PURPOSE:To reduce the undershoot of an internal combustion engine by increasing an intake air quantity in a bypass which connects the upper and lower courses of a throttle valve in an intake passage when an automatic transmission is shifted to a condition to output the driving force of said internal combustion engine. CONSTITUTION:Normally, a control valve M6 is controlled by an internal combustio...

An apparatus for preventing scatter of fly in a winder having a plurality of winding units where a yarn is unwound from a yarn feeding bobbin and is taken-up on a take-up package. A first cover member for covering the yarn feeding bobbin unwound at a winding unit and a second cover member for covering a tenser portion are provided with each winding unit.

Amino acid monofluorophosphate salts of formula (I) are new: AAnFPO3.2NaCl (I). AA = L-, D- or DL-amino acid; n = 1 or 2. (B) Also new are monofluorophosphates of the formula AAnFPO3 (II). Specifically claimed, mixed salts of L-glutamine, D-glutamine, L-asparagine, L-cysteine, L-lysine, L-proline and DL-proline monofluorophosphates with sodium chloride are specifically claimed. The new mixed salts...

Footwear for infants and toddlers which allow the child's foot to relax in a natural, "barefoot" condition, i.e., without exerting substantial pressure on the toes and sides of the foot, and which facilitate the fitting of the shoe onto the foot. The shoe comprises a sole and an upper fastened to the sole for surrounding the sides and heel of the foot. The upper includes a pair of flexible side re...

A high-frequency incision tool has a flexible sheath which is adapted to be inserted into the body cavity along with an endoscope. A suction port is formed at the distal end of the sheath. A wire is inserted into the sheath and a part of the wire is exposed from the sheath to form an incision section. The wire is pushed and pulled by an operating section which is provided at the proximal end of th...

A tire bead wire apparatus comprising a festoon mechanism for accumulating a bead wire strip, movable bead transferring means for transferring the bead wire strip fed from the festoon mechanism, cutting means for cutting the bead wire strip into predetermined lengths, a rotatable bead former assembly comprising a plurality of different bead formers which are different in diameter in relation to on...

A carrier for a sailboard comprising a carrier bar, spaced loops suspended from the bar to support the board, a second pair of loops suspended from the carrier bar to support the mast, on which the sail may be wrapped and a pouch supported from the bar to carry the daggerboard, and ropes. Mounted on the spaced loops for supporting the board are fasteners to secure the handle bar or boom.

The present invention consists in a rear image projection apparatus having a transmissive screen of high efficiency and low moiré disturbance. In particular, the screen comprises a Fresnel sheet having a Fresnel lens, a front sheet having a horizontally-diffusing lenticular lens and a light diffusing element, and if necessary, a third sheet, wherein at least one surface of the Fresnel sheet or the...

A method of detecting defects present at the surface and/or internally in transparent materials, particularly of detecting included foreign bodies or bubbles in glass, is disclosed. The test material is scanned with an electromagnetic radiation of a single wavelength which is set to the penetration depth in the test material. The intensity reflected by the defects is picked up and analyzed. By thi...

Apparatus for immunoassay of biological fluids, e.g. for AIDS antibodies, comprising an enclosed channel with fittings at the ends and a transparent top, together with a strip of nitrocellulose paper or other suitable material impregnated with antigens to the antibodies which are to be defected. The apparatus may have a single channel or it may have multiple channels.

Disclosed herein is a biaxially oriented polyethylene naphthalate film which shows the haze-increasing rate, represented by the formula: Haze-increasing rate (%)=[(H2-H1)/H1x100 wherein H1 is the haze before subjecting the film to heat treatment and H2 is the haze after subjecting the film to heat treatment, of not more than 20% and both the heat shrinkage in the longitudinal direction and the hea...

A copolyester film is disclosed which comprises a copolyester in which the dicarboxylic acid component comprises 100 to 85 mole percent of terephthalic acid and the diol component comprises 65 to 97 mole percent of 1,4-butanediol and 3 to 35 mole percent of a polyethylene glycol with a molecular weight of 106 to 550. The copolyester has a reduced viscosity in the range of 0.8 to 1.4 dl/g as measur...

Insecticidal 1-(2,6-dihalo-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-2-pyridones and procedures for making the same.

Disclosed is a sculpted, hand-squeezable toy which possesses dimensional memory and has a predetermined dimensional memory restoration time. The toy is made by blending a foamable hydrophilic polyurethane isocyanate-functional prepolymer, a vinyl or acylic polymer emulsion recovery rate modifier, water, and an organic cosolvent. The blend then is charged to a mold for the foamed toy to be made the...

A body of a butchered animal suspended at its hind legs by suspension conveying means is conveyed by means of a conveying table to a station for splitting the body into two halves along the spine, where the body and the conveying table become stationary and the body is turned through 90 degrees in a splitting position between body supporting means and pusher means which is indexed with the conveyi...

A filter for the transmission fluid in an automobile comprises an elongate housing 20 with a longitudinal inlet 22, an end outlet 24 and an opposite end closure 26 which forms a removable part of the wall of the fluid sump pan 5. The outlet 24 makes a demountable seal with wall 7, separating the inlet side of the pan from a zone connected to a suction pump. The housing encloses two concentric-tubu...

TIRE SEALANT COMPOSITION OF THE DISCLOSURE A tire sealant composition for injection into pneumatic tires is provided. The tire sealant composition promotes heat transfer in a rolling tire, thereby keeping the tire somewhat cooler; it assists in balancing the wheel and tire, thereby prolonging the life of the tire and precluding unnecessary unevenness of wear of the tire; and the tire sealant compo...

A down-hole signal transmitter includes an annular impeller mounted on a cylindrical casing and arranged to be driven by the mud flow passing along a drill string. Each of the impeller and the casing incorporates two sets of magnets with their poles arranged axially relative to one another such that axial movement of the impeller in one direction will tend to be resisted by a force of magnetic rep...

The invention concerns a process and an apparatus for making a stable solution or dispersion of a hydrosoluble powder. It is characterized by the simultaneous use of a system for withdrawing powder from a vessel (2) e.g. by means of a gas (4), the dilution of the powder in a carrying gas, the driving with said carrying gas, of the obtained dilution, through a transfer duct (10), the passage of the...

A biaxially oriented polyester film is provided, which has a plurality of depressions and a plurality of protrusions on at least one surface thereof, in a configuration such that at least one protrusion exists within each depression or at least protrusion exists in the area where two or more depressions are contiguous to each other depressions having an area fraction of from 1x10-3 to 6x10-1. The ...