PCT No. PCT/US93/07587 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 16, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 16, 1995 PCT Filed Aug. 17, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/04179 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 3, 1994This invention provides a method for inhibiting HIV replication in a patient which comprises administering to a patient infected with HIV a therapeutically effective amount of IL-4.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attach an additional device later in a paper discharge device equipped with a powder sprayer of a module structural system. SOLUTION: A paper discharge device is constituted of a first sheet feed system circulated in an endless manner, the second shee feed system arranged behind the first sheet feed system and circulated in an endless manner to supply a sheet to a discharg...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a car speed to correspond to the driver's operation of a shift lever during auto-cruise. SOLUTION: An automobile is equipped with a speed change lever detecting means 18 for detecting the operation state of the shift lever; an automatic transmission 20 shift controlled according to the operation state of the shift lever detected by the shift lever detecting means 18...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact and highly efficient plant wherein steam is used for cooling a gas turbine and a steam cooling type gas turbine having a non-reheat steam cycle medium or small capacity is used. SOLUTION: In a combined cycle power generation plant wherein a gas turbine 13 and a steam turbine 31 are combined together and a exhaust heat recovering boiler 21 for generating s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform engagement and disengagement of a clutch without the occurrence of a shock by a method wherein control characteristics due to linear properties between the fluid pressure of a fluid pressure type clutch actuator and a clutch stroke are improved. SOLUTION: A clutch control device comprises a friction clutch; a clutch actuator 6 to drive a friction clutch by a fluid ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential gear to reduce the number of parts, simplify structure, reduce size and weight, and be manufactured at a low cost. SOLUTION: A differential gear is formed in such a manner that a pair of gears 6 and 7 having the same diameter as each other are engaged with each other for pivotal support in a differential case 2 rotated by itself, constant velocity un...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle control device controlling a speed change shift in a manner wherein a fuel cut can be efficiently performed. SOLUTION: A present position of a vehicle is detected (S14), a road condition in the present position is researched (S16), and a target car speed corresponding to the researched road condition is set (S18). A speed change shift is selected so as to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform a shift control in a short time and stably by providing a frictional clutch reverser mechanism on the drive upper side of a transmission route provided with a sub transmission gear mechanism and the sub-transmission gear mechanism of hydraulic frictional clutch type on the drive lower side, and also providing the main and sub-transmission gear mechanisms of mesh ge...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a speed change shock from worsening by performing learning control capable of a speed change transient oil pressure at lean burn driving time. SOLUTION: A control device for an automatic transmission, connected to an engine capable of performing a plurality of kinds of operations with air-fuel ratio made different, comprises means (step 29, to 33) detecting a stabl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To assure a proper traction control at all times by changing a shift line to a low vehicle speed side in a high throttle opening area and to a high vehicle speed side in a low throttle opening area during traction control to prevent the drive slip of wheels. SOLUTION: In an engine 1, an output is increased or decreased by a throttle valve 4 interconnected to an accelerator pe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To mechanize a manufacturing process, increase energy and power densities, and enhance performance by making the porosity of a rigid, porous ceramic tubular separator for a rechargeable high power discharge battery assembly body 40% or more. SOLUTION: A positive plate consists of a series of porous tubes arranged in parallel, and each tube has a central lead conductor surroun...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce corrosion, improve corrosion resistance, and lengthen the service life even at a high temperature by forming a connecting part as the specific alloy composition. SOLUTION: The alloy composition of a pole formed in a cross sectional almost L-shaped inter-cell connecting conductor composed of a strap to connect mutual plate lugs having the same polarity, a strap and a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To abundantly supply electrolyte to an active material without changing a service life characteristic by mixing podwer-like porous polypyrrole, filling paste by kneading this by water and sulfuric acid in an aggregate, and forming it as a plate. SOLUTION: An aqueous solution by dissolving a prescribed quantity of persulfuric acid ammonium in water is put in a vessel, and it i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To pressurize a unit cell group without damaging a film by compressing and packing the unit cell group by a thermally contractible film under a condition where unit cell group pressurizing springs are arranged on its layering directional both end surfaces. SOLUTION: A unit cell group 2 is compressed and packed by a thermally contractible film 6 in a state of being adhered by ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide easy connection, whether location of a terminal connecting part of an external apparatus is in the vertical direction or in the horizontal direction relative to a battery, without decreasing volume efficiency. SOLUTION: This lead-acid battery is made up such that a positive electrode 16 comprizing a flat plate-shaped collector 17 having a positive electrode active ...

An optical spectroscopy system is provided, in which a pulse of a radiation to be analyzed is passed through a diffractive element presenting high temporal chromatic dispersion so as to provide temporal dispersion of different wavelengths comprised by the radiation, and the temporal dispersion is measured either directly or by converting the temporal dispersion into a spatial dispersion, so as to ...

The description relates to production of rigid foamed plastics containing urethane groups, by use of a blowing-agent mixture containing 5 to 50 parts by weight of C3 and/or C4 alkanes and 50 to 95 parts by weight of cyclopentane. There is also a description of use of the thus-produced rigid foamed plastics as composite components or for foam filling of cavities in refrigerator construction.

A shutter control mechanism for controlling the movement of a pivoted shutter (20) suitable for controlling the passage of a user's card (6) in a self-service terminal (10) such as an ATM (automated teller machine), for example, includes a rotatable cam (23) having a cam track (24) which cooperates with a pin (30) on the shutter (20). Rotation of the cam (23) causes the pin (30) to move in the cam...

A shutter mechanism (40) for a self-service transaction terminal (10) includes a shutter in the form of a hollow cylinder (42) having a slot (46). The shutter (42) is rotatable about a core member (44) from an open position wherein the slot (46) is aligned with a card entry slot (24) in the terminal (10) to a closed positon wherein the slot (46) is aligned with a feed path (90) along which a card ...

A garden umbrella employing an upper canopy extending from the top of the umbrella pole to the middle of long canopy ribs, and a lower outer canopy extending in a ring around the outer part of the umbrella and having long sleeves sewn across the canopy in a radial pattern for receiving a canopy rib in each sleeve. The canopy ribs are pivotally connected to a runner notch, while the other ends of t...