PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for the vacuum cooling and humidity control of steamed rice, by which the cooling and humidity-control operation of the steamed rice for brewing Sake (Japanese rice wine) can be carried out quantitatively in a short time, and to provide an apparatus therefor.

SOLUTION: The apparatus for the vacuum cooling and humidity control of the steamed rice com...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric traction device used for assisting a caregiver to put or take out a wheelchair onto or from a vehicle via a slope board mounted on a rear opening of the vehicle which allows a caregiver to move a wheelchair at an arbitrary speed without caring about slack of a traction belt and realizes quick loading or unloading of a wheelchair by solving problems o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a radioactive image pickup device capable of irradiating even a subject whose thickness is different depending on parts with the radioactive rays of intensity corresponding to the thickness and providing images suitable for diagnosing.

SOLUTION: The radioactive image pickup device is equipped with: a radioactive ray source 8 for emitting a radioactive ray to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fraudulent opening detecting device for frame bodies and a fraudulent opening detecting program and a game machine, which are capable of accurately determining whether the frame bodies of the game machine are normally opened for the maintenance, etc. or fraudulently opened by a player, etc.

SOLUTION: The fraudulent opening detecting device 51 includes a fr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a highly safe locking device for frame bodies and a game machine having the locking device, which are capable of making it difficult to fraudulently unlock a key by rotating a key cylinder by combining the forcing motion and rotating motion of the key, making it difficult to fraudulently unlock the key by directly operating a link member, and capable of effectiv...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a highly safe locking device for frame bodies and a game machine having the locking device, which are capable of making it hard to fraudulently unlock a key by the rotation of a key cylinder by combining the forcing motion and rotating motion of the key, capable of making it hard fraudulently unlock the key by directly operating a link member, and capable of eff...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pitcher type water purifier constituted so that a cover is prevented from being taken off at any time except when water is poured from the pitcher type water purifier, the work of pouring water is done easily when water is poured and a user is not troubled about a storage place of the cover.

SOLUTION: The pitcher type water purifier is provided with a vess...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a coating apparatus capable of applying a liquid material while maintaining a nearly constant distance between the tip of a coating nozzle and the upper surface of a substrate, and of shortening a time required for applying the liquid material.

SOLUTION: A control device 61 calculates the height from a stage 32 to the bottom surface W1b of the substrate W1 a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hollow porous film which is less costly and shows an excellent adhesion between a support and a porous film layer, and a manufacturing method which enables the manufacture of the hollow porous film at a low cost.

SOLUTION: This hollow porous film has the hollow support 10 and the porous film layer 11 formed on the outer peripheral surface of the support 10...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus which can nondestructively, easily and highly precisely evaluate the joined quality of a friction spot weld zone.

SOLUTION: This invention relates to the method and apparatus for evaluating a weld zone of friction spot welding in which a first metallic member 11 is superposed on a second metallic member 12 having a higher melting sp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a metallic mold for formation capable of preventing the scraping-off of lubricant.

SOLUTION: This invention is intended for a metallic mold for formation comprising a die 2 having die-recessed part 21 for setting a work W, and a punch 6 plastically deforming the work W by advancing into the die-recessed part 21. A sliding metallic mold setting hole 3 opened ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing an internal tooth forged product capable of working a tooth profile face having excellent tooth profile shape precision, simultaneously capable of processing a standard taper face at high positional precision, and capable of reducing the cutting allowance in the outer circumferential part of a cylindrical part.

SOLUTION: A stock 2 comp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wire-rod forming machine having rigidity higher than that of a conventional wire-rod forming machine.

SOLUTION: A wire-rod forming machine 10 has a wire-rod feeding device 12, a cutting-tool drive mechanism 50, and a forming-tool drive mechanism 20 held together on a base frame 11, which is composed by integrally fixing a base plate 11A, uprising walls 11B...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fastening part for a steering apparatus which is light and whose space needed for its attachment to a car body is small, and to provide a manufacturing method for the same.

SOLUTION: When the outer circumference of a clamping portion 25 and the outer circumference of a circular outer circumference 26 are restrained by a die 6 while inserting a punch 5 havi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique capable of keeping production dimensions at high precision even when the temperature change of a mold occurs by marking the temperature change of the mold.

SOLUTION: The temperature of the mold for performing pressure molding (mold temperature T) is detected with a temperature sensor 20, and, based on the temperature of the mold, the dimensions L...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-speed and stable robot device which surely grounds legs including wheels even on an irregular ground surface and realizes stable walking.

SOLUTION: A mobile robot includes a controller 110, a barrel 100 having a gradient angle sensor for detecting a gradient angle and angular speed, and a plurality of legs 11 having a femur 12 and a lower limb 13 in w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sheet of plain paper type inkjet recording paper capable of being used in a printing system using a high-speed rotary inkjet recording system and excellent in absorbing and drying property of an aqueous ink.

SOLUTION: The plain type inkjet recording paper is constituted by coating a mixed liquid a cationic polymer compound and a water-soluble binder on at ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable printing to be performed on mesh tarpaulin, a sheet in which many pores are formed as in the case of the mesh tarpaulin, and a sheet less elastic and more wrinkly than plain paper etc., by means of a general-purpose inkjet printer for performing the printing on a medium and the like, composed of paper and the like, such as the plain paper, without the use of an i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To retain a stable shape of an inner lip in fitting to a sash and to prevent a die molding part from being dropped into the sash even if external force is applied from an outdoor side in a die molding part for a glass run comprising an outdoor side side wall; an indoor side side wall; a bottom wall for connecting the both side walls; a seal lip obliquely inwardly extending...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operation device for suppressing an unintended change in behavior of a vehicle due to a change in the operation state of an operation part to be independently operated by a driver.

SOLUTION: An operation intention estimation part 41 determines an intended operation region and a single operation region to be operated by rotation operation parts 13 and 14 b...