshold Sref1 but larger than a threshold Sref2, and that the battery is not in a state of being fully charg...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a switchgear wherein the dimension in the height direction can be reduced by miniaturizing a container.

SOLUTION: A sealed container 3 in this switchgear with an insulating gas filled thereinto to store main circuit apparatus is divided airtight into three sections of an upper side apparatus chamber 3a, a bus bar connection chamber 3b, and a lower side appara...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a permanent-magnet rotating electric machine that has less risk of the deterioration of characteristics even if axial center is displaced.

SOLUTION: Armature windings wound in a concentrated manner on the teeth 4 of a stator iron core 6 are divided into at least two pieces of a coil 8a1 and a coil 8a2, a coil 8b1 and a coil 8b2, a coil of 8c1 and a coil 8c2,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inverter device adopting a lamination structure where an insulator cannot be damaged by external force easily, even if the insulator is projected from a conductor plate with some excessive length.

SOLUTION: In the inverter device: first and second insulators 32, 34 and a first intermediate conductor plate 6 is projected from the left, right, and front sid...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing feed silage, capable of evenly distributing mineral components derived from mulberry leaves and producing homogeneous silage.

SOLUTION: This method for producing the feed silage containing mineral components derived from mulberry leaves comprises mixing 5 pts.wt.-50 pts.wt. of ground mulberry leaves with 95 pts.wt.-50 pts.wt. of one or...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a syringe pump which can prevent syringe mounting defects and is more excellent in safety, and a method of use thereof.

SOLUTION: In order to set a syringe cylinder part S on the table 2a of the syringe pump 1, to set a syringe pusher SP to a slider assembly 50, and to accurately send out the contents of a syringe attending the drive of the slider assembly; ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric hot-water reserving container capable of effectively using the heat of heat-generating components which has been usually wasted, as an auxiliary heat source to heat an inner container.

SOLUTION: In the electric hot-water reserving container including an inner container 3 for storing water, a heat source (electric heater 4) for heating the inner c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a slot machine which achieves the fairness of games by effectively blocking the trouble of selfish initialization of game histories done by some players, while others are allowed only to make a short access.

SOLUTION: The main control part works to initialize game data stored in a RAM with the conditions that a setting key switch is operated at the closing o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a slot machine which achieves the fairness of games while preventing the fraudulence by blocking the trouble of selfish initialization of game histories done by some players, while others are allowed only to make a short access.

SOLUTION: The main control part works to initialize game data stored in a RAM with the conditions that a setting key switch is oper...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a slot machine which achieves the fairness of games by effectively blocking the trouble of selfish initialization of game histories done by some players, while others are allowed only to make a short access.

SOLUTION: The main control part works to implement the initialization 1 for initializing game data stored in a RAM with the conditions that a setting ke...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rehabilitation apparatus which applies no excessive load on a user and applies a proper load on the user according to the physical capacity of the user while using relatively simple control.

SOLUTION: The rehabilitation apparatus is equipped with an outer load generating section generating outer load, a load acting section 3 acting the outer load to a huma...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ultrasonic system that diagnoses tissues and calculates temperature distributions there in real time using ultrasonic waves.

SOLUTION: After irradiation with treatment beams at a subject from a treatment array 12 under the control of a treatment device 300, the treatment device 300 is fast switched to an ultrasonic diagnosis device 200 by a cable 6. A dia...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an X-ray apparatus which permits compatibility between the resolution orientation and the coverage orientation at low cost.

SOLUTION: The X-ray CT apparatus uses an X-ray detector that has a former half channel part (AL8,...,AL1, BL1,...,BL8) and a latter half channel part (AR8,...,AR1, BR1,...,BR8) which are the same in the number of slices and differ in th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To fill a needle tube of an ink cartridge formed by assembling the needle tube to a cartridge member with ink.

SOLUTION: An ink filling device is provided with: a cartridge holding part 1 detachably holding the cartridge member 6 of the ink cartridge 7; a connector 2 arranged to the cartridge holding part 1, having a hole part 9 opened to the side detached with the car...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide discharge wire supporting structure of an electrostatic dust collector always maintaining preferable discharge characteristics by preventing the discharge wire from loosening by expansion of a frame.

SOLUTION: In the discharge wire supporting structure of the electrostatic dust collector of the present invention, a turn part 21 for folding back the discharge...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a filtration device, which can efficiently purify even raw water containing a large amount of contaminants and having a high SS concentration, can minimize clogging of a screen and a filter medium, and is compact, and to provide a waste water treatment apparatus using the filtration device.

SOLUTION: This filtration device 20 comprises a hermetically sealed ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a punching device capable of preventing attachment of dust on an optical film by restraining generation of static electricity in punching an optical film sheet.

SOLUTION: This punching device of the optical film sheet is devised to punch the optical film sheet placed on a mat by providing the mat to place the optical film sheet on it and a punching blade fre...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid jetting apparatus which can simplify a replacement sequence by preventing ink from oozing from nozzles when cartridges are replaced.

SOLUTION: Nozzle openings 48 of a recording head 17 are capped by a cap member 51 when a replacement instruction for ink cartridges 7 and 8 is received. At the same time, an internal space of the cap member 51 is press...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an intermediate transfer-type thermal transfer printer which can smoothly change a film.

SOLUTION: The intermediate transfer-type thermal transfer printer 1 is equipped with: a platen roller 20 located inside a conveyance path H1 of a film F; a printing part for performing the thermal transfer and re-transfer of image; a film cassette part 13 which is arrang...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermal head which can inhibit the deterioration of printing quality by removing a dip (level difference) formed right above a heating element, and a printer equipped with this.

SOLUTION: In the thermal head 18 having a plurality of heating elements 19, in which a glaze layer 2 having a swelling portion, a heating resistor layer 3, an electrode pattern 4 m...