A gas injector including in which a gas is passed through high-voltage/low-current electrical discharges before being discharged into the chamber of a thermal treatment furnace. The electrical activation of the gas accelerates desirable reactions between the gas, gases in the furnace chamber, and the chamber workload. Preferably, a hot electrode is electrically charged and the other parts of the g...

The invention provides systems and methods for monitoring and monetizing an investment security in a business. An investment entity provides capital in return for a share of business entity's revenue. Preferably, the business entity is a potential or current licensee or franchisee of a licensed or franchised business that would be under the obligation to pay a licensor or franchisor a fee that als...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a storage battery for which a bending process of a current collecting lug can be easily automatized and its strap does not protrude from the outer circumference of a winding type power generating element while keeping a good condition. Ž

SOLUTION: The storage battery comprises the winding type power generating element, and a plurality of current collecting lug...

Documents on a document tray are sequentially transferred, and different control is performed according to a scanning speed when an upper surface height of the documents is lowered to turn off a height detection sensor. In a low scanning speed, the document tray is elevated one time until the upper surface height becomes a target height which is higher by a predetermined distance since a height de...

A center differential (28) is arranged between a high speed side output shaft (42) and a low speed side output shaft (44). An engagement unit (46) arranged at the center differential, is selectively engaged with the high speed side output shaft and low speed side output shaft.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lock-up clutch controller of a vehicle for improving fuel rate and improving driveability by performing switching in an engaging state of a lock-up clutch based on a result of changing of a fuel reducing region for improving fuel rate. Ž

SOLUTION: A lock-up operation point preset for performing the switching of the engaging state of a lock-up clutch 26 by a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To learn travel load information as a basic data instead of prestoring a basic data of the travel load leaning information in a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. Ž

SOLUTION: When a vehicle travels on a road, a current position of the traveling vehicle is found by utilizing road map information used in a navigation system. Travel load information of the road of the current position is e...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a drive feeling favorable, and to suppress the charging and discharging of an energy storage device by the excess power of the energy storage device. Ž

SOLUTION: A hybrid vehicle is equipped with an engine, a first motor and a driving shaft connected to a carrier, a sun gear and a ring gear of a planetary gear mechanism, and a second motor connected to the drivin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem with conventional control aimed at enhancing agility wherein, because it enhances the agility of an automobile by producing a braking force on a particular wheel during a turn, the automobile decelerates, with the result that the automobile decelerates or stops against the driver's intent unless he or she regulates the speed of the automobile by operat...

A driving device of the invention is mounted on a motor vehicle, where a sun gear, a carrier, and a ring gear of a planetary gear mechanism are respectively connected to a motor MG1, to an engine, and to a drive shaft and a motor MG2. The driving device has a power supply system including a capacitor, a transistor TR, and a diode DI. The capacitor is connected to power lines, which are shared by i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress torque shock occurring when a gear ratio of a transmission is changed when a driving circuit of an electric motor is changed to a vehicle state of operation stoppage during traveling. Ž

SOLUTION: When gear change of the transmission is carried out when a shift lever is in a neutral position, shutdown of a shut-down inverter is released (S140), and following r...

A cellular electrophysiological measurement device (1) includes a thin plate (7) and a frame (6). The thin plate has a first surface (3a) with a depression (8) and a second surface with a through-hole (9). The frame (6) is in contact with an outer periphery (4b) on the second surface of thin plate (7). The thin plate (7) has a laminated structure of at least two layers including a first material l...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely restrain the drop of the bending rigidity of a rib and the steering stabitlity on a wet road fllowing to the progress of wear. SOLUTION: As the sipe 20 formed on a tread 12 is constituted by the main portions 21a, 21b of three or more and the connection parts 22 of two or more, the increase rate of total length of a sipe opening end following to the wear progress of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mold for molding a tire which can hold the initial performance and appearance of the obtained tire by preventing the generation of a spew (whisker-shaped projection) and a burr-shaped protruding part on the surface of the tire, reduce the manufacturing cost of the mold itself, and simplify maintenance and inspection work. SOLUTION: In the mold for molding the tir...

A centrifuge having a rotating frame, which is rotatably mounted on a stationary frame, and a separation unit mounted on the rotating frame, rotating about a central axis of rotation in the same direction of rotation as the rotating frame but at twice the rotational speed. A line for supplying and/or removing a fluid is connected to the separation unit and is guided in a loop about the separation ...

A magnetic contact for mounting onto a surface comprises an operating face for mounting substantially perpendicular to said surface opposite an operating magnet; an operating reed switch adjacent said operating face; and shield walls of high magnetic permeability material forming an enclosure around the operating reed switch on all sides of the operating reed switch except for: (a) the side adjace...

An image display program displays an image of a character in a virtual space. The program lets a computer executes a parameter setting step for setting parameters concerning movement of the character including rotational angular velocity, l around three dimensional co-ordinates. A reference unit time is then set for the stepwise change of the parameters and a minimal unit time is set which is o...

A macerator has a housing 10 having an opening which provides access to its interior and a releasably securable lid 18 for releasably closing the opening in the housing. A foot-operated contactless infra red switch 64 is provided at the base of the macerator which is adapted to release a solenoid-operated latch 50 upon completion of the maceration cycle. The macerator also has a rotatable blade mo...

A double-sided image forming device includes: a paper feeding section (3); a printing section (4); a first conveyance route (6) for conveying a fed paper sheet (2) to a paper discharge section (8) via the printing section (4); and a second conveyance route (7) for receiving, on its conveyance surface, the paper sheet (2), a first side (21) of which has been printed, from the first conveyance route...

Device for drawing a material strip (01) and/or a strand with several material strips into a folding device comprises a guiding rail (09) guided along a folding funnel (08) having a shape-variable guiding rail section (58) on the funnel. Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) Method for drawing a material strip and/or a strand with several material strips into a folding device...