This application describes a rotation-only CT scanner with beam deflections; the deflection and the rotation being so related as to permit the derivation of absorption data in groups focussed on respective "pivot points" outside the detector locus. Data derived from different detectors, but focussed on the same pivot point, relate to groups of paths, some of which overlap, and the overlap is used ...

PURPOSE:To facilitate engine control test, by providing a mode switching means which can stop speed change control and carry out engine control, and switching the mode when specific external operating conditions are satisfied. CONSTITUTION:A gear change control circuit 13 is connected through switching circuits 14, 15, 16 to a clutch drive 6, a speed changer drive 7 and a switching circuit 17 one ...

PURPOSE:To operate the reengagement of an on/off clutch in a low speed condition and improve safety by bringing a stepless transmission under a disconnected condition of said on/off clutch, to a low speed condition corresponding to the position of a speed change lever in preference to the set value of deceleration. CONSTITUTION:When a clutch 14 is disconnected while traveling, a signal from a dete...

PURPOSE:To resume traveling at a decelerated speed corresponding to the position of a speed change lever by determining the deceleration set value which is controlled when a traveling clutch is disengaged, based on a detected value of speed when said traveling clutch is disconnected. CONSTITUTION:A detecting signal when a clutch 14 is disengaged by means of a clutch pedal 7 while traveling, is inp...

PURPOSE:To prevent a sipe from being closed on the whole surface at a time of grounding and to secure the draining properties by laminating a plurality of thin plates such as metallic sheets different in shape to form a siping blade and, by utilizing this siping blade, equipping the siping having partially different width. CONSTITUTION:A siping blade 3 buried by both the inner circumferential face...

PURPOSE:To always attain an optimum control by selecting a control characteristic map of a transmission, corresponding to a valve action characteristic selecting map selected by a valve action characteristic selecting means, while controlling the transmission being based on this selected control characteristic map. CONSTITUTION:A variable valve timing-lift mechanism VT, which switches the valve ac...

A process and apparatus are provided for making a bead wire and bead zone filler for a vehicle tire. The apparatus has a rotatable drum and deformable tubular member disposed on the drum. The external surface of the tubular member is adapted to receive a strip of elastomeric material to be shaped into the bead zone filler. The tubular member is changed from tubular to annular shape with a fluid un...

In the process a web-shaped release medium is used in the product at least the top layer comprises a decorative embossment and said top layer is obtained starting from a solution of a suitable polyurethane composition and the base layer adjacent to the top layer is fed as a porous polyurethane film during the manufacture of the product. According to the invention a solution of a polyurethane compo...

In a method for supplying different departments of a self-service supermarket equipped with a multiplicity of shopping trolleys with information specific to a department, each of these specific information elements of a specified length is stored decentrally in digital form in a transceiver unit (5) assigned to the respective department (2) and subsequently transmitted in a specified cycle in seri...

PCT No. PCT/NL90/00072 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 31, 1991 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 31, 1991 PCT Filed May 16, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO90/14453 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 29, 1990.Elongated object, made of an orientated alternating copolymer of carbon monoxide and an olefinically unsaturated monomer, which has a modulus of elasticity of at least 16 GPa, and a method for the production of objects from an alternating copo...

The invention provides a method for the preparation of a stable aqueous emulsion of a poly(silsesquioxane) without formation of gelled particles. In the method, a trialkoxysilane compound as the starting material is first emulsified in an aqueous medium containing a cationic surface active agent and a non-ionic surface active agent having a specified HLB value in the range from 16 to 20 in combina...

PURPOSE:To improve the density of a covering layer and to improve the critical current density of an oxide superconducting layer obtained after heattreatment by compacting the covering layer with a pressurizing die after the covering layer composed of oxide superconductor or its precursor is stuck on a core wire. CONSTITUTION:The covering layer 4 composed of the oxide superconductor or its precurs...

A thermoplastic film structure comprising a base portion of a thermoplastic resin which comprises polypropylene and a coating portion of an alkali metal salt of an alkyl sulfate is disclosed. The film is characterised by improved anti-blocking characteristics without the attendant problems associated with decreased clarity, adhesion and wettability common to films treated to improve their anti-blo...

Ethylenic polymer/styrenic polymer blend foams are prepared from blends of (1) an ethylenic polymer resin having a density of from 0.915 to 0.930 g/cm<3> and a melt index of from 0.2 to 2.6 grams/10 minutes and (2) a styrenic polymer resin having a melt flow rate of from 1.4 to 18 grams/10 minutes. Foams having an excellent overall combination of properties are obtained (1) when the density, D, of...

Process and apparatus for heat regulation of fluidised or moving catalyst beds, the apparatus comprising a heat exchanger with a fluidised or moving bed. According to the invention a pulverulent solid is circulated essentially from the base of a vessel (1) in a heat exchanger (6) comprising an internal separating partition (22) which defines two elongate and adjacent compartments (23, 24) com...

PURPOSE:To form a front seat of an ordinary passenger car into a rotary face- to-face seat with a simple structure, by uplifting a front part of a seat cushion and making its interference with peripheral structures preventable, while making the state of uplifting the front part maintainable. CONSTITUTION:A turn block 4 is rotatably attached to a support block 1 via engagement between each rail par...

PURPOSE:To make sufficient strength securable without enlarging the plate thickness of a turn block, by supporting the turn block mounted with a seat with even fittingness between a holder and a fitting member at an ordinary position and a rotary facing position of the seat. CONSTITUTION:A turn block 4 is rotatably attached to a support block 1 via engagement between each rail part 3 and support h...

PURPOSE:To make a hook plate lockable so accurately, by forming a lock hole in a support block a rotatable turn block mounted with a seat, while making the hook plate, performing rotary lock release of the turn block, insertable into this lock hole. CONSTITUTION:A turn block 4 is rotatably supported on a support block 1 through engagement between each rail part 3 and support hooks 9-11. In additio...