PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently wash off impurities adherent to cake since the liquid- removed cake is brought into contact countercurrently with washing liquid while the slanting part of a rotary bowl being agitated forcedly by a screw conveyer. SOLUTION: A partition plate 12 with a modified Z-shaped longitudinal cross section is installed to cross the cross section of a channel on the cake ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve simplification of accuracy maintaining while keeping a small size and inexpensiveness. SOLUTION: An expensive linear guide is obviates since a holding body 45 is moved to the radial direction through oscillation of parallel links 35, 36, moreover, at the time of titration is inordinately smaller than the sliding resistance of a linear guide, so that small-sized, in...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent deterioration of driving property caused by unexpected shift shock by calculating a suitable driving point at a point of time when there is possibility of a driver to start making a speed reduction manipulation corresponding to the distance to a target ahead, the direction and the relative speed and controlling the transmission gear ratio and the throttle opening h...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To certainly prevent a vehicle making a standing start on a slope from moving back by bestowing braking force on the vehicle regardless of brake operation by a driver and keeping the braking force until it is detected that the driving force is changed to a magnified condition. SOLUTION: When the brake is applied, the engaging force of a starting clutch 116 is controlled and r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to change a bag size for separate packaging depending on the medicine to be prescribed by controlling the size for separate packaging according to the volume of the medicine per package calculated from the volume information of each kind of medicine memorized beforehand. SOLUTION: Volume information of a medicine is registered beforehand in the memory 18 o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely separate the sheets one by one and feed them irrespective of the properties of the sheet such as the kind, thickness, rigidity, and warp (deflection) of the sheets. SOLUTION: A projected part 4c to the downstream side of an inclined surface 11a of an abutting member 10 and a guide member 11 which is a separating means is provided on a tip of a sheet loading table 4....

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To readily and inexpensively prepare a water-repellent and oil-repellent antistaining membrane which is formed by coating a specific coating layer formed on a substrate body with a water-repellent membrane, thus shows increased impregnation, supporting and holding properties of the water-repellent membrane. SOLUTION: This membrane comprises a substrate body made of a transpar...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To matevalize the low fuel consumption in an automobile in which an internal combustion engine and a dynamo-electric machine are made to serve as prime power, by varying rates of fuel supply and stop so as to control the fuel injection of the internal combustion engine on the basis of the output request rate of the prime power, and controlling the dynamo-electric machine on t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve sealing performance, prevent water drop from invading from an outside, and prevent lubricating oil from leaking from an inside by forming a seal packing for sealing the joining part of a gear box main body and an O-ring for sealing a worm shaft integratedly. SOLUTION: A gear box is formed in a box shape by joining an upper half part 1a and a lower half part 1b. A w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simultaneously correct the dispersion of control command value- system output characteristic caused by a measurable parameter and the dispersion of the characteristic caused by an unmeasurable parameter such as the difference in individual machine and to easily correct the dispersion with high accuracy without increasing the amount of data even in the case of precise corre...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the formation of lead sulfate without performing a formation for a long time nor increasing the formation voltage by covering the surface of a core metal with graphite or a mixture of graphite and lead dioxide. SOLUTION: The core metal part of a current collector formed of a core metal 1 and a master bone is dipped in a suspension formed of 30 parts by mass of gra...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the cycle life characteristic by providing a prescribed relation between the ratio Y of the absolute sulfuric acid theoretical capacity/ negative electrode active material theoretical capacity per battery cell and the ratio X of the negative electrode active material weight/positive electrode active material weight after perfect charge. SOLUTION: In a lead acid bat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the charging and discharging efficiency of a storage battery, and extend the life by containing an organic germanium compound represented by the formula 1. SOLUTION: An electrolyte represented by the formula 1 has a germyl propionic acid formed of a propionic acid derivative bonded to germanium atom as a basic frame in which germanium atom and oxygen atom are bonde...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain the output shaft of an actuator which is easy of setup and besides can reduce the number of parts, and is easy of automation of setup. SOLUTION: For the final gear 78 of an actuator 10, a large-diameter part 80, a middle shaft part 84 whose inside diameter D1 is smaller than the outside diameter D2 of the large-diameter gear part 80, and a small-diameter part 86 who...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driver fitted with a reduction gear which is high in freedom of arrangement of the output shaft of a reduction mechanism, and in its turn enables it to accord with the rotor shaft of a rotator. SOLUTION: A rotator is accommodated in a casing 1, and also a reduction mechanism 30 is arranged through a gear plate 15, and a bearing plate 20 straddling a rotor shaft 8...

A security trade settlement device is provided. The device comprises a database having a plurality of delivery instruction sets, a database receiver for receiving an identifier, a database searcher for searching the database, and a database transmitter for transmitting the retrieved instruction set corresponding to the identifier. The device preferably also comprises a participant transmitter for ...

A method and device 10 for providing an ostomy 102 through the wall 100 of the trachea are particularly advantageous in allowing the ostomy 102 to be formed atraumatically and to be enlarged without risk of perforating the rear of the trachea. The method employs a balloon catheter 16 including an inflatable balloon 18 and entails: positioning the catheter 16 over a percutaneously inserted wire gui...

A veneer hoisting apparatus in which at the hoisting of a veneer by a piercing body, the decrease in sustaining force applied to the veneer by the piercing body is prevented, and it rarely happens that the veneer drops down from the piercing body. With the construction of the piercing body 7 and a sustaining member 9, when the veneer is hoisted through the piercing body 7, although the central por...

An improved sliding door latch comprising a recess formed in the leading edge of a sliding door, a latchplate covering said recess and formed with an opening to allow engagement by a latch member, a housing mountable in a recess formed in a door jamb, a latch member pivotally mounted in said housing and movable into and out of a position engaging said latchplate, lever means actuable to move said ...

A catheter for use in angioplasty and other medical procedures is disclosed. The catheter features a flexible-wire mesh tip movably attached at a distal end of the catheter, the tip being expandable from a contracted position which it is first in when the catheter is deployed inside the lumen of a vessel, to stretch open the lumen and eliminate a flow obstruction therein, such as is caused by plaq...