The present invention relates to portable hose reel carts for handling and storage of flexible hoses, such as garden or air hoses. The cart is primarily constructed of plastic components having a centrally rotatable spool for winding of the flexible hose, a frame for supporting the spool, wheels at one end of the base of the frame, and a handle assembly for tilting the frame onto the wheels to fac...

A herbicidal composition comprising, in addition to customary inert formulation excipients, as a mixture of at least one acetamide herbicide and a lipophilic additive comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of C13-C20 fatty acids, C13-C20 fatty alcohols and hydrocarbon fluids.; Una composicion herbicida que comprende, ademas de los excipientes inertes habituales de formul...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress or eliminate the occurrence of alias of R/R system in X-ray CT imaging.

SOLUTION: The X-ray CT apparatus a reconstruction means for processing collected data of respective views, acquiring image data, performing reverse projection operation to the above image data, and reconstructing an image. When an X-ray detecting element nearest to the rotational center...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve temporal resolution matched with actual number of heart rate at each time and sufficient for the number of heart rate together with improved space resolution.

SOLUTION: Image of a subject region 9 performing at least periodic movement is obtained from output data of a detector system 2 corresponding to detected radiation and utilized as measurement data by a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pulverizing apparatus and an operation method for the pulverizing apparatus by which danger of damage to the apparatus can be suppressed to the minimum and a flexible and prompt reaction to an operation condition can be attained in a pulverizing state in regard to the pulverizing apparatus of waste and/or production residuals.

SOLUTION: The pulverizing app...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize reliable sheet guide at a small expense for materials and a low cost by improving an apparatus for transferring sheets through a printing machine comprising at least one transfer member for transferring a sheet along a transfer path and at least one guide member for guiding the sheet in a transfer direction.

SOLUTION: This apparatus for transferring a sheet ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To feed sheet mediums whose size and thickness widely vary to a mobile printer by means of a simple structure.

SOLUTION: The mobile printer has a printing mechanism to print on sheet mediums of a plurality of sizes, an enclosure in which the printing mechanism is arranged and a sheet mediums of a variety of sizes a hinged cover mounted to the upper rear of the enclosur...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To estimate a rolling state of a vehicle without detecting a roll angle and roll angular velocity.

SOLUTION: A SAT estimating device 12 estimates a synthetic value of self aligning torque generated on a grounding surface of each of left and right front wheels. A slip angle computing element 14 detects vehicle speed and steering angle, and calculates slip angles of the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a reset from a neutral control in response to the braking operation by a driver.

SOLUTION: An ECT_ECU includes a step (S130) in which a control of the vehicle brake is performed in such a manner that a brake reducing time becomes longer as a brake release demanding speed is higher, and the brake reducing time becomes shorter as the brake release demanding speed...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving operation assisting device for a vehicle capable of determining a precedent vehicle by a simple method based on an image of a front region of one's own vehicle and performing reaction force control of a vehicle operation apparatus.

SOLUTION: The driving operation assisting device for the vehicle comprises an image pick-up means for photographing th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent displacement of a fold formed on a paper sheet or displacement between the paper sheets when forming the fold on a paper bundle wherein a plurality of the paper sheets are stacked.

SOLUTION: This paper sheet folding device is provided with a first folding part comprising a first holding roller, a second folding roller brought into pressure contact with the f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a low-cost aluminum-matrix composite material having excellent heat resistance, workability, etc.

SOLUTION: In the aluminum-matrix composite material, a reinforcement is dispersed in a matrix composed mainly of Al. The matrix contains at least Mg and the reinforcement consists of whiskers and nitrided nitride short fibers. Because the formation of Mg compoun...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for controlling data of take-up/take-off length, with which, in the process of taking up a material to be taken up, the rotation of a winding body and the take-up length of the material to be taken up corresponding to the rotation are memorized as winding information and in the process of utilizing the material to be taken up, the take-off length of the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a shock by the gear-shift of a vehicle-mounted engine from an idle up state resulting from a power supply from a vehicle-mounted power supply to an external load in the control device and the control method of a vehicle.

SOLUTION: An inverter mounted on the vehicle for converting a dc power of a high-voltage battery to a commercial ac power and supplying the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To assure a driver's operation feeling without imparting a damage to a clutch of a frictional engaging element even when an accelerator pedal is pressed when the state of an automatic transmission is changed from a driving state to a non-driving state.

SOLUTION: In a speed change controller of the automatic transmission, an ECT ECU performs a program for normal throttl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To determine completion of restoration from neutral control in accordance with braking states of a vehicle.

SOLUTION: This starting control device ECT_ECU determines if a vehicle brake is released or not (S120) when restoration conditions from neutral control are satisfied (S100:YES). In a case where the vehicle brake is released (S120:YES), it is determined that resto...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shift controller of an automatic transmission with the manual mode capable of selecting an adequate engine braking force generating method by reflecting the intention of a driver for deceleration, emphasis on fuel consumption or emphasis on re-acceleration during the manual down-shift in deceleration.

SOLUTION: The shift controller of the automatic transmi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a data retrieval device and method for relatively easily and properly using map data on which, for example, the latest road conditions or the like are reflected without updating the whole map data including, for example, spot data or the like.

SOLUTION: A data retrieval device (200) is configured to retrieve target spot data showing a desired spot from an ov...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sealed type lead-acid storage battery in which life prolongation can be achieved, in which sulfation which occurs at a negative electrode plate surface is suppressed, and in which a low temperature rapid discharge characteristic is maintained for a long time, by preventing the generation of a short circuit due to the growth of dendrite possessed by the sealed ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To overcome the problems that self-discharge is large, a battery container is destroyed by expansion of a positive electrode plate in the case of float charging, a heat treatment of high temperature exceeding 2,000°C is needed in order to enhance anisotropy of the graphite, and securing of sulfuric acid amount for intercalation is difficult, which have become the problems ...