PURPOSE:To prevent a parking lever and other parts from being damaged by bringing a part of the parking lever into hitting contact with a part of a rear plate for supporting brake shoes and restricting a displaceable amount of the parking lever to a specific value. CONSTITUTION:A step 15 is formed on a part of a rear plate 1 for supporting brake shoes 3a, 3b, a wheel cylinder 2, etc., to which an ...

PURPOSE: To change the pressure of a hydraulic fluid in a cylinder so as to miniaturize a brake actuator by providing a complementary gear formation meshed with the gear structure of a piston, and driving the piston along the cylinder by an electric motor. CONSTITUTION: A brake actuator has a cylinder body, and the cylinder body accommodates therein a piston 2 slidable and sealed to a cylinder int...

Type I collagen gel with an H2O content not exceeding 20% by weight, in the form of a sheet of thickness between 0.02 and 2 mm, of compact transparent structure, with a capacity for absorbing aqueous biological liquids limited to a maximum of 15 times its weight, being free from native collagen degradation products, and suitable for the therapeutic treatment of wounds and burns.

The present invention relates to styrene polymer foam containing carbon black and includes both particulate and extruded forms. Such foams have decreased thermal conductivity.

Differential device comprising a housing (1) which carries differential pinions (2) with axis parallel to the axis of the housing (1) and two movement outputs which are each accomplished by a differential side gear (5) and (6). One of the movement outputs is accomplished by means of standard pinions: differential pinion (3) and differential side gear (5), while the other movement output is achieve...

An acrylonitrile polymer film comprising at least 85 wt. % of acrylonitrile, wherein the difference in the value of the second moment of the broad-line NMR spectrum at 20 DEG C. between the film and the starting polymer powder thereof, or the polymer powder formed by dissolving the film and then precipitating the polymer from the solution, is at least 0.3 Gauss2 and the infrared dichroic ratio of...

A differential gear drive having two output shafts each coupled through a differential gear train to a common input gear. The differential gear train comprises an annulus gear engaging the input gear, planet gears and a sun wheel. The output shaft is connected to a planet carrier and the output shaft is connected to the sun wheel. A pair of cam rings are rotatably coupled to the respective output ...

Disclosed are rigid polyurethane-polyisocyanurate foams prepared from polyisocyanates, polyols, trimer catalysts and a blowing agent mixture comprising (i) a halocarbon, and (ii) an organic carboxylic acid, and, optionally water. The foams have excellent aged K-factor values at fluorocarbon levels reduced by up to 75 percent over prior art materials.

The electromagnetic source is intended to be fixed permanently in a borehole in order to study the electromagnetic properties of the geological formations (1) or fluids surrounding the borehole. The source consists of a coil (5) in which a large current is made to flow and which has a diameter of the same order of magnitude as that of the borehole (2). The coil is integrated into one of the elemen...

One-part organosiloxane composition curable by a platinum-catalyzed hydrosilation reaction contain the catalyst encapsulated within finely divided particles of a cured silicone rubber. The compositions are storage-stable for up to several days at room temperature, yet cure relatively rapidly when heated.

A method and apparatus for printing digital information on at least one light-sensitive surface comprising splitting incoming digital information into groups of bits and using said bits to provide addresses for said digital information; inputting laser light together with said addresses into optical routing means such that the laser light by use of said addresses passes to a plurality of optical f...

There is disclosed a new vinyl monomer capable of forming polymeric vesicles, micelles, monolayers, and side-chain liquid crystalline polymers. The vinyl monomer is of the formula wherein R1 is substituted or unsubstituted long chain alkyl or aryl and R2 is a hydrogen atom, alkyl, or aryl. The side-chain liquid crystalline polymers can be formed by free radical polymerization or by anion...

Animal malignant tumour cells are cultivated at a temperature in the range of not lower than 30 DEG C but not higher than 37 DEG C and including 30 DEG C and 37 DEG C. Malignant tumour cells are removed from the culture and an inhibiting agent effective to inhibit the proliferation of malignant tumour cells is extracted from the medium.

An image data coding apparatus performs first and second coding processes. A controller outputs first and second control signals. An orthogonal transform circuit performs orthogonal transform on image data of one screen and generates an transformed output. A quantizing circuit quantizes the transformed output with a predetermined temporary first quantization width upon reception of the first contr...

PURPOSE: To shorten the total scanning time for a wafer by providing each IC bar with more than one bar matching mark and writing a data at a position of an IC bar identified by optically scanning a scribe subpath using a laser beam thereby decreasing the number of scanning strips required for identifying and positioning the bar matching mark. CONSTITUTION: As a method for computerizing the matchi...

This invention relates to lubricant compositions containing both zinc O,O min -dialkyldithiophosphates and ashless O,O min -diaryldithiophosphates obtained by reacting an O,O min -diaryldithiophosphoric acid with a diolefin. These lubricant compositions give improved anti-wear performance.

Apparatus for detecting movement of a television picture using a movement vector integrates an absolute value of a frame difference between a current frame and a previous frame for every one of a plurality of regions which are formed by dividing a picture of one field and by detecting movement vectors using frame difference integration data for every said plurality of regions. A residual deviation...

The patent claim relates to an invention which has the object of simplifying the exchange of the lamps and/or cleaning and/or repair and maintenance. Aluminium profiles and/or plastic profiles have preferably been used for this. They form two frames lying one above the other (supporting frame and holding frame), the supporting frame receiving the entire electrotechnics as well as reflectors and fa...

The switching shaft (2) is spring-coupled (4) to a tensioning gear (5) driven by a motor (6). Engagement and disengagement mechanisms (8,9) also are controlled by a printed circuit board (10) carrying the plug (11) which accepts a free cable termination socket (12). The timing circuits (13) are combined with a microprocessor (14) and output control circuit (15) including a power amplifier relay wi...