Author: claimsbot

1. A hand-held tool, in particular a rotary hammer, a percussion hammer, or a saw, equipped with a drive unit and a stroke-generating element; the drive unit being embodied to move the stroke-generating element in a reciprocating, in particular periodic, motion along a translation axis; the hand-held tool having at least one counterweight, which is operatively connected to the drive unit in such a way that it is possible to at least partially compensate for forces at least indirectly caused by the reciprocating motion, the counterweight being supported so that the counterweight is able to move, in particular to reciprocate, coaxial or parallel to the translation axis.
2. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 1, wherein the counterweight is supported in a bushing that is in particular embodied of one piece.
3. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 2, wherein the bushing is embodied in the form of a hollow cylinder and the bushing is embodied to at least partially accommodate the counterweight.
4. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 2, wherein the bushing has an opening for the engagement of a wobble pin and the counterweight is attached to the wobble pin in such a way that the wobble pin is able to move the counterweight in a reciprocating fashion through the opening.
4. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 3, wherein the bushing has an opening for the engagement of a wobble pin and the counterweight is attached to the wobble pin in such a way that the wobble pin is able to move the counterweight in a reciprocating fashion through the opening.
6. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 2, wherein the bushing has an installation viewing opening and through the installation viewing opening, the counterweight or additionally a bolt, is threaded onto the wobble pin.
7. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 3, wherein the bushing has an installation viewing opening and through the installation viewing opening, the counterweight or additionally a bolt, is threaded onto the wobble pin.
7. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 4, wherein the bushing has an installation viewing opening and through the installation viewing opening, the counterweight or additionally a bolt, is threaded onto the wobble pin.
9. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 5, wherein the bushing has an installation viewing opening and through the installation viewing opening, the counterweight or additionally a bolt, is threaded onto the wobble pin.
10. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 1, wherein the hand-held tool has at least one guide rod and the counterweight is connected to the guide rod in such a way that it is possible for the counterweight to be moved in reciprocating fashion in a longitudinal direction of the guide rod.
11. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 2, wherein the hand-held tool has at least one guide rod and the counterweight is connected to the guide rod in such a way that it is possible for the counterweight to be moved in reciprocating fashion in a longitudinal direction of the guide rod.
12. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 3, wherein the hand-held tool has at least one guide rod and the counterweight is connected to the guide rod in such a way that it is possible for the counterweight to be moved in reciprocating fashion in a longitudinal direction of the guide rod.
13. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 1, wherein the counterweight is connected to a guide rail and is supported by means of the guide rail so that it is able to move in reciprocating fashion.
14. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 2, wherein the counterweight is connected to a guide rail and is supported by means of the guide rail so that it is able to move in reciprocating fashion.
15. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 3, wherein the counterweight is connected to a guide rail and is supported by means of the guide rail so that it is able to move in reciprocating fashion.
16. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 10, wherein the counterweight constitutes a slider that at least partially encompasses a longitudinal section of the guide rod and thus has a capacity to be moved in a reciprocating fashion relative to the guide rod.
17. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 11, wherein the counterweight constitutes a slider that at least partially encompasses a longitudinal section of the guide rod and thus has a capacity to be moved in a reciprocating fashion relative to the guide rod.
18. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 12, wherein the counterweight constitutes a slider that at least partially encompasses a longitudinal section of the guide rod and thus has a capacity to be moved in a reciprocating fashion relative to the guide rod.
19. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 13, wherein the counterweight constitutes a slider that at least partially encompasses a longitudinal section of the guide rail and thus has a capacity to be moved in a reciprocating fashion relative to the guide rail.
20. The hand-held tool as recited in claim 14, wherein the counterweight constitutes a slider that at least partially encompasses a longitudinal section of the guide rail and thus has a capacity to be moved in a reciprocating fashion relative to the guide rail.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A degraded, inhibited, catianic starch prepared by degrading a starch, inhibiting the degraded starch with an inhibition agent in an amount of about 0.001% to about 0.05% by weight of dry starch, and cationically treating the starch,
wherein the steps of inhibiting and cationically treating the starch occur concurrently with or subsequently to one another.
2. The degraded, inhibited, cationic starch of claim 1 wherein the final peak viscosity of the starch is less than about 500 centipoise.
3. The degraded, inhibited, cationic starch of claim 1 wherein the final peak viscosity of said starch is about 110 to about 1000 percent of a non-inhibited degraded cationized starch viscosity.
4. The degraded, inhibited, cationic starch of claim 3 wherein the final peak viscosity of the starch is about 130 to about 800 percent of the viscosity of the non-inhibited degraded cationic starch.
