PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently execute shearing crush of a material to be crushed of a lap film or the like by a method wherein an edge part of a fixed edge is composed of two concave curve-like ridge lines which adjoin each other by forming an almost V-character shape conforming to loci on faces of the fixed edge of two linear ridge lines which adjoin each other as an edge part of a rotary ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a motor driven car to stop when a clutch is cut off, to reduce the speed, or to suppress the running speed at a set speed. SOLUTION: A brake means 36 to brake a driving shaft 23 when the clutch 28 of a reduction gear device 16 is cut off is provided, the speed reduction gear device 16 is composed of a counter gear 18 and a differential gear 19, and the differential g...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce an unpleasant speed reducing feeling in a shift-up time. SOLUTION: In this control method, a gear type transmission 3 is shift controlled automatically, by a clutch actuator 6 to connect and disconnect a clutch which transmits the power of an engine 1, and an automatic transmission device 7 to carry out the shift operation of the gear type transmission 3. In this c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air supply device which has not any supply hose or can be placed by providing a placed air supply strip piece and arranging lifting up and/or carrying means movably along this air supply strip piece. SOLUTION: A leg part 16 is connected with an intake air feeding source 32 through an exchangeable valve unit and a feeding pipe 24. An air blower 7 for separating p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve excess and shortage problem of cooling steam to each gas turbine by multipoint-connecting a steam supply pipe reaching a high temperature part of plural turbine plants and a reheater to a high pressure steam outlet pipe of a steam turbine plant to distribute cooling steam supplied to each high temperature part corresponding to the gas turbine load. SOLUTION: Exhaust ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize and lighten a double row tapered roller bearing device while securing performance of durability, transmission efficiency, etc. SOLUTION: A pinion shaft 2 on an end part of which a pinion gear 4 is fixed is supported by a pair of tapered roller bearings 3a, 3b. A contact angle &alpha of the tapered roller bearing 3b on the opposite side of the pinion gear 4 is m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential gear and a continuously variable transmission which can efficiently transmit a driving force to a distal driven part without waste. SOLUTION: A differential gear C is composed of a pair of intermediate transmission devices A, B respectively having support points so as to be movable around the support points, independent from each other, a differentia...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To uniformly distribute the bearing pressure of a differential limiting multi-disc clutch while maintaining the lubricity and the interchangeability of differential gear casings. SOLUTION: A differential gear device is composed of a differential mechanism 5 for distributing the rotation of a differential gear casing 3 among wheels through the intermediary of output members 25...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To remove the air in a heat carrier passage efficiently while suppressing lowering of heat exchanging efficiency. SOLUTION: The solar heat accumulator 31 comprises a heat collector 12, and a tank 13 for accumulating heat of a heated antifreeze solution. Pipelines 14, 15 for circulating antifreeze solution are connected between the heat collector 12 and the heat accumulation t...

Point-bonding and water-jet-softening of a sheet of flash-spun polyethylene plexifilamentary film-fibril strands provide a nonwoven fabric that is particularly suited for dyeing and use in disposable protective garments. Garments made with the nonwoven fabric are comfortable and provide a good protection against particulate matter, such as air-borne asbestos particles.

''BANDA DE RODAGEM''. Banda de rodagem (1) para pneumático de tipo ""Veículo Pesado'' com armadura de carcaça radial encimada radialmente por uma armadura de vértice (4), a dita banda de rodagem sendo equipada com ranhuras (2) que podem ser recavadas, caracterizada pelo fato de que as partes de banda de rodagem dispostas radialmente sob as ranhuras (2) são equipadas com indicadores de profundidad...

Bedding articles which are encased (or of which all or part of the upholstery is enclosed) in an allergen barrier. The allergen barrier comprises an elastic stretch knit substrate laminated with a monolithic, hydrophilic, moisture-vapor permeable elastic film made from at least one polymer and having a thickness of no more than 1 mil.

An axle driving apparatus wherein a hydraulic motor and a hydraulic pump for a hydro-static-transmission are housed in a transmission casing of the axle driving apparatus and a center section for connecting the hydraulic motor and hydraulic pump is disposed in the transmission casing, the center section being fixed at the butt joint portion at the transmission casing, and an oil passage from the h...

An accessory support system attachable to the exterior of a motor vehicle supports recreational accessories such as grills, table tops and umbrellas for use out of doors. The system comprises a lateral support assembly adapted to connect to the trailer hitch of a motor vehicle, and one or more vertical support means adapted to engage one or more recreational accessories such that the accessories a...

A system for controlling train movement uses a distributed architecture. Wayside controllers receive signals from individual trains, including position information derived from a navigation system. The wayside controllers interface with a central train control network, and coordinate local train movement including the issuance of incremental authorities.

A train throttle and brake control apparatus is provided for use in a train having a master locomotive and one or more slave locomotives remotely located in the train. In a first embodiment, the apparatus includes a train force calculator which approximates train coupler forces based on computations as a function of the track topography. In a second embodiment, a coupler sensor is provided which s...

A high-frequency surgical apparatus has a plurality of different operating modes, such as monopolar, tripolar, bipolar, at least one function such as cutting, coagulation in each operating mode and at least one operating mode with several functions and also at least one characteristic within each function which can be selected by one switching key in each case. In accordance with the invention an ...

A motor vehicle is automatically steered to run along a running path on a road while detecting magnetic nails that are arranged on the road at spaced intervals along the running path. The motor vehicle has a pair of magnetic nail sensors on respective front and rear portions thereof for detecting lateral deviations of magnetic nails with respect to the motor vehicle at the respective front and rea...

A computer system to compress bit formats provided in a first packed data sequence. The computer system include a processor, a multimedia input device to receive an image or audio input, a memory having stored thereon a set of packed data sequences having data elements representing the input, and a compression routine for manipulating the input. When the compression routine is executed by the proc...

A Hamming distance calculation device (10) includes a bit comparator (12) for determining nonmatching bit positions between two digital words. A current signal is generated for each nonmatching bit position by a nonmatching current generator (14). The current signals created are combined to produce a summed current signal that drives a first reference current comparator (18), a second reference cu...