A liquid-solids separator, or centrifuge, of the type having a screw conveyor (10) is provided with a series of offset conveyor flights (16). A spacer means (20) is positioned within the offset (18) of the conveyor flights to form a channel (22) therein. Rinse liquid is introduced into the channel through the central hub (12) of the conveyor. The channel directs the rinse liquid into the heavy pha...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an actuator capable of reducing man-hours by eliminating screw clamping. SOLUTION: This actuator is provided with a case 2 containing a motor 5 and a structure of deceleration 6, a cover 3 connected to the case 2, and a base member 4 disposed between the case 2 and the cover 3. On the base member 4, bearing members 4a4 and 4a5 are formed, and the base member 4 is i...

A paper feeder for feeding papers to an image forming apparatus and a paper tray elevation device therefore are disclosed. A first tray is movable up and down with a plurality of papers stacked thereon. A paper feed member feeds the papers from the first tray in a preselected direction of paper feed. A second tray is positioned beside the first tray in substantially the horizontal direction and mo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent corrosion of the negative electrode strap of a sealed lead- acid battery. SOLUTION: A sulfate ion fixing and holding member, such as gelled dilute sulfuric acid or paste obtained by mixing calcium sulfate with dilute sulfuric acid, is provided on the top surface of the negative electrode strap and on the top surface of a plate group.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller of a hybrid vehicle capable of preventing deficiency of hydraulic pressure to a transmission due to stoppage of fuel supply to an internal combustion engine at the time of deceleration operation of the vehicle while enhancing fuel consumption. Ž

SOLUTION: The controller 1 of a hybrid vehicle V being operated while switching the operation mode of a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithium secondary battery having a long lifetime and an excellent large current characteristics. Ž

SOLUTION: A negative electrode for lithium secondary battery is used in which a gas phase method carbon fiber is dispersed without forming an aggregate of 10 μm or more in a negative electrode active material using a natural graphite or an artificial graphite. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a noise suppressing device for a transmission capable of completely reducing idle noise regardless of oil temperature changes on the precondition that idle noise characteristics is based on the specification of the transmission and a clutch disc. SOLUTION: When the oil temperature TLo is lower than oil temperature Tmin at minimum noise, a target addition torque on ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle control device capable of improving convenience while suppressing presentation of unnecessary information by facilitating operation of advancing an own vehicle little by little in a right turn waiting state in a crossing and in an advance waiting state into the crossing. Ž

SOLUTION: Information provided from an information antenna is received when th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To insure safety by judging whether a sensor detecting a shift position is normally operated or not, and when abnormality is judged, by stopping the control automatically stopping an engine. SOLUTION: In a system in which an engine is automatically stopped at materializing an automatic stop condition, by changing a shift position from a drive position to a non-drive position,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To highly accurately estimate a lateral sliding angle in a low vehicle speed range by setting an error signal between an estimated front/rear movement physical quantity estimated by a movement model expressing the front/rear- and lateral- directional movements and either of a practically measured front/rear movement physical quantity or a front/rear movement physical quantity...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inspection method capable of simply detecting the disorder due to the reversed insertion of an electrode group in a battery container with high precision at a lead-acid storage battery assembling process. Ž

SOLUTION: The electrode group composed of chemically unprocessed positive electrode plates and negative electrode plates interposing a mat separator in ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform the gear ratio of a transmission in consideration of the output limitation of a battery, and to prevent the excessive discharge of a battery. Ž

SOLUTION: When the shift of the gear ratio of the transmission is requested, power Pbsft requested for shift, required for shift of gear ratio, is set (S300), and when the shift assumed power of the sum of the present ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle operation auxiliary device for performing operation reaction control and brake/drive force control in order to prevent the operation of an operator from being hindered according to the surrounding circumstances of a vehicle. Ž

SOLUTION: This controller calculates a contact risk potential and a normal risk potential in respective regions where the pos...

A system and method for assisting a driver operating a vehicle traveling on a road includes a reaction force device configured to determine a first reaction force value and a second reaction force value, a weighting device configured to weight the second reaction force value, a reaction force selection device configured to select one of the first and weighed second reaction force values, a driver ...

The device has a mechanism (24) with a bobbin handling unit (25) that is formed as a bobbin-gripping unit and is movable along axes for receiving, transporting and delivering bobbins (11) within an automation cell. A vertical axis is immovably formed in a Z-direction. The bobbin handling unit is arranged in such a manner that it is vertically movable in Z-direction to slides (30) that are movable ...

Methods and apparatuses using a known location of an item of interest of a breast, such as a lesion, from a method of evaluation to predict the location of the item for another method of evaluation are provided.

A compression device includes a frame mountable to a mammography unit that includes a window disposed within an x-ray field of the mammography unit when the frame is mounted to the mammography unit, and a radiolucent compressible member connectable to the frame across the window for providing a compression surface within the x-ray field. For example, the compressible member may include a rigid bac...

A system for multi-mode breast x-ray imaging which comprises a compression arm assembly for compressing and immobilizing a breast for x-ray imaging, an x-ray tube assembly, and an x-ray image receptor is provided. The system is configured for a plurality of imaging protocols and modes.

An electromagnetically driven valve includes an electromagnet having a coil and generating electromagnetic force, and an upper disc and a lower disc each having a support end and carrying out oscillating movement between a valve-opening position and a valve-closing position around the support end. The upper disc and the lower disc are held at a position intermediate between the valve-opening posit...

Arrangement for the production of instantaneous or non-instantaneous multi-band images, to be transformed into multi- or hyperspectral images, comprising light collecting means, an image sensor array, and an instantaneous colour separating means, positioned before the image sensor array, and uniform spectral filters, for restricting imaging to certain parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. A filte...