5. The degraded, inhibited, cationic starch of claim 1 wherein the starch is chosen from the group consisting of corn, tapioca, potato and sago and their waxy and high amylose versions thereof.
6. The degraded, inhibited, cationic starch of claim 1 wherein the starch is inhibited chemically.
7. The degraded, inhibited, cationic starch of claim 6 wherein the starch is inhibited with epichlorohydrin.
8. The degraded, inhibited, cationic starch of claim 1 wherein the starch is inhibited thermally.
9. The degraded, inhibited, cationic starch of claim 1 wherein the degraded starch has a WF of about 15 to 85.
10. The degraded, inhibited, cationic starch of claim 9 wherein the degraded starch has a WF of about 20 to 70.
11. The degraded, inhibited, cationic starch of claim 10 wherein the degraded starch has a WF of about 35 to 65.
12. The degraded, inhibited, cationic starch of claim 1 wherein the cationic group is a quaternary ammonium derivative.
13. The degraded, inhibited, cationic starch of claim 2 wherein the degraded, cationic, inhibited starch has a peak viscosity of less than 250 centipoise.
14. The degraded, inhibited, cationic starch of claim 1 wherein the starch is modified to contain a quaternary amine.
15. A process for preparing a degraded, inhibited, cationic starch comprising the steps of:
degrading the molecular weight of a native starch,
inhibiting the degraded starch with an inhibition agent in an amount of about 0.001% to about 0.05% by weight of dry starch, and
chemically modifying the degraded starch with a cationic reagent,
wherein the steps of inhibiting and chemically modifying the degraded starch with a cationic reagent occur concurrently with or subsequently to one another.
16. The process of claim 15, wherein the inhibition is produced thermally.
17. A process for making paper comprising the steps of adding the starch of claim 1 to a papermaking system.
18. The process of claim 17 wherein the starch is added in granular form.
19. A paper article comprising the starch of claim 1.
20. A paper article comprising the starch produced by the process of claim 15.
21. A modified starch composition comprising:
a degraded starch,
an inhibition agent in an amount of about 0.001% to about 0.05% by weight of dry starch, and
a cationization derivative.
22. The modified starch composition of claim 21 wherein the starch is degraded to a water fluidity of about 15 to about 85.
23. The modified starch composition of claim 22 wherein the starch is degraded to a water fluidity of about 20 to about 70.
24. The modified starch composition of claim 23 wherein the starch is degraded to a water fluidity of about 35 to about 65.
25. The modified starch composition of claim 21 wherein the inhibition agent is provided in an amount of about 0.002% to about 0.0125% by weight of dry starch.
26. Paper made from thin modified starch composition of claim 21.
27. The paper of claim 26 comprising about 0.05% to about 5.0% by weight of the modified starch composition based on the dry weight of the pulp.
28. The paper of claim 27 comprising about 0.1% to about 2.0% by weight of the modified starch composition based on the dry weight of the pulp.
29. The modified starch composition of claim 21 wherein the final peak viscosity of the composition is less than about 500 centipoise.
30. The modified starch composition of claim 21 wherein the final peak viscosity of the composition is about 110 to about 1000 percent of the non-inhibited starch composition.

1. An in-vehicle image display apparatus for use in a vehicle, comprising:
a state detecting device that detects a state of surroundings of the vehicle;
a display device that is provided at least in a window section of the vehicle and capable of displaying information over the window section;
an image generating device that generates image data representing an image of the surroundings of the vehicle based on detection results from the state detecting device; and
a display control device that makes the display device display the image represented by the image data generated by the image generating device,
wherein the image generating device includes a predicting and generating device that predicts and generates, with respect to an object to be detected in the surroundings of the vehicle, image data representing the object to be detected after a predetermined time period, based on the detection results from the state detecting device.
2. The in-vehicle image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the state detection device includes a relative velocity detection device that detects a relative velocity between the object to be detected in the surroundings of the vehicle and the vehicle, and
the predicting and generating device predicts and generates, with respect to the object to be detected which has been detected by the state detecting device, image data representing the object to be detected after a predetermined time period, based on the relative velocity detected by the relative velocity detection device.
3. The in-vehicle image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the state detection device includes a plurality of position detection units that at least detect a position of the object to be detected, and
the image generating device calculates, based on detection results from the respective plurality of position detection units, an average value of the detection results and uses data represented by the calculated average value as data representing the position of the object to be detected, to thereby generate the image data representing the image of the surroundings of the vehicle.
4. The in-vehicle image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the state detection device includes a plurality of shape detection units that at least detect a shape of the object to be detected, and
the image generating device calculates, based on detection results from the respective plurality of shape detection units, an average value of the detection results and uses data represented by the calculated average value as data representing the shape of the object to be detected, to thereby generate the image data representing the image of the surroundings of the vehicle.
