PURPOSE:To operate a steam shut-off valve exactly. CONSTITUTION:A hydraulic mechanism 40 for driving a main steam shut-off valve 8 is equipped with a hydraulic cylinder 7 for driving the main steam shut-off valve 8, a relay dump valve 5 for controlling this hydraulic cylinder 7, and a three-way solenoid valve 6 for closing test. For this relay dump valve 5, the port a of the primary chamber 5d is ...

PURPOSE:To prevent worsening of an drive feeling while operation shock times is reduced by regulating each output timing of a shift signal for a cam and a gear position so that a timing at which a cam is shifted matches a timing at which a gear position is shifted and detecting whether the cam is actually shifted or not and canceling the shift of the gear position when the cam is not shifted. CONS...

Salts of organic carboxylic acids can be separated from non-salt organic compounds using a semipermeable membrane consisting of a perfluorosulfonic acid polymer or a salt of such a polymer, by bringing a solution of the salts and the organic compounds in a C1-C4alkanol into contact with one side of the membrane and having the pure solvent on the opposite side of the membrane. The process can be us...

PATENT In the present invention, a dual sensing intrusion detection system is disclosed. A passive infrared radiation detection sensor generates a first output signal in response to the detection of an intruder in the volume of space. A second detection sensor is directed to the same volume of space and generates a second output signal in response to detection of the intruder. A switch activates t...

A cordless electric hair dryer and stand are provided in which the portable hair dryer unit has a rechargeable battery and a thermal heat reservoir. The fan blows ambient air over the thermal reservoir in heat exchange relationship to expel hot air from the dryer when in use. The stand has an electrical circuit inductivley coupled through a coil in the base of the stand to a coil in the rear of th...

Apparatus for deheading and cleansing shrimp in a continuous-flow product transport system for more efficient storage or peeling. The apparatus transports food product having weakly attached appendages, such as crustaceans and especially shrimp, along conduits in a fluid medium at a flow rate as controlled by a food pump. Upstream conduit defines a flow channel having a certain cross-sectional are...

A biaxially oriented polyester film formed from an aromatic polyester composition containing: (A) 100 parts by weight of an aromatic polyester, and (B) 0.005 to 5 parts by weight of calcium carbonate particles defined by: (a) a length/width ratio (2a/2b) in the range of from 1.25 to 3, (b) an average particle diameter (D), as a diameter of a circle converted from an area, in the range of f...

Polypeptides which are derived from the ligand-binding portion of an Integrin alpha subunit are disclosed as are their use for modulation of Integrin ligand binding. Anti-peptide antibodies, hybridomas secreting these antibodies, as well as methods of making and using such antibodies, and recombinant DNA molecules that define the structural gene coding for the polypeptides are also contemplated as...

A composite card reader (11) used for IC cards, magnetic cards and the like to which the card is manually inserted and extracted is dislosed. The composite type card reader (11) has a shutter lever (28) for opening and closing a card inlet (13), a locking mechanism for locking the card by closing the shutter lever (28), and a lock releasing mechanism for releasing the lock by opening the shutter l...

A method for measuring internal defects of a specimen, comprising the steps of allowing a finely focused laser beam to be incident into a specimen from its surface and observing the scattered light of the said laser beam from inside the said specimen from the surface of the specimen and in a different direction to the optical axis of incidence of the laser beam.

A set of red light sources (111-113) are provided above a printed board (20). One (111) of the light sources is located in the angular aperture of an imaging lens system (140). The red light is applied to the printed board and reflected on a wiring pattern (22) provided thereon. Another light source (120) is provided under the printed board, and emits infrared light to the back surface of the prin...

A multi-processor system arranged, in one embodiment, as an image and graphics processor. The processor is structured with several individual processors all having communication links to several memories. An addressing scheme, called sliced addressing, is used to spread contiguous related data over several memories so that the data can be concurrently accessed by several processors. A crossbar swi...

PURPOSE:To obviate an exchange of rolls by efficiently removing weld zone spatters in a pickling line to prevent the generation of a pressing flaw on a product and besides, preventing the damage on a strip and installation by meandering during traveling of a steel sheet. CONSTITUTION:This device is the weld zone spatter removing device formed by arranging three rolls 15 and an electromagnet 16 in ...