A microprocessor controlled system for monitoring, storing and periodically reporting on data pertinent to the commercial operation of a reporting system, such as a soft drink vending machine, to a central data collection and monitoring computer, and which periodically reports such data over a telephone line which it accesses on a nondedicated basis. The microprocessor controls operations of the t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a high quality blood preparation whose leucocyte removal rate is high. SOLUTION: A blood component separator 1 has a centrifugal bowl 4, its rotation driving device 5, a first line 2 for guiding blood into the centrifugal bowl 4, a second line 3 for collecting centrifuged blood components, an intermediary bag 25, a third line 8 for transporting blood or blood compon...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a binding to be promptly and safely attached in such a manner that the angle can be changed. SOLUTION: A base plate 2 fixed on a snow board and a rotary plate 4 for attaching a binding, whose angle can be changed are formed. A few fixing members 7 are arranged to elevate fixing pins so as to be selectively inserted or detached into/from retaining holes of the base p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to easily set a blood bag set in a centrifugal separation device in a short time. SOLUTION: A rotor 2 fixed to a rotating shaft 1 has a plurality of arms arranged in the diametral direction, and a bucket 3 is ported by a retainer pin 6 at the tip part of paired arms 5 adjacent to each other in the peripheral direction in such a manner that the bucket 3 fre...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To take away load acting upon an intermediate shaft rapidly after the termination of synchronism in order to smoothly engage a sleeve with a hub after the termination of synchronism. SOLUTION: An oil pump 15 is connected to an intermediate shaft 12 of a speed change gear through a clutch 13, and oil in a gear box 18 is sprinkled on a speed change gear 38 of an output shaft 10...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the burden of a driver and improve safety by providing a moving distance input means and a throttle control means, and stopping a vehicle by a braking force generating means when the detection signal of an actual travel distance detecting means reaches the target moving distance. SOLUTION: When a pulse signal is inputted to a controller 2 from a moving distance comm...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid vehicle avoiding the control infeasibility of a generator due to the abnormal rotation of a driving wheel. SOLUTION: An engine 11, a generator 16, and a drive output shaft are connected via a planetary gear unit, and the rotation of the generator 16 is controlled by a vehicle control device 41. The generator 16 is provided with a generator brake 28 stoppin...

PURPOSE: To manufacture easily a portable potable-water pack containing no air at a place in a disaster area, etc., by stitching a belt-like material in the form of a cylinder in a casing, closing a bottom of the stitched material to form a preliminary package whose upper side is opened and sealing the package at a portion below a water feed position after feeding potable water into the package. C...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To change initial torque with a small space by conducting energization with a pair of pressure sleeves by means of a pressurization spring to bring a pair of pinion gear backs into sliding contact with a differential case, forming a cam part on pressure sleeve opposition surfaces. SOLUTION: Backs 3c, 4C of pinion gears 3, 4 of 8 pinion spindle 2 are formed into spherical surf...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize sure end easy assembly with simple structure by fitting a sub plate to one side differential case end surface to which the other side differential case is to be fitted, conducting in a predetermined initial state the assembly of a multi-plate clutch to be push-pressed axially by means of a conical spring or the like. SOLUTION: A sub plate 9 is fitted by means of a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve durability by normalizing meshing while the rigidity difference of gears is being allowed. SOLUTION: This device is equipped with a differential case 3 to be driven rotatingly by an engine; output side gears 15, 17 arranged in its inside; plural sets of pinion gears 41, 39 having first gear parts 49, 43 to mesh with the gears 15, 17 each separately and second gear ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate differential limit force regulation by equipping between a differential case and clutch members core clutches to limit coupling and differential by means of the meshing reaction of side gears and cam mechanisms to push-press the cone clutches by means of drive force in spaces between the clutch members and the side gears. SOLUTION: Cone clutches 37, 35 are arran...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control a vehicle to a speed state corresponding to a forward road state by controlling the vehicle to an optimum speed at the time of entering into a curve in respect to a control device corresponding to the automobile forward road state suitable for controlling driving torque so that the vehicle can enter into a curve at a required speed. SOLUTION: The control device is ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To keep sulfuric acid ion conductivity between electrodes and a separator high even after repeated charging and discharging by burying one sides of acid resistant fibers and projecting the other sides out of the surface of electrode plates. SOLUTION: An electrode plate 4 is produced by filling a grid body 1 with a paste containing an active material 2 prepared by kneading wat...

Nonwoven sheet materials, and pressure sensitive adhesive tapes formed from nonwoven sheet materials are provided. The nonwoven sheet materials comprise a randomly interlaced fibrous web of tensilized nonfracturable staple fibers and binder fibers, wherein the fibrous web is pattern embossed, and is interbonded by a chemical bonding agent, physical entanglement, or a combination thereof, and furth...

A system for manoeuvring a magnetic load (6), in particular a ferromagnetic load, consists of a movable magnetic load manoeuvring device that may be suspended from a crane and has at least one pair of magnetic poles (3) whose pole faces (4) are connected to the magnetic load (6) through at least one air gap, closing a magnetic circuit. At least one detecting coil (7) is arranged in the area of the...

The invention concerns a device for manoeuvring a magnetic, in particular a ferromagnetic, load, the device consisting of a mobile magnet system, in particular one suspended from a crane, with at least one pair of magnetic poles (3) whose surfaces (4) are linked via at least one air gap to the magnetic load (6), forming a magnetic circuit. The magnet system has permanent magnets (1, 2), arranged i...

A method for producing a slippage preventing tire. Hard fine members and adhesives are mixed, thereby attaching the adhesives to the hard fine members. The hard fine members include at least one member selected from the group consisting of sand, ceramic particles and fiber reinforced resin particles. A silicone resin is mixed with a rubber material. The hard fine members and the attached adhesives...

A method for marking a previously molded vehicle tire. The method involves the use of a laser beam to cut configurations in a laminated tire applique so that the margins of the configurations form the identifying indicia. The applique is secured to the tire by pressing onto the prepared surface of the tire so as to vulcanize the applique to the tire's surface.

An insert is located in the forming groove of the tire bead former so that the first convolutions of the wire, which form the tire bead, are wound on the insert as the tire bead former is rotated, the insert having an upstanding side portion which defines a space in the inner surface of the formed tire bead which receives the gripped inner terminal end of the wire when the formed tire bead is remo...