A traction control system including engine intervention and brake intervention, during a start under mu-split conditions the engine torque is increased compared to the driver input to accelerate vehicles as under high friction conditions, the vehicle acceleration under high friction conditions is determined, and engine torque is further increased by the brake torque applied to the low-mu wheel.

FIELD: packing equipment, particularly for sleeve forming in chemical, food and other industries. ^ SUBSTANCE: sleeve forming machine comprises molding tube with beveled end and spaced overlapped edges of side walls. Covering panel having at least one slot is arranged on outer tube wall surface near inner end thereof so that covering panel may move along tube surface. ^ EFFECT: possibility of slee...

FIELD: power engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: invention relates to self-contained power supply systems using solar energy for generating power, heat and hot water for industrial and agricultural enterprises. Proposed power supply system for objects using solar and wind energy has at least one wind plant with electric generator electrically coupled with electric accumulator communicating with energy consu...

FIELD: electrical engineering; lead-acid storage battery manufacture. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed storage battery has case closed with cover on top and divided into compartments accommodating battery cells connected in series by means of interplate junctions; each cell has set of unlike-polarity plates with separators and electrolyte in-between; plates have current leads and active material; leads of po...

"MéTODO DE COMPENSAçãO DE TORQUE DE ALINHAMENTO RESIDUAL (RAT)". Um método para mudança do torque de alinhamento residual (RAT) de um pneu pela formação de cortes ("sipes") inclinados em alguns dos blocos de banda de rodagem em pelo menos um par de estrias que se estendem circunferencialmente, cada estria estando localizada em um lado oposto do plano circunferencial médio do pneu. Os cortes ("sipe...

A glazing adhesive product comprising a thermoplastic polyester material having trapped gas bubbles dispersed therein whereby the product has surface pores to provide a suction effect. Also provided is a method of installing/removing vehicle glazing.

Collapsible umbrella having a resilient rib tensioning member connected to an end portion of the central shaft and interconnected with a first rib end portion and a second end portion. In response to moving forces against the rib connector it moves from a default position to a first, a second and a third open position to a second to a third. In the first open position, the rib tensioning member ex...

The invention relates to a mold and a process for molding a tread 11 and a tire having a tread, the tread including a running surface 12, lateral surfaces 13, axial recesses 15 opening axially on to at least one of the lateral surfaces, the process including steps of inserting into the uncured tread projections 5 which mold the axial recesses 15, and of then removing them from the vulcanized tread...

A succession of superposed digitized sections of an object are produced from a three-dimensional representation of the object. A powder or a mixture of powders is spread in the form of a fine layer and heated to a temperature close to solid phase sintering temperature of the powder or the mixture of powders. The layer is brought to the sintering temperature by scanning with a laser beam the layer ...

Coated milling insert has a WC-Co cemented carbide with a low content of cubic carbides and a highly W-alloyed binder phase and a coating including an inner layer of TiCxNy with columnar grains followed by a layer of kappa-Al2O3 and a top layer of TiN. The coated milling insert is particularly useful for milling of grey cast iron with or without cast skin under wet conditions at low and moderate c...

An active-matrix-type display apparatus ensuring sufficient luminous intensity of display devices within a display plane and allowing improved display properties is provided. Such display apparatus having of a plurality of pixels comprises a lower electrode formed on a substrate; organic layers formed on the lower electrode; and an upper common electrode formed on the organic layers; in which a pl...

A facility is provided for managing a service connection between a client process having a single threaded library and a server process. The facility includes monitoring activity of a client code of the client process by the client library, and commensurate therewith monitoring activity of the client library across a service connection to the server process, wherein activity of the client library ...

The cleaning robot system has a cleaning robot (100) moving freely under digital word transmission command from a mobile communications signal. The mobile communication is relayed from an apparatus (200) and controlled from a remote unit (300). Operating commands are set by a mobile communications telephone (400).

Pellets of polytrimethylene terephthalate in which 80 wt.% or more of the repeating units are accounted for by trimethylene terephthalate units, bis(3-hydroxypropyl) ether has been copolymerized in a proportion of 0.01 to 2 wt.%, the content of terminal carboxyl groups is 25 meq/kg or lower, and the intrinsic viscosity is 0.8 to 2 dl/g, characterized in that the pellets have a value of L* of 75 or...

"MODELO DE GESTãO MUNICIPAL". Sistema de gestão municipal fundamentado em ações práticas e gerenciais, com base na NBR ISO 9001/2000, bem como princípios da Administração Científica, apresentado em 16 etapas que normatiza o planejamento, o desenvolvimento, o controle e a avaliação das atividades das organizações públicas municipais.

The gyroscope is formed by a driving system including a driving mass having an open concave shape; an accelerometer including a sensing mass and comprising mobile sensing electrodes; a linkage connecting the driving mass to the sensing mass. The sensing mass is surrounded on three sides by the driving mass and has a peripheral portion not facing the sensing mass. The mobile sensing electrodes exte...

A brake apparatus includes a brake disk secured to a shaft and a reaction plate secured to a housing. The brake apparatus further includes a fluid actuated piston which urges the brake disk against the reaction plate to slow rotation of the shaft and an adjustment member positioned by the piston. The brake apparatus yet further includes a spring interposed between the adjustment member and the pis...

Zeolite membranes that can be used to continuously separate components of mixtures are disclosed. The zeolite membranes are prepared by isomorphous substitution, which allows systematic modification of the zeolite surface and pore structure. Through proper selection of the basic zeolite framework structure and compensating cations, isomorphous substitution permits high separation selectivity witho...

A dry cementitious composition which when slurried with water produces an economical hydraulic cementitious slurry for closing abandoned wells. The dry cementitious composition is a cement/CKD blend as the major component with a weight ratio of parts cement to parts of CKD between about 2/3 and about 3/1. Hydraulic cementitious slurries when cured can produce hard cementitious bodies which will me...

A process for making pouches filled with a flowable material, using a vertical form, fill and seal apparatus, wherein the pouch is made from a blown film formed from a blend comprising a linear polymer of ethylene with at least one C4-C10 alpha-olefin manufactured in a single-site catalyst polymerization process, and at least one of the followinga) a linear polymer of ethylene with at least one C4...