PURPOSE:To improve the degree of freedom regarding the layout of a counter shaft system, to facilitate maintenance of a parking lock mechanism, and to improve maintainability of a parking lock mechanism. CONSTITUTION:A parking lock mechanism 64 comprises a parking wheel 56 mounted on the one end part of the counter shaft of a transmission, a parking cam part 60 engaged with a recessed part 58 form...

PURPOSE:To provide such a plastic speedometer drive gear that prevents any creep or deformation from occurring even by use for a long period of time. CONSTITUTION:In a speedometer drive gear made of plastics being clamped onto an output shaft of an automobile transmission, a metallic cylindrical insert 2 is embedded in a plastic part 1 of a drive gear, width of this cylindrical insert 2 if formed ...

PURPOSE:To enhance safety in traveling by stopping a body even if a driver grips an accelerator lever at the time of emergency. CONSTITUTION:Means SW3 for detecting a grip operation with a pressure higher than a predetermined level is provided at a common operating part of an accelerator lever 9 and the grip part 1a of a steering wheel 1. The means for stopping a body based on the function of the ...

PURPOSE:To enable the detection of the deterioration state and an internal impedance of an electrode plate by bringing an auxiliary electrode into satisfactory contact with an electrolyte even when the mounting attitude of a closed type lead storage battery is changed, and using the electrode for measurement. CONSTITUTION:Two auxiliary electrodes 5a and 5b are mounted in the vicinity of two corner...

PURPOSE:To prevent the discontinuty of an output from a rate of change controller in switching an automatic/manual operation, by providing a monitor relay for comparing the output from the rate of change controller with the set value of an upper and lower control value and making the set value of the rate of change controller zero when the motor relay operates. CONSTITUTION:A load control device h...

A battery element useful as at least a portion of the positive plates of a lead-acid battery comprises an acid resistant glass substrate coated with electrically conductive doped tin oxide. This battery element may also be used In the bipolar plates of a lead-acid battery.

The invention relates to films of linear polyester containing glass spheres having a certain particle size distribution and in a certain amount. The addition of the glass spheres improves, inter alia, the dynamic coefficient of friction of the film. Preferably, a second film additive, fumed silica, of a controlled particle size distribution and weight is added to the film. The addition of the fume...

The present invention relates to an endotracheal tube used for mechanical ventilation of a hospital patient, the endotracheal tube is useful in evacuating contaminated secretions that pool within the trachea above an inflatable cuff associated with the endotracheal tube. The endotrocheal tube of the present invention comprises a double lumen through which air may be circulated, thus creating an in...

A golfer's aid having a body in the shape of a clip which can be attached to the belt, pocket or waistband of the user or to a golf bag or other article. A strip of hook and look fabric is attached to the straight outer surface of the body for attaching the user's glove. A blade is rotatably attached to the end of the body. One end of the blade is a divot repair tool and one end is a curved surfac...

There is disclosed a method for the adjustment of an optical row of sensors which, for guiding a driverless vehicle along an optical guideway, is secured at the vehicle transversly with respect to the vehicle travel direction. Known systems attempt to accomplish a compensation of component tolerances by carrying out an adjustment between the measurement signals of the sensors. However, this leads ...

The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for detecting the presence or absence of a discontinuity on a glass surface. The apparatus includes a transmitting means for directing and receiving infrared electromagnetic radiation relative to the glass surface, a positioning means for positioning the transmitting means in a fixed angular and distance relation with respect to the glas...

Composite polyester films with improved low-friction properties consisting of an orientated polyester film comprising on one of its sides a low-friction coating of a water-dissipatable copolyester having a plurality of oxysulphonyl group chain units and a plurality of recurrent chain units of general formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 are the same or different and represent alkyl, cycloalkyl and ...

PURPOSE: To provide a high activity catalyst composed of carbides of heavy metals by heat treating the carbides of heavy metals having a large specific surface area in an oxidizing gas stream at a specified temperature and maintaining the temperature for a specified period, then cooling the carbides to ambient temperature in the gas stream. CONSTITUTION: Carbides of heavy metals having large speci...

PURPOSE: To provide an improved method for interconnecting electric circuit elements using a flexible circuit and its device. CONSTITUTION: A first circuit substrate 10 is electrically connected to an electric contact on a second circuit substrate 12 through a flexible print circuit. An accommodating structure is installed on the first circuit substrate so that the structure supports the flexible ...

PURPOSE:To suppress uneven display and brightness gradient on a liquid crystal display device, and provide a liquid crystal display device which can perform high grade displaying. CONSTITUTION:A plurality of liquid crystal cells corresponding to the intersecting points of scan electrodes 4 and data electrodes 5 intersecting each other perpendicularly are arranged in matrix form to construct a liqu...

PURPOSE:To provide a liquid crystal display element, which admits uniform filling of liquid crystal compounds under the manufacturing process into cells in a short time without bringing about chromatographic phenomena, etc. CONSTITUTION:Liquid crystal compounds 13 are pinched between a pair of electrode base boards 11, 12 arranged parallelly to each other, and around them a seal part is provided. ...

PURPOSE:To make fixation of a hard type printed circuit board of a display device certainly by a simple constitution, wherein the circuit board with display panel driver circuit elements mounted is connected with each edge member of the display panel through a flexible printed circuit board; and to avoid overlap of driver circuit elements mounted on the hard type printed circuit board in case inst...

PURPOSE:To obtain the aging method of an EL panel having a short processing time and a sufficient effect. CONSTITUTION:In the aging method of an EL panel, the first and second periods are set, and the first and second periods are repeated at the fixed cycle. The first period consists of the first field when the picture elements formed by transparent electrodes 2 and the first metal electrode group...

A process for manufacture of molded, high resiliency, polyurethane foam substantially free of volatile organic blowing agents comprising feeding at least three streams into a mixing device to form a reaction mixture, wherein a first stream contains (i) a polyol, (ii) water, (iii) a catalyst, (iv) a surfactant; a second stream contains an organic polyisocyanate; and a third stream contains (i) wate...