devices for measuring liquid level in wells. SUBSTANCE: sonic depth finder has a body to which adapter is connected for joining the casing wellhead nipple, device for receiving of acoustic signals and acoustic signal generator. Device for receiving acoustic signal has a microphone, pressure pickup, temperature pickup and control unit. Acoustic signal generator includes receiver, electromagnetic va...

computer-aided accounting systems. SUBSTANCE: system has set of interconnected workstations for labor protection experts each equipped with read-only memory and coupled through data transmission facilities with set of data reproducing devices mounted at respective production station; these devices are designed to reproduce data from formalized data media each incorporating interconnected sections ...

gas-discharge engineering; ac gas-panel displays such as those in color television modules. SUBSTANCE: pixels include first, second, third, and fourth display electrodes; first and second electrodes are spaced apart through distance d1, second and third ones, through distance d2, which is shorter than distance d3 between third and fourth display electrodes. Control process involves following proce...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photoelelctric device which is free from any cutter marks, unaffected by a damage on a cutting line, and excellent in cutting accu racy by providing two substrates having a first end face partly comprising at least a mechanically cut surface and a second end face comprising a laser beam cut surface. SOLUTION: A liquid crystal panel has a pair of light-transmissib...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate operations such as change, alignment, etc., of a jig to make location of a differential case. SOLUTION: A lower supporting device 6 is to support a differential case 40 both in the X-axis direction (to the left and right) and Y-axis direction (fore and aft) in the first and second positions apart in the X-axis direction in a working part 2, wherein the configura...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reliably prevent the slip of a continuously variable transmission and suppress the fuel consumption quantity and noises to the minimum by detecting the output torque transmitted to the continuously variable transmission and the change gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission, and correcting the revolving speed of an engine in response to the detected output tor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To judge whether running control is continued or not by detecting a running situation when running control becomes a traction control condition at the time of running control of a vehicle. SOLUTION: When such running control that makes a set vehicle speed and an inter-vehicle distance set by a driver coincide with a target vehicle speed and a target inter-vehicle distance to ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the load caused by the drag of a torque converter and suppress an increase of fuel consumption by controlling a transmission at a neutral position if engine stop conditions are not met when a vehicle is stopped. SOLUTION: In a power plant controller 24 controlling the operations of an engine 10 and a transmission 14 receiving its output via a torque converter 12, an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a sense of incompatibility for a travel characteristic and the deterioration of travel fuel consumption by setting the maximum limit value of the target torque of an engine based on the atmospheric state in the engine controlling the pressure of a continuously variable transmission based on the continuously variable transmission transfer torque calculated from the t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving force controller of a vehicle capable of starting the vehicle smoothly without causing backing and a sense of abrupt start. SOLUTION: This driving force controller DCU of a vehicle changes over magnitude of a driving force at the time of idling running whose speed is below a predetermined vehicle speed into a large condition and a small condition in accor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable smooth steering under control of a steering HST while reducing torque necessary for operating a steering handle by a steering valve unit. SOLUTION: Right and left axles are connected through a differential gear, a steering HST120 giving a rotational speed difference to a planet gear mechanism constituting a differential gear to perform steering is arranged, a hydrau...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a transmission compact in the transmission for a working vehicle provided with a first HST for traveling and a second HST for turning. SOLUTION: In a transmission M constituted so as to drive left and right axles in the same direction by operating a first HST 25 and to impart a relative rotation difference to the left and right axles by operating a second HST 28, each...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a tight bag packaged item whatever size of an item to be packaged may be applied, by a method wherein an upstream side of a lateral seal of a cylindrical packaging film into which the item to be packaged is fed is cut in reference to a rear end of the packed item in its transferring direction, and the bag is bound at its neck portion. SOLUTION: A transferring means ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a superior packaging to be carried out without producing any seal positional displacement when the lateral seal is applied by seal members arranged in two forward and rearward series against a cylindrical film transferred toward a downstream side. SOLUTION: An item W1 to be packaged supplied by a supplying conveyor 5 against a cylindrical film Fa transferred in a do...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the deviation of a cut edge from a seal trace by detecting the pitch of a forward end of a work to be packaged to regulate the speed of a regulating conveyor, and transferring a packaged body on a ruler table so that the forward end of the packaged work is brought close to a seal base of a vacuum chamber to reduce an excessive space inside a bag. SOLUTION: The ca...

A sanitary napkin having an absorbent core with three longitudinally oriented trisections, a central trisection flanked by two outboard trisections. The absorbent core is formed of a single layer of tissue. The single layer of tissue is folded on itself to provide a two-ply thickness at each of the outboard trisections and a single thickness at the central trisection. The two plies of the outboard...

A hair dryer holder for adjustably holding a hair dryer, comprising a base for attaching the hair dryer holder to a surface, an extension member including a bottom portion fixed to the base and an arm member extending from the base, and a universal joint member coupled to the arm member and comprising a ball member juxtaposed between two cup members for rotation therein, the ball member configured...

An injection or grouting body for the transfer of mechanical stresses in structures in above-ground or below-ground construction, and for insertion into a borehole, in slits or similar openings, has a centrally-arranged filling tube and at least one fabric stocking surrounding the filling tube. The filling tube is embodied as a fabric stocking and one or a plurality of reinforcing wires and/or rod...

An improved operator's station includes an improved three position seat assembly which allows the operator to stand, perch or sit while maintaining the operator's eyes at essentially the same vertical level. The seat assembly includes a back rest, a seat that may be raised and lowered, and a movable shelf or perch positioned between the back rest and the seat. In a stand mode of operation, the sea...

An apparatus for cleaning the shells of crabs and other crustacean and shellfish for removal of barnacles and other encrusted debris. A conveyor carries the shells through a cleaning station. The cleaning station features a rotating flail, having chains or other like flexible members for impacting against the shells with hard, smooth members for selectively shattering the barnacle shells while per...