PURPOSE: To rapidly recover sludge while achieving miniaturization and cost reduction. CONSTITUTION: A plurality of rotary drum bodies, a discharge blade driving means 51, a moving drive means 81 and a position control means are provided. During the centrifugal separation of sewage by one rotary drum body 10A, the discharge blades 21 of the other rotary drum body 10B and the discharge blade drivin...

A dissolved air flotation (DAF) system and method for gas-liquid contacting operations. A mixture of untreated liquid and liquid saturated with dissolved air is passed through a series of upward deflecting screens placed across the flowpath in a rectangular tank. Microbubbles of air released from the mixture produce a buoyant force which carries contacted particles to the surface. Floated particle...

PURPOSE: To provide a differential limit releasing device capable of effectively restraining the differential limit action contrary to the intention while adopting a differential limiting-device having the simple structure. CONSTITUTION: In a differential limit-device the input side rotational driving force from a differential gear case 1 arranged in the differential gear case 1 is differentiated ...

PURPOSE: To make braking force act, so as to perform brake-stopping by providing a controller for shifting the shift range of a torque converter-type transmission to the shift range reverse to the travel direction of a vehicle when an emergency stop switch is operated, and performing control so that the rotation of an engine may be prevented from being stopped. CONSTITUTION: When an emergency stop...

PURPOSE: To prohibit constant velocity traveling control when a transmission lever is operated to the reverse position. CONSTITUTION: When a main switch 21 applied to a constant velocity traveling controller provided with a constant vel-ocity traveling control unit 10, and for instructing constant velocity traveling is operated, whether a transmission lever is operated to the reverse position or n...

PURPOSE: To improve the fuel consumption decreasing effect by providing a control means for releasing a clutch during supply of fuel in a state where the throttle opening is substantially full closed, and controlling the engine so that the engine may perform the idle operation. CONSTITUTION: An intake pipe full close means 16 is composed of a full close valve 36 arranged on an intake passage 8 ups...

PURPOSE: To improve the vibration damping effect by providing a control means for prohibiting the economical running operation when the economical running operation prohibiting condition in a state where a vehicle is in the sudden decel eration operating state is held. CONSTITUTION: A control means 84 stops an engine 4 by an engine stopping device 78 when the economical running operating condition...

PURPOSE: To improve braking effect, and to realize the fuel consumption decreas ing effect by providing a control means for controlling an engine so that the operating state may immediately escape from the economical running operation state during the economical running operation in a state where a clutch is released when it is judged that a driver has the intention of the sudden decelera tion. CO...

PURPOSE: To perform a secure and positive alarm in making the alarm of a defect in a pressure source so as to use it effectively for the driving of a vehicle and its driver. CONSTITUTION: An alarm pressure switch 10 is connected to a central processing unit for A/T control (hereinafter referred to as an A/T CPU) 20, and a pressure defect detecting signal out of this alarm pressure switch 10 is inp...

PURPOSE: To reduce size and to reduce incurring of a torque loss by providing a converting means to move a disc support member in an axial direction, in which a disc and a plate are engaged with each other, when there is a difference between rotation torque of a disc supports member and that of an output shaft. CONSTITUTION: A cam ring 16a is arranged through a ball member 16b between a disc suppo...

PURPOSE: To facilitate regulation of initial torque for limiting differential uniformly and surely from the outside after assembly. CONSTITUTION: In a differential limiting device, input side rotational driving force is differentially divided and transmitted to left and right output sides via differential rotation members 1, 6, 7, 8 consisting of differential gears, and connection of a multiple di...

PURPOSE: To use an axle housing made of sheet metal as it is so as to moderate machining accuracy and to reduce machining cost and weight. CONSTITUTION: A boss 703 with a threaded hole 702 opened is provided on the upper face of the bearing cap 7 of a case support bearing, and the top part of the boss 703 is adhered fast to an axle housing 14 so as to substantially fix the upper face of the bearin...

PURPOSE: To effectively reduce tooth hammering noise generated by the relative rotation difference between the engine rotating speed and the turbine rotating speed in a vehicle mounted with an automatic transmission formed by combining a torque converter to which engine output is inputted, with speed change mechanism for speed-changing the output rotation of the converter to output it. CONSTITUTIO...

PURPOSE: To make line pressure in the P and N ranges of an automatic transmission lower than line pressure in a D range so as to reduce the power loss of an oil pump. CONSTITUTION: An oil pressure control device for an automatic transmission is provided with oil passages 30, 32 connected to the discharge side of an oil pump 5, a pressure regulating means 11 that can regulate oil pressure in the oi...

PURPOSE: To accurately detect the stable state of a rotating speed change rate for the start of feedback control at the time of speed change. CONSTITUTION: A control device for an automatic transmission executes the speed change of the automatic transmission 2 connected to an engine 1 by increasing the engaging pressure of a specified friction engaging device 3, and performs the feedback control o...

A process for preparing hydrochloride of 3-acetoxy-2, 3-dihydro-5-¢ 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl!-2-(p-methoxyphenyl)- 1, 5-benzothiazepin-4(5H)-one which comprises reacting 3-hydroxy-2, 3-dihydro-5-¢2-(dimethyl-amino)ethyl!-2-(p-methoxyphenyl)-1, 5-benzothiazepin-4(5H)-one with acetyl chloride in acetic acid or a mixed solvent of acetic acid and acetic anhydride. According to the process, hydrochloride...

Safety device in the feeder of a paper-sheet processing machine with a stack-lifting chain (3), controlled so as to be freely rotating, for raising and lowering the feed stack (2), with drive means for carrying along the stack-lifting chain (3) for raising the feed stack (2), with drive means for carrying along the stack-lifting chain (3) for lowering the feed stack (2) and with means for disconne...

A lead/sulphuric acid storage battery with negative and positive electrode plates, between which plastics microporous separators or glass-fiber separators are arranged, comprises un-crosslinked natural or synthetic rubber to combat antimony poisoning in the battery. The rubber is preferably in the form of a layer comprising un-crosslinked natural or synthetic rubber or is incorporated into a carri...

In a method of photometric in vitro determination of the content of oxygen in a blood sample, a blood sample is transferred directly from an in vivo locality to an at least partially transparent sample container of a sampling device. The sample container has a measuring chamber containing a luminophor, the luminescence of which is quenched in the presence of oxygen. The luminophor is excited by ir...

A canopy for protecting an individual from adverse weather when positioned in front of a grill. The inventive device includes an inclined canopy and support assemblies for securing the canopy above and in front of a grill.