This method includes: a supporting process of supporting a worm wheel in a first supporting section of a supporting body; an engaging process of engaging a jig gear which corresponds to a worm with the worm wheel; a measuring process of measuring a distance between the centers of the worm wheel and the jig gear; a gear processing process of processing the worm based on the measured distance betwee...

At least two wall segments (2,3) arranged adjacent to each other. A sealing member (15) which bridges the gap between the end sides (6,7) of the segments, is placed in opposing receiving channels (11). The ratio of the distance between two opposing channel walls (14) of a respective receiving channel, measured from the base (12) of the channel, and the thickness of the sealing member is greater th...

A power transmission device is capable of correctly adjusting relative positions of two shafts in a direction of rotation even when the shafts are rotationally driven, and comprises a hollow, outer shaft (81), to one end of which a drive gear (84) is fixed, an inner shaft (83), to one end of which a carrier (85) is fixed, and a planetary gear mechanism. The planetary gear mechanism comprises a sun...

An electronic "To-Do" bar is provided in which displayed upcoming tasks, meetings, appointments and the like. The electronic To-Do bar is displayed in a lightweight menu of tasks, meetings and appointments and is displayed persistently in addition to other software functionality or user interfaces displayed on a user's computer display screen according to other software applications or other softw...

Both a mold blade (10) for forming sipes and the sipe (20) so formed in a tire tread element (32', 32") have three-dimensional portions. In the formed sipe (20), the three-dimensional portion creates a constant interlocking of the opposing sipe faces. The blade (10) and the sipe (20) have two radially adjacent rows (22, 24) of projections (14), wherein the projections (14) are separated by a plana...

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...

In an X-ray imaging apparatus, which has a radiation source for generating radiation, and a detector for detecting the amount of radiation of the radiation, a subject is relatively rotated with respect to radiation which is radiated from the radiation source in the direction of the detector, and radiation amount data for image reconstruction is acquired in a predetermined rotation section. At this...

The present invention is to provide a laser irradiation method for performing homogeneous laser irradiation to the irradiation object even when the thickness of the irradiation object is not even. In the case of irradiating the irradiation object having uneven thickness, the laser irradiation is performed while keeping the distance between the irradiation object and the lens for condensing the las...

A shift control apparatus for a continuously variable transmission includes a continuously variable transmission for transmitting power of an engine to a driving wheel; a shift actuator for changing a gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission; and a gear ratio controller for controlling the shift actuator such that the gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission exhibits a pred...

Zinc has a lower melting point than steel resulting in the formation of small cavities along the faulty welding seams. Corrosion and a weak connection will occur at a later stage. The new method for improving a welding seam on a zinc-coated metal sheet or an aluminum sheet uses the pre-processing with an atmospheric electrically neutral low temperature plasma beam directed on the area to be welded...

An anti-coking valve arrangement having a valve body that defines a passage for the flow of fluid medium. Valve seat and valve member positioned within the valve body and function to control the flow of fluid medium. A first anti-coking device is operably associated with the valve stem. A second anti-coking device is operably associated with the bearing guide member. A third anti-coking device is ...

Methods and systems are provided for establishing a hierarchical relationship between a parent or master project schedule and sub-project schedules including tasks and phases required for completion of the parent or master project. When changes are made to data contained in a given parent or master project schedule or to a hierarchically related sub-project schedule, an automatic notification is p...

The present invention relates to a cutting insert particularly for turning of stainless steel comprising a cemented carbide substrate and a post-treated coating with a substrate of cemented carbide having a composition of 5.0-<8.0 wt% Co, 3.0-8.0 wt% cubic carbides of the metals Ti, Ta and Nb with a Ti/(Ti+Ta+Nb) ratio of 0.05-0.3 and balance tungsten carbide (WC) having a grain size of 1.5-3.5 µ...

An organic ELpanel andamethodof forming the same are provided, in which a bottom electrode 12 of an organic EL device is flattened at the surface so that organic layers 20 deposited thereon have uniform thicknesses, thereby avoiding the occurrence of leak currents and allowing favorable luminescence characteristics. The organic EL panel 10 has an organic EL device formed on a substrate 11, the dev...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a planetary gear device with a carrier having improved rigidity.

SOLUTION: The carrier 20 has, at least, a first flange portion 31 for supporting a short pinion 17 and a long pinion 18 at one end each, a cylindrical portion 41 connected to the first flange portion 31 for covering a double pinion portion all over its outer periphery with which the short pinio...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential gear for a vehicle capable of performing a more positive drive force distribution by increasing a control width for drive force distribution between right and left wheels.

SOLUTION: Motor generators MG1 and MG2 are designed or selected so that the counter electromotive force of the motor generator MG1 is larger than that of the motor generator...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve fuel consumption by controlling a frictional engagement element to hold down a loss (a motor loss) due to drag of a motor caused by the engagement of the frictional engagement element when the motor is inoperative and a frictional engagement element loss due to friction generated by releasing the frictional engagement element as much as possible in a control dev...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for embodying a liquid crystal display panel which reduces a change in display luminance due to a change in an observation direction.

SOLUTION: The liquid crystal display panel of a multi-domain alignment type formed with a plurality of kinds of alignment regions varying in the alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules within each pixel...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an additive for a lead-acid battery capable of recovering characteristics of a degraded lead-acid battery in an extremely short time and allowing the characteristics to last long.

SOLUTION: The lead-acid battery contains polyvinyl alcohol and at least one selected from a group composed of a single-layer carbon nanotube, a multi-layer carbon nanotube, a carbo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method accurately and reproducibly introducing a small amount of mercury into a fluorescent lamp without using a second component to produce the fluorescent lamp, and to provide the fluorescent lamp produced thereby.

SOLUTION: In this production method, a device 73 formed by a metal vessel capable of holding powder and closed except a slit from which the m...