Power unit apparatus for a motorcycle driven by an internal combustion engine has a split power unit case. The crankshaft and the driving shaft of a reduction gear mechanism are clamped between the upper and lower sections of the power unit case. The driven shaft is located on the lower section. A guide shaft for shifter forks and a shift drum controlling operation of the shifter forks are both lo...

Sterilisable connector for making a sterile connection between two tubes or pipes for medical use. According to the present invention, two rotating discs 2, 3 are mounted on a body 1 whose middle part is fitted with blades 8 and tips 6 intended to receive the ends of the pipes truncated by the blades 8. Applications: transfusions, perfusions, etc.

PURPOSE:To permit to determine starting time to obtain a desired heat-accumulating amount at a predetermined time in heat accumulating operation by a method wherein a correction, depending on a time ratio, is applied in case the heat accumulating amount arrives at the desired heat accumulating amount earlier than the predetermined time while the correction, depending on the ratio of heat accumulat...

PURPOSE:To obtain a hydrogen storing material easy to handle and satisfying various necessary conditions by substituting Ca for part of La in an La-Ni alloy and Mn, Zr, Nb, Cr or V for part of Ni to form a four-component type alloy having a specified composition. CONSTITUTION:The four-component type alloy has a composition represented by formula Ca1-xLaxNi5-yAy (where A is Zr, Nb, Cr, Mn or V, x<1...

A yarn end readying device for seeking and removing an end of yarn from a spinning cop. The cops are transported along a cop feeding line extended between a spinning frame and winding units of the winder being carried on carriers respectively. The yarn readying device includes a cop hanging mechanism and a yarn end readying mechanism for unwinding and cutting a starting end of the cop, cutting a t...

A tablet one or both faces of which comprise at least one pair of planes which are inclined from the tablet edge inwardly with respect to the opposite face and towards each other at an obtuse angle and which is scored with a narrow groove at the intersection of the planes characterised in that the edge of each scored face is chamferred over its entire circumference. The tablet design facilitates d...