PURPOSE:To improve reliability of anti-skid control by judging that a car runs on a low mu road, based on the fluid-pressure of a wheel cylinder and the amount of operation of a brake pedal, thereby giving engine torque to a wheel after a specified time elapsed. CONSTITUTION:When a master cylinder 3 operates in accordance with the amount of operation of a brake pedal 2 to supply fluid-pressure to ...

PURPOSE:To properly control engine speed during operation of a car to ensure stabilized travelling by correcting the period of fuel injection timing in response to the speed change step-shift position of a transmission and the change in pseudo-car body speed at the time of anti-lock brake control. CONSTITUTION:A shift-position detection unit 31 for detecting speed change step-shift position by inp...

PURPOSE:To simplify a hydraulic circuit in structure by performing such control as selecting discharge pressure oil out of an oil pump to both clutch controlling cylinder and transmission controlling cylinder sides with two solenoid control valves. CONSTITUTION:In a device which feeds a clutch-on chamber and a clutch-off chamber of a hydraulic clutch with discharge pressure oil out of an oil pump ...

PURPOSE:To enable judgement as to whether a yarn connection is acceptable or not, upon completion of an ending operation by providing an acoustic sensor, a filter circuit, a comparison means and a logic output means for judging that the yarn connection is proper, when a comparison output is given during the ending operation. CONSTITUTION:When a yarn connection is proper, a high-frequency sound the...

A communication system capable of continuously exchanging digital information in a well logging installation between apparatus arranged on the earth's surface and apparatus arranged in an earth borehole, interconnected by a cable. Both the surface apparatus and the downhole apparatus include a controller and a modem for sending digital command messages downhole and digital data messages uphole. Th...

2062724 9014693 PCTABS00002 A process for making a battery paste includes steps of forming an active material in an aqueous slurry, then dewatering the slurry to form a battery paste. In one described embodiment, a slurry containing one or more basic lead sulfates suitable for use as the active material in lead-acid battery electrodes is formed in a continuously stirred tank reactor (36). The slur...

The arm-chair comprises a backrest (1) and a seat (2) articulated (at 5) with each other and (at 13) onto the base (6) of this arm-chair whose armrests (14) are themselves articulated (at 15) onto the backrest and connected to the base by means of racks (16, 18). In the device of the invention, the geometric axis of articulation (5) of the backrest (1) on the seat (2) is disposed in front of the g...

In a microcomputer controlled apparatus there is provided a device for memorizing that the battery voltage has dropped below a predetermined value and a control device for stopping the execution of the program. Subsequently if the battery voltage rises and execution of the program is restarted, the control device determines from the memorizing device that a voltage drop occurred and forcedly stops...

Triphenylphosphine oxide in a petroleum feed stock prevents fouling in ethylene furnaces. Preferable amounts are 25-100 ppm. Surfaces of the furnace plant may be pretreated with the compound.

This invention relates to a process for making a lightweight article which comprises: (1) feeding a thermoplastic resin composition into an extruder, wherein the thermoplastic resin composition is comprised of (a) from about 94 to about 99 weight percent polyethylene terephthalate, and (b) from about 1 to about 6 weight percent of at least one polyolefin; (2) mixing an inert gas into the thermopla...

A method for the failsafe representation of a mimic diagram on a data display device (M) is specified, in which the image data supplied to the data display device are continuously checked by the fact that a test code is formed by data reduction from the image data stream and this code is compared with a reference code previously stored and characteristic of the mimic diagram to be displayed. The r...

The invention relates to a method of testing a well, comprising the steps of: - providing a pipe string with a tester valve assembly adapted to allow or prevent fluid flow from an isolated lower interval of the well into the pipe string, said tester valve assembly comprising a valve element movable between a closing and an opening position, said valve element being in a predetermined initial posit...

PURPOSE: To obtain a PTFE shaped article exhibiting high values of a mechanical strength and a density by stretching a polytetrafluoroethylene by limiting a strength value and a density in a stretching direction. CONSTITUTION: A PTFE shaped article is monoaxially stretched. A strength value of its stretching direction is at least 500 N/mm<2> , or preferably at least 700 N/mm<2> . Its density is 1....

An apparatus and method is described for detecting focus errors in an optical head by positioning a prism (17) in the optical path of a return light beam (14) reflected from an optical recording medium (16). The prism reduces the beam in one dimension by a factor of M and concurrently increases the divergence/convergence angle associated with a focus-error of the beam by a factor of M in said dime...

Measurements of the greasiness of skin are made by applying a plate against a region of skin to be studied and then inserting the plate in a recess of the casing, in register with a photodiode and a phototransistor. A series of n (in this case 5) indicator lamps is connected to a set of n-1 (in this case 4) comparators each comparing a respective voltage threshold level with the voltage delivered ...

A crane comprises a first arm (8) pivotably arranged on a frame (2) about a substantially horizontal axis (9), a second arm (12) pivotably arranged on the first one about a substantially horizontal axis (11), a load (27), for example a tool, being intended to be carried by the second arm, and an arrangement for maintaining the arms (8, 12) in desired relative positions with respect to the frame (2...

PURPOSE: To obtain a dental restorative material containing an additive which luminesces when irradiated by visible-wavelength light, and capable of being identified, when required. CONSTITUTION: This dental restorative composition comprises a dental restorative material and an additive which luminesces when irradiated by visible- wavelength light, preferably standard dental blue light for curing ...

A conditional replenishment video data transmission system involves the transmission of updating digital data for clusters of consecutive picture elements, all or most of which show a change since the previous frame, in lines of a raster over an image to be transmitted. The lines of the raster are numbered cyclically in groups of 8, the numbers being part of line synchronizing code words, and the ...

Bacteria of the genus Brevibacterium which are able to utilise dibenzofuran and 2-bromodibenzofuran as sole source of carbon are employed for the biological cleanup of soils, sediments and leachates containing halodibenzodioxin and -dibenzofuran. Microorganism strains of this type are used for the microbial degradation of polyhalogenated polycyclic aromatic compounds, especially of halodibenzo-p-d...

PURPOSE: To recover both jaws of a hook and a ratch at a first predetermined position by installing a positioning mechanism for both handles at the first predetermined position, cooperating the hook and the positioning means in order to position the handle part at a second position if the handle is closed more, and simultaneously closing the handle part more and then open it. CONSTITUTION: When an...