The present invention discloses a direct reduction process for producing reduced iron by reducing iron ores and/or pellets with reducing gases, wherein the iron ores and/or pellets are reduced to a degree of reduction of 30-80% by a reducing gas containing 15-40% by volume of methane at a temperature of more than 950 DEG C. and further reduced by a reducing gas containing high proportion of carbo...

PURPOSE:To lower the surface pressure acting on a pocket surface by a ball, by interposing a pocket clearance volume in the center of a pocket so that the shape of the pocket is formed into an ellipse parts of which are defined by opposite arcuate surfaces having the same radius as the ball. CONSTITUTION:Into the pocket 5' of the support 4', a necessary pocket clearance volume DELTAC is interposed...

The device comprises a rotor formed with a circumferential groove including a widening with an apertured bottom whereat two monitoring stroboscopes are arranged, the groove being provided for engaging with the red cell and plasma exit end of a disposable bag, the other end whereof is so designed and arranged as to receive whole blood.

PURPOSE:To efficiently manufacture captioned electrode having good active mass discharge utilization by filling an active mass paste in hollow state along the inner wall of a cylindrical current collector having bottom comprising lead or lead alloy, and forming it with adequate current in a forming bath. CONSTITUTION:An active mass paste 46 is filled in a cylindrical capshaped current collector 45...

PURPOSE:The titled solid fuel efficiently removing any harmful gas and capable of being burned in the same manner as coal, which is prepd. by molding a particle of synthetic resin, rubber, etc. coated with a specified inorg. compd. into a block of a given dimension. CONSTITUTION:A particle of synthetic resin, rubber, etc. contg. a harmful material such as a sulfur compd. or chlorine compd. is coat...

A tire building apparatus is provided having an improved mechanism for turning up the plies of the tire carcass and wrapping them around each tire bead ring. The mechanism is designed so that it can also be used to apply the sidewall pads to the expanded carcass of a radial tire. The improved mechanism includes a bladder that has a molded conical portion in its outer fold adjacent the building dru...

The brake system has a brake drum(96), which operates in one rotation only and is allowed to idle during reverse rotation. The brake is actuated by means of an electromagnetic system(192), which consists of a solenoid and armature controlled by the armature position. This, in turn, controls the current to the system. The brake system has a damping unit(168) for operation in both directions, and in...

A hydraulically actuated disc brake comprises a housing (11, 11'), a cylinder (16) formed in the housing and having a closed end defined by a bottom wall (18, 18'), a piston (17, 17') slidably fitted in the cylinder, a pressure chamber (19) defined in the cylinder between the piston and the bottom wall, and a friction pad (20) being actuated by the piston when pressurized fluid is introduced into ...

Conductor bundles for the concentric coils of a dry inductor having no iron core. The coils define cooling air gaps therebetween, adjacent ones of the coils being electrically connected in parallel and each coil being comprised of turns of a conductor bundle of the same rectangular cross section, the coils having different numbers of said turns. The conductor bundles form the turns of the coils an...

PURPOSE:To provide an acrylic resin molded article suitable for use as an artificial dental plate and having improved resistance to stains and shrinkage, by incorporating methyl methacrylate polymer and dibenzylidenesorbitol (derivative) as essential ingredients. CONSTITUTION:0.1-0.7wt% dibenzylidenesorbitol (derivative) is added to methyl methacrylate monomer. The mixture is polymerized to prepar...

The feeder comprises a rotary hollow arm (5) through which the material is wound as turns onto a supporting body (7, 9) comprising a plurality of rigid guides (9) each of which has a ring shape and a C-cross- section open to the ring outside. The guides accommodate balls (10) (or rollers) in contact with one another and outwardly projecting. Said body is mounted on bearings carried by the shaft (4...

The feeder comprises a rotary hollow arm (5) through which the material is wound as turns onto a supporting body (7, 9) comprising a plurality of rigid guides (9) each of which has a ring shape and a C-cross- section open to the ring outside. The guides accommodate balls (10) (or rollers) in contact with one another and outwardly projecting. Said body is mounted on bearings carried by the shaft (4...

A disposable diaper provided with elastic members respectively comprising a plurality of rubber strings in respective side flaps of the diaper so that these elastic members provide a plurality of longitudinally extending elastic lines in said side flaps to provide a good fit of said side flaps around infant's thighs.

PURPOSE:To improve considerably the operability when a linear pattern is inputted from a data tablet, by calculating the degree of difference between respective parts of a standard pattern and an input pattern. CONSTITUTION:An input device 1 takes in the coordinate value of a writing point for every stroke and transmits it to a stroke row extracting device 3. A standard pattern accumulating device...

PURPOSE:To recognize a linear pattern written with an optional number of strokes in an optional order of making strokes in writing, by selecting pattern information which gives a minimum degree of difference between the coordinate sequence of an input stroke row and that of a candidate standard stroke row. CONSTITUTION:A preprocessing device 2 normalizes the size of a linear pattern transmitted fr...

PURPOSE:To both extend a combustion cycle and perform easy combustion, by spraying water to fine particles seized by a filter and collectively condensing the particles to relax its blocking. CONSTITUTION:When exhaust pressure becomes a fixed value P1, an exhaust pressure sensor 10 detects the pressure of this value to feed a signal to a controller 15 and operate a pressing pump 9. The pump 9 feeds...

PURPOSE:To obtain a laminated body which is arrayed at a fixed pitch vertically and horizontally so that it is not piled up like a bale, by arraying and fixing an optical fiber sheet on a spacer plate in parallel at a fixed pitch, thereafter, laminating this plate. CONSTITUTION:An optical fiber sheet is prepared by fixing plural optical fibers by resin on a plate on which a groove is provided at a...

PURPOSE:To obtain uniform connecting characteristics by making a temperature distribution by arc discharge constant on the circumference, and also to connect a multicore of optical fibers in a lump, by melt-sticking the optical fibers on the same axial circumference as discharge electrodes. CONSTITUTION:Optical fibers 1A, 1B whose end face is cut vertically after removing the covering are fixed to...

PURPOSE:To raise coupling force with an optical fiber cable, by providing a part of the inside diameter which is smaller than the outside diameter of its cable, in the optical fiber cable inserting part of a ferrule. CONSTITUTION:A part 11a of the inside diameter which is smaller than the outside diameter of a covering part of an optical fiber cable is formed on a pipe-like member 11 for supportin...