The control system has a unit, for controlling the vehicle in accordance with supplied control characteristic information, provided by a memory, in which several different sets of information are held, each corresp. to a different driver. Each individual driver is identified to allow the corresp. control characteristicinformation to be fed from the memory to the control unit, with selective corre...

An apparatus is disclosed which prevents occurrence of an engine stalling in a power train of an automotive vehicle, including an engine and a lock-up type automatic transmission. The apparatus is operative during a braking operation of the vehicle and includes an engine controller to perform an idling speed control for the engine, and a transmission controller to perform a lock-up releasing contr...

PURPOSE:To prevent the generation of shift hunting of a transmission even in the combination of an electronically controlled engine with a throttle and a hydraulically controlled automatic transmission. CONSTITUTION:A controller 3 controls throttle opening basically through an actuator 4 so as to be the opening corresponding to the stepped-on quantity of an accelerator pedal 5, detected by a poten...

A control system for controlling change speed gearing (A) of a vehicle for transmitting output of an engine (1) in varied speeds to wheels. This system has a first clutch mechanism mounted in a drive transmitting line between the engine and the change speed gearing, the first clutch mechanism including two hydraulically operable clutches (5, 6) for forward drive and backward drive, and a backward-...

The electromagnetic transducer drives an inner hub (4) laterally. The hub has a rear chamfer with shoulders on the armature channel holding it in place in the rest position. The armature (2) has electrical winding mounted coaxially around the hub centre. The hub is attached to a front and rear flexible section (14,15) covering the front and rear of the armature. The magnetic field moves the hub fo...

The system is integrated inside a reception trough (1) positioned on a frame. The trough upper part has a support section (1d) for a hopper (2) for collecting all types of waste, and an open bottom (1c) which discharges into a waste receptacle underneath. Several modules positioned in the trough comprise cutting tools constituted by oppositely mounted toothed discs (7,8) on parallel shafts (11,12)...

There is now provided a method for making a polyisocyanate based rigid closed cell foam made by reacting an organic isocyanate with a polyol composition made up of at least: a) an aromatic amine initiated polyoxyalkylene polyether polyol having a hydroxyl number of 200 meq polyol/g KOH or more; b) an aliphatic amine initiated polyoxyalkylene polyether polyol having a hydroxyl number of 200 meq pol...

The tension indicator consists of slide (10) moved in front of a window (16). This is located in a label (14), which has a transparent cover (18) and a scale. At least the slide and the cover define a sealed space. The space contains the window and the part of the label carrying the scale.The connection joints between label and cover, and cover and slide, are sealed. The slide has a smooth surface...

The system shows on a display screen (20) symbols (51) representing information associated with a map (1). The map is also displayed on the screen. The symbols are prepared on a card (5), which is superposed onto the map (1). The information cards are stacked beneath the transparent map card to form the overall image. In an alternative arrangement the map and the information cards are alternate...

A method is provided for treating conditions that are susceptible of treatment with a cytokine wherein the undesirable side effects normally associated with cytokine administration are diminished or eliminated. The method comprises continuously administering a low dose of a cytokine to an individual afflicted with a condition susceptible of treatment with the cytokine. In a preferred embodiment of...

A method and apparatus for treating a work surface, wherein there is provided a chamber having a longitudinal axis and longitudinally extending electrically conductive sidewalls, at least one sidewall having at least one longitudinally extending gap that interrupts a current path through the sidewalls transverse to the longitudinal axis, and wherein the chamber is sealed to allow pressure inside t...

The present invention relates to a polyolefin composite material based on fiber and a matrix of a polyolefin, selected from polyethylene and polypropylene possessing improved mechanical properties. The polyolefin composite comprises a network of fibers and matrix which have a molecular weight of above 500,000. This network is held together by compressed and crystallized molecular brush layers, obt...

An electrocautery device is disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the electrocautery electrode/tip is provided with a hollow, conductive tube terminating at its distal end in a ball point type tip. Fluid, preferably conductive fluid, is applied to the proximal end of the hollow electrode/tip, and expelled from the distal end thereof during electrocautery. The ball point distal...

Die vorliegende Erfindung bezieht sich auf Schäume, die Cycloolefincopolymere enthalten. Der erfindungsgemässe Schaum enthält mindestens ein Cycloolefincopolymer, welches 0,1 bis 100 Gew.-%, bezogen auf die Gesamtmasse des Cycloolefincopolymers, polymerisierte Einheiten enthält, welche sich ableiten von einem oder mehreren polycyclischen Olefinen mit einer oder mehreren Norborneneinheiten und 0 bi...

Ein Teil (TZR) einer Menge zulässiger Ressourcen (ZR), die in Form eines Spaltengenerierungsgraphen (SGG) gespeichert werden, wird mit einem Optimierungsverfahren (OV) optimiert. Durch Kombination eines Spaltengenerierungsverfahrens (SG) zur Ermittlung neuer Spalten (NS) und dem Einführen von Schnittebenen (SE), wenn keine ganzzahlige Lösung durch das Optimierungsverfahren (OV) ermittelt wurde, wi...

The feedback caused between the output (39) and the input (30) of an amplification path (54, 42, 56, 60, 62, 64) is reduced by providing a delay (60) in the amplification path, passing through the amplification path a signal having an auto-correlation function which is substantially a delta function, correlating (72) the said signal before being delayed in the delay with the signal after being del...

In a well (10) in production or undergoing tests, the recovery of data acquired and stored in a downhole unit (16) located in the lower part of a drillpipe string (12) below a test valve (20) is effected directly in the form of acoustic signals between the downhole unit (16) and an interface tool (24). To this end, acoustic coupling is established between the tool (24) and the drillpipe string (12...

A method for removing heavy metals from liquid effluents, particularly water used for scrubbing industrial waste or household refuse incinerator fumes, wherein the liquid effluent containing the heavy metals to be removed is pre-neutralised, particularly using soda, to raise the pH of the liquid effluent to around 1-4 and thereby precipitate out the metal hydroxides; the resulting pre-neutralised ...

In a method and to a system suited for monitoring the behaviour of a drill bit (2), the damping associated with a natural mode of the torsional oscillations measured by at least one measuring device (4) placed in the drill string is determined. The appearance of a stick-slip type dysfunctioning is predicted when the damping value decreases significantly as a function of time, and drilling paramete...