PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an alternate-current high electric-field sterilization device for fluid food material as a continuous-type one, suppressed from generating sparks, even when subjecting a high-viscosity fluid food material, such as, mayonnaise to sterilization.

SOLUTION: The alternate-current high electric-field sterilization device for fluid food material is structured by fo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide additive-free sponge cake enabling industrial volume production without using an all-in-mix method which uses additives, such as an emulsifier and a foaming agent.

SOLUTION: A method for producing sponge dough by a jointing method or a separation method includes steps of mixing 27-95 wt.% of liquid oil and fat at 20°C with oil phase, and using a water-in-oil...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an X-ray CT apparatus in which the collimator is operated during a line-orbit scan, reducing the X-ray application to a part that does not contribute to image reconstruction, and minimizing an additional exposure dose, and also to provide a method of controlling the X-ray CT apparatus.

SOLUTION: In an X-ray CT apparatus, the X-ray tube 11 generates an X-ray ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for treating waste water, in which a fluorine-containing surfactant and a nonionic surfactant in waste water are removed easily.

SOLUTION: The method for treating waste water comprises a step (i) of adding an electrolyte to the liquid to be treated, which contains water, the fluorine-containing surfactant and the nonionic surfactant and has ≤0.5 mas...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reaction processor capable of carry out temperature control with high precision.

SOLUTION: The reaction processor comprises a plurality of reaction regions, and a plurality of heating parts each of which is provided for each of the reaction regions. Each of the heating parts comprises a heat source, a scanning line for selecting the heating source, a data ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gear change control device of a vehicle for achieving both the shortening of a gear change time and the suppression of driving force fluctuation.

SOLUTION: This gear change control device of a vehicle is provided with an inertia phase startability determination part 400a for determining whether or not the inertial phase of a gear change is startable after ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving force transmitting device for a standby four-wheel drive vehicle, which reduces energy consumption during two-wheel drive.

SOLUTION: In the driving force transmitting device 1 for the standby four-wheel drive vehicle, either of a pair of front wheels 7 or a pair of rear wheels 14 is used as driving wheels driven by the driving force of an engine 2,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To keep an input/output power limit of a battery in gear shift, and to reduce a gear-shift shock in a drive control device of a hybrid vehicle having a continuously-variable transmission mode and a fixed transmission gear ratio mode.

SOLUTION: A target gear-shift time is decided on the basis of a battery state and operation points of a motor generator and an engine in ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a roof side weather strip enhancing sealing property between a peripheral edge of a vehicle body opening part and a door glass in a sashless door type automobile.

SOLUTION: The roof side weather strip 10 has a mounting base part 11; and a seal part, and the mounting base part is provided with a bottom wall 40 and an indoor side side wall 30. A first seal par...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an onboard unit and the traveling control method of a vehicle for reducing or avoiding any collision damage due to a rear vehicle traveling behind an own-vehicle.

SOLUTION: A control part 31 acquires image data picked up by rear video cameras 11 and 12 by the frame unit, and detects a rear vehicle on the basis of the acquired image data, and determines the p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the control device of a power transmission device for a vehicle for suppressing any shock upon engagement in the control device of a power transmission device for a vehicle equipped with engagement elements installed on a power transmission path and a synchronization control means for synchronizing the rotating speeds of the engagement elements for engagement. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a road surface tilt angle estimation device, an automobile, a road surface tilt angle estimation method, and a vehicle control device, which estimate a road surface tilt angle with higher accuracy.

SOLUTION: An automobile 1A detects front and rear directional acceleration acting on the vehicle by a front and rear directional acceleration sensor 4 inclined in...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle body speed estimation device, an automobile, a vehicle body speed estimation method, and a vehicle control device, which estimate a vehicle body speed with higher accuracy.

SOLUTION: An automobile 1A detects front and rear directional acceleration acting on the vehicle by a front and rear directional acceleration sensor 4 inclined in a front and re...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To estimate a travel direction acceleration with higher accuracy.

SOLUTION: An automobile 1A detects front and rear directional acceleration acting on the vehicle by a front and rear directional acceleration sensor 4 inclined in a front and rear direction by a set pitch angle γ to a floor surface of the vehicle body substantially in parallel to a horizontal plane, and ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To estimate a slip rate of wheel with higher accuracy.

SOLUTION: An automobile 1A detects front and rear directional acceleration acting on the vehicle by a front and rear directional acceleration sensor 4 inclined in a front and rear direction by a set pitch angle γ to a floor surface of the vehicle body substantially in parallel to a horizontal plane, and calculates ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize a brake liquid pressure control device for a bar-handle vehicle.

SOLUTION: Respective flow passage constitution parts 1F, 1R of the base body 1 are provided with an inlet port 11 and an outlet port 12 opened to a first side surface (upper surface 1d) of the base body 1; an inlet valve attachment hole 13 and an outlet valve attachment hole 14 opened to on...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce vehicle speed in a turn more appropriately, and to increase driving energy efficiency in a turn while improving the ease of vehicle turning.

SOLUTION: A driving torque for driving all wheels 11L, 11R, 12L and 12R is referred to as a total driving torque. A driving torque for driving predetermined left and right wheels out of the total driving torque is referr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To impart no incompatible sense to a driver by completion of control of lane deviation prevention.

SOLUTION: When the lane deviation prevention device determines that deviation tendency of the vehicle becomes high relative to a traveling lane, it starts the control of the lane deviation prevention for preventing the vehicle from being deviated relative to the traveling...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a road grade measurement apparatus, a road grade measurement method, and a computer program, which measures an accurate grade even of roads whose grade information is not included in map information without requiring expensive sensors for detecting vehicle weight and the like.

SOLUTION: Various vehicle parameters of a vehicle such as a vehicle weight M and a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle steering device enabling estimation of the road surface friction coefficient of a so-called light motor vehicle or a small size vehicle which is lighter and whose behavior is easily involved in an instable condition, without adding a new sensor.

SOLUTION: The vehicle steering device is provided for estimating the road surface friction coefficient o...