In X-rays photography or like techniques there is used a tower stand (2) which carries on an outwardly projecting arm (5) a radiation source (6) which can move in the X-, Y- and Z-directions and can rotate about a horizontal axis. A receptor holder (7) capable of moving in the X- and Y-direction is located beneath the patient examination table (1). The act of placing in the receptor holder (7) a h...

PURPOSE:To improve fuel consumption by providing a main transmission capable of switching the speed change into plural steps and an auxiliary transmission capable of switching the speed change into high and low steps, then switching the speed change in the auxiliary transmission into the low speed step in the case that a live load, road inclination and accelerator operating quantity exceed the pre...

PURPOSE:To improve the following property of the actual value to the object value, by correcting the operational amount when the deflection amount between the object value and the actual value exceeds a preset value after a specific time passes in a stationary condition. CONSTITUTION:A regularity judging device 600 judges a stationary condition, a throttle opening deciding device 61 decides whethe...

PURPOSE:To improve the safety and the convenience of operation, by combining the shift operation to the running position of a shift lever and the operation of a switch furnished at the shift lever, and driving to release a parking brake for a specific time after the both operations are exercised. CONSTITUTION:This system furnishes the first switching device 21 linking to the operation of a shift l...

PURPOSE:To prevent the generation of loss of thread by detecting the existence of ear taking-up formed at a prescribed position on a bobbin of a thread taking-up device on start of thread taking-up and suspending the taking-up for a package free of ear taking-up. CONSTITUTION:When thread laying is normally performed onto a bobbin B installed onto a thread taking-up device 3, the optical fiber sens...

PURPOSE:To improve the slidability, follow-up performance or convergence performance in the captioned automatic clutch by performing a feedback control with the use of a clutch engagement factor in such a way that the deviation between a target engagement factor and a real engagement factor is corrected and the transition of the engagement factor is detected, provided that it becomes inverse for t...

PURPOSE:To enable the reduction ratio to be changeable, in the structural part in which an internal gear is turned in the opposite direction to a sun gear, by providing the first and the second gears which are changeably provided on an input shaft and an intermediate transmission shaft respectively, and the third gear provided on the intermediate transmission shaft and the fourth gear engaging the...

PURPOSE:To enable a throttle opening to be accurately detected by detecting the full-close and full-open of the throttle by means of a switch so as to calibrate the reference output values of the throttle sensor through this signal. CONSTITUTION:At the time of operation start, an electronic controller 18 calculates the opening of a throttle valve 10 by the signal of a throttle opening sensor 12 on...

PURPOSE:To provide a foaming inhibitor capable of inhibiting or killing the foaming of slag by blending calcium aluminate as a base with specified amounts of Al and C, in a small amount and in a short time. CONSTITUTION:This foaming inhibitor for slag contains 20-50% calcium aluminate, 10-30% Al and 10-20% C or further contains the proper amount of metallic iron powder. Al and C in the inhibitor c...

PURPOSE:To remove easily an excess adhesive, by filling a thermosetting adhesive in mutual superposed parts of jointed parts of a car body panel, semicuring the excess adhesive part protruding from the superposed parts by blowing hot air, and scraping the adhesive with a scraping means. CONSTITUTION:A thermosetting adhesive 14 is filled in mutual superposed parts of jointed parts 12 and 13 of a ca...

PURPOSE:To lengthen the life of assembled elements by putting them between battery jar units which have either H- or -form cross sections and connecting these with the pressure on both sides across the thickness of the assembled elements. CONSTITUTION:An assembled element 1 is made by laminating one pasted positive plate and one negative plate alternately with a separator made of glass mat betwee...

A laser apparatus includes an operating laser oscillator for generating an operating laser beam for medical treatment and a marker laser oscillator for generating a visible laser beam (i.e., marker laser beam) in order to mark a portion of the body cavity to be treated. The marker laser beam is guided coaxial with the operating laser beam to become incident on a laser probe. The marker laser beam ...

PURPOSE:To set the generation quantity of heat to a proper value,by fusing transfer dry ink to paper sludge, of which the moisture was reduced, to unite the same with said paper sludge and squeezing out the united one from small holes to form the same into a pellet shape. CONSTITUTION:Transfer dry ink 1 and paper sludge 2 are mutually mixed and the paper sludge 2 is crushed by the blade part 6a of...

A plastic bag containing a platelet concentrate is disclosed wherein the viability of platelets remains at a high level even after storage at 22 DEG C. for up to five days. The bag in which the platelet concentrate is stored comprises walls of polyvinyl chloride film containing tri 2-ethylhexyl trimellitate as plasticizer together with epoxidized vegetable oils for heat stabilization of the film....

Waste from a nuclear power plant, containing organic ion-exchange resin containing radioactive metals, is decomposed to form volatile substances by means of oxidation in an acid, aqueous liquid (8). Radioactive metal ions thus dissolved in the liquid, which are precipitable with hydroxide, are then caused to precipitate by the addition of a hydroxide (10) at a pH value of at least 9, and the metal...

An edible suspension of a finely divided food material in a liquid suspending medium which swells cellulose, the suspension also containing microfibrillated cellulose in an amount sufficient to produce a stable, homogeneous suspension. The microfibrillated cellulose, a form of cellulose having a very large available surface area per unit of weight, acts to confer, among other benefits, greater sta...

A method for improving the colour and impact strength of a nitrile polymer, in particular an acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile polymer, produced by the polymerisation of an olefinically unsaturated nitrile and a preformed rubber-component, said polymer having at least 50 weight per cent of the nitrile, characterised in that the polymer is heated to a plastic state in the absence of oxygen and in ...

A fluid pressure operated disc brake having one brake disc affixed to the housing of a brake cylinder unit and the other disc affixed to a service brake piston of the brake cylinder unit, which further includes an auxiliary brake piston between the service brake piston and cylinder head, thereby forming on opposite sides thereof a service brake actuating chamber and an auxiliary brake actuating ch...

1. A process for hydrophiling contact lenses of silicone rubber which process comprises providing the silicone rubber surface with a hydrophilic surface layer, characterized in that in a first process step on the surface of the contact lenses the silicone rubber is reacted in the presence of a catalyst with an oligomeric siloxane containing SiH groups (equilibration reaction) and that in a second ...

Masterbatches useful for lightweight polyamide molding or extrusion comprise polyamide, a pore-forming agent and a fusible binder that is compatible with the polyamide. Admixture of the masterbatch and granular polyamide polymer results in a polyamide composition which can be molded or extruded into a product having increased homogeneity and expansion uniformity.