Abstract: In a double row ball bearing disposed around a pinion shaft to support the same, at least an inner ring member out of its inner and outer ring members is applied to a carbonitriding surface treatment, and hardness of at least inner ring raceway surfaces of the inner ring member is substantially the same as hardness of balls. With this construction, the bearing has an excellent load-withstanding performance, so that the lifetime of the bearing is prolonged.

Abstract: The photo printer has a conveyance unit, a printing unit, line sensors and a control unit. The conveyance unit conveys a roll paper along a conveyance path. The printing unit has a thermal head that prints images on the roll paper in a main scanning direction, which is perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the roll paper. The line sensors have a plurality of light emitting elements and light receiving elements disposed so as to span side edges of the conveyance path. The line sensors detect the roll paper on the conveyance path based on an amount of light received by the light receiving elements. The control unit detects a side edge of the roll paper, and also determines that a distal end of the roll paper is detected, based on the amount of light received by the light receiving elements.

Abstract: A key operating portion is operated and a scaling size of an image to be printed is selected. Then, the number of the images to be printed is selected. Further, when printing of a plurality of images is set, if a continuous printing determining portion determines that continuous printing is possible based on a limit on an image size relative to a RAM capacity, an image associating portion associates images that are in the number that can continuously be printed. Next, a one-page printing controlling portion exerts control for printing the associated images on one page. Then, a cutting/ejecting controlling portion exerts control on a paper cutting mechanism and a paper transferring mechanism, for cutting an image-printed object of the associated images into the number of the images and ejecting them. As a result, the image-printed object is cut into the number of the images and ejected.

Abstract: An assembly for a ball bearing with double raceway assembled in an outer ring member provided with double row raceway surfaces apart from each other in an axial direction from one side in an axial direction, on an inner peripheral surface includes an inner ring member provided with double raceway surfaces apart from each other in an axial direction in correspondence to the double raceway surfaces on an outer peripheral surface, double row cages arranged in respective outer diameter sides of the double raceway surfaces of the inner ring member, and a plurality of ball rows respectively held by the double rows cages. The inner ring member is set to be non-separable from the respective cages and the respective ball rows, and can be assembled in the outer ring member from one side in the axial direction.

Abstract: A drive device for a hybrid electric vehicle is provided with an engine (2) connected to a planet carrier (C) of a planetary gear set (1), a first motor/generator (3) and drive wheels (8) connected to a ring gear (R), a second motor/generator (4) connected to a sun gear (S), and a battery (24) that is electrically connected to the first motor/generator (3) and to the second motor/generator (4). When a failure of the first motor/generator (3) or the second motor/generator (4) is detected, a controller (21) restricts rotation (S5, S105) of the second motor/generator (4), through a clutch (11), thus assuring running of the vehicle and charging of the battery (24) by engine output.

Abstract: In a thermal transfer printer, before a thermal head transfers an ink component of a yellow region on a recording paper, the thermal head is preheated up to a transfer temperature and by sublimating a black ink component constituting a mark pattern during preheating, records used information in the mark pattern. After turn-on of an electric power, when an optical sensor reads the used information, an ink ribbon driving mechanism is driven until the optical sensor detects the rear mark pattern in which the used information is not recorded to locate the start of an unused region of an ink ribbon. Thus, residual amount of the ink ribbon is grasped accurately and the start of the unused region is located accurately without increasing the costs of ink ribbon.

Abstract: A ball bearing with double raceway rotatably supports a pinion shaft having a pinion gear on its one end. This ball bearing with double raceway is provided with: an outer ring member having a large-diameter raceway surface and a small-diameter raceway surface; an inner ring member having a large-diameter raceway surface and a small-diameter raceway surface that correspond to the large-diameter raceway surface and the small-diameter raceway surface of the outer ring member; a large-diameter-side row of balls that are interpolated between the two large-diameter raceway surfaces; a small-diameter-side row of balls that are interpolated between the two small-diameter raceway surfaces; a large-diameter-side cage that holds the large-diameter-side row of balls; and a small-diameter-side cage that holds the small-diameter-side row of balls.

