The method comprises the following steps: (A) ranking the books on the basis of a first property; (B) selecting a sub-set of books with a second property; (C) displaying the sub-set in a position depending upon the ranking; (D) providing readable identification devices (5) on the books in the sub-set; and (E) providing scanning devices (8) in, on or next to the sub-set.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a horizontal packaging machine which can reduce as much as possible the amount of a packaging material to be wasted and can reduce generation of empty bags while keeping the machine packaging when a packaging speed is increased and a product to be supplied is missing.

SOLUTION: When a product passage sensor 14 detects that a feeding conveyer 12 on which prod...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sorting facility capable of executing sorting with high reliability without imposing a burden on a worker, and suppressing a rise in facility prices.

SOLUTION: This sorting facility includes an antenna 14 for a storing section provided in each article storing section 6, that limits and transmits positional data of the article storing section 6 within the r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To take out paper delivered on a paper delivery face in a well-balanced manner.

SOLUTION: On the upper face of a device main body 10 of a printer 1, the paper delivery face 130 for receiving paper delivered after image formation is provided. On an opening/closing cover 132 constituting part of the paper delivery face 130 and positioned at the tip side in the paper carr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem in which alignment of ejected papers is deteriorated because various kinds of papers of different flexibility are used in a stencil printing device and the flexibility is changed by the rate of a printing image area, printing speed, and the like, thereby a shock cannot be completely absorbed by a shock absorbing member only of an end fence to cause an ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for improving the productivity of a silicon single crystal having few crystal defects by manufacturing it stably and in a high yield by allowing the semiconductor single crystal to be lifted up in an accurate and wide condition range in connection with the oxygen concentration and the cooling rate.

SOLUTION: The silicon single crystal is lifted up b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new production method by which an industrially useful composite ceramic sintered compact containing boron nitride can be provided at a low cost.

SOLUTION: The production method comprises molding a ceramic mixture, obtained by mixing an effective amount of crystalline turbostratic structure boron nitride fine powder inert to water with ceramic raw materials...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a silver particle-dispersed liquid capable of forming a coating film having satisfactory adhesion with a substrate such as a glass substrate and a resin substrate even if being fired at a relatively low temperature of ≤300°C without adding a silane coupling agent and a thermosetting resin and without requiring a complicated heat treatment step, and to provide a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a motor driving device suitable for a warp shedding device of a loom which has a large difference in regenerative electric power generated in a driving motor of a heddle frame.

SOLUTION: A third heddle frame 3 is vertically moved for each rotation of the loom, a first heddle frame 1 is vertically moved while being stopped at a lower and an upper opening posi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a nanofiber, which efficiently produces a sufficiently miniaturized nanofiber from a cellulosic fiber raw material, and to provide a sufficiently miniaturized nanofiber produced by the method.

SOLUTION: The method includes (a) a disintegration process of disintegrating a cellulosic fiber raw material by a wet method, (b) a preliminary ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for executing slime control and effectively preventing the deterioration, etc., of quality of paper using starch.

SOLUTION: This method for producing the paper added with the starch in paper raw materials includes performing the measurement of an amylase activity at a prescribed position in the process of producing paper, and adding a slime-contr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten a void exposing time in a shield method using a segment with a bag.

SOLUTION: This segment 11 with a bag 13 inflated to the outer peripheral side of the segment is divided into bags 13 in the lateral direction of the segment 11. The divided bags 13 are inflated at an over break part 7. The segment comprises an expansion segment 12 extrudable to the outer per...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an effective and adequate tunnel structure which facilitates rational construction of a tunnel having a width-spread section and a complicated contour, and to provide a tunnel construction method.

SOLUTION: According to the tunnel structure, a plurality of tunnel sections (shield tunnels 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B) are arranged side by side in the vertical and horizonta...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a culvert member which is easily carried in.

SOLUTION: In construction of the culvert member, mounting lower surfaces 25, 26 of a pair of side surface members 21, 22 are placed on a mounting upper surface 16 of a bottom surface member 13, and mounting lower surfaces 43, 44 of an upper surface member 41 are superposed on mounting upper surfaces 27, 28 of the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a slab-like panel for a floor slab or a covering plate, using steel shape, which is joined and integrated without the use of welding, and a manufacturing method for the slab-like panel.

SOLUTION: In this wholly-integrated slab-like panel for the floor slab or the covering plate, using the steel shape, the plurality of pieces of section steel 1 with a flange ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a slab-like panel for a floor slab or a covering plate, using a channel member, which is joined and integrated without the use of welding, and a manufacturing method for the slab-like panel.

SOLUTION: In this wholly-integrated slab-like panel for the floor slab or the covering plate, using the channel member, the plurality of channel members 1 with a flange ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a measuring device capable of responding to a sudden change in properties of excavated ground.

SOLUTION: An excavator 12 has a measuring device 10a for finding a flowing direction and a size of a mixture in a chamber 20. The measuring device 10a has a measuring rod 50 installed retractably to the chamber 20; and the flowing direction and the size of the mixt...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a two-piece piston ring capable of retaining a more stable attitude when a piston reciprocates.

SOLUTION: In an internal combustion engine, a first to third ring grooves are formed in an order from the top on the outer peripheral surface in the piston 10 reciprocating in a cylinder 50. A compression ring is disposed in the first and second rings. An oil ring...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a joint structure where generation or partial concentration of stress is restrained and joint strength of respective members is high.

SOLUTION: This joint structure comprises a first member, a second member, and an intermediate member interposed between the first member and the second member, and is composed by jointing the respective members by a joint mate...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a measurement device, a measurement method and a measurement program correctly and rapidly calculating a duct in constructing a buried pipe, and a stress release method of a buried pipe.

SOLUTION: In a state that a duct is exposed by removing earth and sand on the duct, a stress measurement value σmiof the duct measured at each certain interval by a...