A method of, and apparatus for, separating phases in a polyphase system is described and particularly in separating oil from produced water by the contact of gas bubbles and oil droplets by a dispersed gas flotation technique. A polyphase system is divided into at least two portions. The pressure of one portion is reduced to form bubbles of a gas, and the two portions are then recombined whereby t...

PURPOSE:To smoothly turn a working vehicle without roughening the ground in the running transmission device of the working vehicle utilizing the characteristic that a transmission shaft on the opposite side and a running drive wheel are driven at the double speed when one transmission shaft laterally extended from a differential system is fixed for a turn. CONSTITUTION:A pair of transmission/trans...

PURPOSE:To miniaturize a device by providing a layout space for fitting only a front differential or a center differential on the transmission side of a power transmission device mounted on a vehicle. CONSTITUTION:For the application to a four-wheel drive vehicle, a center shaft 18 is rotatably supported on a transmission case 12 and a clutch housing 13 in parallel with an input shaft 15 and an in...

PURPOSE:To provide a vehicle integrated control device capable of invariably surely attaining the smooth vehicle running in response to the change of the operation environment intended by a driver. CONSTITUTION:An operation environment index estimation section 1 estimating the operation environment based on signals indicating the operation action quantities on the vehicle movement, e.g. accelerato...

PURPOSE:To effectively perform the traction control over the whole running region by concurrently performing the ignition timing retard control and shift control, changing the shift characteristic, and performing the shift-up control to invariably keep the engine rotating speed in the retardable rotation area. CONSTITUTION:An engine control unit 30 has an ignition timing controller 31 inputted wit...

PURPOSE:To supply an article feeder enlarging the objective range of the magni tude of the articles to be packed. CONSTITUTION:The specification of an article 22 to be packed is inputted by an operation switch 42 10 memorize it in a microcomputer 40. A fed film detector 43 reads marks printed on the packing film 16 to transmit the signals to the microcomputer 40. A servomoter 24 is driven by signa...

PURPOSE:To positively avoid being biten of falling articles to be packaged during high speed running by a side heater, by providing a scraping bar box motion to do a box motion repeating lowering, closing faster than the side heater. CONSTITUTION:When side heaters 2a, 2b are opened, scraping bars 6a, 6b are opened not to contact articles to be packaged dropping in a packing cylinder H to pass thro...

PURPOSE:To improve display quality and to miniatualize a device by aligning such liquid crystal display panel modules in a case that upright almost rectangular liquid crystal cells and diffusion plates behind of them are held with holizontally extending upper and lower frames, and preventing the light of a back-illumination light source from leaking. CONSTITUTION:As for the liquid crystal display ...

PURPOSE: To reduce the heating of a machining head by sending a portion of a shielding gas for welding through a passage which is formed in a copper block mounted to the inside of the machining head apart from a reflecting mirror. CONSTITUTION: In a laser beam machining method wherein laser beams are introduced into a machining head, reflected with an inclined mirror and focused, and a shielding g...

Novel fungicidal active substance combinations of - the known substituted 1-hydroxyethyltriazole derivative of the formula as the first component and - known fungicidal active substances from amongst the groups (A) to (H) mentioned in the description, as the second component.

A silicon single crystal manufacturing method and apparatus capable of feeding a dopant quantitatively and stably. The dopant concentration of the molten silicon is estimated by reference to the weight of the growing silicon single crystal or the weight of silicon starting material fed to the apparatus, in order predictively to compute the time and amount of addition of dopant (10). Dopant in the ...

PURPOSE: To provide a method and apparatus for minimizing cross contaminations due to a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus during the apparatus treating time by eliminating or greatly reducing the need for purifying the treating vessel wall. CONSTITUTION: A laminate module 60 and a treating vessel purge module 56 having a treating vessel liner 62 are provided. The laminate module 60 separates a...

PURPOSE:To enable the length of a male screw for moving a frame feed mechanism to be shortened and each frame feed mechanism to be fed highly accurately. CONSTITUTION:A title item is provided with a plurality of frame feed mechanism 15A and 15B with upper nibs 25A and 25B and lower nibs 27A and 27B for feeding a plate-shaped member such as a lead frame 1, a slider 9 where the frame feed mechanisms...

For measuring tensile force in a continuous strip or web, load cells are arranged between a bearing housing for a deflector roll, over which the web runs, and a fixed base. A load cell comprises a load cell housing and consists of two yokes (1, 2) facing the bearing housing and the base, respectively, and a force transducer which together with membranes (3,4,5,6) are arranged between the yokes to ...

Electrical conductor comprising a metallic bar (1) jacketed with a sheath (2) made from a metal different from that of the bar, in which the bar (1) exhibits at least one longitudinal groove (3, 3') containing a bead (4, 4') made from the same metal as the sheath (2), welded to the bar (1), and the sheath (2) exhibits an opening opposite the bead (4, 4'), the said opening containing a metallic mas...

PURPOSE:To deflect a blowing flow in a wide-angle manner, by sticking the blowing flow out of a blowoff port small in an aspect effect to a guide wall with a Coanda effect. CONSTITUTION:Plural vanes 6, which rotate centering on a shaft installed at a right angle to a flow along a passage 2, are installed in an outlet part 4. These vanes 6 are set up so as to become a gradually expanding form 80 to...

PURPOSE:To provide a method for subjecting fermetable org. liquid matter to solid- liquid separation in low running cost by relatively simple equipment and a sludge treatment system capable of efficiently treating a large amount of sludge in reduced equipment space using the method. CONSTITUTION:In a solid-liquid separation method for fermentable org. liquid matter, fermentable org. liquid matter ...

PURPOSE:To offer a hydrogen storage alloy for a secondary battery in which the progression of cracks caused by cubic expansion at the time of storing hydrogen is approximately constant and the narrowing of its size distribution and the uniformization of its average grain size are attained. CONSTITUTION:In a hydrogen storage alloy contg. lead and expressed by LnNixAyMnz (Ln denotes at least one kin...

PURPOSE:To increase the gas transmissibility, electroconductivity, and mechanical strength of a carbon plate to be used as the electrode of a fuel cell. CONSTITUTION:A nun-woven cloth of carbon fiber and a non-woven cloth of a fiber capable of turning into carbon fiber such as novolak type phenol resin fiber are impregnated with a bonding agent capable of carbonization or graphitization such as ph...