In a small-sized motor with a worm reduction gear wherein a worm, an armature and the like are coupled onto the outer periphery of an intermediate portion of a motor shaft and fixed thereto; the motor shaft is inserted into a gear case, whereby a worm wheel is meshed with the worm; a journal member having the outer diameter larger than that of the worm is projectingly provided at a position close ...

An apparatus for estimating a road traffic condition and for controlling a vehicle running characteristic includes a controller having a fuzzy inference function and a neural network function. The controller carries out frequency analysis on vehicle driving parameters such as vehicle speed, steering angle, accelerator opening degree, and longitudinal acceleration and lateral acceleration of a vehi...

It is described an oxygen dispenser for use in high pressure discharge lamps. The oxygen dispenser of the invention comprises a metallic container capable of retaining solid materials but allowing an easy passage of gas, containing silver oxide. Several possible types of dispenser are proposed. The dispenser has shown capable of avoiding the formation of black deposits coming from hydrocarbons ins...

The invention relates to a fibrous strip of multiple width, which consists of crimped interlaced filaments and which has a plurality of regions extending in the longitudinal direction of the fibre strip and at least one predetermined tearing line (4) extending in the longitudinal direction of the fibre strip, the tearing force (daN) of the fibre strip, related to the total linear density (dtex), a...

An aminoplast-curable film-forming composition is disclosed. The film-forming composition is a crosslinkable composition comprising (1) a material containing a plurality of carbamate and/or urea functional groups and (2) an aminoplast crosslinking agent. The composition provides a coating with improved acid etch resistance, making the coating particularly useful as an automotive clear coat.

A powder-metallurgy-produced, essentially titanium-free, nickel-containing maraging steel article such as for use in the manufacture of die casting die components and other hot work tooling components. The article preferably contains an intentional addition of niobium. The article may be produced as a hot-isostatically-compacted, solution annealed, fully dense mass of prealloyed particles, or alte...

A method of charging a nonwoven web of thermoplastic microfibers to provide electret filter media is provided. The method includes impinging on a nonwoven web of thermoplastic nonconductive microfibers capable of having a high quantity of trapped charge jets of water or a stream of water droplets at a pressure sufficient to provide the web with filtration enhancing electret charge and drying said ...

The apparatus for the measurement of cells, by the patch clamp method, has a flat array of micro dishes (1) to hold the cells (2). A second number of micro pipettes (3) are positioned in relation to the dishes, to simultaneously investigate the cells. The layout of the micro dishes match the micro pipettes, in a small screen size in at least one direction. The dishes and pipettes can be offset to...

A pulsed laser beam (9) operates with a pulse duration in the range 10 to 10000 femtoseconds, preferably 100 to 1000 femtoseconds. The pulse frequency, energy, and the workpiece (6) feed-rate relative to the beam are adjusted to prevent melting of or damage to the work piece material. The pulse energy is in the range pref. 10 mu J to 1 mu J and the frequency in the range 0.1 to 10 kHz. The laser i...

A power output device is provided with a planetary gear, an engine having a crank shaft coupled to the planetary gear, a motor secured to a sun gear and a motor secured to a ring gear. Even if there is no need to continue operation of the engine, the engine is not immediately stopped in view of the charge amount of a battery. For example, in the D (drive) range, a processing for stopping rotation ...

The X-ray tube contains a cathode (15) for producing an electron beam, a rotary anode (16) with an incidence surface (22) on which the electrons are incident at a focal spot and deflectors (42,43). The deflectors deflect the electron beam depending on an electrical deflection signal in a direction which intersects the peripheral direction of the rotary anode so that the focal spot moves periodical...

The HF equipment is matched to an antenna (4) via a variable matching circuit (5) with a matching network (8) and two adjustable control elements (6,7). The reflection factor at the matching circuit input connected to the transmitter or receiver is measured with the antenna interacting with an investigation object. An electronic controller (12) computes and adjusts the control element parameters. ...

Compounds of the formula (I) wherein X is O or S, useful for the inhibition of the replication of HIV-1 and reverse transcriptase mutants thereof, in vitro and in vivo.

A two stage reaction for the production of steel from iron carbide is carried out in two separate but interrelated reactors. In the first reactor, iron, carbide, with slag formers, is fed into a feed end and the reaction is well-mixed by the vessel geometry, the stirring action below-surface injection of oxygen and iron carbide feed, and the evolution of gases from the liquid metal bath. The produ...

The present invention concerns the discovery that proteins encoded by a family of vertebrate genes, termed here hedgehog-related genes, comprise morphogenic signals produced by embryonic patterning centers, and are involved in the formation of ordered spatial arrangements of differentiated tissues in vertebrates. The present invention makes available compositions and methods that can be utilized, ...

A control system/method for controlling the shifting of automated mechanical transmission systems (10) is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the control system/method (FIG. 4) defines the window ((OS*GRT) + K >/= ISE >/= (OS*GRT)) for synchronous engagement (for shifts other than compound upshifts) such that jaw clutch (112/114, 116/118) engagement will occur or tend to occur when the input shaf...

Dressing for the navel of newborn infants comprises a binder with a pad attached along part of its length. The pad is attached in such a way that the binder has a short end (5) opposite the pad and an appreciably longer and (4) at the other end. On the front of the short end (5) is an adhesive strip with a removable protective covering (7) which is used to attached the short end of the binder when...

An improved device and method for facilitating access to a duct within the human body. The device includes a multi-lumen catheter having a spincterotome cutting wire disposed through a first lumen and attached at its proximal end to a sphincterotome deployer, and a needle knife cutting wire disposed through a second lumen and attached at its proximal end to a needle knife deployer. By using this d...

A biaxially oriented polyester film having at least one film layer mainly formed from polypropylene terephthalate and a heat shrinkage at 80 DEG C in 30 minutes of 0.8 % or below. It is excellent in abrasion resistance and particularly useful as a magnetic recording medium.; La présente invention concerne un film de polyester à orientation biaxiale. Une couche au moins de ce film est formée essen...

A polyarylate which is made up of dihydric phenols consisting of a 9,9-bis(alkyl-substituted 4-hydroxyphenyl)fluorene residue and a bisphenol residue and having a molar fraction of the former of 0.05 to 1 and carboxylic acid components consisting of a terephthalic acid residue and an isophthalic acid residue, and has an inherent viscosity of 0.25 to 2.50; and a polyarylate film which is produced f...