PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the effective pitch of detectors without reducing the surface areas of respective detector elements by arranging the centers of the detector elements of a second set arranged in the order of a first row on one straight line parallel to the straight line formed by the centers of the first row so as to arrange them to the middle of a first set. SOLUTION: The X-ray sou...

PURPOSE: To prevent the appearance of fade in a brake device due to an unexpected steering operation during the operation of an automatic brake as well as due to the operation thereof over a long time, regarding a vehicular travel speed control device using an operation member for controlling a travel speed (including brake control) on the basis of an established and inputted target travel speed. ...

PURPOSE: To lower engine torque on pertinent timing for reducing a gear change shock by issuing an instruction about the start of controlling the gear change process of an automatic transmission, when the execution of engine torque drop control is detected. CONSTITUTION: A gear change control computer 14 makes judgement about the execution of a gear change, and prior to the start of a gear change ...

PURPOSE: To provide a vacuum packaging device wherein an excessive space is not formed between an article to be packaged and a bag containing the article to be packaged. CONSTITUTION: A package 85 which is formed by the seal-cut operation of top and bottom seal-cut bars 52, 53, and carried out onto a correction conveyor 86 is monitored by a sensor 103. Then, a deviation amount between a sealing ta...

PURPOSE: To provide a differential device which is provided with initial torque, is compact, and provides good loading property. CONSTITUTION: A differential device is provided with a differential case 21 which is rotated and driven by an engine, helical pinion gears 59, 61 which are stored in storage holes 55, 57 formed in the differential case 21 and engaged each other, and helical side gears 37...

PURPOSE: To make it possible to provide sufficient heat-resistant creep property for a part which demands the reduction of weight and heat-resistant creep property by performing predetermined compression plasticity deformation machining in the direction of compression stress action before predetermined mechanical machining is done after a raw material of the part is cast. CONSTITUTION: For example...

PURPOSE: To provide a seal lead-acid battery which can prevent a short-circuit and can prevent the permanent set in fatigue of a electrolyte retaining body. CONSTITUTION: A positive electrode and a negative electrode are arranged oppositely via an electrolyte retaining body 2. A frame-shaped spacer 3 is provided around the electrolyte retaining body 2. The thickness of the electrolyte retaining bo...

PURPOSE: To restrain each positive electrode lattice from being elongated by enhancing the efficiency of a reduction reaction of sulfate in a negative plate with the conductivity of electrons in the surface of the negative plate made higher than that in the inside of the negative plate, making an oxygen absorption reaction low, and also making trickle charge current low in amperage. CONSTITUTION: ...

PURPOSE: To provide the manufacturing device of a clad type positive plate, which can manufacture the clad type positive plate at low cost, and can automate a process for filling paste into a tube, and installing accessories on its bottom. CONSTITUTION: The clad type positive plate is characterized in that the tip end 2a of a core metal 2 retreats to the inner side of the tip end 1a of a tube 1, a...

PURPOSE: To improve liquid decreasing properties of electrolytic solution of a hybrid battery by lowering an allowance rate of a group of electrode plates of a lead acid battery using Pb-Sb alloy for a positive electrode lattice and Pb-Ca alloy for a negative electrode lattice below a predetermined value. CONSTITUTION: A positive pole plate 1 and a negative electrode plate 2 are formed by casting ...

An apparatus monitors a web of textile material which is also processed by a textile processing machine. The web is in motion relative to an imaging unit, and the imaging unit repetitively scans at least one strip across the web in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of relative motion of the web. A computer receives signals from the imaging unit and produces digital data corr...

A mattress covering in the form of a fitted mattress pad or fitted sheet has a top portion, an inelastic side skirt extending perpendicularly from the top portion, an elastic underskirt extending from the side skirt and a separate elastic strand attached to the elastic skirt at its open outer periphery. The top portion is dimensioned to fit a standard size mattress and the side skirt and underskir...

For an interstitial thermotherapeutic treatment of biological tissue in which, for generating a coagulation necrosis, the radiation of the laser within a radiation period is guided into the tissue by way of a fiber optic waveguide, the laser power is reduced continuously or in steps during the radiation period.

A low density RRIM/RIM article formed of rigid foamed polyurethane which has incorporated in it, hollow glass microspheres with a compressive strength greater than 4,000 psi and a maximum size of 120 microns. This low density RRIM/RIM fascia may have physical properties and continuous high gloss painted outer skin comparable to conventional RRIM/RIM products while having reduced density in compari...

Azeotropic compositions made up of from about 64 to about 80% by weight of 1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluorobutane and from about 20 to about 36% by weight of 2-methyl butane have been found to be particularly useful as blowing agents for the production of polyurethane foams.

The invention concerns a diagnostic circuit for amperometrically determining the current passing through a sensor (41). The circuit comprises a current source (V+, 46) for passing a constant DC current through said sensor (41), switching means (45) for selectively operating said current source, comparing means (42) for comparing the potential difference (VBS) across said sensor to a reference volt...

A latency error detection circuit including two cascaded latches receiving a clock signal from a measuring system upon the occurrence of an event and correspondingly asserting a bit to a processing system, and a circuit for clearing the first latch after the processing system acknowledges detecting the bit being asserted. If the second latch is clocked before the first latch is cleared, the second...

An image processor based system and method are provided for recognizing predefined-types of coating density imperfections in a web. Specific imperfection-types to be analyzed include continuous-type, as well as point-type, anomalies. Continuous-type imperfections are recognized in a moving continuous web through the accumulation and integration of density data on the web passing through a system i...

PURPOSE: To enable handling a number of workpieces at a time by providing an inversion means which inverts a mechanical hand when the rotational movement of an output member due to the keeping of a clutch means is transmitted thereto. CONSTITUTION: In two kinds of kinetic systems, first an output shaft 40 is put into rotational movement relative to an indexing frame 55 braked at an indexing positi...

PURPOSE: To provide a conveyor that uses mechanical hands which can perform a variety of operations on the entire surface of a workpiece that is clamped by the mechanical hands on a course of conveyance. CONSTITUTION: This conveyor has a first mechanical hand 74 that approaches a workpiece 3 from one direction and clamps the workpiece 3 by being put into clamping action within a first plane contai...