A non woven mat useful for a wide variety of purposes, including forming reinforced resin products, is produced in a manner having different specific uses of, and advantages over, conventional chopped strand mats and conventional glass tissue. The mat is preferably made by the foam process (but may be made by the liquid process), and at speeds well in excess of 60 m. min. , and has a substantially...

This invention is directed to structurally-modified water-soluble polymers prepared by initiating polymerization of an aqueous solution of monomers under free radical polymerization conditions to form a polymer solution and adding at least one structural modifier to the polymer solution after at least 30 % polymerization of the monomers has occurred, and to use of the water-soluble cross-linked po...

PURPOSE: A power generating system using accumulated elastic force is provided to make the best use of wind power by storing intermittent rotational force of wind in the elastic spring through the deceleration unit and generating power with increasing rotational force through the acceleration unit. CONSTITUTION: A power generating system comprises a rotating body(10) rotated in the upper part of t...

A number of strap-forming metal molds 12 corresponding to the number of steps are arranged on a circumferential track and are fed to the devices of the respective steps A DIFFERENCE F together with electrode plate groups 10. Position A is an electrode plate group 10 introduction position; position B is a flux coating position in which electrode plate leads 6 are coated with flux; position C is an ...

PURPOSE: To prevent a driver from feeling uncomfortable due to large fluctuation of engine speed at the time of climbing. CONSTITUTION: A maximum engine speed Nemax and a minimum engine speed Nemin are set according to inclination (S31). A maximum torque ratio Gemax and a minimum torque ratio Gemin are calculated based on them and an output rotational speed No of a transmission at that time (S32, ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To elongate the life of a seal member and strengthen its durability by reviewing the fitting structure between a transmission shaft case and a front axle case. SOLUTION: A first seal ring 16 acting between a transmission shaft case 6 and a front axle case is arranged inside the upper end of a cylinder case part 8B surrounding a king pin shaft 13 in the front axle case 8 and a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving device of a bogie for a railway rolling stock capable of absorbing the large relative displacement between a wheel and a bogie frame, having a simple structure and being free from the increase of a weight of the bogie as a whole, in the case when a driving means such as a motor is mounted on the bogie frame. SOLUTION: The motor 2 is mounted on the bogie f...

The object of the invention was to develop further a pallet of this type, in such a way that it fixes securely on its attachment mandrel textile bobbins which can differ from one another in their inside diameter. This object is achieved, in the current invention, in that at least three supporting elements of separately variable radial position are distributed on the circumference of the attachment...

A slip control system for an automotive vehicle includes an automatic power transmission, a torque converter, a lock-up control device for controlling operation of the lock-up device depending upon an input from a traveling state detection device which detects traveling condition including driving operation, an acceleration slip detection device provided as a part of the traveling state detection ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively prevent the occurrence of shock followed by manual shift by letting the control condition of an air-fuel ratio for an internal combustion engine in an non-running range in response to the control condition of an air-fuel ratio in a running range when gear shifting is manually actuated in a range between the running range and the non-running range. SOLUTION: An ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an automatic transmission of vehicle giving a favorable transmission transient control by expanding a control range of line pressure to be used, for a transmission transient control as original pressure in a hydraulic friction engaging device. SOLUTION: When an initiation of inertia phase in a transmission period from a second speed gear (a fir...

A vehicle tyre(1) has cuts(3) in the tread which in plan view have a zig-zag or wave form along a direction(E) running roughly in the axial direction(A) of the tyre. When viewed tangential to the tread and perpendicular to the direction(E) the cuts(3) display peaks(4) and troughs(5) inclined to a tyre radius and extending from the cut base(G) to the tyre surface. In the same view all peaks(4) and ...

Rigid foams having excellent compression strength, dimensional stability, flame retardance and adhesion are produced by reacting an active hydrogen compound having at least two functionalities with a polyisocyanate compound in the presence of a catalyst and a blowing agent comprising either water alone or a mixture of water and a low boiling compound, wherein (1) the polyisocyanate compound is a p...

The invention provides a process for the production of flexible to semi-rigid polyurethane shaped articles with a compacted edge zone of given hardness and a significantly more flexible cell core, so-called integral foams, in which non-combustible mixtures of fluoroalkanes which comprise 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluorobutane (R 365mfc) are employed as physical blowing agents.

Rigid foam excellent in compression strength, dimensional stability, flame retardancy and adhesion is produced. Solving means: A method of preparing polyurethane-modified polyisocyanurate foam, comprising reacting an active hydrogen compound having at least two functionalities with a polyisocyanate compound in the presence of a catalyst and a blowing agent comprising either water alone or a mixtur...

To provide a tube tire which can avoid damage to a tube in charging a sealant, and can prevent the sealant from plugging an air valve of the tube. A first tube half 4i and a second tube half 4o having the same side and circular cross sections are joined together in the condition of raw rubber, and next vulcanized, thereby forming a tube 2 consisting of the two tube halves 4i and 4o integrated in a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sterilizing packaging device for a food containing a solid material, using an easily washable retainer capable of easily performing the sterilizing treatment of the solid material. SOLUTION: This sterilizing packaging device for a food containing a solid material is provided by having a traveling body traveling on a traveling rail, a retainer which comprises a si...

A device for objectively evaluating the quality of a digitally transmitted picture. This device compresses encoded pictures x1 and x2 transmitted on two links that are decoded by a first decoder and a second decoder. A variance value sigma2(x1) of the decoded picture decoded by the first decoder is measured by a variance measuring unit. A variance value sigma2(x1-x2) of a signal indicative of a di...

A polymeric film, which comprises 100 parts by weight of a polyester resin having an intrinsic viscosity ranging from 0.4 to 0.9 dl/g, 5 to 50 parts by weight of a polyolefin resin having a melt flow index ranging from 1.0 to 25 g/10 min and/or a styrene resin having a melt flow index ranging from 1.5 to 20 g/10 min, and 0.01 to 1.0 part by weight of a metal sulfonate of the following formula (I) ...

A method is presented for path planning after changes in task space. In one embodiment, the method is applied to planning a path for a robot arm. The method identifies areas in the configuration space which are affected by the changes in task space. Cost waves can then be repropagated in these affected areas to allow for planning in N dimensions and using space variant metrics. The method is also ...