Abstract: In a starter, a power supply terminal connected to a solenoid coil of a magnet switch and connectable to a starter external circuit is provided on an end cover. The power supply terminal includes a terminal metal member, a bimetal which interrupts electric conduction between the solenoid coil and the terminal metal member at the time of temperature rise above a predetermined temperature, and a casing contacting a foot part of the terminal metal member and encasing the bimetal therein. The bimetal responds to each of the excessive heating of the terminal metal member and excessive energization current to interrupt the conduction. In case of a single axis-type starter, the power supply terminal is provided on a recess so that the terminal metal member does not extend axially beyond the rear end face of the end cover.

Abstract: A taping unit for gummed paper includes a support for a reel of gummed paper, a paper feeder, a cutter, a paper deviator, a dampener with moistened bristles placed downstream of the deviator, and an applicator for applying single lengths of gummed paper onto the top or the bottom of a box. The paper deviator includes at least two cooperating guide pads, located one upstream of the other in the direction of the forward movement of the paper. The downstream guide pad defines, in front of the dampener, a resting plane for the paper, in front of which there extend from the upstream guide pad and parallel to the resting plane a large number of vertical wires arranged side by side, that provide guiding of the gummed paper lengths between the resting plane and the bristles of the dampener.

Abstract: An oil holding cylinder for an oil coating roller is provided. The cylinder includes at least a cylindrical non-sintered molded body, which is formulated from a mixture of at least ceramic fiber and an organic binder. In addition, the mixture can further include clay, an inorganic binder, or a combination thereof. The molded body preferably has a porosity in a range of about 30% to about 70%. In operation, the oil holding cylinder disclosed herein can stably and uniformly supply oil to the fixing rollers and the like for an extended period of time, while preventing offset.

Abstract: A refrigerator having an improved fan which blows air towards a heat exchanger such as an evaporator. The refrigerator has a body having a refrigerating chamber, a freezing chamber, and a chilled air passage which communicates with the refrigerating and freezing chambers. An evaporator for generating a chilled air by heat-exchanging with an air is installed in the body. The evaporator has a spiral-shaped refrigerant pipe which is disposed in a longitudinal direction of the chilled air passage, and a plurality of heat exchange pins disposed around the spiral-shaped refrigerant pipe, for increasing a heat exchange area between the air and the spiral-shaped refrigerant pipe. A fan for blowing the air toward the evaporator and for circulating the chilled air into the refrigerating is installed in the chilled air passage. A motor is fixed to a wall of the body forming the chilled air passage.

Abstract: A vehicle closure testing apparatus for opening or closing a vehicle door of any of a variety of vehicles under test includes a supporting structure, a door moving mechanism, and an assembly selectably configured to position the door moving structure. The supporting structure positions the vehicle closure testing apparatus in spaced relationship to the vehicle under test. The door moving mechanism engages and rotates the vehicle door when the door moving mechanism is activated. The assembly enables the door moving mechanism to be movably positioned into a functional position relative to a specific door of the variety of vehicle doors having a specific axis of rotation and enables the door moving mechanism to be re-positioned in a similar functional position relative to a different vehicle door having a different axis of rotation.

Abstract: At a certain stage in the fabrication of a rigid cigarette packet, which appears essentially as a rectangular cup or body with a coaxial lid, the partly formed packet is transferred from a first feed path onto a second feed path, still having longitudinal flaps that project on either side from a front face of the body and a front face of the lid; the transfer is effected by means of a device that includes in a rotatable platform with at least one gripper head designed to engage at least the two front faces of the single packet in such a way that the body and lid remain stably interconnected, and during the course of the transfer movement to rotate the packet through 90.degree. about an axis which is normal to the front faces.

Abstract: A coating composition prepared by mixing an organic solvent based coating composition with (1) a silicone compound having organofunctional group and hydrolyzable group in one molecule and containing a specified silicon structural unit, or (2) a silicone compound consisting of a partial cohydrolysis.cndot.condensation product of a silane mixture of alkoxysilane compound containing at least one organofunctional group selected from the group consisting of (meth)acryloyl group, vinyl group, haloalkyl group, amino group, epoxy group and mercapto group with tetraalkoxysilane compound.

