Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a driving controller controls one of or both steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle, and a mode determinator determines any of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode as a driving mode of the vehicle, in which tasks imposed on a driver in the second driving mode are less significant than in the first driving mode and one of or both steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle are controlled by the driving controller, the driving controller controls the vehicle in the second driving mode, and the driving mode is changed to the first driving mode when an abnormality occurs in a combination switch, combination switch related equipment which is connected between the driving controller and the combination switch via a communication line, or communication which is performed by the combination switch and the driving controller.

Abstract: A vitreous body cutter for incising a vitreous body in an eye, includes: an inner cylindrical blade which includes a first suction hole: and an outer cylindrical blade which includes a second suction hole, into which the inner cylindrical blade is slidably fitted, and which has a shape of an inner wall formed by transferring a shape of an external wall of the inner cylindrical blade by electroforming.

Abstract: A stabilized polyisoprene composition comprising 100 parts by weight of polyisoprene and 0.15-3.0 parts by weight of a binary system antioxidant consisting of 50-99% by weight of a phosphite type antioxidant represented by the formula, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 are same or different aryl groups, and 50-1% by weight of a triazine derivative type antioxidant represented by the formula, ##STR2## wherein X.sub.1, X.sub.2, and X.sub.3, which may be the same or different, are selected from the group consisting of --NH--, --O--, and --S--, and R', R", and R"', which may be the same or different, represent alkyl, or alkyl-substituted or unsubstituted hydroxyphenyl groups. This binary system antioxidant exhibits a synergistic effect on the stabilization of polyisoprene against heat and oxygen.

Abstract: Means for actuating a balancer of an engine including a crankshaft, pistons and connecting rods, comprising a pair of balancer shafts located opposite sides of the crankshaft and actuated thereby. One of the balancer shafts is formed to serve for a rotatable shaft of a subsidiary device of the engine, such as an oil pump, an air pump, a dynamo or a water pump.

Abstract: A four cylinder in-line engine is disclosed with a secondary balancer system, wherein at least one pair of balancer elements are arranged substantially at an identical horizontal distance from the longitudinal axes of the engine cylinders and on lines which are substantially parallel to the plane of the longitudinal axes. The distance taken between the axes of the paired balancer elements in the direction of the cylinder axes is determined at such desired values as to satisfy the engine usage and design. The paired balancer elements are rotated in the opposite directions to each other with a speed of rotation twice as high as that of the engine crackshaft, such that the lower balancer element is rotated in the opposite direction to that of the engine crackshaft.