A decanter centrifuge has a hollow, rotatable drum with a screw conveyor comprising a core body ( 1 ), in which an inlet opening for material into the drum from an inlet chamber ( 3 ) is provided, the inlet opening having a delimitation surface ( 7 ) which is rear relative to the direction of rotation and extending substantially axially, said delimitation surface being provided with a wear reinfor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a brake control device capable of stabilizing vehicle behavior in the case of braking with a partly in a failure state of brake system by braking torque distribution using differential limiting control.

SOLUTION: A vehicle is furnished with a brake system imparting brake hydraulic pressure to respective wheels 7, 8, 14, 15, and front and rear differential li...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential limiting control device capable of securing original running durability and acceleration by continuity of differential limiting control when determining that a driver requests a drive force even in case of malfunction of an anti-lock brake system due to disturbance such as a change in running resistance.

SOLUTION: A vehicle is provided with AB...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gear shift control device for a hybrid vehicle capable of preventing repeated gear shift operation at the time of slippage run.

SOLUTION: In the gear shift control device for the hybrid vehicle equipped with a transmission 4 for changing transmission gear ratio of an input shaft and an output shaft by shifting a gear that transmits power to a driving syste...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medicine packaging apparatus producing no lug deviation of a packaging sheet and further producing no blow-by of a medicine.

SOLUTION: This medicine packaging apparatus comprises a sheet feeding unit 8 for feeding an elongated packaging sheet 11 folded into two segments in advance along a longitudinal direction; triangular-shaped members 28, 60 for opening...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress degradation of exhaust emission and torque shock in rich spike for discharging NOx from NOx adsorbing catalyst 10.

SOLUTION: Engine side output and motor side output in relation to demand output determined by vehicle speed and accelerator opening is determined based on a predetermined output distribution table. In this invention, an output distribution tabl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bed temperature control method for a particulate filter in a hybrid system capable of regenerating the filter efficiently and improving the heat efficiency of an engine.

SOLUTION: The bed temperature of the filter 10 is judged to select a status map of hybrid control, and a torque assist area and an energy regenerative area corresponding to an engine speed...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a case for containing a differential mechanism compact in a riding type work vehicle.

SOLUTION: Side gears 57b and 57c are provided at mutually facing end parts of a right and a left axles 56 and 61. In a differential case 57a to cover the side gears 57b and 57c, a pinion gear 57d is provided. Inside the differential case 57a, the pinion gear 57d is engaged wit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the axial movement of a taper bearing by reducing the deflection of a retainer due to the force of the taper bearing working on the retainer.

SOLUTION: This bearing structure for a transmission for rotatably supporting a main shaft 4 of the transmission via the taper bearing 8 on a boss 10 and pressing the taper bearing 8 at its small-diameter side with the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reduction gear for a vehicle, having improved assembling workability, requiring less cost increase, and allowing easy work for mounting/demounting of a cooler and for measuring the backlash of a reducer.

SOLUTION: The reduction gear comprises casings 3a, 3b, 3c forming a storage chamber 16 storing the reducer S of a driving force transmission system for th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead-acid battery having a vent plug in which height is lowered with a conventional explosion-proof function kept in a coin drive type vent plug having the explosion-proof function.

SOLUTION: A space for temporarily storing hydrogen gas and oxygen gas installed between the upper surface of an explosion-proof filter inside the vent plug and a bottom part of...

Laser optic system for welding metal plates comprises an upper finger (10) mounted on a linear drive unit (11) which can be positioned on the level of the focus (13) of the laser beam. A lower finger (20) can be moved parallel to the axis of the beam or in a circular path. An independent claim is included for a laser optic system as describe din which the fingers are used to hold metal plates toge...

A phase-contrast X-ray imaging system according to the present invention comprises a first half-mirror 1 for separating an incident X-ray into first and second beams, a half-mirror 2b for separating the first beam into third and fourth beams, a third half-mirror 2a for separating the second beam into fifth and sixth beams, a fourth half-mirror 3 for connecting the fourth beam and the fifth beam ob...

An inter-vehicle distance D(n), is detected. A controller effects vehicular running control such that the vehicle follows the other vehicle while maintaining the inter-vehicle distance, D(n), at a predetermined distance. An inter-vehicle distance determinator is provided for determining whether the inter-vehicle distance detector transfers from a first state, in which the inter-vehicle distance is...

The furnace (70) includes a heating element (72) which is restrained from growth during operation of the furnace (70) by retaining spacers (84) which provide a yoke (88) around the individual coils (102) of the heating element (72) and which spacers (84) are interlocked with each other. A high alumina fiber insulation (180) is applied to insulate the heating element (72). This high alumina fiber i...

A piezo-electric actuator (22) has a generator (26) that sets up longitudinal oscillations in a knife (18) which is axially pre-tensioned and applied to a sticky carpet-like food mass. The piezo-electric drive is linked to the knife blade (18) by a sonotrode. The oscillator (26) is fixed to the knife and a base frame (16), and operates at about 40 kHz.; Es wird eine Vorrichtung zum Schneiden eine...

The invention relates to a method for producing cellulosed molded articles having a functional effect. The method is characterized by charging cellulosed fibers or films with incorporated ion exchangers having bactericidal metal ions and/or ionic pharmaceutical active substances in such a manner that a depot of these active substances is built up in the fiber. Said depot time releases the active s...

Improving operating feelings and energy saving are aimed for a brake system of the type in which a predetermined differential pressure is produced between a master cylinder and wheel cylinders by a hydraulic pressure limit/changeover means during regenerative braking, and at the end of regenerative braking, the differential pressure is cancelled by increasing the pressure in the wheel cylinders wi...

A cutting device, inter-labia majora pad manufacturing equipment having the cutting device, a cutting method, and an inter-labia majora pad manufacturin g method using the cutting method, the cutting device capable of cutting out members from a continuous sheet-like base material comprising a transfer mea ns for transferring the base material along the continuous direction thereof, a cutting means...

A location service and method provides a location aware computing device that is extensible by allowing different types of location awareness providers operate with the service. The method includes receiving a request for a location context, acquiring data associated with a current location from one or more location detection devices, reconciling the acquired data for any inconsistencies concernin...