Abstract: According to an embodiment, a cooling device for cooling a constituent element housed in a housing of a unit subjected to an influence of a generated magnetic field includes a water cooling mechanism and at least one air cooling mechanism. The water cooling mechanism cools the constituent element by cooling a cooling plate with a flow of water flowing through a pipe passing through the cooling plate arranged in the housing. The air cooling mechanism is arranged on an outgoing side where the flow of water flowing through the pipe is outgoing from the housing and cools the constituent element by discharging air in the housing along with the water flow in accordance with the water flow.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for evaluating whether coronary artery disease has progressed in a patient previously diagnosed as having the disease, wherein the method includes: (a) obtaining a biological sample from the patient at a first time point and a second time point; (b) detecting the level of platelet-derived microparticles (PDMPs) or a fragment thereof, in the first time point sample and the second time point sample with an antibody to PDMPs or a fragment thereof; wherein an increase in a level of the PDMPs in the second time point sample in comparison to a level in the first time point sample is indicative of progression of coronary artery disease.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a reception unit, a processor, a storage controller and a reception controller. The reception unit checks for an e-mail sent to the apparatus at a predetermined time interval, and, when the e-mail sent to the apparatus exists, receives the e-mail. The processor performs processing in accordance with a command when the received e-mail includes the command. The storage controller stores a receipt time of the e-mail including the command on a storage unit. The reception controller makes an interval between the checks of e-mails shorter than the predetermined time interval at and within a predetermined time before and after a time corresponding to the receipt time stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to prevent accumulation of particulates on the outside of a net body of a particulate sifter having a cylindrical net body and to extend the lifetime of the net body. To achieve the purpose, in a particulate sifter which is provided with a sieve 21 having a cylindrical net body 26 extending in a horizontal direction and a booster having rotating blades which rotate along the inner surface of the net body 26 and which separates particulates that pass through the net body 26 from particulates and/or foreign substances that do not pass through the net body 26 while agitating the particulates that have flowed inside the sieve 21 with the booster, the sieve 21 is located rotatably around the central axis of the cylindrical net body 26. The sieve 21 may be rotated forcibly by an electric motor as a driving source or may be rotated by kinetic energy of particulate-air mixture agitated by rotating blades without a driving source.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to prevent accumulation of particulates on the outside of a net body of a particulate sifter having a cylindrical net body and to extend the lifetime of the net body. To achieve the purpose, in a particulate sifter which is provided with a sieve 21 having a cylindrical net body 26 extending in a horizontal direction and a booster having rotating blades which rotate along the inner surface of the net body 26 and which separates particulates that pass through the net body 26 from particulates and/or foreign substances that do not pass through the net body 26 while agitating the particulates that have flowed inside the sieve 21 with the booster, the sieve 21 is located rotatably around the central axis of the cylindrical net body 26. The sieve 21 may be rotated forcibly by an electric motor as a driving source or may be rotated by kinetic energy of particulate-air mixture agitated by rotating blades without a driving source.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a diagnosis maker for a cardiovascular disease comprising platelet-derived microparticles. The present invention also relates to a method for diagnosing a cardiovascular disease in a subject with symptoms of cardiovascular disease or suspected of having cardiovascular disease, wherein said method comprises: (a) obtaining a sample from said subject; (b) reacting an antibody to platelet-derived microparticles or a fragment thereof with a biological sample; (c) detecting a presence or an absence of the platelet-derived microparticles or a fragment thereof in said sample; and (d) diagnosing cardiovascular disease in said subject having said symptoms when said platelet-derived microparticles or a fragment thereof are detected in said sample.

Abstract: An inline sifter including a gas-powder mixture receiving module which receives a mixture of a gas and powdery material from an inlet, a sieving module which communicates with a supply chamber of the gas-powder mixture receiving module, a rotating mechanism which is laterally extended inside the supply chamber and the sieving chamber, a cylindrical sieve arranged such that the rotating shaft extended in said sieving chamber passes through a center thereof, a wind power amplifier located in an internal area of the sieve to amplify wind power and press the powdery material out from the sieve, a removal member used to remove a remaining material from the sieve, an outlet used to discharge material which has passed through the sieve, and a support member. The gas-powder mixture, being supplied in a circumferential direction of the supply chamber, flows around the rotating shaft and is fed into the sieving chamber.

Abstract: An inline sifter including a gas-powder mixture receiving module which receives a mixture of a gas and powdery material from an inlet, a sieving module which communicates with a supply chamber of the gas-powder mixture receiving module, a rotating mechanism which is laterally extended inside the supply chamber and the sieving chamber, a cylindrical sieve arranged such that the rotating shaft extended in said sieving chamber passes through a center thereof, a wind power amplifier located in an internal area of the sieve to amplify wind power and press the powdery material out from the sieve, a removal member used to remove a remaining material from the sieve, an outlet used to discharge material which has passed through the sieve, and a support member. The gas-powder mixture, being supplied in a circumferential direction of the supply chamber, flows around the rotating shaft and is fed into the sieving chamber.

Abstract: A booster 8 extending in an internal area 53 of a sieve 7 is attached to the outer circumferential face of a rotating shaft 6. The booster 8 has four blades 82, which are radially extended from the outer circumferential face of the rotating shaft 6 and are arranged at preset angles (for example, 90 degrees) to form a pi shape from the front view. The booster 8 has multiple (for example, two) cross-shaped radial members 81 that are arranged radially at a little angle (for example, 3 degrees) and are located on both ends of the rotating shaft 6 via a preset space, the blades 82 that are set in and fixed to the respective ends of each of the radial members 81 and are inclined at a preset angle to the axial direction of the rotating shaft 6, and sheet-like scrapers 83 that are attached to the blades 82 to be a little projected outward in the radial direction. The end of each scraper 83 faces the inner circumferential face of the sieve 7 across a little gap.

