PURPOSE: A wind power-generating device with folding vanes is provided to produce strong rotating force and much more power energy by connecting large windmill vanes and small windmill vanes, with hinges and elastically installing elastic iron pieces to the windmill vanes. CONSTITUTION: In a wind power-generating device with folding vanes, a rotating body(2) forming a vertical rotating shaft tube(...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a shift feeling sufficient when an engine blow-up and a tie-up are caused since a reduction quantity is constant even when engine torque is reduced in a power-on down shift. SOLUTION: A reduction quantity Tca of engine torque Tc is set by input shaft rotating acceleration dNTS when a shift makes progress by a prescribed quantity a1. Excess energy or lacking energy is ...

An automatic transmission controller which provides smooth shifting of gears and reduces gear shifting-caused shocks during a change in speed. There is provided a control means whereby, when gear shifting of the automatic transmission is decided during a switch-on of an air-conditioning unit, then the air-conditioning unit is kept on at least during the aforesaid gear shifting. Further, the contro...

PURPOSE: To accomplish learning control of a duty value for a line pressure solenoid without building any stress sensor in the inside of an automatic trans mission by comparing measured acceleration with a target value, correcting the preset value if the deviation between the acceleration and the target value exceeds the preset width, and reducing the deviation in the next transmission. CONSTITUTI...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an epoch-making binding for snowboard, wherein defects of a plastic belt are eliminated by adopting a pressing body made of a flexible material such as fabric, and further the flexible pressing body does not become an obstacle in a skating, or the like, by constituting the flexible pressing body in such a manner that the pressing body is taken up by a winding devic...

PURPOSE:To reduce the cost of generating equipment, display optimum performance and improve maintainability to a steam turbine for a single-shaft type combined cycle plant under large capacity and high temperature steam conditions. CONSTITUTION:A steam turbine 6 is disposed between a gas turbine 2 and a generator 4. All the shafts are connected by rigid couplings, and the thrust bearing 7 of the g...

PURPOSE:To improve reliability by realizing smooth switching to a gas turbine exhaust gas boiler generation steam system from a start-drive steam system to prevent sudden change in the engine speed of steam and gas turbines and the occurrence of the thermal stress of the steam turbine to prolong the life of the steam turbine. CONSTITUTION:In a starting device by a steam turbine in a combined plant...

PURPOSE: To realize a regenerative type gas turbine combined cycle electric power generating method improving electric power generating efficiency. CONSTITUTION: A tubular steam heater 6 using high temperature high pressure combustion gas as its heating source is provided between a combustor 4 and a gas turbine 9 in regenerative type gas turbine combined cycle electric power generation to generate...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent surging of a compressor generated when an air capacity is reduced in the case where a load is reduced, in a compressor surging preventing device for pressure fluidized bed combined power generational system. SOLUTION: Combustion gas is supplied from a pressure fluidized bed boiler 13 into a gas turbine 11 through ducts 16, 17, the gas turbine 11 is driven, exhaust ...

PURPOSE: To reduce the rate of defective products by preventing an object to be packaged from returning due to the narrowing of a packaging sheet when the front and rear parts of the packaging sheet which is formed into a cylindrical shape are cut and sealed by an end seal cutter for a horizontal pillow packaging machine. CONSTITUTION: At this side of an end seal cutter 33, a fixing brush 36 is ar...

PURPOSE: To prevent impact generated in association with down-shift at the decelerating time in a vehicle provided with an automatic transmission and a generator motor and so constituted as to convert the kinetic energy of the vehicle into electric energy to recover it at the decelerating time. CONSTITUTION: When an accelerator total closure sensor 71 detects the nondepression of an accelerator, a...

A portable, lightweight medical radiographic device having an articulated support is described. The device includes a base, an elongated supporting structure having multiple sections interconnected by adjustable joints, a mount for a radiological camera, and a support for a film cartridge. The camera mount includes a concave, motorized track; the film cartridge support is also concave and may also...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To conduct such zone control as to travel only a preceding electric car by stopping a subsequent electric car even in the condition that two electric cars for conveyance are present in one small zone. SOLUTION: Respective first signal lines Xa, Xb are connected to the second signal lines Yb, Yc of the next small zone, and in respective small zones 19a to 19c, control starting...

A look ahead sensor (98) including a CCD camera (11) and an image processor (102) detects a lane marking on the surface of a roadway. The image processor (102) estimates a lateral displacement (Yn) of a point at a preview distance in front of the vehicle from a target line. The target line is a line between lane markings defining a lane. An electric motor coupled to the steering mechanism is used ...

A polyester film contains a polyester having an intrinsic viscosity (IV) in the range from 0.65 to 0.8 and an antioxidant. The polyester has an endothermic high temperature peak at a temperature of (A) DEG C and an endothermic low temperature peak at a temperature of (B) DEG C, both peaks being measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and the value of (A - B) is in the range from 25 DE...

A metal-based composite material is formed by impregnating a matrix metal of Al or Al alloy into ores of a porous preform of a hydrogenatable metal having a metal hydride in at least a part of its surface.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for reducing the volume of foamed polystyrene which poses a problem of work environment involved in methods using d- limonene, can reduce the volume of foamed polystyrene through dissolution of foamed polystyrene in a solvent in an easy and stable manner, and offers low running cost by virtue of low unit price of the solvent, and to provide a method for re...

PURPOSE: To recover the actions of apparatuses connected to a transmission line according to the level of a trouble when the communication trouble occurs on the transmission line. CONSTITUTION: This musical information communication system communicates the musical information between the transmission side and at least one reception side. The apparatuses of the transmission side and reception side ...

Foamed cellular polymer particles having various physical properties made by use of foaming of the polymer containing a blowing agent. The foamed particles can be shipped in packages having less strenght than the packages used to ship the expandable particles and is more covenient for the user because there is no need for the party who receives them to have equipment to impregnate them with blowin...

A fluid controlled pumping system includes a pumping unit (12) disposed within a fluid cavity (13). The pumping unit (12) includes a passage (60) extending to a suction end of the pumping unit. The system also includes a pressure source (72) coupled to the passage (60) and operable to force a fluid outwardly from the passage proximate to the suction end (34) of the pumpimg unit. The system include...