Gas is produced in a ferrous bath reactor 20 containing an iron melt 21 by feeding solid or liquid carbonaceous fuel (e.g. coal) 24 into the reactor 20, and blowing an oxygen-containing gas from nozzles 26,27 onto the surface 22 of the melt to gasify the fuel. The gas is collected in a space 30 through which the gas from the nozzles 26,27 is blown. In traversing the gas space 30, the gas from the ...

PURPOSE:To satisfactory sustain the durability of a frictionally engaging device, by increasing the line pressure of a hydraulic control device only during an engine exhaust brake device being operated so that fuel consumption and gear shift feeling during normal travel are sustained. CONSTITUTION:A basic hydraulic pressure generated by an oil pump 12 is regulated by a primary regulator valve 14 t...

PURPOSE:To improve controllability and safety, by providing an urging means, which urges a subtransmission to its speed change position, and preventing the subtransmission from being held to its neutral condition, in the case of a work truck having a main transmission and the subtransmission. CONSTITUTION:A work truck of lawn mower or the like has a main transmission 7 of hydraulically operated co...

PURPOSE:To obtain the sensor which can detect even acceleration of a low level and a low frequency with high reliability and with high accuracy by constituting a signal processing part of a semiconductor circuit, and using a semiconductor substrate loaded therewith as one of the substrates for constituting the sensor. CONSTITUTION:Silicon substrates 1, 2 and 3 are laminated, and in the middle subs...

PURPOSE:To keep good contact between a current collector and a conductive electrolyte-holding layer to increase cycle life performance by forming the conductive electrolyte-holding layer with polytetrafluoroethylene and conductive powder. CONSTITUTION:An electrode group formed by stacking mutually one cathode plate 1 and two anode plates 2 and 2 with an interposed glass fiber separator 4 is insert...

PURPOSE:To properly select the traveling characteristic attaching importance to the power characteristic or that attaching importance to the fuel consumption by installing a supercharger which can vary the supercharge pressure and an automatic transmission which can vary the speed change point and varying the supercharge pressure and the speed change point in interlocking. CONSTITUTION:The opening...

PURPOSE:To improve a discharge retaining time and life characteristics by using an electrode plate specified respectively by a volume per the unit active substance of a hole having a desired fine pore diameter, the porosity of the whole active substance and the X ray diffraction peak ratio of alpha-PbO2 and beta-PbO2. CONSTITUTION:After being filled with paste, a lattice is first impregnated in a ...

PURPOSE:To remarkably increase workability, by turning the screw shaft as an initial preset for positioning so as to do the optimum heat-sealing for the distance between the cylinder on which articles fall down and the vertical sealer and further, making a slider to be transfersble to the front of a machine by one touch operation when inspecting the machine or adjusting the web to secure the initi...

PURPOSE:To simplify the constitution and facilitate the cleaning of an apron table, by putting together a winding up transmission device constituting a web feed means and a table device in a driving transmission system chamber and supporting the web feed means by a cantilever arm in the rear space of the cylinder on which articles fall down. CONSTITUTION:A web feed device 5 is provided with a tabl...

PURPOSE:To correct the output of a steering angle sensor and to detect the true angle of a steering wheel by providing a steering angle sensor, a yaw- motion detecting means, a steering angle estimating means and a steering angle correcting means. CONSTITUTION:A steering angle sensor 2 is attached to a steering wheel H. The output of the sensor 2 is inputted in a steering angle detecting device 1....

PURPOSE:To avoid sudden correction control for yaw movement by estimating a steering angle and gradually correcting the output value of a steering angle sensor within a fixed time according to an error between the estimated steering angle and the detected steering angle of the steering angle sensor. CONSTITUTION:A steering angle detecting device 1 is a computer and includes yaw movement detecting ...

PURPOSE:To get rid of a speed change shock while carry out rapid speed change by increasing an engine output simultaneously with the start of speed change at the time of down-shift speed change, temporarily lowering the output right before locking a one-way clutch and, then, gradually increasing the output. CONSTITUTION:An automatic transmission 104 is combined with an engine 102 and signals from ...

The invention relates to a blood centrifugation cell, comprising an outer rotatable container (1) delimiting a portion of space in which a body is provided which is rigidly connected therewith and is formed by two revolution walls (2,3) connected at the ends, a stationary joint (10) being provided at the top of the container (1) and comprising two conduits (11,12) which are coaxial to the joint, t...

The invention relates to a continuous blood centrifugation cell, comprising an outer rotating container (1) which accomodates a body, rigidly connected therewith and coaxial thereto and formed by two walls (2,3) joined at the ends, the outer container (1) carrying at its top portion a stationary joint (9) comprising conduits (10,11,12) which are coaxial to the stationary joint (9), the outer condu...

PURPOSE:To make it possible to smoothly manipulate speed change by operating a forward and backward change-over actuator with the use of return springs therefor in accordance with speed increasing manipulation of a speed change lever so that a forward and backward change-over mechanism changes over between forward and backward modes while a main clutch is engaged. CONSTITUTION:A speed change opera...

A method for attaching a diamond component to metal is described, wherein a layer of brazing material is provided at the interface between the diamond and the metal. A laser is used for heating the brazing material. The laser beam is focussed through the diamond at least substantially on the interface between the diamond and the metal. In one aspect, the invention is utilized in the manufacture of...

PCT No. PCT/EP94/04224 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 25, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 25, 1996 PCT Filed Dec. 19, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/17319 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 29, 1995A vehicle with superstructure is used to transport containers, boxes or other loads, especially beverage crates. Several loading boxes are directly or indirectly secured on both sides to a central support arranged in the upper region of the su...

PCT No. PCT/EP94/04126 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 25, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 25, 1996 PCT Filed Dec. 13, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/17255 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 29, 1995The set-up times can be optimized as well as the costs for the production of the individual parts can be decreased with a comminution machine, where the rotor (2) includes active and inactive wear parts (7, 8), of which at least the inactive w...

A blood filtration device (16) encapsulates a filter pad assembly (20) within a flexible housing (18). The filter pad assembly (20) includes first and second filter media layers (44, 46). A first heat and pressure sealed region (28) integrally bonds the peripheries of the first and second media layers (44, 46) together. The flexible housing (18) comprises a peripheral rim (34) aligned with the fir...

Inspection of a circuit board (10) to detect missing and misaligned active and passive surface-mounted components (12) and (14), respectively, is accomplished by first illuminating the board with top light to enhance the image of the passive components. The circuit board is then displaced, relative to a linescan camera (28) trained on the board, so that the camera captures the image of successive ...