PURPOSE:To obtain the always superior start performance by prohibiting the driving power increase control by a drive power increasing means when an excessive slip state is detected on start. CONSTITUTION:When a start operation detecting means D detects the start of a vehicle, a drive power increasing means E increases a driving power for drive wheels C temporarily, and a large accelerating force i...

An acoustic method and apparatus for investigating an earth formation penetrated by a borehole are described. Acoustic transducers are mounted on a tool to accurately determine the distance between a segment of the tool and the wall of the borehole. The acoustic transducers are positioned in such manner that the stand-off distance between individual resistivity measuring electrodes in an array, wh...

A control system for a continuously variable transmission has a line pressure control valve having ports and a spool for controlling the line pressure of oil supplied to a cylinder of a drive pulley. The line pressure control valve has chambers at opposite sides of the spool. A spring is provided between one end of the spool and a slidable spring retainer. By controlling the pressure of oil suppli...

Rotary motion from a drive motor (12) is coupled by a coupling means (8) to a driven member (18) extending from a centrifuge bowl (40) and extending through an opening in an enclosure (20). The coupling means (8) comprises a non-rotational member which translates, or orbits, about the bowl axis (A). A flexible boot (16), extending from the coupling means (8), seals the opening in the enclosure (20...

A portable storage (4) unit has a pair of hollow, cylindrical-shaped spools (78,79) loosely supported on a pair of cradles (80,81) within a frame (65). A pair of annular flanges (84,85,87,88) adjacent the ends of each of the spool surfaces engages stop plates (126,127) on the frame to retain the spools in position on the cradles when the frame is in both a vertical load and unload position and a h...

A residual roving clearing apparatus for clearing a residual roving remaining on a roving bobbin. The residual roving clearing apparatus comprises a bobbin holding device (10) for rotatably holding a roving bobbin (B0), a cutting device (20) for cutting layers of coils of residual roving remaining on the roving bobbin held by the bobbin holding device, and a rotary brush device (30) for clearing t...

In a power transfer device for four-wheel drive including a differential (10b) arranged to split the driving torque from a power transmission (10a) into two torque delivery paths, a first output shaft assembly (32a, 32b) in drive connection to the differential to transfer the split driving torque to front or rear-wheel drive axles and a second output shaft assembly (16) in drive connection to the ...

The utility model relates to a colloidal electrolyte storage battery with two layers of colloidal electrolyte. The bottom layer gel is composed of 8.0-10% sodium silicate, 6.0-8.5% silicon dioxide, 1-2% phosphoric acid, 0.05-0.15% sodium polyethylene sulfonate and diluted sulfuric acid. The top layer gel is composed of 15-22% sodium silicate, 3.0-6.0% sio-[2], 1-2% phosphoric acid and diluted sulf...

This invention deals with viscosity improvers which are obtained through the use of a mixed catalyst system comprising a tertiary organo halide and a Lewis acid catalyst.

A method and apparatus for generating in real time full width formation profiles of a web (12) of material which passes between a light source (10) and a camera which generates signals corresponding to the light intensity across the entire width of the web as compared to single point or sample measurements. These signals are then processed to generate in real time a full width formation profile of...

An apparatus and process for removing corrossive contaminants from a hydrocarbon including the steps of mixing water with a hydrocarbon contaminated with corrossive ions into a mixture and conducting the flow of the mixture tangentially relative to a surface of a plurality of microporous hydrophobic hollow fiber membranes and separating a permeate flow of decontaminated hydrocarbon from retentate ...

A mixture of two powdered alloys of the M, Cr, Al type, M being Co and/or Ni, is disclosed, in one form, for use in providing an abradable surface of an article and is characterized by the substantial absence of B. The first alloy has substantially no Si and has a higher melting range than that of the second alloy. The second alloy has substantially no Y and consists essentially of, by weight, 8-1...

A valve and closure assembly for an automatic transmission has a cover plate (40) which can be attached to a transmission housing (14) to close off the interior of the housing from atmosphere. A separator plate (42) and a plurality of solenoid-operated control valves (44 to 56) are secured to the cover plate and disposed within the transmission housing, and fluid passages (68,70,72) in the cover p...

Bei der Herstellung von Polyurethanschaumstoffen aus a) Polyisocyanaten, b) Polyolen vom Molekulargewicht 350 bis 10.000, c) flüssigen Treibmitteln und gegebenenfalls, d) weiteren Zusatzmitteln, läßt sich Treibmittel ohne wesentliche Verschlechterung bzw. sogar teils unter Verbesserung der physikalischen Eigenschaften des Schaumstoffes einsparen, wenn man, bezogen auf ihr Gesamtvolumen, und zwar b...

Die Erfindung betrifft einen Vorderbacken, bei welchem der Sohlenhalter gegen die Kraft einer Feder seitlich und, in mindestens teilweise ausgeschwenkter Seitenlage, auch nach oben bewegbar ist. Der Sohlenhalter ist an einer mittels zweier Lenkerhebel seitlich ausschwenkbaren Einheit um einen als Querachse ausgestalteten Trägerbolzen hochschwenkbar gelagert, wobei die seitlich ausschwenkbare Einhe...

The device according to the present invention comprises a supporting structure preferably out of metal tubes, consisting of a vertical post (1) solid by construction with a portion of an outwardly turned post (4) placed at an angle of about 120 DEG ; said structure is rotating following to the whole round angle, around the axis of said vertical post applied in correspondence with one side of a box...

A viscoelastic composition is disclosed, made of a particulate weight-adding agent dispersed within a viscoelastic material. The composition is formed of at least about 85% plasticizer and particulate weight-adding agent, and the ratio of weight-adding agent to plasticizer of at least about 3:1. A viscoelastic or soft weight is formed by said composition.

PURPOSE:To improve critical current density by filtering powder composed of a calcined ceramic conductive composition and then drying and rolling. CONSTITUTION:A ceramic superconductive composition composed of a rare earth compound such as yttrium, holmium or the like blended with barium and a copper compound at a given ratio is calcined and crushed, and then dispersed into organic solution in whi...

PURPOSE:To improve the current density and utilization efficiency by holding the work obtained by working a specified material with a porous base plate, and annealing the work in an oxidizing atmosphere. CONSTITUTION:The raw materials constituting an oxide high-temp. superconductor such as Y2B3, BaCO3, and CuO are mixed, and the mixture is heated at >=1400 deg.C and melted to obtain an oxide high-...

PURPOSE:To improve the orientation and to increase the critical temp. and critical current density by conveying specified vaporized particles with a carrier gas, and impressing a DC magnetic field on the conveying space to orient the particles. CONSTITUTION:The mixed powder of the compds. contg. elements (e.g., Eu and Gd) having high magnetic susceptibility is sintered to obtain oxide superconduct...