Abstract: A vehicular transmission comprises an engine E, a continuously variable transmission CVT and a starting clutch 5. The driving force from the engine E is conveyed through the continuously variable transmission CVT with a speed change to a countershaft 2, and the starting clutch 5 is used to convey this driving force from the countershaft 2 to wheels of a vehicle. The continuously variable transmission CVT is hydraulically controlled by a control valve CV which receives control signals through a line 35 from an electrical control unit ECU. When the temperature of the oil used for engaging and disengaging the starting clutch 5 is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature, the transmission allows the engine E to stop operating. This control to terminate the operation of the engine is an idling elimination control and is achieved by terminating the fuel supply to the engine and by maintaining the resulting condition of non-fuel supply while the vehicle is being decelerated and brought into a halt.

Abstract: A liquid filling apparatus comprises an apparatus body having a liquid channel connected at one end thereof to a liquid tank and at the other end thereof to a filling nozzle, a metering cylinder provided in the liquid channel between opposite ends thereof in communication with the ends for causing the liquid to be filled to flow into and out of the liquid channel by strokes of a piston housed in the cylinder, a check valve disposed upstream from the metering cylinder of the liquid channel, and valve opening-closing means for mechanically operating the check valve so as to open the valve during the inflow stroke of the piston and to close the valve during the outflow stroke of the piston.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium nickel-layered rock salt-type oxide particle powder, a lithium cobalt-layered rock salt-type oxide particle powder or a particle powder of a solid solution of these layered rock salt-type oxides, wherein the surface of the particle is rendered hydrophobic by coating it with a coupling agent having both a hydrophobic group and a hydrophilic group. The layered rock salt-type oxide particle powder is free of an adverse effect caused by adsorbed water because of less amount of water adsorbed on the surface of the particle powder, high in electrochemical charging and discharging capacities, low in cycle deterioration, so that it is especially useful as a positive electrode active material in a lithium battery.

Abstract: A door provided to a lavatory unit allowing the access of users is equipped with a vent louver mounted to an opening perforated to the lower portion of a door body 110 via a frame 115 of the door. The vent louver 130 comprises a ventilation 131 having plural air holes, a mounting portion 133 provided to the upper side of the ventilation 131 and equipped to the door body 110 with a fastener 140, and a mounting portion 135 for fixing the lower portion of the ventilation 131 to the door body via the door frame 115. The lower mounting portion 135 of the vent louver 130 comprises a connector 135F connected to the outer wall of the frame 115, and an elastic connector 135S comprising a leaf spring 1350 inserted to the frame 115 and flexibly applied to the inner wall of the frame.

Abstract: The invention provides an once through fan for an excimer laser apparatus having a reduced vibration and being capable of increasing a rotational speed. In order to obtain this, in an once through fan (1) for an excimer laser apparatus provided with a blade portion (6) having a plurality of blades, a rotary shaft (4) for rotating the blade portion and a magnetic bearing (7) rotatably supporting the rotary shaft in a non-contact manner so as to circulate a laser gas sealed within a chamber (2) in accordance with a rotation of the blade portion, a rotor (21) of a motor (23) installed within the chamber (2) and rotating the rotary shaft (4) is mounted on an outer peripheral portion of the rotary shaft, and at least one magnetic bearing (7, 7) for supporting the rotary shaft is arranged in each of both sides in an axial direction of the rotor.

Abstract: Apparatus for the rolling and heat treatment of elongated metal product of relatively small cross section, such as rods and bars, is described in which the elements required for the conduct of a variety of heat treatments are arranged in in-line disposition whereby any of several heat treatment procedures can be performed on the product without need for transferring the product to remotely located heat treatment facilities. The methods of performing various heat treatments through use of the disclosed apparatus are also described.

