A studless pneumatic tire having excellent running performance of the tire on icy road surfaces. The tire has a plurality of block-shaped island portions (4) formed on a cylindrical tread (1) extending between a pair of sidewalls. The island portions (4) have laterally extending sipes (5) and are separated by a plurality of main grooves (2) extending in the circumferential direction as well as by ...

A polytetramethylene terephthalate (PTT) pre oriented yarn package which has 2 kg or more of PTT yarns laminated and satisfies the following requirements (1) to (3): the difference in diameter between the ear portion and central portion of the package is 0 to 5 mm, the difference in the stress of dry heat shrinkage between a yarn laminated at the ear portion and that laminated at the central porti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem with a conventional device that the cleaning of the clogging of a filter or the removal of solid at the inner surface of a rotary vessel is performed manually and the device is large in size and its transportation is difficult and to provide a centrifugal separator small in size and easy to transport by automatizing the removing work of the solid stuck on t...

PURPOSE:To provide a lead-acid battery in which an upper space of a plate can be reduced to the possible minimum level and a storage battery can be designed compactly and tab terminal soldering work can be facilitated. CONSTITUTION:Cells of a battery are partitioned by the first partition wall 21 partitioning in the center to divide a battery lengthwise direction into two parts and the second part...

PURPOSE:To provide a charging device and a battery jar forming device capable of stably and repeatedly using a charging wiring section for charging a battery and excellent in work efficiency and safety by polishing and washing the pressure contact face of the exciting terminal of the charging wiring section for charging the battery with a brush or the like. CONSTITUTION:A plurality of unformed lea...

PURPOSE:To provide a sealed lead-acid battery which can prevent a dropping active material from causing a short circuit without increasing costs even if plates using expanded metal gratings with no outer frames on the plate side of the battery are incorporated into the battery. CONSTITUTION:An assembly 4 of plates, which comprises cathode 6 and anode 5 plates using gratings with no outer frames on...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the dispersion in position of the connecting part between a lug part and an expanded part by detecting the position of the mesh of the expanded part to change the feed quantity in an expanded metal grating to be continuously formed. SOLUTION: The projection part 2a of a disc-like projection 2 is fitted to the mesh of an expanded part. When an expanded metal grating ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve durability of a clutch while preventing fastening shock and delay in a rise of driving force. SOLUTION: This controller is provided with a motor 4 which is connected to a driving wheel 8 and mainly propels a vehicle, an engine 2 connected to the motor 4 through a clutch 3, and a motor 1 which is connected to the engine 2 and mainly starts it or generates its power....

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To correct drive torque according to a change of an inertia based engagement and disengagement of a clutch and to prevent the occurrence of a fluctuation of an drive feeling. SOLUTION: A clutch is located between an engine and a motor and a vehicle is driven through a transmission by one or both of an engine and a motor according to the engagement and disengagement of the clu...

Polymers of aromatic diacids and 2-methylpentamethylenediamine are prepared in the presence of formic acid. The formic acid reduces the tendency of the 2-methylpentamethylenediamine to cyclize.

PURPOSE: To make the control before a vehicle going to advance into a curve and the control after the vehicle advances smoothly continuous, regarding the road status corresponding controller of the vehicle giving an alarm to a driver before the vehicle advances into the curve, controlling the running state of the vehicle and performing a trace control after the vehicle advances into the curve. CON...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control a vehicle to a speed state corresponding to a forward road state by controlling the vehicle to an optimum speed at the time of entering into a curve in respect to a control device corresponding to the automobile forward road state suitable for controlling driving torque so that the vehicle can enter into a curve at a required speed. SOLUTION: The control device is ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrict dispersion of high efficiency discharge capacity at a low temperature by specifying the average molecular weight of lignin sulfonate and the factor of sulfonation. SOLUTION: The average molecular weight of lignin sulfonate used in the present negative pole plate is defined to be 4,000 to 10,000 and a sulfonation factor to be 90% or more, then dispersion of high ef...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly perform acceleration in the case of lane change to a higher traffic lane so as to properly and rapidly candy out follow-up travel control after the lane change by allowing variation of timing for follow-up travel control to the higher traffic lane in compliance with a lane changing speed of an objective vehicle in a follow-up control means. SOLUTION: In a straight ...

The invention relates to household devices for carrying receptacles provided with a neck, in particular bottles. The aim of the invention is to extend the inventory of technical means used for carrying bottles and to develop a simple producible and handy demountable holder for carrying bottles. The inventive holder for carrying bottles between fingers is embodied in the form of a plate made of an ...

Production of an antibiotic coating on a porous body comprises impregnation with a solution of gentamicin dodecyl sulfate or sulfonate (I) and evaporation of the solvent, where (I) has 1-5 dodecyl sulfate or sulfonate groups per gentamicin molecule. Independent claims are also included for: (1) a process for producing an antibiotic coating on a porous body, comprising impregnation with a solution ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a forged piece body for a nozzle piece for gas pressure welding, which has a new structure by which a prescribed range including the butt pressure welding surface parts of reinforcing bars to be subjected to gas pressure welding and its vicinity, can be surely heated, a new manufacturing method for the nozzle piece for gas pressure welding using the forged piece bo...

The sample material (F) is illuminated and the light reflected from the sample material is measured, the presence of foreign matter being deduced from a change in the reflected light. In order to detect foreign matter which is darker than the sample material (F), the sample material is imaged on a sensor (5) in front of a bright background (4), and in order to detect brighter foreign matter, it is...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the productivity of program development by securing the independency of mediators and, specially, to dynamically alter a mediator hierarchical structure corresponding to the hierarchical structure of GUI components by using inheritance when the hierarchical structure of the GUI components is inherited. SOLUTION: Components (mediator) are defined by putting operatio...

An image detection apparatus (10) having an illumination system (IS) irradiates light onto the surface (30S) of an object 30 to be inspected for defects. A detection optical system (34) condenses the light from the surface and forms an image of the surface on an image detector (48). The detection optical system includes a receiving mirror (38) having an optical axis (A38) that intersects the refer...