PCT No. PCT/EP96/05854 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 27, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 27, 1998 PCT Filed Dec. 28, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/26994 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 31, 1997Apparatus for treating composite elements for the recovery of valuable substances therefrom, including providing a flow path for a transport fluid carrying solid particles from the composite elements, an array of mutually successive accelerati...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure comfortable space in an automobile while suppressing a cost for development by applying an internal combustion engine of the automobile using only vertical internal combustion engine as a power source and an arrangement thereof. SOLUTION: This hybrid powered automobile comprises an electric motor 1 and the internal combustion engine 2, where at least one of them wor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem of a conventional transmission for a traveling vehicle that makes a mission case large and cannot downsize a transmission itself due to providing a pair of a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic motor for travel-transmission, and a pair of a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic motor for steering at the outside of the mission case. SOLUTION: Pressure oil discharged fro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a vehicle with a continuously variable transmission capable of preventing over-rotation of an engine without causing abrupt torque change due to intercepting of fuel supply and impeding a will of a driver, when a manual transmission mode is selected. SOLUTION: When the manual transmission mode is selected by a selecting system 6 and a gear chan...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shift controller for a mechanical automatic transmission, capable of suppressing shock and clumsiness in a clutch disengaging process. SOLUTION: This shift controller for a mechanical automatic transmission having a friction clutch comprises an actuator 6 for engage/disengage driving the friction clutch according to supplied fluid pressure, a fluid pressure detec...

An inter-axle differential 13, eg for an articulated dump truck, comprises an inter axle differential lock 21 controlled by a controller 20 receiving signals from rotation detectors 27, 28 and 29 which detect a rotational frequency of a transmission output shaft 24, a front output shaft 25 and rear output shaft 26 respectively. The controller 20 determines a sign of a skid occurring at drive wheel...

The present invention includes a reliable and efficient method for redistributing, purchasing or selling tickets on the secondary market. The system generally includes a method for accepting tickets from individual sellers, posting the tickets on a central database for redistribution, establishing a market price based on demand and/or a service fee (this feature may not be available in certain sta...

A method and apparatus for imaging a heart with a scanning computed tomography (CT) imaging system. A cardiac cycle of a patient is measured. The patient's heart is then scanned with the scanning CT imaging system at an angular rate asynchronous to the measured cardiac cycle to obtain image data. An image of the patient's heart is then assembled from chronologically discontinuous segments of the i...

The invention relates to a device and a method for chemically and physically separating solid materials from a suspension using flotation. A rotationally symmetrical flocculation/flow reactor is provided with outlets in the lower part thereof and is arranged in a separating tank. At least one suspension inlet extends eccentrically into said reactor. The supplied suspension is guided into said reac...

A cam follower includes a radially inner arcuate bearing surface that matches the curvature of the outer surface of the cam. Engagement of this bearing surface with the surface of the cam opposes undesired motion of the cam follower, including motion radially away from the cam, about an axis perpendicular to the cam rotation axis, and/or about an axis parallel to the cam rotation axis. This arcuat...

Radiological imaging device comprising an emitter (1) of an X-ray beam and a receiver (3) of the X-ray beam after it has crossed an organ (11), the organ being capable of being placed between the receiver (3) and a compression element, capable of being removably fixed on the device. A calculation unit includes a means for optimizing the image quality over a particular area defined by the compressi...

The present invention is directed towards an improved method for delivering a continuous strip material (12) to a spool (4) upon which it is to be wound. The method includes the step of reducing the effective width of the continuous strip material prior to its being wound on the spool (4) by shaping the strip material (12) into an arcuate cross-section. The shaping means is rotatable about an axis...

The present invention provides an engine power train control method and control apparatus for a vehicle having an engine and an automatic transmission capable of quickly changing an air-fuel ratio to meet the requirements of the exhaust gas without producing shocks and without reducing an engine torque. The invention has following components. An air-fuel ratio command value is varied stepwise ...

A battery assembly includes a plurality of battery modules electrically connected together, each battery module acting as a secondary battery and including an electrode group, an electrolyte, a container for housing the electrode group and the electrolyte, and a safety valve operating in accordance with the internal pressure of the container. The working pressure of each safety valve is set so tha...

The invention concerns a method in the threading of a paper web or of an equivalent web-like material in a winding device, in particular in a slitter-winder, in which winding device the paper web (W) or the equivalent web-like material is wound from a web reel (2) or equivalent onto another roll. In the method a threading wedge is formed into the paper web (W) or equivalent web-like material, whic...

In a device to apply liquids - particularly oil - on yarns (9; 29), to be preferably mounted upstream of yarn feeders for looms, which comprises at least one tank (1, 2; 22) for the liquid and a liquid distribution unit, said liquid distribution unit consists of two plates (6, 7; 26, 27), partially plunged into the liquid of the tank (2; 22) and having substantially flat cooperating surfaces, draw...

In a non-stop stack changing device, remaining-stack bars are pulled from the stack area one by one and out-of-line in relation to each other. To this end, a pull/push drive is provided, which makes it possible to push the remaining-stack bars simultaneously into the grooves of a pallet carrying a sheet stack. Furthermore, the pull/push drive makes it possible to pull the remaining-stack bars in p...

The invention relates to a liquid treatment method and apparatus for removing impurities from a liquid stream, comprising forming a zone of micro gas bubbles from a source (3) across substantially the whole surface area of a treatment vessel (12) which is situated above a filter bed (13), passing liquid to be treated into the vessel (12) above the inlet (3) for the air whereby the liquid passes in...

A vehicle tyre comprising a tyre carcass (3) and on top of this a cap (29) consisting of at least one rubber quality and forming the tread (7), the cap having anti-skid stud holes (5) extending from the tread to its inside. At the bottom (8) of the anti-skid stud holes (5) and thus under the bottom flange (21) of the anti-skid studs (20) elastic cushions (6) are provided, made of a material of an ...