Abstract: The seizure resistance of an Al-based flame-sprayed layer formed on the swash plate of a swash-plate type comressor is increased to such a level comparable to that of a flame-sprayed bronze layer. The Al-based flame-sprayed layer of the present invention contains: from 12 to 60% of Si and granular Si particles dispersed in the matrix thereof, and at least one dispersing phase of graphite carbon, amorphous carbon and carbon, the crystallizing degree of which is between the graphite carbon and amorphous carbon, and MoS2.

Abstract: A plate yoke has an upper surface formed with a projection and a guiding rail. A new magnet block is transported by sliding on the upper surface of the plate yoke, and is bonded side by side with the projection or a magnet block which is already fixed. During the above operation, a magnetic member is held above the plate yoke. Preferably, the new magnet block is transported toward a corner portion, with side surfaces of the magnet block held parallel to a side surface of the projection and a side surface of the guiding rail respectively. When the magnet unit and the column yoke is connected, the column yoke or the magnet unit is lowered so that a guiding rod attached to an end face of the column yoke is inserted into a hole formed in the magnetic unit. Further, the column yoke is guided by a guiding member disposed between a permanent magnet on the plate yoke and a position where the column yoke is to be connected on the plate yoke.

Abstract: A travel assisting hydraulic circuit for a hydraulic drive type working vehicle with enhanced general versatility, in which the traveling assisting circuit during travel at a high speed can be configured to be a simple circuit. For this purpose, in a hydraulic drive type working vehicle including a traveling HST circuit having a traveling pump driven by the power of an engine, and a traveling motor driven by the pressurized oil from the traveling pump, in which the output torque of the traveling motor is transmitted to a drive wheel via a speed reducer, the traveling assisting hydraulic circuit includes an assisting pump driven by the power of the engine, and an assisting motor for outputting the torque generated by being driven by the pressurized oil from the assisting pump to the speed reducer to add the torque to the output torque of the traveling motor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing metal powder by means of blowing a cooling liquid toward a flowing down melt metal flow characterized that the cooling liquid is successively discharged downwardly from an annular nozzle toward the melt metal flow for surrounding it in the form of a hyperboloid of one sheet, wherein the annular nozzle is provided with a hole through which the melt metal flow may pass, and that the hyperboloid of one sheet has a pressure reduced by 50˜750 mmHg at the neighborhood of the constricted part inside the hyperboloid of one sheet. According to the present invention, there may be prepared fine and sherical metal powder which has a narrow range of a particle size distribution.

Abstract: There is provided a resin magnet material that has excellent flame retardancy, produces only a small amount of toxic substances when ignited, and yields very few molding defects; as well as an electron beam adjustment apparatus in which this resin magnet material is used. To achieve this object, a first invention comprises a flame-retardant resin magnet material obtained by adding (Z) an alnico-based magnetic powder or a ferrite-based magnetic powder to a flame-retardant resin composition that is itself obtained by adding heat-resistant aluminum hydroxide and antimony trioxide to a polyamide resin in the following amounts: (A) per 100 weight parts polyamide resin, (B) X1 weight parts heat-resistant aluminum hydroxide with a decomposition temperature of 280° C. or higher (where 10 weight parts<X1<70 weight parts), and (C) X2 weight: parts antimony trioxide (where 40 weight parts<X2<270 weight parts).

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell capacitor for storing information, wherein the memory cell capacitor includes a capacitor insulation film of a double oxide on a lower electrode. The lower electrode has a layered structure of Ir/IrO2/Ir or Ru/RuO2/Ru acting as a diffusion barrier of oxygen or Pb. Further, the use of a Pt—Ir alloy is disclosed for the lower electrode.

Abstract: A sealed non-aqueous electrolyte cell which has a casing made of a laminated material and which inhibits deterioration in the performance of the cell attributable to a decrease in the degree of sealing. This cell is achieved by addition of an inorganic oxide fine powder which is not an active material and is accommodated together with electric energy generating elements within the casing made from a laminated material composed of a metal foil and a resin film. A polypropylene layer is disposed inside the casing and is bonded on the inner surface of the metal foil through a carboxylic acid-denatured polypropylene layer.

