Prepare a multimodal thermoplastic polymer foam having a distribution of large and small cells in a substantial absence of water by using a blowing agent stabilizer. Multimodal foams of the present invention have blowing agent stabilizer predominantly located proximate to large cells. The resulting multimodal foams have particular utility as thermal insulating materials.

The invention seeks to provide a cermet tool in which the judgement of a worn part and a non-worn part with the naked eye can be easily conducted, and thus the judgement of the expiry of the life of the tool, and the like can be readily conducted. Accordingly, a surface coating layer is formed on the surface of a cermet, the surface coating layer satisfying at least one of: the appearance ligh...

PURPOSE:To control the engine torque and speed change ratio by establishing the system for separately controlling a torque converter in used state and in unused state (lock-up control) and securing pour performance and fuel economic efficiency. CONSTITUTION:In the torque control of an internal combustion engine in which the aimed driving shaft torque is obtained from the car speed and the opening ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify the assembling work, to lower the cost, and to lower the weight of a product while reducing the number of bearing to be arranged as small as possible without performing the remarkable remodeling by arranging a snap ring in a shaft, and providing a thrust bearing adjacent to the snap ring so as to receive the thrust force with the thrust bearing through the snap ri...

In a piezoelectric ceramic composition containing at least elements Pb, Zr, Ti, La, Cr, Sb, and O, the molar ratio (x) of La to Pb and that (y) of Zr to Pb are adjusted so that the (x) and (y) can stay contained within a square area formed by connecting four apexes A (x=0.005, y=0.54), B (x=0.005, y=0.46), C (x=0.03, y=0.50), and D (x=0.03, y=0.58) with straight lines including the lines and, at t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the size of a generator. SOLUTION: When a required generated power exceeds the maximum output of the short-time rating of a generator 1, while a clutch 3 is connected, its exceeding power component is generated by a running motor 4. Moreover, when the required generated power exceeds the maximum output of the short- period rating of the generator 1 when the clutch 3...

PURPOSE:To provide a differential device with differential control function with a simple structure. CONSTITUTION:A sub-gear 14 which is supported onto an outer periphery of one vehicle shaft 2R is connected to a main gear 10 provided on a differential case 6 of a differential device D, and rotated in the same direction as the main gear 10 with the same rotational speed. A first rotational body 15...

The present invention relates to a method for separating particles. The invention has particular advantages in connection with separating and purifying progenitor cells or stem cells obtained from bone marrow. The method comprises removing a desired volume of stem cell staring product from a donor/patient and eluting off a first contaminating cell type in a fluid chamber to create an enriched stem...

The present invention relates to a method for separating particles. The invention has particular advantages in connection with separating and purifying progenitor cells or stem cells obtained from bone marrow. The method comprises removing a desired volume of stem cell staring product from a donor/patient and eluting off a first contaminating cell type in a fluid chamber to create an enriched stem...

In some weaving mills it is standard practice that at the emptying of only one of a large number of yarn bobbins, replacement is made for many other bobbins even though they are not quite empty. For reuse of yarn remnant blocks as well as bobbin tubes ("rolls"), axial cutting up of the yarn remnant for separating it from the roll has been initiated, but this operation is complicated by the use of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a card connector from becoming large in scale, and to prevent a function for preventing the erroneous insertion of a card from being easily damaged even when the erroneously inserted card is strongly inserted in an erroneous insertion preventing device of a card connector for preventing the erroneous insertion of the card. SOLUTION: A card 1 having an inclined acti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce operation mistakes and to attain swiftness and precision in treating the occurrence of a trouble by equipping a job processing management means which detects a phenomenon occurring separately from job processing, coordinates it to job processing a user prepares in advance, monitors it and performs monitoring of progress and automatic operation. SOLUTION: A condition...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for driving a pipe anchor into the ground capable of preventing a point from coming out and biting into a body, and preventing an anchor from being raised during recovery of the device, while enabling damaged parts to be replaced. SOLUTION: An internal thread is provided at the end of a pipe-shaped body having a built in piston hammer, and the point having...

The backrest (10) has a headrest (11) which is pivoted relative to the backrest between a vertical working position and a horizontal inactive position and provided by a headrest pad (13) and at least one carrier rod (14), which fits through a slit (18) in the rear of the backrest rear wall, for fitting to a pivot shaft within the backrest. The carrier rod has a curved section (141) concentric to t...

A catcher for an ink jet print head is provided with locating features in the catcher throat to positively locate a catcher screen that serves to wick caught ink into the catcher throat, and a screen construction that resists compression of the screen without adversely affecting the ink flow in the catcher throat.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make an input module element compact and thin, to make that element immune to external noises and to integrate it with a light source part or a peripheral circuit part, by connecting the signal line of the light source part and the signal line of a signal processing part by electrode pins installed around an outer surrounder inside the outer surrounder. SOLUTION: There are...

Conductive members formed of metallic wires constructed so that they extend linearly between a semiconductor element-mounting face and a circuit board-mounting face of a base member are integrally molded with the base member. For this purpose, a resin material for forming the base member is injected into a mold wherein the conductive members are linearly arranged beforehand.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To use usefully an antibacterial agent by liquating out gradually the antibacterial agent into running water by a method wherein a water soluble binder and an antibacterial cationic surfactant are applied to at least one part of an inner surface of a disposable draining bag to be used for collecting kitchen waste in a sink of a cooking place in home. SOLUTION: Though a bag pr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate a defect caused by opening an original cover, by inhibiting the opening of the original cover during read-scanning an image by the image reader. SOLUTION: A scanner 1 is provided with an original cover 2 that is supported pivotally at one side end 4 to be opened/closed, corresponding to a transparent original platen 3 on which an original is placed. A touch type ...

End portions of face plates 111 and 112 of a frame member 110 are connected by a rib 116A. End portions of face plates 101 and 102 of another frame member 100 are overlapped with protrusion chips 117b1 and 117b2. A connection line between the rib 116A and a rear face of the face plates 111 and 112 are connected by a circular arc 131 which protrudes towards a hollow portion 119 of the frame member ...