Apparatus and a method for removing suspended particles from water in a circular tank having a distribution and flocculation chamber immersed in the tank of water and carried circularly around the tank by a carriage. Flocculating material and inlet water are introduced into the body of water from the moving flocculating chamber at the same rate as clarified water is discharged through a filter sub...

PURPOSE:To make it possible to obtain a large space in a casing section by incorporating a gear, integrally with one of casing pieces constituting a casing. CONSTITUTION:Split casing pieces 121, 122 constitutes a casing 12 for storing therein a transmission member 17. The side wall 121a of one 121 of the casing pieces is formed so as to be inclined and to have a thick wall thickness, and is integr...

PURPOSE:To prevent unreasonable straining force from being produced in a drive system, by providing such an arrangement that the rotational speed of an internal combustion engine is lowered so as to prevent a large straining force from being produced in the drive system when an accelerator member is manipulated in the speed retarding direction. CONSTITUTION:An engine control unit 22 carries out en...

PURPOSE:To make it possible to carry out gear ratio control with preference for the efficiency of fuel consumption by increasing the gear ratio so as to enhance accelerating force during start and acceleration of a vehicle. CONSTITUTION:During start and acceleration of a vehicle the gear ratio of a continuously variable transmission for the vehicle is controlled so that a desired input side rotati...

PURPOSE:To enhance the cooling efficiency of oil by providing a large capacity main pump and a small capacity sub-pump so as to constitute an oil pump assembly thereby reducing loss in the output of an engine which is consumed by the oil pump assembly. CONSTITUTION:In a hydraulic control circuit for a transmission, an oil pump assembly is composed of a large capacity main pump 1a and a small capac...

PURPOSE:To aim at reducing the number of solenoid valves by enabling oil discharged from an oil pump to be selectively fed to both cylinders for a clutch and a transmission by use of one solenoid selector valve. CONSTITUTION:In a hydraulic circuit for a hydraulically controlled clutch and a transmission, a clutch hydraulic pressure control valve 5 controls hydraulic oil in a hydraulic oil feed pas...

A tire-molding bladder is treated with a lubrication/ release composition to provide lubrication between and/ or release of the bladder and a tire molded therewith. The lubrication/release composition contains an aqueous emulsion of an organopolysiloxane bearing one or more silicon-bonded amino-substituted hydrocarbon radicals and cures on and adheres to the surface of the bladder, particularly wh...

An apparatus for locking a movable stage onto a stationary base, the stage being moved in the state floating above the base. The apparatus comprises a cap-like vacuum suction plate fixedly combined with the stage and defining a space in cooperation with the stationary base, wherein the space is selectively connected either to an air supply source or to a vacuum source. To move the stage in the flo...

An artificial intraocular lens comprising an optical medial body means (optical part) and a supporting peripheral body means (haptic part) in the shape of at least two loops, being integral with and projecting from said optical part, the optical part being provided with two or more small peripherally provided first apertures and each of said loops being provided with a second aperture at a distanc...

A process and apparatus for preparing a homogeneous dissipation of a viscous, liquid-dissipatable polymer. The process comprises continuously feeding molten polymer into a first inlet of a mixing chamber, feeding a stream of a relatively low viscosity dissipating liquid into a second inlet of said mixing chamber at an angle, at a velocity and at a flow rate relative to the structure of said chambe...

A process for the manufacture of p-tert-butyl- alpha -methylhydrocinnamaldehyde which comprises the catalytic rearrangement of p-tert-butylbenzyl propenyl ether is provided.

A method of inspecting a container for the presence of adhesive in desired locations includes providing an ultraviolet light source which impinges ultraviolet light on the locations where adhesive is desired and sensors which receive fluorescent light from the adhesives and thereby determine which locations have the desired adhesives. The sensors emit signals which may be employed to directly or i...

A visual navigation system navigates an electrically controllable apparatus such as a mobile robot. Navigation commands are generated to move the mobile apparatus based upon the location of the mobile apparatus. Once the location of the mobile apparatus is determined and the coordinates of a new position are provided, then the commands are transmitted to the mobile apparatus to relocate to the new...

A sunshade holder which has a U-shaped rod fastened to the tubular structure (A) of the deck chair or baby carriage, by means of devices (2), fastened on its free ends, while on the rod (1) a device is slidingly assembled, which fastens the sunshade, consisting of a pin (12) around which a spacer sleeve (15) is assembled, and on the latter, an assembly of parts duly secured to each other by rivet ...

A device for discontinuing and automatically restoring the operational function of a spring brake actuator. The device includes a piston with a piston rod and a spring for actuating the piston and piston rod in a working direction for brake application at falling brake fluid pressure on the piston. A slitted, resilient locking ring is arranged in grooves facing each other in the piston rod and a p...

A method for producing ultrafine powder from a metal or metal alloy, including such high surface tension metals and alloys as copper, Cu-Al-Fe alloys and Ni-Cr-Fe-B-Si alloys. A stream of molten metal is atomized under aspiration conditions by a cone of impinging gas streams, the apex of the gas cone being 10-21 mm from the melt outlet and 11-24 mm from the gas orifices. The gas velocity is greate...

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...

A resole resin in the form of microspherical particles whose surfaces are partly or entirely covered with a coating of a substantially water-insoluble inorganic salt and which are not larger than 500 mu m in size, and a process for producing such resole resin. The resole resin comprises solid particles that are highly heat reactive and can be stored in a stable manner for a prolonged period. The ...

A bendable thin, sheet-like structure having a cementitious matrix reinforced with a three-dimensional fabric of an organic fiber uniformly distributed throughout the thickness of the structure and a continuous process for its production.

A polyolefin primer is coated on and bonded to a polyolefin surface. The primer is irradiated and an adhesive is bonded to the primer. The irradiated surface significantly enhances the final bonding between the polyolefin and the adhesive.