Abstract: An actuator, such as a liquid ring machine, and a method in an actuator, such as transferring of fluid, is such that the machine includes a casing part within which a rotatable blade rotor is arranged. The casing part forms a hollow rotatable rotor, the inner space thereof receiving the blade rotor. A stator is provided around the casing part, whereby the casing part is rotated by an electromagnetic field between the stator and the casing part arranged to form a rotor of an electric machine.

Abstract: An auger type ice making machine including an upright cylindrical evaporator housing, an auger mounted for rotary movement within the evaporator housing to scrape off ice crystals formed on an internal freezing surface of the evaporator housing and having a lower end portion drivingly connected to an upper end portion of an output shaft of a drive mechanism, wherein the lower end portion of the auger is in the form of either a columnar portion or a cylindrical portion, while the upper portion of the output shaft is in the form of either a cylindrical portion or a columnar portion, and wherein the columnar portion of the auger or output shaft is coupled within the cylindrical portion of the output shaft or auger for drive connection between the output shaft and the auger.

Abstract: A discharge control circuit that securely prevents an over discharge of a battery. The control circuit includes a discharge control switch connected to the battery for cutting off a discharge current of the battery in response to a discharge stop signal. A control circuit is connected to the battery and the discharge control switch generates the discharge stop signal for deactivating the discharge control switch when a voltage of at least one cell reaches a lower limit. The control circuit includes a switch holding circuit for continuously supplying the discharge stop signal to the discharge control switch for a predetermined time after the discharge stop signal is generated regardless of the cell voltage.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of the compounds of formula (wherein R has the meanings reported in the specification) by enzymatic transesterification of enantiomeric mixtures is described. These compounds are intermediates useful in the synthesis of Diltiazem.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to effectively achieve the reduction in piston slap sound in both of an expansion stroke and a compression stroke in consideration of a difference between the behaviors of a piston in the expansion stroke and the compression stroke. For this purpose, in a piston P having a skirt 12 formed into an intermediately bulged barrel type, the axis L2 of a piston pin is offset with respect to the cylinder axis L1, and the decrement in radius of a lower skirt portion 20 is set to be large on a thrust side and small in an anti-thrust side. In the expansion stroke, the piston is positively swung, while the skirt 12 is put into abutment against a wall surface of a cylinder bore, thereby reducing the piston slap sound.

Abstract: A cartridge type feeding container has a rod-like cosmetic material in which the rod-like cosmetic material is neither damaged nor pulled apart even if a buffering external shock is applied to the container and the cartridge is not pulled apart from the container body or any load is applied in a direction in which the core chucks and the feeding mechanism and dismounted apart from each other even if a torque is further applied to exceed a maximum fed condition. These advantages are the result of an internal member made of flexible material and provided on a part of an inner circumferential surface thereof with a cutaway formed by combining a slit cut in a circumferential direction. The internal member and the container body form a container cover portion such that a shock, applied from the outside of the container cover portion, is buffered in the cutaway in the internal member and is prevented from being transmitted to the cartridge.

Abstract: A current driver circuit for writing data to a hard disk receives an input signal and generates a current for driving a load. A drive circuit supplies the load with a current. A damping circuit connected to the drive circuit restricts the current supplied to the load in accordance with a pulse signal. A damping control signal connected to the damping circuit generates the pulse signal in response to the input signal and provides the pulse signal to the damping circuit.

Abstract: The invention concerns parenteral pharmaceutical forms of administration containing polypeptide in the form of microparticles and a process for the production thereof. The microparticles according to the invention contain as a biodegradable polymer an ABA triblock copolymer the A block of which is a copolymer of lactic and glycolic acid and the B block of which represents a polyethylene glycol chain, together with additives that are selected from the group comprising serum proteins, polyamino acids, cyclodextrins, cyclodextrin derivatives, saccharides, amino sugars, amino acids, detergents or carboxylic acids as well as mixtures of these additives. The microparticles according to the invention continuously release the polypeptide over a relatively long time period even when the amounts of polypeptide they include are small or susceptible to aggregation.

Abstract: An automatic transmission comprises a plurality of clutches 11˜15, which are provided to select power transmission paths, respectively, in a parallel shaft speed change mechanism TM and a plurality of shift valves 60˜68, which are used for controlling the supply and drain of hydraulic pressure to and from these clutches. For this automatic transmission, a control system comprises a forward/reverse selection hydraulic servomechanism 70 and a plurality of solenoid valves 81˜85, which are used for controlling the supply and drain of a line pressure so as to control the actuation of these shift valves and the forward/reverse selection hydraulic servomechanism.

