A jolt control system is disclosed wherein an output torque alteration control is effected when an automatic transmission undergoes a gear shift operation and the output torque alteration control is suspended upon detecting a predetermined change in throttle opening degree of a throttle valve of an engine.

When liquid/solid mixtures are separated in centrifuges, in particular in worm centrifuges, with the objective of recovering the liquid phase as a valuable material, discharging the liquid via skimmers frequently leads to eddying of the liquid with the gas (normally air) present in the centrifuge, which can lead to an undesired high degree of foam formation and to an undesired reaction of the gas ...

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An apparatus for cutting a web of plastic comprises a rotatable shaft and a multiplicity of circular cutters, which are fitted at equal intervals and fixedly on the shaft and rotate with the latter. Each cutter has at its peripheral edge a cutting blade. Spacer discs are provided on the rotatable shaft in order to hold the cutters. A reciprocating or oscillating device may be provided in order to ...

A control device for an internal combusion engine and a continuous variable transmission which enables to carry out well-responsible transmission control at a proper transmission rate without increasing the transmission shock. When engine power corresponding to an engine power torque corrected amount Te is changable, then an intake air flow adjusting unit 9 is controlled in response to a corrected...

A means and method for control of an autonomous vehicle while working on a surface, specifically for operation of an automatic floor cleaning machine using power derived from line power through a wall plug and cord. The vehicle uses information derived from contact between bumpers and objects in the environment to sense the geometry of its environment and utilizes a recursively applied algorithm t...

Line interface for an information transmission network, in particular in a motorcar, comprising a filter (3) receiving as input the signals from the two-wire bus (1) and delivering a filter signal to a shaping circuit (4) comprising three comparators (41, 42, 43), the first (43) of which receives the filtered signals, and the second of which (41) receives the filtered signal from one wire and a re...

Disclosed is an endoscope for use in the removal of tumours from hollow body organs such as the bladder. The endoscope consists of sheath (49) through which extends a telescope (46) and a suction diathermy tube (31) the non-operation end (33) of which communicates with a suction device. Provision (51, 52) is made for an irrigation fluid to be passed through the endoscope. The diathermy tube (31) m...

PCT No. PCT/FR91/00791 Sec. 371 Date May 17, 1993 Sec. 102(e) Date May 17, 1993 PCT Filed Oct. 11, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO92/08527 PCT Pub. Date May 29, 1992.Safety binding for an alpine ski, designed to hold a boot in place on a ski and to release this boot when it exerts excessive stress in the binding. The binding (1) comprises a base (3) , a boot position-retention device (5), a return spring (10...

A container (10) for irradiation comprises a flexible, flat collapsible wall (12, 13) defining a sealed chamber (36), the plastic material of the wall (12, 13) is substantially transparent to irradiation, typically ultraviolet radiation. Access ports (22, 24, 26) are provided for communicating through the wall (12, 13) to the chamber (36). A flap (32) is provided, integral with the wall (12, 13) a...

In the case of a large-area sun umbrella with folding arms made of rods connected via hinged joints, there is located in one joint of each active folding arm a mechanical rotary drive with a housing, an input shaft and an output shaft coaxial thereto. The rotary drive is built directly into the joint connection, a drive rotary torque being applied to the input shaft. One rod belonging to the joint...

A glass bottle production line comprising a bottle mold which has a plurality of mold cavities arranged in a predetermined order for forming bottles. A hot bottle inspector non-touchingly inspects the bottles as the bottles are conveyed past the hot bottle inspector. A mold transfer signal and bottle detection signal are processed to determine the mold cavity used to produce the bottle detected by...

There is described a method of manufacturing elastomeric thin walled articles, and thin walled elastomeric articles manufactured therefrom, which comprises dipping a suitably shaped former into an aqueous polyurethane emulsion, which comprises a substantial number of particles with a mean particle size of greater than 0.3 micrometer.

Polypropylene foil-bonding agent-metal composites are disclosed, in which polypropylene modified by carboxyl groups and/or anhydride groups is used as bonding agent. In order to produce the polypropylene foil, polypropylene random copolymers are used which are constituted of 90 to 99 % by weight, preferably 93 to 99 % by weight, propylene and 1 to 10 % by weight, preferably 1 to 7 % by weight, com...

A curing composition showing improved drying characteristics of an alkyd coating which comprises: (A) an oxyalkylene polymer having at least one silicon atom-containing group which has a hydroxyl group or a hydrolyzable group bound to a silicon atom and is capable of crosslinking by forming a siloxane bond; (B) a polymeric plasticizer and/or a viscous plasticizer; and (C) an air curing compo...

A curable composition. The composition contains (A) 100 parts of an oxyalkylene polymer having at least one silicon-containing group containing a hydroxyl group and/or hydrolyzable group bound to a silicon atom and capable of crosslinking through the formation of a siloxane bond; (B) 1 to 150 parts of a high molecular weight and/or high viscosity plasticizer; and (c) 0.1 to 20 parts of a compoun...

The present invention is concerned with control and detection of a laser beam for an optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus in which the intensity of a return laser beam reflected by an optical recording medium of a recording laser beam used for forming pits (P) and recording data on the recording medium during the recording mode is detected and an error signal including focusing and trackin...

Polymeric film of water-vapour-permeable thermoplastic elastomer type and the process for its manufacture. The film in accordance with the invention is based on polyetheresteramide and preferably on block polyetheramide. The invention also relates to articles comprising such a film and capable in particular of coming into contact with the human body.

A polymer mixture comprising (A) a 4-methyl-1-pentene polymer and (8) a phenylene sulfide polymer, the proportion of the polymer (A) being 80 to 97 % by weight and the proportion of polymer (B) being 20 to 3 % by weight, both based on the total weight of the polymers (A) and (B) combined.

The invention provides a coating composition prepared by dissolving a fluorine-type copolymer in an organic solvent, the copolymer comprising: i) about 50 to about 90 mole% of a structural unit represented by the formula a) -CH2-CF2- ii) about 5 to about 30 mole% of a structural unit represented by the formula b) -CF2-CF2- and iii) about 5 to about 30 mole% of a structural unit represented by...