A control system for a limited-slip differential gear unit is cooperative with a traction control system to provide better vehicle driving stability. The control system for a limited-slip differential gear unit is capable of optimizing driving torque transmission characteristics for improving cornering stability of the vehicle. The limited-slip differential gear unit control system, according to t...

An apparatus for severing (collar) blanks from a web of material is disclosed. Knife rollers (10) which are provided with knife edges (17) are used to sever blanks of (thin) cardboard from a web. A knife roller (10) is pressed against a counter roller (11). For this purpose, there are provided resiliently adjustable pressure elements (30). The pressure is exerted on the counter roller (11) in the ...

A transmission apparatus for four-wheel drive includes a transfer mechanism for adjusting for the difference between rotating forces applied to front and rear wheels of a vehicle. A differential gear is coupled with a transmission, and the transfer mechanism is coupled with the differential gear. An annular oil sealing portion is provided on a shaft of the transfer mechanism to partition and separ...

A two-piece bracket assembly for mounting an appliance on a flat surface. One of the pieces is J-shaped, with the large wall portion to be secured to a flat surface. A T-shaped member secured to an appliance connects with the bracket to hold the appliance in place.

A heel unit of a ski binding has a housing (12) which is resiliently rearwardly deflectably mounted on the ski. A sole clamp (13) having a hold-down member (13') and a pedal element (13''), and also a hand-opening lever (15) are pivotably mounted about a transverse axis (14) in each case. The sole clamp (13) is biased by a release spring (16) into a closed position via a transmission (17, 18) havi...

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

The invention pertains to drip retardant flexible polyurethane foams prepared by the reaction of an isocyanate with a polyol resin containing a drip retardant made of either a trialkyl end-capped amine functional silicone polymer or a trialkly end-capped carbinol functional silicone polymer to effectively prevent the foam from dripping while burning and encourage char formation.

An optical inspection system for patterned semiconductor wafers generates a dark field image of the wafer by applying a collimated beam of monochrome light at an incident angle with respect to the surface of the wafer of between 8 DEG and a maximum angle defined by the numerical aperture of the imaging system and collecting the light which is scattered at angles approximately normal to the surfac...

La presente invención se refiere a un proceso para preparar una espuma rígida, de celdas cerradas, a base de poliisocianato, que comprende poner en contacto y hacer reaccionar un poliisocianato orgánico con un compuesto que contiene hidrógeno activo, en presencia de agua y un agente soplador, caracterizado porque el agente soplador comprende uno o más compuestos de halogenocarbono que tienen un pu...

La presente invención se refiere a un proceso para preparar una espuma rígida, de celdas cerradas, a base de poliisocianato que comprende hacer reaccionar un poliisocianato orgánico con un compuesto que contiene hidrógeno activo, en presencia de un agente soplador, caracterizado dicho proceso porque el agente soplador comprende a) de 40 a 95 por ciento molar, con base en los componentes a9 y b) de...

A heel piece for a safety ski binding is provided comprising a support member in the form of a slide member on which is pivotally mounted a sole holder having a pedal, a sole engaging portion and an interior cam surface configured to cooperate with a bearing member or cam follower which engages the cam surface. The cam follower is supported by a bearing lever having an axis of rotation near the up...

A process for the removal of sulfur oxides from a gas which comprises (a) contacting the sulfur oxide-containing gas with at least one of certain metal, oxygen-containing components, e.g., modified perovskite-type components, at conditions effective to associate at least a portion of the sulfur oxides with the component to reduce the amount of sulfur oxides in the gas; and (b) contacting the compo...

A sofa bed having a friction damper on the main angle of the bed frame, which prevents the front tube and front legs of the frame from rapidly swinging forward as the frame is opened to prevent injury to the operator.

PCT No. PCT/SE87/00266 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 22, 1991 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 22, 1991 PCT Filed May 29, 1987 PCT Pub. No. WO87/07348 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 3, 1987.A differential gear has a housing which is rotatably driven and which contains the shafts of differential planet wheels for rotation with the housing. The planet wheels are freely rotatable per se and are associated with meshing side wheels rot...

Disclosed herein is an exercise device. It includes an I shaped base; a seat of a first length; a pad of a second length, the pad being at least 1/5 the length of the seat. The pad is adjustably located with respect to the seat. Further there are adjustable support means attached between said seat and said base. With this construction, the seat may be angularly adjusted with respect to the base an...

A process for producing a fiber-rubber composite comprising: a polyester fiber treated with (1) an adhesive composition (AR) consisting mainly of a latex (A) of a vinylpyridine-conjugated diene type copolymer containing a vinylpyridine unit in an amount of not less than 20 % by weight but not more than 70 % by weight and a resorcinol-formaldehyde resin and then with (2) an adhesive composition (BR...

Polyolefin resin compositions and oriented microporous films prepared from same comprising an ethylene-propylene block copolymer having an ethylene content of about 10 to about 50 wt%, a propylene homopolymer or random propylene copolymer having up to about 10 wt% of a comonomer of ethylene or an alpha -olefin of 4 to 8 carbon atoms, and components selected from a low molecular weight polypropyle...

A hydrophobic silica is prepared by mixing and heating a mixture of (a) 100 weight parts wet-method silica and (b) 1 to 100 weight parts organopolysiloxane represented by the following average unit formula R<1>aR<2>bSiO(4-a-b)/2, wherein R<1> is a monovalent hydrocarbon group, R<2> is the hydrogen atom, a is from 1 to 3 inclusive, and b is from zero to 1 inclusive, with the provisos that a + b is ...

An oil-resistant, expandable styrene polymer contains a) from 10 to 90% by weight of uncrosslinked polystyrene and/or an uncrosslinked styrene copolymer containing at least 50% by weight of copolymerized styrene, b) from 10 to 90% by weight of a crosslinked styrene polymer which contains at least 0.1% by weight, but less than 2% by weight, of a copolymerized monomer having at least two olefinic do...

A resin composition which comprises (A) a saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, (B) a polyolefin resin, (C) a graft polymer obtained by grafting an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof to a polyolefin resin and reacting the adduct with a polyamide oligomer or polyamide, and (D) a hydrotalcite compound representable by the general formula MXAly(OH)2x+3y-2z(E)z.aH...