PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a double container capable of preventing a gap from being generated between the upper end of an outer container of the double container and a curling part of an inner container.

SOLUTION: Before the outer container 10 and the inner container 20 are joined by making the single end part 13 of the outer container 10 adjacent to the cu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure of a bent piece of a mold for molding, a mold for molding a tire, and a pneumatic tire molded therewith capable of easily determining an exchanging timing of the bent piece only by just observing the spew of the tire.

SOLUTION: A bent piece body 1 is so formed as to have a tube shape, a cylindrical shape in this embodiment, by a heat-resistant an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure which improves mounting workability of a weather strip to a mounting plate and prevents the weather strip from being slipped out from the mounting plate on condition of the structure for mounting the weather strip to a part of a front fender side which receives a hood in closing of the hood through the mounting plate.

SOLUTION: In the structure, ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving operation supporting device for a vehicle capable of suitably performing control for guiding its own vehicle to a pass-by available position and to provide a display device for the vehicle, which is suited to the driving operation supporting device.

SOLUTION: The driving operation supporting device for the vehicle is provided with: a peripheral sit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a vehicular drive system, which reduces a first electric motor in size while suppressing a reduction in the performance of the first electric motor and an engagement device when actuating both first electric motor and engagement device to cause a differential part to function as an electric differential gear.

SOLUTION: When the control d...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To estimate a sideslip angle easily and accurately by a simple structure.

SOLUTION: A yaw rate and a lateral wheel speed difference are normally in a one-to-one linear relationship, but the relationship varies when a sideslip angle develops. The sideslip angle β of a vehicle body is then estimated in accordance with the yaw rate γ of the vehicle body and the lateral wh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an opening and closing mechanism for a vehicle capable of enhancing operability, especially when closing a door by easily adjusting a dead point with a simple constitution.

SOLUTION: In this opening and closing mechanism of a back door, the back door (door for a vehicle) opening/closing a vehicle body opening is rotatably pivoted to a vehicle body, and one e...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular power generator which effectively generates electricity by vibrations of a member supported on a vehicle body.

SOLUTION: The vehicular power generator 10 comprises: a spoiler 14 supported to displace relatively to a vehicle body in a position having possibility of receiving traveling wind generated while a vehicle travels; a power generator 22 co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make rotating directions of an input shaft and an output shaft same, to share a steering mechanism composed of a rack and a pinion of a vehicle, and to make the rotating directions of the input shaft and the output shaft the same and a ratio of the number of rotations of the input shaft and the output shaft become 1:1.

SOLUTION: A gear mechanism 2 is provided which ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular route calculation apparatus that increases the calculation accuracy of vehicle speed at contact with obstacles and selects a route avoiding contact with obstacles relatively high in speed relative to an associated vehicle.

SOLUTION: The vehicular route calculation apparatus has a function as an avoidance determination means 13a for periodically r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce noise at the time of clutch releasing by simple and certain control, without determining whether a clutch is disengaged or not when a clutch mechanism is engaged/disengaged, and to improve the silence of a device.

SOLUTION: When an emergency state is resolved, after instantly energizing and driving a motor 2 energized and driven by feed-back control in a wind...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem that large braking may occur on a vehicle if a driver releases an accelerator pedal suddenly during the control to avoid the contact to a preceding vehicle.

SOLUTION: A braking torque computing part 20 for contact avoidance computes braking torque Tw for avoiding contact to the preceding vehicle based on a speed of its own-vehicle, a distance from th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for a motor-driven vehicle capable of improving reliability of self-diagnosis of the vehicle by preventing the erroneous decision of the self-diagnosis.

SOLUTION: The controller for the motor-driven vehicle is provided with: an engine 2 for driving front wheels; a generator 7 to be driven by the engine 2; a motor 4 to which generated power is su...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a carton for preserving a reduced volume which can easily perform opening operation, has no damage accompanying the operation, can perform volume reduction in accordance with reduction in the volume of contents, and can conveniently close it again.

SOLUTION: The carton for preserving a reduced volume has a rectangular parallelepiped shape. The carton include...

An adapter is provided for mating a razor handle assembly of a first type with a disposable razor cartridge of a second type. The razor handle assembly may be compatible with a legacy disposable razor cartridge system. The adapter allows a user to continue shaving with the legacy handle assembly while taking advantage of the improvements provided by new disposable razor cartridge technology. The r...

A process for preparing polyester-polyurethane resin dispersions comprising: A) reacting i) one or more polyol components having a number average molecular weight of at least 300 daltons, at least 60% by weight of component i) being a polyester polyol with the fraction of aromatic carboxylic acid groups relative to all of the carboxylic acid groups used to prepared said polyester polyol being at l...

The present invention includes a biosensor having a generally planar substrate including a surface texture configured to increase a surface area of the generally planar substrate. The biosensor may also include at least one conductive component at least partially formed on a portion of the surface texture. The invention also includes a method for manufacturing a biosensor. The method may include f...

The conventional method of purifying and concentrating nucleic acids, because of dangerous chemicals, requires elaborate chemical equipment to result in restriction of environment available. Further, time-consuming operation is inevitable and high-speed centrifugation, etc. are needed to cause automation to be difficult and to cause high purification degree to be unattainable. Still further, in th...

A protective carrying case for a handheld device having an anterior panel connected to a posterior panel and an integrated flap releasably attached to the anterior panel and connected to the posterior panel through a slit. The handheld device is inserted into the carrying case for protection and can be removed by unlatching integrated flap and manually moving the flap outwardly from the interior o...

A bag having a convertible carrying system that may convert from a single strap capable of being used to carry the bag to more than one strap portion capable of being used to carry the bag. In embodiments, the strap may be connected to the bag at its ends to form a single strap capable of being used to carry the bag and the strap may be folded at a mid-section and removably attached to the bag sub...