A gaming system method uses typically a wireless communication device, and includes the following steps: Call data is provided identifying a gaming system player. This would normally be a typical identifying number plus a PIN number. A call is initiated from the wireless communication device (such as a cell phone) through a telephone call network to a financial center, requesting a cash transfer. ...

A method of forming battery grids or plates that includes the step of applying a lead alloy coating to a continuous strip of interconnected battery grids formed from a lead alloy grid material is disclosed. The battery grids may be formed by a continuous battery grid making process such as strip expansion, strip punching, or continuous grid casting. In one version of the method, the grid wires of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide biodegradable mulch for agriculture having biodegradability, excellent flexibility, impact resistance and film-forming properties, suppressing bleedout of a plasticizer, and standing long-term use.

SOLUTION: The biodegradable mulch for agriculture comprises a film having a polylactic acid, a biodegradable aliphatic-aromatic copolyester having ≤0°C glass tran...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make emission gas good and miniaturize another power source by enabling low temperature combustion of an internal combustion engine of a hybrid vehicle as much as possible.

SOLUTION: This controlling device for a hybrid vehicle provided with a speed controlling mechanism changing speed of an internal combustion engine is provided with a low temperature determination...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a follow-up property to a travelling speed command value by avoiding shortage of engine torque at the time of parallel travelling and precisely controlling driving torque.

SOLUTION: A difference value of the engine torque at specified engine speed and the the engine torque command value at that time is mapped as engine torque steady-state deviation ▵TE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a preceding vehicle follow-up control device which improves a relative positional relationship with a following vehicle before an inter-vehicular distance with a preceding car gets narrow when the inter-vehicular distance with the following vehicle is narrowed and reduces a sense of incompatibility imparted to a driver.

SOLUTION: When an alarm/speed adjustme...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve regenerating efficiency on a vehicle furnished with an air-conditioner and a regenerating means.

SOLUTION: An output shaft 1a of an engine 1 is furnished with an air compressor 6 to be connected through an electromagnetic clutch 5, a motor generator 2 to electrically collect decelerating energy of the vehicle 100, a battery 9 to condense energy collected by ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To estimate vertical loads in a vicinity of the critical behavior of a vehicle with excellent accuracy.

SOLUTION: The vertical loads Wfo-Wri are estimated based on fluctuation factors of the vertical loads Wfo-Wri in a vicinity of the critical factor of a vehicle such as the first pitch moment Mp1 generated when the vehicle makes a turn by the inclination of the princi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a packaging system that is capable of attaining adjustment of products supply comparable to but without changing the traversing position of products to a feeding conveyor in meeting the avoidance of contact between an end sealer and a packaging material at the time of suspension of a packaging apparatus due to the vacancy of products to be supplied.

SOLUTION...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To calculate an accurate fuel cost in a vehicle operating status evaluation system.

SOLUTION: A fuel consumption map in which the relation between the speed and the load and fuel consumption of an engine 1 is specified is stored in the memory of an evaluation unit 30. The evaluation unit 30 provides a variation in present fuel consumption against the initial fuel consu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve production efficiency by realizing parts commonality between stepless transmissions with various specifications.

SOLUTION: A secondary pulley shaft 9c is rotatably supported at a bearing support member 38 fixed at a main case 51a and an output shaft 13 is relatively rotatably inserted and supported at the secondary pulley shaft 9c. An output clutch (not illu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a high start by preventing to change gear by a wheel rotation even while an engine stops, and enable to use the surplus oil of a pump for lubrication.

SOLUTION: As a valve 33 is illustrated in a figure on forward running, a forward change gear control is conducted via a valve 37 making pressure PDof a circuit 34 to be an initial pressure. A reverse ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device capable of accurately and easily detecting a rotational frequency of a PTO shaft in a working vehicle wherein a driving shaft and the PTO shaft are horizontally and pivotally supported between a partition wall of a transmission case and a rear cover, and a PTO transmission intervenes between the shafts.

SOLUTION: A detection plate 26 rotating integr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a front differential device in which rotation resistance of a ring gear is not increased even when lubricating oil is in a sherbet-like state at a low temperature.

SOLUTION: The front differential device 10 is roughly composed of a differential carrier 31, a differential case 32 and a reduction gear 33. A pinion shaft storage part 36 and a ring gear storage ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a crime preventive device capable of accurately judging whether entry to a room is caused by illegal means or not and capable of preventing error alarms.

SOLUTION: The crime preventive device is provided with a shock detection means 13 for detecting shock, a sound pressure detection means 16 for detecting sound pressure, an abnormal degree judging means 17c ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize saving energy and suppression of exhaust gas by alleviating wind force load received when driving by the wall of a container protruding from the roof above driver's seat of a truck in front view.

SOLUTION: A rotating body rotating by the wind force with a blade 2 and a belt is installed on a front wall of a container 8, and the direction of air flow generate...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a polar plate manufacturing device for a lead storage battery which can manufacture a polar plate preventing a strip from bending.

SOLUTION: A contiguous expanded grating body is formed by putting both sides in a width direction of a lead alloy sheet strip under an expanding process with an expanding processing means of a reciprocal method. Next, a selvedge p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a lead storage cell capable of restraining full-off of a softened active material by charging and discharging, preventing an internal short-circuiting at a bottom part of an electrode plate group and preventing stratification of an electrolyte.

SOLUTION: A group of electrodes 4A is structured by using a positive electrode plate 1, a negative electrode plate 2...

A portable, lightweight medical radiographic device having an articulated support is described. The device includes a base, an elongated supporting structure having multiple sections interconnected by adjustable joints, a mount for a radiological camera, and a support for a film cartridge. The camera mount includes a concave, motorized track; the film cartridge support is also concave and may also...

In an automatic transmission, a small-capacity second clutch that does not engage for reverse drive is mounted forward of a counter drive gear, and the other engaging elements of relatively larger capacity, that is, first and third clutches and first to third brakes, are disposed rearward of the counter drive gear, so that an axially extending space is formed between the counter drive gear and the...