PCT No. PCT/PT95/00005 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 30, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 30, 1996 PCT Filed May 4, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/30487 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 16, 1995A centrifuge for a fluid uses a series of centrifugal modules to separate the fluid from particles suspended in the fluid. The fluid enters through the bottom of the centrifuge and is subjected to the centrifugal force by a set of rotors. The fl...

An isolated immunoglobulin polypeptide or an antigen binding fragment thereof that specifically binds to an extracellular domain of the human PDGF-beta receptor.An isolated immunoglobulin polypeptide or an antigen binding fragment thereof that specifically binds to an extracellular domain of the human PDGF-beta receptor.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate imaging and to reduce a load on a patient and an operator. SOLUTION: This breast imaging unit is used for executing various kinds of projection to the breasts to be inspected. A control device with a memory is used to store the projection parameter information before exposure, i.e., imaging, in a memory. Based on the information, a control unit on the control de...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently extract a solvent by bringing a raw material containing a solute and a solvent to a contact state so as to hold a binary skinned asymmetric membrane therebetween to extract the solute from the raw material. SOLUTION: A raw material soln. 12 and a solvent 16 are brought into contact with each other so as to hold a binary skinned asymmetric membrane 18 therebetwe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the temperature of a catalyzer from being increased and to prevent its performance from being deteriorated by changing a rotational speed for shifting up in response to the rotational speed of the engine when the rotational speed of the engine is larger than a specified speed. SOLUTION: When a vehicle is running, an electronic controller 42 takes information from a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a packaging machine which is designed by a linear and low cost method. SOLUTION: This packaging method and the packaging machine for a product comprises a bending step for bending a packaging material sheet 8 for a product 3, and have a connecting step wherein at least one of a first part 20 and a second part 21 of the sheet is placed on the top of the other part t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent powder material from being caught in seals and a nozzle from being choked, by providing an air pass to guide air in a packaging material to the outside and a powder material pass to lead the powder material into the packaging material and positioning the center line of the air pass so that it is at the vertical seal heater side from the center line of the powder ma...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paper sheet feeder and method for individualizing paper sheet for the purpose of achieving high working speed and reducing labor relating to a sucker and a blower or reducing air consumption. SOLUTION: A device 14 for bending a sheet pile 2 at least within its upper range at least partially and at least two sticking members 7 are provided. The sticking members 7 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for avoiding any damage on discharged paper sheet, while automatically carrying out non-stop pile change by means of a paper sheet discharger of a printing machine without any particular speed drop and being adequate to a paper sheet printing machine of high printing speed. SOLUTION: In order to constitute a device for non-stop pile change advancing automa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid exhaust gas loss in a dumper mechanism by composing a dumper mechanism of at least one gas flue flap, and positioning the pivot axis of the flue gas flap approximately perpendicular to the base of a power station plant. SOLUTION: Exhaust gas from a gas turbine 41 is selectively introduced into either a heat exchanger or an exhaust gas draft 9, through a flue gas path...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce start-up time without generation of overheat caused by windage loss and surely have cooling steam preventing the generation of overheat by providing a cooling steam control system giving a valve opening/closing signal to a flow control valve in a cooling steam system so that the quantity of cooling steam does not exceed a specified value. SOLUTION: There are provide...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure an optimum shift control according to the conditions of road surfaces by limiting shifting-up according to the conditions thereof in a device performing acceleration slip control upon detection of slip of a drive wheel and carrying out shifting-up when the speed of engine is over a specified value. SOLUTION: In an ECU 42 whether acceleration slip control is carried ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a vehicle from being accelerated on a short uneven road surface in a device with means for setting isochronous control mode by setting the isochronous control mode at the time when an inclination sensor output shows an up-inclination exceeding a specified value. SOLUTION: This device has a revolution speed sensor 2, a vehicle speed sensor 3 and an inclination senso...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a starting means capable of favourably starting an engine on a mechanical distribution type hybrid drive device. SOLUTION: This device is constituted to distribute output of an engine 12 to a first motor generator 16 and an output member 18 by a distribution mechanism 20, to charge a condensing device 40 by the first motor generator 16 at the time of travelling a v...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To utilize the inner space of a transmission effectively, and to compose the transmission compact, by providing a shift prime motive gear group and a shift passive gear group at one side of an input shaft, while providing a running clutch and a detent mechanism to the other side of the input shaft. SOLUTION: In a transmission case 27, an input shaft 28 interlocking and connec...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To utilize high temperature hot water from a solar heat water heater as feed hot water without additionally boiling it by a boiler by a method wherein an electromagnetic three-way valve is located in a coupling pipe between the feed hot water pipe on the secondary side of a full automatic boiler and a bypass pipe communicating therewith, and the set temperature of a first mix...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To utilize hot water from a solar heat water heat which feeds hot water without additionally boiling it by a method wherein a temperature switching three-way valve connected to a temperature sensor is provided at a coupling part between the hot water feed pipe on the secondary side of a boiler and a bypass pipe communicating therewith, and the set temperature of a first mixin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To utilize hot water as feed water without additionally boiling by a method wherein a solenoid valve is located in a coupling part between the hot water feed pipe and the bypass pipe of a full automatic boiler and the set temperature of a first mixing valve is set at a value lower than that of a second mixing valve. SOLUTION: A bypass pipe 34 communicating with a hot water fe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To utilize hot water as feed water without additionally boiling by a method wherein a temperature switching valve is located at a coupling part between the feed hot water of a full automatic boiler and a bypass pipe, the set temperature of a first mixing valve is lowered to a value lower than the set temperature of a second mixing valve. SOLUTION: A bypass pipe 34 communicati...