PURPOSE:To prevent unnecessary control of engine torque which should not be carried out from being performed by stopping the control of an engine torque for a first speed change if a command for a second speed change is given before said first speed change is over. CONSTITUTION:The transmission part 900 of an ECT has a torque converter 910, an over-drive mechanism 920, and an under-drive mechanism...

PURPOSE:To prevent unintended speed change from taking place and carry out speed change smoothly by providing a control unit which prohibits the speed change of an auxiliary transmission during a certain time after the stepping-in of a clutch is released while which opens up a lock-up clutch. CONSTITUTION:A control unit 9 receives signals from a position select switch 5, an accelerator sensor 6, a...

PURPOSE:To make switchback control of a vehicle while securing the safety of a cargo regardless of the skill of a driver by providing a control means for controlling an indexing means so as to make a brake driving means get an indexed negative acceleration. CONSTITUTION:A microcomputer 21 as an index means as well as a shifting means consists of a CPU 22, a program memory 23 consisting of a memory...

PURPOSE:To make the optimum control of the driving force of a vehicle in relation to the operating quantity of an accelerator by feeding a target output torque obtained by a first control device to a second control device and feeding a controlling quantity obtained by said second control device to said first control device. CONSTITUTION:A CPU 34, a ROM 35, a RAM 38, an input interface 40, and an o...

PURPOSE:To prevent overheat of a steam turbine by circularly refluxing exhaust to the steam turbine air supply side in case the steam turbine runs idle at the time of starting operation or the like of a steam prime mover plant. CONSTITUTION:In the captioned plant, formed by joining a compressor 3, gas turbine 5, generator 6 and a steam turbine 7 on one shaft, the air which is compressed by the com...

PURPOSE:To facilitate manufacture of a lead storage battery by making an electrode by pouring an aqueous dispersion slurry, prepared by adding a difficulty-soluble sulfate to an aqueous dispersion of a lead compound, onto a current collector placed in a container while applying slight vibration to the container. CONSTITUTION:A plate for a lead storage battery is formed by placing a current collect...

PCT No. PCT/JP82/00350 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 22, 1982 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 22, 1982 PCT Filed Aug. 31, 1982 PCT Pub. No. WO83/00838 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 17, 1983.A rubber sheet bonding apparatus useable particularly in forming tires, for supplying an unvulcanized rubber sheet (11) to a forming drum (1) to bond it around the outer peripheral surface of the drum (1) and to form a joint at a portion alon...

Laser irradiation is used to depolymerise surplus encapsulation which is in the form of a thin film extending from an encapsulation of the device. Where the surplus is a thin sheet lying for example over a heatsink or over and between leads the laser irradiation may also vaporise the surplus without damage to underlying parts of the device. Where the surplus is present as a surface layer at an ext...

A method for producing contrast rich, permanent and slag-free characterizations, particularly on polished semiconductor disks is described, in which the surface for generating the surface pattern is partially melted by laser radiation. According to the invention, a surface segment corresponding to 1.5 to 6.5 times the surface area of the desired surface pattern is irradiated, and the semiconductor...

1. Winding machine for the production of fibre composite parts, in which a thread drawn off a supply spool is passed through an impregnating device (2) to a thread eye (28) on a traverse motion thread depositing carriage (4) to be deposited on a winding mandrel (10), characterised in that for careful, rapid guidance of the thread, the support for the supply spool is either integrated with the impr...

A system for preparing plates primarily intended for use in a dry charge battery includes washing pasted and formed battery plates in water at a low flow rate until most, but not all, of the forming acid has been removed, and thereafter washing said plates at a higher flow rate to remove residual acid; treating the second wash water using an ion exchange bed to remove the acid and reusing the deac...

1. A diaphragm device for an X-ray mammographic apparatus for defining a radiation field of a radiation source, including a cone which is connected to the radiation source and which limits the radiation beam in accordance with the external dimensions of an X-ray image pick-up means, and also including a diaphragm which is situated therein and which further limits the radiation beam, characterized ...

As a component in a vital processing system, the vital driver includes hardware and software elements that enable it to produce a time sensitive output in response to receipt, on a batch basis, of check words. The number, content and rate of the check words are checked and used by the vital driver to produce a time sensitive output which can have parameters such as carrier frequency, modulation ra...

A control method and apparatus for running an unmanned vehicle (4) having the steps of running the vehicle on guide tape runways (1,2,3) laid on the runway surface with a predetermined layout; and controlling starting, decelerating and stopping of the vehicle and selection and alteration of the running route thereof by means of external signals. The external signals are transmitted by a host compu...

Calculi, stones, calcified tissue and other material are broken down for removal from within a body using laser pulses that are delivered via an optical fiber and have a wavelength, intensity, energy per pulse and pulse duration selected to break down the object into smaller particles without delivering energy sufficient to cause damage to other tissue.

A microcomputer includes an interrupt signal generator for supplying a CPU with an interrupt signal at predetermined time intervals, and a monitoring timer reset by a reset signal generated by the CPU in response to the interrupt signal. An abnormality is sensed on the basis of expiration of time in the monitoring timer. A flag for resetting the monitoring timer during a first processing started b...

It was previously thought that brewers' yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, was incapable of employing mannitol or sorbitol as a source of carbon during propagation in a catabolite derepressive mode. The invention is based on the discovery that many strains of S. cerevisiae can in fact employ mannitol and/or sorbitol in this way. Simple tests reveal those strains that are suitable. Positive action is...