Abstract: A heating system for a vehicle is provided which does not require a large boarding space in an engine room very much, which can be manufactured at a reduced cost, and which can fully heat a passenger compartment of a vehicle when an engine is started. For instance, in the vehicle heating system, a water pump (WP) and a viscous heater (VH) is incorporated into an installation housing (1), a plate (2) and a cover (3) which are bonded to a cylinder block of an engine. The water pump (WP) and the viscous heater (VH) are driven by a drive shaft (11) which is shared by them. Moreover, the viscous heater (VH) includes an auxiliary water jacket (WJ.sub.2). The auxiliary water jacket (WJ.sub.2) is communicated with a main water jacket (WJ.sub.1) of the engine by way of a pump chamber (4) of the water pump (WP), and is further communicated with a heater core for heating a passenger compartment of a vehicle.

Abstract: A multi-wavelength optical telecommunication method includes: generating at least two optical transmission signals of wavelengths different from each other, multiplexing the optical signals in a single transmission fibre, forming a multi-wavelength optical signal, transmitting, through the transmission fibre, the multi-wavelength optical signal including the optical transmission signals to a respective receiving station and separating the optical transmission signals, in which the step of separating the optical transmission signals includes: distributing the received multi-wavelength optical signal onto at least two output fibres; selectively reflecting a wavelength band of the multi-wavelength optical signal including at least one of the optical transmission signals, so that the reflected band propagates over the output fibre in an opposite direction to the multi-wavelength optical signal; separating the reflected band from the output fibre and feeding it, through a receiving fibre, to a respective receiver.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for continuously spot-welding galvanized steel sheets overlapped to be bonded by way of a spot welding machine having a pair of electrodes. The galvanized steel sheets clamp a resistance increasing material including a spacer to ensure a gap between the sheets. Bonding surfaces of the galvanized steel sheets partly contact each other when the pair of electrodes pressurize the galvanized steel sheets such that a part of the gap is retained around the spacer between the bonding surfaces. The retained gap has a size in which zinc melted or vapored when a weld current flows between the electrodes can escape through a weld section of the galvanized steel sheets to outside. The method comprises the step of recording an inter-electrode resistance for each spot when the continuous spot welding is executed by the pair of electrodes.

Abstract: A compressor has a casing and a compressing member located within the casing. A gas drawn from a suction chamber into a compression chamber is compressed to be discharged to a discharge chamber in accordance with the operation of the compressing member. The compressor has a drive apparatus located within the casing for driving the compressing member. The drive apparatus has a fixed drive member fixed to the casing and having a plurality of electrode strips arranged in a single direction with a predetermined pitch. A second member is fixed to the compressing member. The compressing member is driven by relative movement generated between the fixed and movable drive members in response to Coulomb force generated between the fixed and movable drive members when voltage is applied to the electrode strips.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for making a gamma prime precipitation strengthened nickel base alloy having an improved resistance to hydrogen embrittlement, particularly crack propagation. The alloy is cast, heat treated to dissolve substantially all the gamma-gamma prime eutectic islands and script carbides without causing incipient melting, cooled to below 1000.degree. C., HIP'ed to eliminate porosity, precipitation treated and aged. The alloy has a microstructure which is essentially free of script carbides, gamma-gamma prime eutectic islands and porosity. The microstructure further includes a plurality of regularly occurring large barrier gamma prime precipitates and a continuous field of fine cuboidal gamma prime precipitates surrounding the large barrier gamma prime precipitates.

Abstract: An inner rotor 5 has a recess 7 formed at a position corresponding to a navel 6 and the recess 7 has a taper surface 7a formed to the peripheral edge thereof. The end surface 6c of the navel 6 can be moved together with a support member 12 to an ordinary spinning position where it can be engaged with a thread Y drawn out through a thread guide and to a thread piecing position where it cannot be engaged therewith. When the thread is pieced, the navel 6 is disposed at the thread piecing position and after a seed thread is introduced into an outer rotor 2 from a thread drawing-out path 6b in the state that both the rotors 2, 5 are rotated, a fiber bundle in a fiber collecting portion 2a is drawn out together with the seed thread and a thread is spun without passing through the thread guide. Thereafter, the navel 6 is moved to the ordinary spinning position.