Abstract: In an air duct selector, a supporting member has a grid shape, and is formed with four penetration holes. Since a film member is affixed to two fitting portions which are arranged on two ends of the supporting member, the film member is fixed on the supporting member. The supporting member and the film member are arranged in a duct to move in a vertical direction. When air flow is blown against the inside surface of the film member through the penetration holes 24a.about.24d, the film member is bent to swell against the film member, and presses against a peripheral portion of a cool air bypass opening portion to entirely cover the cool air bypass opening portion.

Abstract: A security device (10) for security a frame or chassis of a caravan or other wheeled vehicle to the ground comprises an elongate securing arm (12) extending substantially transversely of the chassis between two frame members (4) thereof, and an elongate support member (14) extending downwardly into the ground. The support member (14) and the securing arm (12) are made in one piece and the free end of the support member (14) is engaged in the ground. The engagement of the support member (14) is such that withdrawal thereof from the ground requires rotation of the support member (14). At each of its ends, the securing arm (12) carries engagement members (32,34) to engage with, and be locked to, the frame members (4). Although the security device is simple to manufacture and install, it provides a high degree of security.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a centered bore within an intramedullary canal of a femur in preparation for the implantation of a prosthetic device. The apparatus comprises a substantially T-shaped device formed from a handle and an elongated rigid rod. The rod includes outwardly projecting fins at its distal end adapted to engage the interior wall of the cortex of the femur, thus centering the bore. The method includes preparing the femur for implantation by exposing the femoral neck and then inserting the rod into the intramedullary canal until the fins engage the cortex. If a device has a pair of fins disposed on the rod at 180.degree. relative to one another, the device is withdrawn, rotated ninety degrees, and reinserted into the intramedullary canal, again allowing the fins to engage the cortex. Once the bore is formed, it is used to guide compacting devices which shape and size a cavity within the femur to receive the prosthesis.

Abstract: A motorless manually operated treadmill exerciser comprising a frame structure supporting a motorless manually operated treadmill assembly and a retardant assembly constructed and arranged to establish a retardant to the continued movement of the endless track of the treadmill assembly when the user desires to slow the walking or running speed or disembark.

Abstract: An aeroturbine is provided including a body, guide walls formed in the body for guiding the air, a rotor chamber mounted above the body, the rotor chamber housing a rotor therein, and control and gate flaps adjacent to the rotor chamber for controlling airflow. To improve airflow through the aeroturbine, an air chamber having its bottom formed by the control and gate flaps is provided below the rotor and the cover of the air chamber separating the air chamber from the rotor chamber is provided with adjustable nozzle channels.

Abstract: A method for analyzing human brain physiology and pathology according to metabolic data obtained by non-invasive means. Metabolism is detected using in vivo proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (.sup.1 H MRS) using pulse sequences that provide nuclear magnetic resonance signals from a living human brain. Factors which might decrease performance of artificial neuronal network analysis, e.g. the residual water signal, are eliminated from the nuclear magnetic resonance signal, e.g., by means of a singular value decomposition algorithm. Moreover, the artificial neuronal network analysis accepts as input all of the metabolite resonances, not just selected features, for analysis. The artificial neuronal network analysis yields metabolite concentrations and the nature of tissue type in focal lesions, such as tumors, stroke lesions, epileptic foci, traumatic scars, and also in more diffuse pathologies such as metabolic brain disorders as well as in post-therapeutic changes.

Abstract: An entire outer periphery of an axially central portion of an inner cylindrical member is expanded outwardly to define an expanding portion having a spherical configuration of which a center locates about an axial line of the inner cylindrical member. A cylindrical internal ring is disposed in about the middle between an outer cylindrical member and the inner cylindrical member coaxially and an axially central portion of the internal ring bends in conformity with the expanding portion of the inner cylindrical member. By virtue of the expanding portion and internal ring, the rigidity in the directions perpendicular to the axial direction increases.

