PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the corrosion of pipes on the start-up of the coal- gasification device to enhance its reliability and profitability. SOLUTION: A purge gas line 26 is connected to the upstream of a valve 24 disposed in an inward produced gas line connected to a dust-removing device 30, and a pipe-heating heater 90 for heating the pipe is further disposed. A combustion gas line 71 ...

A yarn package holder incorporates a brake unit acting on the holder and features a brake ring (5). The ring has a uniform outline (5c) on its periphery. The outline is formed by means of raised sections (5a,5b) with the braking component (7,8) following the outline (5c).

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To activate a following-distance alarming device automatically for improving driving safety when a cellular phone is in communication such as receiving or transmitting a call while driving a vehicle. SOLUTION: In this system, a communication state detection part 2 for detecting a communication state of a cellular phone, a speaker 3, and following- distance alarming device 4 f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide new brake band assembling structure and a method capable of easily and surely assembling a brake band of a brake for gear parking. SOLUTION: One end part of the brake band 33 is mounted on a clutch housing 36 side, plural projections 47 are circularly mounted on the clutch housing 36, the brake band 36 is circularly held by plural projections 47, then a frictional ...

The apparatus has a detecting device to determine the temperature of an emission control catalyst. A clutch controlling device increases the degree of engagement of a clutch (C0, C1, C2) if the temperature of the emission control catalyst detected by the detecting device is less than a reference temperature, when the device is about to decrease the degree of engagement of the clutch. Independent ...

A shaping drum for a tire having two bead holding systems mounted facing one another on a central shaft. Each of the bead holding systems includes a support mounted to be movable axially relative to the shaft. On each support there is mounted an assembly which includes a plurality of rigid segments and an elastic membrane which surrounds them. The rigid segments are each mounted on the support and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toroidal type continuously variable transmission capable of favorably securing the assembling accuracy of an input disc to an input shaft at a low cost, preventing lowering of durability of a roller and a raceway surface and unstable transmission of torque and improving productivity. SOLUTION: A guide surface 5c formed by a circumferential surface is provided in ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a sense of incongruity of acceleration on a downhill road due to an automatic engine breaking stop in the case of follow-up travel instructions during an automatic engine-breaking travel. SOLUTION: Reading an actual vehicle speed and a target throttle opening TVO(0) (S31), then a target input number of rotation Ni(0) of a transmission is searched according to a usu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a merging vehicle to smoothly enter a merging point when a group of vehicles passes the merging point in a file. SOLUTION: When a group 30 of vehicles approaches a merging point 23 while it is traveling on a lane 21 on the merging side of a road 20, information regarding time to taken the merging vehicle 25 traveling on a merging road 24 to reach the merging point 23...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the following problems: because it is difficult to accurately direct an inter-vehicle distance measurement means 24 ahead of a road whose curve radius always varies, there are cases where measurement of an inter-vehicle distance becomes difficult, so that an alarm from an alarm generation means 28 is delayed, or there is risk of excessively approaching a front veh...

A system for controlling motive force of a vehicle having an engine and an automatic transmission connected to the engine to transmit engine torque to a drive shaft of the vehicle, wherein a control mode is selected from among a plurality of predetermined control modes in response to a calculated desired motive force and vehicle speed such that the fuel economy is enhanced and engine torque and sp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide demand output without deteriorating fuel consumption and emission performance by judging whether or not the arithmetically operated speed change ratio can attain arithmetically operated target driving force when a high load operation state is detected. SOLUTION: Whether or not a vehicle enters a preset fully opening quantity increase avoiding operation reset area i...

The airway device comprises an airway tube and a non-iflatable laryngeal cuff that is pre-formed such that the face region is a snug fit over the laryngeal inlet of a patient. A first method of manufacturing the device comprises the steps of providing and airway tube and a mould shaped to form the laryngeal cuff, inserting the airway tube into a mould, introducing plastic into the mould and allowi...

A recording medium destruction and discarding system for destroying and discarding a recording medium, includes: a registration unit that registers an identification information appended to the recording medium associated with an attribute information of the recording medium; a reading unit that reads the identification information appended to the recording medium; a determination unit that determ...

The present invention relates to expression constructs and methods of specifically marking NK cells in nonhuman mammals. Specifically, methods are presented that allow the specific expression of foreign genes in the NK cells of a nonhuman mammal. Such methods are useful for the generation of animal models for disorders involving NK cells, and for the evaluation of genes or compounds with respect t...

A single anode system used in multiple electrochemical treatments to control steel corrosion in concrete comprises a sacrificial metal that is capable of supporting high impressed anode current densities with an impressed current anode connection detail and a porous embedding material containing an electrolyte. Initially current is driven from the sacrificial metal [1] to the steel [10] using a po...

A connection box for connecting at least two electric power storage units. The two storage units are electrically connected by a connection box mounted at least on one of them, the box containing a circuit of connecting elements providing electrical connections to two separate distribution networks via terminals and to another connector.

A transmitted digital signal from a digital signal processor is converted into an analog signal at an analog circuit, and then transmitted from transmission lines via a communication transformer. A communication apparatus has a plurality of communication modes that perform communication in different communication ranges. A controller in the digital signal processor changes an output level of the t...

A control apparatus and method for a hybrid vehicle having a first engagement element (CL1) between an engine (E) and a motor-generator (MG) and a second engagement element (CL2) between the motor-generator (MG) and a drive wheel (DSL,DSR). During EV drive mode, the first engagement element (CL1) disengages and the second engagement element (CL2) engages to drive the vehicle using the motor-genera...

A device for electrically controlled transport of ions between a source (2) and a target electrolyte (4), comprising a source electrode (1) and a target electrode (3). The electrodes are each capable of conducting electrons and ions, and the source electrode (1) is arranged to receive ions from the source electrolyte (2) and the target electrode (3) is arranged to release ions to the target electr...