PURPOSE:To improve an energy efficiency by effectively utilizing regenerated power. CONSTITUTION:A hybrid power source for a motor operated vehicle charges a battery by operating an engine generator 8 when it needs recharging, and forcibly rotates an engine 7 during stopping by supplying regenerated power to the generator 8 used also as a motor to be used as a brake load. After a regenerative brak...

PURPOSE:To provide a method and a device for cutting a magnetic recording medium such that sharpness can be ensured to maintain a quality of cutting by performing work for slightly adjusting the device even when wearing an edge point is advanced in a certain degree. CONSTITUTION:When a plurality of magnetic recording media is manufactured by meshing a lower rotary edge 2 and an upper rotary edge 1...

PURPOSE: To make line pressure in the P and N ranges of an automatic transmission lower than line pressure in a D range so as to reduce the power loss of an oil pump. CONSTITUTION: An oil pressure control device for an automatic transmission is provided with oil passages 30, 32 connected to the discharge side of an oil pump 5, a pressure regulating means 11 that can regulate oil pressure in the oi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent deterioration of a transmission shock caused by enrichment of an air-fuel ratio. SOLUTION: A control device of an internal combustion engine with an automatic transmission is constituted so that an automatic transmission to carry out transmission in accordance with a travelling state is connected to the internal combustion engine to release NOx from an NOx absorben...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solar heat-collecting device, reducing sterilizing chlorine or trihalomethane and produce the hot-water of clean condition for a long period of time. SOLUTION: A solar heat collecting device is provided with a heat collector 1, heating supplied water by solar heat, and a hot-water storage tank 2, storing hot-water, whose temperature is increased. A first device i...

A method for separating a blood component, e.g., fibrin monomer, from blood or plasma. The method utilizes a container with a reaction chamber for receiving the plasma. The reaction chamber is defined by a wall and an agent is supplied to the reaction chamber for converting the fibrinogen content of the plasma into a non-cross-linked fibrin polymer. The method also utilizes a device for centrifugi...

The invention relates to a method and to devices for producing iron by fluid bed and entrained flow gasification using fossil and regenerative fuels. According to the inventive method, wuestite is reduced to iron in a largely separate process step to which wuestite and a reducing gas is continuously added from an internal or external gasification process and iron or iron carbide and a reducing gas...

Symbols (y(n - L)) in a symbol sequence transmitted via a fading channel are estimated (S/< ANd >(n - L)) in an equalizer having a channel estimating filter (CEST). An error signal (e(n)) influences an adaptation circuit (10) which controls adjustable coefficients (7) so as to form a channel estimate (c1(n), c2(n), c3(n)), which is adapted during the whole of the symbol sequence. The adaptation ci...

The apparatus comprising pairs of hooks in which one 32 of the hooks is articulated to the other hook 31. It is designed in such a way as to permit fastening onto the two hooks, in ensuring the engagement of one, and only one, cord on each of the second hooks 32 and in optimising the position of the hooks both for the fastening phase and for the unfastening phase.

A steering control apparatus for a vehicle which prevents an interference between a steering operation performed by the steering control apparatus and a steering operation performed by a driver of the vehicle. A guide line provided on a vehicle moving lane is recognized by a forward image of the vehicle so as to set a target position on the vehicle moving lane based on a result of recognition of t...

PURPOSE:To obtain the elliptically polarizing plate having excellent display characteristics with simple facilities by sticking a polarizing plate and a phase difference plate by pressurization of a roll, then cutting off the edges of this laminated plate. CONSTITUTION:The polarizing plate 1 consisting of a polarizing film previously worked to a product size or above and the phase difference plate...

A method and an apparatus for determining the position of a mining machine as its wheels skid with respect to the underlying surface. In the method, at least one detector detecting the operation of transmission detects skidding of at least one wheel with respect to the underlying surface, whereupon determination of the position by means of the rotation of the wheels and the direction of travel is ...

Process for preparing rigid and flexible polyurethane foams by reacting a polyisocyanate, polyols and water in the presence of a catalyst, where the polyisocyanate comprises a prepolymer which is the reaction product of a polyisocyanate and a polyalkyleneglycol monoalkylether.

A hygiene monitoring system (100), which incorporate various features of the present invention, monitor location of persons (110) in a facility, location of equipment (115) in the facility, activities performed by persons (110) in the facility, activities performed by equipment (115) in the facility, and/or activities performed on equipment (115) in the facility. From such gathered information, th...

According to the present invention, there is provided a process for fabricating micro electrodes (10) by placing electrodes (10) in a vacuum chamber, purging the chamber of contaminated gases, flowing chlorine gas into the chamber and exciting ionized plasma into the chlorine gas, causing Cl<-> ions to form, accelerating these ions toward the surface where they react with the metal, thereby formin...

A method of manufacturing tires includes the steps of making structural components for tires, assembling the structural components of each tire following a pre-established sequence at respective work stations disposed along a manufacturing line, transferring the tires to a curing line, and curing the tires in respective vulcanization molds. The tires are sequentially transferred along the manufact...

A small volume sensor, and methods of making, for determining the concentration of an analyte, such as glucose or lactate, in a biological fluid, such as blood or serum, using techniques such as coulometry, amperometry, and potentiometry. The sensor includes a working electrode and a counter electrode, and can include an insertion monitoring trace to determine correct positioning of the sensor in ...

A method of and system for anchoring at least one acoustic device 40 against a borehole or wellbore wall 14 where the acoustic device 40 is attached to an anchoring device 20; a tubing 18, provided with the anchoring and acoustic devices, is then placed within a borehole and the anchoring device 20 is extended to the borehole wall 14 in order to couple the acoustic device to the borehole wall 14. ...

PURPOSE:To obtain a thick film of oxide superconductor expressed by composition formula Re1Ba2Cu3Ox (Re is a lanthanoid of Y, Yb, Sm, Nd, etc.). CONSTITUTION:Superconducting raw materials are mixed at prescribed ratio and the mixture is formed into a sheet, an the resultant formed article is put on a substrate. Then, calcination processes for forming 123 phase and, in the next, 211 phase are carri...

PCT No. PCT/GB92/01128 Sec. 371 Date May 2, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date May 2, 1994 PCT Filed Jun. 22, 1992 PCT Pub. No. WO93/00170 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 7, 1993.A stream of molten metal particles in a metal spraying apparatus is deflected from side to side by gas issuing from two nozzle blocks disposed at diametrically opposite sides of the stream. Gas is supplied to the two nozzle blocks (13) alternately...