PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gas turbine generating device to perform intermediate cooling of a large quantity of heat without increasing an amount of cooling water to a value higher than an amount of supply water and achieve thermal efficiency higher than a conventional thermal efficiency. SOLUTION: An intermediate cooler 14 consisting of a gas liquid heat- exchanger 12 and a steam generato...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a vehicle equipped with a shift point changing means in addition to a vehicle behavior control means, with which there is no risk of impairing the stabilizing operation made by the behavior control means by allowing the changing means to change the shift point of automatic transmission. SOLUTION: When a judging means 106 judges that the control...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a high-level function with a simple and compact structure, by producing rotation in addition to stroke movements with double actions. SOLUTION: A magnet is provided with two concentric magnetic coils which are placed side-by-side with a pressure tube in a casing and are separated by a central circular plate through which a magnetic flux pass. The pressure tube house...

PCT No. PCT/FR96/01772 Sec. 371 Date May 13, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date May 13, 1998 PCT Filed Nov. 8, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/18606 PCT Pub. Date May 22, 1997An assembly of N laser diode arrays. Each diode is fitted to the end of a base which forms the anode and is traversed by a hole. The holes of all the bases define a channel for the circulation of fluid for cooling the assembly of diode arrays. Eac...

A compact drive system drives an RF-excited gas laser to produce laser energy. The drive system is implemented on a ceramic circuit board having a high dielectric constant. The drive system includes an RF energy source that produces RF energy that is transmitted by a quarter-wave transmission line to the plasma tube of the laser. The transmission line is a microstrip transmission line having a con...

A domestic water filtration jug having upper and lower body parts for receiving, respectively, tap water and filtered water; the jug supporting in its upper body part a hopper (1) capable of accommodating a filter cartridge (3) placed so that water received in the hopper can reach the lower body part only by flowing through the cartridge. The jug has on opposing sides thereof, a handle (28) and a ...

An optical recording/pickup head compatible with a CD-R and a DVD transfers a first light beam of 650nm wavelength for a DVD and a second light beam having a wavelength of 780nm for a CD-R which are respectively emitted from a first light source (1) and a second light source (40A) to an objective lens (7) using first and second beam splitters (33, 32) having polarized light beam splitting characte...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To contrive not to feel cold simulation at spraying on skin by providing a spraying part capable of not focusing a spraying distribution on a single point. SOLUTION: An actuator comprises a nozzle 10, a protruding part 12a functioning as covering means 12 formed at the middle of an edge part 11 of the nozzle 10, and three spraying holes 13 bored at equal intervals each other ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently eject the liquid in a container even when the container is erected or laid sideways by arranging a lower end of an outflow pipe provided in the container on one corner part of a bottom part of the container, and providing a mark to indicate the lower end position of the outflow pipe on the outer side of one corner part. SOLUTION: In a container 2, its body part...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide with a higher reliability a focus adjustment image of a shape at which a person is staring by adjusting a variable focus means according to a spatial relation instructed on the person's eyes. SOLUTION: At least, a non-focused image of a shape at which a person is staring is partly supplied by adjusting focuses of varifocal lenses 11L and 11R of glasses 10 worn by t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable plural stereoscopic pictures to be observed satisfactorily from plural positions by properly setting respective elements such as two lenticular lenses, mask pattern, display respectively dividing plural parallactic pictures into many lateral strip shaped parallactic pictures and displaying the divided plural lateral strip shaped parallactic pictures in the vertical ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable stereoscopic pictures to be observed satisfactorily with high picture quality without seeing duplicate pictures in wide areas while mitigating assembly accuracies of principal parts in among respective elements constituting the whole of a device by specifying widths of the vertical direction and widths of the horizontal direction of opening parts and light shielding...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely detect observer's eye position with a simple structure and also to follow up stereoscopic vision area with ease and high speed by detecting the observer's eye position and controlling to follow up the stereoscopic vision area of the image information displayed on an image display part based on the information of the eye position. SOLUTION: Observer's 93 eye posit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control so that arrangement of a stripe-shaped parallactic picture of a stereoscopic image displayed in a window is the arrangement suitable for its display derive. SOLUTION: A parallax barrier for performing a stereoscopic vision is provided for a screen 7 of a stereoscopic image display device displaying a stereoscopic vision image alternately arranging the stripe-shaped...

An optical axis distance variable type stereo camera has a lens adjustment device which operates adjustment rings 26R, 26L of right and left lenses 25R, 25L in an interlocking arrangement with each other. Crank arms 36R, 36L on stop adjustment rings 26R, 26L of lenses 25R, 25L are connected to lever 37 by links 38L, 38R. When the distance between the optical axes of the right and left lenses 25R, ...

In the method proposed, air is fed by means of a secondary air fan (21) to the exhaust system (12) through a single air-supply line both when a fuel-fired burner (24) designed to heat the catalytic converter (14) is in operation and also when the burner is switched off. An air-flow meter (35) in the air-supply line measures the air-flow rate, which can be adjusted by synchronized control of the se...

The focus of variable-focus lenses (11L, 11R) in eyeglasses (10) worn by a person (20) is regulated in accordance with an indication of a spatial relationship of the person's eyes (22L, 22R) to provide an at least partially in-focus image of a feature at which the person is gazing.. The lenses are nematic liquid crystal display devices. Light reflected off of each of the person's eyes is detected ...

The present invention relates to a device for draining the pleural cavity, comprising a tubular middle part (1), a tubular distal end part (2), and a tubular proximal end part (3), which together form a flexible drainage tube which is open at both ends (4, 5), at least one lateral opening (6) being provided in the tube wall in the distal end part (2) at a distance from the end opening (4), and the...

PCT No. PCT/GB96/02793 Sec. 371 Date May 18, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date May 18, 1998 PCT Filed Nov. 14, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/18146 PCT Pub. Date May 22, 1997A pressurized dispensing apparatus includes a container for product to be dispensed and a valve for controlling outflow of product from the container. The valve includes a valve body (12) located within the container. The container includes an op...

PCT No. PCT/FR96/01791 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 13, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 13, 1998 PCT Filed Nov. 13, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/18152 PCT Pub. Date May 22, 1997A stacking pressure control device for a stationary horizontal book stacking device in which books (C) fed at a constant rate along a vertical wall (2) are stacked on a stacking table (1). The control device consists of a strain gauge used as a...