The present invention includes a reliable and efficient method for redistributing, purchasing or selling tickets on the secondary market. The system generally includes a method for accepting tickets from individual sellers, posting the tickets on a central database for redistribution, establishing a market price based on demand and/or a service fee (this feature may not be available in certain sta...

In a tire mold (22) having a pair of mold parts separable about cooperating surfaces (62,64) of the respective mold parts which define a parting line region, each of the mold parts includes a surface defining at least a portion of a cavity for shaping a tire. The tire mold further includes a plurality of pockets (108,122) for defining a respective plurality of circumferentially arranged tread elem...

PURPOSE:To enhance the charge/discharge cycle lifetime characteristics by furnishing a plurality of longitudinally parallel ribs on both surfaces of a sack- shaped separator in back-to-back arrangement, and forming the ribs on the rear surface in contact with a negative electrode plate with a height which is greater than that of the ribs on the front surface. CONSTITUTION:A negative electrode plat...

PURPOSE:To reduce a speed change shock by providing a fuel recovery delaying means to command non-actuation of a fuel cut device by way of delaying for a specified period of time after detection by a travelling state changeover detection means so as to make output of an engine rise. CONSTITUTION:It is possible to make engine output rise certainly at an ignition instant t2 of a cylinder to be ingni...

PURPOSE: To prevent the break through by the corrosive elongation of a lattice body by shaping a bag-shaped separator such that it forms a curved arc, with its starting point as the rear of the rib part of a base contacting with a negative electrode, wrapping the negative electrode. CONSTITUTION: For this lead-acid battery, lead-calcium-tin alloy is used for both lattices of a positive electrode 1...

PURPOSE: To enhance operational performance by reconciling setting of an optimal target value of speed change control and optimal control of a friction transmitting means for control except the speed change control, by performing speed change control of a transmission by an accelerator operating quantity, and controlling the friction transmitting means for control except the speed change control b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase a chance of economy run by operation controlling an intake flow amount adjusting device so as to place an intake pipe introducing intake air to an engine in almost a fully closed condition, also operation controlling a clutch so as to adjust a clutch torque capacity, when an engine brake control condition is materialized. SOLUTION: During engine brake control, whe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make compatible both fuel consumption saving characteristic and good drivability, by almost fully closing an intake pipe, stopping supply of fuel to partly or total cylinders, and performing control so as to adjust a torque capacity of a clutch, when an engine brake condition is materialized. SOLUTION: In the case of materializing an engine brake condition, (S204), a throt...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve comfortableness of a driver under vehicle-to-vehicle distance control. SOLUTION: When vehicle-to-vehicle distance data is inputted (step 201), relative speed is computed from change in this vehicle-to-vehicle distance data (step 204), and a basic acceleration/deceleration ratio is computed from the difference between the present vehicle-to-vehicle distance and targ...

This invention describes a water heating element which can be used for both boilers and electrical appliances in general. A printed electrical resistor (4, 4.1) is applied to a piece of piping (3) used to dispense hot water, using a printing technique such as, for example, screen printing. The whole created by the said two elements constitutes the essential part of a heating element (1, 1.1) which...

New, useful and surprisingly effective antiscorch compositions for utilization within polyurethane foam production methods which utilize very popular tertiary amine catalysts are provided. Such compositions require the presence of nominal yet effective amounts of organic cyclic ester materials. The ring systems of such materials appear to open during exposure to heat (during the curing process) an...

A controller is provided with a joy stick for designating a direction for a traveling body to run in, and transmits a radio signal such as an infrared ray in a target direction (alpha), in which the joy stick is brought down. The traveling body receives the radio signal to acquire the target direction (alpha) and to detect the direction for the radio signal to come in, and determines a relative di...

A watchdog arrangement advantageously provides systems, such as television signal processing apparatus, with a reliable, cost effective means by which to maintain consistent, stable operation. According to at least one embodiment, a hardware watchdog circuit receives regular pulses from a software timer in an integrated circuit (IC) to refresh itself. In the event that the watchdog circuit is not ...

The coating contains a bisphenol-A diglycidyl ether-based epoxy binder and 2-methoxy-1-methylethyl acetate as a solvent. A method for providing a previously untreated heat-galvanised metal surface with a surface coating containing a polymer binder and a pigment uses an epoxy-based binder system based on a bisphenol-A diglycidyl ether, dissolved in a solvent system comprising 2-methoxy-1-methyleth...

A common music composition method using the internet, its system, and its business application method are disclosed, in which any one of the general song components such as song words, melody and background melody is sent to a server, and the rest of the composition components are received so as to openly evaluate them, thereby commonly creating the songs. Thus, new talented music composers can be...

To provide a polytetrafluoroethylene granular powder for molding and a process for preparing the granular powder, in which the granular powder contains only a small number of coarse particles, is obtained with good tumbling efficiency and further no organic liquid is required to be used. The process is for preparing a polytetrafluoroethylene granular powder for molding by granulating a polytetrafl...

PURPOSE:To obtain excellent superconductivity even when heat-treated in a sufficiently low oxygen partial pressure to control the deterioration of a covering tube of copper or a copper alloy by replacing a part of the Sr and Ca in a Bi-based oxide superconductor by rare-earth elements to control the carrier concn. and replacing a part of the Bi by Pb. CONSTITUTION:The oxide superconductor consists...

Perfluorinated cycloalkane solvents for dissolving high melting polymers containing tetrafluoroethylene, are disclosed. These solvents dissolve such polymers more rapidly, and/or are more stable, than previously known solvents. Also disclosed is a process for dissolution of the polymers and their resulting solutions. The solutions are useful for making polymer films, coatings and for encapsulating...

Multimodal emulsions comprising a blend of at least one polymeric microemulsion provide for high solids and low bulk viscosity. Convenient and versatile processes for preparing multimodal emulsions are also provided. Stable compositions comprising a blend of at least two inverse emulsions, at least one of which is a polymeric microemulsion, and stabilizing amounts of aldehyde scavenger are also pr...