A winding device for applying sealant material 123 in filamentary or tape form round the end of a pipe 131 comprises a retainer 121 for the sealant material and a projecting guide 120 which can be passed round the pipe end while the retainer is located forwardly of the pipe end. The guide may incorporate a cutter for the sealant material. The device may be a simple hand held device which is passes...

In a vehicle control system of this invention, a CVT ECU does not executes the calculations such as a gear ratio, etc., but simply controls the gear ratio of a CVT on the basis of the target gear ratio and a CVT input torque transmitted from a manager ECU by way of a communication line. Accordingly, when mounting a CVT unit constructed with the CVT and the CVT ECU in a vehicle, the vehicle control...

The device has a cutting edge (51), which is pressed through the moving foil material (20) in a rolling or slicing motion. The cutting edge is formed by the free edge section of a knife blade. A pressure member is pressed against the blade and moved along it, to cut through the foil. The foil moves between an anvil and the knife blade, and is fixed in position by under pressure. An elastically com...

The invention relates to a control device for a hybrid car having driving power variation part estimating means 140 of a power train controlling unit 100 estimating a driving power variation part at the time of change-speed switching. Driving power correcting means 150 increases the output of a dynamo-electric machine 19 so as thereby to correct the driving power variation part, on the basis of th...

A device (1; 30; 60; 90; 120; 140) for winding pipe sealant filamentary materials (12; 44, 65, 94; 123) onto a pipe (47; 70; 102; 132; 161) comprising: (a) a retainer (2; 31; 61; 121; 142) for retaining a length of filamentary material; and (b) an elongate dispensing aid (7; 32; 62; 92; 122; 141) projecting from said retainer, the dispensing aid comprising at least one guide (8; 51; 78; 107; 135) ...

A glass fiber separator material is disclosed. The separator is composed of a mass of intermeshed glass fibers substantially all of which have a fiber diameter not greater than about 20 mu m, and at least 5 percent w/w of which have a fiber diameter less than 1 mu m, and, distributed through the glass fibers, and from 0.2 percent w/w to 20 percent w/w of cellulose fibrils. The fibrils are from a...

The utility model relates to a piston type straight tube water level valve for a solar water heater. Two water inlets communicated with a straight pipe are bulged out of one side of the round straight pipe. The section of the straight pipe is inlaid with a valve port in the shape of a round table opening for staggering the two water inlets from top to bottom. A cavity body having a closed bottom i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to ensure the adhesion of a packaging film even if the film is run at a high speed and to lessen production loss so as to maintain a high yield by installing a temporally fixing section, film dissolving section and cooling and adhering section between a folding section and a cutting section. SOLUTION: A series of the packaging film 2 let-off from a film ro...

The present invention relates to a polypropylene resin composition containing about 90 to 60 parts by weight of a polypropylene block copolymer (A); and about 10 to 40 parts by weight of a polyethylene resin (B), wherein the polypropylene block copolymer is a polypropylene block copolymer which contains about 99 to 90% by weight of a crystalline polypropylene (a) and about 1 to 10% by weight of an...

The electrolyte is a mixture of two groups of material, A and B, material A contains sulfuric acid and small amount of phosphoric acid, lignosulphonic acid, lithium bromide and peregal; and material B contains sodium silicate solution and small amount of glycerol; and material A and material B are mixed in certain ratio before being poured into accumulator. It has the advantages of no pollution, n...

The production equipoment of the present invention includes successively rotating disk machine; rotatinig puncher with two meshed toothed stretching and shearing rotation wheels; net drawing machine with adjustable chain wheel, plate chain and adjustable tracks; leveling machine; paste painting machine; material feeding machine; slicing machine; lead paste pressing machine; surface drying furnacea...

An opposed pair of inwardly facing radiant energy detecting sensors (20, 22) is positioned to sight on freshly formed glass containers (C) being conveyed on a side by side pair of conveyors (12, 14) to determine if any of the containers is misoriented from its desired orientation. Each sensor has a sharply focused fiber and lens assembly (24) that is focused to sense radiant energy in a cone of vi...

The apparatus, which may be a lawn mower, vacuum cleaner, floor polisher or other vehicle to be operated autonomously, comprises a platform (28) having two independently-driven ground engaging drive wheels (2) positioned one at each side and a control device (14) for continuously controlling the wheel drive means (11, 12). Operation of the drive means (11, 12) causes the apparatus to progress over...

A highly reliable biosensor is provided which is reduced in influences of any interfering substance or preexisting oxygen in a sample solution. The biosensor comprises an electrode system including a working electrode (2), a counter electrode (4) and a third electrode (7) also usable as an interfering substance detecting electrode, a reagent layer containing at least an oxidoreductase and an elect...

An automobile includes a steering angle detector means (62), a television camera (2) that takes pictures of lanes ahead of the car, and a computer (5) for processing the images taken by the television camera. A reference line is obtained by processing the image of lane markers taken by the television camera. A cubic is approximated from the reference line, and a reference steering angle is determi...

A method and apparatus are disclosed for helping to assure the washing of a person's hands. An easily identifiable substance is provided which may be removed by washing. A marking mechanism is coupled with or contains the easily identifiable substance. A hand of the person is then marked with the easily identifiable substance when the marking mechanism is triggered. In one embodiment, a flush mech...

A method and apparatus are provided for inspecting glass containers for checks. The container finish is illuminated from the exterior and light reflected from a check is detected by the apparatus. In one embodiment, the glass container finish is inspected for horizontal and related diagonal checks and, in another, the glass container finish is inspected for vertical and related diagonal checks. Th...

Appareil de fabrication d'un renforcement pour pneumatique à partir d'un fil 4, coopérant avec une forme 1 sensiblement toroïdale sur laquelle on dépose des arceaux dudit fil selon une trajectoire souhaitée pour ledit fil à la surface de ladite forme, ledit appareil comprenant des organes de pose agencés sur support 30<4a>, les organes de pose comprenant un organe de guidage 6<4a> dans lequel le f...

Le fil (4), destiné à constituer un renforcement de carcasse, est déposé en arceaux contigus sur un noyau rigide (1), par un système à bras en cascade transportant un oeilleton (6) de façon à lui permettre de survoler un noyau (1) et ainsi déposer des arceaux adjacents. ; An oscillating arm apparatus for manufacturing a tire reinforcement from a single cord in which the cord is deposited in...

A power roller assembly for a toroidal-type CVT, including a pair of races formed with bearing surfaces opposed to each other, a plurality of rolling elements rotatably disposed between the races in contact with the bearing surfaces, and an iron phosphate-based coat formed on at least one of bearing surfaces.