A rotary cutting unit includes a rotary cutter overlying a rotatable anvil. The anvil includes an axle, at least one anvil portion adapted to co-operate with a knife member of a rotary cutter, and a pair of load transmitting portions adapted to abut a pair of abutment members of the rotary cutter. The pair of load transmitting portions are arranged on each side of the anvil portion. A load receivi...

An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving packet data using multiple antennas in a wireless communication system is provided. In a wireless communication system using multiple antennas, the apparatus and method can efficiently transmit and receive packet data according to channel conditions without a waste of transmission bandwidth.

A receiver comprises an equalizer that has at least two coefficient modes of operation, in a first coefficient mode, the equalizer starts with a preset non-zero value in the main tap; while in a second coefficient mode, the equalizer starts such that all taps are set equal to the same value, e.g., a value of zero.

An X-ray computerized tomographic apparatus comprising a gantry which scans a patient with X-rays in order to acquire data on the patient, a decision unit which decides completion of the acquisition of the data on the basis of an electrocardiac waveform of the patient, and a scan controller which controls the gantry in order to end the scan or irradiation with the X-rays when the completion of the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle with a countermeasures device against the sound emitted by the operation of an operating device in the countermeasures against the sound of the operating device such as a pump device and a control valve. Ž

SOLUTION: In a hybrid vehicle to be selectively driven by an engine and front and rear motor generators, the initial check of a master cut valve a...

The invention provides a tablet feeder that is simple in construction and yet capable of accurately preventing drawbacks from occurring due to jamming of medicine or the like. A motor 6 installed on a case support block 3 is driven to rotate a rotor 9 disposed in a medicine receiving case 1 through a plurality of gears. The tablets received in the medicine receiving case 1 are held in the pockets ...

In a radiographic method using a mobile radiographic apparatus including an image generating unit which includes photoelectric conversion elements and generates radiographic image data of an object to be imaged, key information for selecting radiographic request information is transmitted to an external information system having the radiographic request information. The radiographic request inform...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve energy saving by eliminating as much as possible hunting when trains are operated automatically. Ž

SOLUTION: An optimum traveling-plan making means 7 makes an optimum traveling plan based on data stored in a database 0 while a train is at a stop at a station. When the train starts traveling, a traveling plan re-computing means 8 compares the optimum traveling ...

In a structure where the lid portion is mounted on the main housing body comprising apertures and in such a manner as to turn freely thereon, the concave lock portion and the locking protrusion adjacent thereto capable of locking the lid in the closed state are located in the aperture side of the main housing body. The lid portion is provided with the hooking piece comprising the spring portion an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a mobile station which can suppress jamming to an adjacency frequency band by suppressing the occurrence of the distortion of an amplifier, a base station, a communication system, a transmitting method, a receiving method, a communication method, an IQ multiplexer, and an IQ multiplexing method. Ž

SOLUTION: When a scramble part 54 carries out an IQ multiplexing...

A method for producing a rigid polyurethane foam, which comprises mixing (a) a polyisocyanate component with a polyol component comprising (b) a polyol mixture, (c) a catalyst and (d) a blowing agent, then foaming the mixture; wherein the polyisocyanate component (a) is polymethylenepolyphenyl polyisocyanate or a modified material thereof; the polyol mixture (b) comprises (b-1) a polyol which is p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the liquid crystal display device with an optical compensa tion sheet which can effectively prevent a decrease in display contrast of, spe cially, oblique incidence and greatly improve field angle characteristics of dis play colors although the device is low in cost and light in weight. SOLUTION: The liquid crystal display device consists of a liquid crystal cell w...

PCT No. PCT/EP97/01198 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 18, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 18, 1998 PCT Filed Mar. 10, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/35899 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 2, 1997A process for preparing rigid expanded materials containing urethane and optionally urea and isocyanurate groups, characterised in that a polyurethane rigid foam is prepared by reacting a) an aromatic polyisocyanate with b) a polyol component w...

A cushioning pad fur hot pressing has a nonwoven fabric made of a mixed fiber of a fiber A and a fiber B in order to improve the cushion property and the thermal conductivity thereof. Fiber A is an aromatic polyamide fiber, and fiber B is a fiber having a thermal conductivity of 10 W/(m.K) or more in its length direction, a decomposition starting temperature of 350 DEG C or more, a resistance of i...

Described is an NCO-group-containing polyurethane prepolymer madefrom polyisocanyates and polyols derived from natural oils. The invention is characterized in that the polyol is obtained by transesterification in the presence of basic lithium compounds. Together with a tertiary amine used to accelerate the moisture curing, the storage stability is thus increased considerably. Up to 4.0 mmol of the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gas alarm capable of shortening an inspection work time and reducing an excessive influence by inspection gas. Ž

SOLUTION: This gas alarm reports an alarm of abnormal gas concentration when the gas concentration detected by a gas sensor 12 is a predetermined alarm concentration or more. This alarm comprises an operation mode control means 16 for switchingly ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a highly safe and convenient user validating method for dealings using a mobile telephone, which is capable of reducing the amount of user individual information to be stored in a computer, preventing unauthorized use of the mobile telephone even when it is stolen, reducing the complexity of managing a personal identification number. Ž

SOLUTION: The user valid...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ridge-leveling machine capable of progressing with a smooth rotation of a rotary disk body on the ridge even if obstructive materials such as hard soil, stone, etc., exist on the ridge, suppressing the formation of gaps between the ridge and a soil splash-preventing body, thus improving soil-piling efficiency and performing a ridge-leveling work well. Ž

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thrust bearing made of a synthetic resin which permits a simple positioning of the upper and lower bearing cases in the radial direction in assembling and does not permit an easy relative displacement of the upper and lower bearing cases due to a radial load. SOLUTION: A thrust bearing 1 comprises an upper and lower bearing cases 2 and 3 and a bearing piece 4, th...

The automatic document feed apparatus (DF) conveys one sheet at a time to an image reading position, reverses the sheet and returns it to the reading position, where it is read by a means (1). The image signal is processed in means (2) and sent to a forming means (3), forming an image on a recording sheet (R), while a feeding means sends recording sheets one by one to the forming means and a rever...