PURPOSE: To provide a hot water circulating filter device which circulation filtrates bathtub water to keep clear and utilizes solar heat to save energy. CONSTITUTION: A hot water circulating filter 4 is provided with a circulating pump 7, a filter 11, a heater 14 and the like halfway in a circulating water outgoing pipe 5 and a circulating water returning pipe 6, and a first motorized threeway va...

PURPOSE: To make a drive with the rate of fuel consumption desired by a driver using a drive mode selecting means which can select among a plurality of control functions including a wide-area lockup control, the fuel rate shift control, fuel cut control, etc., with which the reduction of the rate of fuel consumption can be achieved. CONSTITUTION: A power train control method with associate device ...

PURPOSE: To prevent hunting phenomenon of engine rotational speed by performing decrease control of engine output during a lockup delay time. CONSTITUTION: An automatic transmission controller (ATCU) 15 for controlling an automatic transmission 2 having a torque converter 3 equipped with a lockup mechanism is provided, and also an engine controller (ECU) 5 is provided for performing output decreas...

PURPOSE: To provide a driving force controller for a vehicle high in its practicability in such a way that setting of an engine or an automatic gear may be adjusted in the optimum and accurate manner by estimating a load condition in a travel position after several seconds. CONSTITUTION: A travel road estimating part 13 estimates the position of a vehicle after several seconds based on the present...

PURPOSE: To switch an ordinary travel control state to a prescribed low speed state so as to avoid a rice planting machine, which is balanced forward when a seedling planting device is detached therefrom, from overturning. CONSTITUTION: A limit switch 16 is provided for detecting the state of a seedling planting device 2 attached to or detached from a link mechanism 1. When the limit switch 16 det...

PURPOSE: To improve productivity by eliminating a defective article, which is produced due to the meandering motion of the feed of a film, and avoiding any necessity for the operation of each film supporting roller. CONSTITUTION: A belt of a feed belt device 14 on the left side is moved at a speed VL and a belt of a feed belt device 13 on the right side is moved at a speed VR to form a cylindrical...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve alignment of the side of sheet irrespective of a property and size of paper by providing a plate spring acting on the uppermost sheet in the direction of crossing the direction of feed of the uppermost sheet by spring stress and returning to a rear part on a surface of a guide plate against spring stress by deforming on the side facing an alignment fringe of a shee...

The production of 1,4-butanediol from maleic anhydride comprises esterification of the anhydride followed by catalytic hydrogenation in fluid phase and satisfies the following: (a) the esterification takes place with an anhydride:butanediol molar ratio of 1,1-2:1, pref. 1.15-15:1; (b) the water produced during esterification is prepared continuously or discontinuously by distillation at 100-130 de...

PURPOSE: To automatically clean harmful corrosive substance of acid ammonium sulfate stuck and deposited on the outer surface of a heat transfer pipe of a fuel economizer by providing a conduit for supplying compressed air from a compressor part to an exhaust heat recovery boiler in a gas turbine. CONSTITUTION: When the rotation of a gas turbine 3 is increased or decreased, compressed air which ha...

PURPOSE: To improve operability by suspending adjustment of an engine torque when lock-up release or transmission starting is detected, and thereby smoothening start-up of the engine torque. CONSTITUTION: An automatic transmission computer 15 is provided for controlling an automatic transmission 2 having a torque converter 3 provided with a lock-up mechanism. An engine computer 5 is provided for t...

PURPOSE: To enable any fluctuation of clutch pressure to be absorbed by making feed-back control, so that clutch pressure may reach its target value, while the clutch pressure in which master pressure produced from the oil pressure of an oil pump being divided, and control to increase the control gain of the clutch pressure until the master pressure is increased when starting operation is executed...

PURPOSE: To enable driving force to be transmitted by one driving wheel even if the other driving wheel is idling, and also to simplify the structure by sharing parts, by assembling a free axle mechanism and a differential-lock mechanism into a differential device, and operating the free axle mechanism and the differential-lock mechanism by a single operating rod. CONSTITUTION: A free axle lock hu...

PURPOSE: To achieve heating of water in a hot water storage tank effectively according to seasons by restricting the amount of heating water during the operating of a timer which is adapted to work below a specified illuminance from a sunshine sensor. CONSTITUTION: A sunshine sensor 3 as solar cell is arranged above a heat pump unit 2 set outdoors. The sunshine sensor 3 detects ambient illuminance...

PURPOSE: To use solar energy as a power source while controlling the supply of hot water from a hot water device. CONSTITUTION: The temperature of water in a hot water device 1 is monitored constantly with a temperature sensing switch 3 to detect the temperature of water in the hot water device 1 kept above a set value with the temperature sensing switch 3 and a detection signal is outputted. A dr...

PURPOSE: To provide a hot water feeding equipment capable of preventing the temperature of hot water in a hot water storage tank from being above the prescribed value with a simple constitution even when the heating medium whose boiling point is higher than that of water is used, and being extremely convenient to use. CONSTITUTION: A solar heat collecting means 2 is connected to a hot water storag...

A control device for an automatic transmission of a vehicle delays or reserves a switching from one shift pattern to another for a predetermined time when a gear change occurs at the time of the shift pattern switching. When a shift pattern is to be switched from one to the other while the vehicle is running at a certain speed range in the one shift pattern, the switching is reserved temporarily a...

PURPOSE:To relieve transmission impact, by a method wherein, when first and second transmission are continuously required, after proper variation is made on control responding to the first transmission, control of the second transmission is effected. CONSTITUTION:In case second transmission is required before a delay time T1 has lapsed till control of the oil pressure of a friction engaging device...

PURPOSE:To improve a removal and an assembly characteristic of an internally fitting member, by providing a tapping hole in the internally fitting member mounted to the internal surface of a speed changer case. CONSTITUTION:An automatic speed changer is constituted by a fluid type torque converter, transmission and an oil hydraulic control device. A speed changer case of the automatic speed change...

This invention relates to a novel class of hydroxamic acid based collagenase inhibitor derivatives of the formula wherein R<1> is C1-C6 alkyl; R<2> is C1-C6 alkyl, benzyl, hydroxybenzyl, benzyloxybenzyl, (C1-C6 alkoxy)benzyl, or benzyloxy(C1-C6 alkyl); a is a chiral center with optional R or S stereochemistry; A is a -(@HR<3>-@HR<4>)- group or a -(CR<3> = CR<4>)- group wherein b and c ...

A punching mechanism (10) includes a permanent magnet (14) and a pole-piece (20) connected to one pole of the permanent magnet and spaced from the other pole by a gap (G). A movable coil (34) is disposed at least partially within the gap. A punch actuator is connected to the movable coil, and conductors are provided for conducting an electrical current to the coil. Current is supplied to the coil ...