PURPOSE:To reduce pressing down force of an inching pedal by providing a pressure chamber pressing a plunger between a step of the outer periphery of the plunger and a valve body, and communicating this pressure chamber with a pressure chamber pressing a spool forward. CONSTITUTION:Under the release conditions of an inching pedal 5, a plunger 2 is pushed rightward by a return spring 7 while a spoo...

PURPOSE:To suppress projection of engine torque by providing first and second speed changer parts in series and reducing the torque, when a speed change of the first speed changer part is judged to be delayed from the speed change of the second speed change part at the time of speed change in which the whole body of the automatic transmission is shifted up. CONSTITUTION:An automatic transmission c...

There is provided a thread splicing arrangement having a splicing head with a splicing channel. In the vicinity of the ends of the channel, holding devices can clamp the ends of the threads during the splicing, and cutting arrangements can cut the free ends of the threads. The holding devices hold the threads near the base of the splicing channel. Pressurized gas channels are provided on both side...

L'invention concerne un procédé de biopsie avec une aiguille mince, en liaison avec une mammographie.
Elle se rapporte à un procédé dans lequel une cible fixe est radiographiée suivant deux angles à l'aide d'une tête rotative de prise d'image, les images sont placées sur une table séparée de mesure, et les coordonnées du site voulu dans la cible sont calculées de manière connue à partir d...

The invention relates to a device which can be applied in machines which include (Fig. 5) a liquid annulus (1) rotationally driven by a hollow rotor (14), which device is intended to restore the kinetic energy of the fluid to the rotor. It consists: - on the one hand of aerodynamic supports (5) connecting the hub (7) to the rotating members (8), facilitating the angular acceleration of the liqui...

PURPOSE:To prevent the performance of a liquid crystal dimmer from deteriorating by arranging a protection film between the liquid crystal dimmer and an organic adhesion layer and preventing them from contacting each other directly. CONSTITUTION:The protection film is arranged between the liquid crystal dimmer and organic adhesion layer, which are prevented from contacting each other directly. The...

PURPOSE:To efficiently remove the sludge in an oil tank and to easily perform the oil-water separation of the sludge-containing hot water discharged from the oil tank by adding a demulsifier and chloride to the hot water injected in the oil tank. CONSTITUTION:Hot water whose specific gravity is increased by the addition of a demulsifier A (e.g. polyoxyethylene alkylphenylformaldehyde condensate) a...

PURPOSE:To provide an antifouling agent for use in petroleum refining and petrochemical plants which may demonstrate an antifouling effect even for a process fluid having large amounts of dissolved oxygen by compounding a specific diphenylguanidine derivative as the active principle therein. CONSTITUTION:An antifouling agent contains a diphenylguanidine derivative shown by the formula where R<1> a...

PURPOSE: To obtain a flocculant useful for dewatering sludge by using a solid organic acid and a solid cationic ester-based polymer which is a copolymer of acrylamide and a cationic monomer. CONSTITUTION: A homogeneous mixture is composed of a solid water-soluble organic acid (preferably glutaric acid) and a copolymer derived from acrylamide and a cationic monomer of formula I [D is H or is select...

PURPOSE:To prevent the local wear of a target surface by providing a moving mechanism for properly inclining a reflecting mirror along the optical path of a laser beam in such a manner that the plural parts of the target surface can be irradiated with the laser beam. CONSTITUTION:The moving mechanism 13 of the reflecting mirror 21 is provided in the optical path of the laser beam at the time of ir...

A resiliently flexible strip device mounts the armature of an electrically released brake for movement toward and away from the pole faces of the field shell, the armature either moving with pivotal motion or with linear motion. The resiliently flexible strip device may take the form of one or more leaf springs or may be one or more tongues molded integrally with the flange of a bobbin which forms...

Improvement in techniques of manufacture of lightweight concretes by means: - of a particular particle size of the cavities; - of the method of producing the cavities; - of the addition of stabilising adjuvants. l

Apparatus for testing an oil well comprises a tubular test string (10) fixed at the bottom of production tubing (11) and including a ball test valve (14) at its bottom end. The apparatus also includes a wireline assembly (50) suspended from a cable (51) so as to be capable of being lowered down the tubing. Beneath a measurement device (53) the wireline assembly includes a housing suitable for enga...

L'invention concerne l'assemblage d'une armature pour un accouplement électromagnétique pouvant être sélectivement excité et désexcité.
Selon l'invention, l'assemblage comprend un moyeu (36) ayant un axe central, une âme (45) jointe à et dépassant du moyeu et un disque annulaire d'armature (51) fait en un matériau de faible réluctance magnétique, radialement espacé du moyeu et joint à l'â...

Fluidized aqueous suspensions of 15% or more by weight hydroxyethylcellulose, hydrophobically modified cellulose ether, hydrophobically modified hydroxyethylcellulose, methylcellulose, hydroxypropylmethylcellulose and polyethylene oxide are prepared by addition of the polymer to a concentrated sodium formate solution containing xanthan gum as a stabilizer.

The present invention provides a sheet material comprising a sheet-shaped material made of an inorganic filler other than asbestos, a rubber material and a polycarbodiimide pulp, and a reinforcing material treated with a polycarbodiimide resin. The present invention further provides a process for producing a sheet material, which comprises shaping an inorganic filler other than asbestos, a rubber ...

2079686 9115347 PCTABS00007 A method is disclosed for the production of extruded plastic products by using an extruder (1) which has an extruder hopper (2) which is supplied with a hot mixture obtained by discontinuous mixing of PVC powder and additives in a hot mixing zone, with the supply of frictional heat, wherein a first amount of PVC powder is mixed with an excess of additives with the suppl...

An apparatus and method are described for producing compact stranded conductors on single and double twist machines. This is achieved by preshaping and metering the preshaped wires to have generally sectored cross-sectional profiled complementary configurations and positioning and orienting the preshaped wires to substantially correspond to their positions and orientations in relation to the core ...

DIR 0459 The invention relates to a new sulfonyl compound having the general formula (I) wherein R1 is an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group; and R2 is a C1-C20 alkyl group, a C2-C20 alkenyl group or a C2-C20 alkynyl group, which groups may be substituted with one or more substituents selected from the group consisting of C1-C4 alkoxy, halogen, unsubstituted aryl and substituted aryl; or wher...

A novel sensor element (30) having low magnetic coercivity and an asymmetric hysteresis characteristic is formed by heating a strip of cobalt alloy (32)in an oxidizing atmosphere to form an oxide coating (34) thereon and then the strip is cooled in the presence of a magnetic field of about 0.3 oersteds along its length. The strip is detected by subjecting it to an alternating magnetic interrogatio...