The higher alcohol yield of a hydroformylation process comprising catalytic hydroformylation of olefinic feedstock and hydrogenation of the crude product is improved by separating light materials and desired alcohols from the hydrogenated product, and then subjecting the remaining heavy materials to catalytic steam cracking at 260 DEG -380 DEG C. The fraction of the cracked product which is rich ...

A hose reel assembly comprises a drum (3/4) borne on a cantilevered support tube (1). A rotary joint assembly to direct water from a feed pipe (12) to the hose connector (19) of the drum comprises a fixed conduit member (9) mounted within the support tube and a rotatable conduit member (14) sealingly journalled to the fixed member. An inlet port (10) of the fixed conduit member receives the feed p...

PURPOSE:To allow plenty of action to be taken by a processor so as to simplify work such as a comparison test by providing a vehicular control device removably with an external storage device stored with information required to control the operation of a vehicle. CONSTITUTION:In a turbocharger provided with an electric rotary machine 3, a controller 6 receives detection signals from a position sen...

PURPOSE:To prevent a vehicle from being quickly accelerated/decelerated just after automatic braking has been released, and thereby avoid rear-end collision by prohibiting releasing automatic braking if an accelerator is actuated or the brake is applied when automatic braking is released accompanied by scraping avoiding actions. CONSTITUTION:An ultrasonic wave radar unit 31 is provided for the fro...

PURPOSE:To realize downsizing and lightweight construction by providing a hydraulic actuator to operate a friction clutch for differential limit, and by actuating the hydraulic actuator by the control hydraulic pressure of an automatic transmission. CONSTITUTION:A pressure chamber 75 is formed between a pinion carrier 51 on the right and a differential case 19 by means of X rings 71, 73. The press...

PURPOSE:To facilitate incorporation of an output system of a transmission into a case and secure a sufficient supporting strength of an output shaft by means of less bearings in a type where an engine and the transmission are arranged in parallel, and these cases are integrated. CONSTITUTION:An output shaft 22 and an output gear 26 of a transmission are divided. The output shaft 26 is supported at...

PURPOSE:To improve a lubricating performance by making the working process of a body ratio pressure passage easy, simplifying a working process jig and so on, manufacturing a casting mold for a valve body easily, carrying out driving of a blind cap and so on easily after the working process of the body ratio pressure passage, introducing further drain oil generated in a ratio pressure control valv...

PURPOSE:To accumulate collectors easily and quickly in an orderly state by providing a vertical collision wall on the extension of a plate release direction for receiving plates, and an arranging machine for arranging the plates in order. CONSTITUTION:Plates 1 are taken over by rollers 2 from a belt, are released in the air, fall on a fork shape accumulating base 5, and are accumulated. During thi...

PURPOSE:To enhance thermal efficiency and to prevent sticking of carbon by forming an inner cylinder whose lower part is narrowed and opened to the nearly central part of a combustion chamber and also providing a spiral pipe which has a feeding port of material to be treated and a discharge port to an outer cylinder. CONSTITUTION:A stack 7 is projectingly provided to the nearly central part of the...

PURPOSE: To provide reactive supply flow to displace inactive foaming agent supply flow in foaming process of polyurethane. CONSTITUTION: This is a method for manufacturing polyurethane foam with high elasticity molded with practically not containing volatile organic foaming agent by generating a reactive composition made by supplying at least three kinds of supply flow to a blending unit. Charact...

An absorbent member, suitable for a tampon, is produced by ejecting a liquid against a sheet of water-absorptive fibers in order to interlace the fibers with each other and moulding under a pressure the sheet to form the absorbent member.

A porous film comprises a polyolefin resin, a filler and a polyester obtained from a polybasic acid, a polyhydric alcohol and a monobasic acid having 14 to 22 carbon atoms and/or a monohydric alcohol having 12 to 22 carbon atoms or a polyester obtained from a polybasic acid and a monohydric alcohol, the film being obtained by melting and moulding and then stretching. It has a good permeability to ...

Compositions capable of being converted into films, comprising, on the one hand, from 50 to 93 % by weight of at least one copolymer (E) of ethylene and of at least one alpha olefin, which has a density of between 0.880 and 0.940 and, on the other hand, from 7 to 50 % by weight of at least one crystalline copolymer (P) of propylene and ethylene which has a content of propylene-derived units of at ...

Compositions capable of being converted into films, comprising, on the one hand, from 50 to 93 % by weight of at least one copolymer (E) of ethylene and of at least one alpha olefin, which has a density of between 0.880 and 0.940 and, on the other hand, from 7 to 50 % by weight of at least one crystalline copolymer (P) of propylene and ethylene which has a content of propylene-derived units of at ...

Metal castings having reduced residual carbon ash and surface flaws are produced by an evaporative pattern casting process, in which an organic foam pattern is vaporized upon contact with a molten metal leaving a metal replica of the pattern. The organic foam used in this process comprises a polymer formed by polymerizing CO2 with one or more oxirane compounds.

PURPOSE: To provide highly effective silicone antifoams and defoamers. CONSTITUTION: A process for controlling foaming by using an emulsion gelled silicone compsn. as an antifoam which is prepared by first dispersing a curable liquid organopolysiloxane compsn. in a liquid continuous phase and then curing the liquid silicone organopolysiloxane in-situ to a gelled state. Preferred compositions of th...

PURPOSE:To provide a gas diffusing material generating air bubbles low in initial pressure and having a small bubble size. CONSTITUTION:A gas diffusing material is composed of a porous fluoroplastic material and characterized by that only the single surface thereof is made hydrophilic. When gas is dispersed in water or an aqueous solution as fine gas bubbles, the gas is supplied to the surface not...

PURPOSE: To provide a brake cylinder that can be easily and simply manufactured at a low cost. CONSTITUTION: A brake cylinder is manufactured by cutting off an extruded bar into a required length and closing an end thereof with a cap 19. The bar includes a cylinder jacket 11 and connection ribs 13, 14 and 15 projecting from the jacket. A flange member 22 is fastened to the cylinder jacket. The bor...

PURPOSE:To prevent the clogging of a pipeline due to the solidification of the raw gas at the time of forming an oxide superconductor film on a substrate by chemical vapor deposition by forming the raw gas feed mechanism with a main pipeline and a by-pass pipeline. CONSTITUTION:An oxide superconductor film is formed on a substrate by chemical vapor deposition. In this case, a mixture 11 of the vap...

PURPOSE:To perform constant torque control by converting a power source to direct current, performing switching ON and OFF by means of a bridge-type switching circuit, varying pulse width of the resultant pulse line, and thereby varying an effective current to be supplied to a electromagnetic clutch/brake. CONSTITUTION:In a constant torque control device of a electromagnetic clutch/ brake 8, an al...