A closed-loop system for compensating for an undesired drop in idling speed upon manually shifting a manual valve from a neutral range position to a drive range position include detecting the instance when a start-up friction element is brought into engagemment after the above-mentioned range select operation. The engine torque is increased in response to a torque-up command signal generating at t...

A vehicle power transmitting system having a continuously variable transmission (14), a reversing device (16) disposed downstream of the transmission, and a hydraulic control apparatus for controlling the transmission. The system comprises a device (114) for producing a required output pressure indicative of a currently required vehicle acceleration value, a shift control valve (330, 460, 490) for...

Each yarn end (1, 2) is held at two longitudinally distant points (3, 4; 5, 6) and an axial untwisting is introduced; these untwisted ends are brought together head-to-tail, the middle part being gripped tightly; in the untwisted part of each end between the tightly gripped middle part and the respective holding points (4, 5) of the yarn by which the untwisting was induced, an additional axial unt...

A method of asymmetrically severing a plate (3) of brittle material, in which by means of a heat source (5) a thermal load is provided along a heating track asymmetrically with respect to the desired cutting line (7) and the plate (3) is severed along the desired cutting line (7).

A spectroanalyzer accurately spectroanalyzes in spite of the deterioration of transmissibility of an optical fiber (5) by radiation, by using a light from a sample cell (1) as a measurement light which passes through the optical fiber (5). The spectroanalyzer comprises a white light source (15) for directing a monitoring light to a one end (5b) of the optical fiber (5), and a half-mirror (3) arran...

A color sensor comprising a plurality of detecting units. One of the detecting units may inspect the color of an object to be examined, and the other may inspect the color of the reference object simultaneously and independently. The reflected light of the object to be examined is corrected by the reflected light of the reference object. The lights reflected from the object to be examined and the ...

This invention relates to a solenoid device for a flow rate control valve and a displacement sensor. In a conventional solenoid device, it is not possible to obtain the characteristics permitting ease-of-control of the voltage applied to an electromagnetic coil and the stroke of a plunger, or the stroke of the plunger and the oscillation frequency of the coil. Thus, it is difficult to carry out a ...

A system for continuously separating lighter and intermediate density matter, such as plasma rich in platelets from whole blood moves blood through a diverging centrifugation gap (65) between inner and outer walls of a rotor (42) rotating about a central axis within an outer housing. The centrifugation action creates layered flow along an intermediate section. However by creating trailing wakes in...

A system for continuously separating lighter and intermediate density matter, such as plasma rich in platelets from whole blood moves blood through a diverging centrifugation gap (65) between inner and outer walls of a rotor (42) rotating about a central axis within an outer housing. The centrifugation action creates layered flow along an intermediate section. However by creating trailing wakes in...

The bistable solenoid has an electromagnetic circuit and a permanent-magnet circuit, an armature which can be displaced between two limit positions, a spring which acts on the armature and holds it in a first limit position, and a winding which forms part of the electromagnetic circuit, and though which current can be passed in one direction or the other in order to displace the armature. When the...

To provide the driver with a driving feeling which faithfully keeps up with various running states of the vehicle and running requirements of the driver by finding an accommodation coefficient indicating a running state by fuzzy inference. A target rotational speed of the engine is set on the basis of the accommodation coefficient found during the previous step. The change-gear ratio of the nonsta...

Specified are a process and an apparatus for longitudinally cutting a magnetic recording medium, having a high cutting quality of the cutting edges of upper and lower rotational cutting knives by slightly adjusting the apparatus whenever the cutting edges are worn to a certain degree, and in order thereby to ensure the quality of the longitudinal cut surface of the magnetic recording medium. If th...

An electric arc furnace (5a) is specified in which the natural convection current is changed by suitable measures in order to obtain advantageous effects. By blowing gases, which optionally contain oxygen, into the interior of the electric arc furnace (5a) in the immediate vicinity of an electrode opening (55), the blown-in gases flow vertically downwards, close to the centre of the arc furnace, t...

PURIFICATION OF SAMPLES BY INTERPHASE MASS TRANSFER USING MICROPOROUS HOLLOW-FIBER MEMBRANES Method and apparatus are provided for accomplishing improved separation and purification of an analyte by mass transfer between immiscible phases employing microporous hollow-fiber membranes. The invention eliminates several problems of the prior art. A number of possible modes of separation by mass transf...

LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTION USING MICROPOROUS HOLLOW-FIBER MEMBRANES Method and apparatus are provided for accomplishing improved liquid-liquid extraction employing microporous hollow-fiber membranes. A number of possible modes of liquid-liquid extraction are possible according to the invention.

The use of substances capable of preventing the binding of a receptor binding form of u-PA to a u-PA receptor (u-PAR) in a mammal and thereby preventing u-PA from converting plasminogen into plasmin thereby preventing cell surface plasminogen activation which is believed to play an important role in tissue remodelling, particularly during cancer invasion for preparing a composition for preventing ...

A process and an apparatus for upwardly production of foamed polyurethane slab-stocks. The reactive polyurethane components are mixed, under pressure, with a low-boiling blowing agent kept in the liquid state; frothing of the mixture is started by continuously flowing the same into a frothing device (10) comprising a pressure equalizing chamber (13) and a pressure-drop zone (17, 31, 32) axially ex...

In order to detect stress cracks in the bottom (2) of PET bottles (1), the bottom is exposed to light. The light scattered on the stress-crack zone is measured by a photodetector (15) which is fixed at an angle with respect to the light incidence direction. The measured value allows good assessment of whether the amount and depth of the stress cracks require removal of the bottle from the recyclin...

A method and apparatus for manufacturing an automotive tire bead (1), whereby an annular element (2) having a substantially circular section and consisting of a coiled metal wire (3) is formed by winding the wire (3) about a mandrel (17) defining a duct (9) coiling about the annular element (2). One end of a packing wire (5) of heat-shrinkable material is then inserted inside duct (9), blown along...

A substantially ghost-free head-up display for a vehicle such as an automobile is disclosed. A head-up display unit projects the image beam toward the vehicle windshield for reflection back toward the viewer's eye. The windshield is slightly tapered so that the reflected images from the outside and inside surfaces of the windshield are reflected at slightly different angles, chosen so that the ima...