A centrifuge apparatus which comprises a container (10) including a cylindrical member (11) with a lower rim and a piston member with a tubular piston rod (12). A supporting turntable (1) with a first gripping means (27) releasably grips the lower rim when the container (10) is placed thereon, said supporting turntable (1) being connected with a first activating means (5) for rotating the turntabl...

A probe close to the blade is used to determine the degree of soil contamination during operation of the device. A soil cleaning or treatment device comprises a stirring blade (20) attached to a drill rod (10). Spray holes (21) next to the blade are used to inject cleaning chemicals and/or additives into the soil during treatment. At least one probe mounted close to the blade is used to determine...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an engine for motorcycles, which can be machined with ease, and in which the force working in the direction along the face dividing a crankcase into a crankcase upper and a crankcase lower is restrained. SOLUTION: In this engine, a crankcase 6 containing a crankshaft 4 and a transmission 5 is divided into a crankcase upper 7 and a crankcase lower 8, and the cranksh...

PCT No. PCT/DE92/00914 Sec. 371 Date May 23, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date May 23, 1994 PCT Filed Nov. 3, 1992 PCT Pub. No. WO93/09177 PCT Pub. Date May 13, 1993The invention relates to a caoutchouc mixture for the manufacture of rubber products with low-temperature application capability, resistance to oil, low crystallization tendency, and high dynamic stressability, on the basis of natural caoutchouc, ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a constant speed travel device provided with vehicle-to- vehicle distance adjusting function that can prevent erroneous detection. SOLUTION: When vehicle-to-vehicle distance date is inputted (step 201), the dispersion of this vehicle-to-vehicle distance data is obtained (step 202). When the dispersion is small, relative speed is computed from the change of vehicle-...

PURPOSE:To reduce a speed change shock by carrying out feedback control of driving shaft torque without using an expensive torque sensor. CONSTITUTION:A driving shaft torque calculating part 10 to find driving shaft torque Td from the number Ne of revolutions of an engine, throttle opening (theta) and the number Nd of revolutions of a driving shaft, a torque control period setting part 9 to set a ...

A vehicle drive control system performs a speed control, in which the vehicle is controlled to travel at a desired cruising speed, and a distance control, in which the vehicle is controlled to keep a safe distance from a vehicle ahead of the vehicle with the drive control. The system is equipped with a feature in which a speed of the preceding vehicle is estimated when a range finder, which monito...

A method for the evaluation of the ultrastructure of connective tissue, such as cartilage, including (a) providing a probe operative in the near-infrared or mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, (b) positioning the probe either to be in contact with the connective tissue (for detecting attenuated total reflectance) or within a sufficient distance from the surface of the connective t...

Supply device for supplying rubber material (11) to a cutting device (3). In the direction away from the cutting device the supply device contains a supplying table (3) having a supplying mechanism (4), an unwinding trestle (7) containing a stock of rubber material, a space between the unwinding trestle (7) and the supplying table (3), which space is suitable for taking up a loop of rubber materia...

A method for the evaluation of the ultrastructure of connective tissue, such as cartilage, including (a) providing a probe operative in the near-infrared or mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, (b) positioning the probe either to be in contact with the connective tissue (for detecting attenuated total reflectance) or within a sufficient distance from the surface of the connective t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display element with excellent visual angle characteristics by making the wavelength dispersion value of &Delta n of a high polymer film smaller than the wavelength dispersion value of liquid crystal. SOLUTION: This liquid crystal display cell is constituted of an upper side polarizing plate 1, the high polymer film 2, a liquid crystal cell 3, a lo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a good joined part by friction-joining a butted part with a rotary tool inserted into a member and the butted part from the member disposed at the outer side from the outer surfaces of a first member and a second member at the butted part. SOLUTION: After combining two honeycomb panels 80a, 80b, a plate 86 is laid on the upper surfaces of the face plates 81, 81, and...

The invention relates to a method for determining the position of a rail vehicle (2) that runs on a system of railroads. A user device that is present in the rail vehicle and that is provided with a receiver and/or transmitter unit contacts at least one accessible communication station (3) of a mobile radio communication system, thereby obtaining a location information. The location information th...

A supervisory safety-control system is implemented by dividing a mine's territory into zones of free operation ("permission zones") wherein a vehicle is allowed to move according to predetermined permission parameters but unhindered by other system constraints. Traffic of autonomous vehicles in each permission zone is controlled by the supervisory system in conjunction with and in addition to conv...

A medical apparatus assembly (10) comprises a medical device (11) that includes a side port assembly 13 adapted to combine a first pathway (37) for infusion of fluids with a second pathway (38) for wire guide (12) into a first passageway (26) while the second passageway (27) includes the third pathway (39), which comprises a control member (24), such as an electrical wire. The side port assembly i...

Polyurethane and/or polyurea polymers are reinforced using certain crystalline and amorphous reinforcing polymers. The reinforcing polymers have crystalline melting temperatures and/or glass transition temperatures from about 40-200 DEG C, and are relatively miscible with the reacting polyurethane and/or polyurea formulation.

Process for preparing rigid polyurethane foams using a surfactant composition comprising at least a first moderate surfactant and at least a second weak surfactant according to a weight ratio first:second ranging from 1:25 to 5:1.

An ambidextrous drill holster is provided which enables the drill holster to be accessible for both a left handed or a right handed user. A reinforcement type material is also provided for strengthening the tool belt pass-through neck of the weight bearing pouch.

A system for efficient delivery of radio frequency (RF) energy to cardiac tissue with an ablation catheter used in catheter ablation, with new concepts regarding the interaction between RF energy and biological tissue. In addition, new insights into methods for coagulum reduction during RF ablation will be presented, and a quantitative model for ascertaining the propensity for coagulum formation d...

An umbrella has a foldable canopy, an elongated boom having an end, a joint at the end connected to the canopy and suspending the canopy from the boom end, an upright mast having an upper end, and a fitting having a lower part fixed in the upper mast end, an upper part slidably receiving the boom. A pivot interconnects the upper and lower parts for pivoting of the upper part on the lower part abou...