The invention relates to a device for extending an intermediate wall arranged in a packaging tube's longitudinal direction with a surplus of material as measured between the attachment locations of the intermediate wall. Means arc provided for orientating the intermediate tube's attachment locations to predetermined positions and application means (13) is introduced on either side of the intermedi...

A combination of double and triple cell ganging which resolves any incompatibility between the number of detector channels and the lower number of DAS channels without requiring any significant hardware and software changes is described. In one specific embodiment, at least some detector cells on one side of the detector outside the FOV are wired in pairs, i.e., ganged, to form a set of 2 mm chann...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithium secondary battery for a 1.5V system with a high capacity and an excellent charge/discharge cycle property suitable for use in a power source of a wrist watch or the like. Ž

SOLUTION: A lithium secondary battery is composed of a cathode containing 70 to 90 vol.% of lithium titanate as shown in a general formula LixTiyO4, 5 t...

A packaging unit (1) for continuously producing aseptic sealed packages (2), containing a pourable food product, from a tube (14) of packaging material filled with the food product; the unit (1) has a first and second chain conveyor (10, 11) respectively having a number of jaws (12) and a number of counter-jaws (13), which interact with and grip the tube (14) to heat-seal the tube at successive cr...

Nitrogen-containing bases are added to the aldehyde starting material in a process for the production of alcohols by gas-phase hydrogenation of aldehydes in presence of a hydrogenation catalyst.

A method of transferring information in units over a wireless digital communications link between a transmitting station and a receiving station comprising the steps of: transmitting first information units at a first energy level; monitoring if correct reception of the transmitted units occurred; and transmitting second information units associated with the first information units, for which firs...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce shock at clutch engagement occurring in switching from driving with an electric motor to driving with an engine in a drive controller of a hybrid car equipped with an engine and an electric motor connected to the engine through a hydraulic clutch. SOLUTION: Difference rotations dN between electric motor rotation speed NM and engine rotation speed NE are compared wit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform aimed control without rapidly varying of engine output even if a large response delay exists in either one of engine control or speed change control when driving force is excessively controlled by the engine control and the speed change control. SOLUTION: Demand driving force Ts is found out from an accelerator pedal step-down amount APS and car speed VSP in a dema...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To warn rearward properly at deceleration under follow-up control. SOLUTION: Under this system, a target deceleration is determined based on a speed of a vehicle and distance between the vehicle and an obstacle ahead, and control means is actuated based on the target deceleration. When a value of the target deceleration Gt is smaller than that of a predetermined deceleration ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent occurrence of early separation at a rolling contact part of an inner ring race 5 and an outer ring race 7 from a rolling surface of each ball 9 even when a rolling bearing is installed in an aluminum alloy housing of low rigidity. Ž

SOLUTION: Each dimension is regulated so that the value K calculated by the formula ä(h1.5x W)/(Da1.1x 0.4D...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely detect a following distance even when the following distance is short and a preceding vehicle is a high vehicle. Ž

SOLUTION: It is constituted to compute the following distance Lx by detecting a detected following distance Lx(n)for each specified time by a radar 16, determining whether variation of the detected following distance Lx(n)is mo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gear change controller for a hybrid vehicle, a gear change controller for a vehicle and a planet gear type automatic transmission for a vehicle for alleviating gear change shock. Ž

SOLUTION: At the time of change gear of an automatic transmission part 10 to which power from a power distribution part 30 is input via a first power transmission member M1 and a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of an engine brake by an automatic clutch being connected when putting a shift lever in a low speed stage for redeparture after stopping. SOLUTION: When realizing a new shift stage (55 is NO) after disengaging an automatic clutch at shift time, whether or not operation is acceleration unexpecting shift operation is judged in S9 by whether or not an i...

A high-strength titanium alloy of the present invention includes Ti as a major component, 15 to 30 at% Va group element, and 1.5 to 7 at% oxygen (O) when the entirety is taken as 100 atomic % (at%), and its tensile strength is 1,000 MPa or more. Overturning the conventional concept, regardless of being high oxygen contents, it has been possible to achieve the compatibility between the high str...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for a vehicle capable of achieving a power performance of the vehicle required by the driver after stopping temporarily. Ž

SOLUTION: The controller of the vehicle includes an ECT_ECU which executes a program consisting of a step (S200) to acquire the current position information from a navigation system, a step (S400) to acquire the ahead vehicle ...

A vehicle speed V is read (step S 1), V is compared with a first threshold Vth1 (step S2), and, when V is not less than Vth1, a warning torque is set smaller with increase in V (step S3). When V is less than Vth1, V is further compared with a second threshold Vth2 (step S4), and when V is less than Vth2, the warning torque is set approximately in proportion to the vehicle speed (step S5); when V i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent external water from being easily sucked into a power transmission case storing a V-belt winding mechanism and also prevent the lateral dimension of a vehicle from being increased in a transmission of a saddle-riding type vehicle. Ž

SOLUTION: This transmission 18 of the vehicle 1 comprises the V-belt winding mechanism 2 interlockingly connecting rear wheels 5 t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hydraulic supply device capable of rotating an electric motor for driving an electric oil pump at fixed speed for a predetermined period of time when starting the electric motor and operating it to output fixed torque after that. Ž

SOLUTION: This hydraulic supply device is composed of a mechanical oil pump 20 driven by a driving source, the electric oil pump...

A formation evaluation system for a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore. The formation evaluation system is provided with a downhole tool and a sensor. The downhole tool is positionable in the wellbore. The downhole tool has a downhole electromagnetic unit for communication with a surface electromagnetic unit. The sensor determines at least one wellsite parameter from the electromagnet...

The present invention provides for the preparation of stable surfactant-free dispersions of hydrophobic substances in low viscosity hydrophilic glyceryl polyacrylate or glyceryl polymethacrylate fluids, and topical vehicles formulated with the dispersions.