PURPOSE: To provide a structure made of plastic simple to produce, having necessary strength though light in wt., low in raw material cost and inexpensive because the number of parts is reduced and mass-production is possible. CONSTITUTION: In a structure molded by a blow molding method (1), a hollow part 2 and superposed parts 3 formed by mutually welding the opposed walls of a parison under pres...

PURPOSE: To previously control a traveling state in accordance with a pereceived sense by a driver or to warn the driver when a vehicle enters a road area such as a curve which requires attention as for a controller corresponding to a road state ahead of an automobile which is used for the generation of an alarm to a driver immediately before entry into a curve and the control of vehicle speed. CO...

PURPOSE: To detect a continued curve and to inform a driver of the curve in a controller corresponding to a road state ahead of an automobile which is suitable for using the generation of an alarm to a driver on a vehicle entering into a curve or the control of vehicle speed. CONSTITUTION: In the controller provided with a curve detecting means 20 for detecting a curve, a judging means for judging...

PURPOSE: To prevent a driver from sensing an alarm as troublesome sound when a curve is continued in respect to a device for generating an alarm to a driver in accordance with a road state or controling the traveling state of a vehicle. CONSTITUTION: This controller is provided with a curve detecting means 20 for detecting a curve, a judging means 30 for judging whether the speed of a vehicle ente...

PURPOSE: To apply an alarm corresponding to a degree of speed to a driver when the speed of a vehicle entering a curve is too high in respect to a control ler corresponding to a road state ahead of an automobile which can advise a driver to decelerate the vehicle by generating an alarm to the driver of the vehicle entering into a forward curve. CONSTITUTION: This controller is provided with a judg...

PURPOSE: To accurately detect a curve by correcting error information outputted from a navigation system in respect to a controller corresponding to a road state ahead of an automobile which can generate an alarm in accordance with a road state or control the traveling state of a vehicle. CONSTITUTION: This controller is provided with a curve detecting means 20, a judging means for judging whether...

PURPOSE: To judge an absolute alarm control start distance required from a braking start point up to a curve start point while considering an error generat ed from a navigation system in a controller corresponding to a road state ahead of an automobile which is suitable for the generation of an alarm to a driver or the control of vehicle speed. CONSTITUTION: The controller is provided with a navig...

PURPOSE: To prevent the occurrence of interference between navigation information and alarm information while previously alarming the entry of a vehicle into a road area such as a curve requiring attention to a driver in respect to a controller corresponding to a road state ahead of an automobile which is suitable for generating an alarm to a driver at the entry of an automobile provided with a na...

PURPOSE: To accurately execute control for the traveling state of a vehicle entering into a curve and the generation of an alarm to a driver by accurately estimating the existence or characteristics of a curve on a road while considering the influence of an error included in road map information in respect to a controller corresponding to a road state ahead of an automobile which is suitable to th...

PURPOSE: To control the speed of a vehicle without giving a feeling of physical disorder to a driver in respect to a controller corresponding to a road state ahead of an automobile which is suitable for the generation of an alarm to a driver immediately before the entry of a vehicle into a curve or the control of the vehicle speed. CONSTITUTION: The controller is provided with a navigation system,...

PURPOSE: To detect only a blind curve which can not be seen through as a target to be controlled or alarmed in respect to a controller corresponding to a road state ahead of an automobile which is suitable for the generation of an alarm to a driver on a vehicle going to enter a curve. CONSTITUTION: The controller is provided with a curve detecting means 20 for detecting a curve, a judging means fo...

PURPOSE: To provide a sealed lead-acid battery which simultaneously achieves the enhancement of its discharge capacity and of its constant-voltage charge cycle characteristic. CONSTITUTION: The amount of electrolyte in a battery system is 0.65ml or more per 1g of a fully charged positive active material, and a negative plate is made water-repellent for 2% or more and 10% or less of its surface are...

PURPOSE: To reduce the energy loss due to the self-discharge of a capacitor for supplying power to a motor generator(M/G) in a retarder in which the motor generator(M/G) is connected to an engine output shaft. CONSTITUTION: A motor generator(M/G) 2 such as an induction motor is coupled to the output shaft of an engine 1, a power capacitor 4 of a high voltage (200V or more) of a power source is ele...

Disclosed are expandable bladders for use in curing presses for hydrocarbon rubbers such as pneumatic tires. The bladders are a crosslink elastomer comprising isobutylene repeat units and the bladder composition includes graphite. A preferred isobutylene elastomer is a brominated copolymer of isobutylene and p-methylstyrene. The bladders have enhanced lubricity, low adhesion to tire innerliners, a...

A system for delivering radiofrequency energy to ablate tissue comprises a radiofrequency generator and an intravascular catheter. The catheter includes both a radiofrequency ablation electrode and a temperature sensor within its distal end. Delivery of power to the ablation electrode may then be controlled based on electrode temperature using a cascade control system wherein analog temperature co...

Tissue impedance or tissue impedance in combination with tissue temperature is used to control electrosurgical tissue treatment. Tissue impedance alone provides better control of electrosurgical treatment by determining an initial maximum tissue impedance, a minimum tissue impedance selecting a point between the maximum and minimum impedances, preferably the average, as an impedance threshold, and...

A switch apparatus for performing diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedures on a patient by the use of first and second electrodes adapted to be placed on the patient and by the use of a defibrillator unit and another medical device utilizing radiofrequency energy from a radiofrequency generator unit comprising a multi-function adapter unit adapted to be coupled to the first and second electrodes a...

A method is provided for producing bismuth and bismuth alloy shot particles by a procedure whereby molten bismuth at a temperature less than about 100 DEG C. above the melting point of the bismuth is used to form drops of molten bismuth which fall through a vessel containing a material more viscous than water with the method having a Reynolds Number less than about 100. Preferred materials are po...

A tire building system comprises a band drum, a shaping drum, and a belt forming machine having two oscillating or rotating belt drums, in which the band drum and the shaping drum are arranged on the same axis in opposing relationship, a band transfer is disposed therebetween on the axis in such a manner as to reciprocate, the belt forming machine is arranged in parallel to the axis, and a belt tr...

The present invention relates to a process for forming robust, uniform, low molecular weight crystalline polyester particles. Such particles are useful for forming higher molecular weight polyesters, for example, by solid-state polymerization. Either conventionally-formed, essentially amorphous, non-molten polyester pellets at ambient temperatures or, alternatively, essentially amorphous molten po...