Strand coating methods and systems having an applicator head pivotally mounted adjacent a substrate, a coating material dispenser mounted on the applicator head, a strand guide mounted on the applicator head, wherein the strand guide and the coating material dispenser are adjustably positionable in unison relative to the substrate by pivoting the applicator head to vary the spacing of the strands ...

PURPOSE: A standardized format for reporting error events occurring within logically partitioned multiprocessing systems are provided to report error events which occur within multiple, different operating systems included within a logically partitioned multiprocessing system. CONSTITUTION: A data processing system(200) is a symmetric multiprocessor(SMP) system including a plurality of processors(...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately and continuously separate plastic pieces of every kind into at least heavy plastic pieces and light plastic pieces to recover them. SOLUTION: The waste plastic recycling equipment 1 is constituted of a crusher 19 for waste plastics of every kind, and a centrifugal separator 30 receiving the supply of a mixture W6 from a mixing tank 21 receiving the supply of bro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a method and a system capable of grasping the condition of a curve of a curved road to control a speed of a vehicle based thereon. SOLUTION: These method and system for controlling a speed of the vehicle are constituted such that a curve radius of the curved road and a distance up to the curve are received from a road information providing device providing road inf...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a filling and packaging machine which can well cut a laterally sealed portion or form perforations of a packaging bag even when the packaging bag with a large capacity is to be produced. SOLUTION: The filling and packaging machine includes a longitudinally sealing mechanism 15 for longitudinally sealing a packaging film F continuously carried by a pair of longitudi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bag-packaging film with an easily unsealable function having an unsealing means for tearing the film in a plane pattern in which a tearing width becomes wider when a tearing starting piece is pulled to tear the film, thereby making easier the take-out of an article to be packaged, and to provide a packaging bag and a packaged article. SOLUTION: An adhesive is app...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an agent useful for controlling blood sugar value. SOLUTION: This prophylactic or ameliorating agent for diabetes comprises a diacylquinic acid represented by general formula (I), R1 and R2 are each caffeoyl; and formula (II) indicates that the coordination at the 5-position is axial or equatorial] as an active ingredient. Thereby, the agent has inhibitory effects o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a sugar mixture containing a cyclic tetrasaccharide and a sugar alcohol, to establish a method for producing the same and to provide a use of the sugar mixture. SOLUTION: This sugar mixture containing a cyclic tetrasaccharide and a sugar alcohol is obtained without having a bad influence upon the cyclic tetrasaccharide being a nonreducing saccharide by hydrogenating...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a curable coating composition having excellent long-term weather resistance, water resistance, corrosion resistance and flexibility of the coated film. SOLUTION: This composition for a curing type coating is obtained by mixing a copolymer (A) obtained by copolymerizing polymerizable monomer components comprising (a) a cycloalkyl group-containing polymerizable monome...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a soil-conditioning and water-controlling agent for composition containing industrial wastes as a main component. SOLUTION: This soil-conditioning and water-controlling agent composition containing industrial wastes as a main material is obtained by charging a composition comprising paper sludge, fly ash, zeolite, diatomite, and an aqueous adhesive into a rotary mi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide austenitic stainless steel which has excellent strength and corrosion resistance by uniformly making the crystal grain size thereof into the hyperfine one. SOLUTION: The highly corrosion resistant and high strength austenitic stainless steel has a composition containing, by weight, <=1.0% Si, <=2.0% Mn <=0.5% O, 7 to 30% Ni, 14 to 26% Cr, C and N of <=0.3% in total...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a brake apparatus of a working machine capable of always keeping the brake apparatus in an operating state and also obtaining braking performance with sure, quick response. SOLUTION: In order to transmitting power from an engine 2 to driving wheels 6 and 6, the brake apparatus of a self-propelled powered sprayer S is comprised of a driving-side pulley 21 driven by ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate press fitting to a damper ring of a ring gear in a planetary gear type sub-transmission of a transfer of a four-wheel driving vehicle. SOLUTION: In the damper ring buffering direct collision of members each other by inserting the damper ring into clearance between an inner diameter-side member and outer diameter-side member that are connected each other, core ma...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of an automatic transmission with a main pump to be driven by an engine as a hydraulic pressure supply source, capable of stopping the main pump at idle stop controlling and capable of smooth travelling by supplying hydraulic pressure required for travelling at restart time. SOLUTION: A vehicle furnished with the engine 10, having an idle stop cont...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a changing speed control method of a transmission and its device, capable of assuming torque fluctuation to suddenly change at sudden torque change since there are cases when a torque change follows sudden change of accelerator. SOLUTION: This changing speed control method of the transmission and its device constitute their characteristic features of controlling th...

A battery having positive and negative plates contained in a housing. The upper edges of the positive plates 11 are connected to the lower edges by means of a member 25 also contained in the housing. The member comprises a material having a greater conductivity than that of the material of the plates.

A shift controller (56) used with a selective clutch assembly. The selective clutch assembly includes an automatic clutch device for automatically disengaging and engaging a clutch (3) with a clutch actuator (4), and a manual clutch device for disengaging and engaging the clutch (3) upon stamping of a clutch pedal (62). In order to shift a gear position of a transmission (2) by a so-called double ...

In mammographic imaging, the means used to receive image data are often cassettes with an actual image data receiving medium, such as a film, placed inside the cassette. The cassette is positioned in a cassette tunnel or similar space provided in the imaging area of the imaging apparatus. By having the labeling of the film performed in conjunction with the imaging process itself before removal of ...

A gaming system includes a hard disk drive for storing applications and other data. The hard disk drive has multiple regions for storing different types of data. Each application executed on the gaming system has an associated storage area on the hard disk drive. A console application executing on the gaming system prevents a particular application from accessing data in an area of the hard disk d...

Infrared reflection of a laser beam (LB3) irradiated on a welding part (WP) of work (5) is detected by a sensor (6a) high of elevation angle, where it is converted into an electrical signal, which is processed by a measuring circuit (MC) to be input to a quality monitor (QM), where it is stored as a data in a memory (7g), which data is processed by way of a spectral analysis, which calculates a sp...