In a transmission for a vehicle wherein hydraulic clutches each put into a connection state according to an action of an oil pressure are provided between a crankshaft and main shafts of an engine, and a plurality of selectively establishable speed-stage gear trains are provided between a transmission output shaft and the main shafts so that a condition where ever y one of the gear trains is in a ...

A bed safety sheet for use on mattresses and particularly beneficial for use on a toddler bed is disclosed. The bed safety sheet includes a securement pocket at one end and side flaps along opposed sides which drape down over opposed sides of the mattress. The side flaps may include a fold to provide hospital corner looking appearance when the bed safety sheet is installed on a mattress.

A lubricating distribution apparatus for a rotating shaft assembly has a shaft member rotatably supported in a pair of spaced housings. Each housing has formed therein a pocket in which a dam member is secured. A tube member has ends thereof secured to each dam member and extends axially through a passage formed in the rotating shaft. Lubrication fluid is introduced into the system between at leas...

By increasing an area of the fluid discharge ports to increase a discharge capacity, drain water can quickly be discharged. Furthermore, the number of fluid supply ports is increased and the ports are equally spaced to thereby quickly and uniformly fill a heated steam or the like into a bladder. As a result, it is possible to reduce a cycle time of a tire vulcanizing step to thereby increase produ...

A metal workpiece is formed of a pre-manufactured lower part and an upper piece which is placed thereon using a metal powder sintering process, preferably laser sintering. The lower part is a partial workpiece which is made of a solid piece of metal shaped by machining, forming a ready-to-use workpiece in conjunction with the upper part.

A crab meat extracting apparatus for extracting the meat from a boiled or cooked crab. The crab meat extracting apparatus includes a base including a tray having a top side; and also includes a crab support member being attached upon the top side of the tray; and further includes a crab compressing assembly including a arcuate crab compressing member being hingedly attached to the crab support mem...

A multi-use seafood utensil for opening shellfish and crustacean seafood having outer shells for the removal of meat, the utensil comprising: a head portion having a prying blade for prying a seafood shell open and a bifurcated ripping blade for cutting a seafood shell open for the removal of meat; a prying tip formed on the prying blade for insertion between shell halves of a shell of a shellfish...

A process of depositing at least one uncured colored rubber mix forming a contrasting motif on an outer surface of a tire includes preparing a blank of the uncured tire to be moulded, including all the constituents except for the colored rubber mix(es), depositing the colored rubber(s) in at least one cavity formed on a removable insert, each cavity having the general form of the motif to be mould...

Method for manufacturing complex shape parts including parts with cavities from powder materials by Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) with controlled pressure inside the HIP tooling and multi-layer inserts including hollow inserts. Controlled pressure inside the HIP tooling is provided by injecting the HIP gas media into the cavities of the hollow inserts.

There is provided a white polyester film which retains practically satisfactory reflectivity with respect to the visible light range, can undergo stable film production even when inorganic fine particles are added in high concentration and is stable against a dimensional change caused by heat generated from a light source. The polyester film is a polyester film which comprises a composition compri...

The present invention relates to a process for producing a synthetic resin foam which comprises reacting at least one polyol with at least one polyisocyanate compound in the presence of an organic blowing agent, wherein the organic blowing agent is a blowing agent for synthetic resin foams which is characterized by being a mixture comprising 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluorobutane (HFC-365mfc) and at least on...

A security system includes: an outing motion detection sensor for detecting actions of a non-monitored person when leaving the monitored area; and human body sensors for detecting the non-monitored person in the monitored area, and a home controller includes: a mode switching section for switching between an alert mode and a non-alert mode; a storage section for storing sensor state accumulative d...

Programmatically diagnosing the root cause of a problem in a computing system. Events are monitored within an operating system, and at least a subset of the events are logged to a log file. In response to the detection of error condition(s), a diagnostics module is invoked. The diagnostics module queries the log file to correlate events relevant to diagnosis of the problem, and identifies the root...

An automated conveyance system moves green tires (24) with monorail carriers (18) to tire molding presses (40). Each monorail carrier (18) deposits a green tire (24) into an elevator system (31) which, in tum, transfers the green tire to within reach of a press loader (38) for tire press (40). The elevator system (31) also provides a buffer storage for the tires in process. In one embodiment, the ...

A cDNA sequence encoding the alpha -subunit of human mast cell IgE surface receptor or an IgE binding fragment thereof.

ESPUMAS DE POLIURETANO RETARDANTES DE CHAMAS E ISENTAS DE HALOGêNIO. A presente invenção refere-se a espumas de poliuretano retardantes de chamas sem halogênios compreendendo, como um retardante de chamas, os 2-hidroxialcanofosfonatos e/ou os de 3-hidroxialcanofosfonatos.; Flame-protecting polyurethane-foam material comprises flame protecting agent such as halogen-free 2-hydroxyalkane phosphonic a...

A thermoprocessable polymeric composition formed by ethylene/chlorotrifluoroethylene copolymers containing from 0.5 to 20% by moles of ethylene, optionally in combination with the chlorotrifluoroethylene homopolymer, wherein the composition contains in total from 90 to 99.5% by moles of chlorotrifluoroethylene and from 0.5-10% by moles of ethylene; said polymeric composition having a second meltin...

A vehicle control system includes at least one driver input, a supervisor and at least one sub-system controlled by the supervisor. The supervisor assesses the driver input to establish actual driver demand and controls the sub-systems accordingly. As a result intuitive driver demand is identified and met.

The invention relates to a method for monitoring a vibrating gyroscope which represents a resonator and forms part of at least one control loop that excites the vibrating gyroscope with its natural frequency by supplying an excitation signal. An output signal can be extracted from the vibrating gyroscope, the excitation signal being derived from said output signal by means of filtering and amplify...

A micromechanical rotation-rate sensor includes a substrate, an anchoring device provided on the substrate, as well as a first spiral spring device and a second spiral spring device, the two spiral spring devices being provided next to one another in mirror symmetry along their greatest extension, and the two spiral spring devices together form one spiral spring apparatus. The sensor further inclu...