PCT No. PCT/NO95/00119 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 13, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 13, 1997 PCT Filed Jul. 3, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/01181 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 18, 1996The pressure compression mould for the production and/or revulcanisation of tires forms a hollow space where the pressure and the temperature can be regulated. Each sidewall of the compression mould is designed with an elastic and flexible annu...

PURPOSE:To reduce operator's load by observing plant operation condition and performing a maintenance test only when a device in plant is considered to be in a condition suitable for the execution of the maintenance test and that the test is necessary from the information of plant operation condition. CONSTITUTION:An input unit 10 is provided to input the information for specifying a device to be ...

PURPOSE:To give a driver a good acceleration feeling without giving deceleration feeling by controlling increase in a target revolution speed of an internal combustion engine or a target speed change of an automatic transmission at the acceleration operation time, and increasing fuel injection according thereto. CONSTITUTION:In an internal combustion engine 1 provided with a continuous variable tr...

PURPOSE:To provide a long-life and cheap lead acid battery of sealed type without dropping the discharge capacity by installing a gap, having a width specifically greater than the mean particle size of a powder concerned, between each electrode plate and a bulkhead plate. CONSTITUTION:A gap is provided between electrode plates 1, 2 and a bulkhead plate 4, wherein the width of the gap shall be over...

A control system for a vehicular automatic transmission, comprising: running status detecting means for detecting the running status of a vehicle; and shift control means (19) for controlling the gear stage of the automatic transmission in accordance with the running status of the vehicle. The control system further comprises: memory means (15) for storing beforehand the information of a road to b...

A method of manufacturing an absorbent article in the form of a pants diaper or a sanitary panty starts from a flat blank which includes an elongated absorbent body (5) enclosed between two casing sheets (2, 9) which at opposing front and rear end parts of the absorbent body have side parts which extend laterally beyond the body on opposite sides thereof. The method includes the step of folding th...

Human pre-formed xenoantibodies play an important role in the hyperacute rejection response in human xenotransplantation. Disclosed are materials and methods for removing or neutralizing such antibodies. Also disclosed are materials and methods for reducing or eliminating the epitopes in the donor organs that are recognized by such antibodies. Such epitopes are formed as the result of activity by ...

PCT No. PCT/EP95/01331 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 13, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 13, 1997 PCT Filed Apr. 11, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/28692 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 26, 1995A combined technology event detection device for detection of an event such as movement and/or body temperature, such as an intrusion detection device. The event detection device includes: a passive infrared (PIR) sensor to generate a first ou...

Bei einer Vorrichtung zum Zurückziehen und Vorschieben eines Fadenbehandlungselementes relativ zu einem Fadenlauf wird vorgesehen, daß das Zurückziehen und Wiedervorschieben nur durch Einschalten eines Antriebsmotors entgegen seiner normalen, betriebsmäßigen Drehrichtung bewirkt wird. Hierzu sind ein in diesem Drehsinn unverdrehbar gehaltenes und ein in diesem Drehsinn relativ dazu mittels des Ant...

An elongated, rigid, porous, ceramic separator for a rechargeable battery assembly, the separator having a honeycomb structure in which open cells are separated from adjacent cells by thin, porous, ceramic walls, the open cells and separating walls running lengthwise of the honeycomb, the cell walls being porous and the open cells and wall pores being adapted to be filled with an electrolyte to pe...

A storage battery of the lead-acid type is disclosed, comprising unipolar electrodes (6) and bipolar electrodes (7), having a tubular shape fastened preferably perpendicularly to separators (3, 4) made of an insulating material, which divide into two or more adjacent cells the container (1) containing the electrolyte. In a preferred embodiment, each tubular electrode (6, 7) is formed by an axial b...

Proposed is a process for separating enantiomers from a racemic mixture by countercurrent extraction using at least two liquids of mutually differing chiralities, said liquids being wholly miscible and separated from each other by a phase with which they are immiscible. The separating, immiscible phase may be incorporated into a solid carrier which may be porous or not and preferably is in the for...

The present invention discloses a blood cleaning hollow fiber membrane characterized by comprising a hydrophobic porous hollow fiber membrane and having a hydrophilic thin layer formed at least on the inner surface of said hollow fiber membrane by the grafting of a hydrophilic compound through the agency of a gamma ray, a method for the cleaning blood and an apparatus therefor using the same.

The utility model belongs to a wind power machine device which is composed of blades, an outer steering sleeve, a transmission shaft position sleeve and a transmission shaft. The top of the outer steering sleeve is provided with the blades. The transmission shaft position sleeve is arranged in the outer steering sleeve. The transmission shaft is arranged in the transmission shaft position sleeve. ...

In a process for producing isopropyl alcohol by direct liquid phase hydration of propylene and water in the presence of a strong acid solid catalyst at a high temperature and a high pressure, the reaction is carried out at a temperature in a ranging between 100 DEG and 250 DEG C and a pressure in a ranging between 60 and 200 atm in an excess of water. Then, a liquid phase of the reaction product i...

The induced draft engine first utilizes the "mutual progressive kinetic energy" which is the artificial wind energy regenerated energy source) formed by air circulation and acts on the rotor of the engine. It does not consume air and forms no pollutant on the air. It is really an ideal new energy source.

Process for the preparation of rigid polyurethane foams comprising the step of reacting an organic polyisocyanate with an isocyanate-reactive material in the presence of a blowing promotor which is an isocyanate-reactive cyclic carbonate or cyclic urea, and in the presence of an inert, insoluble organic liquid and a metal salt catalyst and a polyether polyol of average nominal functionality 2 to 6...

Apparatus for determining the position of a mobile vehicle relative to a fixed location marker device (10,20) which comprises a coil (22) energized to emit a magnetic field composed of lines of magnetic flux extending radially and arcuately from the ends of the coil's longitudinal axis (12). A sensor unit mounted on the mobile vehicle comprises four identical sensing coils (A,B,C,D,) each responsi...

The labor costs associated with manufacturing wooden articles often represent a substantial portion of the total cost of producing the wooden article. This invention discloses a polymeric composition which can be easily molded into articles which have physical properties which are very similar to those of wood. By utilizing the polymeric composition and techniques of this invention, it is possible...

Crude oil is fed to a distillation column (1) and gas oil extracted at (G). A kerosene stripper (2) supplies kerosene to an extraction line (8) and a sampling line (10) supplies first and second coolers (4, 5) for setting temperatures of kerosene portions to predetermined levels. The respective portions are fed to sample pots (6) and (7) and an air line (9) feeds the gases generated in the sample ...