Orders, each of which has at least one pick-up address and at least one delivery address, are collected together and passed on to one or more carriers so that the goods can be transported between delivery/pick-up addresses (11-16) via a route chosen to pass through the addresses according to pre-selected criteria. An allowance is made for the carrier to divert from this route to other addresses an...

PURPOSE:To provide an ease-to-install illumination device for ceiling, with which deterioration of the terminal table due to heat is prevented and wirings for a lighting fixture, lightup device, and terminal table can be done easily. CONSTITUTION:An illumination device for ceiling concerned includes a lighting fixture A installed in penetrating a ceiling board 1, a lightup device 8 to supply a cer...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hydraulically driven forklift in which a hydraulic brake inherent in a hydraulic drive system is used for an ordinary brake. SOLUTION: Hydraulic pumps 26A and 26B are embodied on an electrically controlled system in which a swash plate angle is controlled in conformity to running command signals (ii) and (iii) given by a controller 31. Sensing signals (iv) from a...

PURPOSE:To improve safety by providing a transmission control means for restricting a shift up of a transmission before actuating an automatic brake device, so that a car speed is prevented from increasing by worsening accelera tion before actuating the automatic brake device. CONSTITUTION:A vehicle provides a detecting means 56 for detecting a distance and a relative speed between a car and an ob...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make uniform density of paste to be supplied to a substrate and increase a filling pressure by arranging a pair of upper part paddles at the forward and backward position at the upper part of a hopper of an automatic filling device. SOLUTION: In an automatic filling device of a paste active material to an electrode substrate for storage battery, a pair of upper part paddle...

PURPOSE:To prevent vehicle spin by controlling torque distribution and engine output according to a vehicle body slip angle calculated by changing cornering power in accordance with variations between the actual values of lateral acceleration and a yaw rate generated at a vehicle body at the time of turning travel and the calculated values of them that are by means of movement equations. CONSTITUT...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a sense of incompatibility to be given to a driver under a manual mode of an automatic transmission by operating an engine brake in an automatic down-shift control. SOLUTION: Under a manual mode, vehicle speed conditions (V1ST, V2ND, V3RD) for performing an automatic down-shift operation are compared with an actual vehicle speed VSP (S1, S3, S6). Then, in the case ...

PURPOSE:To provide a sealed type lead-acid battery in which the form of electrode plates is reformed in order to prevent an internal short circuit owing to an active material. CONSTITUTION:An inclination is given to a grid frame skeleton 4 at the side surface of an electrode plate which consists of a grid and an active material 5, and a sealed type lead storage battery is composed of an electrode ...

The present invention provides a process for synthesizing a compound or an array of compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (-6) wherein peptidal substrates are bound to a solid support and a fluorescent moiety. Also provided is a process for synthesizing compounds of Formula (II) wherein peptidal substrates are bound to a fluorescent moiety. These related processes afford said peptidal substrates ha...

PCT No. PCT/US90/07554 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 7, 1993 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 7, 1993 PCT Filed Dec. 20, 1990.A plastic sheet, preferably of plasticized partial polyvinyl butyral, for a laminated safety glazing, having means dispersed on its surface, preferably comprising a multiplicity of spaced projections, capable of resisting adhesion to a rigid panel, such as glass, of such a glazing when the sheet...

PCT No. PCT/SE90/00850 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 16, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 16, 1992 PCT Filed Dec. 19, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO91/09608 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 11, 1991.A pharmaceutical preparation for controlling pathogenic microorganisms causing diarrhoea and other gastrointestinal troubles in man and in animals contains Streptococcus lactis strain LIa in at least one pharmaceutically acceptable carrier me...

An uneven apperance at a sidewall face of a pneumatic radial tire is improved by arranging a particular rubber sheet (4) onto an outer face of an overlap portion (2) of a carcass material (1) or between opposed edge portions of the carcass material to be overlapped. The unvulcanized rubber sheet has a width of 5-80 mm, a thickness of not more than 1.5 mm, and a tensile modulus at 100% elongation a...

A glazing adhesive product comprising a thermoplastic polyester material having trapped gas bubbles dispersed therein whereby the product has surface pores to provide a suction effect. Also provided is a method of installing/removing vehicle glazing.

A device for the electrical coagulation of tissues, containing a high voltage supply source, an effective power regulator and a probe, is provided with a piezo-electric voltage transformer, thanks to which automatic regulation of effective power in the process of coagulation and automatic switching off of the device when the coagulation process is complete are implemented, which enables the depth ...

Delivery systems for accessing the targeted tissue within the living being and introduction of at least one agent at select locations into the tissues of the heart such as the myocardium and other select tissues. Where appropriate, portions of the system are steerable to properly orient the device. When tissue penetration is utilized, the device may include a feature to control the depth of penetr...

An apparatus having a back region for attachment to a surface, a front region for engagement of the item of personal property, and a substantially vertical aperture region defined within and between the front and back region. The aperture region has a topward opening for initial, vertical slidable engagement of at least a portion of the item and for retention of the item after engagement, and a ch...

PURPOSE: A gift offering and an electronic commerce method using an advertisement copy are provided to reduce costs of the advertisement and to expand a selling by selling the goods having the mimeographed copy on which the advertisement and consecutive numbers are stated, collecting components relevant to the consecutive numbers after buying the goods from a relevant web site, receiving one finis...

An apparatus (10) for measuring a superior-and-inferior-limb blood-pressure index of a living subject, including a first blood-pressure measuring device (86) which measures a first blood pressure of an inferior limb (12, 16) of the subject, a second blood-pressure measuring device (88) which measures a second blood pressure of a superior limb (20) of the subject, an index determining means (96) fo...

Compounds of formula (V) : wherein R2 represents a group R6-A- wherein A represents a divalent straight or branched, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon chain of up to 6 C atoms which may be interrupted by an O or S atom, and R6 represents hydrogen or an optionally substituted phenyl, cycloalkyl or cycloalkenyl group; and the groups R12 and R13 are hydrogen, alkyl, phenyl or substituted ph...

A method of preparing cellular pellets from a prepolymer comprising a blowing agent, the method comprising the steps of:a) extruding the prepolymer through a die, the die maintained at conditions such that the blowing agent remains in the condensed phase in the prepolymer prior to emerging from the die, andb) upon emergence of the prepolymer through the die, substantially simultaneously cooling th...