Abstract: A friction material matrix 2 consisting of a mixture of a fibrous base material, a binder, and various fillers is introduced into a molding die 3. Rod members 5 are inserted into the molding die 3 from above. The rod members 5 are vertically actuated while a stroke of the actuation of the rod members 5 is gradually reduced. The friction material matrix 2 is compressed until its volume becomes 50 to 60 vol. % of the initially introduced friction material matrix 2. Then, a bottom plate 4 is raised to compress the friction base matrix 2, so that the friction base matrix 2 is preformed.

Abstract: In a semiconductor acceleration sensor, a weight and thin beam parts adjacent to the weight are formed on a substrate, a moving electrode is formed on the weight, and a fixed electrode is formed at a position of the other substrate opposed to the moving electrode. Both the electrodes come in contact with each other and conduct as a result of acceleration on the weight, whereby the semiconductor acceleration sensor operates. The fixed electrode or the moving electrode is formed with a projection toward the opposed electrode and the projection and the electrode come in contact with each other and conduct by action of acceleration with a predetermined spacing held between both the electrodes for preventing occurrence of chattering caused by the electrostatic attraction force between both the electrodes.

Abstract: A lining is attached on a front surface of a back plate and a protrusion for the engagement with a caliper is formed on a back surface of the back plate, and a recess is formed at a tip end of the protrusion and the cross-sectional view of the protrusion is H-shaped.

Abstract: A small-sized, reliable, low-cost acceleration sensor includes a working mechanism having a large joint surface. In this respect, an acceleration sensor 1 is arranged so that a diaphragm portion 2D is formed on a (100) face of a plate of single crystal silicon. The four corner portions of the joint surface 2A of a square frame are expanded in the center direction of the plate of single crystal silicon so as to form expanded portions 2B. Moreover, the (100) face of the square plate of single crystal silicon is covered with a mask having at least an octagonal opening 10E before being subjected to anisotropic etching, so that the expanded portions 2B directed to the center portion are formed in the respective four corner portions of the plate of single crystal silicon.

Abstract: A vehicle brake booster comprises: a body having an input port, an output port, and a flow path through which the input port is communicated with the output port; a first piston which is arranged in the flow path, and on which the hydraulic pressure in the flow path acts; a control valve which is abutted against the first piston, and defines a control chamber which is able to introduce or block the hydraulic pressure of an accumulator; a second piston which is arranged downstream of the first piston in the flow path, the second piston being in the form of a stepped piston having a large diameter portion and a small-diameter portion to the end of which the hydraulic pressure in the flow path is applied, and being able to produce a wheel cylinder pressure; a hydraulic pressure chamber formed in the large-diameter portion of the second piston; and a cut valve arranged downstream of the second piston in the flow path.

Abstract: A light-weight and small-size electric motor in which linear movement can be obtained without requiring any special movement conversion mechanism. The electric motor includes a rotor (4), a rotary shaft (5, 6, 5a) coupled to the rotor (4), and a screw mechanism (7) for Supporting the rotary shaft (5, 6, 5a), the screw mechanism (7) being configured such that the rotor (4) is moved in an axial direction of the rotary shaft (5, 6, 5a) by movement of the rotary shaft (5, 6, 5a) within the screw mechanism (7) upon rotation of the rotor (4).

Abstract: In a hydraulic pressure unit with a pump 5 and an electric motor 10 for driving the pump 5, wherein a rotary shaft 1 of the motor has one end portion which is rotatably supported by a first bearing 3 in the cover 4 of the electric motor, and the other end portion which is extended outside the cover 4 of the motor and is rotatably supported by a second bearing 7 in a housing 11 forming the hydraulic pressure unit, and a load action point 2 for driving the pump is provided on the extension of the rotary shaft 1 in such a manner that the load action point is closer to the cover 4 than the bearing 7 in the housing.

Abstract: A magnetostrictive brake is provided with an electrically-driven actuator for moving friction materials back and forth toward a rotary member by utilizing a magnetostrictive element which extends and contracts by means of magnetostriction, a fluid-type displacement enlarging mechanism which is provided between the magnetostrictive element and the friction materials and used for enlarging the displacement of the magnetostrictive element and transmitting the enlarged displacement to the friction materials, and bias magnetic field applying means for applying a bias magnetic field to the magnetostrictive element.

Abstract: A friction material comprises: a thermosetting resin binder; an organic fiber; a non-asbestos inorganic fiber; a filler; and an organic resin coating formed on a scorched surface of the friction material.

Abstract: A fluid pressure control apparatus provided in a fluid pressure circuit between a fluid pressure generating source and an actuator, which controlls fluid pressure acting on the actuator, comprises: a cylinder in which a fluid pressure chamber is formed so as to communicate with the fluid pressure generating source and the actuator; a cam casing disposed in the fluid pressure chamber; a cam shaft disposed in the cam casing; a pressure control piston driven by the cam shaft so as to appear and disappear in the fluid pressure chamber; and a cam drive mechanism for driving the cam shaft.