Abstract: A fastener which allows to distinguish a genuine fastener from a forged one. An identification yarn containing substance with different optical reactions to irradiation of visible light and to irradiation of infrared rays of a specific wavelength is disposed at a specified position in the tape which is a component of the fastener. As a result, discrimination between genuine and false fasteners can be done safely without damaging the human health.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for predicting restenosis following coronary intervention by measuring human lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase (L-PGDS) in a body fluid sample. More particularly, this method comprises measuring the L-PGDS concentration in the sample and predicting restenosis following coronary intervention by using a change therein as an indicator.

Abstract: A booster 8 extending in an internal area 53 of a sieve 7 is attached to the outer circumferential face of a rotating shaft 6. The booster 8 has four blades 82, which are radially extended from the outer circumferential face of the rotating shaft 6 and are arranged at preset angles (for example, 90 degrees) to form a pi shape from the front view. The booster 8 has multiple (for example, two) cross-shaped radial members 81 that are arranged radially at a little angle (for example, 3 degrees) and are located on both ends of the rotating shaft 6 via a preset space, the blades 82 that are set in and fixed to the respective ends of each of the radial members 81 and are inclined at a preset angle to the axial direction of the rotating shaft 6, and sheet-like scrapers 83 that are attached to the blades 82 to be a little projected outward in the radial direction. The end of each scraper 83 faces the inner circumferential face of the sieve 7 across a little gap.

Abstract: A fastener which allows to distinguish a genuine fastener from a forged one. An identification yarn containing substance with different optical reactions to irradiation of visible light and to irradiation of infrared rays of a specific wavelength is disposed at a specified position in the tape which is a component of the fastener. As a result, discrimination between genuine and false fasteners can be done safely without damaging the human health.

Abstract: In order to efficiently utilize production information on a product among an orderer, a primary order-receiver and a secondary order-receiver to efficiently produce a product, an apparel maker, a vendor, a component factory of accessory of apparel goods etc., an assembly factory and a control center (6) are communicatably connected, the control center (6) displaying a primary prediction information including information on outline total production amount and final delivery date on a web page, commanding a preceding production of accessory component used for the apparel goods etc.

Abstract: A radial-ply tire has a tread provided with at least one block isolated by longitudinal and transverse grooves. A central wavy sipe and a peripheral wavy sipe are disposed on the block, each of the wavy sipes running zigzag along a centerline, wherein the central wavy sipe makes a smaller angle with the centerline therefore than the peripheral wavy sipe with the centerline therefore.

Abstract: A skid control system for a vehicle having two or more wheels and the respective brakes for the wheels, includes two or more skid control circuits, each of which includes a wheel speed sensor for providing an output signal representative of the speed of the wheel or the mean speed of the wheels, an approximate vehicle speed generator for providing an output signal representative of the approximate speed of the vehicle on the basis of the output signal of the wheel speed sensor, a slip signal generator receiving the output signal of the wheel speed sensor, an acceleration/deceleration signal generator receiving the output signal of the wheel speed sensor, a valve control circuit receiving the outputs of the slip signal generator and acceleration/deceleration signal generator, and electromagnetic inlet and outlet valves receiving the output of the valve control circuit.

Abstract: A wheel speed measuring circuit includes a counter controlled by a wheel speed signal having a frequency proportional to the rotational speed of the wheel sensed by a wheel speed sensor associated with a wheel; a comparator for comparing the digital output of the counter with a predetermined digital value; a wheel speed generating circuit for generating a digital output corresponding to the rotational speed of the wheel on the basis of the output of the comparator; and a pulse generator for generating pulses of a frequency proportional to the digital output of the wheel speed generating circuit, the pulse generator receiving the digital output of the wheel speed generating circuit, wherein the counter receives the output pulses of the pulse generator to count the output pulses thereof for the period of the wheel speed signal or for a time interval relating to the period of the wheel speed signal, and the digital output of the counter is compared with the predetermined digital value in the comparator.

Abstract: A radial tire for trucks and buses which includes a belt layer whose steel cords are disposed at an angle of 15.degree. to 25.degree. relative to the circumferential direction of the tire and a carcass layer whose cord material is selected from materials having a K value equal to 10 to 15 as calculated by the equation K=E/T, where E is the tensile modulus of the cord material in kg/mm.sup.2 and T is the breaking strength per unit area of the cord material in kg/mm.sup.2. In accordance with various disclosed embodiments, the belt layer may be a three ply structure with the outer two plies substantially parallel with one another to provide a higher resistance to shock bursts; separation in such a belt layer may be further restrained by making the sum of the cord end counts per unit width of the second and third plies 1.50 to 1.

Abstract: A radial tire having carcass plies of polyester cords in which all or part of carcass plies are folded from the inside of bead core to the outside and a steel chafer outside the folded edges or a reinforcing layer of organic fiber.The steel chafer has a cord angle of 15.degree.-45.degree., and a height H equal to 15-28% of the tire internal height IH. The maximum height h of the folded edges of the carcass plies is at most 85% of the height H of the steel chafer and the cord angle of the organic fiber reinforcing layer is 20.degree.-75.degree. with respect to the tire circumferential direction and 10.degree. or more with the cords in the steel chafer.