A method for operating an activated sludge wastewater treatment plant which utilizes rotating contactors that are partially submerged in the wastewater in the aeration tank of the activated sludge plant. The rotating contactors provide a fixed film media for the growth of biological life that is present in the recycled activated sludge in the aeration tank. The result is a more active biological c...

PURPOSE:To prevent generation of unsmooth sensation when steering control is effected by the use of a low force, by installing a bias control means which drives a motor by means of a given torque when the steering torque level is brought in an insensitive zone. CONSTITUTION:A motor DM generating an auxiliary drive force is controlled by a theoretical control circuit B16. The output of a steering t...

Garden furniture of the chair, armchair, bench or similar type, composed of a series of elements connected to each other in order to form a tubular lower support structure 10 and an upper bearing surface, characterised in that the upper bearing surface is formed by at least two separate elements which can be coupled and which constitute the seat 14 and the back 16. Furthermore, the said garden fur...

PURPOSE:To enable to wind the starting end and the finishing end on a terminal pin in a set of wire chucking mechanism by composing the mechanism capable of driving to open or close and to axially reciprocate and to rotatably drive around the center of a shaft. CONSTITUTION:A wire blank chuck A is composed in the vicinity of the upper end of a winding shaft 59. An opening or closing drive unit B o...

The coupling bar (3) is made of a resilient material allowing it to be bent and its forward end is firmly fitted into the rear of the front cycle (1).

PURPOSE:To control the vertical operation of a capillary with high accuracy at high speed, and to improve productivity and yield by detecting the direction of rocking and quantity of rocking of a tool lifter arm and controlling the arm on the basis of the detecting values. CONSTITUTION:A reflecting mirror 16 is composed of irregular sections 16a, 16b of width P and stepped difference D, and is fix...

PURPOSE:To bond a wire accurately to the center of an electrode by obtaining the center of an indentation of a capillary by processing the picture signal of the indentation of the capillary, acquiring a distance with an optoelectric transducer, calculating the coordinates of bonding and automatically resetting the quantity of offset. CONSTITUTION:An excessive wire 10b is stretched to a lead frame ...

PURPOSE:To execute easily and with high accuracy positioning of an optical fiber strand by inserting a tapered part of a core which is bundled in a fixed shape and is subjected to heating wire-drawing, into a small diameter hole of a connector, forming them as one body by an adhesive, and thereafter, polishing the end face. CONSTITUTION:Exposed strands 3 of plural optical fiber cores 1 are made to...

PURPOSE:To improve the mechanical strength and adhesive strength of a strand by coating the surface of the optical fiber terminal which is inserted and fixed by means of an adhesive agent in the micro-hole of a connector plug with a polyvinyl pyrrolidone resin. CONSTITUTION:A silicone resin coating layer on an optical fiber terminal is removed by treating the same with trichloroethylene; thereafte...

1. Tubular pessary for the reversible closure of both sides of the isthmian part of the tube of the uterus with a cylindrical central portion (1) made from medically inactive material and attachments (6b, 6a; 11a, 11b; 10, 13a, 13b; 15a, 16) at both ends (3, 4) of the central portion, the attachments (6a, 6b, 10, 15a, 16) being arranged so as to spread resiliently outwards on the distal end (3), c...

PURPOSE:To retrieve easily a desired endoscope light receiving image and read out it, by combining the endoscope light receiving image and the information relating thereto to form one frame of TV picture signal. CONSTITUTION:A TV signal corresponding to an image light received on a photo detecting plane of a CCD21 is obtained from a CCD control circuit 22, and this TV signal is applied to a mixing...

PURPOSE:To contrive to form the diameter in small size, to form in a small type and to enhance the faculty of an endoscope by a method wherein a solid-state image pick-up element and elements of light emitting elements, optical fiber elements or supersonic waves generating and receiving elements, etc., for example, are connected to be adopted for the endoscope. CONSTITUTION:The solid-state image p...

PURPOSE:To control start and stop of stroboscopic light emission basing on a prescribed exposure value by fetching a reflected ray from the diseased part as a measuring signal, processing it by a program exposure/photodetecting processing circuit, and calculating said prescribed exposure value. CONSTITUTION:A reflected ray by illuminating light of a tip part 12 of an image guide part 16 is process...

PURPOSE:To use jointly a camera containing a solid image pickup element or other kind of camera without remodeling it by adding only a simple processing circuit to a light source device, and discriminating a signal supplied from cameras of two kinds or more as a photometric signals or a picture signal. CONSTITUTION:A camera 50 containing a solid image pickup element, for instance, a CCD 52 is conn...

PURPOSE:To obtain a distinct picture even in case when a defect exists in a CCD picture element by forming plural images by a single object at different positions of a photodetecting part of a camera means, and obtaining a single image by synthesizing electrically signals corresponding to said images. CONSTITUTION:Light which is reflected by an object 18 to be inspected and passes through an objec...

PURPOSE:To execute easily a comparing diagnosis by latching a live image in a memory when a live image in the course of image pickup coincides with a mesh pattern of a reproducing image of a storage device, also informing the coincidence, and comparing an image which is subjected to image pickup with a past image. CONSTITUTION:When illuminating light containing a mesh pattern is irradiated to an o...

PURPOSE:To execute automatically position matching of an image and to execute a comparing diagnosis by superposing a mesh pattern on a path endoscope image, comparing a live image in the course of image pickup with a mesh pattern of a recording image, and changing automatically an angle of an endoscope inserting part in accordance with its shifts. CONSTITUTION:A mesh pattern of a mesh member 14 is...

PURPOSE:To correct a difference of an image pickup angle and to observe an endoscope image of a constant visual angle by projecting an illuminating light onto an object to be photographed, through a mesh member, and correcting a picture on a monitor in accordance with a state of a mesh pattern on the object to be photographed. CONSTITUTION:Light of a light source 25 is irradiated to an object to b...

PURPOSE:To make a picture easly visible, to improve operability, and to execute easily diagnosis by discriminating the kind of an endoscope to which a camera is installed or image pickup size information, and magnifying or reducing it so that a picture of fixed size is reflcted on a monitor television. CONSTITUTION:An eyepiece part 3 is provided on an operating part 2 of an endoscope 1, and a came...