A non-woven fabric having improved absorbent characteristics. The fabric has three different fiber arrays which are interconnected to produce a unique fiber distribution in the fabric.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize the traveling characteristic corresponding to the likes and personality of each driver. SOLUTION: A control unit 18 outputs questions related to the vehicle characteristic to a driver through a speaker 12. When the driver inputs the answer to this question through a microphone 10, the content of the answer is recognized by a sound recognizing unit 14. The control u...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To compactify, lighten and simplify transmission structure such as an input pulley 74, a gear pump 79 and a transmission case 23. SOLUTION: In this crawler traveling vehicle attached to the transmission case 23 with a pump 67 and a motor 68 for transmission, and a pump 69 and a motor 70 for steering, a space for installing the gear pump 79 is formed between the input pulley 7...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To conduct control to enhance a fuel consumption of an engine using a continuously variable transmission, and to properly maintain idling. SOLUTION: In this controller, a target output of a power source for attaining target driving force is found based on the target driving force, the number of target output revolutions is found based on the target output, a gear ratio of the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic packaging machine for disposable wooden chopsticks, wherein the non-defective item rate can be improved, and in addition, an initial phase adjustment can be easily performed at the start of the operation. SOLUTION: A packaging film 2 of which the cross section is bent into a U-shape is pinched by a pair of vertical sealing drums 9, 9. Then, the packagi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small improved elevating device saving a using space which lifts a stairs walking assisting machine, a wheelchair or the like along the inclined track or the stairs, movable along an inclined track or stairs. SOLUTION: This elevating device is provided with a carriage movable along a guide and mountable to an elevation assisting means such as a walking frame, a t...

The invention relates to a rubber tire, and its preparation, composed of carbon black reinforced rubber carcass with an outer, circumferential rubber tread construction of a rubber composition having a relatively high electrical resistivity. The tire tread construction has an electrically conductive filamentary thread stitched through the tread construction and extending between the inner surface ...

Methods and devices for performing percutaneous myocardial revascularization without disrupting the blood pumping activity of the heart. A percutaneous myocardial revascularization system including an active electrode disposed at the end of a catheter and a radio frequency generator coupled to the active electrode for delivering radio frequency energy thereto. Radio frequency energy is selectively...

The invention relates to a method and device for producing soft solder powder without pressure, in particular for producing spherical fine metal particles having a grain size ranging from 1-100 microns and a liquidus temperature <250 degrees C. The method comprises: a) gravity feeding melted solder into an oil receiver while setting a volume ratio of melted solder to oil to at least 10:1; b) dispe...

A mold 20 for curing a precured tread 10 to a tire casing 100 is disclosed. The mold 20 has a first annular portion 24, a second annular portion 44, a pair of annular portions 12,14, and an inflatable bladder 23 for insertion into the casing 100 when enclosed in the cavity 53 of the closed mold 20. The first annular portion 24 has a sidewall supporting member 27, the sidewall supporting member 27 ...

The present invention relates generally to a monolithic broadhead including a ferrule and a blade having a tapered cross-section. The ferrule is formed with a threaded portion for attaching the broadhead to an arrow shaft in a conventional manner. Through the use of powdered metallurgy, the blade may be formed of a metal having a high hardness for maintaining edge sharpness and the ferrule may be ...

A circuit for detecting and selecting one of clock signals of at least two clock sources, is provided. The circuit is coupled to the available clock sources so as to receive their clock signals. The circuit is programmable to choose one of the clock signals designated by a programmed code. Then, the circuit [1] selects the designated clock signal when it has been received and [2] automatically sel...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an anti-dioxin health food with genistein as the main material extracted from fermented soybeans, capable of preventing dioxins from being bound to human hormone existing in the human body to reduce dioxin accumulation in the human body, capable of being bound to dioxins having got into the human body so as to make them get out of the human body, and capable of inc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an eating aid which can reliably allow a senior person, a cared person, an invalid, an infant, etc., who are helpless in fingers and hands to easily scoop the food, etc., on a tableware by a spoon, etc., and carry it to their own mouth. SOLUTION: In the eating aid (a) which is attachable/detachable to/from an outer circumferential edge 2 of the tableware such as a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To further improve the safety of a probe with touch sensor. SOLUTION: A head part 1 is set projecting on the front of a case C, a substrate K is built in the case C and a control circuit 2, a fan 3, an LED lamp 4 and a push-switch 5 are attached to the case. A spherical lens 11 is inserted by opening the center of the head part 1, and two contacts 12 and 12' are planted on th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for manufacturing a tire reinforcement from a cord 4 by disposing the cord 4 along a desired locus on a surface of a mold by cooperating with a substantially toroidal form 1. SOLUTION: The apparatus for manufacturing the tire reinforcement from the cord 4 comprises depositing members arranged on a support 304a. In this case, the depositing members each...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an iron base powdery mixture for powder metallurgy excellent in room temperature and warm fluidity and formability and moreover, small in the temperature dependency of fluidity and green density, and to provide its producing method. SOLUTION: In the iron base powdery mixture containing iron base powder, powder for an alloy adhered to the iron base powder by a lubri...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide metallic grains having a nanocomposite structure and to provide their producing method. SOLUTION: This metallic grains are aggregates of metallic micrograins and have a nanocomposite structure in which individual micrograins are separated by the layers or scatters of metallic oxide, metallic nitride or metallic silicide or gaps. The metallic grains having nanocompo...

A method of determining the position of unmanned mining vehicles. According to the method, control marks are provided in the mine, for positioning mining vehicles in production use by means of a marking device, such as a paint sprayer (14), provided in a specific measuring vehicle (3). The invention also relates to a measuring vehicle that is unmanned and comprises a measuring device for measuring...

A method (and apparatus) is disclosed for the spectroscopic determination of the amount ~Nn of one constituent N of a fluid mixture 0 in another constituent n of the mixture, following separation of the mixture into its constituents 1,...,M (where n, N ~ M). The method involves determining the absorptivities a n (n = 1,...,N) of the M constituents from spectroscopic measurements and computing the ...