PURPOSE:To make it possible to satisfactorily control the torque of an engine of such a type that the engine torque is increased and decreased by predetermined amounts during gear shift, by changing the above-mentioned predetermined values and a range in which the engine torque is controlled to be increased and decreased, when the frequency of increasing and decreasing the engine torque exceeds a ...

A preparation of sorbitol which can be compressed has at least 90% by weight of the sorbitol in gamma form and comprises blunt-shaped particles with an orientated micro- needles surface state. The sorbitol is manufactured by mixing finely divided molten sorbitol, of dry matter content greater than 98%, with essentially the same amount of pulverulent sorbitol of particle size less than 5 mm at a te...

In a gamma radiography apparatus a gamma scintillation camera 1 with a rectangular scintillation plate is suspended so as to be counterbalanced and rotatable about a horizontal axis 44 for single photon emission tomography, Figure 1b. To enable a total body emission radiography scan to be carried out by the same apparatus, Figure 2b, the head 1 must be turned through 90 degrees in plan view. Thi...

A method for the construction, transportation and site installation of a gravity-supported deep-sea lattice structure, characterized by using a dry dock only for constructing the base of the structure, this latter then being completed in protected deep water by successively welding leg portions prefabricated in different construction yards, the welding being done using floating docks, one for each...

The method enables the manufacture of dry-charged batteries, the plates whereof are constituted by pasted grids, intercalated with separators and assembled in an insulating container closed by a lid provided with gas vents. The pasted grids and the separators are assembled in the container before the forming process, and the plates are subjected to the forming process and to subsequent washing in ...

The string-type coupling device for wind-driven generator of the utility model relates to a wind-driven generating set and an automatic regulating device, providing a generator which comprises a main shaft with a plurality of generator rotors tandem connecting. Each generator outputs electric power by parallel coupling switching elements on electric machines. The switching element which is connect...

A lithotriptor is disclosed, which comprises an outer slender tube having an outside diameter small enough to be inserted into the organ growing a stone therein and an inner member disposed inside the outer slender tube. The inner member or the outer slender member incorporates therein an explosive layer or a gas-generating layer, ignition means for igniting the explosive layer or the gas-generati...

The cooling of tanks by means of concentric and radial radiators (1) comprised of vanes (2) arranged about a cylinder (3) occluded in its central portion by a torpedo (6) forcing all the fluid to be cooled to pass integrally through the vanes. The device is completed by solid and coated elements, made of cork or glass, intended to reduce the volume of the required dielectric. The invention concern...

A shift fork in a transmission has an upwardly extending branch whose upper end is bevelled to introduce dripping lubricant to sliding surfaces of the shift fork branch in contact with a collar with which the shift fork is engaged for shifting gears in the transmission.

PURPOSE:To produce a superconductive wire of a small wire diameter which obviates the rupture and exposure of core materials by forming holes at equal intervals to a billet having a circular section around the central axial line thereof, inserting the core materials into the respective holes and subjecting the billet to extrusion and area reducing working. CONSTITUTION:The three holes 2a... are fo...

PURPOSE:To produce quickly a multi-cored Nb3Sn superconductive wire by dividing plural pieces of composite Cu-Nb composite wires by Cu to plural groups, disposing the wires to the outside periphery of Sn rods, housing the rods into a Cu pipe and subjecting the pipe to sectional area reducing working and heat treatment. CONSTITUTION:Plural pieces of the composite wires 2 formed by disposing many pi...

A retractable anchoring device for a sonde to be lowered into a well for logging purpose, is adapted to rigidly position the sonde at a preselected depth. The device comprises pivotable anchoring arms adapted to apply against the wall of the well a substantially constant force produced by associated jacks actuated by driving means so as to apply to the respective arms forces which are limited by s...

An aqueous alkaline dispersion of a rubbery graft or over polymerized copolymer of a diene and a vinyl pyridine on a polyacrylate seed (core or substrate), said acrylate polymer having a Tg of not above about -20 DEG C., desirably also containing a polybutadiene, and a water soluble, heat reactable phenolic resin, in certain amounts is useful in forming an adhesive for bonding glass fiber reinfor...

A method for effecting logging or servicing operations in a predetermined inclined or horizontal zone of a well, following an initial vertical portion thereof, comprising fastening a logging or servicing tool body at the end of a string of rods lowered into the well, said tool body being provided with an electric male connector, lowering at the end of an electric transmission cable, from the surfa...

Stone detection device for a programmed stone flat polishing machine adapted to be mounted on a moving carriage on which a polishing head is arranged. This system comprises flexible conduits (9) provided with nozzles (11) for blowing air coming from a fan (16); lines (12) inside the conduits (9) open into amplifiers (13) cooperating with inductive sensors (27) connected to an electric control circ...

The specification is directed to polysiloxane foams. There are disclosed compositions capable of curing at room temperature which comprise a hydroxypolysiloxane, an alkylhydrogen polysiloxane, a tin compound as catalyst and finely divided filler. According to the invention storage stability of these foam forming polysiloxane compositions is improved by use as filler of silica which has been pretre...

A data bank update system comprises a plurality of remote computers 11 with respective data banks and respective communications modems 15, and a central administration centre 30 serving to communicate message to electronic mail boxes 20 for the respective remote computers which messages contain alterations for the respective data banks, each remote computer being arranged to retrieve any such mess...

This invention relates to a storage stable, heat reactive, adhesive dispersion composition comprising a solid epoxy resin containing more than one epoxy group and a solid, sterically unhindered, tertiary amine catalyst in a liquid vehicle which is a non-solvent for the solids but in which said solids are at least partially soluble in the melt. Heating said dispersion to a temperature at or above w...