PCT No. PCT/US96/07265 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 21, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 21, 1997 PCT Filed Apr. 26, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/34357 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 31, 1996A crossing network that matches buy and sell orders based upon a satisfaction and quantity profile is disclosed. The crossing network includes a number of trader terminals that can be used for entering order. The orders are entered in the form...

A hands-free hair dryer is described which includes (a) a hair dryer body including heating element and fan, (b) an elongated bendable tubing connected at one end to the hair dryer body, and preferably (c) a spring clamp secured to the other end of the tubing. The tubing is capable of being bent to any desired position or angle where it remains until it is re-positioned. The spring clamp can be at...

A unitary, flexible container, for containment and delivery of medical fluids, having: a) first and second polymeric sheets superimposed and sealed together at their periphery defining an interior reservoir, the container having a top portion, a mid portion and a bottom portion; the bottom portion terminates in a first angle and a second angle of from about 5 DEG to about 45 DEG each from the ce...

A farm tractor is automatically guided along a row of stalks to harvest the crop from the stalks. Every 30 ms the average of 10 ms readings of the distance or deviation of the tractor from the row of stalks is calculated. The angles of the guiding wheels are measured. These two are compared. If the wheels are not angled correctly according to this comparison, a correction is made to the steering w...

PCT No. PCT/SE95/00180 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 3, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 3, 1996 PCT Filed Feb. 22, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/23686 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 8, 1995A control apparatus and method for a coating device utilize a measurement system to determine whether a body supplied to the coating device is acceptable for coating and/or to establish template data in preparation for a coating operation. The me...

A pneumatic vehicle tire comprising a tread strip which forms the tire tread and is made from an electrically insulating or poorly conducting material and comprising, beneath the tread strip, a layer which is a good electrical conductor wherein, in order to bring about an adequate dissipation of electrical charge from the vehicle bodywork, the layer which is of good electrical conductivity extends...

A lane change detecting system includes an emission unit for emitting a predetermined signal, the emission unit being provided in a boundary between lanes of a road so that the predetermined signal emitted by the emission unit is affected by a mobile body which crosses the boundary between the lanes, a receiving unit which is provided in the boundary between the lanes for receiving the predetermin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable continuously manufacturing a forge welded steel tube through upset joining even when upward cambered coils and downward cambered coils are supplied in no particular order by clamping a steel sheet to face plates and turning each of the face plates by a respective prescribed angle. SOLUTION: When a foregoing coil and a following coil have the same direction of camber...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of an aluminum-based clad material which is capable of surely pressing a core against a skin without any defective pressing by a press roll, and excellent in productivity. SOLUTION: A slab C forming a core of 15-50 mm in thickness consisting of aluminum or an aluminum alloy is manufactured by a thin slab continuous casting machine 3. An alumi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for joining metallic materials such that an insert material interposed between the joining faces of the materials is prevented from covering the joining end of the materials at the time of joining. SOLUTION: The method contains a process in which an insert material 3 having a lower melting point than the metallic materials 1, 2 to be joined is interposed b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the equipment capable of removing a stabilizing layer (oxidation layer) and press-contacting before it is formed again; imparting a high temperature to a basic material and vitalizing it for joining; removing dirt from the surface of the band plate, cleaning it and preventing re-sticking of dirt before joining; maintaining accurately the tension of each band plate ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To greatly reduce a manpower and cost by having a cast structure layer made of an infiltrated metal on a surface of an alloy material made of an infiltrated metal having a component different from a metal powder sintered body so as to eliminate a need of joining or inserting an intermediate material to one of metal materials beforehand. SOLUTION: An ingot is produced by compa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an aluminum-based extruding shape material and a friction stirring joining method for such material, which are free from deformation and/or buckling of the minimum thickness of a rib in the upper abutting part and also from joining defects due to generation of a gap between the outer faces of the rib, in the butt welding of these faces of the shape material. SOLUTI...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate or simplify a post-treatment of a joining part by continuously subjecting faces to be joined as butting parts of a cylindrical body to friction agitation joining so as to produce a cylindrical body having various cross sectional shapes at a low cost and to have beautiful finish in comparison to fused welding joining. SOLUTION: Materials 1 to be joined of a prescr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the occurrence of deformation of a work after welding and a welding defect due to deformation by pouring a coolant around a metal bar/a weld zone and welding while forcedly cooling a work with welding in a coolant. SOLUTION: Welding grooves 4 of a round tube 3 are subjected to friction welding in a longitudinal direction while pouring a coolant 2 around a metal bar ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the frequency of defects in weld zones and to improve reliability in the weld zones in friction welding. SOLUTION: A distance to the surface 2S of a workpiece 2 is detected with a detector 6, and a change in the distance so detected is determined by a signal processor 8; in a state where an upper/lower driving device 5 is controlled by a controller 9 so that the cha...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable joining and weight reduction of a space frame for automobile and a vehicle structure by arranging a backing of the same material as an aluminum member at butting parts and subjecting a butting parts together with the backing to friction agitation joining so as to obtain a joined part wherein strength reduction is small, an overlay is reduced and a strain is reduced....

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure satisfactory joining in performing friction welding. SOLUTION: In the butt welding of hollow shape materials 31, 32, a projected part 37a, 38a is provided protruding outside the shape material and, with a rotary body inserted into this projected part 37a, 38a, friction welding is performed. A gap in the abutting part is filled with the metal of the projected part, s...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform turning machining of a desired portion of a work with a simple structure, without changing the holding portion of the work. SOLUTION: Work holding jigs 25, 26 are slidably and rotatably attached to work holding bases 22, 23 of a spindle chuck 7. A pin-like operation member 52 is installed on a tool station S as a part of a tool supporting means 5 such as a turret t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a ceramic pipe inexpensively. SOLUTION: In the cast molding of a ceramic pipe, the introduction and discharge of slurry is done by changing the height difference between a pipe molding porous mold and a slurry tank. A communication pipe having the slurry tank is connected with the mold, and for example, the introduction and discharge of the s...