PURPOSE:To improve the selectivity of the spring constant by fitting the spring member between the washer and the retainer fixed on the push-screw shaft. CONSTITUTION:When the engine is started, the rotating speed increases, and the centrifugal clutch 22 is connected, torque is applied to the output shaft 26. Then, the housing 37 is also rotated but the thrust wheel 13 stays still, so that the pu...

PURPOSE:To eliminate the feelings of engine braking, by continuing the disengagement of a lock-up clutch even if the temperature of an engine exceeds a predetermined value during a vehicle running in an engaging range, and by engaging the lock-up clutch only when the running mode is shifted from the disengaging range into the engaging range. CONSTITUTION:Even if the temperature Tw of an engine exc...

PURPOSE:To prevent oil from sticking to a timing belt, by disposing a seal member between the circumference of a hole in the wall surface of a cylinder head and a plate of a timing belt casing, and by forming, in the above-mentioned seal member, a cut-out for leading oil leaking from the hole, to the outside of the casing. CONSTITUTION:A timing belt 16 is wound on a pulley 14 attached to the free ...

A method of operating a multiple-electromagnet arrangement (eg for a fuel-injection valve) is proposed in which, to shift the armature(s) from one position to another, exclusively switch-off operations of the electromagnet(s) are used. In a device for implementing the method, circuit elements (106, 105; Figs. 6; 7) are provided which produce a current-fall time shorter than the current-rise time o...

The invention relates to an improved method and apparatus for forming metallized iron by direct reduction of particulate iron oxide. The spent reduction gas is recycled from the reduction furnace (10) through a cooler- scrubber (34) and a catalytic gas reformer (38). In the cooler scrubber (34), the spent reducing gas interacts with scrub water. Dust having an affinity for sulfur is recovered from...

Gas supply passages can be formed accurately in a ceramic member by a ceramic member machining method comprising irradiating laser beams to a ceramic member thereby forming gas supply passages in the member.

Improved apparatus of the type comprising inside a fixed enclosure, a rotary assembly constituted by a treatment rotor with apertured discs angularly offset one with respect to the other, upstream by a rotary distributor and downstream by a fan with optional interposition of a rotary rectifier. According to the invention, the apparatus comprises between the discs and the fixed part of the enclosur...

Disclosed herein is a medical equipment supporting device comprising a support pole and a polyarticulated arm supported by said support pole and adapted to support a medical equipment by said polyarticulated arm, characterized in that a brake disc is fitted in a rotary shaft of at least one of joints of the polyarticulated arm, and inside of an arm element of the polyarticulated arm are provided b...

The thread catching and severing ring structure includes a ring element which is press fit onto a second ring element. The first ring element has a plurality of projections which overlie a groove on the second ring element. The projections and groove are sized so that a thread can be guided into the groove and thereafter into a gap between a land on the second ring element and a projection on the ...

An opto-electronic scanning head for drum and flat bed scanning apparatus for point-by-point and line-by-line scanning of opaque and transparent originals which are illuminated point-by-point. The housing of the scanning head 7 has a front panel 9 which is displaceable along the optical axis 12 of the scanning objective lens 11 and has a housing part which is stationary with respect to the optical...

An improved device for splicing spinning slivers consists of a plurality of fork-shaped elements which are arranged in succession and the fork axes of which are rotated at an angle of 60 to 120 DEG relative to one another, which are arranged movably in the direction of the fork axis, and which have, within the fork branches, an air-guide channel and, on the fork inner faces, nozzle bores which can...

In an apparatus for controlling a vehicle clutch which is located between an internal combustion engine and a transmission device whose gear shift position is determined in accordance with the operating position selected by a selector, the apparatus comprises a control signal generator which determines the operating pattern for engaging the clutch in response to at least a position signal showing ...

The invention relates to a process for generating gas from carbonaceous fuels in a iron bath reactor. According to the teaching of the parent application P 3,031,680.4, the gases generated in the molten iron of the reactor are extracted in the reactor space above the melt by oxygen blown onto the bath surface of the iron bath reactor, entrained to the bath surface and partially burned, the heat ge...

The incidence of peritonitis is reduced in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis by irradiating the peritoneum access tube connection with ultraviolet (UV) radiation so as to have an antimicrobial effect on the fluid flow path defined thereby prior to draining and infusion of dialysis fluid therethrough. The apparatus for effecting UV irradiation of the dialysis fluid flow path includes a hous...

A novel method and device for performing percutaneous transluminal angioplasty to treat occlusive artery disease is disclosed. The method involves simultaneous measurement and display of the fluid pressure and volume existing within the balloon catheter as the procedure is performed. Information is produced which is useful in determining the efficacy of the procedure as it is performed which obvia...

A cotton candy making apparatus includes a hollow rotary member to be rotated, the rotary member being provided with a supply port for supplying sugar to the interior thereof and path for delivering molten sugar to a peripheral edge of the rotary member, a heating device located below the rotary member to heat the rotary member and hence heat and melt sugar in the rotary member, a fan for producin...

PCT No. PCT/JP84/00613 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 29, 1986 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 29, 1986 PCT Filed Dec. 24, 1984 PCT Pub. No. WO86/03700 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 3, 1986.A process for producing metal granules from a molten metal or molten alloy in a refractory vessel by dropping small globules of the melt into a coolant through a small-diameter nozzle provided at the bottom of said refractory vessel is disclos...

The present invention relates to a safety binding for a cross-country ski. In this binding, of the type comprising a longitudinal rib 3c bordered laterally by two longitudinal faces 2a, 2b which are approximately plane and capable of interacting with a groove in a boot sole 12, the rib 3c is independent and movable laterally with respect to the said longitudinal faces 2a, 2b, and it carries m...