PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To impart enhanced starting and exhaust performance to a vehicular electronically controlled diesel engine with an injection controller therefor for controlling the injection thereof. SOLUTION: A spill valve is provided for opening or closing the high-pressure chamber of a fuel injection pump, and an NE pulser is provided for detecting the rotational angle of a diesel engine....

A biomedical electrode (40 or 70) which generally comprises a conductor member (42 or 72) partially overlapping a separator construction (41 or 71). The conductor member is preferably a thin flat, flexible member having a pad portion (51 or 77) and a tab portion (52 or 78). The tab portion overlaps the separator construction in a manner which centrally positions mechanical and electrical contact o...

Concrete or mortar is sprayed onto a surface by adding an aqueous suspension of silica, and an aluminium cpd. selected from aluminium sulphate, basic aluminium sulphate, alkali metal aluminium sulphate or their mixts.. The suspension has a pH of less than 4, and contains 10-50 wt.% dry material. After storing for 48 hrs., it forms a gel which can be converted back into a suspension by mild stirrin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an admixture for a concrete improving a separating resistance of materials, an initial strength, etc., by specifying a blending ratio of a copolymer, a high quality water reducing agent, a water-soluble polymer and a defoaming agent, a molar ratio of monomers forming the copolymer and the average molecular weight of the copolymer. SOLUTION: This admixture for a conc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a liquid adhesive for electronic parts, prepared by dissolving a specific resin mixture an specific plural compounds containing nitrogen into an organic solvent, capable of adhering and curing at low temperature, excellent in heat resistance and electrical reliability and useful as a tape for fixation of lead frame and the like. SOLUTION: This adhesive is prepared b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily specify a fault point at low cost whichever actuator or sensor as the kernel of the control system, which has actuators and sensors and controlling the operations of the actuators according to output signals of the sensors, gets out of order. SOLUTION: To diagnose a fault, transmission characteristics between the individual actuators A1 and A2 and individual sensors...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a memory card large in capacity, reduced in access time and capable of correcting the error of data. SOLUTION: This memory card is provided with an error correct code (ECC) calculation circuit 19 for calculating an ECC for each block of data to be stored in a main memory 11 and an error correction circuit 15 composed of an ECC memory 21 for storing the ECC calculat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to discriminate errors of all operations of a typical memory by determining the parity of sequential data groups which are transmitted. SOLUTION: When a 1st data group is transmitted through a data bus 5, a parity signal generating circuit 10 generates a parity signal. This signal is applied to and stored in a counter register 12 through an exclusive OR lo...

The present invention relates to a peptide having the amino acid sequence shown in the sequence listing; an agent for inhibiting elevations of triglyceride levels in blood comprising the above peptide, a peptide Val-Tyr-Pro and/or a peptide Val-Thr-Leu as an active component; a food for specified health use which is endowed with a function of inhibiting elevations of triglyceride levels in blood b...

The present invention relates to a peptide having the amino acid sequence shown in the sequence listing; an agent for inhibiting elevations of triglyceride levels in blood comprising the above peptide, a peptide Val-Tyr-Pro and/or a peptide Val-Thr-Leu as an active component; a food for specified health use which is endowed with a function of inhibiting elevations of triglyceride levels in blood b...

A compatible polymer blend comprising: a curable aromatic epoxy resin, an epoxidized polydiene polymer, and an anhydride or polycarboxylic acid curing agent. The invention also relates to structural adhesive compositions comprising cured compatible polymer blends as described.

Fluoroalkyl glycoside uronic acid derivatives of formulae (I) and (II) and their lactones of formula (III) are new. R1 = optionally unsaturated 4-46C fluoroalkyl; R2 = H, R1, alkaline or alkaline earth metal or -N(R3)(R4)(R5(R6) (sic); R3-R6 = H, 1-6C alkyl or 1-6C hydroxyalkyl.

Devices and methods for minimally invasive harvesting of a vessel, especially the internal mammary artery for coronary artery bypass grafting, are disclosed. Generally, an electrosurgical instrument is provided which has a scissors mechanism or other end effector for dissecting tissue. The instrument also has monopolar or bipolar capabilities. Bipolar blade configurations provide current flow betw...

Compounds of formula (I), wherein R is halogen; Y is hydrogen, NH2, SH or OH; X is (II), wherein either R1 or R2 is a bond, with the other being hydrogen; either R3 or R4 is hydrogen, with the other being hydrogen, OH, OAc or NHAc; R5 is OH or OAc; either R7 or R8 is hydrogen, with the other being OH or OAc; R9 is hydrogen, CH2OH or CH2OAc; with the proviso that when R4 is OH, OAc or NHAc then R8 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a compound useful as a labeling substance capable of labeling in a short time in high efficiency and having high sensitivity by introducing a chemoluminescent group into a carbodiimide compound. SOLUTION: This carbodiimide compound containing a chemoluminescent group is expressed by formula, B-N=C=N-L-CL (B is a univalent organic group bonding to carbodiimide; CL is...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively use respective erasing blocks without depending on the number of erasing by deciding deteriorated state of characteristics of the erasing blocks of a memory means from pulse number of an applied pulse voltage. SOLUTION: When a control CPU 3 in a memory 1 inputs a result of the effect that erasure of erasing block is not completed from a flash memory controller ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method by which coils can be wound in parallel, not in series, by winding at least a specific number of coils so that the driving current supplied to equipment can be increased by reducing the resistances of the coils. SOLUTION: A first coil 12 and second coil 14 are wound in parallel around a bobbin 10 in a fixed direction from the top of the bobbin 10. At the t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image message device in which capability of the message system based on a LAN (WAN) is extended in matching with that of a telephone set. SOLUTION: In an image and telephone messaging, a plurality of video work stations 103-104 are integrated by a telephone multimedia message system 101 connected by a LAN (WAN) 100. The video work stations 103-104 retrieve an im...

The present invention relates to (2-aminoacylamino-2-deoxy-glycosyl)-amides, which are substituted on the nitrogen atom of the amino acid, of the general formula (I) in which the substituents have the meaning given in the description, to processes for their preparation and to their use in medicaments.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance reliability in the display data. SOLUTION: The whole of the integrated running distance data obtained every moment are written in addresses decided by numerical values of a last digit of the data. For instance, when the integrated running distance data are (123456)km, the (123456) is written in the address #6 decided by the numerical value (6) of the last digit. Wh...