PURPOSE:To reduce each length of the oil hydraulic clutch shaft and the mission case by setting different groups of oil hydraulic clutches to one shaft and attaching plural speed change valves to a bearing oil channel plate through which both the oil hydraulic clutches are branched. CONSTITUTION:An input gear 11 is inserted into the mission case to be engaged with a constant speed gear 12 loosely ...

A process and apparatus for removing alcohol from beverages includes removing alcohol from the beverage to a dialysate by dialysis in a dialysis chamber, and then removing the alcohol from the dialysate by vacuum in a vacuum stripping column, wherein the dialysate is cooled in a heat exchanger and thereafter in a cooling device prior to entry of the dialysate into the dialysis chamber and the dial...

PURPOSE:To facilitate assembling of a differential case and a front gear case by bringing a bearing for supporting the opposite side to a drive pinion of the differential case into contact with a portion of the front gear case fitted in a front axle case through an axial positioning collar and a circumferential positioning cylinder. CONSTITUTION:An outer part of a bearing 4 is brought into contact...

PURPOSE:To attain stability and accelerating efficiency consisted with each other at the time of turning which causes the accelerating slip in a driving force control device for a vehicle applied to a vehicle when both the driving force control system and the auxiliary steering angle control system are loaded. CONSTITUTION:An accelerating slip control correcting means (c) is provided for conductin...

PURPOSE:To lighten a load acting on an internal combustion engine, to improve fuel consumption and to stabilize engine speed, and moreover to prevent the occurrence of the rushing-out feeling of a vehicle in the control of an automatic transmission during the stoppage of the vehicle whose internal combustion engine is in idling operation with a shift lever set at running position. CONSTITUTION:A v...

PURPOSE:To control excessive slip at the time of starting acceleration by composing a vehicle slip control device of line pressure control means or the like which controls the line pressure of an automatic transmission on the basis of both state quantity detected through internal combustion engine output detecting means and the coefficient of friction determined through slip state detecting means....

PURPOSE:To suitably reduce shift shock by including an engaging characteristic changeover valve whose valve element is positioned at the second position in a hydraulic control device while changeover signal pressure for changing over to a second release mode is issued from a solenoid valve device for changeover. CONSTITUTION:A hydraulic control device is provided with an accumulater back pressure ...

PURPOSE:To prevent a speed change shock, in the case where engagement between frictional elements is changed to execute foot separating upshift speed change, by compensating for the lowering, which is attendant upon the fastening lag of the elements on a fastening side, of the input revolution of a transmission through an increase in engine speed. CONSTITUTION:When a detecting means for excessive ...

PURPOSE:To prevent the trouble of quick start in an automatic transmission automobile by making a brake function even if an acceleration-pedal is pressed down in stead of a brake pedal by mistake when the automatic transmission automobile begins to move in a parking garage or the like with a selecting lever put in R or D range and then a quick brake is worked in a flurry. CONSTITUTION:Hydraulic ci...

PURPOSE:To simultaneously achieve prevention of the occurrence of right and left alternate slips, improvement in the durability and sound vibration performance of a brake system, and securing of the stability of an automobile in the case of brake action functioning unevenly on both the right and left wheels in a vehicle traction control device which independently controls braking pressure given to...

PURPOSE:To prevent generation of brake control hunting and reduce the frequency of brake control by providing a vehicle with an offset quantity regulating means which lessens the offset quantity of brake control threshold to engine control threshold in the starting range of acceleration slip control and enlarges the above offset quantity as time elapses. CONSTITUTION:An engine control threshold se...

PURPOSE:To ensure stability of the behavior of a vehicle under a hydroplane condition, and to ensure responsiveness of suppressing slip of a driving wheel when an accelerator is made to step on under a hydroplane condition, in a traction controller for vehicle for controlling brake pressure to a wheel cylinder at the time of acceleration slip, separately by right and left driving wheels. CONSTITUT...

PURPOSE:To eliminate an effect of hydraulic pressure at the time of brake returning by differentiating switch timings of first and second switch valves between a master cylinder and an actuator, as well as between an external hydraulic pressure source and the actuator, during acceleration slip control, and by cutting the second switch valve after pressure reduction time has passed. CONSTITUTION:A ...

PURPOSE: To replace threads by simplifying mechanical constitution by joining the thread in use and the next thread of different color by an air vortex and introducing the preceding thread into a thread-stretching body, a threading eyelet of a balance and an eye of a needle, and then, cutting and separating the joined part. CONSTITUTION: In an embroidery machine, a thread joining device 11 having ...

PURPOSE:To achieve high efficiency so as to reduce the cost of manufacture by supplying water into an exhaust heat recovering boiler in order to cool the defuser of a gas turbine, or cool an exhaust dust for connecting the gas turbine to the exhaust heat recovering boiler. CONSTITUTION:The defuser of a gas turbine 3 or an exhaust duct 14 is cooled by water supply into an exhaust heat recovering bo...

PURPOSE:To provide a device for controlling the timing of an intake valve of an internal combustion engine, which allows a device for controlling a vehicle and the engine with the use of vacuum to normally operate always. CONSTITUTION:A vacuum tank 11 into which vacuum pressure is introduced from an intake pipe 2 and is then stored, is provided with a pressure sensor 12 for detecting the pressure ...

PURPOSE:To enhance the acceleration capability and the steering stability of a vehicle incorporating a output power control system and a differential limit torque control system, by increasing the differential limit torque control gain in a high lateral acceleration condition while increasing' the output control gain in a low lateral acceleration condition upon occurrence of a slip during accelera...

PURPOSE: To modulate a differential by an input signal form outside by equipping an outer differential plate, an actuating mechanism, and an electromagnetic actuator, setting the opening diameter slightly larger than the diameter of cam balls to increase the metal amount in the end wall as far as possible. CONSTITUTION: When an electromagnetic actuator 81 received an electric input signal 83, a co...

PURPOSE:To arrange a junction portion of a front and a rear transmission cases at a safe position in front of the center of gravity and to facilitate an assembly process by fixing a bearing supporting wall on a fixed wall inside the rear transmission case. CONSTITUTION:A bearing supporting wall 4 is made fixable on a fixed wall 110 projecting inside a rear transmission case M2, and a creep shaft 7...

Inspection of completed cigarettes is accomplished by the cigarettes traveling on a rolling drum past a single stationary rolling block with preferably two cameras connected to a vision system. The first camera views the cigarette before the rolling block, the cigarette is then rolled approximately 180 DEG and then the second camera views the previously hidden portion of the cigarette. Cigarettes...