PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate handler's acquisition of respective desired information on diagnosis in method for operating a CT apparatus so that the handler can acquire measurement data related to a scope of measurement of subject. SOLUTION: This method for operating the CT apparatus comprises a step for preparing an X-ray image in a scope of a subject including the measurement scope, a ste...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To photograph a body scope allowing a subject to perform periodic movement by reduced dose. SOLUTION: Radiation intensity of radiation starting from a radiation source is substantially synchronous with movement and is modulated between a target value and a value reduced than the target value so that the target value exists in a period of a phase of periodic movement to be pho...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrict uncomfortableness and shock felt by a driver in case of applying the cruise control to a vehicle provided with plural kinds of driving power sources. SOLUTION: In this control device of vehicle, an accelerator pedal for controlling the output of a driving source is separately provided from an accelerator pedal, and a vehicle speed control device capable of control...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a follow-up traveling control device capable of simplifying a computing device without requiring a means for detecting a lane change of the own-car and an object in front and without giving anxiety of collision to a driver by selecting a vehicle having the highest probability of collision with the own-car as a follow-up object. SOLUTION: Traveling direction target ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automate the gear shift by operating the gear shift of a synchronous engagement type transmission with the position control by a shift and select actuator. SOLUTION: In a control device for synchronous engagement type automatic transmission, abnormality of a throttle actuator is monitored on the basis of the control condition of the throttle opening in the condition that a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a behavior control device for automobile capable of finely controlling the behavior of a vehicle in an area, in which the yaw rate behavior is small so that the sufficient control by an engine and a brake is impossible, and capable of improving the traveling performance in that area, improving the acceleration performance when accelerating again by providing a cont...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the safety and target follow-up property of an acceleration feedback control system. SOLUTION: The acceleration feedback control system is structured so as to convert a transmission function of a band-pass filter 23, to which the car speed VW is input and which outputs the acceleration estimation value &alpha wf of the vehicle, to the state vector expression and as...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide bag making, filling and packaging equipment which can be adjusted to seal at the center position of an item to be packaged according to the change of the height of the item. SOLUTION: Each top end of two axes 17, 18 supported freely rotatable on the two bearings 16 of a machine table 15 has a male screw 19. On the male screws, female screws 21 at both ends of a hor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a double feeding detecting mechanism for improving a double feeding detecting accuracy with ultrasonic wave by forcibly forming an air layer between sheet materials such as paper even when the sheet materials are doubly sent. SOLUTION: An ultrasonic wave transmitter 9 and an ultrasonic wave receiver 10 are arranged sandwiching a line for conveying paper P. The ultr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain the laminated glass applicable to various parts as a window material for an automobile as well as for a building by providing such functions as a heat insulating property, a UV shielding property and an electric wave shielding property to the intermediate-film layer while maintaining the same quality as the conventional laminated glass. SOLUTION: The laminated glass...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a vehicle with a continuously variable transmission capable of certainly controlling speed of a belt type continuously variable transmission at all times, in a vehicle provided with the belt type continuously variable transmission for controlling a speed ratio by using discharge pressure from an oil pump driven by an internal combustion engine,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electromagnetic clutch device having a facilitated operating mechanism of a clutch part, reduced in weight and size, excellent in responsiveness, and low in cost. SOLUTION: A free-running type clutch device is formed so as to transmit a driving force from a casing 1 through clutch members 2B and 7B disengageably and engageably to differential gear devices 2 to 6...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To assure the rigidity against a vertical oscillating motion of a power transmission mechanism on which a coupling case is installed by allowing a viscous coupling capacity to be largely increased, the rigidity of a coupling case to be assured. SOLUTION: In this power transmission device, a coupling mechanism is provided between two power transmission mechanism forming a vehi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate difficulties with the prior art in which when a flat plate shaped heat collector and a vacuum glass tube type heat collector are employed, heat collection efficiency upon weak solar radiation or upon heat collection at high temperature is deteriorated with a further another difficulty of a light collection ratio being low. SOLUTION: There is provided a heat colle...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solar heat utilizing hot water supply/heating apparatus which utilizes solar heat for heating with minimum energy saving. SOLUTION: There is provided a solar heat utilization hot water supply/ heating apparatus T1 which includes a solar heat concentrator 1, a hot water storage tank 2 storing hot water therein, a hot water storage tank water heating heat exchanger...

A simple holder is provided for holding a desired small article to an article of clothing. The holder is provided by the operational combination of a base member of a selected appearance, the base including a magnetizable area thereon. Holding means are secured to the base member for holding a desired small article thereto or therein. The holder is in cooperative combination with a permanent magne...

The invention features an assembly for taking a biopsy sample from a site within the body of a patient. The assembly includes a resecting device having a cutter near its distal end for resecting and containing a tissue sample and a sheath exterior to the resecting device and sized to be present within the body with the resecting device. The sheath includes an electrode element electrically isolate...

One step process for producing formed Ta/Nb powder metallurgy products using Ta and/or Nb hydride powders with an oxygen content greater than a target level, e.g., 300 ppm, heating the metal hydride in the presence of another metal having a higher affinity for oxygen, removing the other metal and any reaction byproducts, to form a metal powder with an oxygen content less than the target level and ...

The present invention provides a synchronizer ring excellent in strength and abrasion resisting property, used in a speed change gear. This synchronizer ring according to the invention is consisted of, by weight, C:0.2~1.0%, Ni:1.0~6.0%, Mo:0.6~3.0%, Cu:1.0~4.0% and the reminder Fe and inevitable impurities, and is made of Fe sintered alloy of which base composition comprises of mainly martonsite ...

The present invention relates to new and novel tire construction and method of making same wherein the uncured elastomeric material that is laid upon the tire building drum (22) during building of the tire preform (10) will not experience subtantially meridional stretch which would otherwise cause a decrease in the uniformity of ply thickness during expansion of the preform in the vulcaninzing mol...