Abstract: This invention relates to a power storage system for electric railway which comprises a motor-generator connected to a power system for feeding an electric vehicle with electric power, and a flywheel coupled to the motor-generator, and in which the motor-generator is allowed to store the electric power and thereafter discharge it in correspondence with approach of the electric vehicle to a predetermined running section and running thereof in the section.

Abstract: A control apparatus for an elevator comprising loss impartation means to impart a loss to a hoisting machine for a cage; cage position detection means to detect the position of the cage; and control means to control the loss impartation means on the basis of an output signal of the cage position detection means so as to adjust the loss in accordance with the position of the cage; wherein by adjusting and controlling the loss, the resonance of a mechanical system composed of the cage, a balance weight, a hoisting rope, etc., is suppressed to improve riding conditions in the elevator car.

Abstract: An engine timing apparatus comprises an ultrasonic transducer 8 which directs a pulsed ultrasonic beam into a cylinder and converts the reflected ultrasonic signals into electrical signals. A sample/hold circuit 67 samples this signal at a time after each pulse when signal reflected by a piston ring passing through the beam are expected. A microcomputer 65 detects changes in the level of the sampled signal caused by the piston rings as the crankshaft rotates, and receives signals from a transducer 71 indicating the crankshaft position to allow top dead center position to be found. The microcomputer receives signals from a microphone 51 directed at a fuel injector indicative of the onset of ignition and calculates the timing angle of the engine. The apparatus also calculates engine speed and detects piston slap.

Abstract: This invention relates to a starting motor with planetary gear reduction gears having a spur gear provided at the front end of the rotational shaft of the starting motor, an internal gear secured fixedly to the front end of the yoke of the motor, a planetary gear for engaging the spur gear with the internal gear, an output rotational shaft for transmitting the rotary force of the motor to the planetary gear, and a pair of collars provided on the internal gear at both ends of the teeth of the internal gear.

Abstract: In an elevator having a converter which changes an A.C. output from an A.C. power source into a D.C. output, an inverter which changes the D.C. output of the converter into an A.C. output, a current detector which detects an output current of the inverter, and an inverter controller which controls the inverter on the basis of the detected current value of the current detector and a command current value, a hoist motor being driven by the A.C. output of the inverter; the operation of the inverter being stopped when a difference between the detected current value and command current value of the current detector for detecting the output current of the inverter exceeds a preset value. Accordingly, a current detector for detecting current flowing through the inverter is dispensed with, to realize a simple arrangement and a low cost.

Abstract: A disc or record cleaning device especially for laser-read discs having digital recordings is provided in a disc storage container and incorporates a cleaning member with which the disc or record is brought into contact so as to clean the disc by a relative movement with respect to the cleaning member. The cleaning member is a fibrous pad and is either fixed and the disc rotated or the disc is held stationary and the cleaning pad rotated or translated. The storage container is provided by sections movable relative to one another, either articulated about a common pivot or translatable. The relative movement of the sections is coupled to move the disc and cleaning member relatively for cleaning the disc.

Abstract: The invention deals with an on-load tap changer having vacuum type switches, comprising:first vacuum switches for a main contact of which the ends on one side are connected to a plurality of tap selectors, and of which the ends on the other side are commonly connected; andsecond vacuum switches for breaking an overload, which are inserted in at least one series circuit consisting of said tap selector and respective of said first vacuum switches for said main contact, which exhibit superior breaking performance to said first vacuum switches for said main contact in said series circuit, which close earlier than said first vacuum switches for said main contact, and which open later than said first vacuum switches for said main contact.

Abstract: A method of measuring the degree of nasality in human voice sounds by independently isolating and measuring without leakage the exhaled air flow rate through the nose and the exhaled air flow rate through the mouth of a person resulting from the utterance of a sound and determining the ratio of the two air flow rates.

Abstract: A multi-spindle head attachment in which a positively rotated main spindle gear is meshed with a plurality of intermediate gears which are, in turn, meshed with spindle gears fitted respectively onto spindles each adapted to grip a drill, a tap or the like. Further, one of the spindles can be located in the position where its axis is aligned with the center of axis of the main spindle gear. Disc-like interference preventing members for preventing interference between the intermediate gears and the spindle gears, are provided to the intermediate gears and/or the spindle gears. Each interference preventing member has a diameter slightly larger than that of its corresponding addendum circle of the intermediate gear or spindle gear, and therefore its outer peripheral surface protrudes from the addendum circle of each gear. A slight gap is formed between each interference preventing member and the end face of each gear.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining the position of a sheet when the sheet is placed on a support having at least two spaced apart CCD linear image sensors recessed in the sheet support and partially covered by the edge portions of the sheet. The CCDs operate as line cameras, and are scanned to generate signals correlated with the points of intersection of the sheet edges and the axes of the image sensors. Preferably the apparatus has circuitry for storing calibration values of the CCD signals obtained when the image sensors are not covered by the sheet, circuitry for storing corresponding scanning signal values when the image sensors are covered by the sheet, circuitry for comparing corresponding calibration and scanning values for obtaining difference values, and circuitry for detecting maxima in the gradient of the difference values for adjacent image points to find the locations of the points of intersection of the sheet edges and the axes of image sensors.

