A fragmentation system including a reaction vessel with processing fluid and fragmentation product and a pair of electrodes. Two respective ends of the pair of electrodes are arranged at a distance to each other inside the reaction vessel and can be admitted with pulsed high-voltage to grind the fragmentation product positioned in a reaction zone. The system also including a solid/fluid separation...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a driving device capable of simply adjusting a driving depth without enlarging the outside dimension of a bolt guide.

SOLUTION: The driving device is equipped with a combustion space 16 for driving a fixing element, a piston guide 11 having a hollow space 12 which is adjacent to the combustion space and movably disposes a piston 20 in the axial direction, and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ink cartridge with an improvement in operability in attachment to and detachment from a cartridge holder.

SOLUTION: The ink cartridge 1 supplies ink to a recording head 23 via an ink supply port 3 which communicates with a cartridge body 2 in the state that the cartridge body 2 stores the ink and is mounted onto the cartridge holder 20 of a recorder. An i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a road surface friction coefficient estimation device capable of ensuring the high road surface friction coefficient estimation accuracy irrespective of the phase difference between the vehicle body acceleration and the slip ratio.

SOLUTION: The road surface friction coefficient estimation device 2 comprises a wheel speed operation unit 201 to detect the spe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular control device capable of preventing sudden start of a vehicle while reducing the energy consumption when the braking force is controlled while the vehicle is stopped, in the vehicle in which an engine is automatically stopped when the vehicle is stopped and automatically re-started.

SOLUTION: The estimated maximum driving force when an engine is...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a movable body and its traveling control device which can avoid a rear-end collision or minimize damage from the rear-end collision by performing a traveling control for avoiding a rear-end collision with a following movable body.

SOLUTION: The traveling control device 1 is equipped with an inter-vehicle distance detection means 2 for measuring a distance fr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the stability of the behavior of a vehicle, and to accurately reflect the intention of a driver on the traveling behavior of the vehicle.

SOLUTION: When a right and left driving force difference Td increases, dependency on control to suppress a torque steering phenomenon by the braking force application of a right brake actuator 78 and a left brake actuator ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem in a conventional cruise control device for a passenger lawn mower or the like adapted to hold an operating position of an HST lever or HST pedal by friction material, a spring or the like that a means for adjusting the throttle of an engine is separately needed because an uneven work by insufficient output of the engine or an engine stall is caused on...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a braking force control device enabling a driver to adjust braking force/driving force distribution by simple operation.

SOLUTION: Pressure sensors 25 to 28 corresponding to each wheel are arranged at four corners between a pedal upper plate 22 and a pedal lower plate 23 of a brake pedal 2 (same as a case of an accelerator pedal 3). Braking force/driving for...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent interruption of PM forced regeneration processing or sudden departure of a vehicle due to unexpected or wrong operation of a driver or the like in an exhaust emission control device of an internal combustion engine adapted to perform PM forced regeneration processing by manual operation of the driver or the like.

SOLUTION: In the exhaust emission control dev...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve problems of the binding of a free-style snowboard using soft boots, wherein the motion of applying a load on a front edge is inferior to the the motion on a rear edge and wherein a user tends to be weak in the motion of applying a load on the front side because the load can be easily applied on the rear edge only by leaning on a spoiler (a high-back) and the motio...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of a vehicle capable of matching phases in a circumferential direction of teeth of a first engaging member and teeth of a second engaging member.

SOLUTION: A control device of a vehicle having an actuator which moves either of a first engaging member or a second engaging member in an axial direction to be engaged/released is equipped with a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve mountability of a fluid transmission device unit.

SOLUTION: A case member comprises a circular body, having a first end face to surround part of a fluid transmission device to abut on a rear end face (se) of a drive source, and a second end face to abut on a front end face (st) of a housing main body 56 surrounding a major part of the fluid transmission devi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a worm gear unit capable of reducing fluctuations in the rotation of a worm shaft and to provide an image forming apparatus having such a worm gear unit.

SOLUTION: The worm gear unit includes: a rotary shaft that rotates by receiving rotating force from a drive source; worms fixed to the rotary shaft; worm wheels engaged with the corresponding worms and used...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method of electron beam testing of liquid crystal displays comprising non-uniform electrodes having a conductive portion and a dielectric portion.

SOLUTION: In accordance with the method of electron beam testing, the diameter of the electron beam is increased so that the beam is less focused, i.e., enlarged or "blurred", over a non-uniform...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mode transition control device for a hybrid vehicle that improves both fuel consumption efficiency and re-acceleration response compatibly, when a hybrid vehicle mode is changed to an electric vehicle mode.

SOLUTION: A hybrid vehicle includes a driving force synthesizing transmission TM that uses an engine E and at least one motor as power sources and has ...

Disclosed is a process comprising contacting chemical 1,3-propanediol with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst. Preferably, the chemical 1,3-propanediol, before the contacting has an initial color and, after the contacting, has a color that is lower than the initial color.

The comminuting device has a rotor in the stator (1), rotating about axis. The stator has at least one cutting tool (3) directed towards the rotor, and a radial recess (4) to accommodate the cutting tool. The cutting tool, when fitted in the recess, can be fixed by clamping it against an adjacent wall (5) by means of a clamping element (6).

Several patients in an intensive care unit have to undergo a routine x-ray repeatedly which is performed using a unit (9) guided along a rail system (4) attached to the ceiling (3) of the room. The unit (9) is moved to the bed (2) of the individual patient effortlessly and can be controlled with the elements (26) present on a control panel (11, 27) also suspended from the carrying arm (25) and mov...

Bei einem Mammographiegerät ist zur Höheneinstellung eines Objekttisches (2) in Bezug auf den Untersuchungsbereich einer Patientin (1) vorgesehen, mittels eines optischen Signals (4) die Höhe des Objekttisches (2) auf der Patientin abzubilden oder die Einstellhöhe des Objekttisches (2) so weit zu verändern, bis das optische Signal (4) von einem Reflektor (8) unmittelbar unterhalb des Untersuchungs...