PURPOSE:To make design of center def compact by making a center def composed of planetary gear groups of four-wheel-drive vehicle having lateral engine coaxial with the output shaft of transmission then driving front and rear wheels through center def. CONSTITUTION:Driving force of engine is inputted through a clutch 5 to the input shaft 6 of transmission 3 then speed changed properly and transmit...

In a method and apparatus for preparing yarn ends, two yarns to be joined together by pneumatic splicing are placed in a splicer head of a splicer at a given instant with ends of the yarn to be prepared protruding out of a splicing channel of the splicer head in mutually opposite directions. The yarn ends are held taut at given points. The yarn ends protruding from the splicing channel are shorten...

A process is disclosed for producing SE permanent magnets. The ground constituents of the basic alloy are wet-ground in solvents, the wet-ground laitance is dryed, aligned in a magnetic field and pressed into blanks, the blanks are sintered into raw magnets and the permanent magnets produced from the raw magnets are magnetized. In order to improve this production process, the laitance is pressed i...

A vehicle is provided with an engine and an automatic transmission having a lockup mechanism which engages and disengages to directly connect and disconnect input and output shafts of a torque converter of the automatic transmission to and from each other. A control system for such a vehicle has a deceleration detecting circuit which detects that the engine is decelerating based on the engine spee...

A slip control system for a motor vehicle controls slips in driving wheels and includes a sensor for detecting a slip ratio of each driving wheel and a traction control system for decreasing a slip of each driving wheel by controlling a driving force transmitted to each driving wheel so that the slip ratio of each driving wheel is at least equal to a predetermined desired slip ratio when the slip ...

The differential (1) is suspended via four bearings (15-18) upon four separate support points (S1-S5). The first (S1) and fourth (S4) support points lie on one side of the transverse plane and the second (S2) and third (S3) lie on the opposite side. The third and fourth support points lie on the same side of the longitudinal plane as the gear ring (5) and the first and second lie on the opposite ...

A device for joining textile yarns by compressed air in which the joining head comprises a longitudinal chamber divided into two parts by a transverse central fissure, at least one air nozzle opening into each of said parts, that nozzle opening into one part creating an air swirl in one direction of rotation and that nozzle opening into the other part creating an oppositely directed air swirl, the...

A tire tread of elastomeric material formed into ground engaging elements (1) is provided with sipes (2) in said elements. The sipes are in the form of incisions. A first incision portion(s) extends inwardly from the tread surface and then splits into at least two incision portions (3,4) which continue to extend away from the tread surface while at the same time diverging apart from one another.

A dual sensing intrusion detection system comprising a passive infrared radiation detection sensor (12) which generates a first output signal (32) in response to the detection of an intruder in the volume of space, a second detection sensor (6) which is directed to the same volume of space and generates a second output signal (46) in response to detection of the intruder and a switch (38) which ac...

PURPOSE:To efficiently prepare a laminated structure having a beautiful cut surface without generating whitening phenomenon, by a method wherein a plurality of transparent synthetic resin plates each larger than a predetermined shape to be contacted with each other at a part to be cut thereof under pressure and, thereafter, laser beam is directed onto the laminate along a cutting line to apply the...

PURPOSE:To provide a high purity Ta material usable for semiconductor device by melting Ta refined by an iodide decomposition method in high vacuum. CONSTITUTION:Ta is refined by an iodide decomposition method. This Ta is melted in high vacuum of <=5X10<-5>mbar, by which a high purity Ta material in which oxygen content is regulated to <=50ppm and also the contents of Fe, Ni, and Cr are regulated ...

PURPOSE:To obtain the display device of high luminance by making multicolor displaying without using color filters. CONSTITUTION:The data electrodes of an STN type liquid crystal layer 23 of the 1st layer are connected to a data electrode driver 28 and the STN type liquid crystal layer 24 of the 2nd layer are connected to another data electrode driver 29. The scanning electrodes of the STN type li...

PURPOSE:To obtain a good display of high contrast which is free from coloration over a wide temp. range by using a liquid crystal material having the temp. dependency of specific refractive index anisotropy. CONSTITUTION:The max. transmittance of light in the liquid crystal display element of a two layer type laminated with a display cell 10 and a compensation cell 20 is higher as the difference b...

PURPOSE:To allow the gap control uniform over the entire surface of the liquid crystal display device by forming a spacer of a photosensitive resin. CONSTITUTION:Polyimide is formed as oriented films 7 on transparent electrodes 2, 5. The photosensitive polyimide is formed by spinner coating or printing, etc., on the oriented films 7 and thereafter, the photosensitive polyimide is exposed and etche...

PURPOSE:To simplify the structure of a device and to improve cooling efficiency by disposing a ventilation duct, which ventilates to respective adjacent display units disposed in a vertical direction from the back surface, to the back surface adjacent position of the display units being adjacent in a left and right direction. CONSTITUTION:A cooling air ventilated from the ventilation duct 17 is in...

The device (1) for clamping the reinforcement manufactured from a single wire (4) essentially comprises two jaws (10, 11) gripping the wires arranged at the beginning (41, 42) and at the end (43, 44) of the reinforcement. A sharp blade (13) cuts the wires and then, without unclamping the jaws, the latter bear against the core (7) for immobilising the wire (4) by virtue of the layer of raw rubber w...

Elastic, open-celled, flexible polyurethane foam (I) is claimed as is its prodn. by reacting: (a) polyisocyanate; with (b) polyether contg. 2/more isocyanate-reactive H atoms and having mol.wt. 400-10000; in presence of (c) catalyst selected from (combinations) di-/tetra-valent organometallic cpds., (d) water and (e) 0.1-10 wt.% (w.r.t. (b)) organic blowing agent selected from (mixts.) dicarbonic ...

Mo3527 LeA 27,541 OPEN-CELLED FLEXIBLE POLYURETHANE FOAMS AND A PROCESS FOR THEIR PRODUCTION Open-celled, elastic, flexible polyurethane foams are made without using a chlorofluorocarbon blowing agent. A polyisocyanate is reacted with a polyether in the presence of water and from about 0.1 to about 10% by weight (based on polyether) of an organic blowing agent selected from dicarbonic acid alkyl e...

Closed-cell polyisocyanate-based foams are prepared using a blowing agent mixture containing an organic compound having a boiling point in excess of 65 DEG C in conjunction with another organic compound having a boiling point below 40 DEG C. This invention provides for the use of high-boiling blowing agents which previously were not considered suitable for preparing closed-cell foam due to the hig...