PURPOSE:To properly control an engine output by stopping a control for a prior speed change action and starting a control for a new speed change action when the new speed change action is carried out during a speed change shock relieving control. CONSTITUTION:When an ordinary shift-down condition is newly established at a point of time tb' prior to a point of time tc' at which a term Ta is elapsed...

PURPOSE:To ensure an engine output and obtain favorable acceleration responsiveness by suspending a speed-change shock relieving control at the time of a shift-down action from the minimum speed-change stage to the next minimum speed-change stage to the next minimum speed-change stage of change gear ratio. CONSTITUTION:In a speed-change control by means of a transmission control unit 200, when shi...

PURPOSE:To avoid a situation where an engine output is overly varied by employing the larger one out of ignition timing correction quantities for speed- change shock relieving control and knocking control as the final correction quantity when both correction quantities are simultaneously set. CONSTITUTION:When an ordinary shift-down condition is established in an automatic transmission 10, a speed...

A method of manufacture of a tyre comprising premoulding and assembling tyre components in a shaped mould 50,60,61 having no strength in itself. The mould is externally supported in a housing 55,65,66 during the moulding operation and assembly and consolidation of components. The mould is then released from the housing and the unvulcanised tyre, in the mould, located in a pressure vessel and subje...

A telephonic card read-out device comprises two reading areas (A1-A2) which are arranged mutually in series with respect to a card insertion slot (14), the first area being dedicated to a read-out of credit cards and chip-cards, and the second area to the read-out, cancellation and expenditure display of prepaid cards, a first retracting flap (16) for closing the card insertion slot, a second retr...

The cooling of tanks by means of concentric and radial radiators (1) comprised of vanes (2) arranged about a cylinder (3) occluded in its central portion by a torpedo (6) forcing all the fluid to be cooled to pass integrally through the vanes. The device is completed by solid and coated elements, made of cork or glass, intended to reduce the volume of the required dielectric. The invention concern...

PURPOSE: To provide a polyolefin film having an excellent barrier properties against moisture, oxygen and perfume by incorporating a wax of an amount for substantially reducing a water vapor transmission rate in a layer made of a crystalline polyolefin. CONSTITUTION: Barrier properties of an extruded plastic film having a layer made of a crystalline polyolefin are largely improved by slightly addi...

PURPOSE:To obtain a superconducting multiple oxide material having high Jc and being preparable at inexpensive cost by controlling orientation directions of crystal axes. CONSTITUTION:After heating a superconducting multiple oxide layer on a sub strate, the superconducting multiple oxide layer is cooled forcibly with a temp. gradient formed in the superconducting multiple oxide layer. Suitable sub...

PURPOSE:To extremely enlarge hysteresis of a magnetization curve of an oxide superconductor and to obtain an oxide superconductor which is hardly influenced by the magnetic field by annealing a bulk body obtd. by melting a mixture of starting materials for the oxide superconductor and quenching the melted mixture at a specified temp. CONSTITUTION:A bulk body is prepd. by melting a mixture obtd. fr...

PURPOSE:To obtain a superconducting material contg. copper oxide and having uniform crystallographic axes and superior orientational property by orienting the crystallographic axes of the copper atoms in the surface of a copper sheet so as to form specified crystal faces, coating the surface of the copper sheet with a compd. of an element other than copper, sintering the coated copper sheet and an...

PURPOSE:To obtain a high temp. superconducting material effective in reducing contact resistance as the electrode wiring material of a semiconductor integrated circuit device made of Si, etc., by incorporating P, N, As or Sb into a high temp. superconductor of ceramic such as Y1Ba2Cu3O7. CONSTITUTION:R, N, As or Sb is allowed to penetrate into the surface of a high temp. superconductor of ceramic ...

PURPOSE:To obtain a high temp. superconducting material having >=90 deg.K critical temp. and usable as the wiring material of an Si semiconductor integrated circuit device by incorporating boron into a high temp. superconducting material of ceramic such as Y1Ba2Cu3O7. CONSTITUTION:Boron is incorporated into the surface of a high temp. superconducting material of ceramic such as Y1Ba2Cu3O7 by diffu...

PURPOSE:To increase the critical temp. of an oxide superconductor without incorporating Cu by providing a compsn. consisting of Ba, alkali metals, Pb, Bi and O in a prescribed ratio. CONSTITUTION:This oxide superconductor has a Cu-free compsn. represented by a formula Ba1-xMxPb1-yBiyO3 (where x=0.01-0.4, y=0.01-0.55 and M is one or more kinds of alkali metals such as Li, Na, K and Cs). In this sup...

A method of detecting water level in an elongate cavity comprises emitting an alternating signal into the cavity, varying the frequency of said signal to provide a specific response from the cavity, detecting said response, and comparing said outgoing signal and response. In a preferred embodiment the response is a returning signal reflected from the surface of the water. The frequency of the outg...

An interactive video system for retailing merchandise comprises a database containing data relating to the merchandise, an image store storing images of the merchandise, image retrieval and display means for retrieving and displaying images from the image store, and a control arrangement interconnecting the database, the image store and the image retrieval and display means and having an operator ...

A method to make a silicone foam. A layer of crystalline material is embedded in a layer of uncured silicone. The crystalline material is closely packed in crystal-to-crystal contact, the crystals being provided in a plurality of sizes or ranges of size to increase the packing ratio of the crystals as a group. The silicone is cured and then the crystals are dissolved out with a solvent that dissol...

PCT No. PCT/JP86/00038 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 10, 1986 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 10, 1986 PCT Filed Jan. 31, 1986 PCT Pub. No. WO86/04654 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 14, 1986.In an operation chamber 19 filled with silicone oil, there is provided a first resistance plate 21, which is spline-mated to the outer circumference of a first transmission shaft 3, and a second resistance plate 23, which is spline-mated to a...

Device for adjusting a relative rotational position of a gearwheel and a ring gear which are coaxially mounted, comprising a device for applying a spring force to at least one of the gear wheel and the ring gear so as to form a positive connection between the gear wheel and ring gear, and an hydraulic system for reducing the applied spring force, the hydraulic system being formed of components dis...

PCT No. PCT/FR86/00146 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 16, 1986 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 16, 1986 PCT Filed Apr. 29, 1986 PCT Pub. No. WO86/06398 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 6, 1986.The liquid mixtures according to the invention comprise at least one ethylene polymer (A) and at least one solvent (B), and are characterized in that: (a) the ethylene polymer (A) comprises at least one terpolymer having a fluidity index compr...