PURPOSE:To give a driver no uncomfortable feeling by using the step-on distance of an accelerating pedal as a parameter for varying the clutch disengaging speed so as to minimize the time of a shock given by shifting of a gear. CONSTITUTION:If a gear is changed, a control unit 9 seeks a clutch map 9-1 and a throttle map 9-2 both contained therein according to the driver's stepping load so as to ob...

In accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a hollow mandrel mounted in a production string has an eccentrically disposed, lateral recess adapted to receive a measuring instrument. A plug-in contact assembly is located at the lower end of the recess and is connected to an electric cable which is fixed to the outside of the production string. The measuring instrument inc...

PURPOSE:To extend the life of the title needle by a method wherein the pointed tip of the needle to be used for pickup of a semiconductor element in the manufacture of semiconductor devices is formed using the abrasion resisting material such as ruby, sapphire, diamond and the like, thereby enabling to prevent the pointed tip from abrasion and breaking. CONSTITUTION:The needle 1 is composed of a f...

In a loudspeaker enclosure, the loudspeaker cabinet (1) is divided into two compartments by a partition (2). A loudspeaker (3) is fixed to the dividing wall (2) and the loudspeaker cabinet (1) has at least one opening (4) having a particular acoustic mass. If either the volumes of the two compartments of the cabinet or the acoustic masses of the openings (4) are different, the sound pressure curve...

PURPOSE:To detect the increase in the fracture of a fiber element and to prevent the excessive increase in the fracture by having a means for detecting the quantity of the light transmitted through an optical fiber bundle at time intervals and a means for storing the quantity value of the transmitted light detected by said means for detecting the quantity of the transmitted light. CONSTITUTION:A p...

Cup-shaped switch contact member for an electric vacuum switch having a lead post, a bottom connected to the lead post, a cylinder wall connected to the bottom, and a contact ring secured to the cylinder wall and formed of a material favoring interruption of an arc and having a lower conductivity than that of the cylinder wall, the lead post having a diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the...

PURPOSE:A strand is twisted at a pitch 2 to 200 times its outside diameter; and by setting the twisting pitch P of a cable consisting of a plural number of strands, cable width W and sectional thickness t to the prescribed relation, a compound superconductor cable is formed.