Means for positioning an assembled bead for a tire which bead includes an inextensible bead core and an apex of an uncured curable rubbery compound which is easily deformed. The assembled bead is first located concentrically of the axis and in a plane perpendicular to the axis of a tire building drum. The bead is then carried from its first location, supported only by the apex, to axial registry a...

PURPOSE:To improve drive feeling by providing the time lag for increasing the engine revolution speed to the speed corresponding to a car speed, when the ordinary speed change state is restored from neutral state. CONSTITUTION:An automatic speed change gear 12 is equipped with an output- shaft revolution-speed detector 18 and a speed change ratio detector 19, and an engine 10 is equipped with an e...

PURPOSE:To permit the speed change control in the always optimum shift pattern by automatically selecting one among a plurality of shift patterns according to the variation rate of the engine load with respect to time. CONSTITUTION:A plurality of shift pattern data corresponding to the engine load are stored previously into the memory part of a microcomputer 17, and each signal supplied from a thr...

PURPOSE:To surely avoid variously shifting a torque converter during shipment, by temporarily securing the torque converter to a transmission casing with the use of existing nut members and bolts which are fastened together. CONSTITUTION:A transmission casing 1 defines therein a torque converter storing section 3 in which a torque converter 10 is stored and supported. Nut members 14 into which bol...

PURPOSE:To aim at facilitating the control operation of a vehicle speed change unit, by providing a conditional quantity detecting system for detecting conditional quantities relating to the various sections of a vehicle and a valve control circuit for carrying out the duty opening control of a hydraulic control valve. CONSTITUTION:When an engine control circuit 12 determines the starting of a veh...

A process and apparatus for the manufacture of pneumatic tires comprising a carcass formed of reinforcing plies and bead cores are disclosed. The tire carcass is built up around a first drum in cylindrical configuration and bead cores are applied to the carcass. The carcass is transferred telescopically to and around a second expandable drum. The carcass is then torically shaped and the ends of th...

CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN INFINITELY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION FOR AUTOMOBILES A control system for a belt-drive infinitely variable transmission. The transmission is connected to a crankshaft of an engine through an electromagnetic powder clutch. The control system is provided with an engine speed signal producing circuit, a vehicle speed signal producing circuit and an arithmetic circuit for controlling...

In a method for assaying an analyte comprising applying a liquid sample containing an analyte to a spreading layer of a multilayer analysis element comprising a support having laminated thereon at least one reagent layer containing a substrate capable of converting a detectable chemical species upon reaction with the analyte and a liquid sample-spreading layer and then detecting the chemical speci...

Bidirectional power FET structure is disclosed with high OFF state voltage blocking capability. A shielding electrode is insulated between first and second gate electrodes in a notch between laterally spaced source regions and channel regions joined by a common drift region around the bottom of the notch. The shielding electrode is ohmically connected to the substrate containing the common drift r...

A system for determining and recording the position, size, shape and depth of a defect in a billet or similar workpiece. The workpiece is displayed on the screen of a video display device, and the positions of the defects on the screen are recorded responsive to being manually selected by an operator. In embodiments in which the position of a video camera generating the video image varies with res...

In a wheeled vehicle steered by dead reckoning, which calculates its own position on the basis of distances determined by rolling-off measurement, the error in position determination will increase gradually and necessitate updating. A floor is provided with markings which are observed by a linear detector mounted transversely in the vehicle, and linear images are obtained. At least two different m...

An apparatus having a grooving tool for carving grooves in a tire tread drives the tool transversely of the tread while varying the elevation of the tool so as to carve curvate, chevron, herringbone, lazy-S, or other non-linear grooves. Means for orienting the cutting edge of the tool normal to the actual direction of traversing movement is disclosed. The elevation of the tool is controlled by a s...

PURPOSE:To recognize an execution path of a program, an error generating location and kind of error by providing a return control section deciding a returned address based on a return address deciding table and a return code generated newly. CONSTITUTION:The return control section is started when the program is finished with an error. A call location name storage section 3 and a return code storag...

PURPOSE:To attain ease of operation check of a bus driver by providing a clip, receiving an input/output signal of a bus driver of a target via the clip, detecting the operation abnormality at each buffer and lighting and displaying the error. CONSTITUTION:The clip 10 clips an IC so as to be covered from the upper direction to make IC pins and clip contacts 11 contact with each other. Each contact...

A heel holder includes a base plate, a bearing block supported on the base plate, a binding housing pivotally supported on the bearing block, and a down-holding arrangement supported on the binding housing. A locking mechanism can releasably lock the binding housing in a downhill skiing position. A stepping spur is pivotally supported on the binding housing, and a locking member is pivotally suppo...

PCT No. PCT/EP82/00175 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 15, 1983 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 15, 1983 PCT Filed Aug. 17, 1982 PCT Pub. No. WO83/00633 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 3, 1983.A release mechanism for safety ski bindings activated by a magnetic release system and movable between a cocked and a release condition. In its release condition, the mechanism releases a ski binding from a closed to an open condition. The mec...