PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the generation of cracks in a heat transfer pipe resulting from the large quantity of atomization of cooling water in an exhaust heat recovery boiler and save a cost due to the installation of an auxiliary combustion device. SOLUTION: In a load condition in which the temperature of exhaust gas is high, a valve operation using a high temperature side high pressure e...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a complex plant facility of an incinerator in which no problem may occur under any type of operating states in response to an operating condition of the facility (for example, a single operation of a gas turbine, and a combined operation of an incinerator and the gas turbine or the like). SOLUTION: There is provided a gas bypassing passage 14 in which discharged ga...

At each work station of a textile machine producing wound bobbins, the yarn package on which yarn is wound is driven by a friction roller. In contrast to the conventional driving of the roller by a gear motor flanged to the housing of the work station, which has the disadvantage of requiring space and difficulty in removing and replacing the friction roller for maintenance, the present invention s...

A method and apparatus for applying a ribbon-like coating structure to the outer surface of a tire bead core. A bead core (2) is coaxially placed around a support drum (6) carrying an inflatable air bag (7) disposed in a deflated condition. Clasping sectors (14) circumferentially distributed in the drum are radially moved close to the inner surface of the bead core (2) to make a central portion of...

A cobalt/aluminum catalyst is used in the polymerization reaction to form polyesters of terephthalic acid and an ethylene glycol.

Microvoid polyurethane materials having densities below 300 kg/m3 and void sizes below 5 micron which are suitable for use as insulating filler in evacuated insulation panels.

A mobile robot control system with plural mobile robots each of which moves along a predetermined route in the same area. One mobile robot gives way to the other mobile robot when the mobile robot receives a signal emitted by the other mobile robot. A mobile robot moving on a predetermined route has a sensor which senses whether or not an obstacle exists on the route. The sensor senses again after...

The disclosure involves a method for guiding a machine within an area. Such method includes the steps of triggering an acoustic locating signal from a stationary "beacon-type" base module to a receiver on the machine. The method is applicable for one-beacon, two-receiver and two-beacon, one-receiver applications. A related apparatus also includes a device for emitting a trigger signal and a device...

Geographical, guide or search information and route information are stored in storage sections. An arithmetic section provides a route researching function with preference for the traveling direction of a vehicle. A route-calculating section is provided for re-calculating the route, and a route guide control system is also provided, inclusive of a route deviation-detecting section. The re-calculat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a sterilizer durable and to improve the sterilizing performance of a UV lamp in the bathwater cleaner for circulating the hot water in a bathtub and cleaning it by providing a cold-cathode UV lamp and an inverter circuit to drive the lamp. SOLUTION: The bathwater in a bathtub is sterilized by a sterilizer 4. A cold-cathode UV lamp 20 is provided to the sterilizer 4 an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure safety of longitudinal directional displacement and lateral directional displacement of a vehicle by performing response to a reference variable related to a vehicle longitudinal directional speed until an actuator variable of a steering element matches with a reference variable to a vehicle lateral directional displacement. SOLUTION: A sensor means CAP1 emitting a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To deliver forcibly the bunch winding yarn bitten into the slit groove of a bobbin by, after cutting bunch winding, attracting yarn on transfer tail side with an attracting device and gripping them with a pair of contact rollers, and controlling the peripheral speed of the bobbin and the peripheral speed of the contact roller. SOLUTION: A package 1 is stopped in place by bein...

Water vapour-permeable, waterproof polyether-ester (PEE) membrane (I), containing 1-10 wt.% finely dispersed carbon with an average particle size of 5-40 nm (II). Also claimed is a process for the production of membrane (I). Preferably, the membrane contains 2-5 wt.% (II) in the form of carbon black with a particle size of 15-25 nm. The membrane has a thickness of 5-30 (preferably 5-10) microns.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prepare an oriented stable film reduced in unevenness of thickness and being capable of produced with an air knife in the cooling roll contact method generally used in orientation and molding of a polyolefin resin. SOLUTION: This film is based on a resin composition comprising 100 pts.wt. thermoplastic resin, 3-100 pts.wt. modified olefin resin (B) obtained by grafting 0.0...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eject molten metal from a supplying vessel by sucking the molten metal by utilizing negative pressure, to enable supplying molten metal to the supplying vessel during manufacturing working and to improve productivity by continuous production. SOLUTION: Cooling liquid is run down while circulating the liquid on an inner peripheral surface of a cylinder 2 for cooling to form...

A hydrodynamic brake includes a housing adapted to be filled with a working fluid and to discharge the fluid, a rotor having a plurality of blades, and a stator having a plurality of blades. The number of rotor blades is about 1.2 times to about 1.5 times greater than the number of stator blades.

Cement comprising hydraulic cement and polymer precursor such as alcohol-soluble phenol resin precursor that is substantially anhydrous and generates water by polymerization.

An elastic paving material includes a mixture of 90-50% by weight of fibrous rubber chips each having a length of 3-30 mm and a diameter of 0.3-3 mm, and 10-50% by weight of crushed pieces of golf balls having a particle size of 3-50 mesh. A curable liquid binder is added so as to bond the fibrous rubber chips and the crushed pieces of golf balls. Another elastic paving material includes only piec...

Perfluorinated cycloalkane solvents for dissolving high melting polymers containing tetrafluoroethylene, are disclosed. These solvents dissolve such polymers more rapidly, and/or are more stable, than previously known solvents. Also disclosed is a process for dissolution of the polymers and their resulting solutions. The solutions are useful for making polymer films, coatings and for encapsulating...

The present invention is an improved adhesive sheet (also known as a "bond ply," "bond film," or "prepreg") material suitable for bonding together electric circuit boards and other electrical components. The adhesive sheet of the present invention comprises a combination of a porous expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), a ceramic filler, and a thermoset resin imbibed within the porous PTFE stru...