PURPOSE: To provide a device and a method capable of moving a gripping device to grip a centrifuge bowl easily to the gripping position. CONSTITUTION: A gripping device for gripping a centrifuge bowl 12 includes a single pivoting retaining arm 46 having a stationary jaw. The retaining arm 46 is capable of pivoting into and out of a position such that the centrifuge bowl 12 can be loaded and unload...

PURPOSE:To maintain certain centrifugal conditions always. CONSTITUTION:A first test sample group and a second test sample group 8 are set on a rotor 3 so that these groups are located at an opposite spot to a rotor shaft 2 and are centrifuged. Prior to these steps, the weight of each test sample group 8 is corrected. For this correction, first the weight of each test sample group 8 is measured us...

PURPOSE:To realize shift shock suppressing control corresponding to the variation of the friction coefficient, and to obtain an adequate shift feeling, by correcting the torque converting amount in the speed change time larger than a standard value, when the familiarity between the fastening materials of friction fastening elements is not sufficient, and the friction coefficient is small less than...

PURPOSE:To improve the acceleration property as well as to improve the durability of an automatic change gear. CONSTITUTION:In a control device of an engine and an automatic change gear in which the engine torque is reduced depending on the fact that an input torque from the engine 1 to the automatic change gear 2 exceeds a preset threshold valve, a stall detecting means 3 to detect the stall cond...

PURPOSE:To carry out the starting in the condition to prohibit the gear stage of the maximum change gear ratio, by outputting an instruction signal to increase the engine output to a control means depending on the detecting signal of a prohibition detecting means of an automatic change gear which has a means to prohibit the ahead stage of the maximum change gear ratio. CONSTITUTION:The output of a...

PURPOSE:To dispense with any special warming equipment by controlling the temperature of an exhaust gas while setting the upper limit value of a gas turbine exhaust gas temperature for obtaining a main steam temperature defined depending on the temperature of the main part of a steam system at a starting time to a prescribed value and controlling the exhaust gas temperature and also maintaining a ...

PURPOSE:To improve a gas turbine exhaust gas cooler and the water condensing/water supply system of a steam turbine/boiler in a gas turbine exhaust gas after-burning plant. CONSTITUTION:A gas turbine exhaust gas cooler 8 is arranged in the low pressure water condensing system coming from the condenser 3 of a turbine to a deaerator 7 in series to a boiler exhaust gas cooler 6, not in the high press...

PURPOSE:To reduce the number of part items and installation space by dispensing with a turbine sensor so as to accomplish reduction in costs and in an axial directional dimension of a transmission. CONSTITUTION:A speed change controller for an automatic transmission is provided with a speed changing means (b) controlled on the basis of the number of input shaft revolutions for an automatic transmi...

PURPOSE:To reduce the noise level of a transmission and make the transmission smaller and lighter. CONSTITUTION:A through-hole 13H is made at the center of an idle shaft 13 and a through-bolt 17 is passed therethrough in no contact. The through-bolt 17 is kept at a constant space to a converter housing 11 and a gear case 12 connected together. In this way, the supporting rigidity of the idle shaft...

PURPOSE:To reduce the generation of a gear shifting sock through simple constitution by a method wherein output shaft torque is calculated based on the change in a rotational speed during the gear shift of an automatic transmission. CONSTITUTION:A rotational speed signal 23 for an automatic transmission 22 is inputted respectively to an output torque estimating means 26 and a substracter 24 throug...

PURPOSE:To provide an electronic notebook which can utilize data on addresses, telephone numbers, etc., for the destination setting of a navigation device. CONSTITUTION:This electronic notebook 10 stores information on an individual schedule and information on an address book, a telephone directory, a visiting card holder, etc., in a schedule management table, a telephone number management table, ...

PURPOSE:To provide a long-lived and highly reliable sealed lead-acid battery for cycle by specifying the thickness of a separator even when an electrode plate has an area of 70cm<2> or more, and making sodium tetraborate present in an electrolyte. CONSTITUTION:In this battery, an electrode plate group consisting of a positive electrode plate 1, a negative electrode plate 2, and a separator 3 is ho...

A water treatment plant has at least one vertical stack of dissolved air flotation clarifiers (114 and 116). Raw water is directed to a single stage clarifier with a shallow tank (114). Its output is fed to an underlying two stage clarifier (116), preferably having tall, mutually isolated cells; inclined baffles over a filtration medium in each cell; a cell-by-cell backwash capability; and an arra...

A topographical support member (2) and method of forming a topographical support member (2) for use in producing nonwoven fabrics, especially tricot-like nonwoven fabrics. The topographical support member (2) includes a body (1) having a top surface (3) comprising a pattern of a plurality of peaks (5) and valleys (6) and a plurality of apertures (7). The apertures (7) have a conical top portion (7...

Procédé d'élaboration d'acier dans un four à arc à partir d'une charge constituée au moins partiellement de ferrailles, dans lequel on introduit dans le four des agents émulsifiants pour former un laitier moussant. On mesure au moins une grandeur caractéristique du processus pendant l'opération d'élaboration, on compare l'évolution de cette grandeur avec une courbe de référence et on fait varier a...

Aromatic amines of the formula where R1 is C1-C10 alkyl or halogen and n is an integer from 0 to 3 are effective in increasing the motor octane number of aviation gasolines to 98 or greater without the presence of lead additives.; Aromatic amines of the formula where R1 is C1-C10 alkyl or halogen and n is an integer from 0 to 3 are effective in increasing the motor octane num...

A method is provided for manufacturing a bladed ring for drum-shaped rotors of turbomachinery, especially rotors for axial compressors of gas turbine engines. The bladed ring is to be manufactured by hot isostatic pressing (HIP) and the fiber rings are formed in a metallic powder material for the bladed ring arranged in a circumferential direction. The fiber rings are bonded with spacing therebetw...

PCT No. PCT/JP92/01605 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 23, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 23, 1992 PCT Filed Dec. 9, 1992 PCT Pub. No. WO93/12177 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 24, 1993.A thermoplastic polyester composition suited for preparing a film or fiber having excellent abrasion resistance, as well as a biaxially oriented polyester film consisting essentially of the polyester composition are disclosed. The thermoplasti...

Provided is a biaxially oriented, unidirectionally long polyethylene-2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylate film having the following characteristic properties; (A) both the Young's modulus in the longitudinal direction and the Young's modulus in the transverse direction are at least 600 kg/mm2, and the Young's modulus in the longitudinal direction is greater than the Young's modulus in the transverse direc...

Rigid, closed cell polyisocyanurate foams are prepared by reacting together a polyisocyanate and a polyester polyol or a mixture of a polyester polyol and at least one other isocyanate-reactive compound in the presence of (a) a hydrogen-containing blowing agent or a mixture of a hydrogen-containing blowing agent and at least one co-blowing agent and (b) a catalyst mixture comprising (i) a carboxyl...