A system for filtering organic molecules from an electrolyte solution, including a feed inlet line adapted to carry a solution with organic molecules, a filter vessel secured to the inlet line, and a pump adapted to introduce dissolved air into the solution in the feed inlet line. The filter vessel is a solvent extraction filter having coalescing media above a solution outlet at the bottom of the ...

The present invention relates to a process for the recycling of steel industry iron bearing by-products into pellets suitable for feeding into a direct reduction furnace, comprising the steps of mixing and grinding 50 to 99 wt% of ore and pellet fines and 1 to 50 wt% of slurry, mill scale and/or bag house dust, pelletizing the mixture and indurating the pellets so obtained by heating for 5-60 minu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a calorie counter capable of correctly estimating (counting) the exercise strength (or calorie consumption) of a user when the user uses a passive type exercise machine, and to provide the passive type exercise machine.

SOLUTION: The calorie counter 10 includes: a load level acquiring part 11 for acquiring the load level of the passive type exercise machine;...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bed mattress obtained using the measurement of a muscular strength, its choice, and a suitable arrangement method in this invention.

SOLUTION: This invention evaluates whether a bed mattress is suitable for a user by measuring the ability of lower limbs when the user lies supine on the bed mattress. The bed mattress of this invention includes a composite m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for fixing a functional material with good accuracy in the prescribed position on a fixing surface.

SOLUTION: The method for fixing a functional material comprises a droplet ejection step (fig.(A)) of ejecting a droplet (10) of a functional material dispersed (11) in a solvent (13) onto a fixing surface (20a) and a drying step (fig.(B)) of locally h...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a butt welded joint suitable for butt welded joint for metal sheets formed by welding from one surface and excellent in fatigue characteristics, and to provide its manufacturing method.

SOLUTION: In the butt welded joint for metal sheets formed by welding the bevel formed at the butt ends of the metal sheets from one side (metal sheet surface), the tip of th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer which can recover paper powder and paper slips occurring in the cutter means easily, positively, and without omission.

SOLUTION: According to the structure of the printer, a lower cover 60 adjoins the lowermost portion of a slope 101 when closed, and has a pocket portion 61 in which paper powder and paper slips sliding on the slope 101 are stored. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving mechanism of a carrier which can prevent the occurrence of a defect, a dent, and a transformation due to a heavy blow in a drive transmitting means in the case of moving reciprocatingly the carrier, even when a vibration and an impact from the outside are acted to an apparatus, and a recording device and a reading apparatus using this driving mechanism...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tomato flavor nutrient composition capable of efficiently supplying protein, lipid, glucide, vitamin, mineral or the like to a person who needs nutritional support, and improved in its taste.

SOLUTION: This nutrient composition of tomato flavor, especially fruit tomato flavor, contains protein, lipid, carbohydrate, mineral and vitamin, and improved in offe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a well-flavored layered food of slighter oil content than the case of using water-in-oil-type roll-in margarine, lighter than the case of using starch-containing flour sheet and having good palate feeling, and excellent in folding workability.

SOLUTION: The layered food, which is not subjected to yeast fermentation, is characterized by being formed by compou...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mode transition controller of a hybrid vehicle for suppressing the delay of the transition of a driving mode with respect to the traveling state of the vehicle.

SOLUTION: This mode transition controller is provided with a mode transition preliminary region setting means for defining a boarder line between a first region as the region of the traveling state...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately achieve a target yaw moment by excluding influence of a yaw moment due to same direction rolling displacement of right and left driving wheels caused by a braking/driving force difference between the right and left wheels for turning behavior control.

SOLUTION: Relation between a total yaw moment of a yaw moment directly applied to a vehicle by the brakin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller promoting warm-up in a power transmission device for a hybrid vehicle having an electric motor and a differential mechanism having a differential operation function.

SOLUTION: A changeover diagram as a differential state changeover condition is changed such that a differential area of a power distribution mechanism 16 becomes wider as a temperat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a travel controller achieving a safer wet running.

SOLUTION: A one's own vehicle water resistance deceleration calculation part 131 calculates one's own vehicle water resistance deceleration that is a degree of one's own vehicle deceleration due to resistance of water on a road surface on the basis of a difference between dry running data acquired by a dry r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate a yaw moment for realizing a requested vehicle behavior even when a state of a vehicle is varied.

SOLUTION: An apparatus comprises braking and driving means 4 capable of independently controlling a braking and driving force of left and right wheels 3a, 3b, vehicle target value setting means 7 for setting vehicle target braking and driving force and a vehicl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control yaw moment to secure stability of vehicle behavior when a turn of a vehicle body is ended, for example.

SOLUTION: This yaw moment controller for vehicle has: a target yaw moment setting means 2 setting a target yaw moment; and a yaw moment control means 6 of the vehicle body including a rear wheel braking/driving force distribution means 3 for controlling br...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To decide the most suitable operation assisting timing for avoiding an obstacle.

SOLUTION: A microprocessor 5 detects a position of the obstacle existing around its own vehicle, detects a position of the own vehicle on a cruising path and velocity of the own vehicle, and predicts operation amount in time series to be needed for the own vehicle to avoid the obstacle. Th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an energy regeneration device for vehicle, which smoothly accelerates in reacceleration while efficiently regenerating energy in deceleration.

SOLUTION: A motor generator 7 is set in a regeneration state when the hybrid vehicle 1 decelerates. A transmission 5 fixes a gear stage of the transmission 5 when the motor generator 7 is set in the regeneration state...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve regeneration efficiency when using an electric motor as a power generator in deceleration, in a hybrid vehicle.

SOLUTION: Closing timing IVC of an intake valve is gradually delayed after the intake bottom dead center until t2 by a variable valve timing mechanism VTC of an engine simultaneously with a start t1 of deceleration regeneration by depressing a brak...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure responsivity in reacceleration while improving regeneration efficiency when using an electric motor as a power generator in deceleration, in a hybrid vehicle.

SOLUTION: When a brake depression amount is gradually increased by operation of a driver from time t1 to t2, valve timing (VTC θv) of an intake valve is delayed according to the brake depression amount,...