A coated indexable cutting insert for wet and dry milling of cast irons is provided. The substrate of the insert is composed of a cemented tungsten carbide based composition containing about 5.7 to about 6.4 weight percent cobalt and about 2.9 to about 3.6 weight percent tantalum. The coating includes two coatings of differing composition. The first coating is selected from titanium carbide, titan...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent speed change shock and lowering of durability of a clutch by detecting the cooling water temperature of an internal combustion engine, computing the heating value of a fluid coupling and a friction connecting element, and estimating the temperature of the friction connecting element from the result. SOLUTION: Parameters of rotating speed of an engine E, cooling wat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a slip control device of a lock up clutch for a vehicle whereby fluctuation of a turbine rotational speed caused by a bad road in a prescribed gear shift can be decided even in the vehicle without providing an output shaft rotation sensor in an automatic transmission. SOLUTION: In the case of estimating rotational speed fluctuation of a input shaft of an automatic ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control decelerating torque including engine braking force giving priority to the deceleration demand intention of a driver by maintaining a change gear ratio determined immediately before operation in the case of a brake being operated. SOLUTION: When a brake switch is off, the turbine rotating speed of a torque converter, the present speed change gear position of an auto...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a transparent cover in which a cover surface is scarcely contaminated by forming a surface layer containing photocatalytic oxide particles, silicone and water repellent fluororesin on the surface of the cover. SOLUTION: The solar heat collector 10 comprises a plurality of heat collectors 12 and a hot water reservoir 14. The collectors 12 are coated with transparent ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a navigator by which the processing time can be stortened by a method in which a database device in which data used to express the position and the shape of a road and to express a connection state is provided at every different scale factor is provided and a control device is provided. SOLUTION: A map database device 8 is composed of, e.g. a CD-ROM device or the l...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To rapidly grasp event information on a compound plant, and to grasp correct alarm information. SOLUTION: A computer 2, which performs centralized and supervisory control of various plant information, contains an event inputting means 31 which inputs factor data of each event in every axis, an event item table 32 which stores an event item, its event factor and its regulated ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a bonded state between a current collector and an active material by depositing a specific amount of an alkaline solution on a current collector made of a lead-calcium-tin alloy containing a specific amount of tin and then filling the current collector with paste. SOLUTION: An alkaline solution having concentration preferably between 2 and 12mol/liter is deposited ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high active material utilization factor by using a positive electrode plate, formed of a current collector filled with an electrode active material containing the fiber of tin oxide of a specific component in lead oxide. SOLUTION: Tin oxide fiber to be used needs to contain at least one oxide selected from a group of silicon oxide, germanium oxide and the like an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent swelling of the parallel-to-plate battery jar side walls of a monobloc battery jar by use of a low-cost swelling preventing means. SOLUTION: A monobloc battery jar 1 is used which has a pair of perpendicular-to-plate battery jar side walls 1b facing a pair of opposite parallel- to-plate battery jar side walls 1a. A U-shaped retaining metal fitting 4 is used which h...

A pallet construction for use in conjunction with transport apparatus in a sheet-processing system includes spaced grooves adapted to receive automated insertion apparatus. The pallet construction includes webs separated by spaced grooves disposed to receive levelling elements. The levelling elements are movable relative to the webs to provide a relatively planar pallet surface and prevent the def...

The invention concerns a process and device for opening shellfish such as oysters whose shell is held by a muscle. According to the invention, the process consists of placing the shellfish (5) on a graphic (6) or mechanical (20) device to enable the shellfish (5) to be positioned correctly in relation to a drilling tool (3) to ensure that its shell is pierced at or near the muscle, carrying out th...

The invention concerns a method for treating steel in an electric arc furnace for forming a foamed slag at the surface of the liquid steel, which consists in injecting into the slag or in its vicinity powder calcium carbide in an amount between 3 and 8 kg per ton of steel in the furnace. It enables the reduction of iron loss in the slag, in particular when the charge contains direct reduced iron, ...

An end face of an optical fibre 21 has a Bragg grating formed thereon. The fibre carries optical signals of at least two different wavelengths and the signals are diffracted by the Bragg grating so that light emerges from the fibre at different angles with respect to the axis of the fibre, the angle depending on the wavelength of the light. An arrangement incorporating such a fibre has a plurality...

Monoclonal antibodies to IFN- beta 2/IL-6 and hybridomas producing them and production and purification of glycosylated and unglycosylated IFN- beta 2/ IL-6 are disclosed. The protein is useful in the treatment of breast cancer, leukemia, infectious diseases and bone marrow progenitor cell disorders.

A product suitable for absorbing wound exudate comprising a series of interconnected square or rectangular perforated (4) bags (2) made of a substance of maximum thickness 1 mm e.g. film, which is substantially non-adherent to a wound, wherein alginic acid or a salt thereof such as calcium alginate is housed in the bags, preferably in the form of small spheres. The film preferably comprises ethyle...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely detect the turned-on/off state of a sensor and the disconnected state of a signal line from the crest value of a reflected pulse. SOLUTION: When a pulse signal having a prescribed crest value is outputted from a pulse generating circuit 44, the signal reaches a sensor 30 through a signal line 50 and returns to a signal inputting device 40 after reflection. The crest...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable the uniform and high-grade display in the entire area of a display region by using a thermoplastic resin film formed in such a manner that the front surface layer having the relatively high glass transition point as compared with the central part in the thickness direction attains a uniform thickness. SOLUTION: This phase difference plate is so formed that the front...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a phase difference plate film of a large area which is lightweight and excellent in mass-productivity and has the optical axis tilted from the normal line direction of the film by forming a specified dielectric material by oblique vapor deposition on a transparent polymer film. SOLUTION: At least one dielectric layer is formed on at least one surface of a transparen...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a phase difference film of a large area which is lightweight and excellent in mass-productivity by forming an intermediate layer to improve adhesion property between a transparent polymer film and a tantalum pentoxide film when the tantalum pentoxide film is formed by oblique vapor deposition on the transparent polymer film. SOLUTION: This phase difference film has ...