Abstract: In a cooling apparatus for an engine, a water jacket is divided into two parts, namely a forcible circulation part located chiefly round a cylinder head, and a natural convection part located chiefly round a liner of a cylinder block. The natural convection part is filled at its upper space with a cooling water and at its lower space with a cooling medium different from the cooling water. The cooling medium has a boiling point around a temperature zone to cool the liner, and also has a specific gravity larger than that of the cooling water and immiscible with the cooling water.

Abstract: A thermometer probe comprising a temperature sensing element for sensing temperature of an object to be sensed, a conductor connected to the temperature sensing element for transferring the sensed temperature, an insulator for coating the conductor, and a water-resistant sheath for enclosing the temperature sensing element, the conductor, and the insulator. The opening end of the sheath is welded for enclosure of the temperature sensing element.

Abstract: New thiazolo[5,4-b]azepine compounds represented by ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group which may be substituted, a carboxylic acyl group which may be substituted or a sulfonic acyl group which may be substituted; R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom, an aromatic group which may be substituted or an aliphatic group which may be substituted, which are capable of e.g., inhibiting lipoperoxide formation.

Abstract: A device to palletize yarn packages is a device which may be installed downstream from yarn package production machines such as winding machines, speed frames, finishing machines, open-end spinning machines, and two-for-one twisting frames. The yarn packages are taken substantially at the outlet of the production machine and are loaded in an orderly manner onto pallets to form pallet loads. The device includes a substantially horizontal conveyor for transferring yarn packages, a delivery head substantially in line with the conveyor, an elevator for taking yarn packages to a required level, an overturning device for orienting the yarn packages, a positioner conveyor, a movable trolley and a device which engages, handles and positions cartons and pallets.

Abstract: An actuator for adjusting a height of the vehicle body is provided for each of the wheels and the height of the body is adjusted for each of the wheels by supplying and discharging an operating fluid to and from the actuator. A vehicle-height detecting sensor is also provided on each wheel for detecting the height of the vehicle body and for control over a posture of the body, namely, control over a supply or discharge of the operating liquid to or from the actuator is implemented with respect to bouncing, pitching or rolling of the body on the basis of output from the vehicle-height detecting sensor. Furthermore, a plurality of vertical G sensors for detecting acceleration in a vertical direction are provided to sense bouncing, pitching and rolling components of acceleration in the vertical direction, and the posture control utilizing the vehicle-height sensor is corrected so as not to make the vertical acceleration for the three components larger.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a reactor for biological purification of pollutant-containing water in a closed vessel by means of loop operation. This vessel contains, disposed vertically and concentrically with respect to its jacket and to each other, an insertable pipe that is open at both ends, into which a nozzle projects for the purpose of supplying the water-gas-biomass mixture to be purified, and a guide pipe that is open at both ends and that forms an inner annulus with the internal insertable pipe and an outer annulus with the reactor jacket. This guide pipe projects above and below the ends of the insertable pipe. A deflector plate is mounted below the insertable pipe but inside the guide pipe, so that part of the biomass-water mixture is deflected back into the inner annulus. A conically shaped sedimentation chamber is disposed in the lower part of the reactor.

Abstract: Microcapsules are advantageously produced with high take-up of a water-soluble drug by preparing a W/O emulsion composed of a water-soluble drug-containing solution as the inner aqueous phase and a polymer-containing solution as the oil phase, dispersing said emulsion in an aqueous phase and subjecting the resulting W/O/W emulsion to an in-water drying, wherein the viscosity of the W/O emulsion used in preparing the W/O/W emulsion is adjusted to about 150 to about 10,000 centipoises.

Abstract: An erasable ink composition for use in writing with a marking pen which comprises an organic solvent, optionally a resin soluble in the solvent, a pigment dispersed in the solvent and additives, the improvement in the additives comprising:(a) a fatty acid monoester of an aliphatic alcohol wherein the fatty acid has not less than six carbons in amounts of about 0.5-20% by weight;(b) a fatty acid triglyceride in amounts of about 0.5-20% by weight;(c) a higher aliphatic hydrocarbon which is liquid at normal temperatures is amounts of about 0.2-5% by weight; and(d) a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether phosphoric acid ester in amounts of about 0.5-7% by weight; each based on the ink composition.The writings with the ink composition is erasable even after a long standing.

Abstract: This invention relates to a compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, a halogen or a lower alkyl group; R.sup.2 and R.sup.33 independently are a lower alkoxyl group; and Py is an optionally substituted pyridyl group or a salt thereof.The compound or a salt thereof exerts excellent fungicidal effects against plant disease and is used as fungicide for agricultural use.

