Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for measuring the content of Lanthanides dissolved in uranium oxide, wherein the Lanthanides content in the nuclear fuel pellet is measured using the thermo gravimetric analysis which measures the weight variation caused by the oxidation and heat treatment of the nuclear fuel pellet. This method provides an advantage in that the Lanthanide content can be measured using relatively simple equipments such as an electric furnace and a balance.

Abstract: An impact tool, comprising: a shaft; a stop on the shaft; a slider movable on the shaft for striking the stop to create an impact force; and a handle on the slider to allow a user to move the slider. The handle isolates the impact force from the user by being movably attached to the slider.

Abstract: A drive control for controlling a gear system which is connected to a motor. The drive control comprises one or several sensors for detecting operationally specific parameters of the gear system, and a decentralized sensor evaluation unit. The sensor or each sensor is connected to the decentralized sensor evaluation unit for separate evaluation of information provided by the sensor or sensors.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine combustor has inboard and outboard walls. A forward bulkhead extends between the walls and cooperates therewith to define a combustor interior volume. In longitudinal section, a first portion of the combustor interior volume converges from fore to aft and a second portion, aft of the first portion converges from fore to aft more gradually than the first portion.

Abstract: A turbine blade for use in a gas turbine engine is provided. The turbine blade includes an airfoil portion having a tip end, a shroud attached to the tip end, which shroud has an outer surface, and a knife edge attached to an outer surface of the shroud. The knife edge has a pair of cutter blades protruding outwardly from the knife edge.

Abstract: The present invention relates to heat shield panels or liners to be used in combustors for gas turbine engines. The heat shield panels each comprise a hot side and a cold side and at least one isolated cooling chamber on the cold side. Each cooling chamber has a plurality of cooling film holes for allowing a coolant, such as air, to flow from the cold side to the hot side. A combustor having an arrangement of heat shield panels or liners is also described.

Abstract: An apparatus for assembling a swash plate with pistons in a swash plate compressor of the present invention can automatically assemble the swash plate with double or single head pistons and shoes thereby improving workability and productivity. In the assembling apparatus, each of the pistons includes a swash plate-receiving section for receiving a pair of opposed shoes therein and having an insert groove for receiving the swash plate mounted on a rotational shaft and a piston body to be inserted into a cylinder bore of a cylinder block so that the swash plate is inserted into the insert grooves of the pistons. The assembling apparatus comprises a base plate, piston-loading means, piston-shifting means and rotating means.

Abstract: A lightning strike mitigation system for protecting a surface includes an inner insulating layer adjacent a surface to be protected, an outer insulating layer, and an intermediate layer formed from an electrically conductive material between the inner and outer insulating layers. The inner and outer insulating layers may be formed from an ablative insulating material containing no metal fill, an ablative insulating material containing a 15% Ni fill, or an ablative insulating material containing a 30% Ni fill. The electrically conductive material may be a mesh material or a foil material formed from an electrically conductive material or materials.

Abstract: If only an operating button 14 is pushed, an electrically opening and closing mechanism 1 disengages a first clutch K1 while engaging a second clutch K2 to operate an electrically driving means 2 to automatically open or close a second member (e.g., a liquid crystal display panel) 4 which is rotatable with respect to a first member (e.g., a body having a plurality of keys) 3. If the operating button 14 is pushed, the second member 4 automatically rotates to an optional angular position with respect to the first member 3, and if the operating button 14 is released (if the operating button 14 is returned to the original angular position by the spring force of a second spring 23), the first clutch K1 is engaged at the optional angular position to hold the attitude of the second member 4.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method of reducing spent oxides nuclear fuel to nuclear-fuel metal, in which metal oxides are reduced to metals using an electrochemical reduction device with LiCl—Li2O salt as an electrolyte, a cathode electrode assembly used in the method, and a reduction device including the cathode electrode assembly. The method is advantageous in that the process of reducing the spent oxide nuclear fuel to the nuclear-fuel metal and another process of recovering Li are united to simplify the whole processes, direct use of high oxidative Li metals is excluded to secure safety, and conversion efficiency of the spent oxide nuclear fuel is 99% or more.

