PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency as well as the saving of power in the grinding work of a tire tread by a method wherein grinding is effected once or twice in accordance with the amount of remaining tread. CONSTITUTION:When the result of measurement (radius R of a tire 2) is sent from a measuring means 38, a control means 41 obtains a difference between the result of measurement and a predetermin...

PURPOSE:To reduce the speed change shock by varying the processing speed in selection according to the accelerator pedal operation quantity in down shift, in the selection of gear stage by opening a clutch after the engine output is reduced in the selection of the speed change gear stages. CONSTITUTION:As for a vehicle which transmits the power of an engine to driving wheels through a magnetic pow...

PURPOSE: To pass yarn surely, by passing one yarn through the first groove at the first side of a guide at first, then lifting the yarn from the first groove, transferring the yarn to the second groove, and furthermore, passing the second yarn through the first groove. CONSTITUTION: A lateral guide 12 is regulated to reciprocate within the first and the second limits 43 and 44 to define the latera...

The invention relates to an air-fuel (A/F) ratio controller of an internal combustion engine, which is provided with a constant-voltage circuit between the heater for heating the A/F ratio sensor and the power-supply source. Regardless of variation of voltage outputted from the power-supply source, the A/F ratio controller securely maintains the heater voltage constant and prevents occurrence of e...

The electrode device comprises a disposable terminal electrode (A) and a connector (B) which can be attracted to the terminal electrode by the force of a permanent magnet. The terminal electrode has a case (2) for accommodating an electrode (1a) an electrode base (1) and a sponge (5) associated with the electrode, a ring-like water-proof sheet (37) on the lower surface, and a sticking sheet (3) in...

A safety ski binding comprised of first and second jaw units for retaining a ski boot on the ski. The first jaw unit includes a contact switch, which will be actuated in response to predetermined forces which are transmitted from the ski boot to the first unit, the forces being transmitted in at least two planes which are at right angles to each other. The first jaw unit includes an axle mounted t...

The invention relates to new aryloxy phenoxy acyl malonates of the general Formula I (I) a process for the preparation thereof and herbicidal compositions comprising the same. In the general Formula I R1 stands for hydrogen, halogen, trifluoromethyl, trifluoromethoxy or cyano; R2 represents hydrogen, halogen or methyl; R3 is C1-4 alkyl; and the R3 substituents may be the sa...

A method is presented for path planning after changes in task space. In one embodiment, the method is applied to planning a path for a robot arm. The method identifies areas in the configuration space which are affected by the changes in task space. Cost waves can then be repropagated in these affected areas to allow for planning in N dimensions and using space variant metrics. The method is also ...

A method and apparatus for increasing the sensitivity and accuracy of apparatus used in chemical analysis utilizing the colorimeter method. The method employs two or more light emitting diodes which emit light at different wavelengths. The emission wavelength of the L.E.D. is automatically switched to an L.E.D. which most closely matches any desired absorption band in the solution being analyzed s...

APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DEFECTS ON BOTTLE MOUTH WITH SCREW THREAD An apparatus for detecting defects on a bottle mouth with a screw thread has an illuminating unit (10) for applying light to the mouth of a bottle under rotation; a photoelectric conversion unit (16) for photoelectrically converting a light transmitted image of the bottle mouth applied with light by the illuminating unit into electr...

A blood bag comprises a plastic polyvinyl chloride formulation in which the polyvinyl chloride formulation contains from 5 to 30 percent by weight of a first plasticizer material which is essentially nonextractable by blood plasma stored in the bag up to 35 days at about 4.degree. C.; and from 10 to 25 percent by weight of a second plasticizer which is significantly extracted by blood plasma store...

A slow speed cruising control apparatus comprises a setting switch for determining a slow speed cruising mode, a detector for detecting a quantity of depression of a brake pedal, an actuator for driving a throttle valve, a speed sensor for detecting the cruising speed of the automobile, a controller for controlling the cruising speed by changing the degree of opening of the throttle valve on the b...

An electrolytic treatment method and a unit in which such a method is practiced are provided wherein heavy metal hydrous oxides are precipitated and recovered from a dilute waste stream to render the waste stream suitable for discharge. The waste stream is passed into the cathode chamber of an anion exchange membrane delineated electrolytic cell and subjected to high current density electrolysis t...

A method of disposing of wastes containing heavy metal compounds by neutralizing the wastes, oxidizing the neutralized wastes, then solidifying the oxidized wastes using conventional mineral binding agents such as Portland cement. This method is of particular interest in treating arsenic sulfide containing aqueous sludges produced in the manufacture of phosphoric acid.

A mechanically stable, conformable collagen wound dressing sheet material is fabricated by lyophilizing (freeze-drying) a collagen composition and compressing the porous pad thus produced at a pressure between about 15,000-30,000 p.s.i. The sheet material thus produced may also be treated with optional dehydrothermal crosslinking known in the art. In addition to mechanical stability and conformabi...

The invention relates to a process for the production of thin stretched films with thickness between 0.1 and 20 mu m from polyolefins of ultrahigh molecular weight by dissolving the polyolefin in a solvent, shaping the solution at a temperature above the solution temperature of the polyolefin to a tape, cooling the tape to a temperature below the solution temperature to obtain gelation and stretc...

Diamond films are deposited at substrates below temperatures of 400 DEG C by chemical vapour deposition using a high powered pulsed laser and a vapour which is an aliphatic carboxylic acid or an aromatic carboxylic anhydride.

Disclosed herein is pre-foamed particles of an uncrosslinked, linear low-density polyethylene having a crystalline structure characterized in that two endothermic peaks appear on a DSC curve obtained by differential scanning calorimetry of the pre-foamed particles (said DSC curve having been obtained by heating 1-5 mg of the pre-foamed particles to 220 DEG C at a rate of 10 DEG C/min by a differen...

A process for the preparation of vinyl chloride homopolymer and copolymer pulverulent powders suitable for the preparation of plastisols with improved rheological properties, comprising polymerizing to form a vinyl chloride homopolymer or copolymer latex and drying said latex by atomization, the temperature at which the latex to be subjected to drying by atomization is employed being at least equa...