A flow of baggage is directed to a destination-specific loading station (4), where a number of pieces of baggage are placed within reach of a robot and the characteristics for these pieces of baggage are recorded and sent to a control system. The loading condition of one or more baggage containers is detected and the control system combines this information with that relating to the characteristic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To permit estimation of precise running resistance all times including the time of override by providing an adjustment means for driving force and braking force on the vehicle, calculating driving and braking forces based on the operation status of the adjustment means, and estimating running resistance with the actual vehicle speed, calculated driving and braking forces and ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an engaging shock caused by an engagement delay in a prescribed clutch by providing a rapidly pressure increasing means for rapidly engaging the clutch when restarting an engine, and stopping control of an automatic stopping/starting device when a rapid pressure increase by the rapidly pressure increasing means is judged impossible. SOLUTION: An automatic stopping ...

If a throttle valve is fully-closed, it is determined whether or not a transmission is to be downshifted, by determining whether or not an acceleration of the vehicle is equal to or greater than a downshift criterion value. The downshift criterion value is set as a value that decreases as the vehicle speed deviation, which is a difference between a vehicle speed and a target vehicle speed, increas...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To constitute a transmission compactly in which front/rear wheels and PTO shaft can be driven by a hydraulic continuously variable transmission and restrain a backward shift at a high speed position when a gear type transmission is installed. SOLUTION: In this transmission, a hydraulic continuously variable transmission is stored in a first chamber R1 formed in a housing and ...

A Central Processing Unit 103 is provided having an instruction processor unit 201 for determining CPU instruction types. An instruction detector 211 is included in the CPU for detecting whether a determined instruction is a non-cacheable repeat operation instruction. The CPU has an execution unit 221 for executing instruction and for outputting a CPU signal indicating whether data associated with...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a screen bowl type decanter type centrifugal separator by which filtration of crystals can be continuously and stably performed better than the conventional screen bowl type decanter type centrifugal separator wherein a parallel part with a small diameter of an outside rotating cylinder is constituted as a filter medium part and recovery efficiency of the crystals ...

A method for determining formation pressure at a depth region of formations surrounding a borehole, including: keeping track of the time since cessation of drilling at the depth region; deriving formation permeability at the depth region; causing wellbore pressure to vary periodically in time and determining, at the depth region, the periodic and non-periodic component of pressure measured in the ...

A mobile telephone includes a main battery 4 and a backup battery 3, which may be independently charged or charged from the main battery. The backup battery may be replaceable and provides additional usage time for the telephone so that for example a call in progress is prevented from being interrupted due to low charge in the main battery. The backup battery may be actuated or selectively charged...

A wheel balance adjustment device and wheel balance adjustment method which can improve directional stability and handling stability are provided. In a case in which one third of a rim peripheral direction length (W) of a correction weight 42 (W/3) is shorter than a rim peripheral direction length S corresponding to a ground contact length of a tire assembled to a rim 18, the directional stabi...

A vehicle control system is provided for detecting the approach of another vehicle to perform a collision avoidance action. The system comprises capturing means for capturing an external image from the primary vehicle; template memory means for storing templates for detecting the approach of the another vehicle; template update means for updating the templates when a brake pedal is pressed by a dr...

A transverse suspension device for ACL graft fixation in a femoral tunnel includes a body section and a smooth head section forming the leading end of the device. The body and smooth head sections each may be cannulated along their entire lengths. The head section may further include a recess-engaging section extending proximally from the distal end and is operable to engage with a recess formed i...

The present invention relates to a centrifugal separator, comprising a separator housing (13) having a substantially fully spherical mounting region at one end a bearing (100) housing having a substantially fully spherical portion (96) and a short cylindrical portion (98) extending from the spherical portion (96), the spherical portion (96) being stiffly retained in the spherical mounting region o...

The present invention relates to a substantially planar substrate for use in patch clamp analysis of the electrophysiological properties of a cell membrane comprising a glycocalyx, wherein the substrate comprises an aperture having a rim, the rim being adapted to form a gigaseal upon contact with the cell membrane. The invention further provides a method of making such a substrate and method for a...

A road surface mu is updated with time on the basis of a present value (an estimation value E) of the road surface mu estimated to estimate the road surface mu . In this case, if there is acquired road-surface information in a vehicle travel direction that is detected by a road-side infrastructure, a specifying unit (11) specifies a road-surface friction coefficient based on the road-surface ...

An automated parallel bobbin (S) winding assembly has a thread moving feed guide (5) and a bobbin turntable magazine that step-advances empty bobbins to the winding station. Empty bobbins bear a residual length of yarn that is attached by knotting to the next yarn feed presented by the feed guide.; Der Spulenwechsler ist für einen Parallelspulautomaten, mit einer ein Fadenverlegeaggregat (5) für d...

The method for coating a thread guide element (10) involves use of spraying processes to produce an inner layer (110) of stainless steel or some other corrosion resistant dense material on a base layer (100), and an outer layer (120) of a wear resistant thread-friendly material. - An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is also included for a resultant thread guide element.; Es wird ein Verfahren zur Beschichtung ei...

According to an aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a light irradiating apparatus (1) for a cell sorter for irradiating light to a specimen in a sample liquid and for detecting scattered light or fluorescence intensity to analyze the specimen. According to the light irradiating apparatus for a cell sorter, light at plural wavelengths is generated from a single light sou...

The invention is based on an electromagnetic actuator, especially for activating a valve, having at least one electromagnet (10) that acts on a correspondingly designed armature surface (20) of a moveable armature (22) in a first effective range (12) by way of at least one first conical and/or stepped pole face (18) using a magnetic field (16) generated by at least one coil (14).It is proposed tha...

A method for separating a blood component, e.g., fibrin monomer, from blood or plasma. The method utilizes a container with a reaction chamber for receiving the plasma. The reaction chamber is defined by a wall and an agent is supplied to the reaction chamber for converting the fibrinogen content of the plasma into a non-cross-linked fibrin polymer. The method also utilizes a device for centrifugi...