Nitrogen-containing bases are added to the aldehyde starting material in a process for the production of alcohols by gas-phase hydrogenation of aldehydes in presence of a hydrogenation catalyst.

PURPOSE:To facilitate disassembling and reassembling by providing an opening of a shape simultaneously including two projected tip circles when the outermost tip circle of the second-stage gear of a second-stage rectangular-axes reduction gear part and the tip circle of the third-stage gear of a third-stage parallel-axes reduction gear part are projected to the projected plane of an output shaft. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a parking brake structure without depending upon a dedicated parking brake device by making use of a rotation system driving mechanism and a reversing system driving mechanism that the driving system of a traveling device is equipped. SOLUTION: A transmission device 44 for traveling which varies the speed of the power from an engine and transmits it to a couple of r...

PURPOSE:To restrain slip of driving wheels at beginning of traction control by controlling engine output based on a higher wheel speed side of right and left driving wheels, from the beginning point of traction control up to passing of a prescribed time, or up to generation of the driven wheel speed. CONSTITUTION:In a control logic circuit 13, at first traction control begins from a time point t1 ...

PURPOSE:To control a combustion condition of an internal combustion engine of a vehicle so that fuel consumption and concentration of nitrogen oxide in exhaust are compatible without worsening the drive power, in the case of running the vehicle provided with the lean-burn internal combustion engine, switched to a plurality of kinds of the combustion conditions, and a continuously variable transmis...

PURPOSE:To provide a control device for vehicle with automatic transmission that will not increase an engine brake force suddenly toward the stoppage of a vehicle even if fuel cut control is carried out not to give an uneasy feeling to a driver. CONSTITUTION:In a state in which it is judged that the fuel cut control of an electronic control device for engine control 160 is in operation, a solenoid...

PURPOSE:To provide a vehicular lock-up clutch control device preventing the generation of blow-up of an engine at the time of starting the slip control of a lock-up clutch by the depressing operation of an accelerator pedal. CONSTITUTION:When an accelerator pedal 200 is judged to be operated into an accelerating position from a non-accelerating position by an accelerating operation judging means 2...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a vehicle swivel in response to the state of ground by forcefully changing into rear 2WD state when it is swiveling and by determining the braking force for a inside rear wheel of swiveling according to the revolution ratio between front and rear wheels when a predetermined time elapses from setting. SOLUTION: When a selector switch for 4WD is on and it is judged that...

PCT No. PCT/US93/12076 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 1, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 1, 1995 PCT Filed Dec. 16, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/14492 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 7, 1994A powder inhaler comprising: a powder housing for holding a supply of powdered material to be dispensed and a metering plate for holding a metered amount of said powdered material, the metering plate being alternately positionable below said supp...

Air filter, in particular absolute filter for supplying an even flow directed at work stations to keep the air clean there comprising a filter material (1). This material is provided a pattern of glue lines (3) so that on a subsequent folding to zick-zack shape a wedge like cross section is obtained by double glue lines (31, 32) at the wide end (4) of the wedges and single glue line in the vicinit...

PURPOSE:To facilitate the removal of scale and to realize the reuse of a long pipe by using an inert gas to dry and peel the scale for removing it deposited on the inside of a long pipe for heating a coal-containing slurry before hydrogenation in a coal liquefying process. CONSTITUTION:In a coal liquefying process involving the step of grinding and mixing coal, a slurrying solvent, and a catalyst ...

Process for upgrading a sulphur-containing feedstock comprising a hydrocarbon mixture substantially boiling in the gasoline range which process comprises contacting the feedstock with a catalyst which comprises a crystalline (metallo)silicate having an X-ray diffraction pattern containing the four strongest lines at interplanar spacings (d) expressed in ANGSTROM , of 11.1 +/- 0.2, 10.0 +/- 0.2, 3...

PURPOSE:To improve the assembling efficiency of the liquid crystal display device without changing the uniformity of illumination of a liquid crystal back light by arranging a condenser member so as to surround the periphery of a fluorescent tube along a gap between the fluorescent tube and a fluorescent tube holder, and be openable in the direction of a light guide end face. CONSTITUTION:The cond...

PURPOSE:To improve the assembly accuracy, to obtain stability, and to prevent foreign matter from entering a display part by fixing rubber spacers on a diffusion plate so that a liquid crystal display range is surrounded, and forming them integrally in such a shape that there is clearance formed at none of display part corner parts. CONSTITUTION:The rubber spacers 4 which are molded integrally sur...

PURPOSE:To easily manufacture this liquid crystal panel by extending a sealing member to a glass end surface on a side where an injection opening part is formed, injecting a liquid crystal composition, and then removing the extending part and exposing a terminal part for connection. CONSTITUTION:Apper and lower substrats are stuck with sealing members 5 and 6 and vacuum injection is carried out di...

A computer system has a large number of media input sources selectively coupled to a single presentation device. A device database tracks characteristics and connections of the input sources. Multiple, possibly conflicting, channels are assigned to a set of mutually distinct logical channel designations in a channel-map database. Program events occurring on the channels reside in a guide database.

A device and method for treating collapsed bronchial tubes found in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma are provided. The device delivers energy so that the tissue is inductively heated by directing electromagnetic energy into the tissue. The device includes electrodes (210, 220) having adjustable diameters to enable the electrodes to contact the wall of the bronchial tu...

Improved methods and apparatus for monitoring the delivery of radio frequency (RF) energy from electrodes disposed in tissue for inducing hyperthermia and other purposes. In one form, an impedance display of a power supply comprises an array of discrete light elements, where the number of light elements illuminated increases in response to a percentage increase in calculated impedance. The array o...

Process for the physico-chemical treatment of effluent, especially of surface water intended for consumption, comprising the successive steps of coagulation, flocculation and settling, a contacting mass being introduced into the water coming from the coagulation step, and therefore during the flocculation step, and this contacting mass consisting of part of the densified sludge resulting from the ...

Process for the physico-chemical treatment of effluent, especially of surface water intended for consumption, comprising the successive steps of coagulation, flocculation and settling, a contacting mass being introduced into the water coming from the coagulation step, and therefore during the flocculation step, and this contacting mass consisting of part of the densified sludge resulting from the ...