PURPOSE:To obtain the travel controller for the moving vehicle which secures invariably stable accident evading operation and performs proper vehicle control corresponding to the travel state. CONSTITUTION:An environment recognition device 2 recognizes the environment of the external field according to information from a sensor 1 and a state judgement device 3 recognizes the travel state. An opera...

PURPOSE:To obtain a constant differential restricting force independently of the transmission torque by connecting a gear part meshed with a side gear in a part of a pinion gear and a gear part meshed with an another pinion gear through a flexible connection part, keeping a phase difference, and assembling the connection part in a distorted state. CONSTITUTION:As for an assembly of pinion gears 63...

An ophthalmic diagnostic instrument determines the shape of the cornea through projection of an image onto the cornea through the optics of the diagnostic instrument. The instrument and the method of the invention involve folding a projected pattern of discrete separated point light sources so that the pattern is projected toward the eye coaxially with return collected light reflected off the corn...

In a behavior control device of a vehicle adapted to control the brake system according to a calculation based upon vehicle speed detected by a vehicle speed sensor, steering angle detected by a steering angle sensor, and yaw rate detected by a yaw rate sensor such that, when a deviation of the yaw rate detected by the yaw rate sensor relative to a standard yaw rate estimated from the vehicle spee...

PURPOSE:To apply a specified lateral sealing treatment on a packing material while preventing it from causing inward folds at both sides. CONSTITUTION:When squeezing the contents in a packing material by a pair of squeezing plates 23, the inside air is exhaled out of relieves 25 provided at both sides of the front edge and slanted backward to the both sides of the packing material and the both sid...

An opposed pair of inwardly facing radiant energy detecting sensors (20, 22) is positioned to sight on freshly formed glass containers (C) being conveyed on a side by side pair of conveyors (12, 14) to determine if any of the containers is misoriented from its desired orientation. Each sensor has a sharply focused fiber and lens assembly (24) that is focused to sense radiant energy in a cone of vi...

A banknote selector comprises an aperture (16) obstructed by a rotary shutter (5), the angular position of which is insensitive to the vibrations of the selector. The shutter (5) comprises means for detecting attempts at "string" fraud (13), in which a person attempting fraud introduces a document (20) equipped with strings (13) intended to recover the document (20) once the benefit has been obtai...

A driverless transport system for transporting loads comprises a transport surface (7), an assembly line (1) movable relative to the transport surface, and at least one driverless transport vehicle (8) for transporting a load between the transport surface and the movable assembly line. The driverless transport vehicle is provided with three axles including a forward axle and a rearward axle which ...

The invention relates to the field of polymer chemistry. It features a method for obtaining polyols consisting in a first step in reacting glycols, i.e. plurialcohols with a functionality at least equal to two (MEG,DEG,DPG, . . . ) on polyethyleneterephthalate (PET) in the presence of a transesterefication catalyst (CAT) (MEG,DEG,DPG; . . . ), on polyethyleneterephthalate (PET) in the presence of ...

Gearwheel, intended to be connected through press fitting to a shaft, the gearwheel exhibiting a hub and a cog path connected to the hub, the hub exhibiting at least one flank extending axially outside the cog path and a through-hole with a first area situated axially outside the cog path and a second area situated radially inside the cog path. A shaft supporting a press fitted gearwheel that exhi...

Disclosed is oriented, propylene polymer film, the oxygen barrier property of which is substantially improved. The improvement is achieved by incorporating in the propylene polymer composition from which the film is made grafted copolymer material comprising predominantely crystalline, propylene polymer material, the polymer or polymers of which have grafts of polymerized monomer material of a gro...

In accordance with the present method for preparing an elastomeric silicone foam, an inert gas is injected under superatmospheric pressure during or after the merging of a silanol-containing organopolysiloxane that is liquid at room temperature an organohydrogenpolysiloxane that is liquid at room temperature, and hydrosilation catalyst, the merging step is followed by mechanical mixing in an enclo...

Olefin polymer foams prepared utilizing "soft" blowing agents have improved properties when a small amount of a stability control agent comprising a glycerol monoester of a C20-24 fatty acid is employed.

A biocatalyst carrier for a bioreactor contains an absorbent material and has the effect of a microfilter. Liquid or gas is treated with the biocatalyst carrier by a method which includes causing a liquid containing a biocatalyst to contact the biocatalyst carrier containing an absorbent material having a degree of swelling of at least 2 and possessing the effect of a microfilter, thereby causing ...

A method for fabrication of polymer composite layers in a vacuum is disclosed. More specifically, the method of dissolving salts in a monomer solution, vacuum flash evaporating the solution, condensing the flash evaporated solution as a liquid film, and forming the condensed liquid film into a polymer composite layer on a substrate is disclosed.

A metal interconnect having a high conductivity and high resistance to metal migration failure is formed of two layers of metal or alloy (such as TI/cuAlsi) with a dielectric interposed therebetween and a connection made between the layers by a conductive material, preferably in the form of a plug or stud formed in an aperture of an inter-level dielectric, at ends of the interconnect. A high preci...

A cleaning lance is provided in which water from an inlet (1) is directed either to an upper, rinsing barrel (5) or to a lower, foamer barrel (12). The latter is provided with a mixing chamber having an inlet for detergent supplied via a flow control valve (2). A water jet injected into the mixing chamber via a Venturi nozzle (3) draws in and mixes with the detergent and the resulting mixture is e...

Process for cementing oil wells, gas wells or geothermal wells, according to which a suitable drilling fluid is injected under appropriate conditions, optionally followed by a buffer fluid and, finally, a composition comprising water, a cement, at least one viscosifying additive, optionally at least one retardant compound and optionally at least one silica, characterised in that the said additive ...

PURPOSE:To easily execute the surgical operation and to enhance the safety by constituting the device so that a first hand piece for an ultrasonic surgical knife, and a second hand piece with a hand switch for an electric surgical knife can be used selectively, and executing the control so that when one hand piece is used, the other hand piece becomes unuseable. CONSTITUTION:When a hand switch 7 o...

PURPOSE:To improve the durability of adhesion and provide a protective film with high thermal conductivity by forming a diamond-like thin film with a prescribed hardness on the surfaces of an organic luminescence layer, a hole carrying layer, an electron carrying layer, and an electrode by deposition. CONSTITUTION:A transparent positive electrode (e.g. ITO) 2, a hole carrying layer (e.g. triphenyl...