PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the development of a large-scaled crack at a vertically crossing point of scribed lines. SOLUTION: The scribing method for formation of a vertical crack on a base plate by a thermal strain caused by a radiation of a laser beam upon the base plate of a brittle material is composed of a step in which a vertical crack is formed in a first direction and a succeeding st...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To fit and remove a seal preparation mechanism having auxiliary tools such as a shutter plate and an ironing plate by the one-touch operation, avoid the uneven load and smoothly move forward and backward, stabilize the forward and backward movement of a holding tool and improve the durability of the holding tool. SOLUTION: A lateral sealing mechanism 51A is provided with a sh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a storing device for a plastic deformation long member storage/takeup reel capable of suppressing partial deformation or nonuniformity in the deformation of a long member of plastic deformation even in the case the long member and a liner are superposed one over the other and stored upon taking up on the reel. SOLUTION: When a liner and a tread member unvulcanized ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tool composed of a circumferential face with chip grooves having high wear resistance and a core part having high toughness in high efficiency by executing extrusion while a region contg. hard material powder and moreover high in the content of a metallic binder is fed to a core part and a region low in that to a circumferential face and passing it through a chip...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To keep the negative pressure of a brake power assist by a simple configuration. SOLUTION: An automatic start-stop control device for engines, is provided with an engine controller 1 and a brake pedal position holding mechanism 2. The engine controller 1 inputs various kinds of signals, and outputs a control signal for automatic stop or restart to an engine when the above sig...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance response by quickly building up the magnetic flux by reducing the sum of the loss by leaked magnetic flux and eddy current. SOLUTION: An electromagnetic actuator 1 is composed of a first core 2, a fourth core 4 made in prismatic form, a needle 20, etc. Hereby, the working are of the needle becomes large, and the efficiency rises. Substantially the entire circumfere...

A hanging sun umbrella includes a column; an umbrella frame including a hanging arm; a movable hanging arm holder for movably attaching the hanging arm to the column; a pull arm extending from the column above the hanging arm holder, wherein the hanging arm, the hanging arm holder, and the pull arm provide a cantilevered shape to the umbrella frame; a crank lift provided on the column to move the ...

The present invention relates to umbrellas having various canopy shapes which shapes can be altered during use. A multiple position rib formed of a telescoping rib girder in combination with a hub slide assembly with multiple hubs allow the umbrella to be opened to two or more functional positions. An embodiment is an umbrella that can be used as a car shade having two open canopy configurations. ...

That end of a ski boot which is retained by the boot-retaining unit is retained such that it can be disengaged in the sideways direction and vertical direction. Upon sideways movement of the ski boot within a range of elasticity of the boot-retaining unit, the ski boot is rendered capable of moving increasingly in the upward direction, strong forces in the upward direction producing a force compon...

A mold for a pneumatic tire includes a plurality of mold sections that cooperate to form an annular mold. Each of the mold sections has a body with an inner surface. The body defines at least one longitudinal groove that opens at the inner surface. The body defines at least one longitudinal groove that opens at the inner surface. The groove has a mouth and a body with the width of the mouth being ...

The present invention provides a tire vulcanizing equipment capable of improving the production cycle by miniaturization of idle time of each device and shortening of carrying time, reducing the cost by simplification of the device and space saving, and smoothing the physical distribution line. This vulcanizing equipment comprises vulcanizing stations C consisting of the arrangement of a plurality...

An apparatus and a process for catheter ablation, with an ablation catheter and, associated with this, a connection to a high frequency generator, to a controlled or to a regulated high frequency ablation equipment, wherein the catheter has at least one electrode for the ablation of tissue by irradiation of ablating power, preferably of high frequency power and preferably at least one temperature ...

A method for forming dendritic metal powders, comprising the steps of: (1) heating a powder comprising non-dendritic particles, under conditions suitable for initial stage sintering, to form a lightly sintered material; and (2) breaking the lightly sintered material to form a powder comprising dendritic particles. In one embodiment, the lightly sintered material is broken by brushing the material ...

Disclosed is a biaxially oriented polyester film that is 7.0 GPa or more in either the Young's modulus in the machine direction (YmMD) or in the transverse direction (YmTD), and in the range of 55° to 85° in the circumferential half-width of the diffraction line from the crystal plane in the direction of the polyester's backbone chain that is determined through crystal orientation analysis by wide...

Compact and preferably cellular polyurethane elastomers are prepared by reactinga) relatively high molecular weight polyhydroxyl compounds and if desired,b) low molecular weight chain extenders and/or crosslinkers withc) phenylene 1,4-diisocyanate (p-PDI) and at least one additional aromatic diisocyanate selected from the group consisting of tolylene diisocyanate, diphenylmethane diisocyanate, 3,3...

In a first aspect, the invention provides a diol latex composition comprising:(a) latex polymer particles comprising a residue of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, wherein the latex polymer particles have a size below 1000 mn;(b) a surfactant; and(c) a continuous liquid phase comprising a diol component, wherein the diol component comprises from 60 to 100% by weight of the continuous phase,whe...

Apparatus for inspecting a container having an open mouth and a closed bottom spaced from the container mouth, while the container is hot from its manufacture, includes a light sensor disposed with respect to the container to view the container bottom through the container mouth. Infrared light energy emitted from the container bottom that travels through the container mouth is directed onto the l...

A intruder detection system is described comprising a programmable alarm control panel capable of issuing an alarm signal representative of an intruder in a protected zone wherein the control panel is electrically coupled to a plurality of sensors by both a commonly connected status line and individual zone signaling lines between the panel and each sensor. The control panel is capable of providin...

An automated inspection system particularly adapted for detection and discrimination of surface irregularities of specularly reflecting and other materials, such as are employed in laminate chip carriers and printed circuit boards, includes an area scan image sensor allowing illumination sources to surround an area of a surface being inspected. The illumination source preferably provides either or...

In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transitioning a mobile machine from a first path to a second path within a work area includes selecting from among one or more transition schemes, wherein the transitions schemes are composed of one or more interim paths between the first path and the second path. The desired transition scheme is chosen by evaluating one or more performance ...