Drill bits and methods for sampling sensor data associated with the state of a drill bit are disclosed. A drill bit for drilling a subterranean formation comprises a bit body and a shank. The shank further includes a central bore formed through an inside diameter of the shank and configured for receiving a data analysis module. The data analysis module comprises a plurality of sensors, a memory, a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a filter assembly for an aquarium enabling easy improvement of water-cleaning action and having excellent maintainability.

SOLUTION: The filter assembly for an aquarium has a plurality of filtering materials arranged in a plane form and a holding member to hold the arranged filtering materials. Preferably, the filtering materials are arranged in the directio...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a combine harvester having an exhauster capable of efficiently discharging a discharge gas in a direction remote from the machine body.

SOLUTION: The combine harvester comprises a grain tank 17 storing unhulled rice after reaping, threshing and sorting, a discharge auger 21 set to be vertically and horizontally freely rotatable and discharging the unhulled r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a combine harvester enabling a wet material to be dried by making the heat of an exhaust gas dischargeable to the outside and further feeding the discharged heat to a threshing part, etc.

SOLUTION: The combine harvester is equipped with the threshing part 15 loaded thereon and a grain housing part 17 additionally installed in a lateral side of the threshing ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flavor improver, seasoning, and food and drink improved in flavor, to provide a method for producing the flavor improver, seasoning, and food and drink, and to provide a method for improving flavor of food and drink.

SOLUTION: This method for producing the flavor improver or seasoning comprises subjecting the fungus body of lactic acid bacteria to treatmen...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide kitchen facility capable of effectively utilizing the dead space between a frieze board of a sink part of a kitchen floor cabinet and a kitchen counter, and having a support bar devised to allow a user to easily use the support bar by making the support bar project forward from a slit when in use and to improve the outside appearance by retracting the support ba...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the visual recognizability and operability of scanning plan in an X-ray computerized tomographic unit.

SOLUTION: The X-ray computerized tomographic unit includes an X-ray tube 101 for generating X rays, an X-ray detector 103 for detecting X rays transmitting a subject, a reconstructor 114 which reconstructs images from outputs of the X-ray detector, a cannin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a guide wire housing tool with its holder simply housing and firmly holding a guide wire within it.

SOLUTION: This guide wire housing tool has a tubular holder 20 for housing a guide wire W within it, and a connector 30 that holds the base end of the guide wire W and is connected with the base end of the holder 20. The connector 30 has a through-hole for ins...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a step device allowing a seated person in a wheelchair equipped with the electric lift type step device to comfortably operate the device to descend without such a trouble that the seated person may feel uneasy when the external force in the direction of rearward inclination is applied to the wheelchair by the reactive force from the road surface generated if th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bone anchoring device, provided with an improved fixture at a tubular part of a rod to be good for dynamic stabilization.

SOLUTION: The bone anchoring device is provided with an anchoring element 2 (2') provided with a shank 3 to be anchored in a bone or a vertebra, and a receiving part 5 (5') connected to the shank, and a rod 20 (20') for connecting at le...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently separate particles of specified sizes from particles of various sizes.

SOLUTION: A method for separating particles is used for separating particles classified by size from particles remaining in a raw liquid G and particles contained in mist M generated by atomizing, a liquid containing particles different in size by ultrasonic vibration. A device for se...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable mixture in a porous medium to accelerate by a controlled method.

SOLUTION: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for uniformly mixing fluid phases entrained in a porous material. For example, a mixer comprises a vessel for holding at least one porous material; at least one actuator acoustically coupled with at least one wall of the vessel for generating a wave;...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a welding tool capable of easily connecting two or more members while any step hardly occurs therein.

SOLUTION: The welding tool 20 is used for welding a first member and a second member for constituting a railroad car, and has a surface plate 21 having a main face 211 on which the first member 18e and the second member 18h are butted to each other and place...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sheet for decoration which is used when a decorative molding having a fine uneven pattern is produced and can surely form unevenness as designed without deforming or eliminating the fine unevenness not only when the sheet itself is produced but when the sheet is heated or pressurized in the production of the decorative molding, or when the fine uneven pattern ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture a fiber-reinforced resin-made tube for, e.g., golf shafts by winding a prepreg for the straight layer and/or a prepreg for the bias layer, and a prepreg for the reinforcing layer around a mandrel so as to produce products of consistent performance involving few voids, with high productivity.

SOLUTION: A method of manufacturing a tube composed of a fiber ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laminated packaging material which, in a package which hermetically contains a content and consists of a laminated material having an easy-to-peel layer, is used by stripping off the easy-to-peel layer of the surface film layer of the package after heat sterilization treatment of the package.

SOLUTION: A laminated packaging material is provided which is us...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the controlled variable setting device of a vehicle for suitably controlling the motion of a vehicle even when the vehicle is used for a long time.

SOLUTION: An ECU 16 configuring a controlled variable setting device 11 detects a yaw rate deviation as a vehicle status value numerically showing a vehicle status. Also, the ECU 16 reads the traveling distance o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle body front structure capable of sufficiently supplying traveling wind to a heat exchanger, even when a front bumper reinforcement intersects an air introducing opening portion of a front bumper fascia in a vehicular width direction.

SOLUTION: The vehicle body front structure comprises fascia side upper surfaces portions 8c, 15f and a lower surface ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power drive apparatus for a hybrid vehicle and a control method therefor that can implement reliable thermal protection of a drive circuit by a compact and inexpensive apparatus structure.

SOLUTION: An HVECU 100 sets a target speed MRNE* and a target torque TE* of an engine ENG according to a request power PE* of the engine ENG set according to an accelera...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular driving force control apparatus for controlling vehicle driving force in response to disturbances influencing vehicle running, that can generate a driving force or engine brake force expected by a driver immediately after the driver operates an accelerator pedal.

SOLUTION: The vehicular driving force control apparatus, which controls vehicle driv...