Two optical fiber segments are spliced in an end-to-end fashion by first axially aligning the optical fiber segments, and then fusing the optical fiber segments with a converging conical light beam convergently focused to an apex region along the optical fiber. The converging conical beam heats the optical fiber segments and the splice in a circumferentially uniform manner. The apex region at whic...

PURPOSE:To make improvements in starting operatability, by making a starting gear step possible to be set to first gear only at a time when a first gear starting signal is inputted, in case of using an automatic transmission which starts a car in a way of selecting an ordinary starting gear step to a shift-gear step of more than second. CONSTITUTION:During engine runnings, at an automatic shift co...

PURPOSE:To surely perform a heat collecting operation even if there is a momentary power stoppage while a sunlight delaying operation is going on by providing a sunlight sensor to sense the sunlight, a sunlight detecting circuit which detects the presence of sunlight based on the sensor signal, and a sunlight delaying circuit which inhibits the starting at the time when the power source is switche...

PURPOSE:To accurately calculate the gradient of a road surface from the acceleration of an automobile in its travel by detecting the acceleration that the automobile ought to have on a flat road from a driving force given to wheels and the travel resistance of the automobile and finding the slope of the road surface from the difference between this acceleration and actually generated acceleration....

In known solid bowl decanter centrifuges, the suspension is fed to the decanter centrifuges axially under excess pressure and the phases which are separated from one another in the centrifuge are discharged from the centrifuge axially. In order to bring this about, special sliding ring seals are required which are complicated, costly and also liable to faults. The risk of blockage of the radial ch...

PURPOSE:To shorten a photometric time, by performing reaction by dripping a sample to a measuring element 2 impregnated with a reagent and irradiating a light receiving element with auxiliary illumination when optical density is detected by irradiating the measuring element with photometric light in a photometric part. CONSTITUTION:A measuring element 2 impregnated with a reagent is successively i...

PURPOSE:To prevent that irrational operation is performed, by immediately and automatically discharging a measuring element by a transfer means when the insert direction of said measuring element was erroneous. CONSTITUTION:When a measuring element 2 is inserted in the element engaging groove 9 of a disc, a sensor 91 outputs an insert finish signal to a control part 90 which, in turn, sends a disc...

Foreliggende oppfinnelse angår en fremgangsmåte og enanordning for å bestemme at en borestreng (17) l enbrønnboring (29) er utsatt for fastkjøring mot en flatei brønnboringen. Når den er kjennetegnet som enfremgangsmåte, innbefatter fremgangsmåtetrinnene (1)overvåkning av en vibrasjonskarakterlstikk forborestrengen (17) under boreoperasjoner, og (2)sammenligning av vibrasjonskarakteristikken med m...

PURPOSE:To mostly eliminate the disconnection of an NbTi alloy filament and also increase a critical current density, by coating an NbTi barrier on a surface of an NbTi alloy rod and making an NbTi filament diameter, etc., a given value. CONSTITUTION:An NbTi barrier is coated on the surface of an NbTi alloy rod, and an NbTi filament diameter is made 2-30mum, similarly an NbTi barrier thickness 0.1...

An aqueous silicone dispersion crosslinking to an elastomer when water is removed, comprising: - 100 parts of an emulsion (A) of the oil-in-water type of an alpha , omega -dihydroxypolydiorganosiloxane, stabilised with an anionic and/or nonionic surfactant, - 0.1 to 20 parts of aminosilane and/or of amidosilane, - 0 to 3 parts of a metal cure catalyst, - 0 to 250 parts of a nonsiliceous inorg...

The invention relates to an electronic life detection system, especially for searching for those who have been buried alive or for monitoring buildings, having a microwave transmitting/receiving device (transceiver device) (9) for producing and radiating microwaves into a region to be investigated, and for recording the microwave signal which is reflected from the monitored region and is modulated...

The semiconductor has a connector suitable to wire bonding and chip equipment. An IC chip is connected to leads by an insulation tape having a number of connectors (12). Bonding pads (11) are formed upside an IC chip and bonding pads are faced to electron pads (2a). The connector (10) is deposited on the bonding pads (11) and electron pads (2a) of an IC chip and the bonding pads (11) of connectors...

PURPOSE:To raise the efficiency of operations by relieving labor by a method in which the difference between the initial angle and the present angle of a slewing body is obtained on the basis of the output of a slowing angle detector for the upper slewing body, and an arm is turned only by the amount as much as the difference of angle to the opposite direction of the slewing body. CONSTITUTION:Sle...

PURPOSE:To bring up a favorable ventilation effect to electrical equipment and extend the service life of said electrical equipment without reducing the performance of a ventilation passage sharply by dividing a space into a machine room and a ventilation passage with a partition wall, installing a cross flow fan vertically and a heat exchanger to said ventilation passage, and providing a ventilat...

PURPOSE:To perform an efficient heat exchanging operation and improve an outer appearance of an air conditioner by a method wherein an outdoor unit is taken in under a floor of a housing, an air shielding plate partitioning a suction draught circuit for the outer unit and a blowing side draught circuit is provided, under-floor strip footing having a ventilation port is connected with the air shiel...

PURPOSE:To improve the exterior effect of the title apparatus, and to prevent ventilation efficiency under a floor from being reduced, by accommodating an outdoor device under the floor of a house, providing an air shielding plate for partitioning the circumference of the outdoor device into an inlet side air circulating path and an outlet side circulating path, and arranging the outlet side circu...

Disclosed is an improved process for cement solidification treatment for disposition of spent ion exchange resins exhausted from nuclear power plants. The wet resin particles are centrifuged to remove free water therefrom and subjected to the pre-treatment of coating with a small amount of cement powder, and then, cement powder and water is added to the resin particles and the mixture is kneaded t...

A data processing system which gives an application (50) running on the operating system (10) direct access to the output display (42). The system is operable in two modes. In the first mode, if the application displays text to the output display, the output data must go through every layer of the processing system before it reaches the output display. In the second mode, the application can outpu...

PURPOSE:To make attachment and detachment of a connector easy and keep the connection of a contactor good by bending a conductive piece elastically by moving a pressing rod back and forth to alter the distance to the contactor forcedly. CONSTITUTION:When both ends of a pressing rod 16 are pinched and moved back, an extrusion 17 pushes down a rare extruded part 6, so that a conductive piece 5b is b...

The pallet (1) has an upper part (2) in corrugated cardboard with cross-shaped undulations. It has a lower part (3) in corrugated cardboard, and cardboard feet between the upper and lower parts. The feet are made from cardboard rolled and glued to form tubes, and are fixed on the upper and lower parts of the pallet. The lateral feet (4) are flattened and arranged so that the largest side of the f...