A belt-drive infinitely variable transmission is connected to a crankshaft of an engine through an electromagnetic powder clutch (1). The current to the clutch coil (8) is controlled by a control system (41) having an engine speed signal producing circuit (48, 49), a vehicle speed signal producing circuit (52, 53) and an arithmetic circuit (50) which controls the clutch current flowing through the...

PURPOSE:To prevent noise from occurring and lower the fuel consumption during the 2-wheel drive operation by providing a viscous coupling, which connects a hub member and a casing via viscous fluid, and a clutch means, which is located between the hub member and a shaft and which can make selectively engage/disengage the casing with the hub member/shaft. CONSTITUTION:When slide clutches 99 and 101...

PURPOSE:To conduct an exact transmission control by calculating a driving force at the time of throttle full-opening after a speed change, determining its ratio to the running resistance at the time of non-braking, foreseeing the adaption to the speed change intention of a driver to conduct a fuzzy reasoning followed by evaluation. CONSTITUTION:From the driving state of a vehicle detected by a det...

PURPOSE:To reduce a dimension in the thrust direction of a differential gear device of torque variable type, where helical gears are used. CONSTITUTION:A pair of side gears 4, 5 are rotatably provided in a housing 2 so driven as to be rotated. An idle gear 9 is disposed outside of the side gear 5 to be meshed with the side gear 5. The idle gear 9 is rotatable with respect to the housing 2 and mova...

PURPOSE:To provide a cooking device operated under utilization of solar heat through a direct heating process capable of cooking a pale colored item to be cooked such as rices and the like and further capable of heating the cooked item below a cooking container. CONSTITUTION:In a cooking device in which solar beams S are converged by the use of a Fresnel lens 12 and some cooked items are heated un...

PURPOSE: To capture an emission data and a transmission correction data simultaneously by mounting a plurality of gamma cameras around a subject and disposing an external radiation source oppositely to one gamma camera. CONSTITUTION: A gantry 20 supports gamma cameras 22a-22c at a constant interval around an inspection zone 14. The gamma cameras are brought close to a subject 12 or separated there...

PURPOSE:To manufacture a sealed storage battery excellent in battery performance by charging a powder having a high porosity and a large specific surface in a clearance between positive and negative electrode plates, and impregnating the powder with sulfuric acid electrolyte, in a sealed storage battery in which frame bodies having the positive and negative electrode plates arranged thereon are su...

Treatment is by controlled application of a CO2 laser beam. Energy absorbed from radiation of 10.6 micron wavelength causes softening of a thin layer of glass which flows under surface tension forces, to reduce roughness. Solidification takes place under controlled cooling conditions. Process can be applied to surfaces of any shape with initial roughness of 1-10 microns, and the resulting surface ...

OF INVENTION Disclosed herein is apparatus for dividing a multi-unit battery plate grid into individual battery plate grids and for subsequently applying paste to the individual battery plate grids, which apparatus comprises a pasting device for applying paste to the grids, a parter located upstream of the pasting device for dividing multi-unit battery plate grids into individual battery plate gri...

A power vent system is provided for exhausting hot combustion gas by-products. The system includes a plenum or mixing chamber, a conduit system and an air aspirating discharge assembly. Negative pressure is developed in the plenum by a blower therein; ambient air is drawn into the plenum from the atmosphere and mixed with the hot flue gases. The resulting cooled mixture is exhausted through the co...

A belt case for a pair of eyeglasses is formed from a rigid and durable plastic for protecting the eyeglasses from damage. The case consists of front and rear rigid body sections which are receivable in interfitting engagement so that they cooperate to define an interior eyeglass compartment. The compartment is operative for retaining a pair of eyeglasses as well as a spare lens for the eyeglasses...

A method and device for producing vehicle tire bead-bead filler assemblies (2), whereby green elastomeric material is injected, by means of an externally-cooled distribution tank (38), into a number of annular chambers (22) defined by two half molds (6, 7) closed about a substantially cylindrical inner core (8); an inner portion of each chamber (22) being occupied by a respective bead (3) preassem...

A copolyester which comprises, as main components, terephthalic acid as a dicarboxylic acid component and ethylene glycol as a diol component and which is characterized by: (1) isophthalic acid as a dicarboxylic acid component being from 0.5 to 3.0 mol %, (2) diethylene glycol as a diol component being from 1.0 to 2.5 mol %, (3) the intrinsic viscosity being from 0.60 to 1.50 dl/g, (4) the concent...

A monitor circuit is provided, which includes a data storage unit having dummy data stored therein, a buffer circuit connected to the output of the data storage unit, a coincidence circuit for comparing the data on the I/O bus connected between the buffer circuit and I/O units with the dummy data of the data storage unit, and a flag circuit for setting an abnormal flag responsive to the non-coinci...

La presente invención se refiere a procedimiento de fabricación de un refuerzo para neumáticos, llevando el citado refuerzo hilos adyacentes y sensiblemente paralelos, caracterizado proque cada hilo de refuerzo es proyectado individualmente a su emplazamiento en el refuerzo, siendo fabricado el citado refuerzo sobre un elemento que define la geometría del refuerzo, teniendo el citado elemento y el...

PURPOSE:To reduce an installation space by a method wherein a green tire loader is traveled on a rail disposed along a plurality of tire vulcanizing machines, a green tire loading part and a mold stock part are disposed in proximity to the rail, and a mold transporting part is installed to the lower surface of the boom of the loader. CONSTITUTION:A loader 2 is traveled along a loop-form rail 15 fi...

PURPOSE:To retain a shape of unvulcanized rubber member such as control of contraction of tread rubber and prevention of collapsing of a form of side rubber. CONSTITUTION:A wind-up liner 10 is constituted of a base part 12 which is made into a beltlike state and a crosspiece part 14 provided on both end parts 12B, 12C of the surface 12A of the base part 12 continuously respectively along a longitu...

PURPOSE:To shorten the working hours by carrying out simultaneously the feeding operation of a tire bead and the storing operation of a tire separator. CONSTITUTION:A first movable transfer device 5 for feeding a tire bead W onto the side of a molding machine not shown in the drawing through a guide 7 and a driving motor 4 and a second transfer device 8 for suction retaining a separator S and stor...

PURPOSE:To provide an electroluminescent element which emits light with a high luminance and is excellent in durability by forming an org. compd. layer contg. a specific compd. between an anode and a cathode. CONSTITUTION:An electroluminescent element comprising an anode, a cathode, and at least one org. compd. layer held between the two electrodes is produced by incorporating, into at least one o...

PURPOSE:To provide the EL display device on which characters and graphics are vividly displayed regardless of a relatively low luminance level. CONSTITUTION:A data-side electrode 15 of a thin film EL element 22 and a driver 25 are connected only in one side in the lengthwise direction of the data- side electrode 15. When characters or graphics are displayed in the low- luminance gradation level, t...