Abstract: A device for suppressing brake noise wherein a rod is provided upright on the inside of the rim to which the brake lining is fitted, and a weight is fitted to this rod by way of an elastic body. By fitting a weight to the brake shoe by way of an intermediary elastic body, the weight will vibrate when it is subject to the vibration of the brake shoe. At low frequencies the vibration of the weight will be in phase with the vibration of the brake shoe, but as the vibration frequency of the brake shoe increases, the vibration of the weight will shift out of phase with the vibration of the brake shoe. In the vicinity of and above a certain frequency, this phase difference will become nearly 180 degrees. By matching this frequency to the brake noise frequency, the vibration of the brake shoe can be suppressed by the vibration of the weight.

Abstract: An apparatus for minimizing vibration of images in video cameras due to vibration of the operator's hands includes a motion detector, an electric field generator which receives information from the motion detector and generate voltages related to the horizontal and vertical motions, and a hand vibration corrector which uses the voltages from the electric field generator to control the refractive index of a medium through which the incoming video images are passing, to thereby adjust the position of the incoming images. A CCD converts the optical signals of the hand vibration correcting means into electrical signals. The refractive index of the crystal having the electro-optical effect is controlled by electrical signals and the optical source of the input images is optically corrected. Consequently, a high speed response and high precision controlled resolution are provided. Further, the apparatus has a simple structure, and therefore, it can greatly contribute to the camera image stabilization.

Abstract: A glass-fiber-reinforced polypropylene resin composition is provided having:(A) at least one polypropylene resin,(B) resin-coated glass fiber obtained by previous coating glass fiber with a thermoplastic resin, and(C) glass fiber, whereinthe total content of the resins in the components (A) and (B), respectively, being 65 to 95% by weight based on the total weight of the components (A), (B) and (C),the total content (G) of the glass fibers in the components (B) and (C) being 5 to 35% by weight based on the total weight of the components (A), (B) and (C), andthe melt flow rate M (g/10 min) of the polypropylene resin as component (A) and the above-mentioned total glass fiber content G (% by weight) satisfies the relationship:M<1000/G.The reinforced polypropylene resin composition provides a resin molded article having only small protuberances of welds, and a wheel cover having an excellent appearance quality and mechanical properties.

Abstract: A mineral wool article including a mineral wool layer, at least a region of which extends from at least one surface of the mineral wool layer into the mineral wool layer to an impregnation depth t. The region of the mineral wool layer includes individual fibers and is impregnated with an impregnating substance which adheres to the fibers and encloses the fibers without sealing gaps defined between the fibers so as to permit the surface of the mineral wool layer to retain an open surface structure. The gaps between the fibers in the region include bridge formations of the impregnating substance, which bridge formations are configured to permit air to penetrate through the mineral wool layer without essentially being impeded and to trap solid particles and thereby prevent emergence of the particles from the surface of the mineral wool layer. The impregnating substance provides the article with a soft and warm touch.

Abstract: An endoprosthetic acetabular component of overall cup form is improved by the provision of an outer part (100; 300; 500) for securement to bone and a plurality of inner parts (200; 400; 600) individually selectively interconnectable with the outer part in like manner but providing a dished articulating surface (203; 403; 603) in respectively different predetermined positions varying in depth and/or inclination. The interconnection is preferably rotatably adjustable relative to the cup mouth, suitably by the provision of mutually complementary indented/detented surface formations (104,202; 304,402; 505,607) on the parts. The outer part may also be selectable from a range adapted to respectively different manners of securement to bone.

Abstract: A recording medium having a SYNC (synchronous code) for synchronizing with data and a DCC (DC cancel code) for suppressing a DC component of a wave form of a signal recorded on the recording medium, the SYNC and the CDD being adjacently recorded on the recording medium. Both the SYNC and DCC are patterns that are not present in a data portion.