PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device used together with a multi-row type CT fan beam system for collecting data in a high-speed mode and using the data corresponding to half scanning so as to form images within one or more image planes. SOLUTION: In these method and device, for respective beam angles corresponding to the image planes, by interpolating and/or extrapolating simulta...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the degradation in a moisture content and to improve separation efficiency by directly discharging sludge from segment in a bowl where the moisture content is lowest of a decanter type centrifugal separator. SOLUTION: The centrifugal separator constituted by housing a screw conveyor rotated at a relative speed difference from the speed of a bowl rotated at a high s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a chain running sound of a machine for treating a flat material to be printed. SOLUTION: In order to prevent running sounds of chains 4, 5 guided by rails 6 by circulating by operating the machine for treating the flat material to be printed, buffer coating materials 6, 5 disposed along the rails 6 and sandwiched between two clamping surfaces constituted on the rail...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a running controller for a vehicle capable of controlling an inter-vehicle distance between one's own vehicle and the preceding vehicle to obtain comfortable running property. SOLUTION: An inter-vehicle distance between one's own vehicle and the preceding vehicle is detected to detect that the detected inter-vehicle distance is reduced by a first predetermined dist...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic transmission controller capable of giving torque corresponding to changes of running load of a vehicle to wheels even if a gear shift mode is set to a manual gear shift mode when a running mode of the vehicle is set to a fixed speed running mode. SOLUTION: When the gear shift mode is set to the manual gear shift mode and the running mode is set to the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that a shock generated in a hybrid vehicle having a motor and an engine as vehicle drive sources is large because fuel injection is started simultaneously with the start of cranking when the engine is started by cranking by the motor after the vehicle is started by the motor only in the hybrid vehicle. SOLUTION: When the engine is cranked after starting t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the fluctuation of a driving force when gear is shifted without bringing a transmission characteristic model of a continuously variable transmission control system to a high order when inertia torque of a drive system is compensated by engine torque when gear is shifted in a vehicle provided with a continuously variable transmission. SOLUTION: A drive source torqu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a deceleration control device for a vehicle which adds an appropriate deceleration according to the traveling condition of the vehicle. SOLUTION: The control of adding the deceleration is implemented when an accelerator is in a returning mode (at the time points of b-e, i-k, n-) in an area in which the accelerator opening can set the non-minimum output of the drive...

"BOMBA D'áGUA EóLICA PARA POçO PROFUNDO" A presente invenção utiliza a energia eolica para fazer funcionar um compressor (4) que é impulsionado por um eixo (3) ligado a um a hélice (2) fazendo com que seja possível a água chegar a superfície . A dita bomba d'água é constituída de uma torre (1) onde estão fixadas a hélice (2) ,o eixo (3) e o compressor (4), que movimentado fará o ar comprimid...

Patente de Invenção: ""MéTODO PARA A FABRICAçãO DE UM ARTIGO SINTETIZADO E PRODUTOS PRODUZIDOS POR MEIO DESTE". Método para a produção de um artigo sintetizado (14) compreendendo a provisão de uma pluralidade de blocos individuais (19) de material matriz sinterizável, dispondo os ditos blocos em uma relação de justaposição de modo a formar uma montagem dos ditos blocos em um molde de sinteri...

The present invention provides a novel process for the removal and recovery of target species, such as metals, radionuclides, penicillins, and organic acids, from waste waters and process streams. The process of the present invention utilizes a combination of a supported liquid membrane (SLM) and a strip dispersion to improve extraction of the target species while increasing membrane stability and...

A telecommunications system and method are disclosed for mapping a Transcoder/Rate Adaptor (TRAU) protocol onto a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) for use in an Internet Protocol (IP) based Base Station System (BSS) architecture. All in-band control bits in the TRAU protocol are not relevant when using the UDP protocol. Therefore, when speech information is mapped onto a UDP datagram for transfer to a...

A system and method for the auction and tender of complex multi-variable commodities, which are defined as commodities having a plurality of characteristics with each characteristic's value contributing to the determination of the commodity price. The system and method are implemented using an exception handling process whereby a tender participant requests exceptions to the terms and conditions o...

A fitted mattress cover is provided with a flat top panel and a knitted or woven fabric skirt attached to and depending from the periphery of the top panel. The lower edge of the skirt contains a band of longitudinally extending elastic yarns that were integrally incorporated into the edge during fabrication of the skirt fabric. The yarns of the elastic band provide sufficient tension to pull some...

A proposed wind and weather protection device is designed in the form of a collapsible pavilion. The collapsible pavilion is provided with a collapsible roof (1) formed from circular segments. In two preferential design variants, the maximum opening angle of the pavilion is 180°, 90° or 270°. The roof (1) consists of a central nodal element (2) on which several roof spars (11) are fixed. The roof ...

A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass ply extending between bead portions and is turned up around a bead core in each bead portion to form two turnup portions and a main portion therebetween; each of the turnup portions extends radially outwardly and adjoins the main portion from a certain height above the bead core; a space is surrounded by the carcass ply main portion, and each turnup portion and...

A shrimp deveining apparatus includes a housing with an entrance opening for receiving a shrimp and an exit opening for ejecting the shrimp from the housing after having the shell cut and deveined. Within the housing, a partition extends upwardly from a base and has an arcuate surface for slidably receiving a shrimp thereon. Opposing lever arms are rotatably attached to and carried on opposing sid...

A roller control unit (2) for a continuously-variable-ratio transmission includes a cylinder (6) having a cylinder wall and an end wall; and a piston (8), within the cylinder (6) and to which the roller assembly (4) is connected for movement therewith, said unit includes an axially extending shroud (10) of variable length extending between the piston (8) and the end wall, thereby to define in comb...

A device and method for treating collapsed bronchial tubes found in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma are provided. The device includes an elongated member having a heating element that includes one or more energy delivery members. The method includes heating the bronchial tube to cause at least a portion of the cross links of the collagen in the wall to unlink/open an...

There is disclosed a polyester support, which has the dimensional change with the lapse of time after heating which corresponds to heat development, in a range of from -0.03% to +0.05% both in the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction. There is also disclosed a low-heat-shrinkage film, which has a dimensional change immediately after a heat treatment, which corresponds to a heat deve...