An apparatus for use in an internal combustion engine operable on either of gasoline fuel and gasoline-alcohol fuel blend. The apparatus includes an alcohol concentration sensor for sensing the alcohol concentration of the fuel to be delivered to the engine, and an oxygen sensor sensitive to the oxygen content in exhaust gases discharged from the engine for producing an air/fuel ratio feedback sig...

PURPOSE:To avoid the shock and the sinking of a vehicle, by setting up only one of two sets of speed change gears for a high speed when a manual shift is changed, and thereafter setting it up for a low speed. CONSTITUTION:An electric controller 15 outputs on-off signals to each of electromagnetic valves 11-13 by signals from a car speed sensor 16, a throttle opening sensor 17 and a shift position ...

In a process of separating a liquid sample having phase portions of different densities by centrifugal separation, a phase separator container is employed. The phase separator container comprises a housing having concentric inner and outer cylindrical walls defining a longitudinal axis and a top wall and further a piston body constituting a bottom wall of the housing. The piston body defines toget...

A hydraulic, overbraking mechanism for a self-circulating fluid brake, cyclone brake, consists of a spring-loaded plate. The plate is provided with slots in such a manner that larger or smaller areas of the rotor blades are activated when the plate, on account of the hydraulic vacuum, presses the loading springs together. In this way, the power of the fluid brake is increased, overbraking begins a...

Method for manufacturing a compound pipe the wall of which comprises an inner layer (23) of a first material and an outer layer (24) of a second material. Powders (13,14) of the two materials are isostatically hot pressed to form a cylindrical tubular blank (15) in which the first material (13) forms an inner layer and the second material (14) forms an outer layer, the blank after heating to a sui...

An ethylene- alpha -olefin copolymer comprising ethylene and one or more alpha -olefin having from 3 to 10 carbon atoms, the copolymer having an alpha -olefin content of from 1.0 to 8.0 mol%, a density of from 0.900 to 0.930 g/cm<3>, and a melt flow rate of from 0.1 to 100 g/10 min., the programmed-temperature thermogram (see the drawings) of said copolymer as determined with a differential scan...

A method and apparatus for transmitting information relating to the operation of an electrical device disposed in a borehole, in which information picked up by at least one downhole sensor is conveyed to surface reception means via the wire connection connecting said device to electrical power supply means on the surface, the invention being characterized in that said wire connection is inductivel...

PURPOSE:To assure large capacity of a tile device by disposing part of a bonding pad for signals to peripheral circuits and for a power supply in a bonding pad region located outside a divided circuit block along a short side of the block. CONSTITUTION:Cell array regions 1-1, 1-2 are provided on the left and right sides of a semiconductor memory device formed on a rectangular semiconductor substra...

A differential gear unit includes a viscous coupling for restricting the differential rotation of output gears (27, 29), with the conneciton of one of the parts (31) of the viscous coupling to one output gear being by way of a releasable connecting device so that the viscous coupling can be brought out of operation when required, e.g. under vehicle braking. The connecting device comprises a sleeve...

The invention relates to a process for the preparation of aqueous solutions and gels of chitosan in which chitosan and an acidic chelating agent are dissolved in water. Such solutions can be drastically increased in viscosity or converted into highly viscous gels by adding salts of polyvalent metals and acids in which chitosan is only moderately soluble or is insoluble. From such solutions, salt-l...

A bladed rotor having blades with blade shrouds (54,56) includes a deformable protective coating (95) applied to the blades to increase the damage tolerance of the blades during foreign object ingestion. The protective coating deforms upon impact (90) between the shroud and airfoil (38) of adjacent blades (36a,b). The deformation absorbs impact energy and improves distribution of the impact load t...

PURPOSE:To automate all the work and save time and labor by photographing the edge part of a diesel particulate filter, processing the photographed image to judge the mesh sealing state, and correcting defective cells in mesh sealing according to the judged result. CONSTITUTION:A DPF(diesel particulate filter) 3 is placed on the upper face of an X-Y table 2 installed on the upper face of a base 1....

A responder (12) for electronic article surveillance apparatus is made by subjecting a plurality of magnetizable elements (12a, 12b, 12c) to heating in the presence of a magnetic field and maintaining the field at a different intensity for each element as it is cooled to provide different magnetic characteristics so that when the responder is subjected to a cyclically varying magnetic interrogatio...

The invention relates to a method for processing manure, fermented liquid manure being subjected to nitrification in a first step and to denitrification in a subsequent step, an aerated reactor which contains active sludge rich in nitrifying bacteria being used in the nitrification step and acid-neutralizing chemicals being added to said reactor if necessary and a continuously fed upflow slib bed ...

A volumetric pump, partic. for non-vulcanised rubber comprises at least one delivering piston (10) sliding in a cylinder (11) alternatively between a high (PMH) and low (PMB) point between which in the wall (13) of the cylinder (11) are feed points (12). An exit port (14) fitted with a non-return valve (15) is situated in the closed end of the cylinder at the high point of piston travel. The cylin...

The palletised container (1) used as a reusable container for transporting and storing liquids of different types has, as its main components, an outer casing (2) of intersecting vertical and horizontal grid bars (3, 4) made of metal, a supporting insert (5) which can be inserted in the outer casing and consists of smooth wall parts made of plastic for an exchangeable, thin-walled inner container ...

PURPOSE:To prevent insulation failure of a heat generating element by a method where in a refrigerant pipe between an outdoor unit and a pressure deducing device is so arranged that the refrigerant pipe is allowed to exchange heat with the heat generating element. CONSTITUTION:In operation of a heat pump apparatus, the refrigerant circulates between an indoor heat exchanger 3 and an outdoor heat e...

PURPOSE:To suppress an amount of generated beat noise to a value as low as possible, to reduce a cost, and to provide proper heat exchange capacity of each air heat exchanger by a method wherein mounting angles of a plurality of propeller fans are differed from each other and an approximately equal airflow is provided. CONSTITUTION:An outdoor machine is provided with mutually independent refrigera...

PURPOSE:To utilize a directional pressure sensor in a displacement direction judging apparatus and a handwriting measuring apparatus by realizing said sensor capable of sensing the displacement of a core rod in many directions in constitution such that the core rod is surrounded by a cylindrical body. CONSTITUTION:A pressure-sensitive conductive elastomer molded body 1 is interposed between a core...

PURPOSE:To eliminate the influence of disturbance light by selecting light receiving elements in the direction of an axis Y so as to store light receiving signals caused by the disturbance light in a memory when light emitting elements in the direction of an axis X are selectively driven and scanned. CONSTITUTION:While the light emitting elements L1-Lm and the light receiving elements P1-Pm in the...