Abstract: A tool having a pair of opposed jaws with compression surfaces that are movable in a direction essentially perpendicular to the planes of the compression surfaces can be used to apply evenly distributed compressive force to opposed faces of a flat object. A specific application of the tool is the compression of conductive copper clips joining the ends of bars that form the stator coils of electric power generators.

Abstract: A swash plate tiltably supported on a drive shaft is controlled by adjusting the pressure in a crank chamber. When an electromagnetic valve is de-excited, the high-pressure refrigerant gas in a discharge chamber is supplied to the crank chamber so that the inclination angle of the swash plate is shifted to its minimum inclination from its maximum inclination. An open/close mechanism located in a suction passage gradually opens or closes the suction passage in accordance with the differential pressure between the pressure in the external refrigeration circuit located upstream the open/close mechanism and the pressure in a suction chamber. When the inclination angle of the swash plate is minimized, the open/close mechanism closes the suction passage. It is therefore possible to prevent frosting while also suppressing rapid changes in load torque.

Abstract: A combination of a sprocket wheel and a rapier band employed in a rapier loom is improved for extending the service life of the rapier band. Each of the female holes formed in the rapier band for receiving teeth of the sprocket wheel is formed in a frustum-like shape. The teeth of the sprocket wheel have tooth surfaces each including a non-interference portion located above an expansion/contraction-insusceptible layer of the rapier band and an interference portion located underneath the expansion/contraction-insusceptible layer. The non-interference portions do not contact the tooth surfaces, while the interference portions are brought into contact with the wall surfaces of the hole formed in the rapier band when the band is wrapped around the sprocket wheel.

Abstract: A swash plate is mounted on a drive shaft in a crank chamber. The swash plate rotates integrally with the drive shaft and changes its inclination angle based on the pressure in the crank chamber. Pistons are provided in cylinder bores and coupled to the swash plate. The rotation of the swash plate is converted into reciprocation of each piston in the associated cylinder bore. The pistons'reciprocation draws the gas from a suction chamber into the compression chamber. The gas is compressed and discharged into the discharge chamber. A lug plate that integrally rotates with the drive shaft is mounted on the drive shaft. The lug plate has a receptacle. The receptacle has a pair of side walls that are spaced apart. The swash plate has an arm extending perpendicular to the swash plate. The arm has a distal end surface extending perpendicular to the axis of the drive shaft. The head slides along the receptacle and receives a load from the swash plate.

Abstract: A thin-film forming method comprising an uncured-layer forming step in which a mixed composition containing an organic polymerizing agent curable composition and a silicone polymerizing curable composition is prepared to form an uncured layer consisting of this mixed composition on a resin substrate; a solvent removing step in which the solvent in the uncured layer is removed; a first polymerization curing step in which the organic polymerizing curable composition in the uncured layer is polymerized; and a second polymerization curing step in which the silicone polymerizing curable composition in the uncured layer is polymerized. The thin-film forming method can comprise formation of the uncured layer on a resin substrate through the intermediation of a primer layer or formation of an uncured underlayer and uncured top layer followed by separate underlayer polymerization and top layer polymerization curing steps.

Abstract: The invention relates to a working tool for working a pipe wall, so that a grooving is created on the inner wall of the pipe. The grooving is carried out by means of a rotating working tool of a grooving machine, and according to the invention, the structure of said tool brings about an efficient use and replacing of the balls provided in the tool for working the pipe to be grooved; it also enables the replacing of the balls without replacing the whole tool.

Abstract: A lubricating mechanism for a piston type compressor in a refrigeration system. A cam plate is mounted on a drive shaft for integral rotation therewith in a crank chamber, which is defined in a casing. Pistons are coupled to the cam plate and reciprocate in cylinder bores extending parallel to the drive shaft. Each piston compresses refrigerant gas containing lubricating oil mist and discharges the compressed refrigerant gas from the compressor during rotation of the cam plate. The refrigerant gas is supplied into the crank chamber and is circulated in the casing. The lubricating oil is supplied to various moving parts from a location near the drive shaft. An oil pan is provided outside and to the side of the casing for collecting lubricating oil. A recovering passage connects the oil pan with the crank chamber to convey the lubricating oil from the crank chamber to the oil pan for collection.

