Systems and methods for efficiently separating blood in a rotating field convey blood into a blood separation chamber through an inlet passage for separation into a blood component. The systems and methods convey the blood component from the separation chamber through an outlet passage. The systems and methods rotate the blood separation chamber about an axis in direction of blood flow in the flow...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular control device capable of effectively preventing erroneous detection of obstacles and conducting operation control for the obstacles. Ž

SOLUTION: When it is judged that a driver unintendedly deviates from a traveling lane, this vehicular control device makes it easier to operate danger relieving control for the obstacles by setting the threshold va...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of a vehicle capable of improving starting acceleration performance from stopping time on an uphill road, starting acceleration performance from stopping time in turning right and left and re-acceleration performance after deceleration before a corner. Ž

SOLUTION: This control device of the vehicle is furnished with an automatic transmission o...

There is provided a deceleration control system for a vehicle, in which a braking force is applied to a vehicle by a braking device when a determination that a shift speed or a gear ratio of a transmission of a vehicle is changed to a shift speed or a gear ratio for a relatively low vehicle speed is made. Control is performed such that a deceleration (Gt), which is applied to the vehicle by activa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress drop in torque to a drive shaft and gear change shock, at the time of change-over of a speed stage of a transmission. Ž

SOLUTION: When change-over of the speed stage of the transmission 60 is required, an engine 22 and motors MG1, MG2 are controlled such that all required torque Tr* required to the drive shaft is covered by torque transmitted from the engine ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more suitably set a target charge/discharge electric power of a battery according to whether the gear stage of a transmission is changed, in an automobile having the battery that exchanges electric power with a first motor and a second motor by connecting an engine, the first motor, and a driving shaft connected with a driving wheel to a planetary gear mechanism and by ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform gear shift of a transmission in a range of input/output limit of a storage device such as a secondary battery, and to prevent occurrence of gear shift shock during gear shift. Ž

SOLUTION: When Lo-Hi gear shift of the transmission for shifting the output from a motor and outputting it to a driving shaft is predicted, a required charge/discharge electric power P...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately set a target value to the torque outputted from a power plant and to appropriately distribute the target value of the torque to the target value of an engine torque outputted from an internal combustion engine and the target value of a motor torque outputted from a motor. Ž

SOLUTION: A first torque selection part 52 selects the larger of a driver demandi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize natural and stable traveling even when a preceding vehicle and one's own vehicle travel in different directions at a cross-point or a branch, or when the preceding vehicle wanders, by precisely grasping intentions of the preceding vehicle. Ž

SOLUTION: A target course is set by a navigation device, and following control in automatic traveling control is actuate...

In an adaptive cruise control (ACC) region where vehicle speed V is greater than a predetermined third vehicle speed #V 3 , a decrease amount of a target inter-vehicle distance per predetermined unit vehicle speed decrease amount in a state where the vehicle speed V is less than a predetermined fourth vehicle speed #V 4 is smaller than a decrease amount of the target inter-vehicle distance per pre...

A packaging unit (1) for continuously producing aseptic sealed packages (2), containing a pourable food product, from a tube (14) of packaging material filled with the food product and fed along a vertical supply path (A); the unit (1) has a first and second chain conveyor (10, 11) respectively having a number of jaws (12) and a number of counter-jaws (13), which interact with the tube (14) to gri...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of a four-wheel drive vehicle capable of proving a target drive force by driving front and rear wheels at an appropriate drive force distribution ratio corresponding to variations even if a vehicle state, a vehicle operating state, or a road state is changed. Ž

SOLUTION: This control device is set to a four-wheel drive mode driving the front a...

The present invention provides a cubic boron nitride sintered body, which achieves both of superior chipping resistance and wear resistance. In accordance with a first aspect of the present invention, a cubic boron nitride (cBN) sintered body contains cubic boron nitride particles and a bonding material used for bonding the cBN particles to one another. This sintered body is constituted by cBN pa...

A system and method are provided for identifying underperformance in a pumping system used to produce a desired fluid. Various conditions are sensed during operation of the pumping system, and those sensed conditions are used to determine measured parameters that are provided with an associated confidence factor. The measured parameters in conjunction with the confidence factors are compared to a ...

A solenoid assembly (1) is disclosed, the solenoid having a first electro-magnet (9) for producing a first magnetic field. There is also movable element (3), in the form of a permanent magnet (4), with flux guides (7,8) to distribute the magnetic field, which moves within the magnetic field created by the electro-magnet. A second electro-magnet (11) may also- be included in the solenoid thereby cr...

A driving/braking force manipulation control input of a k-th wheel, which denotes one or more specific wheels among a plurality of wheels of a vehicle, is determined such that a required condition concerning a relationship among a road surface reaction force that may act from a road surface on the k-th wheel on the basis of the detected values or estimated values of a road surface reaction force a...

A laser lap welding process of welding together overlapped first (4) and second (5) plated steel sheets, comprising the steps of: inserting inserts (11) between joining surfaces of the first plated steel sheet (4) and the second plated steel sheet (5) to form a gas discharge passage between parts of the first and second plated steel sheets around a weld line; and irradiating parts of the first a...

The invention relates to chess game playing method, in particular to a novel type of a chess game between two pairs of players. The inventive chess game playing device comprises at least two playing fields (7) which are divided into squares of two alternating colours, two sets of chess pieces, each of which consists of two groups (8, 9) of chess pieces (10-15) and two chess-clocks (2) each of whic...

A laser lap welding process of welding together overlapped first (4) and second (5) plated steel sheets, comprising the steps of: inserting inserts (11) between joining surfaces of the first plated steel sheet (4) and the second plated steel sheet (5) to form a gas discharge passage between parts of the first and second plated steel sheets around a weld line; and irradiating parts of the first a...

Disclosed are methods of treating ovarian cancer by administering an effective amount of FTS (farnesylthiosalicylic acid), or various analogs thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, optionally with, a platinum-based chemotherapy drug to a human diagnosed with ovarian cancer.