Rectocele and hysterocele repairs can be carried out using a single posterior implant (50) which is provided with laterally extending stabilizing straps (68, 70) for supporting the implant between the patient's rectum and vagina. An anterior implant (10) adapted to treat central and lateral cystoceles present in a female patient includes, like the posterior implant, laterally extending stabilizing...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a phase contrast image using an X-ray tube widely used on a normal medical site and to adapt this imaging technique to enhance the image quality of an X-ray image.

SOLUTION: Magnifying imaging is performed using X rays having no coherence radially diffused from an orifice having a finite size and a phase contrast is formed on the half-shadow blur on the magni...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processor, an image processing method, a program and a storage medium that improves diagnostic precision and diagnostic efficiency by easing a comparative image reading by correcting the image data of radiographic images whose radiographing conditions during image data generation are different or radiographic images photographed by a different model and...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automobile collision prevention controlling system having only one kind of parameters to be put in, capable of certainly preventing a collision accident with a preceding vehicle, sufficiently pressing down on an accelerator, and sufficiently making full use of vehicular accelerating performance.

SOLUTION: The automobile collision prevention controlling sy...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To decrease an axial clearance without decreasing a radial clearance of a rolling bearing.

SOLUTION: The electric power steering device is provided with a worm 3 coupled to an output shaft 1a of an electric motor 1, a worm wheel 4 engaged with the worm 3, and a rolling bearing 6 wherein an outer ring 6b is loosely fitted with a housing 7. A shaft part 3b of the worm 3 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel method of generating a vehicle movement model by using RNN.

SOLUTION: This device comprises a first recurrent neural network 21 in which a network is formed by connecting a plurality of nodes and an output from one node is inputted into the other nodes based on a predetermined joint weight coefficient and which has a loop which gives the feedback of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent external water from being easily sucked into a power transmission case storing a V-belt winding mechanism and also prevent the lateral dimension of a vehicle from being increased in a transmission of a saddle-riding type vehicle.

SOLUTION: This transmission 18 of the vehicle 1 comprises the V-belt winding mechanism 2 interlockingly connecting rear wheels 5 t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving device for a vehicle capable of improving a function to restrain vibration generated in a power transmission route from an engine to a wheel.

SOLUTION: This driving device for the vehicle constitutes its characteristic feature that a power distribution device 10 to distribute power of a driving power source 1 to a rotating device 6 and the wheel 28...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control steering and braking, or steering and driving in combination.

SOLUTION: Target resultant force to be applied to a vehicle body is calculated (18), and size of limitation friction circle of each wheel is estimated (20). Based on the estimated size of the limitation friction circle, limitation resultant force is estimated (22). The ratio of the target resultan...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform drive control in accordance with the motion of a car in the front while keeping safety and convenience both in low-speed driving in traffic congestion and high-speed driving.

SOLUTION: The drive control includes high-speed follow-up mode and low-speed follow-up mode. In the high-speed follow-up mode, the speed is controlled to maintain a safe inter-vehicle d...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the reliability of a vehicle control device having a driving source controller for automatically stopping or starting a driving source when stopping a vehicle.

SOLUTION: Upon satisfaction of engine automatic shutdown conditions, a braking force retaining command is supplied to a brake ECU. In a braking system, a parking brake 150 is actuated by the control o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a composite structure which maintains the high hardness and high strength, and enhances chipping resistance together with abrasion resistance and seizing resistance necessary for a tool.

SOLUTION: The composite structure 1 comprises a long core 4 made of a sintered diamond compact in which diamond particles 2 having a mean diameter of 3.5 μm or smaller and s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the backlash of an intermediate gear in a gear transmission system.

SOLUTION: In the gear transmission system in which power is transmitted from a drive-side gear 20 to a follower-side gear 24 via a plurality of intermediate gears 21, 22, 23, both ends of support shafts 21b, 22b, 23b of the intermediate gears 21, 22, 23 are retained by elastic members such...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of a torque level difference feeling when an engine is separated during deceleration in a hybrid vehicle in which a powder clutch is provided between the engine and a driving system.

SOLUTION: The hybrid vehicle is provided with the powder clutch 3 for transmitting the engine rotation to the driving system with a motor 4 and a continuously var...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead storage battery with a stable service life property by not being damaged, as was conventionally, by having a strong force applied to the part which is curved in the direction of the thickness when an electrode selvedge which is fixed by a strap and an inter-cell connecting part cannot be stretched upward when an anode plate is stretched in the height dire...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrode plate lattice which has solved problems of deformation of lattice occurring at the corrosion of the positive electrode and degradation of lifetime of the battery caused by fall-off of the active material, and a lead acid storage battery having superior life characteristics.

SOLUTION: This is a lattice body of the lead acid storage battery which ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid vehicle specialized in improving efficiency in fuel consumption in an internal combustion engine.

SOLUTION: An area which uses the output of the internal combustion engine is limited to only an area in which the fuel efficiency is extremely good. As a result, an electric driving time is increased, so that a load of a battery increases. Therefore, a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller of a hybrid vehicle in which an abnormal sound and impact are reduced when an engine 1 is started.

SOLUTION: During giving an r.p.m. command to an MG 4, the regenerative control of the MG 4 is forbidden and the line pressure level or the pressure rise per unit time of a transmission 14 is limited. When the engine 1 is started by means of the MG ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the output of a motor generator of a hybrid vehicle.

SOLUTION: The hybrid vehicle comprises an engine 2, the motor generator 30, and an axle which are coupled with one of the three elements of a planetary gear drive 20, sun gear 24, ring gear 21, and carrier 23, respectively; a clutch 40 which connects and integrates two of the three elements of the planetary...

The present invention concerns a method of extracting halide ions contained in a photographic processing solution. The invention concerns a method for the selective extraction of halide ions using a separative membrane comprising a support covered with an active layer comprising an inorganic hydrogel material and an ion carrier, one of the faces of the support having been surface-modified. This me...