PCT No. PCT/NO94/00163 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 10, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 10, 1996 PCT Filed Oct. 11, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/10764 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 20, 1995An apparatus for testing a shear thickening plugging fluid that is an emulsion of two components which react with each other to provide a thickening of the fluid when subjected to high stress, such apparatus comprising a cylinder (1) having an...

In a method for drilling adjacent to a cased known first borehole a second borehole in a predetermined direction the following steps are carried out for a number of along hole depths di: measuring components of gravity acceleration and magnetic field (earth & casing); determining direction parameters alpha i; deriving magnetic polestrength components, Bp1,i and Bp2,i; applying Bp1,i/Bp2,i=s1,i/s2...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to uniformly bind the feet by pivotally supporting forward inclination regulation members to a high back pendently disposed in the rear part of a base plate and pivotally supporting the high back to the base plate by means of a pivotal supporting part variable in a mounting position. SOLUTION: The binding for the snowboard fixed to a snowboard body is cons...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely fix a rotary drum without performing troublesome positioning of the rotary drum by providing a fixing means that stops the rotary drum in the arbitrary rotary position and fixs it in a recovery device for sludge in which polluted liquid is centrifugally separated and sludge is scraped out by rotation of only a scraping blade. SOLUTION: When sludge in polluted liquid...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To insert a metallic plate as cast-in in a suitable position without using a chaplet, etc., to eliminate the development of misrun at the time of casting and to serve a cast product to increase the rigidity and also, to reduce the vibration and the noise. SOLUTION: The inserting metallic plate for aluminum casting is composed of projecting parts 1b metallurgical-combined with...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the strength of a frame and facilitate tightening of a cover by offsetting a clutch cover tightening part nearer to an engine or the center of a clutch cover than the external circumferential profile of the clutch cover near proximity parts of the clutch cover and the main frame. SOLUTION: The lower end 1a of a main frame 1 is close to a clutch cover 11, and a tigh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the corrosion of a circulating liquid phase water piping in a water injection regenerating combustion cycle using a cycle internal circulating liquid phase water as heat recovering medium by using a deaerated water as the liquid phase water used as the heat recovering medium. SOLUTION: Air 1 is compressed by a compressor AC1 , cooled through an intermediate cooler ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the durability of a frictional engagement device in an output control device for reducing the output torque of a driving power source in speed change by an automatic transmission by increasing, when the repeat frequency of a specified speed change by the automatic transmission is high, the reducing quantity of output torque of the driving force source in this speed...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently perform the work to assemble a roller into a plurality of pocket in an inner diameter surface of a body of revolution. SOLUTION: A roller push-out member 12 is fitted to a roller holding shaft 11 movably in the axial direction, and roller holding grooves are provided on a tip part of the roller holding shaft 11 with the prescribed intervals in the circumferenti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate the assembly of a reverse idle gear to improve working efficiency. SOLUTION: After an input shaft 3, a counter shaft and an output shaft are assembled into a case member 2 to accommodate them, an another support member 100 where an idle gear 102 to be engaged with a pair of transmission gears on a backward stage among plural pairs of transmission gears is previo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a gear noise by suppressing the deflection quantity of a shaft. SOLUTION: A hollow fitting recessed part 3a is extendedly provided in an axial-longitudinal direction in an end part on the output side of an input shaft 3, and an end part 5a on the input side of an output shaft 5 is fitted in the fitting recessed part 3a, and ball bearings 52 are arranged so that pilo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent boiler vapor temperature control from being retarded even when a gas turbine load is changed. SOLUTION: The amount of heat of combustion air entering a boiler is estimated on the basis of an air flow rate (by a flow rate meter 21) through a boiler window box 10 and temperature (by a thermometer 20), with which amount of heat a boiler fuel amount instruction signal ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate the storage of heat not only in the first story but also in the stories above it and make a solar system applicable without restrictions in relation to the architectural structure by providing under the floor an air- passage space having a warm-air intake port for sending in heated warm air and a warm air outlet for releasing it into a room and by placing a late...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for driving a hybrid electric car with excellent reliability capable of continuing the drive of the car when an AC motor for driving the car and a power converter for the motor are failed, and capable of continuing charging of a battery when an AC generator and a power converter for the generator are failed. SOLUTION: A control device 7 has the failure det...

A probe having one vibrator element array containing at least two groups of vibrator elements. The number of vibrator elements belonging to each of the groups is an ordinary number. At least two probe-side connectors are provided correspondingly to the groups. A plurality of connectors capable of being connected to the probe-side connectors are provided in a diagnosis apparatus body. In the vibrat...

A container for receiving and separating blood plasma into its ingredients that has two sealingly coupled sections (1 and 2). One container section (2) and the adjacent portion of the other container section are made of solid material, and the two container sections are screwed together. The container sections (1 and 2) comprise their respective chambers (29 and 30) for receiving their respective ...

PCT No. PCT/US92/10714 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 2, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 2, 1995 PCT Filed Dec. 9, 1992 PCT Pub. No. WO94/13486 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 23, 1994A copolyester composition comprising poly(ethylene naphthalate bibenzoate) ("PENBB") and 0.001 to 5% by weight of fine silica particles having an average diameter of 0.01 to 3.0 mu m. Further, films are made from this copolyester composition.

A biaxially oriented polyester film which contains 0.01 to 5 wt % of zinc oxide having an average particle diameter ranging from 0.01 to 5 mu m has improved transparency, UV light shielding ability and surface properties, and it is especially useful as wrapping materials for food, labels, window coating films, photoresists and the like. The zinc oxide may be optionally pretreated with a silane co...

A cobalt/aluminum catalyst for the polymerization of polyesters of terephthalic acid and an ethylene glycol, and a process for the preparation of such catalysts.

A foamed isocyanate-based polymer having a cellular structure and containing a superabsorbent material, the polymer being capable of: (i) absorbing at least about 20 times its weight of an aqueous fluid maintained at a temperature of from about 20 DEG to about 25 DEG C., and (ii) retaining at least about 20 times its weight of absorbed aqueous fluid which is bound to the superabsorbent material....