PURPOSE:To contrive reduction in the stem consumption by a method wherein the steam condensate, which condenses in a vulcanizer, is extracted under high temperature and high pressure in order to re-use as a low-pressure preforming steam. CONSTITUTION:After being prepressed, high-pressure inert gas is supplied from a high-pressure inert gas storage tank T4 to a vulcanizer MA for dwelling under pres...

PURPOSE:To aim at stabilization in a torque characteristic, by installing an expansion chamber filled with gas, and also installing a free piston, separating the gas from viscous liquid and being shiftable to either side, between the expansion chamber and a liquid chamber. CONSTITUTION:A lot of clutch plates 15 at the output shaft side are installed inside the casing 10 tightly attached to an outp...

PURPOSE:To decrease incurring of the power loss of a pump, by a method wherein an oil pressure in the oil pressure control device of an automatic transmission is controlled and set depending upon the intensity of the temperature of intake air from an engine. CONSTITUTION:A means is provided for detecting the temperature of intake air from an engine. Means is provided for controlling and setting an...

PURPOSE:To reduce production of transmission shock and to improve durability of a frictional engaging device, by a method wherein an oil pressure in the oil pressure control device of an automatic transmission is controlled and set in linkage with the selection value of the supercharge pressure of a supercharging means. CONSTITUTION:A supercharging means, capable of selecting a supercharge pressur...

PURPOSE:To reduce production of transmission shock, by a method wherein the releasing timing of a one-way clutch is detected, and from that point of time, a working fluid pressure fed to a friction element is controlled to a proper value. CONSTITUTION:A release timing detecting means 104 is provided for detecting the release timing of a one-way clutch 101, and an output from the means 104 is input...

PURPOSE:To prevent the occurrence of vibration at the time of sudden load change of an engine by providing a response valve, which increases the pressure in a lockup control chamber when the changes in oil pressure in response to the engine load exceed a prescribed value, in a torque converter. CONSTITUTION:When a converter pressure Pc changing in response to engine loads changes suddenly, the spo...

PURPOSE:To facilitate electric processing and to improve resolution and response by counting output-side pulses which are included in a specific input-side angle and finding a change gear ratio. CONSTITUTION:A belt type stepless change gear 1 is provided with a main pulley 4 and a subordinate pulley 5 which are variable in pulley interval on an input shaft 2 and an output shaft 3. Input rotation i...

PURPOSE:To prevent a steam turbine from being applied an excessive thermal stress and promote a prolongation of the turbine life, by obtaining a thermal stress of the steam turbine, allowing said thermal stress not to exceed a predetermined limit value and controlling a load of the plant. CONSTITUTION:In the combined-cycle generating plant which performs an operation of the combined use of a gas t...

A transmission includes a hydrodynamic transmission, such as a torque convertor or a fluid coupling, connectable to a drive source and driving an infinitely variable V-belt transmission having primary and secondary pulleys each constructed of two conical pulley discs. The drive ratio of the V-belt transmission is controlled by a pressure cylinder which adjusts the axial position of one of the pull...

A signal from the speed sensor is extracted at a time period which is later than that for detecting a signal from the engine load sensor by a predetermined amount of time. The speed signal thus obtained is used to decide whether or not shifting of the automatic transmission is necessary, so that any incorrect changeover between two or more shift patterns or shifting between two or more of shift po...

PURPOSE:To attain the improvement of drivability in a slope by discriminating a slope steeper than a fixed value on the basis of the detected signal from a running slope detector provided in a car for the porpose of releasing the overdrive of a transmission gear. CONSTITUTION:This device is constructed of a rotational frequency detector 10 to detect the running speed of an automobile, a speed-chan...

In shutting down a combined power plant, a steam turbine is first shutdown while operation of a gas turbine at high load is being continued, and the steam generated in a waste heat recovery boiler is passed on to a condenser through a bypass system bypassing the steam turbine. The gas turbine is then shutdown when this condition prevails, and gland sections of the steam turbine receive a supply of...

PURPOSE:To suppress a progress of wear in life of the rotor when in a rapid change of the load, by operating at first a rapid load change of the gas turbine, at a time, and after the change of the steam temperature reaches a prescribed value, changing the load one by one by bypassing the output steam. CONSTITUTION:At time t1, with a steam temperature change after ST the first stage reaching DELTAT...

PURPOSE:To enable a changeover operation of the initial pressure control without changes of a steam pressure or a sudden change of an opening degree of the control valve in the steam turbine device, by allowing an output signal of the initial pressure controller to follow up an output signal of the speed governor controller when the steam turbine device is controlled by the speed governor controll...

PURPOSE:To obtain stabilized pressure control characteristics, by preventing hunting of the regulating valve by setting a function having hysteresis characteristics for the steam turbine load to control the inlet pressure of the regulating valve of the steam turbine. CONSTITUTION:In a combined-cycle power plant whose main machinery is composed of a gas turbine generator 2, steam turbine generator ...

PURPOSE:To simplify the assembling of a transmission mechanism by holding the outer lateral surface of the outer race of a bearing which supports the rear part of an input shaft, by means of a bearing retainer attached to a partition wall in a transmission case. CONSTITUTION:In order to hold a bearing 4 supporting the rear part of an input shaft 3 for preventing the bearing 4 from slipping out to...

Computerized tomographic apparatus is described in which a radiation source and an associated detector array execute, concomitantly, reciprocating lateral scanning movements and rotational scanning movements relative to a patient's body, the scanning movements being effected in the plane of a cross-sectional slice of the body which intersects the patient's heart. The patient is located so that the...