PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a CCD-scintillator x-ray image sensor. SOLUTION: A CCD-scintillator x-ray image sensor 18 has a high sensitivity at room temperature and a low profile to make it possible to use the x-ray image sensor in most modern mammography x-ray apparatus. A cassette 10 including a CCD-based x-ray image sensor has approximate dimensions of 10.5× 0.7× 0.6 inches, and ...

PURPOSE: To manufacture a good quality of a crack-free synchronizer ring without executing normalizing treatment, to highly keep the accuracy of roundness of a circular cone, accuracy of an inclined angle, accuracy of claw position, or the like, to enhance production efficiency and to reduce the cost as suppressing the incidence rate of defective products lower. CONSTITUTION: In this manufacturing...

PURPOSE: To suitably reduce a speed change shock as well as to eliminate tuning parts as much as possible so as to reduce development manpower, by estimating the output shaft torque of an automatic speed change gear, and monitoring the magnitude of an estimated driving torque so as to control the line pressure of the automatic speed change gear. CONSTITUTION: Information from a crank angle sensor,...

PURPOSE: To improve the abrasion and durability of each frictional engaging element as well as to improve fuel consumption by controlling an automatic transmission so that fuel consumption amount is substantially reduced when an accelerator is not operated and the driving of an engine is not required for a vehicle. CONSTITUTION: The present position of a vehicle is grasped on the basis of informat...

PURPOSE: To prevent worsening of the smoking state of an ignition plug and to maintain excellent exhaust gas characteristics and catalyst performance for a long period. CONSTITUTION: An average value TWAVE of an engine water temperature T is calculated at S1. A warming up state correction factor KTWOLD is calculated at S2-S4 according to a TWAVEOLD (a past average water temperature) being the TWAV...

PURPOSE: To prevent deflected contact of a gear due to inclination of a pinion gear at a low cost. CONSTITUTION: A differential gear is provided with a differential gear case 3 rotationally driven by driving force of an engine, output side gears 17, 19 supported inside the differential gear case 3 freely rotationally, at least one pair of pinion gears 39, 41 which are arranged in the circumference...

PURPOSE: To provide a differential gear for a vehicle by which differential limiting can be exhibited by means of an inexpensive and simple structure. CONSTITUTION: Based on an open differential gear, side gears 4A, 4B are separately constructed of gear part bodies 40A, 40B gearing with pinion gears 2A, 2B and shaft part bodies 41A, 41B integrally rotating with an axle, and torsional gear parts 40...

PURPOSE: To accomplish learning control of a duty value for a line pressure solenoid without building any stress sensor in the inside of an automatic trans mission by comparing measured acceleration with a target value, correcting the preset value if the deviation between the acceleration and the target value exceeds the preset width, and reducing the deviation in the next transmission. CONSTITUTI...

PURPOSE: To efficiently recover thermal energy emitted from vitrified solids. CONSTITUTION: Numerous vitrified solids 1 confining radioactive wastes are housed in a cell 2. A heat-absorbing component 18a of a heat exchanger 18 is introduced into a discharging duct 12 to discharge the cooling air 14 after using it to cool the vitrified solids 1. A heat-radiating component 18b of the heat exchanger ...

PURPOSE: To enable the recovery of thermal energy emitted from vitrified solids. CONSTITUTION: Numerous vitrified solids 1 are housed in a low-temperature fluorocarbon evaporation furnace 2, where liquid fluorocarbons FL is poured so as to let the vitrified solids 1 soak in it. A cycle line 3 equipped with a condenser 4 connects the top and the bottom of the low-temperature fluorocarbon evaporatio...

PURPOSE: To manufacture an electrode plate for lead-acid battery excellent in voltage characteristic and active material utilizing ratio by applying an active material onto a current collector to form lead dioxide on the surface, and then forming a conductive polymer layer on the lead dioxide surface. CONSTITUTION: An active material 2 is applied to the surface of a current collector 1 consisting ...

PURPOSE: To provide a lead-acid battery having satisfactory life performance. CONSTITUTION: A lead-acid battery according to this invention is characterized by adding a filling type lignin obtained by filling lignin in the cavity of a base consisting of an acid resisting material, or lignin and the above filling type lignin to a negative electrode plate. Since the lignin itself is thus hardly infl...

PURPOSE: To prevent the corrosion of a current collector and manufacture a long-lived electrode plate for lead-acid battery by successively forming a lead dioxide layer and a conductive polymer coating layer on the surface of the current collector, and filling an active material onto the surface. CONSTITUTION: A lead dioxide layer 2 is formed on the surface of a lead or lead alloy current collecto...

PURPOSE: To prevent the breakage of a battery jar and a lid, and the short-circuit between a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode strap to extend the life of a sealed lead-acid battery by specifying the composition and width and height dimensions of the positive electrode plate consisting of a Pb-Ca-Sn alloy of the lead- acid battery. CONSTITUTION: A positive electrode plate 3 having ...

A mill (10) according to the preferred teachings for grinding garbage is disclosed including an octagonal shaped grinding chamber (26) formed by side plates (14-17) interconnected to have a square cross section with its corners closed by corner plates (20-23) . Planar shelves (32, 34, 36) having centrally located apertures (38) divide the grinding chamber (26). Grinding rotors (48-50) are rotatabl...

An easychair having a frame which forms the back of the chair, two side members forming the seat of the chair and a pair of spaced apart arm rests. The side members and arm rests are mounted or articulated upon the frame. A U-shaped frame forms the leg rest of the chair and the base is formed by a pair of leg units that are secured to the side members and which articulate about a forked yoke. Each...

An auto-splice device includes a cutting conveyer on which a sheet is cut to produce a fabric, a vacuum take-out unit for taking the fabric from the cutting conveyer onto a take-out conveyer, and a splice mechanism for splicing the fabric to another fabric on the take-out conveyer. A sheet end position measuring unit controls the location at which the fabric is held by the vacuum take-out unit.

An improved method of testing individuals for diabetes, even if they have levels of interfering substances (e.g., uric acid, bilirubin, and glutathione) that would otherwise interfere with such testing, is disclosed. The individual's protein-bound glucose level and glucose level are compared to the analogous values for a reference population to enable the risk of that individual's having diabetes ...

A vertical Hall element is formed within the epitaxial layer of a semiconductor and isolated from other components by a P type isolation diffusion. A position defining diffusion is used to accurately locate a plurality of openings within the position defining diffusion where contact diffusions are made. The position defining diffusion is made simultaneously with the base diffusion for transistors ...

PURPOSE: To provide a method and equipment therefor for manufacturing composite metallic bars by which the composite metallic bars such as a clad solid bar or a clad hollow tube are manufactured without defective joining such as peeling at high efficiency. CONSTITUTION: In the manufacturing method of the composite metallic bar (including the hollow composite tube and the solid composite bar), whil...