Abstract: An average bidirectional flow tube, including a body having two side plates and upper and lower plates, a partition plate installed to be perpendicular to the side plates of the body so that front and rear ends of the tube are separated from each other, and two pairs of pressure impulse lines installed at front and rear positions of the partition plate. The upper and lower plates of the body each have a curvature to be in contact with an inner surface of a pipe in which the average bidirectional flow tube is installed, and each of the pressure impulse lines is installed to communicate with an interior of the pipe. Although a two-phase flow occurs in the pipe or the flow of the fluid flowing in the pipe is changed, an average flow rate of a fluid can be measured. Particularly, it is easy to measure an average flow rate of the fluid when the fluid flows at a low speed. Further, even when sudden pressure reduction occurs in the pipe, an additional cooling device is not required.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of organic chelates utilized as ingredients of animal feedstuffs. The organic chelates are passed to the intestines of livestock without decomposition in the stomach, and thereby have a high absorption rate. The present invention provides a preparation method of perfect chelate minerals having a high yield and containing copper, zinc, iron, manganese, or cobalt. The organic chelate mineral is prepared by precipitating metal sulfates or chlorides with sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide in a solution of two equivalents of an amino acid completely dissolved at above 70° C., collecting metal hydroxide by removing sodium sulfate, potassium sulfate, sodium chloride or potassium chloride through filtering, dissolving the metal hydroxide by adding the equivalent weights of hydrochloric acid, and then neutralizing the hydrochloric acid added for dissolving metal hydroxide.

Abstract: A receptacle for accommodating at least one pencil, comprising an inner space and a first wall element that delimits the inner space. The first wall element has a first connecting section that is located inside the inner space, and at the free end of this connecting section, an end section is to be folded back onto a second element that is adjacent to the first connecting section.

Abstract: A fan is provided for use with a casing having a bellmouth and a conduit portion. The fan has a hub, a number of blades extending from the hub, and a shroud. In cooperation with the casing and the conduit portion surrounding the shroud, the shroud has means for generating a separation bubble effective to limit a recirculation flow.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fumagillol compound which can be usefully used not only as an angiogenesis inhibiting agent showing a superior angeogenesis inhibitory effect with less toxicity, but also as a cancer metastasis inhibitor and a therapeutic agent against cancer and other various inflammatory diseases such as rheumatic disease, psoriasis, etc., and diabetic retinopathy related to angeogeneois, and also a method for preparing the same.

Abstract: A method of forming a blade comprising the steps of forging a part comprising a suction side, a pressure side, and a dividing portion of material greater than a portion of material to be sacrificed between the suction side and the pressure side, splitting the part through the dividing portion of material to form a suction side inner surface and a pressure side inner surface, and joining the suction side inner surface and the pressure side inner surface to form the blade.

Abstract: A height-adjustable support for semitrailers, having a stationary outer support tube, an inner support tube, which is arranged in a longitudinally displaceable manner therein, and a gearbox output shaft, on which is seated in a rotationally fixed manner a bevel wheel of relatively small diameter which belongs to a bevel wheel gear stage which drives the spindle drive for the purpose of displacing the inner support tube, the drive shaft being hollow at least in its end region opposite the drive side or having a hollow extension fitted thereon.

Abstract: An axle drive block for a motor vehicle, comprising a first and a second differential in a driven housing. Both of the differentials are coaxially aligned planetary spur gears, the sun wheels of which are drivably connected to the semiaxes of the first driven axle. The planet wheels of both differentials mesh the joint ring gear of the sun wheels. In order to lock the interaxle differential, the housing is provided with a first striking surface interacting with a second striking surface which is pressed thereto by ball ramps.

Abstract: A home and building information system comprises at least one electrical mains supply, which is connected to an electrical power lead, and comprises a local optical information network for exchanging information and for supplying, controlling and monitoring peripheral devices and terminals. The electrical conductor of the mains supply and at least one optical fiber of an optical passive information network are integrated in all components while running parallel to one another. These components comprise, on one side, permanently installed installation lines with plug sockets and variable installations with flexible network cables and plugs on the other.

Abstract: A speed-difference-dependent hydraulic clutch comprises a drive housing (11), which rotates in a housing (20), a first shaft (21) which can be connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the drive housing, a second shaft (22) which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the drive housing, and furthermore a hydrostatic displacement machine (1), a friction clutch (12) for connecting the first shaft (21) to the drive housing (11), and a piston (10) for acting on the friction clutch (12), the drive housing (11) having a pressure space (9) and where a pressure is produced in the pressure space (9) when a difference in speed occurs in the pressure space (9), this pressure giving rise to action upon the friction clutch (12), and a passage (13) leading from the pressure space to a control valve which opens up the route to a space of lower pressure in a controlled manner.