A polyolefin-based splittable conjugated fiber which contains a peroxide and has a melt flow rate of at least 30 g/10 min, and a nonwoven fabric comprising split fibers obtained by splitting the splittable conjugated fiber, and an absorbent article using the nonwoven fabric in a part thereof. The polyolefin-based splittable conjugated fiber has good spinnability and good stretchability, and is eas...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify a constitution of a differential lock device, in a differential gear device without having a differential case, comprising a pair of axles, differential ring gear, differential pinion fitted to a fitting hole provided in the differential ring gear and a differential side gear provided on both sides of the differential ring gear to be meshed with the differential p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable creep control to be performed at high precision according to the situation of a vehicle. SOLUTION: A creep control means 15 feedback-controls the operation of an intake air amount control means 16 so that the intake air mount may be the intake air amount in which the vehicle speed is set to the prescribed target creep vehicle speed when that an engine is made into t...

PURPOSE: To set the degree of opening in starting of accelerator and the semi- clutch stroke simply, quickly, and accurately by furnishing an accel. start opening setting device and a semi-clutch stroke setting device. CONSTITUTION: An accel. function setting device 221 (accel. start opening setting device) gives an accel. stroke function as an accel. stroke command to an accel. actuator which dri...

An X-ray scanner comprises an array 12 of X-ray detectors 16 arranged in cylindrical configuration around an imaging volume 28, and a multi-focus X-ray source 20 which extends in a helical configuration around the outside of the detector array 12. A helical gap 24 in the detector array 12 allows X-rays from the source 20 to pass through the patient 26 in the imaging volume 28, and onto the detecto...

A controller (20), when switching from a travel mode in which a vehicle travels with an engine clutch (EC) disengaged to a travel mode in which the vehicle travels with the engine clutch (EC) engaged, performs a preparatory speed change to reduce a rotation speed differential in the engine clutch (EC), engages the engine clutch (EC) when the rotation speed differential in the engine clutch (EC) is...

A belt type continuously variable transmission in which a pulley shaft is supported by bearings provided at two positions that are apart from each other in an axial direction of the pulley shaft and a supply oil passage for supplying hydraulic fluid to a pulley hydraulic chamber includes a radial direction oil passage that is formed in the pulley shaft, the radial direction oil passage is formed o...

There is provided a vehicle drive control apparatus for a wheeled vehicle including a first motor generator (MG1), and a second motor generator (MG2) as well as a transmission with planetary gearsets (PG1,PG2,PG3). Clutches (SC,MGC,HC) and brakes (HLB,LB) are provided to allow a shift between a high speed mode and a low speed mode with fixed gear ratios as well as a variable gear ratio. In case wh...

A method of improving the seal compatibility and/or copper corrosion performance of lubricating oil compositions for the lubrication of the crankcases of an internal combustion engine, which method includes the step of adding to the lubricating oil compositions a minor amount of a non-hydrogenated (unsaturated) olefin polymer. Also described are lubricating oil compositions for engines and transmi...

A 3D surround system (1.00) including a plurality of speakers is provided, a guidance-information acquiring unit (101) acquires information on route guidance, and a control unit (102) controls output of a guide sound so that a direction from which the guide sound is heard moves based on the information acquired by the guidance-information acquiring unit (101) by using at least two speakers include...

A navigation terminal for calculating a route or a route information server sets multiple proposed locations for an appointment according to various conditions or options provided by a user for the determination of an appropriate location for the appointment between multiple parties. The navigation terminal or the route information server calculates an optimal route to each proposed location from ...

An information processing apparatus (10) includes an LCD (12) as a first display area and an LCD (14) as a second display area, and on the second display area, a touch panel (22) as an input means is set, for example. On the first display area, a plurality of windows are displayed in an overlapping manner or only the top window is displayed, and on the second display area, a plurality of tabs whic...

A pressure control valve assembly (10) includes a linear actuator (12) portion and a hydraulic portion (14). The linear actuator (12) includes an improved plunger (72) that has an enlarged diameter portion (106 OD ) near the secondary plate (80). The linear actuator (12) further includes a plunger-to-primary plate interface that has a double step (130, 132) magnetic configuration, which increases ...

The current invention is a spinal and upper cervical impulse treatment device and controller, which delivers multiple impulses of variable frequency and variable force in a linear direction, as well as rotational forces, for patient treatment. Known chiropractic impulse devices are all hand held devices. In contrast, the spinal and upper cervical impulse treatment device is mounted on a fixed stan...

A panel driving method for driving pixels of a panel. The pixels are classified into a plurality of groups and the pixels of one of the plurality of groups are addressed and sustain-discharged before the pixels of another one of the plurality of groups are addressed and sustain discharged. In the panel driving method, a frame period for displaying a single image is divided. into a plurality of sub...

This magnetic actuator comprises a fixed magnetic part ( 3 ) cooperating magnetically with a mobile magnetic part ( 1 ) and means ( 4 ) for initiating movement of the mobile magnetic part ( 1 ). The mobile magnetic part ( 1 ) comprises at least one magnet ( 1 - 1 ) and the fixed magnetic part ( 3 ) has at least two attraction zones ( 3 - 2 ) onto which the mobile magnetic part is able to come to a...

An adhesive tape attaching jig (50) that allows adhesive tape, which widens along its length, to be continuously attached to an adherend in a stable and reliable manner. The attaching jig (50) has a construction comprising the combination of a tape holder (11, 12) which receives and holds adhesive tape in the attaching jig, a tape attacher (9) which contact bonds the adhesive tape that has been gu...

A blood separation system operates in a first mode to convey whole blood into the inlet region of a blood processing chamber for centrifugal separation into packed red blood cells, a plasma constituent, and an interface, which carries mononuclear cells, between the packed red blood cells and the plasma constituent. The system removes packed red blood cells and the plasma constituent from the chamb...

Systems and methods are provided by which a mammography imaging system offers X-ray and ultrasound imaging that allows sharing of common hardware such as the computer and display. Small regions of interest are imaged with X-ray at higher image quality by using a second sensor with higher DQE than the full-field sensor can obtain. In some embodiments a specialized chamber is provided for securing t...

In the method for preparing battery of lithium - iron disulphide, lithium foil is as negative pole; coating pulp of iron disulphide on basal body of metal tape material forms positive plate; polypropylene microporous membrane is adopted as diaphragm; and adding monomer of methyl methacrylate and initiator to solvent system including lithium perchlorate - propylene carbonate etc. prepares electroly...