A method and device for manufacturing curing bladders (2), whereby a curing mold (3) defines, via a first (4) and second (5) half mold and an inner core (6), an inner molding chamber (7) and an outer injection chamber (34) communicating with the inner chamber (7) and consisting of a variable-volume chamber of an injection cylinder (59); the outer chamber (34) being fed with a mass (35) of heated c...

PURPOSE:To prevent the generation of centrifugal oil pressure by disposing plural hydraulic multiple disc clutches, a brake and the like attached to a multi- function center differential unit in a compact manner and ensuring a designated torque capacity of a hydraulic multiple disc clutch for controlling the torque distribution to front and rear wheels. CONSTITUTION:In hydraulic multiple disc clut...

PURPOSE:To dispose the oil pressure control system of a hydraulic multiple disc clutch device attached to a center differential unit in a compact size without any influence on the other members by utilizing a dead space after forming the oil pressure control system in such a manner as to be improved in the interchangeability with the other kinds of vehicles. CONSTITUTION:In a driving system where ...

PURPOSE:To easily install more speed change stages with an automatic transmission organically combined with a center differential device and always provide torque distribution, differential, differential limit and torque distribution control functions by means of the center differential device in a drive system comprising the automatic transmission and the center differential device combined. CONS...

A hybrid vehicle which can run under a heavy load without requiring an electric motor large in size or an inverter element of large capacity. The hybrid vehicle includes an internal-combustion engine, an electric machine unit to which the rotation of the internal-combustion engine is input, an electric motor driven by electric current supplied thereto, a differential gear unit including at least t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure the stability of a vehicle when it runs at a low speed, by a method in which the driving condition of the vehicle is detected from an acceleration command and deceleration command from a driver, the appropriate number of rotations of the vehicle is estimated from the detected driving condition of the vehicle, the wheels are driven by a motor when a brake is released...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the running stability of a hybrid electric vehicle by selecting an optimum one out of a plurality of running drive conditions, in accordance with the running condition of the car. SOLUTION: A motor generator 13 is linked to an engine 11 via the medium of a first clutch 12, and arranging a two-speed transmission 14 between the engine 11 and the motor generator 13 a ...

PURPOSE:To aim at the secureness of shift control performance in making shift control in q starting operation function accurately by controlling it so as to become a specified desired gear ratio reflected with a brake operating state at a time when a car stops for its restarting. CONSTITUTION:A continuously variable transmission 2 controls those of line pressure, primary pressure and clutch pressu...

PURPOSE:To reproduce a condition of a vehicle when an ignition switch is put off, and predict action of the vehicle without putting the ignition switch off. CONSTITUTION:When an ignition switch is on, when a vehicle being stopped, supply of control currents to differentials 21, 20, 22 is disconnected. As a driver is on the vehicle, differential lock is released, and a condition of the vehicle when...

Electronic anti-intrusion warning and protection system for isolated houses, apartment blocks and business premises generally, comprising one or more electronic units, remote transmitting (50), supplied with microtelecameras (51), placed in the internal (10) and external (40) areas to be guarded, whether associated or not to various services such as street lamps (41), light bulbs, street buzzer pa...

The use of a mixture comprising reactive oxygen species and reactive fluorine and/or chlorine species in the production of an organic light-emissive device, comprising an organic light emissive region provided between two electrodes such that charge carriers can move between the electrodes and the organic light emissive region, for etching the organic light-emissive region.

The imaging apparatus used in mammography generally having a cassette tunnel ( 17 ) or a similar space for the placement of an image data receiving device ( 14 ') in the imaging area of the apparatus. In such a space or in its immediate vicinity, device ( 19 ) for moving the cassette in the space can be provided, thus making the imaging process in many ways faster and easier to carry out. Such dev...

In mammographic imaging, the means used to receive image data are often cassettes with an actual image data receiving medium, such as a film, placed inside the cassette. The cassette is positioned in a cassette tunnel or similar space provided in the imaging area of the imaging apparatus. By having the labeling of the film performed in conjunction with the imaging process itself before removal of ...

A device for guiding a yarn which is unwound from the front end of a yarn supply drum (2) of a yarn feeder unit for looms, which device comprises a hollow body, which is disposed co-axially and in line with the yarn supply drum, wherein the hollow body (7) has a larger diameter at its entry side facing towards the drum (2) than at its exit side facing away from the drum, and wherein the hollow bod...

Forming a rubber component includes using a single extrusion head to co-extrude layers each having a rubber mixture. The head has a main extruder with a channel for each rubber mixture leading to a single extrusion orifice. A micro-extruder simultaneously extrudes another rubber mixture across the layers produced by the main extruder. The micro-extruder has an nozzle opposite one face of the orifi...

PURPOSE:To produce a fine polycarbodiimide powder having a narrow particle size distribution. CONSTITUTION:This production method comprises producing a solution of polycarbodiimide from an organic diisocyanate in the presence of a suitable catalyst, cooling the solution to convert it into a slurry, and spray-drying the slurry.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device which has a metal connection hole structure, wherein an aperture is formed in an etching stop film and an interlayer insulative film, in such a way as to penetrate the etching stop film and the interlayer insulating film and the etching stop film and the interlayer insulating film are electrically bonded together or an embedded metal wiring s...

A method for manufacturing a reinforcing structure for tires of vehicles includes the steps of preparing a plurality of strip segments having substantially parallel, longitudinal filiform elements at least partially coated by at least one layer of elastomeric material, and applying the plurality of strip segments along a circumference of a toroidal support, to form at least one continuous reinforc...

A test strip platform for a testing apparatus of the type using test strips, wherein the platform has a shroud defining a strip track for positioning an inserted strip over an optical aperture for making analytical determinations. The platform has a hood permanently mounted to the shroud for overlying the optical window and protecting the testing apparatus optics. The strip track has stabilizing m...

A switching appliance for electrosurgical devices (5, 5') comprises a coupling device (3) with an input terminal which can be or is connected to an output of a generator (1). Furthermore, the coupling device (3) has at least two connection devices, to each of which an electrosurgical operating instrument (5, 5') can be conencted by means of a connection cable (4, 4') and each of which has an outpu...