PURPOSE:To return all the lubrication oil to an oil reservoir by so constituting the captioned mechanism as to make the outer circumference portion of the thrust race of the bearing provided between a shaft supporting section and the neighboring member overlap to an oil reservoir opening section with the outer circumference portion bent. CONSTITUTION:Between a shaft supporting section 4B and a rot...

PURPOSE:To make it possible to supply lubrication oil between a thrust race and a shaft supporting section by providing the shaft supporting section for supporting pinion shaft and a supporting member for supporting a ring gear in such a way that force is received at the side opposite to each other. CONSTITUTION:In the case where each of gears in a planetary gear U1, which is herical gear, is inpu...

A secondary battery has positive and negative electrode members (12, 13) juxtaposed on a substantially identical plane. End faces of the positive and negative electrode members (12, 13) oppose each other at a distance. A substrate (11a) fixes and supports the positive and negative electrode members (12, 13). A cover member (11b) defines, with the substrate (11a), a sealed chamber including the pos...

A position control system for a moving vehicle comprising a light beam source for scanning a light beam in all the different azimuthal directions around the moving vehicle; a beam receiver mounted on the moving vehicle and receiving light reflected from a plurality of light-reflectors; a detector for detecting each distance between the moving vehicle and each of the light-reflectors; a detector fo...

A DMA controller with error circuitry which detects DMA error conditions is disclosed. The error circuitry causes the DMA controller to perform completion tasks before terminating a DMA transfer, advantageously providing a DMA controller which may exit gracefully upon detection of an error condition with the potential of error recovery.

An Apparatus and A Process for Recording Photometric Data That is Positioned in Succession or in Adjacent Fashion On a Page-like or Strip-like Print An apparatus for recording photometric data that is positioned in succession or in adjacent fashion on a page-like or strip-like print is equipped with at least one reflectance measuring unit with a reflectance measuring lens for measuring opaque prin...

A coating composition is based on polyvinyl chloride plastisol containing thermoplastic microspheres and is suitable for use as underbody compound for vehicles. The coating composition contains a mixture of expandable and expanded microspheres, in which the expandable microspheres expand at a temperature in the vicinity of the temperature at which the expanded microspheres begin to collapse. The m...

The invention relates to a method and a system for charging of a user of a telenetwork, especially a computer equipment offering chargeable services. In order to achieve a simple and reliable charging method: A) the identification number and the secret code of an account in a separate account register is given to the user, whereby for the charging of the user; B) the identification number and the ...

An improved process for removing dissolved metals from waste water using a recycle high density sludge is described. Specifically, the process comprises the steps of: (1) treating waste water containing dissolved metals with a recycle stream containing alkaline surface active recycle particles to precipitate the dissolved metals on the surface of the recycle particles; (2) treating a portion of th...

An aqueous silicone coating composition containing a reactive siloxane polymer and a non reactive dimethylpolysiloxane in an aqueous carrier having an effective amount of at least one dispersing agent to disperse the siloxanes throughout the aqueous carrier. Also provided is a method of lubricating substrates by applying an aqueous silicone coating composition to the substrate and curing the silic...

A method for producing an improved capacitor in MOS technology utilizing a thin layer oxide dielectric to improve the active/parasitic capacitance ratio while maintaining a high breakdown voltage and a low leakage current. A polycrystalline silicon layer is formed over a silicon dioxide field region on a wafer of semiconductor silicon. Phosphorus ions are implanted in the polycrystalline silicon l...

A countour detecting apparatus which comprises: a picture-data input device for the input of data on a picture including an object to be detected; a video-signal generator for scanning the data on the picture and generating video signals each corresponding to luminance of each pixel of the picture; a picture-data memory for sampling the video signals corresponding to each of two-dimensional coordi...

Process for the preparation of a silicon carbide foam consisting in attacking a polyurethane foam with an alkaline solution, in impregnating it, after rinsing and drying, with a suspension of silicon powder in an organic resin, in heating gradually to polymerise the resin, in carbonising the polyurethane foam and the resin, finally carbiding the silicon present in the resin suspension with the car...

PURPOSE:To simplify wiring of wiring parts and connection work of connectors by modularly collecting wires for a plurality of electric installation parts into a case disposed to be freely mountable in the vicinity of positions where the respective electric installation parts are mounted. CONSTITUTION:Electric installation parts 2a to 2j are disposed on an apparatus frame 1, and a module case 30 is...

PURPOSE:To realize assured bonding with high reliability in simple processes by a method wherein metallic bumps formed on another substrate are collectively bond-formed by transfer process without forming a barrier metal on electrodes of a semiconductor element. CONSTITUTION:Metallic bumps 11 are formed by electroplating process etc. on the positions opposing to electrodes 2 of a semiconductor ele...

A high-power semiconductor device comprises a overcurrent detecting terminal (T). One of conductive layers selectively adhered to a substrate (18) of the semiconductor device is thinner than the other conductive layers. One of terminals for an electrode of the semiconductor element (23) of the high-power semiconductor device is connected to one end of the thinner conductive layer (22). The overcur...

Process for the preparation of a silicon carbide foam consisting in attacking a polyurethane foam with an alkaline solution, in impregnating it, after rinsing and drying, with a suspension of silicon powder in an organic resin, in heating gradually to polymerise the resin, in carbonising the polyurethane foam and the resin, finally carbiding the silicon present in the resin suspension with the car...

Procédé de préparation d'une mousse de carbure de silicium consistant à attaquer une mousse de polyuréthane par une solution alcaline, à l'imprégner, après rinçage et séchage, avec une suspension de poudre de silicium dans une résine organique, à chauffer progressivement pour polymériser la résine, carboniser la mousse de polyuréthane et la résine, enfin carburer le silicium contenu dans la suspen...

A vaccine formulation for the treatment or prophylaxis of hepatitis, especially hepatitis B, infections is provided comprising the hepatitis antigen and a suitable carrier such as alum in combination with 3-O-deacylated monophosphoryl lipid A. Combination vaccines including the vaccine formulation are also described.