A system is described for controlling clutch torque for a vehicle having a transmission, and an electromagnetic clutch 1 provided between an engine and the transmission. The system comprises an engine speed sensor 16, a computing unit 19 for measuring the speed of a driven member 9 of the electromagnetic clutch 1, an accelerator pedal switch 17 for detecting the acceleration of the vehicle and for...

PURPOSE:To prevent a selecting force from increase by using the actuating signal of a selective switch when the selecting signal is sent to the travelling range under set vehicle speed or less so as to delay drag current supply timing by a predetermined time. CONSTITUTION:The selective position is detected by the actuating signal of a selective switch 54, and when the travelling range of D, Ds or ...

A system for controlling an infinitely variable transmission is provided with a vehicle speed sensor for sensing vehicle speed and for producing a signal when the vehicle speed exceeds a predetermined value, a neutral range sensor of the transmission, a drive range sensor, and an accelerator pedal release sensor. The system further has an actuator for cutting off fuel. When the vehicle coasts unde...

PURPOSE:To prevent the generation of power-on shock during starting a vehicle, by changing over a mechanical speed reduction gear once into a high speed higher gear stage from a first gear stage when the braking condition of a brake is released under an anticreep control condition. CONSTITUTION:When the braking condition of a brake for controlling the running of a vehicle is released under an anti...

PURPOSE:To prevent the generation of power-on shock, by increasing the engaging pressure of a forward clutch to a predetermined value to release a shift brake when the braking condition of a brake is released under an anticreep control condition. CONSTITUTION:When the braking condition of a brake for controlling the running of a vehicle is released under an anticreep control condition, the engagin...

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of output per weight and volume by providing a reinforced protrusion structure higher than a plate on the internal bottom in a plate housing compartment and providing a counter part reinforced protrusion structure in another plate housing compartment whereby both plate housing compartments are integrally molded intervening a hinge part between them. CONSTITUTION:I...

During the process of binding a bale of crop material with binding twine in a crop baler, malfunction of the knotter (54) is checked once upon completion of the binding sequence for one bale, and then a second time after the twine has been prepared by the knotter for formation of the next bale. The monitoring system is particularly appropriate for a double knotting mechanism in which each knotter ...

A substantially binder-free glass fiber separator, especially for valve regulated ("sealed") lead acid batteries is disclosed. The separator has a reduced thickness and temporarily inhibited resiliency. A substantially binder-free glass fiber web having a given thickness is wetted with a controlled amount of liquid and compressed to a substantially reduced thickness and the liquid suppresses the n...

A non-blocking hot melt adhesive mass is prepared by (a) lining a rigid mold with a plastic film, said film being meltable together with the adhesive composition and blendable into said molten adhesive composition, and said mold being a heat sink or being in contact with a heat sink; (b) pouring molten hot melt adhesive into the lined mold; and (c) allowing the molten hot melt adhesive to solidify...

A cable reel assembly is provided having a drum (30) which can accommodate a length of electrical cable thereon and wheel means (50) adapted to render the assembly capable of translational movement on a surface on which it is supported in use.

A clarifier (10) with first stage flotation and second stage filtration divides at least the lower portion of a flotation tank (12) into independent cells (54). A branched conduit (78) collects clarified water. Valves (76) control the flow of clarified water to either a clarified water ring conduit (62) or to a first filtrate/bachwash ring conduit (64) connected to a storage tank (68). High cell w...

A method for granulating a stream of molten metal which is caused to fall from a launder or the like down into a liquid cooling bath in a tank. The metal stream is divided into droplets in the liquid cooling bath, which solidify and form solid granules. A substantially uniform flow of cooling liquid is caused to flow from one of the side walls in the tank substantially perpendicularly against the ...

A camera (18) arranged in the axis of a bottle to be tested is used to take pictures in order to determine defects in the upper end face of the mouth lip (43). A circular, coaxial light-conducting body (30) which is surrounded by a light source (28) is arranged between the lip (43) and the camera (18). It has a central viewing opening (40) with the shape of a double conical frustum (40a, 40b). The...

The apparatus may be used as a rate gyro or as a gyroscope. It comprises a resonator comprising four mutually parallel identical beams (12a,12b,12c,12d) integral with a common square base (10) and projecting from said base (10) at corners of a virtual square. The beams (12a,12b,12c,12d) have a same resonant frequency in two directions parallel to the two sides of the square (10). It further has fi...

Rubber compositions and articles such as tires having improved metal adhesion and metal adhesion retention to bright steel metallic reinforcement. The improvement comprises admixing from about 0.2 to about 6.0 parts per hundred rubber (phr) of a cobalt compound selected from the group consisting of cobalt chloride bis(8-hydroxyquinolate) and cobalt bis(8-hydroxyquinolate) with a vulcanizable rubbe...

A polymer composition in the form of an alloy is disclosed, having hydrophilic and anti-fogging properties. The polymer alloy can be used as a coating, as an unsupported film or as a substrate having the desired anti-fogging properties. The composition can be used where hydrophilic properties are desired. Surfaces coated with the composition described herein are more readily wetted by water or aqu...

A procedure is described for wet chemical surface modification of formed articles and substrates coated with made of organopolysiloxanes: the articles formed were contacted with metal hydroxide solutions to tailor the binding capacity for ions, particularly metal ions, bivalent cations, organic macro anions, and organic macro cations, e.g. proteins. The procedure creates organopolysiloxane surface...

An article surveillance system includes a first monitor 26 at a store exit way 12 and second monitors 34 in the dressing rooms 20 and rest rooms 22 in the store to detect security tags 24 attached to articles of merchandise 14. When the tags 24 are attached to the merchandise they hold a ring 82 against the tags causing them to have a high resonant frequency which is detected by the first monitors...

A lubricating oil composition is described which comprises a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity and (A) at least about 1 % by weight of at least one carboxylic derivative composition produced by reacting (A-1) at least one substituted succinic acylating agent containing at least about 50 carbon atoms in the substituent with (A-2) from about 0.5 equivalent up to about 2 moles, per equi...

The invention relates to the reception of fibers under fibering machines to obtain a mat of mineral wool. It proposes assigning to each fibering machine its own collecting zone, the surfaces of the collecting zones increasing in the direction of the increase of base weight. The invention also proposes a device characterized by the presence of two reception drums for three fibering machines.