PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress change in the gear alignment by displacing a plurality of shafts to such positions that the displacing directions and the amounts of the shafts generated by the meshing load of gears are made equal using elastic members. SOLUTION: A driving gear 1 and a follower gear 2 meshing with each other are mounted on a driving shaft B and a follower shaft C which are instal...

A method of charging a nonwoven web of thermoplastic microfibers to provide electret filter media is provided. The method includes impinging on a nonwoven web of thermoplastic nonconductive microfibers capable of having a high quantity of trapped charge jets of water or a stream of water droplets at a pressure sufficient to provide the web with filtration enhancing electret charge and drying said ...

This invention provides an integrated control apparatus of a vehicle including an internal combustion engine and a continuously variable transmission in which a driving power transmission system containing the continuously variable transmission for transmitting a driving power outputted by the internal combustion engine to a driving wheel is coupled on an output side of the internal combustion eng...

A control apparatus and method for a vehicle that has at least one detection means that detects a running state of the vehicle, and a control apparatus that receives a result of detection by the detector and controls a predetermined vehicle-installed apparatus. The control apparatus determines whether the detection means has failed; restricts a control process by which the control apparatus contro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular travel control device allowing control without giving a sense of unease to a driver, even when it is predicted that a vehicle in a next lane close to an owned vehicle brakes into the lane of the owned vehicle. SOLUTION: Step S4562 determines whether the next lane vehicle exists or not within a first predetermined distance D1 from the owned vehicle, and ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a piecing winder with excellent work efficiency when winding and packaging different kinds of yarn while sequentially selecting a plurality of different kinds of yarn of different colors etc. according to a pattern designed in advance and piecing them by every desired length respectively. Ž

SOLUTION: This piecing winder for different kinds of yarn is constitut...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact horizontal-rotary type powder filling and packaging machine in which bags are formed by heat-sealing out of a long resin film, powder of the predetermined amount is successively filled in the bags in a sealing and dispensing manner, and the bag pitch can be easily changed. Ž

SOLUTION: The powder filling and packaging machine includes a fixed base par...

This invention relates to a method of producing a dopant gas species containing a required dopant element for implanting in a target and to an ion source for implementing such a method. In particular, although not exclusively, this invention relates to producing dopant ions for implanting in semiconductor wafers using an ion implanter. The present invention provides a method of producing a dopant ...

The invention relates to a computer tomography method in which a periodically moving object, in particular an organ of the body, is irradiated by a cone-shaped beam cluster ( 4 ) along a trajectory which runs on a cylindrical surface. The radiation transmitted through the object is measured by means of a detector unit ( 16 ), and at the same time the periodic movement of the object is recorded. In...

An opioid-antagonist oral dosage form which does not release a therapeutically effective amount of the opioid antagonist when the oral dosage form is orally administered to a human being, but whereby a physical alteration of the oral dosage form results in a release of the therapeutically effective amount of the opioid antagonist. An embodiment of the oral dosage form includes an opioid-antagonist...

A support assembly and method is provided for suspending lightweight tools or other objects, such as hairdryers and the like. The assembly provides support and in particular embodiments, electrical power to the object suspended. In addition, the assembly provides management of the cord. Elevation of the object may be adjusted within a predetermined range of motion. The assembly exerts an upward fo...

The present invention provides nucleic acid based polymerase inhibitors and methods for reducing non-specific polymerase extension and amplification in nucleic acid amplification reactions. The polymerase inhibitors provide a double stranded nucleic acid portion that is recognized by a polymerase enzyme as a template for extension but is incapable of being extended by the polymerase enzyme. The po...

The invention relates to a simplified symmetrical, cryptographic method. The basis of this method is an authentication code. This authentication code is calculated in a secured area, referred to as a trust center, by concatenating the application program, referred to as the flashware, with a secret data string and calculating a hash value from the concatenated application program. This hash value ...

Disclosed is a plate heat exchanger (100) with a condensed fluid separating function, which includes a reheater (4) having plural laminated wrinkled plates (1a) and introduction (2) and discharge (3) holes connected to different compressed air channels therein; a chiller (7) having plural laminated wrinkled plates (1b), working fluid inlet (5) and outlet (6) holes connected to a working fluid chan...

The method involves unwinding a material strip from a first roller, printing on the strip, spooling the printed strip onto a new roller, unwinding first and second printed strips (16a,16b) from further rollers (12a,12b), feeding the two strips together in an upper structure (17), separating the strips into sub-strips (19a,19b), mixing the sub-strips with an angle rod arrangement (21), longitudinal...

An apparatus for controlling driving forces to be supplied to left and right wheels of a vehicle, with the intention of effectively inhabitation of oversteer and understeer states, includes driving force adjusting means 15 for adjusting driving forces to be supplied to the left rear wheel 14L and the right rear wheel 14R, first controlling means 18a for controlling the driving force adjusting mean...

A driving force transmission apparatus is provided for a twin clutch transmission with two clutches (31, 32), which enables a gear change control without a torque cutting out, and which reduces a slapping sound of the gears by performing a pre-shift operation before the gear shift control. For instance, in an up-shift operation where a target gear shift range is set as third speed, the clutch (31)...

Disclosed is a solenoid-operated valve (10) which is capable of enhancing the responsivety of a device while an electric current applied thereto is in a low current range, and which is capable of preventing the device from being vibrated by the fluid pressure fluctuation while in a high current range. A spool (20) is received in a valve sleeve (19) for regulating the pressure of fluid. A plunger (...

A device for presenting information on a mobile includes mobiles and terminals interconnected intercommunicably through communication means, wherein a terminal transmits, to the mobile concerned, mobile identification data on a mobile to which a request for mobile information is to be made, request content identification data representing the contents of mobile information to be requested, and ter...

A process for producing sugar alcohols having six carbon atoms, which comprises hydrogenating ketohexose, such as psicose, tagatose, sorbose and the like, in the presence of a catalyst containing a metal selected from the elements belonging to the eighth family in the periodic table, such as nickel, ruthenium, platinum, palladium and the like, is provided. According to this process, sugar alcohols...