5. The in-vehicle image display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein
the state detection device includes a plurality of position detection units that at least detect a position of the object to be detected,
the image generating device calculates, based on detection results from the respective plurality of position detection units, an average value of the detection results and uses data represented by the calculated average value as data representing the position of the object to be detected, to thereby generate the image data representing the image of the surroundings of the vehicle, and
the predicting and generating device predicts a position of the object to be detected after a predetermined time period, using the average value with respect to the position of the object to be detected which is calculated by the image generating device and the relative velocity detected by the relative velocity detection device, and generates image data representing the object to be detected after the predetermined time period.
6. The in-vehicle image display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein
the state detection device includes a plurality of shape detection units that at least detect a shape of the object to be detected, and
the image generating device calculates, based on detection results from the respective plurality of shape detection units, an average value of the detection results and uses data represented by the calculated average value as data representing the shape of the object to be detected, to thereby generate the image data representing the image of the surroundings of the vehicle.
7. The in-vehicle image display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein
the predicting and generating device predicts the shape of the object to be detected after a predetermined time period, using the average value with respect to the shape of the object to be detected which is calculated by the image generating device and the relative velocity detected by the relative velocity detection device, and generates image data representing the object to be detected after the predetermined time period.
8. The in-vehicle image display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein
the state detection device includes a plurality of shape detection units that at least detect a shape of the object to be detected,
the image generating device calculates, based on detection results from the respective plurality of shape detection units, an average value of the detection results and uses data represented by the calculated average value as data representing the shape of the object to be detected, to thereby generate the image data representing the image of the surroundings of the vehicle, and
the predicting and generating device predicts the shape of the object to be detected after a predetermined time period, using the average value with respect to the shape of the object to be detected which is calculated by the image generating device and the relative velocity detected by the relative velocity detection device, and generates image data representing the object to be detected after the predetermined time period.
9. The in-vehicle image display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein
the state detection device includes a plurality of position detection units that at least detect a position of the object to be detected, and
the image generating device calculates, based on detection results from the respective plurality of position detection units, an average value of the detection results and uses data represented by the calculated average value as data representing the position of the object to be detected, to thereby generate the image data representing the state of the surroundings of the vehicle.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

What is claimed:

1. An apparatus for continuous casting of molten metals, the molten metal being continuously cast using a casting mold, said apparatus comprising:
electromagnets each comprising an iron core and a coil wound over said iron core, said electromagnets being arranged in a facing relation on opposite sides of said mold along a transverse width thereof to lie side by side along a longitudinal width of said mold; and
means for supplying a single-phase AC current to each coil.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said iron core comprises individual single iron cores separate from each other, or a comb-shaped iron core having a comb-teeth portion over which the coils are wound.
3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said iron core comprises a comb-shaped iron core having a comb-teeth portion over which said coils are wound and a root portion over which a second coil is wound, and further comprising a means for supplying a DC current to the second coil.
4. An apparatus for continuous casting of molten metals, the molten metal being continuously cast using a casting mold, said apparatus comprising:
a coil supplied with a DC current for producing a DC magnetic field and a coil supplied with an AC current for producing a non-moving, vibrating magnetic field, both said coils being wound over each of common iron cores,
said iron cores being arranged around said mold such that a direction of the magnetic fields produced by said coils is aligned with a transverse width of said mold.
5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein magnetic poles of said iron core are arranged in at least one pair to face each other above orand below an ejection port of an immersion nozzle.
6. A method for continuous casting of metals, comprising intermittently applying a static magnetic field in a thickness direction of a cast slab.
7. The method according to claim 6, wherein said static magnetic field is intermittently applied under setting of an on-time t10.10 to 30 seconds and an off-time t00.10 to 30 seconds.
8. The method according to claim 6, wherein said static magnetic field is applied to a surface of a molten metal.
9. The method according to claim 7, wherein said static magnetic field is applied to a surface of a molten metal.
10. An apparatus for continuous casting of molten metals, the molten metal being continuously cast using a casting mold, said apparatus comprising:
means for applying magnetic fields at positions above and below an ejection port of an immersion nozzle; and
a first coil for producing an AC magnetic field moving in a longitudinally symmetrical relation from opposite ends to a center of said mold along a longitudinal width thereof, and a second coil for producing a DC magnetic field, both said first and second coils being wound over each of common iron cores,
said iron cores being arranged on opposite sides of said mold along a transverse width thereof such that a direction of the magnetic fields produced by said coils is aligned with the transverse width of said mold.