A nonwoven fabric made with multicomponent polymeric strands includes a blend of a polyolefin and ethylene alkyl acrylate in one side or the sheath of the multicomponent polymeric strands. The fabric has improved abrasion resistance, strength, toughness and softness properties. Composite materials including such multicomponent material bonded to both sides of an inner meltblown layer are also disc...

A method for determining the direction of a borehole during drilling comprises determination of inclination angle theta and highside angle phi from gravity acceleration ( &upbar& g) measurements and determination of azimuth angle psi from magnetic field ( &upbar& B) measurements along with the calculated inclination angle theta and highside angle phi , the determinations being carried out...

An apparatus for gas bubble flotation comprises an angular flotation tank (1a, 1b), at least one liquid inlet (2a, 2b) for a liquid containing suspended matter and a liquid admixed with gas bubbles, in which apparatus at least one liquid inlet (2a, 2b) is arranged in the vicinity of at least one flotation tank corner. Preferably, the flotation tank has a square cross section. This permits optimal ...

The device (1) includes a slot which accepts an IC card (11). The device also has a keypad and a display in addition to a loudspeaker and microphone. The IC card is inserted into the unit and a PIN code is keyed in. A telephone number can be keyed via the device or the telephone (43) to establish a remote link to a service provider (42). The IC card can then perform secure transactions with the se...

PURPOSE: To obtain a tomogram with high quality to be necessary for accurate diagnosis by holding most appropriately an artifact correcting effect caused by bowl gas correction while the backgroung noises are decreased as much as possible. CONSTITUTION: Positional sensors 91-94 are provided in such a way that a measurement can be started at an arbitrary position and from a plurality of angles and ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a real-time measurement in an electron beam by scanning a ring anode positioned at a ring-shaped X-ray beam source by the electron beam from an electron gun and detecting an electric charge distribution by connecting a measuring device to a sub-anode when the electron beam sweeps an interspace between the partial anodes. SOLUTION: A ring anode 1 in an X-ray computed...

PURPOSE: To provide a glass decorative object having elegant and graceful translucent metal patterns not obtained in a conventional glass decorative object by silk screen printing. CONSTITUTION: Silk screen printing is applied to the surface of glass using a colloidal inorg. composite particle emulsion and a transparent resin is applied to the printed surface or a compsn. prepared by mixing fine m...

PURPOSE: To improve the turning ability, the swinging performance by making up respective final reduction gears of a gear reduction device, a first planetary gear, a second planetary gear, a low speed stage high speed stage switching clutch, and a braking device. CONSTITUTION: Final reduction gear 7 is a two-stage switching type speed change gear, and when low speed stage is required, a fixed clut...

PURPOSE: To provide a large reduction gear ratio and a differential function by means of a compact and simple transmission device by using a combination of two planetary gear mechanisms. CONSTITUTION: A drive for electric vehicle is provided with a motor 2, drive shafts 11, 12, and a transmission device 3. The transmission device 3 is made up of two planetary gear mechanism G1, G2, and contains an...

PURPOSE: To prevent a delay in convergence to a target value and to accomplish stable and smooth rotational travel without any slip in a driving wheel by approximating an output characteristic of a wheel to that complying with a sideslip angle. CONSTITUTION: Between a pair of sun gears 28 connected to left and right wheels and a pair of ring gears 35a driven by means of an engine, planetary gears ...

PURPOSE: To prevent release of automatic cruise control under a stable releasing condition by continuing automatic cruise control if an auxiliary brake is operated and a present vehicle speed exceeds a preset vehicle speed complying with a target vehicle speed, when a foot brake is operated. CONSTITUTION: It is assumed that a driver actuates a foot brake during traveling downhill, and a present ve...

PURPOSE: To eliminate an uncomfortable feeling due to a vehicle speed deviation by detecting an accelerating condition of a vehicle after an accelerator pedal is operated and this operation of the accelerator pedal is released and controlling an action of an auxiliary brake on the basis of an auxiliary control mode when a vehicle is accelerated. CONSTITUTION: When a vehicle is accelerated even aft...

PURPOSE: To detect an abnormal condition in a communication line through which information is exchanged between an engine controller and a transmission controller even when exchanging information is not passed through the communication line. CONSTITUTION: In a transmission controller 2, toward a signal selection unit 7, a torque down command for reducing a transmission shock is fed by means of a t...

PURPOSE: To carry out driving in which fuel consumption is lowered (economy running) after a start of fuel supply to an engine so as to prevent generation of an engine stop by arranging a controlling means by which an air flow rate is controlled to that in idle driving and a clutch is released. CONSTITUTION: By means of a controlling means 48, various kinds of signals are inputted, a fuel injectio...

PURPOSE: To reduce a transmission shock by providing a detecting means detecting the number of revolutions of an output shaft in an automatic transmission, a means finding a rate of change in the number of revolutions from the detected number of revolutions, and a means assuming that a clutch is connected on the basis of the found rate of change. CONSTITUTION: A down-shift start flag FlgD and the ...

PURPOSE: To rotate a tractor under a travel system matching with a field condition. CONSTITUTION: A travel controller for a tractor provided with a rear wheel brake device, by which driving form for front and rear wheels during the rotation can be switched between a rear wheel two-wheel drive condition and a front wheel speed increasing four-wheel drive condition and the rear wheel on the rotation...

PURPOSE: To secure braking force required for maintaining a travel stop condition by setting a neutralizer device in an operating condition after a comparing means determines that detected braking force is more intensive than the preset braking force. CONSTITUTION: On the basis of a machine body inclination angle (i) inputted from an inclination angle detecting sensor 27, a control unit 29 compute...

PURPOSE: To connect a clutch even when a pedal is actuated in a machine in which disconnection of a clutch and braking are carried out by actuating an inching pedal. CONSTITUTION: A slotted hole 19i is bored in the tip part of a link mechanism 19 which is interlocked and connected to an inching pedal 14, while an operation arm 23, which is interlocked and connected to a valve spool 17a, is locked ...

PURPOSE: To easily bag various weights of tea leaves by a method wherein a roll-form opaque soft sheet having an impermeability to gases is folded at the center in the width direction thereof and sealed in the width direction thereof at a predetermined interval to be formed into a bag, tea leaves are contained in the bag, and a charging port of the bag is sealed. CONSTITUTION: As a roll-form opaqu...

PURPOSE: To insure a stable electric power quantity by a boiler, when gas turbine trip is generated during operation of a combined mode, by holding a boiler output command directly before the tip so as to continue to output, and slowly changing it to the control signal at isolated operation of the boiler. CONSTITUTION: When a gas turbine trip signal is generated during operation of a combined mode...