Abstract: A modulation mixer includes a low cost circuit for reducing a carrier frequency leak. An orthogonal modulator including the modulation mixer may be formed on a single silicon substrate and does not need to be connected to an external transformer to suppress carrier frequency leak.

Abstract: A first engagement portion 48 is formed on an element 9b to be fixed so as to prohibit the relative rotation of the elements 9b to a case 3a. Fixing members 51 are provided which can freely be inserted into the case 3a from an outer surface of a circumferential wall portion the case 3a, and the fixing members 51 are allowed to be brought into engagement with a second engagement portion 50 formed on the element 9b to be fixed so as to prohibit the axial movement of the element 9b to be fixed relative to the case 3a.

Abstract: A memory circuit including a memory cell array. The memory cell array has a first word line group connected to a pair of memory cells associated with a first bit line pair including first and third bit lines, and a second word line group, connected to a pair of memory cells associated with a second bit line pair including second and fourth bit lines. First and second sense amplifier groups are positioned one on each side of the memory array, and are connected to the first and second bit line pair, respectively. When any word line of the first word line group is driven, the first sense amplifier group is activated to drive the first word line group in reverse phase, and the second sense amplifier group is kept in the inactive state to keep the second word line group at the precharge level.

Abstract: A reamer T including three-stage chip groups 6, each group having five chips 6 disposed circumferentially on a circle of a diameter smaller than an inside diameter of a hole H in a work W, axially at a given pitch P. When the axis Lt of the rotated reamer T is moved circumferentially on a circle about the axis Lw of the hole H after the reamer T is inserted into the hole H in the work W, the three-stage chip groups 6 simultaneously cut an inner peripheral surface of the hole H. When the reamer T is moved in the direction of pulling from the hole H by one pitch P in this state, the three-stage chip groups 6 simultaneously cut the inner peripheral surface of the hole H in the work W respectively by one pitch. Therefore, a boring work for providing the hole H having a depth D=3P in the work W can be completed in a short time.

Abstract: An automatic transmission comprises a forward/reverse selection hydraulic servomechanism 70 which actuates a dog clutch and a plurality of clutches 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15. For this automatic transmission, a control system comprises first˜fifth on/off solenoid valves 81˜85 and first˜third linear solenoid valves 86˜88. These valves are used to control the supply and drain of a line pressure to and from the forward/reverse selection hydraulic servomechanism 70 and first˜fifth shift valves 60, 62, 64, 66 and 68 so as to control the actuation thereof for the selective engagement of the clutches. This system, when it detects, by a hydraulic switch 93, a condition that the D range is selected and that the actuation command signals being sent to the solenoid valves correspond to one of the signal combinations which are used for setting the driving modes of the D range, allows the actuation of the solenoid valves by these actuation command signals.

Abstract: To provide a rubber vulcanizing agent able to prevent a reduction in the various physical properties of a vulcanized rubber after aging and possible to suppress scorching due to premature vulcanization or reversion and a rubber composition containing the same. A rubber vulcanizing agent having at least two thiirane groups in the molecule thereof and a rubber composition containing this rubber vulcanizing agent and a thiirane ring-opening agent.

Abstract: A rubber vulcanization agent comprising a polysulfide polymer having an average number of sulfur bonds in the repeating units of more than 2 but not more than 6 and having the formula (I) R—S&Parenopenst;Y—Sx&Parenclosest;nY—S—R  (I) wherein Y indicates an alkylene group which may include a hetero atom, R is a residue obtained by reacting a thiol group with an unsaturated alicyclic compound, an unsaturated hydrocarbon compound having the structure (III) or (IV), which may include a hetero atom so as to cap the end thiol group, n is an integer of 1 to 100, and x is more than 2 but not more than 6.

Abstract: A signal-transmission system includes signal-transmission lines connected to a terminal voltage via terminal resistances, open-drain-type transistors outputting signals to the signal-transmission lines, branch lines stemming from the signal-transmission lines to connect the open-drain-type transistors with the signal-transmission lines, and insertion resistances inserted in the branch lines in proximity of the signal-transmission lines.