PURPOSE:To achieve an increased tire edge component and improved braking and driving performance by forming a sipe formed in the land-portion of the tread surface from a narrow-gap portion having a minute gap and a wide-gap portion with a wider gap that encompasses the narrow-gap portion. CONSTITUTION:The surface of the tread of a tire is provided with groove portions 1, and land portions 2 separa...

PURPOSE:To suppress the torque fluctuation due to switching and prevent the slip of a transmission V-belt by adjusting the output torque of an engine when switching a transmission from a stepped transmission path to a continuous transmission path. CONSTITUTION:A vehicle driving device, an engine and a transmission are provided. The transmission has a continuous transmission path transmitting the r...

PURPOSE:To enhance the safety by providing a speed control valve side safety control device and a burnt gas control valve side safety control device so as to prevent a burner or the like from being damaged. CONSTITUTION:A speed control valve side safety control device 17 having a burnt exhaust gas temperature set value and disposed between a speed control valve 11 and a speed control circuit 15, o...

PURPOSE:To reduce the failure of heat welding between a battery jar and a lid by attractingly retaining the lid utilizing vacuum suction force at the time of the separation of the lid from the battery jar, and switching from the vacuum suction force to mechanical holding after the completion of separation. CONSTITUTION:In a heat welding process between a battery jar 3 and a lid 1, both are carried...

System for making cross-wound packages (11, 111) in textile machines, in particular cross-winding machines (10), in which the cross-wound packages (11, 111) are used in subsequent work processes of twisting with simultaneous doubling in machines which are suitable for working with two essentially axially arranged cross-wound packages (11, 111), the wound yarn for the two cross-wound packages (11, ...

An intruder sensor contains a microwave detector (14, 16, 18) and a passive infra-red detector (8, 10) in the same housing (2). A panel (4) in the housing defines a series of Fresnel lens segments (6) which define the zones for the infra-red sensitive element (8). The panel (4) also forms the radome for the microwave detector. In the twin horn microwave detector, the infra-red sensitive element (8...

An optical element made from crosslinked polymers is worked by ablative photochemical decomposition. To this end, the crosslinked polymer is exposed to controlled, coherent irradiation whose photon energy is significantly higher than the dissociation energy of the covalent bonds in the polymer and whose fluency is sufficient to remove the resultant decomposition products.

Gegenstand der Erfindung sind sektionsweise abgeteilte (Faden-)Stränge (2), bei denen die Abteilung in den Teilungspunkten durch verschweißte Folienbändchen (3,4) bewirkt wird. Weiterer Erfindungsgegenstand ist ein Verfahren zur Herstellung von abgeteilten (Faden-)Strängen (2) unter Verwendung von Folienbändchen (3), welche an den Teilungspunkten (4) des Stranges verschweißt werden.; The invention...

Packaging apparatus, using an upper film (6) pre-heated before contact with a lower film (9) on which products (not shown) are placed, has at least the central region heated by radiant heaters (7) and the marginal regions heated by hot air nozzles (10) at least in the region immediately preceding contact (8) between the upper and lower films.

A method of providing the surface area of a substrate with a first zone which is solvent-wettable and a second zone which is solvent-non-wettable, and which is particularly suitable for application to the printheads and nozzle plates of drop-on-demand ink jet printers or like products where the spacing between zones of the same kind can be as little as just tens of microns, and wherein the solvent...

In volume densitometry, and in cases where the number of views which it is possible to obtain is low, the artifact rate resulting from the reconstructions is reduced. At least one view is obtained of the object (4) to be reconstructed, the principal direction (11) of irradiation of which is orientated substantially orthogonally, in a plane formed by or containing the other (5, 8) irradiation direc...

In the thread-changing device with a knotter for knotting a new thread to an old thread (30) during a thread change, to guarantee the formation of a secure knot and for reliable knotting, a thread compensation zone of fixed maximum length, leading via a pivoting arm (23) with a defecting roller (24) and having a preceding briefly actuable compensating thread brake (21), and a clamping hook (14) co...

The utility model relates to a heat absorbing core sheet of a solar energy water heater, which is composed of metal thin boards and circular tubes. The core sheet is packed between two thin boards pressed with an omega-shaped groove by the circular tube. The two thin boards and the circular tube are continuously riveted into integral structure at the both sides of the groove. The core sheet has co...

A method for the manufacture of lead-acid batteries and associated apparatus and a lead-acid battery design resulting therefrom is disclosed. The method involves providing a battery grid and pasting the grid with a battery paste such that a profiled and tapered battery plate is formed. This battery plate is wrapped onto a coil and cured in curing apparatus. A battery element is formed using coils ...

A dental floss dispenser system including a dental floss dispenser for retention on or attachment to a surface. The dental floss dispenser includes a self-contained disposable dental floss container or cassette, the container enclosing dental floss gathered for storage therein prior to being dispensed, and a support member. The support member includes a support mechanism for supporting and receivi...

Composite films comprised of an unloaded semicrystalline polyester film support with a roughness Ra no greater than 0.01 mu m having, on at least one of its faces, a coating based on a modified polymer produced by polymerising one or several acrylic monomers in the presence of a water-dispersable sulphonated copolyester. The composite films according to the invention are particularly well suited...

PURPOSE:To enable automatic return of a cleaner body from the cleaning end point to the start point by providing a start point inducing means for inducing the cleaner body to the start point on the basis of the data of a memory part for storing the moving locus of the body. CONSTITUTION:A cleaner detects an obstruction by means of distance measuring sensors 3a, 3b and a bumper 3c of an obstruction...

PURPOSE: To make heat transfer of a heat transfer tube excellent, to decrease contamination of the inside face of the heat transfer tube and to enable to evaporate main components of the feed stream in the upstream side of the inlet of a vacuum distillation tower by increasing an inner diameter of the heat transfer tube and an inner diameter of a connecting conduit by respective specific values al...

PURPOSE: To prevent cavitation from being generated on a pump by mixing a portion of a feed stream branched from the upstream of a heating furnace before heating to a washing liquid mixture washed an accompanied splash removing device, cooling the washing liquid mixture and taking out it with the pump. CONSTITUTION: The feed stream material is fed to an inlet part 3 of a vacuum distillation tower ...