PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform a four-wheel drive traveling even if the operation system of a main clutch for interrupting the driving force between an outer case and an inner case is broken. SOLUTION: This device is provided with an outer case 53 (37) rotated by the driving force of an engine, an inner case 39 arranged in such a manner as to be relatively rotated with the outer case 37, a diffe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a submicron cemented carbide cutting tool insert consisting of tungsten carbide and cobalt by the conventional process comprising a stage of subjecting a powder mixture of WC, Co, and a conventional grain growth inhibitor to wet-kneading to form a slurry, a stage of drying the slurry into powder, a stage of subjecting the powder to uniaxi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cermet tool capable of facilitating the discrimination between a worn part and an unworn part by visual observation and further properly judging the time of arrival of the limit of tool life or the like. SOLUTION: A hard coating layer is formed on a cermet surface and further, in the lightness specified by JISZ8721, at least either of VS>=6 and CS>=4 is satisfied...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heat resistant steel having high strength at a high temperature and toughness at a low temperature and also to provide a high- and low-pressure integrated type steam turbine using the same, and a high-efficiency combined electric power plant. SOLUTION: These are constituted of a heat resistant steel having a composition containing 0.15-0.4% C, <=0.25% Si, <=0.5% ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the number of part items, assembling man-hours, a manufacturing cost and improve freedom degree of layout of a bearing. SOLUTION: A transmission having a sub-transmission is composed of a main transmission part and a sub-transmission part. In a bearing structure of the transmission, a counter bearing composed of a ball bearing is arranged for journalling a counter s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To start an electric oil pump of a hydraulic pressure supplying device with satisfactory response by means of a small-sized electric motor under sensorless controlling. SOLUTION: A hydraulic pressure supplying device 7 has a main oil pump 71 driven by a proper means, an electric oil pump 73 driven by an electric motor 72. Hydraulic pressure is supplied to a discharge oil pass...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of an excessive engine brake and a large speed change shock at a coast down shift time by controlling supply pressure of a speed change output stage side clutch so that a vehicle is maintained in a weak engine brake state when a prescribed condition for practicing a coast down shift is realized. SOLUTION: When realizing selection of a D range, ON of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a control device which can smoothly change the regenerative power amount, when a vehicle is decelerated by a method wherein, in a period up to the totally closed state of the throttle valve of an engine from the release of the operation of an acceletator, a generator motor generates electricity by the regenerative power generation amount according to the operating s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the size of a generator. SOLUTION: When a required generated power exceeds the maximum output of the short-time rating of a generator 1, while a clutch 3 is connected, its exceeding power component is generated by a running motor 4. Moreover, when the required generated power exceeds the maximum output of the short- period rating of the generator 1 when the clutch 3...

An apparatus and method for controlling plumbing fixtures includes an electronic control board having a microprocessor that accepts four inputs and produces four outputs. Inputs at other than the microprocessor's operating voltage are converted thereto. Outputs having different voltages are controlled by latching relays. The control board can be used with a sink that requires a sequenced hand wash...

PCT No. PCT/EP96/00075 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 11, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 11, 1996 PCT Filed Jan. 10, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/21379 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 18, 1996A mattress cover is configured such that it is made differently at the top and bottom in that under a top side material is an allergen-proof barrier layer and the bottom material is made only mite-proof in order, on the one hand, to create an ...

An apparatus for securing a flexible tube-shaped game call about the upper arm of the user in a fashion which allows the user to operate the game call without using his or her hands and without taking his or her eyes off of the target. The game call is comprised of a resilient band which encircles the user's arm. Securing loops are fixed to the outer surface of the resilient band and receive and s...

A multiple disk clutch used in an automatic transmission of an automobile or the like has a plurality of input friction plates and a plurality of output friction plates. These input and output friction plates are typically supplied with a lubricating oil to prevent overheating and abnormal abrasion. In the preferred embodiment, the transmission employs a pair of multiple disk clutches in which sel...

A system for severing lesions within a living body includes a housing defining an interior tissue receiving chamber is coupled to the distal end of an endoscope. At least one snare extends around the ligating band supporting surface so that, when at least one ligating band is received around the ligating band supporting surface, drawing the at least one snare off the ligating band supporting surfa...

A method for determining the presence of an analyte in a fluid is described along with various components of an apparatus specifically designed to carry out the method. The method involves taking a reflectance reading from one surface of an inert porous matrix impregnated with a reagent that will interact with the analyte to produce a light-absorbing reaction product when the fluid being analyzed ...

In a process for reducing the primary amine content of a composition comprising at least one polyol, in which a composition comprising at least one polyol is admixed with at least one isocyanate which contains only secondary and/or tertiary, aliphatically bound isocyanate groups, isocyanate is added in an amount of up to 5% by weight, based on the total composition, and a polyol preparation is obt...

A method of embedding auxiliary information into the digital representation of host data containing noise in the low-order bits. The method applies to digital data representing analog signals, for example digital images. The method reduces the error introduced by other methods that replace the low-order bits with auxiliary information. By a substantially reverse process, the embedded auxiliary dat...

A method and apparatus for introducing an oxidant mixed with a carrier gas into pre-heating zone of a continuous furnace for effectively removing lubricant from powder metal compacts prior to sintering at high temperatures. Mixing a controlled amount of a gaseous oxidizing agent such as moisture, carbon dioxide, air or mixtures thereof with a carrier gas and introducing the mixture into the prehea...

An apparatus for manufacturing a pressed powder body has a die assembly comprising an upper die (5;202) and a lower die (10;201), for pressing an unpressed powder body of a material powder filled on a pressing surface of the lower die, into a pressed powder body (h;W) between the upper die and the lower die, at least one of the upper die and the lower die being vertically movable to press the unpr...

A silicone rubber composite comprising a sheet or film made essentially of a crystalline polyester resin, and, formed sequentially on at least one side of the sheet or film, an undercoating layer (A) made substantially of an amorphous polymer and a thin film layer (B) having good affinity for the undercoating layer and containing a silicone resin, wherein a silicone rubber layer (C) made of a sili...