PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a polyester conjugate fiber capable of imparting a soft bulky touch, stretching property and peculiar surface feeling to give an attractive cut as a woven and knitted fabric, and the polyester conjugate fiber obtained by the same method.

SOLUTION: This method for producing the polyester conjugate fiber is characterized by forming a con...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hang bolt support for a lip channel preventing backlash and providing strong fixation while eliminating high lift work.

SOLUTION: A bent rim part 3a in a lower side of the lip channel is screwed in a screw hole of a receiving plate part 32, and it is in a state of being held between a holding plate part 36 and an upper part of a hang bolt 6 inserted throug...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a threaded anchor preventing co-rotation in removal of an mounting screw.

SOLUTION: In the anchor 1, an expanding slot 6 is provided on a plane in a position separated in parallel from a plane including an axis of a hollow trunk part 5 on a circumferential wall of the hollow trunk part 5 having a head in one end and coupled with a cutting part 3 in another e...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rapid opening pressure regulating valve having a simple structure enabling rapid opening and restricting of secondary side pressure at a target pressure or lower.

SOLUTION: The rapid opening pressure regulating valve comprises a body 1, a valve element member 2, a spring bearing 3, a spring 4, a confining pressure mechanism 5, a valve operating mechanism 6...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an outdoor machine for an air-conditioner whose blowout direction can be changed in a small space and at a low cost.

SOLUTION: The outdoor machine 101 is approximately in a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped. In the structure of the outdoor machine, blowout assemblies 130 constituting an upper face are fixed to outside plate panels 140 constituting a fron...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a casing for an electrical apparatus and an air conditioner using the same, with assembly man-hours reduced without lowering strength against impact force.

SOLUTION: In the casing 5 for the electrical apparatus, a case 4 for covering an upper face and both side faces is attached on a bottom plate 3 covering a bottom face. The case 4 comprises a first mountin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure a largest possible heat-exchange area for improving energy saving, and to facilitate to manufacture an outdoor machine of an approximately half capacity, without change in design of components of the outdoor unit.

SOLUTION: In the outdoor unit for an air-conditioner, a casing 1 has a square cross section and has air intake ports 6, 6 formed on all of side fac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve energy saving performance and to implement compactness of an outdoor unit for an air-conditioner.

SOLUTION: The outdoor unit comprises: a plurality of diffuser type blowing fans 4, 5; and two L-shaped heat exchangers 2, 3 whose length of long side portions 2a, 3a sides approximately equal to a total dimension of outer dimensions of the plurality of blowing f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrical apparatus housing portion improving ease of assembly of an outdoor unit for an air-conditioner.

SOLUTION: The electrical apparatus housing portion 50 is disposed in the outdoor unit for the air-conditioner and above a machine room for housing electrical components, and is provided with an electrical apparatus housing body 53 and electrical appa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize a case body and prevent wear of a bearing of a compressor due to liquid compression and lowering of viscosity of refrigerator oil in the compressor.

SOLUTION: An air conditioner is constituted in such a way that an outdoor machine having the compressor 1, a four-way valve 5, an outdoor heat exchanger 4, an outdoor expansion valve 2, and an outdoor fan 3 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor acceleration sensor which does not lower the sensor sensitivity, can obtain a fine shield effect, does not generate a potential difference between a movable electrode and a shield electrode and surely prevents the movable electrode from being locked.

SOLUTION: In the semiconductor acceleration sensor, a sensor chip connected to a signal proce...

A method of producing a non-woven fabric 8 comprises the steps of forming fiber strands 81 from a fiber forming resin through a spinneret 4, drawing the fiber strands 81 from the spinneret 4 by using a drawing air jet device 5, forming the fiber strands 81 on a conveyor screen belt 7 and advancing the same along a longitudinal direction, and using a swinging air jet device 6 to swing the fiber str...

A connector having an insulative housing 10, at least one separate terminal module 12 with an insulating base 32 and a plurality of terminals 34 attached to the base. A plurality of cables 58 with conductive cores 60 are electrically connected to corresponding terminals 34 of at least one separate terminal module 12 prior to the at least one separate module assembling to the housing 10. A cover 18...

The present invention provides a silicon nitride filter which is a filter excellent in heat resistance, thermal shock resistance, corrosion resistance, acid resistance and mechanical strength and suitable for dust arresting or dust removing, and which is particularly useful as a filer for particulates, and a method for its production. The present invention provides a method for producing a silicon...

An information processing apparatus includes a process part implementing an access to a designated address having an access level, an access detector detecting the access, and an access part being capable of changing the access level of the designated address when the access is detected by the access detector.

An orthopaedic joint prosthesis which is intended for the replacement of damaged or diseased joints of the human or animal body comprises a first component with a rounded head portion and a second component which comprises a hollow cup for receiving the head portion of the first component. The radius of curvature of one or both of the bearing surfaces changes varies that the bearing surface has a ...

This invention relates to systems for treating wastewater and more particularly to removing nutrients from wastewater in a wastewater treatment system. Wastewater tanks, each having membrane filters, are arranged in series. Each tank is equipped with respective inlets and outlets and an air supply as well as detectors for monitoring various wastewater parameters. A controller is coupled to the det...

A ceramic article which consists essentially, by weight on the oxide basis, of 10-25% SiO2, 65-85% Al2O3, and 2-12% Li2O and comprises beta-eucryptite as a first phase having a negative component in thermal expansion and a melting point Tm1, and a second phase having a positive component in thermal expansion which is higher than the component in thermal expansion of the first phase and a melting p...

This invention relates to a method and device for performing non-destructive measurements of residual stresses in an investigation area of an object based on use of optical holographic interferometry technique. The holographic interferometer is divided into a holographic probe which contains means for illuminating the investigation area of the object by coherent light, collecting the coherent ligh...

A printer head for computer-to-plate printing includes a linear array of individually addressable diode-lasers and a linear array of photodetectors. The number and spacing of the photodetectors is the same as the number and spacing of the diode-lasers. The diode-lasers emit in forward and reverse directions. The diode-lasers and photodetectors are aligned parallel to each other such that reverse-e...