Abstract: First and second annular clearances are formed between an outer peripheral surface of an annular portion of a cage and an inner peripheral surface of an annular piece of a first outer ring member, and between an inner peripheral surface of a baffle piece and an outer peripheral surface of a shoulder portion of a first inner ring member, respectively, and these radial widths are set to be larger than 0 and 0.15 times or less of a diameter of a ball, respectively.

Abstract: A drive device for a hybrid electric vehicle is provided with an engine (2) connected to a planet carrier (C) of a planetary gear set (1), a first motor/generator (3) and drive wheels (8) connected to a ring gear (R), a second motor/generator (4) connected to a sun gear (S), and a battery (24) that is electrically connected to the first motor/generator (3) and to the second motor/generator (4). When a failure of the first motor/generator (3) or the second motor/generator (4) is detected, a controller (21) restricts rotation (S5, S105) of the second motor/generator (4), through a clutch (11), thus assuring running of the vehicle and charging of the battery (24) by engine output.

Abstract: The photo printer has a conveyance unit, a printing unit, line sensors and a control unit. The conveyance unit conveys a roll paper along a conveyance path. The printing unit has a thermal head that prints images on the roll paper in a main scanning direction, which is perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the roll paper. The line sensors have a plurality of light emitting elements and light receiving elements disposed so as to span side edges of the conveyance path. The line sensors detect the roll paper on the conveyance path based on an amount of light received by the light receiving elements. The control unit detects a side edge of the roll paper, and also determines that a distal end of the roll paper is detected, based on the amount of light received by the light receiving elements.

Abstract: A key operating portion is operated and a scaling size of an image to be printed is selected. Then, the number of the images to be printed is selected. Further, when printing of a plurality of images is set, if a continuous printing determining portion determines that continuous printing is possible based on a limit on an image size relative to a RAM capacity, an image associating portion associates images that are in the number that can continuously be printed. Next, a one-page printing controlling portion exerts control for printing the associated images on one page. Then, a cutting/ejecting controlling portion exerts control on a paper cutting mechanism and a paper transferring mechanism, for cutting an image-printed object of the associated images into the number of the images and ejecting them. As a result, the image-printed object is cut into the number of the images and ejected.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an alkaline health food useful for maintaining health of the body and to a method for production thereof. The present invention provides an alkaline health food having a high reduction capacity and containing a large quantity of mineral components. Seawater is introduced into a salt field provided with a difference of altitude. Seawater is gradually guided from zones with a high altitude to zones with a low altitude, producing salty water with a high salt concentration. Crystals of the salty water are precipitated to form coarse salt which is fired at a temperature of 700-1600 ° C. In the aqueous solution of the health food in accordance with the present invention, which is obtained in the above-described manner, the redox potential is from ?10 mV to ?620 mV and the mineral content is 4 to 10 wt. %.

Abstract: An assembly for a ball bearing with double raceway assembled in an outer ring member provided with double row raceway surfaces apart from each other in an axial direction from one side in an axial direction, on an inner peripheral surface includes an inner ring member provided with double raceway surfaces apart from each other in an axial direction in correspondence to the double raceway surfaces on an outer peripheral surface, double row cages arranged in respective outer diameter sides of the double raceway surfaces of the inner ring member, and a plurality of ball rows respectively held by the double rows cages. The inner ring member is set to be non-separable from the respective cages and the respective ball rows, and can be assembled in the outer ring member from one side in the axial direction.

