PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize an image-quality improvement of tomograms in an X-ray CT scanner by a multiarray X-ray detector.

SOLUTION: The X-ray CT scanner makes the width of an X-ray beam D/2 or nearly D/2 with respect to the width D of the multiarray detector on the central axis of rotation in both scan positions in continuously performing a conventional scan (axial scan) or a cinema...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that the blades of a razor having a plurality of blades prevent the blades at the second position and after from shaving off the beard when the angles of all blades are the same depending on the arch of the skin which is formed when the blades of the razor are pressed to the skin.

SOLUTION: The blades at the second position and after of the plurali...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a processing method of sapphire substrate which can suppress loss of luminance of a light emitting element, even when the sapphire substrate is divided into each light emitting element by irradiation of laser beam.

SOLUTION: A pulse laser beam with an extremely short pulse width in the range of femtosecond with such low pulse energy as 0.6 (μJ) to 10 (μJ) is...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a steering device with a feed screw mechanism capable of restraining a change in a preload force due to a temperature variation, and suppressing a rise in operating torque or the occurrence of hitting noises at the time of rotation of a feed nut.

SOLUTION: The distance between both end faces of bearings 56, 57 of a housing 50 is mentioned as A, the distance ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving operation assist device for a vehicle for distinctively and clearly notifying various risks due to an own vehicle to a driver.

SOLUTION: This driving operation assist device for a vehicle calculates the risk potentials of a plurality of different risks to be caused by the own vehicle, and notifies the risk potential caused by the kinetic energy of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving operation assist device for vehicle for distinctively and clearly notifying various risks caused by an own vehicle and its periphery to a driver.

SOLUTION: This driving operation assist device for a vehicle calculates a risk potential caused by the kinetic energy of the own vehicle and a risk potential caused by a traveling rule, and calculates a r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent any rattle from being caused in a gear mechanism due to the torque fluctuation of an engine when driving torque is relatively small in a hybrid car equipped with a front side driving part having a gear mechanism.

SOLUTION: When the start/stop request of an engine is made, and the decision of a step S1 is YES (positive), whether or not front side driving torq...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily use detection information on road surface irregularity from four-wheels for various control objects of the vehicle.

SOLUTION: A vehicle body motion model to which an engine torque and a steering angle are input as information of typical vehicle drive state which may cause up-and-down motion of a vehicle body and which outputs suspension displacement quantity ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of a hybrid vehicle for preventing an increase in fuel consumption while avoiding a degradation in traveling feeling when the clutch is not engaged at the start of the vehicle by any reason in the hybrid vehicle in which the clutch is interposed between a motor for traveling and driving wheels.

SOLUTION: A control device of a hybrid vehicle,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle control device which controls a vehicle for improvement in fuel economy reflecting a driver's intention.

SOLUTION: This vehicle control device, which is mounted on the vehicle and controls the vehicle for improvement in fuel economy, comprises a plan preparation/presentation means for preparing a plurality of control plans for vehicle control perfo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving device for a vehicle and its control method for easily switching a power transmission device having a mesh-type engaging switch means in a vehicle with a rotary electric machine as a drive source of the vehicle.

SOLUTION: The driving device comprises a rotary electric machine MG2; a transmission shaft M1 drive-connected to the machine MG2; one or m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To constitute sipes so as to improve tire performance.

SOLUTION: A tire has a tread 12 having a tread surface with a plurality of ground engaging tread elements 24. At least one of the tread elements 24 has a sipe 26 having a depth in the radial direction of the tire. The crossed sipe 26 has a crossed configuration comprised of two sipes 28, 30. At least one of the sip...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tire and a tire tread with sipes adaptable to the change in necessity of flexibility of tread elements during the lifetime of the tire.

SOLUTION: The tire tread has a tread surface 26 and a plurality of ground engaging tread elements 10, and at least one of the tread elements 10 has a sipe 12 therein. The sipe 12 has sipe ends 18 on both sides facing each ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medicine which exerts inhibitory action in human SGLT2 activity and has an improved oral absorption, and therefore is useful as an agent for the prevention or treatment of a disease associated with hyperglycemia such as diabetes.

SOLUTION: The medicine uses a glucopyranosyloxypyrazole derivative represented by general formula (I) [wherein R represents a hy...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for attaching an adhesive tape which attaches the adhesive tape to a surface to be attached by pressing an attaching roller in moving forward along a work piece and bring the apparatus to be able to accurately release a separator from the adhesive tape and smoothly attach the adhesive tape without being disturbed by the released separator.

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a packing, that is utilized for an insulating gasket of a sealed type secondary battery etc. and is excellent in sealing property, liquid leakage resistance, and heat cycle resistance, comprises a resin composition having a proper softness and compression reversibility, and excellent in heat resistance and chemical resistance (electrolyte resistance), and to pro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle control device for conducting the cooperation control of an electric stabilizer and a MAT.

SOLUTION: The vehicle control device 1 has a turbosupercharger 104 for supercharging by a turbine wheel, a supercharge assist means 603 for assisting supercharge by the turbosupercharger 104 by driving the turbine wheel by an electric motor 108, a stabilizer ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve work efficiency in assembling an electromagnetic solenoid; and to improve reliability of a power transmitting device.

SOLUTION: The power transmitting device includes: a differential case 5 rotated by driving torque input from a ring gear fixed on a flange part 3; a differential mechanism including a differential member to which the driving torque is transmi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positive electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of which a manufacturing process is simple, and is industrially advantageous with large discharge capacity.

SOLUTION: A proton-contained transition metal oxide represented by a chemical formula HxLiyCo1-a-b-cNiaMnbMcO2...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithium ion secondary battery which has both high output and output durability in a high level.

SOLUTION: The lithium ion secondary battery includes at least a cathode, an anode 3, and a nonaqueous electrolyte obtained by dissolving an electrolyte in a nonaqueous solvent. The anode 3 has a current collector 31 composed mainly of a metal, and an anode activ...