A cutting tool assembly is disclosed wherein a cutting head is releasably retained by a tool holder by means of interacting coupling members, with one of the coupling members being inserted into a cavity of the other coupling member, with radially extending abutment wings of said one coupling member passing respectively between successive support wings of the other coupling member, rotation of the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential gear capable of easily performing preload force adjusting work. SOLUTION: The differential gear 1 comprises a differential case 3 for receiving a driving force of an engine, a differential mechanism 5 that is stored in the differential case 3 and differentially distributes the inputted driving force to a pair of faced output-side side gears 17, 19, a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shift control method for an automatic transmission vehicle capable of reducing shock generated by increase or delay of an engine rotation speed due to an ETC signal in mode change due to tip in. SOLUTION: This control method comprises a step of sensing occurrence probability of the tip in based on a rapid acceleration signal during learn burn mode running, a step...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air conditioning and hot-water supplying arrangement which can exhaust carbon dioxide of a suppressive amount. SOLUTION: Hot water contained in a hot water reservoir 30 is heated by waste heat, i.e., absorption heat and condensing heat stemmed from an absorber 20. Whereby, heat recovered from air of an interior or an exterior area is accumulated in the hot water...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely detect a marker and to transmit the information on its own vehicle to the following vehicles. SOLUTION: An information collector means 100a of a preceding car 100 acquires the information on the traveling state of its own vehicle and supplies the information to a modulator means 100b. The means 100b modulates the supplied information and supplies it to a flashing me...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a closed battery of the structure wherein a bolt is integrally formed with a current collector penetrating from an opening of a cover to an outer part of the battery to form a terminal, and wherein the air-tightness of the terminal is kept by tightening a nut mounted on the terminal and pressing an elastomer between a bottom surface of the cover and an upper surfac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable to sufficiently exhibit the function of a liquid surface sensor till the end of a lead acid storage battery life. SOLUTION: In the lead acid storage battery comprising a transparent liquid surface hydrometer, it is characterized by comprising a positive electrode grid of a lead-antimony alloy, negative electrode grid consisting of a lead-calcium alloy, and a separat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the number of armatures and turns of windings and improve the capability of a magnetic circuit, thereby enhancing generated output. SOLUTION: Respective permanent magnets 10 are formed into a rectangular- solid shape which permits the adjacent permanent magnets to be disposed so as to approach each other. A magnetic body 11 attaching the permanent magnets are form...

A method for forming the bottom (3) of a container (2) made of heat-weldable plastic material, including at least a body (4) and a stopper (5) removably associated to an end of the body (4), provides: to fill the container (2) through the bottom (3) open with a product to be packaged; to squeeze the body (4) in proximity of a remaining end thereof, carrying out a bottom portion (6); to heat ...

Volume tomographic mammography is performed with a gantry frame (206) in whi ch a cone-beam radiation source (210) and a thin-film detector (208) are mounte d. The patient (P) rests on an ergonomically designed table (202) with a hole (204) to allow one breast (B) to extend therethrough such that the gantry frame (206) surrounds that breast. The gantry frame is rotatable so that the radiation sou...

In connection with cleaning of gas from particles suspended therein and bein g heavier than the gas the gas is caused to rotate in a chamber (2) delimited in a stationary housing (1), so that the particles by centrifugal force are separated from the gas and are thrown towards a stationary housing. The rotation of the gas is accomplished by means of a rotor (8), which includes a stack of conical se...

The invention is an installation for the forming of accumulators, comprising a plurality of pallets suitable for supporting the accumulators, a loading station for the loading of the accumulators to be formed and an unloading station, power supply means, electrolyte feeding means. The installation comprises a casing, provided with projecting supports positioned side by side and aligned in vertical...

In connection with cleaning of crankcase gas from particles suspended there in and being heavier than the gas, the gas is caused to rotate in a chamber delimited in a stationary housing, so that the particles by centrifugal forc e are separated from the gas and are thrown towards a stationary housing. The rotation of the gas is accomplished by means of a rotor, which includes a stack of conical se...

A catheter assembly includes a catheter body (20) having a shaft portion (28) and an arm (30) portion, the arm portion having an adjustable defection in plane and out-of-plane relative to the shaft portion. An electrode disposed within the arm portion upon being energized is capable of ablating the entire cavo-tricuspid isthmus region of a heart without repositioning of the catheter body arm porti...

A catheter assembly (20) includes an elongated catheter body having a proximal end and a distal end, an actuating assembly disposed at the proximal end of the catheter body. The actuating assembly comprises a catheter base having proximal and distal ends, the distal end of the catheter base (60) coupled to the proximal end of the deflectable segment (21), at least one electrical device (32) dispos...

A method of lubricating the wall surfaces (W) of a die cavity used in powder metallurgy involves spraying the wall surfaces with tribocharged particles of a lubricant material. The method is carried out by means of an apparatus centered about a plug member (14) which has a three-dimensional shape conforming generally to that of the article to be formed. The plug member is slightly smaller than the...

A robot arm (22) having seven axes of actuation (A, B, C, D, E, F, X) imparts to a toroidal support (18) a circumferential distribution motion about its own geometric axis (X) simultaneously with controlled transverse distribution displacements in front of a dispensing organ (19) of a strip (20) of elastomeric material. The strip (20) thus forms a plurality of turns (20a), the orientation and mutu...

A method and system for building, in at least two stages, an unvulcanized tire carcass (30). The system (20) incorporates a first stage tire building drum (22) on which predetermined, unvulcanized tire building components are layered to form a cylindrically shaped, unvulcanized tire carcass (30), a second stage shaping drum (24) on which the carcass (30) is shaped into a shape suitable for subsequ...

The invention concerns a tyre comprising at least a reinforcing carcass structure (10) anchored on either side of the tyre in a bead (1) whereof the base is designed to be mounted on a rim seat, the reinforcing structure extending circumferentially from the bead (1) towards the sidewall (6), at least an assembly of the main cords (20) along a substantially circumferential path being provided subst...

A biosensor comprises, as shown in chart (1), a substrate (1); a conductor layer (2) consisting of precious metal such as gold and palladium or conductor such as carbon; slits (3a, 3b) parallel to the sides of the substrate; slits (4a, 4b) perpendicular to the sides of the substrate; a measuring electrode (5); a counter electrode (6); a detection electrode (7); a spacer (8) covering the measuring ...