PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely and firmly engage a binding base plate with a restraining plate and to facilitate the adjustment of the binding base panel by removably attaching a heel wall to a side wall of a binding base plate so as to cope with any one of shoes having various sizes. SOLUTION: A binding device for shoes for a snowboard, comprises a binding base panel 1, side walls 3 at opposite ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To widely correspond to every shift condition by detecting a rotational variation in the output shaft of an automatic transmission, and controlling the torque of a power train according to the value of this rotational variation. SOLUTION: Supposing that a variation is produced in a shift command value 11 in a nonshift state, a shift start detecting means 9 detects it as a shi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform traction control according to a state, in a wheel slip control device to perform detection of an bad road and detection of noise simultaneously with each other. SOLUTION: Since, when it is decided at S3 that an bad road flag is set, it is not decided whether noise flag is set and control coping with an bad road is performed at S7. Namely, since, when an bad road fl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform a continuous operation of a packaging machine by averaging a hourly article-feeding amount to the packaging machine. SOLUTION: At a directly upstream side of a packaging machine 11, an article feeding device 10 is arranged. The article feeding device 10 is constituted of an introduction conveyor 19, a pool conveyor 20 and a separating conveyor 21. By moving an uppe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent yarn, dissociated from a package, from being caught by peripheral parts or the like in doffing operation and pulled out by providing a yarn winding device with a yarn edge treatment means for disjointing the yarn edge so that the cut yarn edge is not dissociated from the package. SOLUTION: When a package is fully wound, yarn Y0 wound traversing is cut by a cutter p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To execute a safety valve operation test by an actual pressure system efficiently in a short period of time with simple operation, without separating a waste heat recovery boiler from a steam turbine. SOLUTION: A combined cycle power plant 30A consists of a gas turbine 35 driven by a combustor 34, a waste heat recovery boilder 36 and a steam turbine 37 driven by the boiler 36...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce an output fluctuation caused by temporary fuel shortage in the case of fuel switching by adding a difference between the signal of a fuel flow quantity set value and the feed-back signal of an actual fuel flow quantity to a previously inputted fuel control signal as a correction value when switching is practiced form one side fuel to the other side fuel. SOLUTION: A...

PURPOSE: To secure smooth clutch meeting all the time by making regulation control of the number of revolution of an engine by means of a retarder in the case of clutch connection control after speed change. CONSTITUTION: The induction mechine 26 of a retarder 25 in mounted on a flywheel 3 in an engine drive system provided with a manual transmission 6 and a speed change detecting circuit 41 and a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the spring assembly excellent in twisting resistance by forming each elastic body out of a metallic leaf spring which is continuously bent into a bellows form, and arranging the leaf springs in a bellows form each along the circumferential direction of each circular plate. SOLUTION: The spring assembly has elastic bodies interposed between circular plates 2A and 2B...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a speed change shock in a clutch-to-clutch speed change condition by an automatic transmission. SOLUTION: A speed change control device of an automatic transmission carries out the reduction control of the input torque, in case of a clutch-to-clutch speed change in which a second friction engaging device is engaged, as well as a first friction engaging device is re...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead-acid battery provided with a positive plate, which can efficiently utilize the active material and which can be charged after the over-discharge, by filling a collector with the electrode active material, which contains the required tin oxide fiber at the predetermined breaking energy, at the predetermined specific resistance and at the predetermined diamete...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the generation of damage of a side retainer without hindering the workability at the time of housing a plate group in a battery jar by adhering the side retainer and a resin film outside thereof to each other. SOLUTION: A plate group is formed of a positive plate 1, a retainer 3, a negative plate 2, an outside side-retainer 4, and this plate group is housed in a batt...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the characteristics of a continuously variable transmission by making a motor generator and the transmission act in concert with each other. SOLUTION: A motor generator 12 is attached to the output shaft 11a of an engine 11 and the output side of the generator 12 is connected to the input side of a forwarding-backwarding switching mechanism 17. The output side of t...

A sheet metal mini-wall parapet structure is provided. The structure is basically a U-shaped member formed of sheet metal. At one lower corner of the U-shaped member is formed the cleat used to attach the conventional coping member. The cleat is formed by extending one leg of the U-shaped member downwardly and folding it over in a continuous fashion with an extension from the bottom of the U-shape...

The present invention relates to an intraocular implant (1) which includes a central lens (2) and at least two elastically deformable securing arms (3), each of which is connected via one of its ends (4) to the central lens (2). Each of the securing arms (3) exhibits a general direction which is radial with respect to the central lens (2), and each of the securing arms includes, at its free end (6...

Self-adhesive carbonaceous grains for use in the manufacture of high-density and high-strength carbon artifacts containing 0.5-1.5 wt % of a quinoline-soluble but pyridine-insoluble component and at least 97 wt % of a quinoline-insoluble component and which are prepared by heat-treating in a nonoxidizing atmosphere a mesophase pitch that is obtained by polymerizing condensed polycyclic hydrocarbon...

The present invention relates to solid lipophilic compositions suitable for topical application to human skin and to methods for preparing and using such compositions. The solid lipophilic compositions of the invention comprise dibenzyl monosorbitol acetal (DBMSA), lipophilic materials and one or more cosmetic materials.

A process for the manufacture of re-bonded foam products is disclosed. The process comprises mixing a liquid comprising polyol with a liquid comprising polyisocyanate in the presence of small pieces of foam, consolidating the mixture, and causing the polyol and polyisocyanate to react and bond the coated pieces together.

A polymeric film comprising from 0.0005% to 2% by weight, based upon the weight of the polymer in the film, of filler particles having a volume distributed median particle diameter of from 0.1 to 12.5 mu m, the filler particles being obtainable by calcining precursor silicone resin particles prior to incorporation into the film polymer.

Apparatus for inspecting external dimensional parameters of a container finish that includes a light source for directing light energy onto the finish of the container and a matrix array sensor disposed to receive an image of the container finish illuminated by the light source. A telecentric lens is positioned to focus onto the matrix array sensor an image of the container finish profile formed b...