A process for simultaneously testing a plurality of catalysts using combinatorial chemistry has been developed. The process involves containing the plurality of catalysts in an array of parallel reactors with each reactor containing a bed of catalyst. Each bed of catalyst is then simultaneously contacted, at reaction conditions, with a reactant to form an effluent of each reactor. The reactant or ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a width cutting device of an endless toothed belt, and its width cutting method capable of cutting a long side endless belt having the belt peripheral length of 2 m or more in a specific width, capable of miniaturizing the device regardless of the length of the belt peripheral length, and hardly causing double cutting. SOLUTION: This width cutting device is compose...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a parallel hybrid vehicle drive device which is able to drive oil pump with its engine's running torque without deteriorating the loadability on FF vehicle and freedom for designing. SOLUTION: A power transmission mechanism for an oil pump 56, which transmits running torque of an engine 10 and a motor/power generator 12 as driving force, is set up between a housing...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact and low cost differential gear of a four wheel drive vehicle which is capable of selecting three different drives either of a two wheel drive, a differential free four wheel drive or a differential lock four wheel drive. SOLUTION: A switch mechanism 43, wherein a differential gear case 24, a side gear 28 and a hub 42 and a differential gear case 24, a sid...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve an initial response of acceleration when a running state is restored to a high &mu road from a low &mu road. SOLUTION: When an engine and a continuously variable transmission are controlled by calculating an operational volume required to adjust an acceleration estimation value &alpha wf to coincide with a target acceleration a &alpha w * through a model following...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a feeling adjusting device of inching operation for industrial vehicle by which an inching area is smoothly transferred to a brake area when an inching operation is carried out. SOLUTION: A map for determining the value of an electric current to be supplied to solenoid proportional valves 25, 26 is stored at EEPROM 56 in a controller 27. A CPU 53 reads the value of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten the time (shifting time) required for a shift control accompanying the changeover of an auxiliary transmission disposed at the output side of a main transmission in the automatic transmission of the vehicle equipped with a gear transmission and a mechanical clutch. SOLUTION: The automatic transmission for vehicle comprises a means (S1, S3) for setting the main tran...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a packaging apparatus by which a flat workpiece can be efficiently packaged in such a state as securely stacked. SOLUTION: The packaging apparatus comprises a transfer station 100 to transfer the workpiece 2 to predetermined place, a stacking station 150 to stack in a vertically stacked state the workpiece 2 transferred in turn from the transfer station 100, a stat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a carrying belt capable of accurately carrying the recording medium by improving the suction force in relation to the recording medium. SOLUTION: This carrying belt has a base layer formed by winding a sheet film 7 of the thermoplastic material into a belt shape and electrodes formed of several linear films 8 arranged in the peripheral surface of the base layer wit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for conveying a sheet at a high speed while performing the optimal sheet conveying cycle. SOLUTION: This sheet conveying device is used for molding and pressing paper or a cardboard sheet having at least one paper feeding station, a molding station, a refuse removing station, and a paper discharging station of the molded sheet. The sheet conveying device c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a coated granular fertilizer having, even when using a conventional resin as a coating film, the following properties: the early elution of fertilizer ingredients in soil can be suppressed; the elution can be well controlled, and moreover the period of the elution can be adjusted; and the coating film of the fertilizer is biodegraded in soil after the completion of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a composition for a gel-type external preparation having a refreshing and moisturizing effect, in which tackiness after application is reduced. SOLUTION: The composition for the gel-type external preparation contains a polysaccharide-sterol derivative of 0.001-20 wt.%. The composition may further contain natural moisturizers, such as urea, in a proportion of 0.1-40...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a preventive drug for Parkinson's disease having no side effect. SOLUTION: The preventive drug for Parkinson's disease contains, as an active ingredient, an extract of Acanthopanax senticosus harms.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control a state of a vehicle to safely transit in a fail safe state, when abnormalities occur in information communications between component control portions mounted on the vehicle. SOLUTION: In this vehicle control system, when an abnormality occurs in a communications state between a hybrid control portion and an engine control portion, the engine control portion specif...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform miniaturization by lessening central distance between respective projection portions with the least perpendicularity of the projection portions (bar-ring portion) against a sheet metal member and also to obtain stable rotary motion of the rotary member. SOLUTION: Installing structure of the rotary member is comprised of a plurality of bar ring portions 15 and the p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily adjust differential limiting power at a low cost. SOLUTION: This differential device comprises a differential case 3 rotationally driven by an engine, output-side gears 9, 11, a pinion gear for connecting the gears 9, 11 and a storage hole for receiving the engaging reaction of the pinion gear to generate the differential limiting power. A cutout groove 49 is provid...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the suction of air into the suction side of an oil pump. SOLUTION: The oil pump OP having a pump casing 73 wholly split in the axial direction comprises a cover 80 for surrounding the whole pump casing 73 at its outside to section an oil reservoir 81 in a space to the pump casing 73. An oil (an arrowmark B) leaking from a discharge port 78 through a split junction ...

A method and apparatus for reducing burden in retrieving sheets of materi al from the bottom of a substantially vertical stack of sheets in a sheet feede r. The apparatus comprises a first convex surface at the bottom half of the stack protruding into one side of the stack for pushing the sheets toward the other side, and a second convex surface on the second side below the first convex surface f...

The present invention relates to an arrangement and a method, respectively, for surveillance of queue numbers when serving said queue numbers sequentially, comprising: an input device (3; 8), an output device (4) controlled by said input device for outputting a queue number on a queue number ticket, a registration device (5) for receiving a telephone number an d a queue number or a point of time a...

A system for shift control of an automatic transmission having a vehicle running status detecting part; a shift control part for outputting a control signal to perform a kick down skip 3-1 shift if conditions for the kick down skip 3-1 shift are satisfied with a tip-in manipulation during the 4-3 shift before stop by receiving an input of a signal detected by the vehicle running status detecting p...