Abstract: A gas turbine abradable seal is prepared by plasma spraying an oxidation resistant metallic material and boron nitride. The resultant structure comprises a metallic matrix encompassing a lubricating amount of boron nitride, with porosity of less than about 15 percent and a fabricated surface roughness of less than about 600 microinches. The reduced surface roughness and substantially reduced permeability of this seal provide substantially enhanced engine efficiency, and improved durability.

Abstract: An acoustooptical wavelength device for wavelength selection includes one substrate of a birefringent and photoelastic material on which there is formed: first and second rotation stages of the polarization plane of an optical signal in a first wavelength interval, wherein each stage comprises at least one optical waveguide traveled over by the signal; at least one optical waveguide, connecting the two stages and carrying one single polarizer consisting of an evanescent-wave polarization coupler; and at least one optical waveguide carrying one polarizer being finally provided downstream of the second stage.

Abstract: A ceramic core is removed from an investment casting by directing a stream of high pressure alkali solution between about 5,000 psi (345 bar) and about 10.000 psi (690 bar) at the core to loosen and dissolve the core.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the acetylation of lignocellulosic materials (LM) by (a) bringing the LM into intimate contact with an acetylating agent comprising acetic anhydride as the major component at a temperature from 80.degree.-140.degree. C. and (b) bringing the acetylated LM from step (a) into contact with a heated gas inert under the reaction conditions in a stripper at a temperature above 140.degree. C. and reducing the acetic acid or acetic anhydride content of the acetylated LM produced in step (a) to below 10% by weight by stripping. Products fabricated from LMs so treated are highly dimensionally stable.

Abstract: The device and method are based on tapping off a predetermined line signal fraction and inputting it, together with a continuous pumping radiation, to a resonant cavity which comprises a non-linear wave guide. The value of the pumping wavelength is related to the wavelength of the line signal pulses to produce therewith a four-wave mixing (FWM) effect in the non-linear wave guide. In travelling the non-linear wave guide, a clone signal is generated by FWM effect which duplicates the pulse sequence of the line signal at a clone wavelength. By adjusting the length of the resonant cavity such that, in inputting the line signal, each of its pulses will come in at exactly a pulse of the clone signal which is being circulated within the cavity, a clone signal can be circulated within the resonant cavity whose pulse sequence represents the optical clock signal sought.

Abstract: Insulating and anticorrosive composition for electrical devices consisting of two semifluid components that are mixed together at the time of application, whereinA) the first component includesfrom 20 to 35 parts (w/w) of a bitumen having a softening point of at least 90.degree. C.,from 1.5 to 7 parts (w/w) of a hydrocarbon resin,from 0.5 to 5 parts (w/w) of an alkylbenzene,from 35 to 60 parts (w/w) of resin oil, andfrom 10 to 30 parts (w/w) of olein,B) the second component includesfrom 40 to 60 parts (w/w) of a mixture of partially hydrogenated terphenyls and quaterphenyls,from 0.5 to 5 parts (w/w) of a styrene/butadiene block copolymer,from 5 to 30 parts (w/w) of calcium oxide, andfrom 10 to 50 parts (w/w) of calcium hydroxide.

Abstract: A load cell is disclosed having a top plate and a base plate, the top plate adapted for receiving a pillow block mounting and shaft bearing thereon and the base plate adapted to be fixedly secured to a machine frame or other fixed structure. A deformable spring member is secured to both plates, which upon deforming tilts the top plate. A pair of gauged beams are disposed substantially parallel to the longitudinal axes of the plates and substantially orthogonal to the direction of an applied force. The gauged beams are secured at one end to a support member and at the other to a collar member. A load transfer rod secured at one end to the support member extends through the collar member to a link member secured to the top plate. Upon tilting of the top plate, the load transfer rod and the gauged beams deflect, causing strain gauges on the gauged beams to generate electrical voltage signals proportional to the applied force.