A sanitary napkin having an absorbent core with three longitudinally oriented trisections, a central trisection flanked by two outboard trisections. The absorbent core is formed of a single layer of tissue. The single layer of tissue is folded on itself to provide a two-ply thickness at each of the outboard trisections and a single thickness at the central trisection. The two plies of the outboard...

A matrix addressed, bistable liquid crystal optical display is disclosed. The display includes a liquid crystal twist cell which has at least two states which are stable in the presence of a single given holding voltage. A form of 3:1 matrix addressing is used in the display which enhances operational characteristics.

The service offers its clients the following bets individually or in combination with handicap, point and "money line" systems: Fixed odd bets, High/Low bets, Parlay bets, Pari- mutual bets, Pari-mutual parlay bets, Pari-mutual result and high/low bets with point system, Pari-mutual bets without points system. Sporting events covered include: american football, basketball, ice hockey, cricket, Rug...

BCRF1 proteins, and expression vectors for producing them, are provided for treating conditions associated with excessive production of IFN- gamma . Compositions of the invention containing BCRF1 proteins are useful in treating a variety of disorders, including allergy, psoriasis, tissue rejection, and MHC-linked autoimmune diseases.

PURPOSE: To provide a differential gear operated smoothly and manufactured at a low cost. CONSTITUTION: A differential gear is provided with a rotatory-driven differential case 10, two output cam members 20, 21 enclosed rotatably on the same axis in the differential case 10 and having mutually opposed annular corrugated cam faces 20a, 21a, and a cam follower 30 formed of a plurality of spherical b...

PURPOSE: To prevent the fall-of side gears so as to prevent adverse effect on pinion gears, engaging failure, galling, seizure, wear, and the like caused by the fall. CONSTITUTION: A differential gear is provided with a differential case 3, output- side side gears 9, 11 individually connected to output shafts 13, 15, pinion gears 49, 51 for connecting the gears 9, 11, and storage holes 45, 47 for ...

PURPOSE: To eliminate the fear of damaging various parts such as gears in a differential gear while being lightweight and compact by making the axial flexure allowance of a pressing member larger than the axial height of cams. CONSTITUTION: In the case of excessive engine output acting due to some cause with the road surface resistance as it is unreduced at the differential limiting time such as t...

PURPOSE: To restrain a differential gear from becoming large-sized so as to reduce weight and to suppress cost increase. CONSTITUTION: In a differential gear formed of a ring gear 25 receiving the driving force of an engine, a case 1, a pair of side gears 9, 11, a first and a second pinion gears 37, 39 and a first and a second storage holes 29, 31, a bolt 27 for fixing the ring gear 25 to the case...

PURPOSE: To prevent the partial contact of pinion gears so as to improve durability. CONSTITUTION: A differential gear is provided with a differential case 3 rotatory-driven by the driving force of an engine, a pair of side gears 15, 17 rotatably supported in the differential case 3, at least a pair of pinion gears 41, 43 disposed on the radial outside of the side gears 15, 17 and having first gea...

PURPOSE: To make differential limiting force sufficiently large while being compact and lightweight and expedite the rise of torque at the time of differential rotation being generated. CONSTITUTION: A torque distributor has a housing 3 rotation-driven by the driving force of an engine, intermediate gears 29, 31 revolving integrally with the housing 3, and differential gears 21, 23 connected throu...

PURPOSE: To correctly judge a driving state and a non-driving state by judging the driving state in the case of a rotating speed increase rate being the predetermined reference value of more, and judging the non-driving state in the case of the rotating speed increase rate being less than the reference value. CONSTITUTION: In an automatic transmission 6, speed change from a first speed change stag...

PURPOSE: To enable water to be circulated between a heat collecting panel and a hot water tank even under a bad weather condition and further to assure this circulation with a minimum limited consumption power. CONSTITUTION: There are provided a hot water tank 10; a heat collecting panel 20; a hot water pipe 30 for communicating the hot water tank 10 with hot water headers 30a, 30b in a vertical d...

PURPOSE: To provide a cold draft preventing system in which a running cost can be reduced more than that of the prior art system. CONSTITUTION: There are provided an air intake port 5 for sucking surrounding air; a heat collecting part 4 mounted on a surface of a roof 3 to heat air with solar light; an air passage 6 extending from the heat collecting part 4 to a cold draft preventing part; a blowe...

PURPOSE: To provide a distance-between-vehicles controller which is capable of smoothly controlling the distance between vehicles without making a driver feel danger. CONSTITUTION: In the distance-between-vehicles controller 11 in which an ECU 1 is connected with a distance-between-vehicles measuring means 2, a speed detection means 3, a control switch 5, a brake control means 6 and a slot control...

PURPOSE: To provide a lead-acid battery excellent in service life performance. CONSTITUTION: In a manufacturing method of additive for a negative electrode plate of a lead acid battery, the method is provided with a process to pressurize and work powder-like lignin and a process to pulverize the pressurized and worked powder-like lignin. Therefore, the high temperature degradation of a negative el...

PURPOSE: To provide a plate which can dispense with after-work and by which a separator is not damaged by cutting a plate lattice body by using a press machine where projections are arranged on the upper ends of a lower mold constituting a cutting part by fitting to an upper mold. CONSTITUTION: A plate is cut by a press by using a press metal mold where bar-shaped projections 7 are arranged in at ...

PURPOSE: To provide a lead-acid battery which is excellent in low temperature high efficiency discharging performance and service life performance by forming the lead acid battery by adding a cation exchange resin and lignin to a negative electrode active material. CONSTITUTION: Lignin and cation exchange resin are added to a negative electrode plate, or cation exchange resin fine powder having an...

PURPOSE: To provide a manufacturing method of a electrode for a retainer sealed lead acid battery by which service life performance of a battery, particularly, high rate discharging performance can be improved. CONSTITUTION: A electrode press after paste is filled is performed at least two or more times by a press machine, and a difference in a recess-projection on a press machine surface on and a...

PURPOSE: To provide a sealed lead-acid battery excellent in service life performance by arranging electrolyte except electrolyte held by a electrode group horizontally arranged in the lead-acid battery, improving the utilization factor of an active material, and restraining influence of liquid reduction with the elapse of time. CONSTITUTION: Electrolyte of 130% to 300% of an electrolyte quantity h...

PURPOSE: To provide a lead-acid battery which can restrain an internal short circuit in a lower part and a side part of a electrode and in which electrolyte is excellently diffused, and also provide a lead-acid battery which can restrain even an internal short circuit in a lug part of a negative electrode plate and an upper end part of a positive electrode plate adjacent to it. CONSTITUTION: A sep...