PURPOSE: To provide a method for producing a Bi-contg. superconducting joined body by which satisfactory superconducting joint is obtd. without deteriorating the superconducting characteristic of Bi-contg. superconductors to be joined. CONSTITUTION: When Bi-contg. superconductors 1 each formed on a substrate 3 are joined to each other, a superconducting precursor 2 consisting of a compd. (a) havin...

PURPOSE: To provide a drum brake by which fluctuation of braking force in relation to fluctuation of the coefficient of friction between a brake drum and brake shoes is restrained. CONSTITUTION: Two fluid chambers of a fluid chamber 11A facing a leading side brake shoe and a fluid chambers 11B facing a trailing side brake shoe are formed in a cylinder part 8A of a wheel cylinder 8 of a drum brake,...

PURPOSE: To provide a vehicular brake device provided with a damper effective in restraining squeal of all oscillation frequencies. CONSTITUTION: A damper 7 for damping oscillation of an inner pad 2 is constituted of a weight 8, an elastic body 9, a displacement sensor 10 for detecting the moving amount of the weight 8, and a force generating means 11 composed of a magnet 11a and an electromagnet ...

PURPOSE: To miniaturize the brake operating oil chamber of a disc brake so as to facilitate air taking-out operation, and also simplify and facilitate the assembly work of a piston to a caliper. CONSTITUTION: A piston 21 is formed by loosely fitting a bottomed cylindrical body 23 in the stepped hole 22b at one end of a cylindrical body 22, a bottomed adjust sleeve 32 is fitted in the other end of ...

PURPOSE: To make the rotational direction of an adjust bolt free, by inserting a tool from the through-hole of a bottomed cylindrical body under such a condition that a piston and an adjust mechanism are built into a caliper so as to push the center part of a discoidal diaphragm whose outer circumference is fixed along the inner circumference of the bottomed part of the bottomed cylindrical body. ...

A power transmission device capable of transmitting power so that the power is gradually increased in accordance with a rotational speed difference, and a differential gear using the same. When a rotational speed difference occurs between a case (1) and a ball disc (3), the balls (4) move back and forth in the grooves (1b) in the case (1) as they roll along a groove (3b) in the ball disc (3). When...

The adhesion between a polymeric fluorocarbon film and a substrate is improved by providing a thin layer of silicon or a silicide intermediate between the substrate and the polymeric fluorocarbon film, such that a region containing a high density of Si-C bonds is formed.

A method for fabricating capacitors of a semiconductor device capable of increasing the surface area of the storage electrode using both an adjustment for the dimension of a contact mask for the storage electrode and a technique of selective growth, thereby achieving an improvement in capacitance. The method includes the steps of forming a storage electrode with an increased surface area using the...

There is provided an electronic device like a TFT using a silicon nitride insulating film of a single layer structure having an excellent dielectric voltage, and a method of producing the electronic device with reliability. In the electronic device, a conductive wiring pattern is deposited on a surface of an electrically insulated substrate, and an insulating layer is formed to cover the wiring pa...

A method and apparatus is disclosed for retrofitting a plurality of adjacent incandescent lighting fixtures for fluorescent service. The method involves the removal of existing incandescent lighting units from first and second adjacent existing lighting fixtures, the mounting of a ballast assembly on the first existing fixture, and the installation of a first fluorescent lighting unit, powered by ...

Process for coating flexible belt seams including providing a flexible belt having an outwardly facing surface and a welded seam, forming a smooth liquid coating comprising a hardenable film forming polymer on the welded seam, the coating being substantially free of fugitive solvent, and hardening the coating to form a smooth solid coating on the seam.

An improved armature testing apparatus and method are provided. The individual resistances of two commutator bar lead connections can be simultaneously measured in a single measurement step. Further, the resistances of two armature coil can be determined in the same step. The present invention makes it possible to measure individual commutator coil lead connections more quickly than was previously...

Disclosed is a low bit rate audio and video communication system which employs an integrated encoding system that dynamically allocates available bits among the audio and video signals to be encoded based on the content of the audio and video information and the manner in which the audio and video information will be perceived by a viewer. A dynamic bit allocation and encoding process will evaluat...

Disclosed is a low bit rate audio and video communication system which employs an integrated encoding system that dynamically allocates available bits among the audio and video signals to be encoded based on the content of the audio and video information and the manner in which the audio and video information will be perceived by a viewer. A dynamic bit allocation and encoding process will evaluat...

The purpose of the invention is to provide a system capable of easily reproducing an image from interframe predictive signals conventionally used for, e.g., visual telephone communications. Video and audio signals multiplexed by first separating and multiplexing device are assembled into packets proportional to a bit rate of the multiplexed data by a packet separating-multiplexing device and compl...

A method and apparatus for monitoring the condition of an electrical generator formed of a stator core punching assembly having a plurality of winding slots for receiving a plurality of generator windings. The plurality of winding core slots lie along an interior cylindrical surface of the stator core punching assembly, and the stator core punching assembly has an outer cylindrical surface opposit...

A method and apparatus for monitoring the condition of an electrical generator having at least one conductor. An insulator is provided for surrounding the conductor, the insulator includes a light generating material for producing a distinctive optical signature when the insulator degrades. An optical acquisition device is provided for acquiring the optical signature when the insulator degrades. A...

A transmitting device encodes an animated image by detecting a difference between one image frame and a reference image frame, then transmits the encoded image to a receiving device by a radio line at high efficiency. The transmitting device comprises an image storing unit for storing the reference image frame, an initialization unit for initializing the image storing unit, a difference encoding u...

A headend method and apparatus for a digital transmission system is provided which includes inputs for receiving first and second program information from first and second program sources and inputs for receiving first and second control information from first and second control sources. The first and second program information is applied to a switching circuit and a switch control controls the sw...

The present invention provides a signal loss recovery device (300; 400; 900) and method (500; 600; 1000; 1100; 1200) of digitally encoded bitstreams produced by predictive encoders, for realtime and/or interactive communications. The signal loss recovery device (300; 400; 900) of this invention recovers the lost or damaged information by requesting the transmitter for retransmitting the lost infor...