PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the blowout of an engine caused by the coupling delay of a clutch at the time of a restart. SOLUTION: The output shaft 11a of an engine 11 is provided with a power transmission system constituted of a motor generator 12 and a forward clutch 18. An electronic control unit(ECU) estimates the oil pressure of the forward clutch 18 at the time of the restart of the engi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential limit differential device to reduce the generation of slip noise and hysteresis of differential limit characteristics and, easily cope with variation of a transfer ratio. SOLUTION: Formation of a differential limit differential device is such that a differential gear comprising side gears 2A and 2B and a pinion gear 3 is provided in a differential ca...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To always arrange an oil pump driven from an engine side in a speed changing device easily. SOLUTION: An input shaft 3 from a dry type clutch 2 to a speed changing device 4 is made hollow and a toroidal type continuously variable speed changing mechanism 12 composed of a pair of friction wheel type continuously variable speed changing mechanisms 10 and 11 is provided on a cou...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a shock caused by tying up by limiting or stopping a boosting value or boosting control based on the generation of tying up when hydraulic pressure in the releasing side friction engaging device of a clutch to clutch speed change is temporarily boosted after the hydraulic pressure of the engaging side friction engaging device is increased. SOLUTION: The possibility...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To sufficiently prevent the mechanical damage of a gas expander turbine to be driven by combustion gas even if an abnormal operation or a fault occurs at a partial valve by providing a communicating tube for communicating branched supply passage tubes with each other at the combustion gas inlet of the turbine. SOLUTION: Compressed air becomes high temperature and high pressur...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sealed lead-acid battery having a long life by reducing a trickle current during trickle charging, and suppressing expansion of a positive-plate grid by the corrosion reaction of the grid. SOLUTION: In a sealed lead-acid battery having a negative plate obtained by an expansion method, with paste paper bonded to the negative plate after packing of a pasted active ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the need for using a pore forming agent and a complex pore forming process by using a binding agent made from synthetic resin which is excellent in binding force although having a poor film-forming ability, is resistant to sulfuric acid, and has appropriate oxidation resistance. SOLUTION: The Tig. is a process drawing for manufacturing positive and negative plate...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve a normal start and drive even if a CVT fails and is fixed at a high-side speed-change state by adjusting a shortage for a torque required for driving in high-side speed-change state by increasing the output torque of an electric motor when a vehicle speed is equal to or less than a specific value. SOLUTION: When a CVT/ECU 24 detects the failure of a CVT 14, especia...

Focal spot position determination systems having a high sensitivity to focal spot movement for use in connection with multi-slice computed tomography imaging systems are described. In one embodiment, the determination system is configured for application in a two slice system. Signals from adjacent detector cells in separate rows are compared to determine focal spot position. More particularly, th...

The present invention, in one form, is a method for determining and applying a ZCAL correction vector to the channel outputs from the detector array in a multi-slice CT system. More specifically, and in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the signal gain for each detector cell, or channel, at multiple z-axis locations is measured. For each channel, a correction polynomial Qn i...

The present invention, in one form, is a method for performing image reconstruction from projection data acquired in a multislice helical scan. More specifically, a helical weighting factors is generated and then a modified weighting factor +E,cir W+EE m( beta , gamma ), which is a shifted and weighted average version of the helical weighting factor, is generated. The modified weighting factor is ...

A flotation machine comprises a cylindrical chamber having a tapered bottom to which there are secured a pipe for feeding a flotation pulp containing mineral particles of fine fraction, and a pipe for discharging gangue. Secured at the walls of the chamber is a trough for collecting froth concentrate and a group of pulp aerators, whereas arranged axially inside the chamber is a group of tapered sh...

PCT No. PCT/NO94/00163 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 10, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 10, 1996 PCT Filed Oct. 11, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/10764 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 20, 1995An apparatus for testing a shear thickening plugging fluid that is an emulsion of two components which react with each other to provide a thickening of the fluid when subjected to high stress, such apparatus comprising a cylinder (1) having an...

A portable shade umbrella comprises a weighted base having a supporting pole secured in it, with the supporting pole having a curved upper section with a downwardly depending stud attached to the outer end of the curved section for supporting a rib assembly and a canopy, each of which includes central apertures penetrated by the stud and secured to the stud with a nut, which stretches the flexible...

A guiding signal generator and transmitter is included on a guiding device for generating and transmitting a guiding signal for guiding a tracking device. Provided on the tracking device are first and second guiding signal receivers spaced apart by a predetermined distance for receiving the guiding signal, and a controller for detecting a direction to and a distance from the guiding device based o...

In a soldering process leads of components on a circuit board are dipped into a solder bath to solder them to the underside of the board. The board is rotated about a horizontal axis as it is lifted away from the bath. This reduces the tendency to form solder bridges between closely spaced leads.

A surgical instrument having a resistively-heated heating component responsive to a power source for generating thermal excitation effective for cutting tissue and carrying out hemostasis. The surgical instrument includes a support assembly having two leg extensions connected in heat transfer relationship with the heating component. Two thermal transition regions are provided within the heating co...

A tissue segmentation device incorporated in an isolation bag for segmenting tissue during an operation such as in laparoscopic surgery. The device includes one or more loops of high strength wire which can be mechanically reduced in size to cut the tissue into smaller pieces. The wire loops can be heated electrically to aid in cutting through hard-to-cut parts of the tissue. The wire can be of a ...

A process is described for the production of optionally cellular polyurethane moldings with an elevated ground material/filler content, which process broadly comprises a) mixing and reacting an aromatic di- or polyisocyanate with a di- and/or polyol of a molecular weight of 1,000 to 20,000 in a quantity insufficient to react with all the NCO groups to yield an isocyanate pre-adduct with an NCO gro...

PCT No. PCT/EP94/00072 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 10, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 10, 1995 PCT Filed Jan. 12, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO94/25205 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 10, 1994Sintered moldings are produced by molding a mixture of a sinterable ceramic or metallic powder and polyoxymethylene or a copolymer containing a majority of oxymethylene units as binder to give a compact, removing the binder by treatment with a...