PURPOSE:To improve the labour effectiveness and prevent stalling of engine by constituting a lock-up clutch to be automatically cut when actual engine speed is lowered from a lock-up contact state and a selecting switch comes to be higher than a selected down rate. CONSTITUTION:When a down rate C of engine speed B of an output shaft 12 against actual engine speed A of an engine 5 comes to be lower...

PURPOSE:To obtain homogeneous paste and enhance the producibility by adding water or ice at specified temp. to lead powder chiefly containing lead and lead oxide, dripping dilute sulfuric acid at a specified temp., and by kneading to turn it into paste. CONSTITUTION:150l water cooled to 3-5 deg.C is added to lead powder chiefly containing lead and lead oxide followed by kneading, and 90l dilute su...

PURPOSE:To detect a turning status accurately as well as to control the driving force of a driving wheel so properly by compensating a threshold value judging the turning status to be small at a time when a fact that a steering angle is in a direction of being increased has been detected by a steering sensor. CONSTITUTION:A controller 44 controls both front and rear clutches 10, 18 according to a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular total power transmission involving a start clutch, a selector clutch and a change gear, capable of easily changing speeds while suppressing resultant shocks and noises at an upshift operation to every speed gear in a range from the first-speed gear to the final-speed gear by applying braking force to the output member of the start clutch. SOLUTION: An o...

A product suitable for absorbing wound exudate comprising a series of interconnected square or rectangular perforated (4) bags (2) made of a substance of maximum thickness 1 mm e.g. film, which is substantially non-adherent to a wound, wherein alginic acid or a salt thereof such as calcium alginate is housed in the bags, preferably in the form of small spheres. The film preferably comprises ethyle...

PCT No. PCT/EP94/04189 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 24, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 24, 1996 PCT Filed Dec. 16, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/18059 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 6, 1995Device to control the yarn at the outlet of yarn feeders, particularly antiballoon device for weft yarn feeders of looms, of the type consisting of an element (10) having a substantially frustoconical surface. A plurality of ribs (11) project f...

The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for providing a wood surface (2) which as good anchorage for paint and/or glue and/or for arresting the formation of cracks. The wood is irradiated with pulsed light from a light source (3) of such strength and in such pulse numbers as to break covalent bonds in the material along the wood surface, at least so as to remove the damaged c...

It is described an oxygen dispenser for use in high pressure discharge lamps. The oxygen dispenser of the invention comprises a metallic container capable of retaining solid materials but allowing an easy passage of gas, containing silver oxide. Several possible types of dispenser are proposed. The dispenser has shown capable of avoiding the formation of black deposits coming from hydrocarbons ins...

Rough machining of a glass-ceramic material article such as a radome (20) is accomplished using a high-power Nd:YAG laser (60, 64). The radome (20) is rotated about its longitudinal axis (28), and the point of application of the laser beam (62) is translated generally parallel to the longitudinal axis (28) over either the inside (32) or outside (30) surface of the radome (20). The Nd:YAG laser (60...

A guiding introducer (10) containing openings (16) is used with an ablation catheter (18) of cardiac tissue. The introducer comprises a first proximal section (12), generally elongated and hollow, and a second distal section (14), lumened with a plurality of openings (16). The openings (16) have a sufficient size to permit ablation of cardiac tissue through them by an electrode (20) of the ablati...

Ultrasonically marked c0theter for electrotherapy comprising a piezoelectric transducer (21) mounted onto a catheter and electrically connected to its proximal end with longitudinal conductors. The piezoelectric transducer electrodes are of appropriate thickness and conductivity for the ablation energy. The outside electrode (22) is either in direct contact with the tissue or, (for HF systems), co...

The tire (10) has a pair of side walls (12), a tread (14) and a pair of beads (15) including circular members (16) made of a durable synthetic material. Each circular member (16) preferably has the same tensile strength as steel and can withstand temperatures in excess of 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Each circular member (16) is preferably made of a unitary construction and therefore is completely soli...

A quick connector conduit assembly for use in a conduit coupling incorporates a hand insertable (male) conduit (200) for insertion into a female receptacle (210) in which the female receptacle (210) is fitted with a seating indicator (20). The seating indicator (20) includes an inner indicator ring (24), an outer indicator ring (23), and one or more arms (22) connecting the inner indicator ring (2...

PURPOSE:To easily alter a cover to the arbitrary position of a disc and to sufficiently cool a bone by providing the cover, which is provided with support pipe extending from the central part of a semicircular cover to support said cover and also used as a water injection channel, to the leading end part of a handpiece in a freely revolvable and detachable manner. CONSTITUTION:A support pipe 4 is ...

Hot melt adhesive masses are provided with a tackless surface by a process which comprises the steps of: a) extruding the hot melt adhesive through an appropriate die orifice; b) spraying the surface of the extruded adhesive with a molten film forming low molecular weight polymer or formulated polymeric material, the material being selected so that it will not appreciably detract from the properti...

PURPOSE:To enhance the reliability against dielectric breakdown by using a high melting point metal material as the first electrode material. and forming an electrode side face aslant. CONSTITUTION:A color thin-film EL element is of so-called inversion structure, in which stripe-form first electrodes 2 arranged parallel at a certain spacing, first insulation layer 3, light emission layer 4 consist...

A fiber optic sensing coil formed in a polarization-maintaining optical fiber has two optical fiber leads extending therefrom. A multifunction integrated optics chip linearly polarizes optical signals input to the sensing coil. Fiber optic leads formed of polarization-maintaining optical fiber extend from the multifunction integrated optics chip. The fiber optic multifunction integrated optics chi...

PURPOSE:To obtain continuous production processes and reduce the number of processes by forming external guide electrodes via the printing of conducting paste, and concurrently performing the hardening of the conducting paste and the heat treatment activation of an EL light emitting layer. CONSTITUTION:A stripe-shaped transparent electrode 2, the first dielectric layer 3, an EL light emitting laye...

Method (10), in a system for aiding the guidance of a vehicle, for identifying marking stripes of road lanes comprising the phases of subjecting a road image to a convolution operation (14) with a mask matrix so as to identify discontinuities present in the image, comparing the result with a threshold value (16) and determining (18) a representation of the marking stripes, in which the mask matrix...