PURPOSE:To enable a smooth start automatically by terminating increasing the engagement load when the rotational speed of a drive member of a friction clutch is under a predetermined value, and by resuming increasing the load when the rotational speed of the drive and driven sides is equal. CONSTITUTION:When the gas pedal is stepped on with the drive range selected and the throttle opening by a se...

PURPOSE:To avoid an engine stall due to a too late disengagement of a friction clutch by disengaging the friction clutch when the rate of the engine speed reduction over a period of time becomes lower than a predetermined value during a deceleration. CONSTITUTION:A control device 140 comprising a micro computer is inputted with information such as throttle opening, vehicle speed, manual shift rang...

PURPOSE:To improve safety at the time the neutral range by disengaging a friction clutch and shifting the transmission to the neutral position when the manual shift range is set to the neutral range. CONSTITUTION:When the engine is started, with the manual shift range in the neutral or parking range, an oil pump is driven to generate an oil pressure to supply an ON signal from a control device to ...

PURPOSE:To allow a creep phenomenon to be generated when idling in the drive range by controlling the engagement of a friction clutch so that the engine speed may be at a predetermined value which is lower than the idle speed in the neutral range. CONSTITUTION:Only when the manual shift range is in the drive or reverse range, the throttle opening is zero, and the vehicle speed is nearly zero, a co...

An apparatus for disintegrating waste wood, in particular stumps, to form wood chips consists of a rotor which is arranged inside a shaft, has a substantially horizontally supported rotor spindle and carries, on its outer periphery, a multiplicity of cutters which co-operate with counter-cutters fixed in relation to the shaft. To improve the operational reliability of the apparatus and as far as p...

A proportional control device has an electromagnetic operating element for converting electrical energy into mechanical energy, which consists of a ferromagnetic circuit, an electromagnetic coil for exciting a magnetic flux flowing in the ferromagnetic circuit, and a ferromagnetic operating element, which can move relative to the operating element because of the action of the force of the magnetic...

1. Method for separating, by distillation, from a mixture containing ammonia, dimethylamine, water and sodium chloride, the said ammonia from the said dimethylamine, without causing the sodium chloride to precipitate, characterized in that : - in an evaporator (A), equivalent to a fractionating column with less than five theoretical plates, virtually all the ammonia and part of the methylamine con...

A method of separating lighter and heavier particles in a solids mixture includes entraining the mixture in a liquid of a specific gravity intermediate the specific gravities of the lighter and heavier particles, and feeding the liquid through a first opening into one end of a rotating vessel. The vessel is designed so that the liquid attains a dynamic equilibrium at which an annular, centrifugall...

PURPOSE:To improve the turning accuracy and to turn the traveling of an unmanned truck accurately in a prescribed direction by compensating automatically the steering control quantity of turning control from the deviation between a reference escape angle obtained between calculated and stored unprocessed and processed working sites and the actual escape angle. CONSTITUTION:Various types of signals...

A process for producing a foamed article of an aromatic polyester, especially a large-sized foamed article of aromatic polyester having a high expansion ratio, comprises mixing an aromatic polyester, a polyepoxy compound, a compound of a metal of Group Ia, IIa or IIIa of the periodic table and a blowing agent in a melt extrusion molding machine (1) optionally with a fibrous filler while introducin...

A display apparatus and method for displaying the value of the release threshold to which a ski binding is adjusted. The display apparatus is an electronic display means for electronically displaying the release threshold of the binding.

A safety ski binding having a jaw for holding a boot on a ski and permitting lateral release of the boot, an elastic system for biasing the jaw longitudinally forward against lateral pivoting, and a mechanism for compensating for the additional bias against lateral pivoting arising from friction between the boot and the ski during a forward fall. The compensation means includes a sensor which prod...

The present invention relates to generating a hot gas consisting primarily of CO and H2 from a carbonaceous starting material which, in pulverulent form, together with oxidizing agent and optionally also a slag-former, is introduced into a gasification chamber, where it is combusted and partially gasified. The resultant gas mixture is then introduced into a shaft containing a bed of solid carbonac...

The present invention relates to a means and method for partially combusting and gasifying carbonaceous material in which a hot plasma gas flow containing oxidizing agent is generated in a plasma generator and introduced into a reaction chamber, the pulverulent carbonaceous material being introduced concentrically around said hot gas flow with the aid of a transport gas.

A method and apparatus is disclosed for electrically measuring the inside diameter of a metallic pipe such as oil or gas well casing. The transimpedance of two coaxial coils within the pipe is determined and then resolved into its inphase and quadrature components. The magnitudes of these two components are used to generate a corrected measurement output. A signal representative of the inside diam...

A downhole tool, to be used in a solution-mining process for detecting capacitively the position of a blanket-medium/brine interface in salt cavities, said tool being provided with a first means which is placed at a determined distance from another means, both means being adapted for capacitive measurements, the first means consisting of a plurality of individual segments, arranged one above anoth...

A method and apparatus is disclosed for electrically measuring the inside diameter of a metallic pipe such as oil or gas well casing. The transimpedance of two coaxial coils within the pipe is determined and then resolved into its inphase and quadrature components. The magnitudes of these two components are used to generate a corrected measurement output. A signal representative of the inside diam...

Surfaces of articles formed from poly(arylene sulfide) resins are conditioned for the reception of adhesives, coatings, paints, and the like by contact with a fluorine-containing gas under conditions and for a period of time sufficient to render the surface water-wettable. The fluorine-containing gas can be pure or admixed with up to about 99 volume percent inert gas.