PURPOSE:To improve the traceability of its own vehicle to a preceding vehicle by deciding targeted speed considering the change of speed of the preceding vehicle. CONSTITUTION:An inter-vehicle distance sensor 12 and a speed sensor 14 are connected to the input interface of a computer 10, and a brake actuator 20 and a throttle actuator 22 are connected to the output interface of it. Feature distanc...

PURPOSE:To exert the initial discharge capacity with no charging by forming a paste electrode plate coated with the paste made of lead powder, sulfuric acid and water on a grid, then extracting it from a formation tank, and assembling a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate and a separator to constitute a battery with no water washing and drying. CONSTITUTION:The paste made of lead ...

PURPOSE:To improve the storage characteristic of a sealed lead-acid battery by using a positive electrode plate containing minium in active material paste, a negative electrode plate and a separator, and using a skeleton grid thinner than the thickness of the positive electrode plate. CONSTITUTION:When a positive electrode plate containing minium is used for a sealed lead-acid battery, a skeleton ...

PURPOSE:To simplify and shorten an oil passage and to quicken responsibility in controlling, by forming a hydraulic pressure controller in a center casing dividing a torque converter room from a transmission room. CONSTITUTION:A center casing 3 which supports a transmission shaft between a torque converter and a transmission by a shaft is provided between a torque converter casing 1 and a transmis...

PURPOSE:To simplify the running operation of vehicle by a structure wherein the respective control valves, which send negative pressure and atmospheric pressure to a master vac respectively, are controlled by opening and closing in association with an accelerator pedal in order to perform auto-brake action. CONSTITUTION:A controlling circuit 34 controls solenoid valves 23 and 24 by means of the po...

A method and apparatus for reducing a metal compound particularly iron oxide, by means of a reducing agent comprising CO or H2 or a mixture of these two gases, of which the average temperature is between 850 DEG C. and 1000 DEG C. and which has been obtained at this temperature by means of a plasma arc heater. The CO and H2 mixture is preferably obtained by heating a mixture comprising a selecti...

An apparatus for removing waste rovings remaining on the roving bobbins, the apparatus comprising a conveyor (C) for transporting roving bobbins hung on hangers (BHG), the conveyor including means for effecting the temporary stoppage thereof; a moving frame (10) and a lifting frame (30) which are respectively equipped with upper bobbin holders (21) and lower bobbin holders (34) for maintaining rot...

A method of changing bobbins in lot for an automatic winder comprises the steps of hindering fully wound winding units from further winding yarns when an amount of a residual yarn supply becomes smaller than a predetermined value, and discharging bobbins with residual yarn from the fully wound winding units to deliver the same to the other winding units being in winding operation.

An improved emission computerized tomography (ECT) drive mechanism for an Anger-type scintillation camera is disclosed. A support arm, carrying the camera head at one end and a counterweight at the other, is mounted on a universal joint and driven about the joint by a crank. The crank comprises an acme-type screw and the arm attaches to the crank at a point distant from the joint by means of an ac...

PURPOSE:To detect the degree of abrasion correctly by setting a friction clutch to a fully engaged state when an engine is stopped and/or speed changer is at the neutral position and comparing the clutch stroke quantity at that time with preset reference values. CONSTITUTION:In a control unit 6 during the vehicle operation, whether the revolution of an internal combustion engine 3 is stopped or no...

PURPOSE:To perform sliting with high dimensional accuracy without crazing and cracking by forming fine hole on a ceramic base plate then slitting the base plate by a laser light so as to pass the fine hole. CONSTITUTION:A fine hole 2 is pierced on a ceramic substrate 1 at the intersected point of the intended slitting line by a laser light. The depth of the hole 2 is made the depth of the slit to ...

PURPOSE:To aim at shortening the time required for paper stacking, by supporting an upper paper stacking frame shiftably in both horizontal and vertical directions on a lower paper stacking frame which is made to be shiftable only in a sideway direction in design, while making up a device possible to operate the upper stacking frame independently and both upper and lower paper stacking unificly. C...

PURPOSE:To eliminate the need for sticking polarizing plates of separate bodies by providing photosensitive resin layers on substrates, then subjecting the surfaces of the photosensitive resin layers to interference exposing and developing by a holographic technique to form numerous fine grooves thereon, and orienting and fixing iodine or dichromatic dyes as polarizing elements to the inside of th...

PURPOSE:To convert random polarized light into unidirectional polarized light almost without light absorption by rotating the plane of polarization of one linear polarized light beam and matching the plane of polarization with the plane of polarization of the other polarized light beam, and then multiplexing those beams again by using a hologram lens. CONSTITUTION:The birefringent lens consisting ...

A heel holder includes a base plate, a bearing block supported on the base plate, a binding housing pivotally supported on the bearing block, a control lever pivotally supported on the bearing block and engaging a control element on the binding housing, a release spring which biases the control lever, and a two-arm release lever which is pivotally supported on the control lever and has on a load a...

PURPOSE:To obtain an aromatic polyester film suitables as a base film for magnetic tape, having a surface with larger numbers of fine recessions which is excellent in flatness and slippery and in wear resistance. CONSTITUTION:An aromatic polyester film is composed of a main acid component, e.g., terephthalic acid or naphthalene carboxulic acid, and a main glycol component, e.g., an alkylene glycol...

A financial institution, such as a bank, issues numerous uniquely coded travelers checks to various individual entities in exchange for value received. The holder of each travelers check in entitled to receive a certain average rate of income from the dollar-value represented by that check; which average rate of income would generally be proportional to prevailing interest rate as well as to the d...

Particulate nonrubber materials derived from serums byproduced during coagulation of nayrual rubber latexes consist essentially of nonrubber components present in those serums and have an average particle size of 10 to 100 microns. The materials are suitable for instance for rubber products and pharmaceuticals manufacture, and may be produced by spray-drying the serums at 150 DEG to 250 DEG C.

PURPOSE:To make it possible to manufacture an oxide superconducting coil wire material having 1000A/cm<2> or more in the magnetic field having the critical current density of 1T at liquid nitrogen temperature by a method wherein an oxide superconducting crystal is formed in coil-wire form in one direction from the liquid solution of an oxide superconducting crystal. CONSTITUTION:The powder, having...