The cage portion of a cage and roller assembly has two annular end rims joined by cross-bars around the periphery of each rim. The rims and cross-bars define multiple pockets which hold the rollers. The cross-bars are configured to contain the rollers within these pockets; in addition, coined ramp surfaces and land surfaces on the cross-bar outer surfaces extend radially outward farther than the o...

A method for removing suspended particles from a liquid by means of gas-bubble flotation, in which, before the gas-bubble flotation step proper, the liquid is more or less saturated with the gas in one or more preceding gas introduction steps, so as to obtain a longer average life-time of the smaller gas bubbles in the final flotation step.

A device for forming grooves in floor covering material such as linoleum for applying a welding wire into said groove, comprising a carrier (1) having running wheels or sliding surfaces (2), by means of which said carrier (1) can be moved over the floor covering material (3), a support (8) provided on said carrier (1) for accommodating, if required, a heating apparatus (10) and a gouge (4) arrange...

In a computerized tomographic apparatus, different detectors are caused to receive radiation along substantially the same beam path through the body in order to permit the evaluation of differences in performance of the detectors. This evaluation is average with other evaluations made in respect of the same detector for other beam paths so as to reduce the risk that erroneous performance differenc...

PURPOSE:To prevent generation of vibration due to looseness of a jointing member and to improve safety by utilizing elastic force of a washer interposed to the upper part of the jointing member and fixing a rotor body to a driving axis. CONSTITUTION:When a rotor body 5 is fixed to a driving axis 2, looseness of joint of the rotor body 5 and the driving axis 2 is inhibited by elastic force of a was...

PURPOSE:To improve drivability by controlling a driving torque at the time of a half-engaged clutch condition at the start of a vehicle, etc., to be a target value while controlling engine speed to be a desired meeting speed. CONSTITUTION:A control circuit 60 controls a throttle valve actuator 22, a line pressure control valve 50, a pressure control valve 52, and a clutch 26. At the time of starti...

PURPOSE:To prevent a clutch engaging shock at the time of switchover from a nontraveling range to a traveling range by operating an accumulator only at the start of the introduction of a clutch feeding hydraulic pressure while keeping it in a nonoperating condition at the time other than that. CONSTITUTION:At the time of a nontraveling range, since a hydraulic pressure from a pressure regulating v...

PURPOSE:To enable the optimum speed change operation considering the effect of a load at the time of an idling operation by varying a speed change line in accordance with the correction of idling engine speed. CONSTITUTION:An idling switch 28, a vehicle speed sensor 30, an engine speed sensor 32 for detecting the number of revolutions of an engine 12, a throttle opening sensor 34, a load sensor 36...

PURPOSE:To attain a similar operating condition in both four-wheel and two- wheel drive modes by varying the controlling characteristic of a control means in accordance with a four-wheel drive/two-wheel drive switchover condition. CONSTITUTION:A first detecting means detects the stepping quantity of an accelerator pedal. A control means electrically controls the drive of a throttle valve in accord...

PURPOSE:To attain a similar operating condition in both four-wheel and two- wheel drive modes by varying a line pressure in accordance with a fourwheel drive/two-wheel drive switchover condition. CONSTITUTION:A pressure regulator regulates the line pressure of an automatic transmission to be a pressure suited to a vehicle speed and the output of an engine. A detecting means detects the four-wheel ...

PURPOSE:To improve fuel consumption and a traveling property by providing a means of detecting a four-wheel drive/two-wheel drive switchover condition and varying the speed change pattern of the power performance-oriented speed change pattern of an automatic transmission in accordance with the four-wheel drive/two-wheel drive switchover condition. CONSTITUTION:The operating condition of a pattern ...

PURPOSE:To suppress noise in a chain-belt type continuously variable transmission by providing a means of judging a specific change gear ratio zone in which variation in the tensile force of a chain belt gets larger and controlling so that a change gear ratio comes off of this specific change gear ratio zone. CONSTITUTION:The change gear ratio of a continuously variable transmission 12 is detected...

PURPOSE:To prevent the occurrence of danger like a driver being thrown off, and the like by operating an inching valve by an inching control means based on the neutral operation of a continuously variable operating means and smoothly carrying out the braking action of a parking brake. CONSTITUTION:At the time of the traveling of a vehicle, an electromagnetic selector valve 75 for a parking brake i...

PURPOSE:To improve the durability of an endless chain decreased in its curvature change by interposing the first and second intermediate pulleys between input and output shafts and performing a two-shift speed change by the first and second endless chains. CONSTITUTION:Integrally forming the first and second intermediate pulleys 20, 21 to be interposed between an input side pulley 12 and an output...

PURPOSE:To form a groove part simply and easily by fitting a high energy reflecting mask notching a groove part on the board surface and projecting a high energy beam on the notch part in the case of grooving the optical integrated circuit board consisting of a brittle member. CONSTITUTION:The mask 22 by the metal of an Al, etc., having the property of reflecting the CO2 laser beam in 10.6mum wave...

PURPOSE:To reduce the loss of a light transmission by machining the inclined face of the backmost part of a groove in a vertical face by a high energy beam after forming the groove by a pyramid tool made of a sintered hard alloy in the case of forming the groove for an optical fiber connection on an optical integrated circuit board by a brittle member to make the combination with an optical fiber ...

PCT No. PCT/FI87/00176 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 11, 1988 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 11, 1988 PCT Filed Dec. 29, 1987 PCT Pub. No. WO88/05090 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 14, 1988.A non-woven fibre product in which the fibre material consists, totally or in part, of fibres which are able to form bonds with natural or artificial fibres of the same or different type, and in which said fibres capable of forming bonds are ...

Nach einer ersten Ausführungsform enthält die Vorrichtung eine Beißplatte (2), deren Kontur dem Gebiß des Patienten (8) entspricht, und einen starren Träger (4), der mit der Beißplatte (2) verbindbar oder verbunden ist und der Markierungen (6, 6') zur Lokalisierung in einem Schnittbildverfahren (das von dem einen Untersuchungsgerät durchgeführt wird) trägt. Nach einer zweiten Ausführungsform enthä...

The output of the engine (6) is reduced by the slip control as a degree of slippage of the driven wheels (4,5) on pavement gets larger. Upon the slip control, the shift control of the automatic transmission (8) is brought into a state in which the speed stages are unlikely to be shifted.

An on-line method of inspecting an apertured mask sheet (10) to be formed into a shadow mask for a colour cathode ray tube is disclosed. In one of several embodiments described the mask sheet (10) is linearly scanned by a laser spot (32) transverse to the direction of advancement (30) of the mask sheet. The peak values of the grey levels of the laser light transmitted by the mask sheet are detecte...