Abstract: A drive and control system for articulated vehicles which normally operates in an efficient push-mode with only the wheels of the rear section being driven, but which operates in a hybrid mode when the vehicle has a tendency to jackknife wherein a controlled torque is applied to the rear wheels of the forward section. The value of the torque is determined as a predetermined increasing function of the magnitude of the connection force at the articulation connection and the magnitude of the articulation angle. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the drive shaft to the differential which drives the wheels of the rear section also drives a variable displacement hydraulic pump which feeds fixed displacement hydraulic motors connected by overrunning clutches to the rear wheels of the forward section.

Abstract: An air damper assembly has a frame which is mounted on the walls of an air flow passageway, with flanges extending inwardly from at least one pair of opposed sides of the frame. A plurality of elongated damper blades have their opposite ends extending into pairs of opposed slots formed by the frame flanges, pivotally supporting the blades on the flanges for pivoting movement between open and closed positions. A pair of retaining stop means are associated with each end of each blade. These retaining stop means project outwardly from opposite sides of the blade and on opposite sides of each of the flanges for limiting pivoting movement of the blade to an open position and for retaining the blade in the respective slots in the flanges. The main body portion of each blade limits pivoting movement of the blade to a closed position by engaging opposite sides of the flanges on which the blade is pivotally supported.

Abstract: A disc cleaning device is provided in an apparatus for transferring information to or from a disc, which apparatus includes a base, means for rotating the disc, and means for transferring information to or from the disc, the information transferring means held by an arm movably mounted on the base, the disc cleaning device comprising means for cleaning the disc mounted rotatably on the arm, means for operatively associating the disc cleaning means with a surface of the disc when the information transferring means is in an inoperative mode, and means for disassociating the disc cleaning means from the surface of the disc when the information transferring means is in an operative mode.

Abstract: An apparatus for reliably engaging and supporting a motor vehicle frame for use in vehicle frame and body straightening. The illustrated apparatus includes a plurality of frame engaging clamping heads which each comprise a pair of relatively movable jaw supports, biasing springs interposed between the supports for biasing the supports in a jaw opening position, clamping bolts extending through said supports for selectively moving the jaw supports into clamping position against the biasing force of the interposed springs, and clamping jaws carried by said supports with a floating mounting that permits limited pivotal jaw movement relative to the supports during clamping for enhancing reliable engagement of the jaws with a vehicle frame regardless of surface irregularities.

Abstract: In response to a stop command such as a printing disturbance signal, the transfer of varnish to the varnish applicator roller is shut off but the feeding of sheets through the varnishing unit is not immediately shut off; rather, a few remaining sheets are thereafter fed through the varnishing unit before the varnish applicator roller is thrown off from the cooperating cylinder and the machine drive is shut off. The few remaining sheets remove the residual varnish from the varnish applicator roller so that when printing is resumed the newly printed sheets do not stick to the varnish applicator roller or the cooperating cylinder. In a preferred embodiment a preselection counter, clocked by sheet feed cycles, determines the number of remaining sheets.

Abstract: In a variable venturi carburetor in which the metering jet portion of fuel changes automatically according to the amount of intake air required to keep the mixture at a constant air-to-fuel ratio at all times, two series-arranged nozzles and an auxiliary fuel passage communicating with the downstream side of the venturi and with the space formed between the two nozzles additionally formed at the fixed venturi portion in such a way that the auxiliary fuel passage can be opened or closed according to engine operating conditions. Therefore, when the auxiliary fuel passage is opened, since fuel is introduced into the venturi through only a single nozzle, a rich mixture is obtained; when the auxiliary fuel passage is closed, since fuel is introduced through two nozzles, a lean mixture is obtained.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an A-C powered elevator wherein: when a frequency instruction value lies within a predetermined frequency range, an inverter in the apparatus produces an A-C electric power having a frequency which lies outside said predetermined frequency range, so that the frequency of the electrical power supplied from said inverter to the motor driving an elevator cage will be out of the resonant frequency range of the mechanical system of the elevator.

Abstract: According to this invention, an ignition coil device is assembled so that a rotary shaft of a distributor or the like may penetrate therethrough in a direction parallel to the main magnetic fluxes produced by coils therein, wherein, a coil assembly in which a primary coil and a secondary coil are unitarily molded by an insulating molding material is formed in a doughnut-shape, and the whole periphery of the coil assembly is covered with a core is centrally provided with a through hole for inserting said rotary shaft therethrough.

Abstract: A device for improving the mechanics of a golfer's swing which is attached to the golf club and adjacent to the grip, and which emits a continuous audible signal so long as the device is subjected to at least a predetermined centrifugal force which is generated by swinging the club. The device includes a battery, buzzer and switch which is spring biased to force the switch open. The spring is compressed by the centrifugal force generated by swinging the club to allow the switch to close and activate the buzzer. The spring may be adjustably prestressed to vary the amount of centrifugal force needed to close the switch.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the arrival of an elevator cage at a target elevator floor in which the elevator cage is not stopped at an intermediate position between adjacent floors even when a detection displacement occurs when the actual cage position and a calculated cage position do not correspond wherein said cage is stopped at said target floor when it is detected that said actual cage position is less than or equal to said calculated elevator position and said cage is stopped at an adjacent floor to said target floor when said calculated cage position is greater than said calculated cage position.