EARTH-BORING BITS The present invention relates to compositions and methods for forming a bit body for an earth-boring bit. The bit body may comprise hard particles, wherein the hard particles comprise at least one carbide, nitride, boride, and oxide and solid solutions thereof, and a binder binding together the hard particles. The binder may comprise at least one metal selected from cobalt, nicke...

A shellfish positioning and opening apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus has at least one processing lane which includes an in-feed and singulation station (7), followed by a reorientation assembly station (10) utilizing a vision system (9), and a holding and opening assembly station (14). The stations are operatively connected in the aforementioned order and together they receive shellfish with ...

In a computing system that is in communication with at least one application, a method for controlling how contact information is provided to one or more applications is disclosed. The method comprises detecting a request from an application for contact information corresponding to a particular user; upon detecting the request and prior to providing the application with contact information, determ...

The invention relates to the field of wind-power engineering and can be used for enhancing the reliability of the windmill. The windmill comprises a windwheel (1), a shaft (2), two groups of bearings (4,) and a fixed part. Coaxial to the shaft (2) there are mounted two concentric pipes (3, 6), one of which (3) is outer, coupled with the windwheel (1), and the other (6), coupled with the fixed part...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a food intended for solving the problems where a specific thickening polysaccharide is used for liquid or pasty food which has a homogenizing process, but there are points that are insufficient in terms of quality and cost, and where there is a problem in viscosity stability in the case where starch is used.

SOLUTION: The method for pr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the frequency of replacement of a ball polishing member and to simplify the structure of an apparatus as a whole, in game machine having enclosed balls that circulates and uses game balls by collecting game balls shot from a shooting device and feeding the collected game balls again to the shooting device.

SOLUTION: A ball polishing device 250 is configured t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drum type washing/drying machine having an atomization unit that never wrongly detects the level of water stored inside the device and capable of exhibiting excellent wrinkle reducing effects by effectively moistening the surface of clothes at appropriate drying rate.

SOLUTION: The atomization unit 30 comprises an atomization chamber 31 for storing water 2...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine capable of reducing the processing load of a control side.

SOLUTION: This game machine includes an input part capable of inputting information related to the level of a notification based on an input operation, a notification information generation means for generating first notification information based on predetermined notification data, an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of generating a digital supplementary device for dental implant planning, more accurately performing implant planning and implantation.

SOLUTION: This method includes: a step (a) of preparing a mouth model based on the internal shape of the oral cavity of a patient; a step (b) of taking digital data on a part to be fitted and a fitting part; a step ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cleaning method of soil and ground water efficiently cleaning polluted environment like soil and ground water polluted with organic compounds in a short time at low cost, and suppressing nitrogen concentration in the polluted environment.

SOLUTION: The cleaning method of soil and ground water comprises decomposing organic compounds by microorganisms in an ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sterile water production apparatus which can correctly, efficiently and easily supply a hypochlorite solution to raw water without causing back flow, consequently can easily provide sterile water having a prescribed pH value and free from mixed spots, and further, can securely, safely and efficiently exhaust gaseous chlorine to be generated.

SOLUTION: Raw ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flocculation filter which can obtain filtered water whose SDI is less than 3.0 even at the early stage of filter treatment and then all along.

SOLUTION: This filter comprises a means to add a flocculant to suspended matter in water to be treated and a filter column for removing the suspended matter. The filter column has one or more filter medium layers ma...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the vibration and noise of a countershaft in a portable circular saw having two-stage speed reduction mechanism using helical gears by solving problems of a conventional portable circular saw having a speed reduction mechanism which converts the output of an electric motor by speed reduction in two steps using helical gears and transmits the converted output to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving device of a hybrid vehicle capable of improving fuel consumption by keeping high power transmission rate over a wide change range of a transmission ratio of the driving device.

SOLUTION: The driving device can switch an operation mode of the driving device 10 between an Lo mode wherein a third rotation element RE3Acoupled to an engine 8 ov...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an on-vehicle control device capable of dealing with a problem wherein a record value of a wheelbase recorded on a recording medium of an on-vehicle device becomes significantly different from the wheelbase of a vehicle on which it is mounted.

SOLUTION: The on-vehicle control device for conducting various ABS controls 261, 262 of the vehicle based on the rec...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform vehicle-to-vehicle distance control and collision avoidance control at optimal timing to a driver.

SOLUTION: A traveling control device for a vehicle includes a millimeter-wave radar 2 for detecting a further preceding vehicle and a front camera 12 for acquiring information in a front visual recognition state from a driver, adjusts the operation timing of th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent control to increase traveling stability from being hindered in a control device for a vehicle for increasing the traveling stability of a vehicle due to the distribution of a driving power or a braking power.

SOLUTION: A target front wheel lateral force setting part 12 included in a microcomputer 10 determines a target front wheel lateral force Fft based on ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle controller for improving a running stability of a vehicle in which an action for sliding the vehicle such as a drift running intended by a driver can be realized.

SOLUTION: A desired yaw rate setting unit 12 included in a micro-computer 10 determines a desired yaw rate Yt for improving a running stability of a vehicle in response to a steering angl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shaft drive mechanism capable of shortening length in a vehicle longitudinal direction of a gear case assembly.

SOLUTION: In the saddle-riding type vehicle provided with a shaft drive mechanism 1000, the shaft drive mechanism 100 is provided with a drive shaft 10 for transmitting motive power to a drive wheel 120 and at least one end of the drive shaft 10 ...