PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the thermal fatigue resistance of a gas turbine and to improve its thermal efficiency by composing a combustor of a casting constituted of any of austenitic Fe base, Ni base and Co base cast alloys. SOLUTION: As for the compsn. of the cast alloy to be used, in the case of an Fe base alloy, it is composed of an austenitic steel contg., by weight, 0.04 to 0.5% C, <=1...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pinion shaft supporting bearing unit capable of restraining irregularity of a preload and irregularity of the pinion height after incorporation in the pinion shaft supporting bearing unit by outwardly combining double row conical roller bearings having high load capacity. SOLUTION: An inner race raceway surface 12a of a head side (small gear 11 forming side) coni...

An ordinary target driving force is generated against a detected value of the vehicle operator depression of an accelerator pedal and a detected value of the vehicle speed. The ordinary target driving force is a driving force required to keep the vehicle rolling on a flat horizontal road at the detected value of vehicle speed with the detected value of the vehicle operator depression of the accele...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To renew a switching mode of a gear shift stage so that a characteristic of a hybrid vehicle driving structure is made the most of, when incorporating a transmission in mid-way of a wheel drive shaft to obtain a required speed to axle torque characteristic by keeping fuel economy of an internal combustion engine in an excellent state without increasing a second motor-generato...

The present invention improves the shape of a yarn path to reduce the load on a yarn to increase a winding speed, while still preventing the tension breakage of the yarn and an increase in the amount of fluffs. An automatic winder includes a magazine type bobbin housing device 20, a holding device 3 for yarn supplying bobbins 4, and a bobbin chute 24 that guides a bobbin 4 falling from the bobbin ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the generation of oxygen shortage for combustion gas for burning fuel even in the case where the excessive amount of the fuel is fed to raise the steam turbine load after the gas turbine load attains a rated load. SOLUTION: This device feeds a turbine exhaust gas from a gas turbine 3 to a furnace 1a of a boiler main body 1 as burning gas G1. When fuel F ejected fro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the engagement shock of a clutch by executing a quick pressure boosting-up control for increasing the feeding speed of oil in the initial stage of the oil feed for engaging a prescribed clutch, and regulating the execution of quick pressure boosting-up control when the quick pressure boosting-up control is continuously execute within a short time. SOLUTION: Since an ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device and method capable of improving both of fuel economy and operability by eliminating torque fluctuation in changing an air-fuel ratio. SOLUTION: This control device for an automobile is constituted of an external environment situation detecting means 1 detecting the external environment situation in traveling the automobile, a traveling environment ...

A vehicle travel control system is arranged to obtain curve information as to a curve of a road ahead of the vehicle, to obtain a vehicle driving condition produced by a vehicle occupant, to obtain a curve entering degree of the vehicle into the curve on the basis of the driving condition, to obtain a vehicle speed, and to decelerate the vehicle on the basis of the curve information and the curve ...

A control system for a hybrid drive unit wherein an assist prime mover is connected through a transmission mechanism to an output member to which a torque outputted by a main prime mover is transmitted, a torque of said assist prime mover is limited within a preset range. Specifically, said torque is limited to an upper limit side in case the speed of said assist prime mover exceeds the preset val...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily allow the change of an applied pressure. SOLUTION: Recesses 22, 23 are formed in four circumferential-directional portions between opposed faces on the outer circumferential sides of a pair of pressure rings 2, 3, and a spring member 21 is fitted between the paired recesses 22, 23 to be removable from the radial-directional outside. The first working hole 20 is form...

PURPOSE: To enhance the comfortableness in a car by relieving shocks applied when the car is passing over the unevenness on a road surface. CONSTITUTION: When a road has a small surface vunevenness, a throttle valve 3 is opened and closed under control by a valve control means M2 on the basis of the degree of accel. opening given by an accel. opening sensing means S4 . The unevenness of the road s...

A strip of resilient material (12) is clamped uniformly across the width of the material at a first position by vertically spaced clamps (42,44) which are separated to stretch a section of the material beyond the elastic limit. The stretched section of material (36) is released and transported on a horizontal conveyor (24) to a second position where the stretched section is cut by a cutter (26) pr...

A powder-metallurgy produced high-speed steel article having a combination of high hardness and wear resistance, particularly at elevated temperatures. This combination of properties is achieved by the combination of W, Mo, V, and Co. The article is particularly suitable for use in the manufacture of gear cutting tools, such as hobs, and surface coatings.

A cabled communication link for a drill string includes spaced apart adapter subs within the drill string and a cable connecting the adapter subs for communication of a signal therebetween. The cabled communication link may be drill pipe joints are interconnected within the drill string between adapter subs to form a piped communication link, whereby the cabled communication link establishes a pat...

Wellbore apparatus including an elongated tubular adapted for disposal within the wellbore. The tubular having an elongated recess formed on its exterior surface along the longitudinal axis. The recess is adapted to accept and house a component therein. A shield disposed within the recess and adapted to slide to a selected position therein, covering a housed component. The sliding shield and house...

The present invention relates to a compression device for ureters (U), said device comprising a pressure plate (3), two compression elements (1) attached to one side of the pressure plate (3), at least one tension strap (5; 105) and means (7) to press the compression elements (1), by means of the tension strap (5; 105), against the ureters (U) of the patient (P) using the device. It is significant...

The present invention relates to sustained release drug delivery systems, medical devices incorporating said systems, and methods of use and manufacture thereof. The inventive systems feature bioerodible drug delivery devices that include biocompatible solid and biocompatible fluid compositions to achieve desired sustained release drug delivery.

A screw conveyor intended and formed for use in a decanter centrifuge for separation of solid particles from a fluid compound, comprising a central body, at least one conveyor thread and at least one baffle bridging a flow path formed between different parts of the conveyor thread. The screw conveyor has at least two originally separate parts, each of which comprises a portion of said conveyor thr...

A method for providing an adenovirus from a serotype which does not grow efficiently in a desired cell line with the ability to grow in that cell line is described. The method involves replacing the left and right termini of the adenovirus with the corresponding termini from an adenovirus which grow efficiently in the desired cell line. At a minimum, the left terminus spans the (5') inverted termi...