Abstract: A core-sheath composite type polyester monofilament for use in a screen gauze in which the sheath ingredient is a polyester formed by adding and copolymerizing, based on the polyester, 2 to 10% by weight of a polyalkylene oxide with a coloration degree (APHA) after heating at 175° C. for one hour of 30 or less and having a number average molecular weight of from 300 to 4000 and having a peak temperature (Tmax) of a dynamic loss tan (tan &dgr;), at a measuring frequency of 110 Hz of from 97 to 120° C. which is lower by 10° C. or more than that for the core and the area ratio of core to sheath is within a range from 60:40 to 90:10. The polyester monofilament for use in a screen gauze is a monofilament for use in the high mesh screen gauze capable of completely preventing formation of scams during weaving, satisfactory in the gauze tension and excellent in the dimensional stability of gauze and in the adhesion to the photosensitive resin.

Abstract: A syringe for collecting expiration is switched, to be connected by a three-way electromagnetic valve, between an expiration blowing part and a measuring part, so that expiration, blown from the expiration blowing part, is collected in the syringe while replacing old expiration. A switching valve is closed upon completion of exhalation so that end-tidal air is collected in the syringe. Thereafter the expiration sample is introduced into the measuring part from the syringe so that a constant amount of the expiration sample is collected by the measuring part to be introduced into a column.

Abstract: An expiration suction passage communicating with an expiration blowing part provided with a non-airtight mask is connected to a forward end surface of a syringe through a two-way on-off electromagnetic valve, while an expiration transmission passage communicating with a sample outlet is also connected to the forward end surface of the syringe. A two-way on-off electromagnetic valve is provided in the expiration transmission passage, and an O.sub.2 sensor is provided between the electromagnetic valve and the sample outlet as a standard gas sensor. The syringe has a capacity capable of collecting several breaths, and a sucking operation is driven at a speed for collecting several breaths in single suction.

Abstract: A first sample measuring passage provided between a collection port and a suction pump has a sample gas measurer for measuring expiration components, while a second sample measuring passage which is provided in parallel with the first sample measuring passage has a standard gas measurer for measuring O.sub.2 gas. Assuming that [A] represents a measured value of a target component in an expiration sample and [b.sub.1 ] represents O.sub.2 concentration in the expiration sample, correction is made on the basis of:[M]=f.sub.1 .multidot.(21-[a.sub.1 ]) [A]/(21-[b.sub.1 ])where [M] represents the corrected measured value of the target component, [a.sub.1 ] represents O.sub.2 concentration in end-tidal air which is supplied as a constant such as 15.3, for example, and f.sub.1 represents an experimentally prescribed coefficient such as 1.67, for example.

Abstract: A portable type clinical examination device using expiratory air of a patient as a sample and measuring with high accuracy and rapidity concentration of trace amounts of aimed gas components contained in the expiratory air. The clinical examination device feeds an expiratory air sample provided by a patient, fed through an expiratory air sucking portion and separated in a column to a detector which detects trace amounts of aimed gas components contained in the expiratory air sample by ionizing the aimed gas components through application of ultraviolet or radiation, so that output signals from the detector are processed and concentration of the aimed gas components is computed by use of a previously memorized working curve to provide a clinical examination data which is output on a recording device or the like.

Abstract: A method of measuring the quantity of an admixture in ready-mixed concrete comprises the steps of collecting volatile components generated from the admixture, measuring the concentration of the collected volatile components, and deriving the quantity of the admixture in the ready-mixed concrete from the measured concentration of the volatile components. An apparatus for executing this method comprises a detecting probe and a main measuring unit. The probe includes a gas collecting section and a gas sensor. The main measuring unit for carrying out arithmetic operations on detection information received from the detected probe, and includes a controller for microprocessor the operation of the entire apparatus, and a display for displaying the detected information received from the microprocessor.

Abstract: A seal assembly for a joint of each pair of adjacent links of an endless track assembly comprising a wear-resistant elastomeric seal ring and a resilient elastomeric load ring. A wear-resistant annular plate is bonded to one of the members of the joint. The load ring is compressed when mounted in place, thus urging the seal ring in sealing contact with the wear-resistant annular plate.