A device and method for arranging a display allows for the easy installation of a display in a home entertainment system. The flexibility of modern home entertainment/theater systems that include a digital display device permits many different installation options. Thus, the invention facilitates the installation of such a display by aligning a viewing screen with a projector device. Moreover, the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize a system operation by preventing a shaft governor setting signal from operating in the reverse direction of a governor operation. SOLUTION: A shaft load controller of a single-shaft combined cycle power generation plant is constituted to arrange a gas turbine, a steam turbine and a generator on a single shaft, to convert exhaust heat of a gas turbine into steam e...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electron source capable of increasing the field intensity change of a chip tip against a fixed voltage change, generating no breakage of the chip caused by an electric discharge, and having increased stability by forming the tip of a cathode into a specific shape. SOLUTION: This electron source is provided with a needle-like cathode 1, an extracting electrode 7 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an internal combustion engine to bring the combustion state of an internal combustion engine into a proper state, in a vehicle having an internal combustion engine the combustion state of which is switched. SOLUTION: A command to vary hysteresis of a switch condition used by a combustion state switching means 94 to switch the combustion state o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle speed control device having excellent responsiveness in vehicle-to-vehicle distance control and keeping a driver from feeling a sense of incongruity in vehicle speed control in the case of using a vacuum type actuator. SOLUTION: This vehicle speed control device uses a vacuum type actuator and quickens the response characteristics of a vehicle-to-vehicle ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving force distribution controller for a four-wheel drive vehicle allowing to improve acceleration property after finishing driving force control by estimating a timing of finishing brake force control in vehicular behavior control and returning driving force distribution to four-wheel driving prior to finishing brake force control. Ž

SOLUTION: This drivi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that an occupant may have sense of incongruity such as poor acceleration due to overshoot torque of an engine at a time of vehicle start accompanied with automatic engine restart from idle stop. Ž

SOLUTION: At the time of vehicle start accompanied with automatic engine restart from a vehicle stop condition that driving force of the engine can be tran...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display device for a following control object enabling a driver to recognize change of behavior of own vehicle easily by letting the driver know change of following control as predicted information and capable of reducing sense of incongruity that the driver has for change of following control even when a vehicle to be controlled for following control is chang...

A method of manufacturing an absorbent article in the form of a pants diaper or a sanitary panty starts from a flat blank which includes an elongated absorbent body (5) enclosed between two casing sheets (2, 9) which at opposing front and rear end parts of the absorbent body have side parts which extend laterally beyond the body on opposite sides thereof. The method includes the step of folding th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To conclude the connection of an electromagnetic clutch with the lump control before the large heat is generated when the electromagnetic clutch can not be connected due to the deterioration with the lapse of time, and to appropriately set the lump grade. SOLUTION: In the case where the connection is not concluded yet when the set time TM1s is passed after a moment t1 for sta...

A disclosed inter-vehicle distance control apparatus (100) for controlling an inter-vehicle distance between a present vehicle equipped with this apparatus and a preceding vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle changes a target deceleration of the present vehicle and/or a deceleration gradient of the present vehicle, with which the deceleration reaches the target deceleration of the present vehicl...

A system for measuring the density and mass flow rate of a fluid stream. The system generally comprises a volumetric flow device, a momentum device, and a data processing device. The present invention also provides methods for using such system.

The present invention generally relates to biocompatible devices suitable for increasing cellular HIF-1 ± protein levels. In particular, the present invention relates to an implant comprising a biocompatible support loaded with at least one pharmaceutical agent capable of increasing cellular HIF-1 ± protein levels to promote vascularization at or near the implant site. Vascularization of the impla...

The present invention provides for an improved device for molding keyhole sipes larger in size, i . e . sipes having a wider passage, than currently being formed in treads that will avoid damaging the tread during formation and removal thereof from a mold. The device (10) includes an elongated deformable body member (16) having a blade (18) extending in a direction away therefrom and substantiall...

A tournament server intermittently initiates a tournament for any number of gaming machines connected to a network. An operator sets the parameters of the tournament, such as the scheduling, the criteria for winning, and the awards. The tournament server controls a display, such as an overhead display or a display on each gaming machine. The tournament server receives pay-in/pay-out data or any ot...

A device and method for arranging a display allows for the easy installation of a display in a home entertainment system. The flexibility of modern home entertainment/theater systems that include a digital display device permits many different installation options. Thus, the invention facilitates the installation of such a display by aligning a viewing screen with a projector device. Moreover, the...

In order to improve a seizure resistance as well as restricting of a dispersion of a rotation torque, surface roughness of a large diameter side end face (4A) of a tapered roller (4) is defined as a value satisfying both the following conditional expressions (1) and (2). 0.04 mu m ≤ Ra(r) ≤ 0.1 mu m 0.8 ≤ Ra(r)/Ra(c) ≤ 1.1 where, Ra(r) is an arithmetic ave...

A device to assist in the application of an adhesive tape to a predetermined position in the width direction on an adherend surface having a neighboring surface linked thereto via a folding line. The device comprises a pressing member (1200) with a surface (1202) attached pressingly to a surface (1002) of an adherend member (1001), and at the same time, an edge (1008) between a sloping surface (10...

The present invention prevents the amount of slack from decreasing below a predetermined value when a yarn slack eliminating device is used to control a winding tension during a yarn winding process executed by a spinning machine. A winding device 12 winds a yarn spun by a spinning device 5, into a package 16, while a yarn slack eliminating device 10 is eliminating the slack of the yarn. During th...

The present invention provides a thin battery, comprising a metal case, a battery core formed by laminating and wrapping an anode, a septum and a cathode, an anode conductive terminal and a cathode conductive terminal, characterized in that: said metal case is made of a quadratic shallow trough having five thin-walls and a top cover welded on the trough; the shallow trough has outlets for the elec...