An electromagnetic solenoid for oil hydraulic control valves including an oil flow notch on a magnetic sleeve bearing; an axially extending oil flow notch on a nonmagnetic stopper washer; an oil flow gap between a movable iron core and an operating rod; and an axially extending oil flow notch on the operating rod so that oil can flow easily and freely by movement of a movable iron core and the ope...

PURPOSE:To conduct optical transmission with high sensitivity between a movile body and a fixed body which are facing each other with no contact, and to produce such system at relatively low cost. CONSTITUTION:Emission devices 5... 5 are mounted on a rotary body, and a optical receiver 6 is installed at the fixed body 4, and a concentrating collector 7 is assembled to the optical receiver 6. This ...

PURPOSE:To shorten the inserting and recovery time of a dummy required to balance the weights of diagonal buckets fitted to a rotor of an automatic centrifuge. CONSTITUTION:In an automatic centrifuging method, a sample rack 2 for holding a sample tube containing a sample is kept in a rack stocker 3, and the sample rack is weighed and the measured value is stored in a memory. By using the weight da...

PURPOSE:To improve power transmitting efficiency when the power generated by a motor is transmitted. CONSTITUTION:A driving device for a hybrid type vehicle is provided with the first shaft, a transmission 3 carrying out a speed change by the rotation from an engine, the second shaft, which is parallel to the first shaft, a transmitting means, which connects the first shaft and the second shaft to...

PURPOSE:To provide a controller of lock-up clutch for vehicle which can completely-conduct the engagement of a lock-up clutch at the time of driving a vehicle in a decelerating condition. CONSTITUTION:When the decelerating driving condition of a vehicle is detected by a decelerating driving condition detection means 162, the decreasing speed of engine speed NE at the time of starting decelerating ...

PURPOSE:To provide a highly accurate vehicle speed controlling characteristic by computing a lower limit value for speed reduction and an upper limit value for speed increase respectively within a preset range in vehicle speed control based on the rotational speed of an engine under a no-load condition corresponding to the preset value for an accelerator and the pre-determined power characteristic...

PURPOSE:To reduce a shock generated at the time of gear change effectively by delaying the timing of performing torque-down control through a torque-down delaying means at the time of gear change control based on the first gear change pattern for performing gear change control through the transitional operating modes of frictional elements at the time of gear change. CONSTITUTION:A gear change con...

PURPOSE:To facilitate starting an automobile more easily by providing a connecting point capable of freely being rotatable for the outer end section of a faced gear different in radius, changing over a meshing condition with a large gear, and thereby interrupting motive power transmission to the reverse direction. CONSTITUTION:When a gear 5 linked with a driven shaft B is out of operation, a gear ...

PURPOSE:To improve the fuel consumption extensively, and to realize the compatibility of the improvement of fuel consumption in a normal running condition, and the securing of the vehicle acceleration in the condition requiring an acceleration, by maintaining a lean fuel burning condition of a lean burn engine in a low load condition, in an overall control device of a lean burn engine and CVT whic...

An improved electromagnetic actuator assembly is described. The assembly comprises a magnetic circuit for defining radially directed flux both in an inward and outward direction, and a coil disposed in the flux paths and connect to receive a control signal so that a current can be applied in one direction through those portions of the coil disposed in the inward radially directed flux, and-applied...

A system and method are disclosed for controlling a shift even in a transmission (14) wherein a shift actuator (30,48) develops a force to effect the engagement of a clutch collar and a gear. The method comprises detecting when a non-fully engaged condition of the clutch collar and the gear occurs, indicating either a tooth butt or torque lock condition, and then pulsing the shift actuator (30,48)...

A crab processing machine has conveyed crab-gripping carriers which move a crab through a loading station, a measuring station, a mandible/carapace/tail removal station, a body cavity cleaning station, a gilling station, a splitting station, and a discharge station. Data accumulated at the measuring station is used to automatically control operation of a star wheel at the mandible/carapace/tail re...

An instrument for cauterizing tissue is provided. The instrument includes a housing having an angled member with a free end. A looped cauterizing element is connected to the free end. Power is applied to the cauterizing element using a switching subassembly and a battery power source. The switching subassembly is activatable at a number of portions using a resilient boot to which the surgeon appli...

Method and apparatus for cooling porous materials whereby first gases are passed through a porous material, such as polyurethane foam, in a first zone at a predetermined flow rate to cool the porous material and to remove volatiles therefrom in a first gas mixture which exits the porous material at a predetermined temperature. The first gas mixture is combined with second gases having a temperatur...

Molecular sieve compositions are prepared by extracting aluminum and substituting chromium and/or tin for extracted aluminum to give molecular sieve products containing framework chromium and/or tin atoms. The process of preparing the chromium and/or tin-containing molecular sieves involves contacting a starting molecular sieve with a solution or slurry of at least one of a fluoro salt of chromium...

Foamed polyurethanes substantially free from non-uniform density distribution are obtained by dispersing an inert gas with mechanical stirring into a foamed polyurethane-forming composition containing substantially no blowing agent and comprising (1) an organic polyisocyanate component, (2) a polyol component comprising a high molecular weight polyol (A1) and a low molecular weight polyol (A2), (3...

A semiconductor integrated circuit is operative in a plurality of different modes. A plurality of select signals whose number corresponds to modes selected from a plurality of different modes are outputted. In response to the select signals, it is detected whether at least two operation modes are selected simultaneously. If so, a detection signal is outputted. In response to this detection signal,...

A robot for cleaning a floor of a railroad vehicle has a robot body equipped with a cleaning mechanism and includes a travel mechanism controllable for locomotion in a desired direction. The robot also includes a distance detecting arrangement directed at least toward the front and opposite sides of the robot body for measuring the distance to an obstacle or a wall, and a map storing arrangement w...