The present invention relates to a method of producing microbubbles in a dispersion water nozzle to be used in connection with dissolved air flotation (DAF), in which method a water flow entering the dispersion water nozzle and containing gas which has dissolved under pressure, such as e.g. air, CO2, N2, O2, or the like, is treated, and the throttle means of which dispersion water nozzle has at le...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a centrifugal separator bowl suitable for separating blood components specially dense erythrocytes. SOLUTION: This centrifugal separator bowl 10 includes a ring part 50A and a core 14 which has an outer wall 50. The ring part 50A is structured thickly to inimize the staying volume of blood components in a collecting chamber CC, and the ring's inner wall to a radius...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To keep the balance of an upper body, to prevent falling and to per form stable gliding by providing a foot receiving plate on the upper part of a rotary panel, providing belts on both sides of the foot receiving plate, housing the rotary panel in an edged sliding plate and mounting the sliding plate to a board. SOLUTION: In a snowboard, the belts 4 and 4' for fixing feet are...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform suitable weight adjustment between bucket pairs in a centrifuge. SOLUTION: A centrifuge 30 has one or plural bucket pairs. A rack 12 is inserted into each bucket 24 by a handler 20. A first rack is inserted into any one of the bucket pair, and a second rack is inserted into the other bucket 24. A third rack and other racks after it are inserted into the lighter buc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for simply and efficiently producing a vent piece and the vent piece produced by this method. SOLUTION: A wire element 8b becoming a core is inserted in a pipe 8a. In this case, since the diameter of the pipe is set so as to be made larger than that of the wire element 8b so as to be capable of smoothly inserting the wire element 8b, the wire element 8b ca...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize an acceleration pedal operating means even when the occupant does not operate the acceleration pedal operating means by restricting an increase in the load of the occupant. SOLUTION: An acceleration pedal operating device is provided with an acceleration pedal operating means 3, a throttle adjusting means 13, acceleration control means 11, operation section drivi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a desulfurizing column capable of achieving a higher desulfurization ratio than that of a conventional desulfurizing column. SOLUTION: In this fluidized bed desulfurizing column 1 for removing a sulfur content from a gas obtained by gasifying a fuel such as coal, etc., by a desulfurizing agent 14, an upper-stage, a middle-stage and a lower-stage fluidized beds 9, 1...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for processing a flexible sheet-like material, capable of holding the sheet-like material with the optimal pressing force to minimize the disorder (a factor for turbulence and unstabilizing) of the sheet-like material in a processing section. SOLUTION: This cutting device is automatically controlled to process flexible sheet-like material. The device utili...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve cooling efficiency and thermal efficiency by cooling a turbine high temperature part of a gas turbine effectively and efficiently in all the operation regions from the start to rated operation of the gas turbine. SOLUTION: A gas turbine plant 1, a steam turbine plant 2, and an exhaust heat recovery boiler 3 are combined to constitute a combined cycle plant 30. The ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent steam drain from generating at emergency stop of a gas turbine in a gas turbine provided with a cooling system used by changeover of air and steam by providing an air storage tank and a back flow peventing means in an air system cooling system up to the confluence with steam flow from an compressor. SOLUTION: In a cooling system in which cooling air is fed to the b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reliably prevent disengaging shock in a lockup clutch. SOLUTION: When a lockup clutch 32 is disengaged by means of a lockup clutch selector 200 (SA13), a temporal reduction in power of an engine 10 caused by an engine power reducing means 202 is followed by a reduction in transfer torque caused by the disengagement of the lockup clutch 32. As a result of which, a sudden dr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve traveling characteristic and drivability in a hybrid vehicle provided with a plurality of driving force sources by compensating driving force to wheels with driving force of the other driving force source, when a clutch mechanism is changed from disengagement to engagement during driving of a driving force source connected to a transmission. SOLUTION: This hybrid v...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential device having a differential limit function and facilitating miniaturization and lightening of weight. SOLUTION: A plurality of pinion gears 13 engaged with a sun gear 14 and a ring gear 15 are arranged between the sun gear 14 and the ring gear 15. A planetary carrier 11 having a plurality of pinion gears 13 connected thereto is arranged and then the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a sufficient strength and durability to be maintained, an entire weight of a device to be reduced, a cost-down of the device to be attained, parts to be easily replaced with new ones when a certain wear occurs due to its use of long period of time and costs of the parts to be inexpensive in replacement. SOLUTION: One end of a stator shaft 28 to which oil pump gears ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the degree of freedom of the shape of a transmission case and to improve assembly workability by a method wherein the transmission case and an idler cover to fix a reverse idler shaft are formed into different bodies from each other, and the idler cover is assembled from the outside of the transmission case. SOLUTION: An idler cover 45 is formed separately from a t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of a slip without increasing a hydraulic pressure by a method wherein a slip during non-gear shifting of a selected hydraulic engaging element is detected and when a slip is detected by a slip detecting means, a drive force is reduced to shift down an automatic gear shifter through reduction of a drive force. SOLUTION: An output circuit 21 of an elec...

In a double technology alarm system a first sensor is always active and, beside signalling the intrusions itself, also acts as an activator for a second sensor using a different technology.

A rear seat device for a vehicle disposed on a higher, rear section of a stepped floor surface of a vehicle, and provided so as to be rotatable by substantially 180 degrees toward a front of the vehicle, including: a rear seat back whose length is adjustable between a seating state length, which is a length of the rear seat back in an ordinary seating state for a vehicle occupant, and a folded-up ...

A tire vulcanizer is provided with a vulcanizing station where tire vulcanizing molds are arranged to perform vulcanization. The tire vulcanizer also includes a mold opening/closing station where, after the tire vulcanizing mold is opened, a vulcanized tire is taken out from the inside of the tire vulcanizing mold, and then an unvulcanized tire to be succeedingly vulcanized is inserted into the in...