A method and a device for cutting an edge strip in a web by means of a water jet against a felt or wire of a paper machine for the threading of the web, whereby the end of the web is passed through the paper machine by means of the edge strip cut in the web, the edge strip being narrower than the web. In order to prevent the felt or wire from getting wet or being choked, the water jet is displaced...

Procedure for producing a fibre board or filament path, especially for use in insulation materials, which entails that fibre board or filament path preferably compressed to the desired thickness is passed through a warm roller with a continuous, possibly pattern-printing band, and is there warmed to a temperature that surpasses the softening temperature of the fibres, and under further transport i...

PURPOSE:To always properly control an output at the time of braking with an automatic clutch disconnected by controlling an engine output in a manner wherein the lower is a car speed the higher the engine output is increased at the braking time in accordance with the car speed it the time of starting braking a vehicle by a foot brake. CONSTITUTION:A vehicle is provided with an automatic clutch (c)...

A running state control system having running state control means for controlling a running state of a vehicle, in which a control target quantity thereof is set different according to a steering angle, comprises steering angle detecting means for detecting the steering angle, and steering angle changing means for changing the steering angle detected by the steering angle detecting means into a fi...

Web, drawn intermittently from roll A, e.g. by packaging apparatus D, is formed into a U-shape in suction device C, which includes a loop sensor 3a controlling a device i which feeds web to device C. The vertical extent of the U-shape is thus kept constant and web tension downstream of device G is controlled. Device C comprises a rectangular-section, open-topped box, suction being applied at port ...

The invention comprises a detector arrangement adjustable for inclusion in a preventive protective system for a process plant comprising at least two sensor units (10, 10'), a unit (16a, 16b) for evaluating the output signal of each sensor unit and a calculation unit (17) capable of co-operating with the evaluating units (16a, 16b), the output signals of which calculation unit can cause an activat...

A method and apparatus for determining the optimum location for implanting a muscle stimulating electrode. A test probe is provided for producing an electric current at various muscle tissue locations to determine comparative threshold measurements of the selected muscle tissue locations and determine the optimum location for implanting the muscle stimulating electrode.

A method for measuring the concentration of a reagent in a reaction mixture including the steps of: adding dye to a reagent until the dye is at a given concentration in the reagent; mixing the reagent with a reaction mixture comprising a sample which reacts with the reagent to form a reaction product; measuring the formation of reaction product at a first spectral region; measuring the concentrati...

An inorganic thin film polarizer having polarization characteristics comprises: a matrix for thin film polarizer composed of fine columns thereof arranged on a substrate; and light absorbing portions provided on the columns. The columns are made of inorganic substance which is transparent in the desired wavelength region of light such as the visible light region, ultraviolet region and infrared re...

The invention is a modular and hierarchically organized set of computer programs which comprise methods for controlling a system of semi-autonomous automatically guided vehicles, such as mobile robots. The methods include control programs which: execute in stationary control computers; communicate between the stationary control computer programs and corresponding programs which execute in mobile c...

PURPOSE:To prepare an org. electroluminescent element high in luminance and long in lifetime by using an aminoquinoline complex contg. two specific structures in a specified relationship as a luminous substance. CONSTITUTION:An electroluminescent element using an aminoquinoline complex as a luminous substance, wherein the complex has a steric structure composed of a facial structure and a meridion...

An adhesive polyester film which comprises a biaxially oriented polyester film base layer and an adhesive layer and which is particularly useful as a base layer for a sublimation-type thermosensitive image transfer recording material. This base layer has no point at which the gradient of its temperature-dimensional change curve changes from a positive value to a negative value when temperature is ...

Processes for spray-drying water-soluble and water-swellable vinyl-addition polymer-containing dispersions, emulsions and microemulsions to obtain substantially dry water-soluble or water-swellable polymer particles, compositions of substantially dry water-soluble or water-swellable polymer particles, methods of agglomerating spray-dried polymer particles, and methods of using spray-dried polymer ...

A communication system for transmitting accounting instructions has central and decentralized devices. Accounting instructions input by individual users at the decentralized devices are checked for authenticity and retransmitted to the central devices to be processed. According to the invention, the communication system has at least virtually networked devices, means of an independent second commu...

PURPOSE:To make it possible to bond an oxide superconductor to a semiconductor with a high degree of quality by a method wherein a very thin metallic film is formed by deposition on a basement of a semiconductor as a flat two-dimensional layer in the order of an atomic layer; thereafter an oxide conductive film is formed on this very thin film in an atmosphere of oxygen in a condition where the ba...

PURPOSE:To provide an oxide thin film with which the morphology of orientational properties, ruggedness, etc., of the interface between a substrate and an oxide superconductor layer or between an oxide superconductor layer and a barrier layer can be enhanced up to an atomic layer level. CONSTITUTION:The thin film has a composition substantially represented by the composition formula (RE1-xAEx)CuO3...

A device for operating the accelerator of an automobile by drivers deprived of the use of their legs and consisting at least of a control ring (6, 22) set coaxially with the steering wheel (1) and fixed to it with regard to rotation but with the possibility of axial displacement to actuate the accelerator through a linkage (15 - 21) fixed around the steering column (4), the control ring (6, 22) be...

Weathering-resistant, clear films (sheets) having a thickness of from 0.05 to 1 mm comprising a transparent, impact-resistant plastic, containing A) from 10 to 90% by weight of a coherent hard phase having a glass transition temperature of above 70 degrees C, B) from 90 to 10% by weight of a tough phase having a glass transition temperature of below -10 degrees C, a mean particle size of less th...