PURPOSE:To prevent the undesirable temperature rise of the exhaust gas by allowing an intake charge quantity control means to control the intake charge quantity for a cylinder so that the output torque of an engine is reduced, when the speed change operation in an automatic transmission is detected. CONSTITUTION:When the speed change operation by an automatic transmission is detected, the intake c...

PURPOSE:To considerably save weight and space by providing a wind passage having a sound absorbing means provided with an uneven cross section with improved efficiency of air sucking into the wind passage and exhaust inside a structure of a car body of a magnetic levitation vehicle and by arranging a turbine for driving a generator in the wind passage. CONSTITUTION:This wind power generating devic...

PURPOSE:To obtain a power generating device for a magnetic levitation vehicle with efficient power generation without affecting magnetic levitation propulsion by making pitch of a turbine and a stationary blade of at least on the upper stream side changeable so as to enable power generation in both normal and inverse directions. CONSTITUTION:Stationary blades 22 and 24 are arranged at front and re...

PURPOSE:To constitute the device so that an armature can give surely sufficient impact force to a link mechanism at the time of operation by moving the armature in the direction separated from the link mechanism and setting movement start position of the armature, in the holding device in which one end part of the link mechanism is connected to a lock member, the link mechanism is turned by a move...

In a hammer crusher (1) for comminuting metal scrap, consisting of a housing (2) in which a hammer rotor (5) rotates with rotatable hammers (12), having a material inlet (14) arranged on the upwardly rotating side of the rotor, a classifying grill (33) and an impact shaft (26) which is open towards the hammer rotor, the susceptibility of the hammer crusher to faults can be reduced without adversel...

"Improvements Relating to the Manufacture of Tobacco Smoke Filters" A particulate plastics material, a polysaccharide and water are fed to an extruder which is operated under such heat and pressure conditions that upon emergence of the extrudate from the extruder die, the extrudate assumes a cross-section greater than that of the exit orifice of the die.

A process for adhering a latex film to a polymeric substrate through the formation of covalent bonds at the interface of the polymeric substrate and the latex film. The covalent bonds are formed through the reaction of a cyclic imino ether group, 2-alkenyl- -2-oxazoline, and a coreactive group, active hydrogen, epoxy or anhydride group, one of which is present in the polymeric substrate and the ot...

A heat exchanger (4) for cooling a machine, such as a mechanical gear or some other transmission component, hydraulic pump, motor or clutch, compressor, internal combustion engine or like machine, which comprises a housing (1) in which movable, mechanical elements (2), which are driven when the machine is working, are housed, and which encloses a liquid medium (3), such as a lubricating or hydraul...

An apparatus which transmits torque between two flywheels mounted between the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine and the input shaft of the change-speed transmission in a motor vehicle has a composite damper system having first and second dampers which operate in series and a friction generating device which is operated with a delay following each change of the direction of angular movem...

An improved machine for fabricating tire carcasses. The machine comprises in combination a rotatable main drum (16) upon which ply material is laid up; auxiliary drums (68,70) of a reduced diameter axially aligned at the ends of the main drum (16) to define therebetween a step for the placement of bead rings; electro magnetic bead setters reciprocable from retracted positions axially exterior of t...

Apparatus (1) for forming a cylindrical member includes a forming drum (47) having a cylindrical unit (13) formed with a slit (19) extending in an axial direction of the cylindrical unit and around which a belt-shaped member (K) is wound to form a slight clearance between both ends of the belt-shaped member to be aligned with the slit of the cylindrical unit. The cylindrical unit of the forming dr...

Retroreflective sheeting has been improved by a coating comprising silica and a transparent polymer selected from aliphatic polyurethanes, polyvinyl chloride copolymers having a minor amount of a comonomer containing at least one carboxylic acid or hydroxyl moiety, and acrylic polymers. Silica comprises 10-80 weight percent (10-70% in the case of polyacrylates) of the transparent protective coatin...

PURPOSE:To obtain a high-contrast display by making the grain size of 1st spacers larger than that of 2nd spacers which are mixed with a sealant and specifying their ratio. CONSTITUTION:Spherical black resin particulates which have a small coefficient of compressive elasticity are used as the 1st spacers 3 for controlling a gap and the 2nd inorganic spacers 4 are mixed with the sealant 5; and the ...

PURPOSE:To obtain a uniform display screen by disposing cold cathode tubes or hot cathode tubes in such a manner that the tubes pass nearly the intermedi ate point in the position of adjacent injecting ports among plural pieces of the injecting ports provided in a liquid crystal panel. CONSTITUTION:The cold (hot) cathode tubes 4 are 2 pieces and are so disposed as to pass nearly the intermediate p...

A laminate, electro-optic rearview mirror assembly is disclosed which is protected against scattering fragments while reducing risk of laceration if broken/damaged, against ultraviolet (UV) radiation degradation, and against fogging or misting in high humidity conditions.

The present invention provides a surface modified polymeric gas separation membrane having improved selectivity, particularly for oxygen/nitrogen gas mixtures, prepared by forming a membrane of a polymer having the structural formula wherein R and R sec can be the same or different linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group having one to twelve carbon atoms, or R can be H, with the proviso tha...

Processes for producing mono- and biaxially drawn polyketone films from linear polymers of carbon monoxide, ethylene, and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon having a melting point of at least 214 DEG C., including drawing of a linear polymer sheet along one or two axes, respectively, at a draw temperature of from about 4 DEG to 15 DEG C. below the melting point of the terpolymer...

Fine metal alloy powders coated with a protective film are disclosed which are produced by the gas atomization process. The protective films are formed during the gas atomization process by gas atomizing a molten mixture of a metal alloy containing an alloy addition agent in an atomizing gas which will selectively react with the alloy addition agent to form a thin protective film on the surface of...

A film composite comprised of a linear low density polyethylene film having a polyvinylalcohol coat thereon. A package is provided comprised of a toroidally shaped pneumatic rubber tire having such film composite stretched wrapped around its toris in a helical fashion with the polyvinylalcohol coating positioned against the surface of the tire.