PURPOSE:To prevent the unmatching of the operation position by maintaining the drive mode at the four-wheel-drive/center differential gear mode in preference to the output signal supplied from the second switch means when the above-described mode signal is outputted from the first switch means. CONSTITUTION:When the first switch means 66 outputs a signal for setting the drive mode to a four-wheel-...

PURPOSE:To prevent the generation of breakage in the synchronous mechanism part of a two/four-wheel switching mechanism by installing a drive mode switching mechanism, flywheel device, and a control means. CONSTITUTION:During the time when a drive mode selecting mechanism is switching- operated from the four-wheel-drive state to the two-wheel drive state with a center differential gear in free sta...

PURPOSE:To feed a film without deforming a cylindrical packing body on charging and packing the contents in the inside or film while cylindrically forming the film. CONSTITUTION:A cylindrically guiding means 10 of a film having a bending edge to cylindrically form the film and a passing aperture through which the right and left edges of the bent film are inserted together and the rear side seal me...

PURPOSE:To alarm a driver for the selection operation in the prohibited drive mode by installing a drive mode selecting mechanism, actuator, operating means and a control means. CONSTITUTION:When an operating means 65 (transfer selection operating device) is operated so that the selection to the allowable drive mode is performed, a control means 64 operation-controls an actuator (motor) 32, genera...

PURPOSE:To realize the drive mode suitable for the traveling state at that time point if a drive mode detecting means fails, by installing a drive mode selecting mechanism, drive mode detecting means, flywheel device, flywheel state detecting means, operating means, and a control means. CONSTITUTION:When anomaly exists in the output signal of a drive mode detecting means 37, a control means 88 jud...

PURPOSE:To enable unforced switchover by making a switchover to a fourwheel drive condition again after a driving condition has been returned to a two-wheel drive condition once if switchover operations are not completed within the period of a specified time when the driving condition of a vehicle is switched from the two- wheel drive condition over to the four-wheel drive condition. CONSTITUTION:...

PURPOSE:To attain a similar operating condition in both four-wheel and two- wheel drive modes by varying a line pressure in accordance with a fourwheel drive/two-wheel drive switchover condition. CONSTITUTION:A pressure regulator regulates the line pressure of an automatic transmission to be a pressure suited to a vehicle speed and the output of an engine. A detecting means detects the four-wheel ...

PURPOSE:To improve fuel consumption and a traveling property by providing a means of detecting a four-wheel drive/two-wheel drive switchover condition and varying the speed change pattern of the power performance-oriented speed change pattern of an automatic transmission in accordance with the four-wheel drive/two-wheel drive switchover condition. CONSTITUTION:The operating condition of a pattern ...

PURPOSE:To carry out car speed control by considering a moving state of grain culms in a thresher. CONSTITUTION:The state of an angle of a dust feeding valve is read by an angle sensor 17. If the dust feeding valve is located on the side for suppressing movement of grain culms in a threshing chamber, the ratio of deceleration output sensed with a rotational frequency sensor 25 relatively to the nu...

An end face of an optical fibre 21 has a Bragg grating formed thereon. The fibre carries optical signals of at least two different wavelengths and the signals are diffracted by the Bragg grating so that light emerges from the fibre at different angles with respect to the axis of the fibre, the angle depending on the wavelength of the light. An arrangement incorporating such a fibre has a plurality...

A network controller for monitoring the status of a network includes a hierarchical object-based data structure representative of the network to be controlled. The data structure includes a set of hierarchically linked objects 530-559 representative of elements of the network, and each object includes object parameters including an object status parameter (e.g., a fault parameter) and, with the ex...

An apparatus for gas bubble flotation comprises an angular flotation tank (1a, 1b), at least one liquid inlet (2a, 2b) for a liquid containing suspended matter and a liquid admixed with gas bubbles, in which apparatus at least one liquid inlet (2a, 2b) is arranged in the vicinity of at least one flotation tank corner. Preferably, the flotation tank has a square cross section. This permits optimal ...

A method and device for use with helical scan data recording by implementing a Reed-Solomon product code, a unitary medium comprising such data, and a cassette comprising such medium. Error protective data encoding for use with rotary head helical scan tape-recording is done by providing a first word-wise Reed-Solomon code along each recording track defined in first code words, and a second Reed-S...

In a scanning electron beam CT system, the electron beam is focused by controlling the distribution of beam-generated ions electrostatically. The upstream (self-expanding, de-focusing) beam region and downstream (converging, self-focusing) beam region are distinguished by the absence or presence of beam-generated positive ions. The relative lengths of these two beam regions are electrostatically c...

A decanter centrifuge comprises a bowl (12) and a worm or screw type conveyor (14). The bowl is rotatable about a longitudinal axis and has a cake discharge opening (18) at one end and a liquid phase discharge opening (20). The conveyor includes a conveyor hub (22) having at least a portion disposed inside the bowl for rotation about the longitudinal axis at an angular speed different from an angu...

Rough machining of a glass-ceramic material article such as a radome (20) is accomplished using a high-power Nd:YAG laser (60, 64). The radome (20) is rotated about its longitudinal axis (28), and the point of application of the laser beam (62) is translated generally parallel to the longitudinal axis (28) over either the inside (32) or outside (30) surface of the radome (20). The Nd:YAG laser (60...