(57) The invention relates to a method for cutting a plant material for the purpose of plant propagation, especially micropropagation, in which method the cutting is carried out by using a laser beam.

(57) The invention relates to a method for cutting a plant material for the purpose of plant propagation, especially micropropagation, in which method the cutting is carried out by using a laser beam.

PURPOSE:To make it possible to purify the pipeline of a steam system utilizing the generated steam while a gas turbine generator and an exhaust heat recovery boiler are operated safely by providing a temporary discharging pipeline and a pressure regulator valve. CONSTITUTION:A gas turbine generator is operated with load after it is separated from a steam turbine 15 in the course of a power plant c...

PURPOSE:To automate the operation of apparatuses so as to permanently ensure a constant electric power by driving a turbine generator with the use of a constant artificial wind power from a blower so as to ensure a constant electric power from the generator, and by using a part of the generated power as drive power source for the blower. CONSTITUTION:A blower 1 and a turbine generator 3, 4 are arr...

PURPOSE:To enable arbitrary density of a scanning line to be obtained in the driving mechanism in the caption, by connecting a stepping motor to two constitutive elements of a differential gear mechanism and also connecting the auxiliary scanning rotational body to the rest of the constitutive elements, in the driving mechanism for the auxiliary scanning rotational body of a facsimile. CONSTITUTIO...

PURPOSE:To eliminate improper disengagement of a clutch at the time of sudden deceleration by operating a direct connection controlling solenoid valve for a set time and operating a clutch control valve in the direction of discharging the oil pressure of a starting clutch when the lowering rate in time of engine speed exceeded a defined value. CONSTITUTION:The captioned control device has a clutch...

PURPOSE:To prevent a vehicle from jumping out and prevent the vibration on idling from getting worse by making a hydraulic clutch for neutral a gently engaged condition and restricting transmitting torque to a defined creep torque irrespective of engine speed at the time of idling. CONSTITUTION:The output shaft 3 of an engine 2 is connected to the pump impeller 4a of a fluid coupling 4 and a turbi...

(57) The invention relates to a method for cutting a plant material for the purpose of plant propagation, especially micropropagation, in which method the cutting is carried out by using a laser beam.

A hydrostatic coupling device for rapidly releasable coupling of a first object immersed in water and another object resting on the sea bed. The device comprises a seal mounted in a groove in the first object, which in use will be pressed against the other ob;ect. The groove is formed as a closed loop delimiting a space at the surface of the first object facing the other object. The seal is formed...

A flash tube illuminates the inlet slit diaphragm of a monochromator illuminator the outlet slit diaphragm of which is applied to an optical conductor forming a statistically balanced derivation towards a measuring cell and a reference cell. Photodetectors measure respectively the light conveyed by the two cells. The electric signals obtained are amplified and digitalized, and a micro-computer cal...

An automatic transport system for green tires between a forming process and a vulcanizing process in a tire manufacturing installing in which different kinds of tires are manufactured through a forming process of making use of a plurality of forming machines and a subsequent vulcanizing process making use of a plurality of vulcanizing machines. The automatic transport system comprises pallets each...

An apparatus is disclosed which facilitates rapid insertion, removal and exchange of a fixture in situations where it must be securely attached to a support surface before or after removal from such surface. The fixture has a plurality of studs extending outwardly therefrom which guide the fixture tool through channels in a support surface and into placement in respective slots of T-slot clamps wh...

The octane requirement increase phenomenon in a spark ignition internal combustion engine is controlled by introducing with the combustion charge a fuel composition containing an octane requirement increase-inhibiting amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of fused aromatics having at least 2, preferably between 3 and 5, aromatic rings with no heteroatoms substituted in the rings....

There is provided a process for the manufacture of molded bodies of polyurethane integral foam, such as body parts for the automotive industry, in which the first step of the process, the polyol component is prepared and in the second step of the process the polyol component is reacted with the isocyanate component according to the reaction injection molding method. In the mold and/or after remova...

PURPOSE:To improve measurement precision by detecting the ending of reaction easily and accurately by storing the output data of a sensor and by detecting the ending point of reaction by using differences between new and old succeeding data. CONSTITUTION:The reaction current of a glucose sensor is processed by A/D conversion 22 and the result is supplied to a CPU. The CPU samples the input data at...

PURPOSE:To improve measurement precision by detecting the rise of chemical reaction easily and accurately by utilizing the arithmetic processing functions of a CPU. CONSTITUTION:The reaction current of a glucose sensor is processed by A/D conversion 22 and the result is supplied to a CPU. The CPU samples the input data at prescribed intervals of time and stores sampling data at each point of tim...

A system for handling and pyrolyzing municipal solid waste material; the pyrolyzing being performed in coke ovens of the type used in the steel industry. The municipal solid waste material is shredded to produce a particle size of approximately four inches. The shredded waste material is conveyed to a splitter arrangement wherein the flow of waste material is divided into selectable flows of 50:50...