A multiaxial press fabric includes a base fabric and a plurality of layers of staple fiber material attached to the base fabric. The base fabric has at least one layer assembled by spirally winding a woven fabric strip, and takes the form of an endless loop. Because of the spiral winding, the yarns of the woven fabric strip lie in directions different from the machine- and cross-machine directions...

PURPOSE: Provided is a composition for an electrode of a lead storage battery, which has a sufficient acid resistance against highly corrosive sulfuric acid, and shows excellent compatibility with electrode active materials to prevent the deterioration of the battery caused by the separation of active materials from an electrode plate. CONSTITUTION: The composition for an electrode of a lead stora...

PURPOSE: To surely and detachably mount a terminal box comprising various components necessary to feed electricity to an exciting coil, on a solenoid valve with a simple constitution. CONSTITUTION: The solenoid valve 1 is provided with a first mounting face 1C and a second mounting face 1D for mounting the terminal boxes 2, a terminal hole 37 for accommodating a coil terminal 36 of the exciting co...

PURPOSE: To surely prevent big shock when switching forward mode to reverse one due to an operating error while allowing intentional forwarding/reversing operation. CONSTITUTION: In a control unit 20, when switching to a reverse mode during forward mode of a vehicle, based on a mode signal from an inhibitor switch 22 and detected vehicle speed from a vehicle speed sensor 21, the detected vehicle s...

PURPOSE: To improve the operability of an automatic transmission at extremely low temperatures where an oil amount is hard to be secured. CONSTITUTION: This control device of an automatic transmission comprises an actual gear shift ratio detection means S4 detecting the actual gear shift ratio of the automatic transmission, a hydraulic pressure detection means S5 detecting a hydraulic pressure fro...

A method of making a cutting element by placing an ultra-hard material (e.g. pcd or pcbn) which is not fully densified on a substrate which has at least a portion thereof with a density less than 100 % of full density (i.e. pores are present), and heating and pressurising the ultra-hard material and substrate to fully densify and join. Prior to heating and pressurising the substrate may comprise p...

A gaming system method uses typically a wireless communication device, and includes the following steps: Call data is provided identifying a gaming system player. This would normally be a typical identifying number plus a PIN number. A call is initiated from the wireless communication device (such as a cell phone) through a telephone call network to a financial center, requesting a cash transfer. ...

The present invention relates to a method for controlling driving stability of a vehicle wherein a number of input variables are used to control the driving speed of the vehicle to a limit speed. In order to prevent unstable driving conditions in a pre-controlled manner, a model-based stable limit speed of the vehicle is determined on the basis of measured variables that are detected by means of d...

A drive controller for a rail vehicle is disclosed comprising a drive control member (20) and a control unit (22), the control unit is adapted to generate a drive signal upon movement of the drive control member in a first direction (B) with respect to the control unit and generates a brake signal upon movement in a second direction (A) opposite to the first direction, the drive control member (20...

A shift control system for a V-belt type continuously variable transmission is provided. The shift control system comprises a controller programmed to store an actual transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission at stop of an associated vehicle drive source, and inhibit, at restart of the vehicle drive source, an initializing operation for returning an operational position of the s...

Disclosed are a control system and a control method for an automatic transmission, in which a judgment is made whether or not a range selector (31) has been switched to a reverse range during forward traveling of the vehicle. When it is determined that the range selector (31) has been switched to the reverse range during forward traveling of the vehicle, a judgment is made whether or not the vehic...

A method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel that is adaptive for improving a picture quality. In the method and apparatus, an ON data for each sub-field is calculated to detect a load of said sub-field. An arrangement of the sub-field is adjusted in accordance with said load of the sub-field.

A bobbin changing arrangement on a winder has a suction nozzle (37) placed behind the driven bobbin (13) and a guide groove on the surface drive roll (29) or on the bobbin (13). At changeover the yarn runs into the suction nozzle (37) and the traverse guide (6) places it between the surface drive roll (29) and the bobbin (13) in the guide groove (48). Independent claims are included for the follow...

The invention relates to a method for producing a surface having ultraphobic properties. According to the inventive method, a surface is coated with Ni(OH)2 particles, is optionally coated with a bonding agent and is subsequently provided with a hydrophobic and/or oleophobic coating.

To reduce communication time and charge and construct an information service system with higher user convenience, a server containing no map data transmits additional information to be presented on a map as data in specific format to navigation equipment or a PC each containing map data. The navigation equipment and the PC presents a map by adapting the data in specific format to the map data and ...

A clutch drum (61) is engaged to the rear part of a carrier (56) of a center differential device (50). A clutch piston (63), which is rotated together with the rear shaft (20) while allowing it to retractively move in a direction along a rear drive shaft (20), is provided within the clutch drum (61). Pinion shafts (57) are protruding from the rear end face of the carrier (56) to form protruding pa...

A machine for cross cutting a material web has a main frame part unitarily formed with a pair of transversely spaced main sides and with at least one main traverse extending transversely between the main sides and a secondary frame part unitarily formed with a pair of transversely spaced secondary sides and with at least one secondary traverse extending transversely between the secondary sides. Th...

An energy-efficient method and system for processing target material such as microstructures in a microscopic region without causing undesirable changes in electrical and/or physical characteristics of material surrounding the target material is provided. The system includes a controller for generating a processing control signal and a signal generator for generating a modulated drive waveform bas...

A network transmits viewable data objects to viewer receivers. The network includes a plurality of local servers to store subsets of the viewable data objects, a plurality of links to couple each local server to a set of viewer receivers without coupling the viewer receivers together, and at least, one storage server. Each local server transmits viewable data objects to viewer receivers. The stora...

A flash memory having redundancy content addressable memory (CAM) circuitry is described. The flash memory is capable of substituting a second memory cell for an inoperative memory cell. The flash memory includes a primary array of memory cells, a redundant array of memory cells, and the redundancy CAM circuitry. The redundancy CAM circuitry includes a plurality of dual-ported CAM stages. Each CAM...