In a process of separating a liquid sample having phase portions of different densities by centrifugal separation, a phase separator container is employed. The phase separator container comprises a housing having concentric inner and outer cylindrical walls defining a longitudinal axis and a top wall and further a piston body constituting a bottom wall of the housing. The piston body defines toget...

A tread provided with a plurality of cutouts of essentially transverse orientation and characterized in that when new, some of the transverse cutouts form on the running surface hollowed zones of average width Lt greater than or equal to 2 mm and of maximum depth Pt at most equal to 80% of the thickness Pb of tread to become worn, the other transverse cutouts forming on the same running surface in...

A shift shock reducing system for a continuously variable transmission detects power transmission ratio of the transmission. A shifting response delay of the transmission is determined depending upon a transmission speed ratio detected by a speed ratio detector. At a transition from a coasting state to a power-on driving state, a fuel recovery delay device issues a command for making a fuel cut-of...

A control system (in FIG. 1A) for a motor vehicle having a continuously variable transmission, in which a control of better fuel consumption is selected between the retardation angle correction (the correction of the retardation angle side of an advance angle correction) of the ignition timing of an internal combustion engine and the increase correction of the target r.p.m. of a continuously varia...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a battery with an excellent service life as being capable of preventing the separation of active material from a plate grid when elongated. SOLUTION: In a positive electrode grid alloy formed of lead-calcium-tin, the sectional area of the vertical skeleton 2 of a positive electrode grid frame is twice or more the sectional area of the lateral skeleton 1 of the posi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent generation of a free running feeling and a speed change shock, in the case of a downshift speed change at power off time. SOLUTION: In the case that as in a manual shift down, in a power off condition, a downshift speed change is performed, in the case of an input rotational speed NT lower than a second target value NTR, a release side oil pressure PA is feedback c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the opportunity of generating soot upon change-over be tween low temperature combustion and second combustion by enlarging an engine operating range in which the low temperature combustion can be carried out, while inhibiting emission of soot and NOx simultaneously. SOLUTION: If the changeover can be made between low temperature combustion feeding exhaust gas recirc...

PURPOSE:To manufacture a clad positive plate that is excellent in initial capacity using wet packing method. CONSTITUTION:In a method for manufacturing a clad positive plate by pressing a fluidized paste into a tube, the paste contains an alkaline substance at a density of 2.7-3.0g/cc and by 10 mass % or more of lead sulfate in dried active material. Thus the paste with a great lead sulfate ratio ...

PURPOSE: To provide a vacuum packaging device wherein an excessive space is not formed between an article to be packaged and a bag containing the article to be packaged. CONSTITUTION: A package 85 which is formed by the seal-cut operation of top and bottom seal-cut bars 52, 53, and carried out onto a correction conveyor 86 is monitored by a sensor 103. Then, a deviation amount between a sealing ta...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture an electrode plate excellent in discharge characteristic with high productivity by setting the tensile strength of a paste paper to be stuck to an active material surface filled in an expanded grid body lower in the extending direction of the grid body than the vertical direction. SOLUTION: In the manufacture of an electrode plate, a strip lead or lead alloy sh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a folding device in a packaging device which can dispense with a large-sized suction mechanism or a chain roller of complicated structure, is simple in construction, capable of surely folding films, and excellent in the finish of the surface of a packaged body. SOLUTION: A film folding device comprises film holding bodies 18, 19 comprising a pair of rollers which a...

A four wheel drive working vehicle such as a front mower has a dual one-way clutch mechanism interlocked to right and left dirigible wheels. When the vehicle makes a turn in forward or backward running, the clutch mechanism breaks drive transmission only to an outer one of the dirigible wheels.

PURPOSE: To provide a gear actuator which extremely excels in quality by preventing noise and vibrations by a simple structure without improving the structure of a motor. CONSTITUTION: In a gear actuator which has a motor 2 mounted in a housing, an output part 6 provided in the motor 2 for transmitting the power of the motor 2 and a butting part 11 on which the tip of the output part 6 provided in...

PURPOSE:To effectively prevent the occurrence of the damage and wear of the important part of a transmission device by primarily blocking entrance of water from the outside by means of a waterproof cap and positive drainage of water which enters once, in a transmission system having a floating type toothed belt pulley. CONSTITUTION:Disc-shaped waterproof caps 17 and 18 are arranged to the outside ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the outward appearance of a vehicle body, by providing a decorative cover for covering from outside a disklike cover for closing the opening of a mission case, also facilitate molding an O ring inserting annular groove in the disklike cover, and moreover facilitate the assembly of the disklike and decorative covers to the mission case. SOLUTION: A circular opening ...

The invention relates to a packaging device for a liquid that is to be dispensed drop by drop, comprising a container (1) with manually elastically deformable walls, which ends in a rigid neck (3) in which a head (4) for dispensing the liquid is mounted. A membrane (31) which is both hydrophilic and hydrophobic, advantageously antibacterial, is arranged in the dispensing head (4) across the passag...

A label for a blood bag comprising a microporous plastic film including a matrix of interconnected pores for allowing gas to flow into and out of the blood bag through a labeled area. The pores allow ink to be absorbed at least on an outer surface of the label allowing the label to be printed and/or written on. The labels of the present invention have breathability with respect to gas that is simi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a work fixing device capable of surely holding and fixing a work in accordance with plural work contours. SOLUTION: The unit 5A of a work holding device is provided with a pair of lug members 31 which are formed with plural holding parts 30a , 30b , 30c in accordance with the contours W1a , W1b , W1c of plural works, with both ends of the rotary shaft 32 supported ...

In order to ensure excellent moulding of the rubber in the region of the markings appearing on the sidewall of a tyre, the shell 1 of the mould includes holes (perforations) 3 corresponding to the shape of the marking, into which is installed an insert 4 sliding in the hole 3. It is possible to adjust the relief of the marking. Venting is ensured by the clearance between the insert 4 and the hole ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a programmable controller for guaranteeing the coincidence of shared data between the scans in duplexed arithmetic parts by adjusting the timing to execute a step for accessing the shared data between the scans through two arithmetic parts. SOLUTION: Concerning a programmable controller 1 of a parallel scanning system for executing plural sequence processings while...