Abstract: The invention provides a guide bush wherein a cemented carbide alloy containing at least cobalt is provided on an inner surface thereof for holding a workpiece rotatably and slidably in the longitudinal axial direction thereof in close proximity of a cutting tool, and a DLC film is formed over the cemented carbide alloy, cobalt being removed from the surface of the cemented carbide alloy, adjoining the DLC film. By forming the DLC film 15 on the surface of the cemented carbide alloy 12 from which cobalt has been removed, with an intermediate layer formed therebetween, adhesiveness of the DLC film against the cemented carbide alloy fixedly attached to the inner surface of the guide bush is further enhanced.

Abstract: A seat-occupant restraining apparatus is provided which includes a bag, accommodated in a shoulder belt, for restraining a seat occupant in a seat, and when a vehicle collides, expands the bag with a high-pressure gas produced by an inflator. A relief valve, which opens according to an increase in the internal pressure of the bag, is provided in a gas passage for supplying the high-pressure gas from the inflator to the bag. If the bag is completely expanded by the high-pressure gas from the inflator and the internal pressure of the bag reaches an appropriate value, the relief valve opens and discharges an extra high-pressure gas from the bag, whereby the internal pressure of the bag can be controlled to the appropriate value without causing variations. According to the above-described constriction, it is possible to realize a stable air vent function superior to that of a vent hole, without providing a vent hole in the bag of an air belt assembly.

Abstract: A secondary battery using a metal oxide enabling intercalation of alkali metal ion, as an active material for cathode, and a polymeric solid electrolyte as an electrolyte, and a method of the manufacture thereof are disclosed.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a power supply circuit selectively providing an external power source or an internal power source, a first part determining whether the external power source is selected, a second part detecting a type of a functional unit used in the electronic device, and a third part which controls to supply the functional unit with electricity from one of the external and internal power sources on the basis of determination results obtained by the first and second parts.

Abstract: A passenger management system having a boarding processing system with a plurality of tag readers and speakers connected to an automatic broadcasting unit each located in a plurality of areas into which a premises of an airport is divided. If there is found a remarked boarding card with which the check-in has been completed at a checking counter but boarding has not been confirmed, the tag readers are successively actuated from a gate counter and an area among said plurality of areas in which said remarked boarding card is present is determined based on the signal received by said tag readers. In such a way, remarked boarding cards, namely not-boarded passengers are managed for each area.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing multiple kinds of products in an arbitrarily selected order in one manufacturing apparatus, the rate of operation of the welding robots to be disposed in each of assembly lines for each of parts is improved, the cost for equipment investment is reduced, and the time required to introduce a new kind of motor vehicle into the manufacturing apparatus is shortened, whereby the productivity is improved. The manufacturing apparatus is made up of: a plurality of part assembly lines for assembling a plurality of parts; a combining station for tack-welding these parts to thereby assemble a product; and a reinforce-welding line for reinforce-welding the product. The number of welding points for welding each of the parts in the respective assembly lines is made equal to one another for all kinds of vehicles. Those welding points of each of the parts which fall short of a required number of welding points are welded in the reinforce-welding line.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for bonding together two disc substrates, at least one disc substrate having a UV transmissive-visible light reflective information recording layer provided on a UV transmission base. In this method, the disc substrates are bonded together, so that the information recording layer of one disc substrate faces the other disc substrate, by employing UV irradiation to cure a UV curable composition used as a bonding agent. In the case of the present invention, to cure the bonding agent, UV is irradiated in a single or repeating flash so as not to impair the information recording layer. As a result, the bonding agent can be cured in a shorter period of time with less energy consumed as compared to the conventional method of using conditions irradiation of UV light to cure a UV curable composition used as a bonding agent. Accordingly, the present method enables a product disc to be obtained in a shorter time, with less energy used, so that productivity (i.e.