PURPOSE:To reduce the fuel consumption amount by varying the oil pressure supplied into a clutch of an automatic clutch according to the idling state during the time when a car stops and adjusting the idle revolution speed. CONSTITUTION:When start is not performed immediately, either of a foot brake or a parking brake is in operation, and idling state is formed. If the electric signal for valve se...

PURPOSE:To prevent increase of the fuel consumption amount by lowering the clutch supplied oil pressure and perfectly releasing the clutch in idling where a car is not started immediately. CONSTITUTION:When a car is equipped with a before-start clutch supplied oil pressure reducing means and the car is not started immediately, in other words, in engine idling where the car stops and at least one a...

A battery grid pasting machine has an endless steel conveyor belt (80) for advancing grids beneath a paste hopper (132). The lower end of the hopper is closed by an orifice plate (170). The top run of the belt is supported by a vertically adjustable roller (82) directly beneath an orifice slot (194) in the orifice plate (170). A guide assembly is provided for advancing the grids in a downwardly in...

A method and apparatus is disclosed for reducing metal ore to sponge metal in a vertical shaft, moving bed, gaseous reduction reactor by controlling the amount of gas intermixing between the reduction and cooling zones of the reactor to result in increased productivity and improved carburization of sponge iron. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, process efficiency is maximized while capita...

A vulcanization method and press in which at time-spaced intervals of 1 to 40 seconds, temperature measurements representing increments of heat supplied to the vulcanizable body are taken of a medium used for vulcanization. A summation of the measurements continuously during the vulcanization process represents the heat supplied to the body and when the summed heat quantity equals the total heat q...

TITLE UNBALANCED ROTOR FOR FIELD FLOW FRACTIONATION CHANNEL The mass center of a field flow fractionation channel is adjusted to coincide with the geometric center of the channel. Under these conditions, above critical rotor speeds, the mass center will coincide with the geometric center of the channel and both will coincide with the spin axis of the rotor. This ensures that all portions of the fi...

An apparatus and method for the comminution of plant matter, particularly of moist plant matter, for the production of corn cob mix, for example, provides that a rotor is rotationally mounted in a housing and provided with a drive, the rotor carrying movable blades and the housing carrying stationary blades so that there is a mutual interaction of the blades for comminution. The moving blades are ...

Methods for determining the presence of antigens or antibodies in an aqueous sample or presence of antigens on the surface of cells. A preferred embodiment employs fluorescent antigens which compete with the sample antigens for antibody binding sites. The antibodies are deposited on a support surface means in alternating patterns. The surface means and fluorescence detector are translocated with r...

A rotary electrode apparatus for producing metal powders including a chamber for maintaining a controlled atmosphere. A first electrode is mounted in the chamber and a second consumable disc electrode is mounted in the chamber confronting the first electrode. An electric arc is struck between the first electrode and a circumferential portion of the disc electrode in order to melt the circumferenti...

A method of sensing the curvature of a routing or guide line used in automatic steering of a vehicle. The actual position of the vehicle with respect to the guide line is determined, and an estimated position of the vehicle with respect to the guide line is determined by means of a vehicle model. The actual and estimated positions are compared to obtain the difference between them, the difference ...

A fail-safe protection circuit for a data processor controlled system having a data bus for carrying data and comprising first logic for checking the operation of the data processor controlled system at periodic intervals not greater than T1 and for producing a trigger pulse at each check if the data processor is operating properly, second logic for detecting the absence of trigger pulses for a ti...

The invention concerns novel compounds of the formula I I wherein: W are selected from the group consisting of: the groups R5-CO- and R5-CS- wherein: R5 is selected from alkenyl, alkynyl, benzyl, phenyl, substituted alkyl, substituted alkenyl, substituted alkynyl, substituted benzyl, substituted phenyl and the acetal, hemiacetal, oxime, imine and Schiff base derivatives of the group R5-C...

A shot-free millboard is asbestos-free and also free of unfiberized material, or shot, which can cause miscrosopic defects in glass sheet. The millboard of the present invention is suitable for use as float roll covering material.

A suspension of a finely divided material in a liquid suspending medium which swells cellulose, the suspension containing microfibrillated cellulose in an amount sufficient to produce a stable, homogeneous suspension. The microfibrillated cellulose, a form of cellulose having a very large available surface area per unit of weight, acts to confer, among other benefits, greater stability on the susp...

A film of poly{[benzo(1,2-d:4,5-d')bisthiazole-2,6-diyl]-1,4-phenylene}, its cis isomer or mixtures thereof is formed by extruding a solution of the polymer on a casting roll which is rotating to yield a surface speed slightly greater than the rate of extrusion. The solution of the polymer may be prepared by dissolving the polymer in an appropriate solvent or by reacting the monomers in a selected...

A process for forming a film of hydrolyzed ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer employing a mixed solvent of water, at least one member selected from the group consisting of propyl alcohol, butyl alcohol and benzyl alcohol, and at least one member selected from the group consisting of formic acid, an alkyl formate, acetic actid, an alkyl acetate, dimethylsulfoxide and N-methylpyrrolidone as a solvent ...