PURPOSE:To reduce the driving requisite power in an oil pump by setting braking oil pressure in a transmission according to a valve operating characteristic selectively set up, in a power unit including an engine that the valve operating characteristic of at least one side of both intake and exhaust valves is made selectable. CONSTITUTION:A power unit is provided with an engine E, having a variabl...

PURPOSE:To always attain an optimum control by selecting a control characteristic map of a transmission, corresponding to a valve action characteristic selecting map selected by a valve action characteristic selecting means, while controlling the transmission being based on this selected control characteristic map. CONSTITUTION:A variable valve timing-lift mechanism VT, which switches the valve ac...

Method for packing a measured quantity of thermosetting resin (2), intended for encapsulating a component such as an integrated circuit by introducing this quantity into a flexible plastics covering (6a, 6b) which can be sealed airtight, and packing for a measured quantity of thermosetting plastic intended for encapsulating a component, obtained using this method.

A galvanic cell and a multi-cell electric storage battery (15) which includes a novel plate (18,20), strap (34,36) and strap coupling means (38) and intercell weld arrangement (38b).

In a method for drilling adjacent to a cased known first borehole a second borehole in a predetermined direction the following steps are carried out for a number of along hole depths di: measuring components of gravity acceleration and magnetic field (earth & casing); determining direction parameters alpha i; deriving magnetic polestrength components, Bp1,i and Bp2,i; applying Bp1,i/Bp2,i=s1,i/s2...

A ferroelectric material having a basic structure of REMnO3, said ferroelectric material comprises RE and Mn one of which is contained in excess of the other to a limit of 20 at. % or the ferroelectric material is further added with a 4-valence element. Also, a method of forming a ferroelectric material, comprises decreasing an oxygen partial pressure within a growth reactor such as a vacuum depo...

A cutting insert that has a flank face and a rake face and a cutting edge at the juncture thereof. The substrate presents a bulk region that contains a metallic binder, as well as one or more of Group IVB, Group VB and Group VIB metal carbides and/or carbonitrides. The substrate further includes a flank surface region near the flank face of the substrate that has a solid solution metal carbide and...

Chew toys (10) for domestic carnivorous animals having rawhide (11) and jerky sheets or members (12). The jerky sheets (12) are wrapped in a rawhide sheet (11) by either rolling or folding. This provides an outer layer (18) of rawhide containing jerky therein. A seam (19) is created in rawhide outer layer (18) by the rolling or folding of the rawhide sheet (11). The jerky (12) preferably extends t...

Improvements are provided to improve an apparatus and method for processing a substantially constant velocity flow of a web (24) of material, including a cutting mechanism (19) and a web accumulator (19) upstream of the cutter. The improvements include stopping the web by a side surface (38) of the movable blade (164) and configuring the accumulator dimensions and cutting speed to cause an appropr...

The present invention comprises a supported liquid membrane carrier liquid with a dielectric constant between approximately 20 and 32, more particularly between 22 and 28, and preferably about 24, and the use of that carrier liquid in a supported liquid membrane device to extract one or more chemical species from a feed liquid. The invention further comprises such a device where a temperature grad...

Inflatable item, for example a beach bed, shaped like a flexible, thin-walled plane from synthetic material, e.g. from PVC. It is made up of a central part (21) with along its contours at least one inflated part separated by means of one or more heat seals (23, 25); whereby the inflated parts (23, 25) form a boxed-in area. The inflated part (23, 25) is fitted along at least one contour part of the...

Die Erfindung betrifft eine ein- oder mehrschichtige biaxial orientierte Polyesterfolie mit einer Dicke von /=160 DEG C; S 200 (TD) /=4,5; Folienfixierpeak >/=210 DEG C; Foliendichte 1,39-1,41 g/cm<3> ist und Ts(TD) die Temperatur ist, bei der der Querschrumpf beginnt, S 200 (TD) der Schrumpf in Querrichtu...

Die Erfindung betrifft eine ein- oder mehrschichtige biaxial orientierte Polyesterfolie mit einer Dicke von ])*1000 [ DEG C.mm<2>.N<-1>]. MV ist dabei >/=-2, bevorzugt >/=0 und insbesondere >/=0,5, ...

PURPOSE:To provide an inexpensive picture transmitter with improved operability for transmitting writing-and-drawing pictures capable of smoothly expediting proceedings. CONSTITUTION:A polarizing filter 112 arranged on the front surface of a camera 111 is rotated by the control of a control part 14 and creates a state where data are viewed from the camera and the state where they are not viewed al...

The present invention is directed to a topical composition for the treatment of psoriasis. The composition comprises a film forming agent, a plasticizer, an aqueous alcoholic solution and an amount of alkali effective to prevent the gellation of the film forming agent.

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of communication utilization within a frame by supplying offset delay time at the time of measuring delay time to center arrival for respective subscriber terminals so as to allocate channels (time slots) for time division communication between the center of a tree type CATV network and the plural subscriber terminals. CONSTITUTION:A certain level of an offset del...

The implant (13) comprises an optic part (14) consisting essentially of a divergent lens with thick edges (16) and a haptic part comprising two elastic loops (15) for support inside the eye and extending on both sides of the optic part, in the same diametral direction (50), from two points on the optic part which are respectively and diametrally opposed. A connection zone (19) situated outside the...

A process for producing a thermoplastic polyester resin foam comprising melting a thermoplastic polyester resin, mixing the molten resin with a blowing agent and extruding the mixture into a low-pressure zone to carry out expansion molding, characterized in that a compound having two or more acid anhydride groups per molecule, optionally together with a compound of a metal of Group I, II or III el...

A method and apparatus for selectively sintering a layer of powder to produce a part comprising a plurality of sintered layers. The apparatus includes a computer (40) controlling a laser (30) to direct the laser energy onto the powder (26) to produce a sintered mass. The computer (40) either determines or is programmed with the boundaries of the desired cross-sectional regions of the part. For eac...

The content of an organotin (IV) monohalide can he reduced below the limit of detection, by treating an organotin (IV) polyhalide containing the monohalide with hydrochloric acid, hydrogen chloride or chlorine.