A thread splicing assembly (10) has a splice channel with a compressed air inlet. The assembly has esp. two rotating prisms (27, 28) which each turn from a thread pick-up presentation to a splice presentation. Together the two prisms form a splice passage (44). One or both of the prisms has a compressed air inlet (42). The prisms are pref. identical. Each prism has an air distribution passage ...

The invention relates to a device for cutting food products, wherein separating sheets can be inserted simultaneously between the cut products. The transport system for delivering the paper web from which the separating sheets are formed comprises a station for transversal perforation of the paper web. The paper web is delivered to the cutting plane in such a way that the transversal perforation i...

In a method and an apparatus for the radiological examination of individual cardiac phases of a patient, an X-ray beam is rotated around and penetrates the heart of a patient from various angular positions and the attenuated X-ray beam strikes a radiation detector. The cardiac rhythm of the patient is determined in order to set the rotation time of the X-ray beam around the patient and to produce ...

A compression plate (6) is arranged between an X-ray tube and a subject table. A mount (7) connects the plate to an arm (2) allowing displacement of the plate towards and away from the subject table. The resilient connectors (10,11) connecting the plate to the mount, allow rotation of the plate relative to the subject table in longitudinal and transverse directions.

A centrifuge provides simplify access to the processing chamber. In one arrangement, the processing chamber separates into a bowl and spool element to receive a disposable processing bag. In another arrangement, the processing chamber pivots between an operating position and an access position to provide improved access. The centrifuge also employs readily accessible holders for releasably retaini...

An umbilicus conveys fluid between a stationary body and a rotating body in a small, compact operating environment. The umbilicus comprises an elongated body including a proximal end, a distal end, and a middle region between the proximal and distal ends. A first support block is attached to the proximal end. A second support block is attached to the distal end. The first support block includes a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten a hose to connect an oil pump and a filter to the utmost and reduce production cost by arranging the oil pump and filter close to each other. SOLUTION: A wall 62 to partition a case 10 into an upper part and a lower part is formed on an end part inside the transmission case 10 of a tractor for agriculture, a clutch 32 or a gear 42 is axially installed on the upper ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve durability of a planetary gear holding hole 10b arranged in a planetary carrier 10. Ž

SOLUTION: An internal teeth gear 4 is rotatably stored in a housing 2, and a sun gear 6 is rotatably arranged on a concentric circle inside of this internal teeth gear 4. A planetary gear 8 held in the holding hole 10b of the planetary carrier 10, is arranged between these in...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid lowering of a utility rate or voltage characteristics, and improve service life by performing an open-circuit leaving of an electrode plate or electrode plate group after chemical synthesis charging in a discharged state in an electrolyte, including at least one selected from polysaccharide, chelate agent, hydrazine sulfate and a derivative thereof. SOLUTION: Prefera...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the overdischarge resistant characteristics of a lead-acid battery by using an expanded grid having superior trickle life characteristics. SOLUTION: The surface layer of a recrystallized structure having a thickness equivalent to 30% or less of the thickness of the grid is formed on the surface of an expanded grid made of a lead alloy containing 1.2 wt.% or more ti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To constitute an electrode plate group capable of coping with decrease in the distance between electrode plates attendant on making the electrode plate thin, and being free from the slippage of a separator. SOLUTION: A bondable mixture layer 14 comprising an adhesive and insulating powder is formed on each surface of a thin, long positive electrode plate 12 and a thin, long n...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a high rate discharge characteristic and suppress reduction in life by the higher porousness of a shelf plate by adding a specified quantity of amorphous carbon powder to a powdery mix mainly composed of lead powder having a specified ratio, and adding a solution of a specified quantity of fluorine resin fiber dispersed in water thereto, and filling the kneaded non...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a preceding vehicle selecting device capable of properly selecting a preceding vehicle at the time of changing a traffic lane, and capable of quickly displacing the preceding vehicle, and an inter-vehicle controller equipped with the preceding vehicle selecting device. SOLUTION: Right traffic lane probability being probability that an object is present on a traffic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller of a hybrid vehicle in which a motor having a large rated output can be used up to its highest output. Ž

SOLUTION: A vehicle comprises an engine 1, a generator 2 connected with the engine 1, a motor 4 having a rated output larger than that of the engine 1 and driving a drive wheel with power generated from the generator 2, and a battery 9 for supp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To start an internal combustion engine while corresponding to required driving force. Ž

SOLUTION: In a hybrid automobile wherein a first motor, an engine and a driving shaft are connected to the sun gear, carrier and ring gear of a planetary gear mechanism and also a second motor is connected to the driving shaft, when a threshold value Tthr is set (S139) by subtracting ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stop a vehicle at an intersection smoothly or to let it enter the intersection before a yellow signal ends by fetching a switch timing information on signal control such as a yellow starting time set by a signal control system in a vehicle. Ž

SOLUTION: When a position and speed from the vehicle to the intersection is in a dilemma zone C, so to speak, a driver is provi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid vehicle capable of properly avoiding a state where a permanent magnet type synchronous electric motor cannot sufficiently display a function as the synchronous electric motor as its temperature rises. Ž

SOLUTION: The hybrid vehicle furnished with an engine 1 and the permanent magnet type synchronous electric motor 2 provided to integrally rotate with ...

A powertrain control ECU sets a target driving force, and controls an internal combustion engine and a transmission of a vehicle. A first processor of the powertrain control ECU includes a driving force adjustment portion, a filter, a mode-switch, an environmental information-obtaining device, and a steering sensor. The driving force adjustment portion sets the target driving force based on at lea...

The invention relates to a process for preparing alcohols by hydroformylation of olefins or olefin mixtures, separation from the catalyst and subsequent hydrogenation, with an extraction being carried out after removal of the catalyst and before the hydrogenation of the aldehydes.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an actuator which inhibits or reduces a noise during operation, and ensures a stable action over a long period of time. Ž

SOLUTION: In this actuator 10, a partition wall 110 extends from a lid body 16 toward a case body 14 side and a motor accommodation part 18 and a first gear accommodation part 32 are partitioned by the partition wall 110 in the assembled st...