Abstract: A rotary potentiometer having a cylindrical or partially cylindrical resistance track and at least one electrode pair arranged at the resistance track's edges which are parallel to the cylinder axis. A tap is fixed to an adjusting component which is rotatable around and movable along the cylinder axis. The axial breadth of the resistance track correspondsd substantially to the stroke of the adjusting component along the cylinder axis. At the circumferential edges of the resistance track, at least one second electrode pair is arranged.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new inhibitor for Bacillus cereus which has been designated officially as a pathogen of food poisoning, which comprises a protamine or its salt as an essential component.

Abstract: A rear wheel steering mechanism for steering rear wheels of the vehicle is urged by a spring so as to allow the rear wheels to take a neutral position or a position at which the rear wheels run in a straight direction. Control over the driving of the motor connected to the rear wheel steering mechanism allows the rear wheels to be steered at a given steered angle against the urging force of the spring. The rear wheels are always returned to the neutral position by the spring by disconnecting a clutch interposed between the rear wheel steering mechanism and the motor whenever abnormality is found. Presence or absence of abnormality in a drive control system of the motor is checked or an alignment of a reference position of the motor is made, in such a state that the clutch is disconnected, immediately after an ignition switch was turned on yet prior to control of the rear wheel steering.

Abstract: Novel compounds of the formula: ##STR1## [wherein A is an .alpha.-amino acid residue; B is a group represented by the formula: ##STR2## wherein R.sup.4 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, aralkyl or amino-lower alkyl), whereby the linkage between the symbols A and B designates a peptide bond and the group R.sup.4 in B may be linked with A; R.sup.1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl or aralkyl; R.sup.2 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, aralkyl or acyl; X is alkylene] and salts thereof posses, for example, inhibitory activity on angiotensin converting enzyme, and are useful as an agent for diagnosis, prevention or treatment of hypertension as well as circulatory diseases such as cardiopathy and cerebral apoplexy.

Abstract: A touch contact switch having a plane contact arrangement has a cover of elastic material covering the contact arrangement. Contacting in the contacting arrangement takes place only after a deliberate force P' has been applied which causes a partial surface in the switch to arch in the direction of operation of the switch and to cause contacting in the contacting arrangement.

Abstract: A doze detector detects when the user begins to go to sleep, by detecting the blinks of the user's eye, regardless of the position of the iris, using at least two reflection type sensors. A blink is determined to have occurred only when both light detecting elements detect a blink. The number and/or duration of the blinks is then used to determine whether the user is beginning to doze. An alarm can then be produced to prevent the user from going to sleep.

Abstract: A component-mounted printed circuit board inspecting apparatus comprises an imaging device for picking up images of printed circuit board. Land images are extracted from the image of a bare printed circuit board and that of a component-mounted printed circuit board. On the basis of the shapes of the land extracted from the bare printed circuit board and those of the component-mounted printed circuit board, the positional relationship between a comonent mounted on the printed circuit board and the land thereon is determined. This positional relationship is utilized to decide if the component is mounted properly on the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A substantially (.gtoreq.95%) optically pure (5R,6S,1'R) penem of formula ##STR1## and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and the ester prodrugs thereof, are endowed with antibacterial activity.

Abstract: Method of recording and reproducing picture information and a recording medium on which the picture information is recorded by the method, and an apparatus for playing such a recording medium. In addition to a coded information signal, graphic codes including picture information being inserted as a subcode of the coded information signal and identification information indicating areas of the recording medium in which predetermined sections of the subcode are recorded are recorded on the recording medium. At the time of playback of the recording medium, the areas are searched in response to a command by using the identification information and a picture signal corresponding to the graphic codes obtained by reading information recorded in that areas of the recording medium.

Abstract: A curable polymer composition comprising:(A) an organic elastomeric polymer having, in a molecule, at least one silicon-containing group which is cross linkable through formation of a siloxane bond and(B) an epoxy resin which has been cured which is easily handled and affords a cured product having improved strength.

Abstract: The automatic transmission casing includes a first case portion in which a torque converter is housed, a second case portion in which a transmission gear mechanism is housed being arranged in a series with the first case portion, and a third case portion in which a differential mechanism is housed being disposed extending in a transverse direction against the first and second case portions. The automatic transmission casing is further provided with a partition or wall member being disposed between the first and second case portions and with an reinforcement rib connecting the third case portion to the first or second case portion. Switching or shifting of power transmission pathways of the transmission gear mechanism is effected by operation of hydraulic actuators, and a plurality of accumulators to be used for prevention against a transmission shock are connected to the actuators and arranged separately in the partition member and the reinforcement rib.