The invention relates to a method for determining the direction of a borehole in a geological formation, a borehole which is drilled into a predetermined direction with respect to the adjacent already existing borehole. According to the invention, the method for determining the direction of a borehole, ensures the control of the direction of a borehole with respect to the previously drilled boreho...

PURPOSE:To provide a power train control device which sufficiently improves fuel consumption performance in an economy mode, sufficiently improves running performance or acceleration performance of a vehicle in a power mode, and has excellent acceleration operability in the case of a vehicle in which either an economy mode or a power mode can be selected. CONSTITUTION:Electric throttle systems 8 a...

PURPOSE: To preliminarily prevent the speed change shock by providing a speed increasing request judging means to judge the degree of the speed increasing request and an up-shift limiting means to limit the up-shift associated with the release of the deceleration control according to the judged degree of the speed increasing request. CONSTITUTION: When an accelerator pedal is returned and the dece...

PURPOSE: To reduce processing steps in development, automatically follow up temporal and environmental changes, reduce transmission shock by feedback controlling an output shaft torque of an engine so as to equalize an actual driving shaft torque to a target torque. CONSTITUTION: A control device houses at least one of microcomputers 7, 8 for controlling an engine 1 and an automatic transmission 2...

PURPOSE:To perform accurate control in accordance with a slope in a position stopped by providing an operating means for changing a slope sensor setting mode of setting a reference value of a slope sensor in a program control circuit. CONSTITUTION:In the case that a car speed is zero, an output from a slope sensor 7 is fetched, to decide the present slope for whether exceeding or not a preset pres...

PURPOSE:To obtain a solar heat absorber exhibiting excellent characteristics in either of absorption and radiation and being excellent also in corrosion resistance. CONSTITUTION:1) A solar heat absorber prepared by providing a copper plating layer of a thickness 0.05 to 5mum and a black chromium plating layer of chromium 15 to 30mg/m<2> sequentially on a stainless steel plate. 2) A solar heat abso...

PURPOSE:To run following a cutting-in vehicle smoothly when the vehicle cuts in while a vehicle is running following another preceding car. CONSTITUTION:A distance to a preceding vehicle, and a car velocity are detected by a distance sensor 10 and a car velocity sensor 12 to be inputted to an electronic control device ECU 20. The ECU 20 calculates a relative speed based on a time change of the dis...

PURPOSE:To automatically prevent a car from succeedingly starting at once even if a preceding car gets starting, in the case where it is stopped in the forefront at an intersection and a railroad crossing, in a running controller for a vehicle running in the wake of the preceding car as controlling a throttle. CONSTITUTION:On the basis of each detecting signal out of a car speed sensor 10 and a ca...

Vehicle control apparatus for effecting cooperative control of an automatic transmission and a drive power source which produces an output to drive the vehicle through the automatic transmission, the automatic transmission incorporating a frictional coupling device which is engaged to place the automatic transmission in a power transmitting state, during power driving of the vehicle with the outpu...

A liquid-solids separator, or centrifuge, of the type having a screw conveyor (10) is provided with a series of offset conveyor flights (16). A spacer means (20) is positioned within the offset (18) of the conveyor flights to form a channel (22) therein. Rinse liquid is introduced into the channel through the central hub (12) of the conveyor. The channel directs the rinse liquid into the heavy pha...

Apparatus for inspecting the sealing surface area (36) of a container finish that includes a light source (44) positioned to direct a collimated line-shaped light beam (46) (i.e., having a length dimension many limes a width dimension) onto the sealing surface area of a container. The line-shaped light beam at the container sealing surface area has a long dimension orthogonal to the container axis...

The remote monitoring system comprises a signal emitter (10) providing a signal, means for detecting the signal (12), means for transmitting the signal (16) via a global specification for mobile telephones (GSM) network, and remote means (18, 20) for receiving for the transmitted signal. The signal emitter may be a PIR or other intruder or fire sensor. Alternatively, the signal emitter may be a me...

The invention provides polyisocyanurate systems for manufacture of polyisocyanurate foam components such as those from SRIM processes. The reaction systems include a polyisocyanate and a polyisocyanate reactive component that includes a trimerization catalyst, polyol, and a carboxylic acid blowing agent, optionally with water as a co-blowing agent. The reaction systems can be blown exclusively wit...

Apparatus for inspecting the sealing surface area (36) of a container finish that includes a light source (44) positioned to direct a collimated line-shaped light beam (46) (i.e., having a length dimension many limes a width dimension) onto the sealing surface area of a container. The line-shaped light beam at the container sealing surface area has a long dimension orthogonal to the container axis...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing sterol fatty acid esters from a deodorized scum oil at a low cost, and to provide raw material-treating conditions, synthesis reaction conditions, and the further purification process, whereby the sterol fatty acid esters having excellent qualities for a raw material of general foods, healthy foods or medicines, scarcely containing trans type...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing sterol fatty acid esters from a deodorizing scum oil at a low cost, and to provide raw material-treating conditions, synthesis reaction conditions, and the truth purification process for obtaining the product which can be utilized as a raw material for general foods, health foods or medicines, whereby the sterol fatty acid esters having excel...

An antistatic polyester film comprising a polyester film and, provided on at least one side thereof, an antistatic layer formed of an antistatic agent (A) composed mainly of a polymer having repeating units having a structure represented by general formula (I) wherein R<1> and R<2> each represent H or CH3; R<3> represents an alkylene group having two to ten carbon atoms; R<4> and R<5> each represe...

PURPOSE:To prevent an LCD display unit mounted on a moving terminal device, which is used for the warehousing and delivery control system of the refrigerated warehouse and carried in and out of the warehouse in a short time, from becoming hard to see. CONSTITUTION:The display unit 11 which constitutes part of the moving terminal device is provided with a transparent heater 32 between a display par...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the manufacture of the reflection type liquid crystal display device which is improved in display quality. SOLUTION: For the manufacture of the reflection type liquid crystal display device constituted by forming reflection electrodes 38 as display pixels reflecting incident light from one of a couple of substrates arranged opposite each other across a liquid cryst...

The process according to the invention relates to the preparation of 2-chloromethyl-thiophene of the formula (I). During this process thiophene is chloromethylated in the presence of one or more compounds containing keto group and optionally it is transformed into the compound of the formula (II). Compounds of formula (I) and (II) are intermediates of several pharmaceutically active ingredients.