The present invention provides an analytical element which is free from evaporation of a sample during measurement and therefore capable of quantifying a substrate using a very small amount of sample with high accuracy and which is free from scattering of the sample during and after the measurement and therefore hygienically excellent; and a measuring device and a substrate quantification method u...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve fuel consumption by using a control device for a vehicle for properly detecting the gentle acceleration and enriched-zone acceleration of the vehicle and setting a target output out of an enriched zone. SOLUTION: The gentle acceleration and enriched-zone acceleration of the vehicle are detected in accordance with an accelerator opening APS and a target air/fuel rat...

The present invention provides an input torque limiting device for an infinitely variable transmission 30 connected to an engine 50, wherein the transmission 30 can vary a speed ratio up to infinity. In the input torque limiting device, the maximum torque which can be input is computed according to the output/input speed ratio which is an inverse of the speed ratio, without adversely affecting the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a windmill-driven heat pump and a windmill-driven refrigerator system by simultaneous use of atmospheric air heat for a heat cycle formed by compressor driving by wind force energy. SOLUTION: This wind force-driven heat pump is composed of a windmill motive power transmitting part 10 for converting wind force into mechanical rotational energy, the heat pump 11, and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stop a diesel engine without being accompanied by noise or vibration by interrupting a fuel to be supplied to the engine after a short time after a generator is laid in braking state. SOLUTION: When the automatic stop condition of a diesel engine 11 is established, braking mode is set. When the braking mode is set, a first control means 1 controls an inverter 14 to impart ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To carry out an efficient regenerating operation by realizing a smooth starting. SOLUTION: A first clutch 2 is built in between an engine 1 and a motor 9 which assists a rotation of the engine 1. The first clutch 2 is made to be a combination clutch of a powder clutch 20 and a one-way clutch 30, and at starting of the hybrid vehicle, the powder clutch 20 is in coupling state ...

The invention relates to determination of properties of formations 31 surrounding a borehole 32 and, more particularly, to a method for determining properties including the leak-off rate of a mudcake 35, the perturbing effect of drilling fluid leak-off and the undisturbed virgin formation pressure. The invention seeks to address the problem of accurately determining the virgin formation pressure w...

One aspect of a while drilling system 19a and method for determining downhole parameters includes a drilling tool drill collar 18 in which is positionable a retrievable while drilling tool 101 having a retrieval connector 104, a communication coupler 106 which may be an induction coupler for communication and power signals, a sensor chassis 112 having a corresponding communication coupler 109 and,...

Methods and apparatus to manage bypassing of a first cache are disclosed. In one such method, a load instruction having an expected latency greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold is identified. A request is then made to schedule the identified load instruction to have a perdetermined latency. The software program is then scheduled. An actual latency associated with the load instruction...

A method for singulating semiconductor wafers comprises the steps of aiming a first(302) and a second(332) laser beam over a top surface of the substrate(100); forming scribe lines(102) in the coating layer by scanning the first laser beam across the coating layer; and cutting through the substrate along the scribe line with the second laser beam to form a respective kerf. The apparatus includes a...

A rotary cutting anvil drum rests in a machine frame and operates in conjunction with a blade moving around the drum where it cuts a paper or foil web moving between blade and drum. The cutting tool is fixed to a an elastically deformable supporting steel ring that has a larger radius of operation than the blade.

A computed tomography imaging scanner ( 10 ) acquires helical cone beam projection data for a volume of interest ( 46 ) using at least two source trajectory helices. A reconstruction processor ( 62 ) reconstructs the projection data for each helix to generate a corresponding time skewed image representation. A voxel time processor ( 66 ) computes an acquisition time for each voxel in each time ske...

A method and apparatus for the cross-hole pressing of cutting inserts (10) is disclosed whereby a green part (110) is fabricated using metallurgical powder (260) and an opening (25) is imparted within the green part by placing the metallurgical powder about an oval-shaped core rod (235). Using a press (200) with a uni-axial press motion, a core rod is placed within the cavity (210) of a mold and m...

A system for determining friction between a surface and a tire of a driven wheel in a wheeled vehicle having a first and a second driven wheel, comprising the steps and functions of: - calculating slip values of a first and a second driven wheel dependent on the angular velocity of said first and second driven wheels; - calculating normalised traction forces of said first and second driven wheels ...

The invention relates to a polypeptide, or part thereof, which inhibits the apoptotic activity of the tumour suppressor protein p53 and including screening methods to identify agents which interfere with the activity of said polypeptide.

A system controlled responsive to data bearing records includes a card reader that is operative to read data from user cards including identifying data, and authorizes operation of an automated banking machine responsive to the identifying data. The automated banking machine includes a housing including a generally L-shaped chest portion and an upper housing portion. The banking machine includes a...

A pneumatic tire comprising a tread portion having tread elements each provided with a sipe, wherein the sipe is open to a upper surface of the tread element, and has an open top end including a zigzag part and a bottom, wherein the sipe comprises: a first portion in which the zigzag part of the open top end extends to a side of the bottom in a state of being inclined to one side of a longitudinal...

A tire noise reducing system comprises a pneumatic tire (2) with a hollow, a wheel rim (3) on which the tire is mounted so that said hollow forms a closed cavity (4), and a noise damper (5) disposed in the closed cavity, wherein the noise damper is formed by fixing a strip of a porous material to the tire or wheel rim, the noise damper (5) has a volume in a range of from 0.4 to 20 % of the volume ...

The procedure consists of forming a first wet fibrous layer (4) from a bath (2) of fibres suspended in a liquid, and applying electronic chips (5) to the wet layer before the finishing stages, pressing them into the fibrous layer surface. An additional INDEPENDENT CLAIM is included for a variant in which the first fibrous layer is covered with a second one (15) after the chips have been applied, t...

The magnetically-operated double-seat valve assembly (1) has a coil (24) with a yoke (25) with two pole pieces (27,28). The valve housing (16) encloses a double valve (3,4) for shutting off fluid flow. Armatures (12,17) are associated with the pole pieces. - The armatures move a circular outer seal (7) engaging a triangular-section seat (6), surrounding an inner valve with a triangular-section sea...