A control apparatus for use in an intermal combustion engine system of a motor vehicle equipped with an automatic transmission having therein a lock-up mechanism. There is included a vehicle resonance reducing section for controlling an opening degree of a throttle valve when the motor vehicle is in an acceleration state so as to reduce a vehicle resonance accompanying an operation of the engine. ...

PURPOSE:To provide a lead acid battery excellent in weight efficiency. CONSTITUTION:In a lead-acid battery formed by adding electron conductive carbon whiskers or graphite whiskers to a negative electrode active material, apparent density of the negative electrode active material is 2.2-3.0. In the lead-acid battery formed by adding the electron conductive carbon whiskers or graphite whiskers to t...

PURPOSE:To provide a sealed lead-acid battery by which a utilization factor of an active material can be heightened and which has the long service life resistant to stress in the thickness direction. CONSTITUTION:A sealed lead-acid battery has a plastic film 1, thin films 3 and 3', a positive electrode active material layer 5 and a negative electrode active material layer 6. The thin films 3 and 3...

PURPOSE:To insert an element simply at high speed into a battery jar, and improve productivity of a battery by inserting the element into the battery jar while vibrating the element or the battery jar by an ultrasonic wave. CONSTITUTION:An ultrasonic wave oscillator 9 is loaded on a cover 8, and while oscillating an ultrasonic wave, downward force is given from above the oscillator 9 by hands or t...

At each work station of a textile machine producing wound bobbins, the yarn package on which yarn is wound is driven by a friction roller. In contrast to the conventional driving of the roller by a gear motor flanged to the housing of the work station, which has the disadvantage of requiring space and difficulty in removing and replacing the friction roller for maintenance, the present invention s...

The radiological system includes a filter system between the X-ray tube and radiation reception cassette. The filter unit is fitted with a compensation module (13) which compensates for the differential absorption of the human body in the region of the head down to the femoral neck for a subject sat in profile on a seat. The compensation module (13) is mounted on a rotatable support (9) which can ...

PURPOSE:To make the brightness of the image of a pellet edge uniform by a method wherein the pellet edge is irradiated with parallel rays and, at the same time, an edge recessed part is irradiated with focused rays. CONSTITUTION:Rays of light from a fiber light source 220 are converged through a plano-concave lens 223d in a lens tube part via a light-source lens 221 anal a hood, and they are chang...

PURPOSE:To provide an exception processor capable of removing a specific exception processing time and a processing cycle to be required after operation, attaining high speed exception processing and simplying the control of an arithmetic processor. CONSTITUTION:The exception processor is constituted of an exception forecasting circuit 100 for forecasting an exception to be generated as the comput...

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING PLY STOCK A method and apparatus for manufacturing a strip of ply or belt stock reinforced with steel monofilaments fed from a plurality of reels (60,60',60'') mounted on the spindles (54) of a reel support structure (18). The article of manufacture which results from the method is a uniform strip of reinforced ply or belt stock of higher epi, smaller gauge a...

PURPOSE:To produce a superconducting wire which little deteriorates in critical current characteristic in a magnetic field by filling a superconducting material in a superconductive sheath and attaching magnetic material powder on surface of the superconductive sheath. CONSTITUTION:A billet filled with a superconductor 1 is passed through a die for drawing, so that a bypass conductor is reed form,...

PURPOSE:To make a junction part combined strength with heat resistance and ductility while avoiding the heat deterioration in an insulating film and a bonding agent. CONSTITUTION:Within the title compound lead frame and manufacturing method thereof, the junction part of an outer lead and inner lead is composed of an interface comprising Au-Su alloy containing Au exceeding 40wt.% and a fillet part ...

The invention relates to a system for positioning and locking removable component holders. With a machining spindle of large diameter and short length the system makes it possible, without dismantling, to grind all the bores, faces and chamfers of a component on a numerically controlled machine. The system eliminates all the time wasted as a result of changing the manufacture or to centring the co...

A method of bonding a silicone elastomer to a substrate which comprises treating the surface of the substrate with a cleaning agent which is a polydiorganosiloxane, for example a polydimethylsiloxane, and thereafter applying to the treated surface a room temperture curing silicone elastomer-forming composition. The method finds particular application in the construction industry for the bonding of...

The process applies to large commercial centres or supermarkets where samples of goods for sale are displayed on appropriate racks or shelves. Customers select desired goods electronically, generating a list of total requirements. Appropriate payment may be made by electronic means in accordance with the said list. Goods are collected together in a warehouse inaccessible to the customer and delive...

PCT No. PCT/FR92/00171 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 23, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 23, 1992 PCT Filed Feb. 25, 1992 PCT Pub. No. WO92/14544 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 3, 1992.An ionically gellable material is gelled with a metal cation and the metal cation content of the gel is reduced to provide the gel with binding sites not occupied by the metal cation so the gel can be used to bind and remove metal cations from...

PURPOSE: To automatically find the position of a boundary between an unexposed area being a shadow projected by an X-ray opaque member in an X ray picture and the picture area of an object by including a specific process. CONSTITUTION: This method for judging the position of a signal/shielded shadow part boundary in an X-ray picture is constituted of the following processes. That is, low level pri...

PURPOSE:To electrically and mechanically connect and fix a connection pin to a substrate completely by a method wherein the title electromagnetic apparatus is provided with a coil bobbin where a coil is wound, a mounting pin, a mounting hole, and a connection pin, which is inserted in the mounting hole almost in parallel with the mounting pin in a freely advancing or retreating manner, are provide...

A wideband tunable monolithic inductor has a conical construction that presents very low parasitic capacitances. The frequency response of the inductor is determined by the diameter of the smallest coil at the tip for high frequency cutoff and by the total inductance for low frequency cutoff.

PURPOSE:To make a device high in brightness, high in reliability, small in size and low in power consumption by providing a light shielding hood shielding the display of a liquid crystal from external light and a heating means holding the liquid crystal at an operational temperature in the inside of the hood. CONSTITUTION:When the liquid crystal pannel 1 arrives at the operational temperature, a l...

PURPOSE:To prevent forgetting the turning off of power source in a sleep mode as it is and to prevent the miss in the turning on of power source in the sleep mode as it is also and to inform the methods of continuing/revising/ending operation to a person whose restores it but is not a former user as well at the time of restoring from the sleep mode. CONSTITUTION:This system is provided with a liqu...