A portable X-ray apparatus comprises a main body, a power source unit for applying power to the main body, an input unit for setting and selectively inputting operation functions of the main body, a display unit for displaying the operation functions of the main body and a function selected by a user, and an image capturing unit provided at one side of the main body and capturing an image of an in...

A method of machining a substrate etches a substrate according to a predetermined length and depth from an intersection between a first predetermined dividing line and a second predetermined dividing line, which cross each other in a T-shaped line, along the second predetermined dividing line of the predetermined dividing lines being used to cut the substrate, and divides the substrate along the p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve overall traveling of an electric vehicle by obtaining a power-transmission unit for the electric vehicle. Ž

SOLUTION: An automatic two-speed clutch transmission equipped with a dog clutch (23) is provided, in the electric vehicle provided with a battery power source, a motor and a controller that control the revolutions of the motor as a power system. The dog ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To carry out a smooth and quick running operation by changing the inclination angle of a swash plate in response to the pedaling operation of an accelerator pedal, when a speed change device interposed between a swash plate type hydraulic motor for running and a drive wheel is switched to the highest speed side of the power transmission. SOLUTION: Right/left respective drive ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent intermittent fuel cut and prevent the generation of acceleration/ deceleration shock by controlling the change gear ratio so as to set a car speed to a second target car speed, when traveling on a downslope while executing a constant traveling control controlling the car speed to a first target car speed according to the constant speed traveling command of a driver...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an attachment for traveling on snow which reduces a burden to assist in moving on the snow during the winter season by attaching a device for traveling on the snow, such as skis or snowboards, to a wheelchair used by a physically handicapped person with difficulty in walking through the help of a care giver. Ž

SOLUTION: A front fixing bracket 15 and a rear fix...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve reliability and to accurately detect the position on a track of a vehicle or to surely detect the abnormality of a following vehicle in each of vehicles within a vehicle group for which the plural vehicles are electronically connected. SOLUTION: The vehicle control ECU of each of the vehicles within a vehicle convoy for which the plural vehicles are electronically ...

A shift control system for a continuously variable transmission, in which a road load on a vehicle is detected, the lower limit speed is set according to the detected road load, in which a target input speed, as set according to the running state of a vehicle, is restricted with the set lower limit speed, and in which the gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission is controlled so that t...

A target orbit of an inter-vehicle distance is calculated based on an inter-vehicle distance command value, a target orbit coincident-host vehicle running speed command value for according the inter-vehicle distance with the target orbit is calculated, and a reference host vehicle running speed command value is calculated by use of the target orbit and the target orbit coincident-host vehicle runn...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize inter-vehicle distance control providing no sense of incompatibility even when a newly proceeding vehicle intrudes between a vehicle ahead and driver's own vehicle during change of the set inter-vehicle distance. Ž

SOLUTION: An inter-vehicle distance change ratio γ is calculated by dividing the set inter-vehicle distance (dc) by the inter-vehicle distance (d) ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance a battery performance while increasing a volumetric efficiency of a hybrid car and conventional type car. Ž

SOLUTION: This car accommodates a battery in a battery housing space fixed to a seat. Ž

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an automatic brake from being frequently operated, and the operation of the automatic brake from being delayed. SOLUTION: When the error &verbar De&verbar of a predicted value and an actual value of an inter-vehicle distance of a vehicle from a preceding vehicle after a specified time is smaller than a pre-determined specified value Demax (YES of S1) and the relat...

A portable computer (3) is removably connected to a video game machine (2) which processes data, and a digital camera (4) is connected to the video game machine (2). Image data supplied from the portable computer (3) or the digital camera (4) to the video game machine (2) is processed or combined by the video game machine (2), and the processed or combined image data is outputted to the portable c...

A sprocket 11 for a chain having teeth 12 with facing tooth surfaces 13,14 connected by tooth gap bottoms 17, wherein when the centre 17a of the tooth gap bottom is aligned (fig.4) with the centre 7a of a tooth gap bottom of a sprocket having ISO 606:1994 (E) tooth form, the tooth thicknesses W, of an inner portions of said teeth in the vicinity of the intersections (alpha 2) of lines (alpha 1) de...

The present invention relates to a device 10 for mining mineral raw materials or roadheading (tunnelling) roadways or tunnels, having at least one rotatable driven tool 1 which is superimposed by impacts The device 10 can be used especially for mining hard rock such as platinum ore and has a sleeve 6 supported rotatably in a casing in whose sleeve boring is mounted an eccentric shaft 4. This is jo...

A method of operating a metal producing blast furnace 1 by charging carbon containing material 3 and oxidic materials 2 into the top of the furnace 1 and introducing blast air 4, commercial oxygen 8 and directly preheated gases from the direct combustion of solid, liquid or gaseous fuel 9 and 22 into the bottom of the furnace 1. The fuel may be at least in part recycled furnace gas 9. The fuel 9 a...

A functional garden device includes an upper portion ( 10 ) and a lower portion ( 60 ). Lower portion ( 60 ) includes a retractable hose reel ( 80 ) for garden hose ( 90 ) which passes through orifice ( 63 ) in wall ( 65 ). Upper portion ( 10 ) has a separate, unrelated function to the hose storage portion ( 60 ) and may form part of a fountain, pond, statue, refrigerated storage area or a plantin...

A centrifugal separator device ( 10 ) for separating solid and/or liquid particles which are suspended in gas media, which device comprises a rotor ( 12 ) which is provided sedimentation members ( 14 ), which is rotatably mounted in a surrounding stationary housing ( 20 ) and which has a central inlet for the gas medium which is to be cleaned. The housing ( 20 ) has, on the one hand, an outlet ( 3...

An apparatus and method for receiving a material web traveling at a first speed in a receiving zone, forming discrete parts from the material web, and applying the discrete parts onto a carrier traveling at a second speed through an application zone. The apparatus has a cutting device for severing the material web to form the discrete parts. At least two shells for receiving the discrete parts in ...