Interactive shopping takes place in a virtual shopping centre (1) made up of virtual shops (3).

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thread adhering method of a sewing machine which is capable of easily/surely adhering the ends of two threads mounted at the sewing machine to each other and further, a needle thread changeover method of the sewing machine which is capable of easily changing the colors, kinds, etc., of the needle threads to be used without carrying out laborious thread switching ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control apparatus for a driving apparatus which prevent increase in creep force when a power source in is in an indle-up state. SOLUTION: The control apparatus for a driving apparatus outputs driving force from an output side of a power source variable in an idling rotational speed through a transmitting mechanism capable of increasing or decreasing a transmittin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve responseness to a preceding vehicle, when accelerated, in follow-up running during traffic jam. SOLUTION: When a preceding vehicle is accelerated from the condition that a vehicle speed is smaller than a preset speed during follow-up running to the preceding vehicle, a target acceleration is set on the basis of the acceleration of the preceding vehicle (S35), to pr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a vehicle power transmission. ensuring speed change to a LOW state while maintaining the preset rotating speed of an engine, without degrading a feel of running during deceleration. SOLUTION: An electric control unit ECU controls shift thrust Ft as a shift component of thrust on a driving-side movable pulley 11 and a driven-side movable pulley ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle driving power control device capable of quickly decelerating a vehicle with single action in automatic deceleration, and a recording medium. SOLUTION: When a cruise acceleration condition showing acceleration control is changed to a cruise deceleration condition showing deceleration control if cruise control is performed, a cruise deceleration ready condi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To determine whether yarn knotting is finished or not, reliably with a simple structure, when feed bobbins in creels are changed and the yarn and retained in the creels and the yarn leader of the new feed bobbin are knotted together before take-up motion is started. SOLUTION: A creel for accommodating a multitude of feed bobbins 12 includes a nip member 38 for holding the yar...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rotating shaft for a toroidal type continuously variable transmission allowed to shorten the axial length of the rotating shaft. SOLUTION: This rotating shaft 20 rotated integrally with an input disc of a toroidal type continuously variable transmission having the input disc and an output disc, has a collar part 50 with mutually parallel flat faces 70 from the en...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To commonize axles on the opposite sides which are to be connected. SOLUTION: This differential gear is provided with a differential case 3, a bevel gear type differential mechanism 7, a main clutch 29 and a pilot clutch 27 for differential restriction of the differential mechanism 7, and a cam mechanism 33 for increasing fastening force of the pilot clutch 27 to fasten the m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the size along the length of an output shaft in a drive unit for use in a rotating machine, while maintaining performance including compatibility that is equal to those of existing general-purpose drive units and to put the drive unit to use in a garbage disposal machine for miniaturization of the garbage disposal machine. SOLUTION: In this drive unit 40 for a rotat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve power consumption efficiency by cutting off an unnecessary control current when stopping an engine. SOLUTION: A vehicular power transmission device is structured so as to change the speed of driving power from an engine E by a continuously variable transmission CVT and transmit to a counter shaft 2, and to control transmitting of the driving power from the counter ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To raise the temperature of hot water in a hot water storage tank and to boil the hot water efficiently by combining heat pump heat collecting operation with solar heat collecting operation. SOLUTION: A heat pump heat collector 21 comprises a closed circuit of a compressor 22, a condenser 23 and an evaporator 25 coupled sequentially in series and filled with refrigerant. A so...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To raise the temperature of hot water in a hot water storage tank and to boil the hot water at a substantially constant time regardless of the seasons while saving energy. SOLUTION: A heat pump heat collector 21 comprises a closed circuit of a compressor 22, a condenser 23 and an evaporator 25 coupled sequentially in series and filled with refrigerant. A solar heat collector ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture an electrode plate in which an active material is filled in opening parts and the active material is not attached in a lug part, by applying the active material to a continuous grid body made of a lead alloy, cutting off the continuous grid body, rotating the grid body cut off by 90 deg., partially removing the filled active material, and exposing a current col...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently conduct formation, even at high specific gravity formation with low efficiency and increase low rate discharge capacity and high rate discharge capacity by keeping electrolyte temperature during current supply in a specified range, and increasing the quantity of supply electricity for formation to specified times the theoretical capacity of a positive electrode...

A battery jar for a battery cell having a plurality of plate support bridges, preferably chevron shaped, is presented. The bridges are disposed o n a bottom surface of the battery jar. The bridges include a pair of legs attached at an angle such that each leg provides structural support for each other when supporting the plates of the battery cell. Advantageously, the invention provides good resis...

An automatic system and method for the separation of blood into component parts includes a conically shaped collection and separation bag, component bags connected to the collection and separation bag, a sensor, valves to seal the connections between the component bags and the collection and separation bag, a centrifuge and a controller for controlling the process. Blood is placed in the collectio...

An apparatus for replacing transmission fluid in an automatic transmission. The apparatus comprises a tank separated into a pair of compartments by a bladder or diaphragm. At least one pressure regulator communicates with the tank. A vent valve assembly also communicates with the tank. A process for cleaning an automatic transmission and for replacing after cleaning used automatic transmission flu...

An intelligent intersection control system features an internal controller that receives digital messages containing detailed information items concerning, for example, the direction, speed, length and identity of a train. The controller generates appropriate commands that coordinate the functions of crossing safety devices. A controller is capable of receiving and using much more detailed train i...

Electrode assemblies and associated systems employ a nonporous wall having an exterior for contacting tissue. The exterior peripherally surrounds an interior area. The wall is essentially free of electrically conductive material. The wall is adapted to assume an expanded geometry having a first maximum diameter and a collapsed geometry having a second maximum diameter less than the first maximum d...