A vending system for verifying the delivery of an ordered product is disclosed. The system includes: (a) an ordering system (220) for receiving a customer order of a product (210), (b) a product delivery system (215) for sending the product (210) located in a first product storage position through a delivery path (215) to a second product receiving position (222), (c) a monitoring system (217) loc...

A switching mechanism for a food waste disposer is provided having a plastic one-piece housing that engages an external surface of the food waste disposer by snapping thereto. The switching mechanism also contains a switch capable of enabling operation of the food waste disposer in response to an interlock device positioned within the drain opening. Also provided is a method for converting a conti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attach various game boards with different quantities of rearward projection to a game machine with a game board detachably attached to a front frame, structured to execute a display game on a display area set on the game board.

SOLUTION: The game machine has four guide parts 169 for guiding a display unit 173 in such a way as movable forward/backward in the front fr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent malfunction in a display unit caused by vibration in a game machine with a game board detachably attached to a front frame, structured to execute a display game on a display area set on the game board.

SOLUTION: The game machine has four guide parts 169 for guiding a display unit 173 in such a way as movable forward/backward in the front frame 120, so that v...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multiple-needle sewing machine where twisting of a second needle thread element which causes a" loosened state" with sudden lowering of a thread take-up is prevented when vertically reciprocating speeds of a needle bar and the thread take-up are improved for improving efficiency in sewing.

SOLUTION: At a needle thread passage in a sewing machine unit, the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an announcement plate which can properly raise a performance effect in a game hall.

SOLUTION: This announcement plate 10 is equipped with a supporting section 12 which is fixed to a catch plate 11 provided in the peripheral area of a game machine, and an announcement display section 14 which is supported by the supporting section 12 through a connecting sect...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve an adjustment of a CT value which is a pixel value of a tomographic image in the conventional scan (axial scan), cine scan, or helical scan by an X-ray CT apparatus with a multi-array X-ray detector or a two-dimensional area X-ray detector of a matrix arrangement represented by a multi-row X-ray detector or a flat panel detector.

SOLUTION: The gain and bias ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a biological information measuring apparatus which is allowed to measure biological information such as a heartbeat even during exercise and can report it to a user or a third party.

SOLUTION: This biological information measuring apparatus includes a sensor unit and measures the heartbeat as the biological information at the earlobe etc. of the user. A cont...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spray device capable of continuously spraying from a vertical surface to a horizontal surface.

SOLUTION: The device comprises a spray gun atomizing a coating by receiving a supply of compressed air, a hollow arm member extended from the spray gun and communicated with a mister of the spray gun, and a coating cup pendent rotatably in a state communicated wi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device where the mixing and stirring machine neither stops a rotation motion even if biting into a hard rock or the like is nor damaged or broken.

SOLUTION: The soil improving machine including a belt conveyor that conveys a raw material charged into a raw material inlet to a product outlet and the plurality of mixing and stirring machines having stirring ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for determining the quality of the spot welding by a non-destructive inspection.

SOLUTION: An electrode having a recess in which the depth of a weld trace formed on a surface of a metal body and reaching a deepest part is set to be a predetermined value when an electrode surface is a substantially projecting curved surface and a nugget is excellentl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control system capable of easily adding the tool holder changing command for the operation according to the schedule.

SOLUTION: The control system comprises a punch press 1 which is changeably equipped with a plurality of tool holders 7 with a plurality of tools 8 mounted thereon, an external tool holder magazine 6, and a tool holder changer 3 for automati...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the controller of a vehicle for achieving a feeling of deceleration matched with the taste of a driver.

SOLUTION: An ECU executes a program including: a step (S100) for detecting driver taste potential Hdr; a step (S120) for calculating a target engine output Ptgt by using the Hdr when a deceleration request is detected (YES in S110); a step (S130) for calcu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid vehicle, a driving device and a hybrid control method for suppressing shock in shift.

SOLUTION: When a hybrid car is traveling in a coast-down state in which a driver turns off an accelerator, input restriction is set to tighten restriction in order to make a power to be input to a battery 50 smaller than that for normal driving, and an engine 22 or...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an engine restart control device of a hybrid vehicle for preventing an engine restart shock.

SOLUTION: An engine restart control device of a hybrid vehicle includes a first clutch CL1 between an engine E and a motor generator MG, interposes a second clutch CL2 between the motor generator MG and a drive wheel, and forms a hybrid drive system by setting any on...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To relatively reduce the installment volume of a car air conditioner by using a steering member of a vehicle as an air passage, separating part of the car air conditioner and making it a mixing/blowoff mode unit, and placing the mixing/blowoff mode unit in a place which is dead place before.

SOLUTION: The mixing/blowoff mode unit 24 provided with an air-mixing mechanis...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pneumatic tire 2 for a motorcycle improved in turning stability without hindering operation stability and riding comfort.

SOLUTION: This tire 2 is provided with a tread 4, side walls 6, beads 8, a carcass 10 and a belt 12. The belt 12 is provided with a belt ply 26. The belt ply 26 is structured of a belt body 28 spirally wound in the circumferential direc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the falling of torque in shifting a transmission by using the inertia torque of an internal combustion engine, and to restrain the internal combustion engine speed from being maintained high.

SOLUTION: The operation points of an engine are set by using an operation line for fuel economy when a required power Pe* of the engine is less than a predetermined po...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly control the roll status of a car body by maintaining the requested traveling status of a vehicle, and preventing torque to be output for control from running short in the case of controlling the roll status of the car body.

SOLUTION: This controller for vehicle is provided with a driving and braking force calculation means for calculating driving torque and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the maneuverability and operability of a vehicle.

SOLUTION: The turning behavior controller of a vehicle is provided with: a first yaw operation adjusting means 31 for adjusting a driving force difference between right and left wheels 8R and 8L/14R and 14L; a second yaw operation adjusting means 32 for adjusting a differential restriction level between the f...