PURPOSE:To perform a heating and an ventilation of a room and an ventilation of garret to improve an efficiency of utilization of heat by a method wherein warm air obtained through a solar heat collector can selectively be fed to the room or outside a house and air in the room or garret is selectively supplied to the solar heat collector. CONSTITUTION:When a room 6 is to be heated in winter season...

A Tire Building Drum (10) having radially expandable shoulder forming means (42) and radially expandable bead seating means. (52) The drum includes an independently operable pair of annular pistons (79, 100) associated respectively with the shoulder forming means and the bead seating means such that the shoulder forming means can be operated independently in time, in radial extent and in force app...

A liquid absorbing pad, in particular for use in hygiene articles and sanitary products, such as diapers, bed pads, sanitary napkins, pads for incontinence, panty shields, nursing pads or the like, is produced in a dry and direct process on the basis of wet-strength and/or coated paper waste, especially originating from the production of food packages, milk carton packages, deep-freeze packages, d...

In accordance with a laser-optical navigation method a rotationally pulsed beam of light (8) in the form of a vertical disc is emitted from a sensor unit (6, 10, 11). Light reflected from reflectors (9) is registered by the sensor unit (6, 10, 11) and is computer processed for position determination purposes. In a device designed to perform the method the sensor unit (6, 10, 11) comprises means (6...

An interference image of a biaxially stretched film strip 4 is generated optically. Streaks in the film strip are areas of different orientation and/or thickness d which are distinguished from the streakfree areas in the interference image by clearly different intensities. In order to generate the interference image, a light-source 1, a diffuser screen 2 and a polarizer 3 are arranged on one side ...

PURPOSE:To improve the accuracy of the defect detection of a sheet material by using plural linear array cameras, and providing a memory table for correcting variance in sensitivity among the cameras and detecting a defect of a sheet surface. CONSTITUTION:The sheet 2 to be detected which moves at right angles to the figure surface is lighted by an illumination source 1 and photographed by plural l...

Apparatus for the analysis of samples such as blood or urine includes a reaction cell for reacting the sample with a chemical reagent at a predetermined temperature. A heat exchanger is provided on the reaction cell for establishing the temperature of the cell. Reagent is pumped into the cell through a conduit, and a portion of the conduit is wound around the reaction cell in contact with the heat...

A method and apparatus for determining the concentration of a component in a sample, i.e. the concentration of urea in biological fluids, such as blood serum, wherein the sample, upon being introduced into solution with a reagent, reacts therewith, causing a continuing change in a characteristic of the solution, and wherein the rate of the reaction is indicative of the concentration of the compone...

PURPOSE:The titled composition capable of producing a porous film having improved surface state stably with hardly causing draw breakage, having long screen life, obtained by blending a polyolefin resin with a specific amount of a specified barium sulfate. CONSTITUTION:(A) 100pts.wt. polyolefin resin (e.g., low-density polyethylene, etc.,) is blended with 50-500pts.wt., preferably 100-400pts.wt. b...

The vehicle brake system pressure regulator (12-19) is incorporated in a hydraulic control unit for one of the vehicle rear wheel brakes. The control unit comprises two pistons (8,9) which slide inside a chamber in a housing (1) and actuate the brake calipers. The second piton has two seals to isolate a central portion of the chamber which is connected to a feed channel (2). The regulator fits int...

A unit for drum brakes comprises a fixed cylinder 1 connected to the hydraulic braking circuit, a pair of opposed movable pistons 5, 8 sealed in the cylinder 1 and a device inserted between the pistons, 5, 8 for taking-up of play due to wearing of the brake shoe linings. The device includes an expansible bush 12 inserted in a seat of the first piston 5 so as to be longitudinally slidable therein a...

Improved mounting of a rack, constituent means and applications. The rack 10 has the shape of a hollow oval body 11 with ribs 13, 13a jutting out and has a toothed rake 9. The teeth 9 are guided by rollers 12. According to the invention one or several tracks S are provided which prevents the rollers from becoming stuck due to accumulation of grease and dust in the rack. Application to the control ...

PURPOSE:To prevent the deterioration in load/store performance of a vector unit by reducing the access request frequency to the main memory of a channel processor in response to the access frequency to the main memory of the vector unit. CONSTITUTION:A detecting circuit is provided to a main memory controller MCU to detect the access frequency given from a vector unit VU. Then a VU access flag is ...

PURPOSE:To define the procedure of interaction between a user and a system by composing the interaction basically of commanding, responding, and execution and employing a system which describes their relation stepwise. CONSTITUTION:Basic elements constituting the interaction are considered to be the commanding where the user sends indications to the system, the responding where the system displays...

PURPOSE:To improve the instantaneousness of an analysis of trouble and to take an early countermeasure to handle the trouble by providing a maintenance controller to a repeater station, storing trouble information transferred from an audio response unit, and reading it as necessary. CONSTITUTION:When the audio response unit 1 detects serious trouble, the contents of a memory are saved in a trouble...

PURPOSE:To facilitate the easy designation and alternation of the order when the same types of knowledge are used by providing the priority to each knowledge when the same types of knowledge are used. CONSTITUTION:For instance, a system operator designates a table X as a name to be delivered through an input device 2. Thus a computer 1 searches the knowledge base of a memory device 3. In other wor...

PURPOSE:To secure a fast and stable file operation by providing the 1st memory which stores the files transferred from an auxiliary memory device and the 2nd memory for back-up of files. CONSTITUTION:When an operator designates a file name through a keyboard 8, a CPU7 retrieves the corresponding file out of a magnetic disk device 2 via a large-scale computer 1 to decide the presence or absence of ...