PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sealing-up apparatus to be used for the seedling planting mechanism for a rice transplanter, enabling high sealing-up ability to be maintained over a long period even under such severe conditions as to be repeatedly immersed in muddy water or onto muddy water surface.

SOLUTION: The sealing-up apparatus comprises a sealing-up body 210 having a dust lip 212 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To protect the head or the neck of a patient in a mammography apparatus using tomosynthesis together.

SOLUTION: An X-ray source (4) is arranged at a head compartment (10) fixed to a pivoting-type arm (5) supported by a first carriage (7) sliding on a support (9). A radiation-transmittable pressure plate (16) is arranged between the X-ray source (4) and a mamma supporti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance recording quality by a recording head by suppressing occurrence of wrinkles in a material to be recorded fed.

SOLUTION: The carrying device is provided with a feeding section 16 for feeding a recording paper 3 from a feeding roll 11 wound with the recording paper 3, a platen 18 which is provided facing the recording head 7 for recording on the recording pape...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a traction control device, etc. of a vehicle using a slipping state acquisition device of the vehicle capable of more properly acquiring a slipping state of a wheel on the whole wheel driving vehicle.

SOLUTION: This device practices traction control against the wheel when accelerating slipping quantity of the wheel (estimated car body speed Vrefacc based on ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving operation auxiliary device for a vehicle for realizing quick information transmission, without giving the driver sense of discomfort, when own vehicle changes traffic lane.

SOLUTION: This driving operation auxiliary device for a vehicle calculates the risk potential for a vehicle ahead of own vehicle, and performs accelerator reaction control accor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce noise in a vehicle capable of traveling with a motor.

SOLUTION: An ECU executes a program including: a step (S110) of detecting a vehicle speed V when a low noise mode switch is in the on state (YES in step S100); a step (S120) of determining whether or not it is high-speed driving in which the vehicle speed V is a threshold value or higher; a step (S130) of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving force distribution and controlling device for vehicle capable of reducing irregular feeling applied to a driver when the driver turns right or left and further reducing a load applied to some driving system components.

SOLUTION: There is provided a vehicle having a driving power distribution and controlling means for controlling a distribution of d...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle driving support device capable of correcting skill determination error depending on the difference of traveling conditions, and performing highly accurate skill determination.

SOLUTION: The vehicle driving support device has a steering angle sensor 21 detecting the steering angle steered by a driver, a steering history holding circuit 22 holding a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle driving support device capable of performing more easily understandable driving support without making a driver feel odd.

SOLUTION: The vehicle driving support device is equipped with a skill improvement-deterioration determination circuit 25 which determines whether the skill level of the driver is improved or deteriorated when the skill level det...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle control device, stabilizing the behavior of a vehicle when swirl is generated.

SOLUTION: This vehicle control device is applied to a vehicle having a suspension in which damping pressure is controllable or a power steering device in which the assist amount of steering operation is controllable. The vehicle control device has a swirl volume estimati...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To propose measures for improving a traffic congestion possibly occurs even when there is no specific obstacle in car or vehicle traffic such as on an expressway and railroad and for allowing drivers to be effectively and safely incorporated into control.

SOLUTION: A method and a device for automatically calculating control variable for stabilizing a distance between v...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reliable and simple surge protection system when a surge control valve fails.

SOLUTION: A valve assembly includes a nitrogen enriched airflow control valve, a first stage surge control valve and a second stage surge control valve respectively arranged in a passage downstream of an air separation module, and in first and second surge control passages. The v...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a filling and packaging machine capable of well performing a horizontal sealing condition, even when a large volume of a content is filled.

SOLUTION: The filling and packaging machine is equipped with a longitudinal sealing mechanism 4 for lengthwise-sealing a continuously transferred film F along its longitudinal direction, while the film F is pinched by a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the tube device of a bag-making/packaging machine which does not require an inner tube and which is easily mounted/dismounted, even if the bottom part of a former tube is not cylindrical.

SOLUTION: This tube unit of a bag-making/packaging machine is provided with a tube body 10, a pair of joint panels 20 superimposed on and joined with the inner peripheral f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air carrying device capable of recovering a carrying object carried by air without damaging the carrying object.

SOLUTION: This air carrying device has an air carrying passage for carrying the carrying object by an air current to a carrying object recovering part from a carrying object supply part, and is formed by arranging a guide for changing the carry...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the use of vanadium ion water having reliability on adult disease patients based on the clinical trial result obtained by reviewing the effect of drinking vanadium ion water in a predetermined period on the people having adult diseases.

SOLUTION: An agent for ameliorating hypertension or an agent for ameliorating hyperlipemia and neutral-fat lipemia which is...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide compositions for treating colorectal cancer, by clarifying what characteristic each of structural isomers of inositol phosphates has and disclosing useful application patterns.

SOLUTION: The compositions for treating the colorectal cancer are developed by determining a structure of each of the structural isomers of the inositol phosphates through scientific ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a new compound as an oxygen carrier containing a porphyrin metal complex as an oxygen-adsorbing and desorbing site.

SOLUTION: The new inclusion compound is obtained by including in albumin a tetraphenylporphyrin metal complex represented by general formula (1) (R1is a cyclohexyl group-containing substituent group; R2is a substituent group; M...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a viscosity index-improving agent which has a more improved viscosity index-improving effect than those of conventional agents.

SOLUTION: This viscosity index-improving agent comprises a vinylic polymer (A) containing a vinylic monomer (a) represented by the general formula (1) [R1is H or a 1 to 32C alkyl; R2is a 1 to 32C alkyl; A is a 2 to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an environmental response type offset rotary printing ink which uses a resin not using a phenol compound of harmful substance and formaldehyde, and a solvent derived from a specific vegetable oil or fat in stead of a petroleum-based solvent, has excellent drying property and onboard stability, and can provide high quality printed products.

SOLUTION: This off...