PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure capable of improving displacement efficiency when applying voltage, and improving durability in repeated use in a laminated piezoelectric element.

SOLUTION: The laminated piezoelectric element comprises a laminate 1 having a plurality of piezoelectric layers 2 laminated in the direction of a prescribed axis A, and internal electrode layers 4, 5 f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sound field correction device and a control method thereof capable of correcting a frequency characteristic to a target characteristic with high accuracy.

SOLUTION: A microphone picks up pink noise sounded from speakers, level correction data by each frequency band are obtained from the collected sound, the frequency band is grouped relative to inflection ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain noise canceling headphones capable of performing rapid processing even to small-scaled processing device by improving the prediction accuracy of noise data and reducing a data amount necessary for prediction processing.

SOLUTION: The noise canceling headphones are provided with a predicting means 20 for predicting a noise signal to be generated in future from...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new measuring method and a measuring device based on the measuring method to specify a signal of CDMA system and a matter of a communication device.

SOLUTION: The device detects a measurement signal which has been subjected to a receiving filter processing and a phase difference signal in a symbol judging point with a reference signal obtained by re-modula...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a technique that can relieve the deceleration shock, when making transition to deceleration, and efficiently recover energy during deceleration and improve fuel economy.

SOLUTION: The controller for vehicle generators includes a generator 1 that is driven by an engine and supplies power to a battery 2 and a vehicle electric load; a detection unit 14 for the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a constriction estimating apparatus used for estimating a constriction region of a blood vessel while diagnosing the artery of the lower limb for constriction.

SOLUTION: An upper limb pulse wave velocity related value hbPWV measured by an upper limb pulse wave velocity related value calculation means 66 and a ratio% baPWV of a lower limb pulse wave velocity ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a retinal camera which permits a quality photographing of an ocular fundus even when photographing is performed with the position of a photographic diaphragm changed as in stereoscopic photographing.

SOLUTION: A photographic diaphragm 31a is chosen for normal photographing and photographic diaphragms 31b and 31c are chosen for stereoscopic photographing. In ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a disposable pocket stove which provides a sufficient heat generation in the peripheral portion of the exothermic body, has a small size with a high portability, and is friendly to the global environment, a manufacturing method and a manufacturing installation.

SOLUTION: The manufacturing method, which makes an exothermic composition containing excess water ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reliably prevent administration in an unopened state with respect to a multi-chamber container which includes a drug solution bag having a plurality of chambers to respectively and independently seal and store drug solutions by being separated with a weak seal part and which mixes the drug solutions by opening the weak seal part with the pressurization of the drug solut...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine allocating the constitution parts of the lamp house of an illumination device to a unit generator side and a game board side.

SOLUTION: As measures for a current trend to gradually enlarge the size of a center decoration relative to a spatially limited game area, this game machine is formed with a notch portion 95a in a part of an outer circum...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for dissolving gas which can suppress a fluctuation in gas dissolved concentration accompanying the discharge control of condensed water and always maintain a stable gas solubility.

SOLUTION: Raw water is fed to the liquid side of a gas dissolving module and a gas for dissolution is fed to the gas side to be dissolved in the raw water. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of effectively manufacturing a ketone compound.

SOLUTION: Provided are the method of manufacturing the ketone compound which makes an olefine compound react with molecular oxygen and water under the presence of an effective dose of proton and (i) a palladium source free of chlorine, (ii) heteropoly acid or acid salt of heteropoly acid, and (iii) cat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize the movement of a link structure even when a multi-link structure constructed by connecting a plurality of rigid bodies moves while contacting two or more surfaces other than a single plane, or contacting various externals such as floating in the air.

SOLUTION: Taking notice of that it is effective as stabilizing discipline that the momentum of the whole s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pinching tool which can more stably and surely pinch paper sheets by intermeshing proximal end parts of holding pieces, and hardly generates falling off and slipping off even when the paper sheets are hung, supported and spread.

SOLUTION: When edge parts of the paper sheets S are pinched by a pair of pinching pieces 4 and 5, the proximal end parts 4a and 5...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide screen printing equipment which has a simple structure and enables improvement of the quality of printing with reduction of the cost.

SOLUTION: A paste-like ink supplied to a screen plate 24 is stuck to a workpiece 12 by a squeegee 42 through openings formed in the screen plate 24 and a printing pattern drawn on the screen plate 24 is printed by transfer ont...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the temporary omission of a damping force acting on a vehicle in the case of stopping the operation of an internal combustion engine under damping.

SOLUTION: When a brake pedal is stepped on by a driver, and an engine stop request is made (time T1) while a damping torque is output from a motor MG2 and an oil pressure brake, a portion of the damping torque f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To install a worm to keep balance in a lift state, by supporting the worm with an elastic supporting member changed in stiffness on a circumference.

SOLUTION: Though a pre-load of the worm 11 varies according to the stiffness of rubber dampers 18a, 18b (the elastic supporting members), the worm 11 is supported by the rubber dampers 18a, 18b (the elastic supporting memb...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential limiting device for a four-wheel drive vehicle capable of easily switching to a differential lock state during traveling, and compactly designing a differential device.

SOLUTION: Two-way clutches 17, 18 are provided on right and left sides of the differential device 9, and electromagnetic clutches 19, 20 are respectively provided on sides of t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To further improve fuel consumption by improving recovery of braking energy of a hybrid vehicle with a function of follow-up running.

SOLUTION: In cruising control of the hybrid vehicle, running state information of the own vehicle and a preceding vehicle are acquired, and a target braking torque and running resistance torque Rfof the own vehicle are obtained....

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid car for increasing the possibility of preventing the occurrence of the sliding down of a vehicle when the vehicle is climbing a hill backward.

SOLUTION: A decision part 342 decides whether or not a vehicle is climbing a hill backward based on a shift position signal SP and a torque command TR2 of a motor generator MG2. When it is decided that the ve...