A shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission (20) of a motor vehicle, including a sensor (11) for detecting a throttle valve (24) opening which regulates an intake air quantity supplied to the vehicle engine, an engine speed senior (12) for detecting the engine speed, a vehicle speed sensor (13) for detecting the vehicle running speed, a calculating device (15) for calculating the intak...

A pneumatic tire having improved high-speed running performance is manufactured by conducting vulcanization of a green tire (10) in a mold (12) provided at a position corresponding to a given position between the shoulder portion (33) and the bead portion (16) with at least one protrusion (34) which protrudes inside the mold and continuously extends in the circumferential direction of the mold and...

Process for prodn. of methanol comprises: (a) preparing a stoichiometric synthesis gas for methanol synthesis; and (b) recovering power by combusting and/or utilising a fuel (power station). A gas fraction consisting of H2, CO and CO2 is used as the gas and/or fuel for steps (a) and (b). The novelty is that the amt. of gasifying gas fraction (2) and the residual gas streams (8, 10) from process (a...

An apparatus and method are disclosed for filtering or separating particles. The apparatus has a centrifuge rotor (12) rotatable about an axis of rotation. A fluid chamber (22) rotates with the rotor. A substance is supplied to the inlet (28) of the chamber. A saturated fluidized bed of first particles forms within the fluid chamber and obstructs flow of second particles through the chamber. In an...

An aminoplast-curable film-forming composition is disclosed. The film-forming composition is a crosslinkable composition comprising (1) a material containing a plurality of carbamate and/or urea functional groups and (2) an aminoplast crosslinking agent. The composition provides a coating with improved acid etch resistance, making the coating particularly useful as an automotive clear coat.

A carcass for a self-sealing pneumatic tire is constructed by starting with an extruded thin flat strip of puncture sealant both surfaces of which are detackified. The strip is place on a building drum and its upper surface is wiped clean so that an inner liner may be adhered to it. Thereafter, the carcass is conventionally completed with superimposed successive layers of belts, and tread along wi...

A biaxially oriented polyester film composed of an intimate mixture of an aromatic polyester, barium sulfate particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 10 micrometers, and an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt of a higher fatty acid having 8 to 34 carbon atoms. The fatty acid metal salt has a melting point in the range of 120 to 320 DEG C. The biaxially oriented polyester film...

Apparatus for automatically controlling a farm crop vehicle by sensing the locations of rows of crop ahead of the vehicle, and adjusting steering and speed accordingly. The apparatus senses the plants in rows on both sides of the vehicle as the vehicle encounters them. The data thus obtained are processed by an on-board microcontroller to determine the lateral location of the crop vehicle relative...

A method for fabricating a rubberised steel cord reinforced sheet (100) characterised by the steps of passing a plurality of cords (1) through an extruder (140) to coat each of the plurality of cords with rubber to form rubberised cords (111) and passing the plurality of rubberised cords (111) through a calender roller system (130) to form them into a rubberised steel cord sheet (100) having a des...

Disclosed is an automatic travelling apparatus which is capable of finding a permissible travelling area ahead of a running vehicle by use of an image pick-up device attached to the vehicle, setting a target course in the determined permissible travelling area, estimating steering amount for permitting the vehicle to follow the target course and steering the vehicle with reference to the target st...

Disclosed is an automatic travelling apparatus which is capable of taking an image of an area ahead of a vehicle by an image pick-up device attached to the vehicle; determining a permissible travelling area in the X-Y coordinates having the X-axis corresponding to the vehicle's running direction on the basis of dot unit data sampled from the taken image; setting a target course by a sequence of do...

Disclosed is an automatic travelling apparatus which is capable of taking an image of an area ahead of a vehicle in its running direction by an image pick-up device fixed to the vehicle; determining, by processing the taken image, a permissible travelling area in a X-Y coordinates having the Y-axis corresponding to the axis of the vehicle's running direction; setting a target course in the determi...

The invention relates to a filtration bag, intended to allow sterile filtration of blood in order to separate the components thereof. The filtration bag comprises an external envelope formed by an assembly of two sheets (9, 10) made of a plastic material, joined at their periphery (25). According to the invention, a filtering medium (11) is held in a flexible leaktight frame (12) which delimits in...

A biaxially oriented polyethylene 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylate film which is usable as a base film for magnetic recording media capable of high-density recording, in particular, magnetic tape, characterized in that the numbers of protrusions formed on the surface of the film and meeting the conditions that 1

The invention relates to a method and a device for monitoring the transparency of at least one part of a preassembled laminated glass sheet, by analysing the luminous intensity of the image of a target (reticle) seen through the said part of the glass sheet. The luminous intensity, picked up by a detector, of each point of the target (reticle) seen through the glass sheet is quantified by a number...

The tripping element is operated by a current. The current is controlled by a programme running in a computer. The current flows through a switch (16a,24a). When the programme runs without interruption, the microprocessor drives a watchdog circuit (16b) at fixed intervals.The switch is opened when the driving of the watchdog circuit does not occur. In one embodiment the driving takes place by the ...

The appts. determines whether bottles are damaged. It has a photosensitive image recorder (6). It also has a lens (3). The lens produces images of the parts of the bottle to be examined, onto the image recorder or detector. An illuminating unit (9) illuminates the parts of the bottle under examination. The lens has a beam path with which the beams (7,11) on entering into the lens and on exiting ou...

Discarded polyurethane foam articles are recycled by grinding a predetermined amount into fine particles having dias. less than 3 mm., mixing the particles with a predetermined amount of meltable plastic powder contg. polyamide or polyester, heating the mixt. to a molten state, and transferring the mixture through a gauge, thickness adjusting means, a cooling device, or a conveyor to form a final ...