Abstract: A CO.sub.2 gas sensor using a solid reference electrode in combination with a lithium ion conductive solid electrolyte which is at dissociative equilibrium with CO.sub.2 gas, characterized in that the solid reference electrode is made of a lithium containing, mixed transition metal oxide conductor which is of the same conduction type as the solid electrolyte. Further, the solid electrolyte comprises a complex carbonate containing LiAlO.sub.2 as an aggregate. Furthermore, a mixed electrode is used for the solid-electrolyte type gas sensor, which is prepared by the steps of: mixing a Au powder or paste with a powder of an oxide excluding Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 ; rendering a resultant mixture to a paste; applying the paste onto a solid electrolyte; and sintering the applied paste.

Abstract: Each of the electromagnetic valves for opening and closing an oil path in the oil path block is formed of two separate components, an exciting portion including an exciting coil portion and an outer yoke, and an electromagnetic valve mechanism to be fit to the exciting portion. The electromagnetic valve mechanism are assembled into the oil path block, thereby providing a mechanism assembly. The exciting portions are mounted on the printed circuit board carrying thereon a control circuit for controlling the exciting portions, thereby providing an electric part assembly. By coupling the electric part assembly with the mechanism assembly, the electromagnetic valve mechanisms of the mechanism assembly are respectively fit to the exciting portions of the electric part assembly, to thereby complete the electromagnetic valves.

Abstract: An acceleration sensor is based on a semiconductor technique which is suitable for mass production. The resulting acceleration sensor is small in size and high in precision. The acceleration sensor includes a stationary section, an acting section to which a force is applied in response to acceleration, a flexible section through which the stationary section is coupled to the acting section, a plurality of distortion sensing elements coupled to the flexible section, a first weight having a bottomed hole which is gradually smaller in width towards the bottom of the hole, the first weight being coupled to the acting section and a second weight, greater in specific gravity than the first weight, coupled to the bottom of the hole of the first weight.

Abstract: A mold material introducing apparatus for introducing mold materials into a mold includes material supplying means for supplying a predetermined amount of mold material into the mold, moving means for moving the mold relative to the material supplying means and vice versa, and control means for outputting command signals to those means. The control means divides the inside of the mold into segments and assigns addresses to those segments, and controls the material supplying means and the moving means so that a predetermined amount of a predetermined mold material is located at each of the address locations. Accordingly, the mold materials of different kinds that are led into the mold are dispersed in a predetermined state.

Abstract: A fail-safe mechanism has a piston, a first valve and a second valve which are opened/closed by the movement of the piston, a fluid pressure chamber, and a spring. The piston normally opens both the first valve and the second valve to make a master cylinder and a wheel cylinder communicate with each other, and make the wheel cylinder and a fluid chamber of a first fluid pressure control mechanism communicate with each other. At the time of anti-lock control, as the fluid pressure in the actuating circuit increases, the first valve is closed, and the brake fluid is fed back into the second fluid chamber of the first fluid pressure control mechanism only through the second valve. Further, when the fluid pressure in the actuating circuit decreases, the piston is moved to the fluid pressure chamber by the urging force of the spring to open the first valve and close the second valve so as to make the master cylinder and the wheel cylinder directly communicate with each other only through the first valve.

Abstract: An antilock liquid-pressure control apparatus includes a first liquid-pressure control mechanism and a second liquid-pressure control mechanism. A second liquid chamber in the first liquid-pressure control mechanism is communicatively connected to a wheel cylinder, and through a check valve to a pressure chamber of a master cylinder. A first liquid chamber in the first liquid-pressure control mechanism is communicatively connected to a discharge port of a liquid pressure pump and a liquid chamber in the second liquid-pressure control mechanism, through a flow control valve, and further to a reservoir through a decay valve. A spring container in the second liquid-pressure control mechanism communicates with the pressure chamber of the master cylinder.

Abstract: A pad clip for use in a disc brake in which a concave and convex fitting structure is formed in a braking support portion between each of friction pads disposed opposite to a rotor, and a support member for bearing braking force from the friction pads. The pad clip is installed between projections of the friction pads and anchor concave grooved portions of a support member in the concave and convex fitting portions to thereby support the friction pads respectively. In the pad clip, plate spring portions for urging the friction pads in the radially outward direction of the rotor are formed in one of opposite portions in the radial direction of the rotor, which are the portions following U-shaped portions in the concave and convex fitting portions. Guide projecting portions sidewise spread out are formed at side edges of the plate spring portions, and the lower edge portions of the projections are engaged with the guide projecting portions respectively so that the plate spring portions can be pushed and spread.

Abstract: A caliper support mechanism for supporting a disc brake caliper is slidably supported by a slide pin. The end face 21 of the stepped portion 11 of the lug 5C of the caliper 5 is arcuately incurved in cross section such that the center of a circle defined by the arcuately incurved end face 21 is coincident with the center of the bolt hole 10 of the lug 5C, and the arcuately incurved end face 21 is directed obliquely and outwardly with respect to the horizontal line H in the lug 5C of the caliper 5. The structure reduces the squeeze of the slide pins by the support bracket as well as the drag and squeak of the brake.

Abstract: The present invention is a method of producing an oligosaccharide of a higher polymerization degree by enzymatic hydrolyzing of a polysaccharide with a hydrolase capable of cleaving the bonds among sugars constituting the polysaccharide comprising step of making the polysaccharide coexist with the hydrolase in a mixture of water and a hydrophilic organic solvent such as ethanol.

Abstract: A friction material is prepared by mixing copper oxide particles as a friction modifier into a friction material composed of reinforcing fibers, particularly, metal fibers such as copper fibers or the like, a bonding material, and a friction modifier.