PURPOSE:To certainly carry out change over, by working an actuator for advancing and backing until a front and back change over apparatus neutralizes running system when it is detected to return F or R non-stage gear change lever from speed increasing position to neutral position. CONSTITUTION:When speed changing means 21 are operated at a stroke from an advancing area F toward a backing area R, m...

PURPOSE:To carry out decelerating operation with good feeling, by intermittently subjecting an actuator to decelerating operation by an inching control means in performing decelerating operation without setting a speed change operation means in the neutral position. CONSTITUTION:When decelerating operation is performed without setting a speed change operation means 13 in the neutral position (N), ...

In a center mechanism of a tire vulcanizing machine equipped with four kinds of hydraulic cylinders, lower end portions of a plurality of rods are made insertable into holes provided in a beam to transmit a pressing force generated by a pressurized hot medium to stoppers through the respective rods upon vulcanization of a tire. Upon completion of vulcanization of the tire, the stoppers are made to...

PURPOSE:To provide a running device which is decreased in size and weight and easy to replace an axle, by a method wherein wheels, to which a gear case is mounted so that it is dividable at the center part of the axle into an upper and a lower part, are located so that they can be taken out downward. CONSTITUTION:A running device 1 comprises 2 wheels 5 and 6, a truck 7 for supporting the wheels, a...

PURPOSE:To check a sudden rise in output torque and thereby improve both of stability and safety in a vehicle, by prohibiting any selection of a kick-down shift selector pattern according to a steering angle or it and a steering speed at a meandering road. CONSTITUTION:A device C selects a shift selector pattern on the basis of the engine load detected by a device B. And, on the basis of the selec...

PURPOSE:To make a backup performable smoothly even in case of stopping or starting motion of a vehicle, by setting the contents of an accelerator signal for the backup according to an operating state of a brake control system. CONSTITUTION:A backup accelerator signal generator 11 has a first circuit 12 for outputting a first backup signal U1 corresponding to an actual accelerator signal A when rel...

PURPOSE:To improve safety for a backup system, by making a backup accelerator manipulated variable so as to become a low value, insomuch that starting operation is not started, in the case where a gear is set in a clutch-off state. CONSTITUTION:A car speed signal V, a gear position signal GP and a clutch signal CL are all inputted into a state detecting element 34 where a selector control signal S...

PURPOSE:To prevent the charge voltage from becoming high by using a nonformed anode plate containing lead sulfide. CONSTITUTION:Use of a nonformed anode plate containing lead sulfide prevents the electric potential of the anode electrode from becoming too low because hydrogen generation mainly occurs in PbS during the last stage of formation. Therefore, the charge voltage during the formation of t...

PURPOSE:To prevent the short circuit between a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate by connecting tubes with a bottom pad, inclining the side face at the connection position, forming a projection at the upper section, and forming a recess at the lower section. CONSTITUTION:Tubes 1 are connected with a bottom pad 2, the side face 3 at the connection position is inclined, a projec...

PURPOSE:To prevent generation of air pollution substances such as MOx, SOx, etc., by generating power through a CO reheat gas turbine in which carbon dioxide gas is produced by using oxygen gas as a combustion oxidizing agent to perform combustion of carbon monoxide gas and circulated as working fluid. CONSTITUTION:In a CO reheat gas turbine 1, in a combustor 4, combustion of carbon monoxide gas C...

PURPOSE:To permit smooth start of an engine and prevent torque fluctuation of the engine from transmission to the output shaft side by interposing a slip system clutch between a drive shaft of the engine and an input shaft of a continuously variable transmission. CONSTITUTION:One disks 10b, 12b of respective pulleys 10, 12 at the drive and driven sides of a continuously variable transmission 8 are...

A liquid-absorbing pad (20) and method of making same are provided wherein such pad comprises a liquid impervious layer (22) having opposed surfaces (23,24) and an absorbent layer (25) attached to the liquid impervious layer against one of the opposed surfaces and in which the liquid-absorbing layer consists of a single layer of knitted cloth having an exposed front portion (26), a central base po...

A disposable urinary and fecal waste containment product (10) comprising a separate front urinary pad (12) and a separate rear fecal pad (11) detachably joined together is disclosed. Each of the front and rear pads comprise a liquid impermeable backing, an absorbent core and a liquid permeable facing. The rear fecal pad is preferably substantially square or rectangular and has elastic means (17),(...

There are disclosed an automatic gear change control apparatus for an automobile and a method of controlling such apparatus. A rotational output (101) of an internal combustion engine (1) is connected to drive wheels (6) of the automobile and a load device (4). When a gear shifting-up of an automatic transmission (2) is to be effected, the load applied by the load device (4) is increased, or the l...

A method of controlling the rotational speed of a continuously variable transmission having a pair of pulleys which each includes a fixed pulley member and a movable pulley member, including the steps of decreasing and increasing the groove width between each pair of fixed and movable pulley members to respectively increase and decrease the rotational radius of a belt wrapped around the pulleys. A...

A yarn transfer arrangement in a yarn winding machine (10) comprises two part-circular guide plates (28,29)which, when an empty tube (17) has moved to the winding position, move from a non-operating position, spaced apart on opposed sides of the winding position of the machine (10) by a distance greater than the diameter of a full package (15), to an operating position in which the plates (28,29) ...

A method for applying loops formed from a supply length of elongate strip material in spaced relationship along a substrate. Lengths are cut from the supply length, and have their ends supported on peripheral surfaces of two circular disks mounted with their axes oriented to position portions of the peripheral surfaces of the disks on which the lengths are positioned at a wide spacing at a first l...

The power transmission apparatus comprises a center differential gear, a first inner front wheel drive hub connected to the center differential gear, a second outer rear wheel drive hub also connected to the center differential gear coaxially with the first hub, a ring gear fixed to the second hub, a pinion gear coupled to a propeller shaft and in mesh with the ring gear at a gearing position abov...

A device for forming battery electrodes having a vessel 1 which is filled with an electrolyte 8. Two contact rails 7 are arranged over the base surface of the vessel 1 and a toothed rail 2 is arranged such that it can be raised and lowered. The electrodes 6 can be placed on the teeth of the toothed rail 2 and can be brought into electrical contact with the contact rails 7 by lowering the toothed r...

In thread-processing operations, such as, for example, embroidering, it happens relatively frequently, under certain circumstances, that the thread has to be changed. To avoid threading the new desired thread, which, for example, has a different colour from the old thread, manually through the various guides of the thread-processing machine, the old thread must be clipped and tied as automatically...