PURPOSE:To enable kick-down to be always carried out when a kick-sown switch performs a continuous switch operation from the low speed condition to high speed one of vehicle speed, by resetting a vehicle speed judging section to the operation of low speed condition operation. CONSTITUTION:The output of a vehicle speed detecting section 3 is supplied to the input of a vehicle speed judging section ...

PURPOSE: To improve the quantity of image by causing an axial relative movement between a bed and a gantry while an X-ray source is rotated around a main body, and reformatting the resulting data to a single plane data for interpolating the measured data in different flat parts passing the main body. CONSTITUTION: The gantry 14 is rotated around Z-axial line together with an X-ray axis 12, and con...

PURPOSE: To provide a load-bearing type permanent prosthesis that is substituted for skeleton and substantially reduces stress shielding and a osteoclasis action accompanying it, and provide a method for manufacturing the prosthesis. CONSTITUTION: This is a new-type prosthesis 10 with coating, which can be specially formed to avoid the problem of osteoclasis caused by stress shielding. The permane...

PURPOSE: To simplify a manufacturing process of a plaster cast bandage without any use of solvent, by coating a sheet material with powdered hydraulic bond, densifying it by contact with the hydraulic bond, and winding the sheet material into a roll. CONSTITUTION: Powdered hydraulic bond is mixed with reactive bond as necessary, and applied on a sheet material, for example a bandage fiber fabric, ...

PURPOSE: To manufacture a filter for a parenteral system by using a fine porous base material which continuously contains a microfiber matrix treated by radiation graft and a microporous filter wettable by parenteral nutrition liquid following it and having a pore grade finer than that of the microfiber matrix. CONSTITUTION: The filter device 10 contains a housing 11 and a liquid filter element 12...

PURPOSE: To quickly and securely replace a tire mold with a simple means. CONSTITUTION: Heating plates 28, 35 and tire molds 30, 33 of the heating plates are structured in two pairs of units in which they are fixed. And means are provided that brings projections 23, 45 of cramp elements 11, 43 into contact with each unit, which in turn presses against mold press plates 3, 37 of the hot tire press,...

PURPOSE:To provide a method for producing a porous sintered compact of silicon carbide for catching fine-particle carbon contained in a discharge gas from an industrial furnace for automotive internal combustion engines, ceramic industry and metal industry, especially to provide a producing method in the production cost and production days. CONSTITUTION:The objective for producing a porous sintere...

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING LIQUID FILLED RECEPTACLES Liquid filled receptacles are made from a thermoplastic flat tube. The flat tube is extruded from plasticized material. A strip of receptacles is formed in a molding assembly from the tube. The strip has groups of pluralities of small receptacles lying one beside the other, the receptacles preferably being ampoules. All of the receptacle...

A method of preparing a coated abrasive article in which the presence of multiple layers of abrasive grains are minimized. In one variation, the method comprises the steps of: (a) providing a backing; (b) applying a make coat precursor to the backing; (c) partially curing the make coat precursor; (d) applying, preferably by projecting, a plurality of abrasive grains into the partially cured make c...

This invention provides a copper or copper alloy mold for continuous casting of steel characterized in that a nickel-boron alloy plating layer containing 0.06 to 0.3 wt. % of boron is formed on its interior surface.

PCT No. PCT/JP91/00536 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 14, 1991 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 14, 1991 PCT Filed Apr. 23, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO91/16247 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 31, 1991.Granular body discharge containers for holding granular bodies, such as oral conceptives, vitamin tablets or candies in a line so that the granular bodies can be discharged have an operating member for discharging the granular bodies is urged...

A two-ply construction in a product transmittal package having a removable compartment for the product in which removal is facilitated by lines of perforations in one ply in alignment with a cooperating slot in the other ply, so that rupture of the perforations and not also the construction material of a ply is all that is necessary to separate the compartment from the package.

A chromating liquid for forming a chromate film on a Zn or Zn-alloy plated steel sheet, is prepared by adding and mixing a silane coupling agent in a molar ratio of from 0.05 to 0.3 relative to Cr<6><+> contained in an aqueous chromating liquid which contains 1 - 30g/l of Cr<6><+> and 1 - 30g/l of Cr<3><+> at a weight ratio of Cr<6><+>/Cr<3><+> ranging from 0.1 to 2.0; and further contains 1 - 59g...

A method and apparatus for electronically treating water flowing through a water distribution system is disclosed which functions to inhibit the formation of scale deposits. The apparatus includes a fluid chamber connected into the water distribution system for isolating a quantity of water and an electrode in contact with the isolated water for imparting an electrical pulse train to the isolated ...

A ventable container for materials to be heated (preferably digested) by microwave radiation includes a movable rupture diaphragm in a venting passageway in a closure or cover for such container. Such diaphragm is tightenable into place so that the container is sealed and in such sealed state is protected by the rupture diaphragm against pressures that could develop in the container that are highe...

The present invention includes a microwavable food product package that has a container with a metal foil tray. The tray has a base, upstanding side and end walls and an outwardly extending upper rim on the walls with the walls being inclined outwardly from the base. A lid made of a material that shields the metal foil tray from microwaves overlies the tray. The lid includes a top panel and side a...

The SCM (structuredness of cytoplasmic matrix) test is a means of distinguishing lymphocytes isolated from mammalian donors, including humans, afflicted with cancer from lymphocytes isolated from donors free of malignancy. The test comprises contacting the lymphocytes with a challenging agent and then observing a decrease in the structuredness of the cytoplasmic matrix in lymphocyte from donors wi...

Blood loss by a patient during an operation is monitored by collecting all blood and bloodied materials generated during the operation and subjecting them to ultrasonic vibration in a buffered eluent containing a volume control substance by which the actual volume of the blood-added eluent can be determined. Hemoglobin concentration in the eluate is measured periodically or continually, and multip...

This invention provides a transparent aluminum magnesium oxynitride ceramic, wherein greater than 0.5 weight percent of the total ceramic composition is magnesium oxide. The ceramic article of the present invention is useful in applications where it is desirable to have a transparent ceramic including, for example, in orthodontic brackets, ferrules, and gas tight envelopes.

Paperboard packaging material for use in the manufacture of containers for browning and crisping food in a microwave oven is prepared on a printing press. The components of the packaging material include paperboard (14) or an equivalent microwave transparent substrate, a susceptor layer (12) prepared from a printable aqueous susceptor-ink composition, and an intermediate coating (13) applied to th...