Abstract: A large amount of treated gas containing odor components is efficiently deodorized by performing ozone deodorization after water molecule deodorization, and thereafter performing ion deodorization. A composite deodorization system is provided with a first chamber for performing the water molecule deodorization connected with a fermentation system by a gas introduction opening supplied with the treated gas containing odor components from the fermentation system, a second chamber for performing ozone deodorization connected with the first chamber by a flow passage tube, a third chamber for performing ion deodorization connected with the second chamber by a connection tube, an ozone filter incorporated at a connection position of the second chamber and the connection tube, and a third chamber having a gas discharge opening for discharging the treated gas.

Abstract: A protective boot having a bellows portion, a cylindrical portion, a guide-bore-side mounting portion, a thick-walled portion, a thin-walled portion, a pin-side mounting portion and an air passage groove. In an operation for mounting of the protective boot, the pin-side mounting portion is inclined radially inward through the thin-walled portion while being slidably moved along the sliding pin, to thereby effect an escape of air contained in an annular space between the sliding pin and the boot through the air passage groove. The thick-walled portion prevents the pin-side mounting portion from bending radially inward to an undesirable extent. Thus, the operation for mounting of the protective boot can be smoothly conducted.

Abstract: A woven fabric for an air bag formed of a polyamide fiber and having a single filament size of 0.5 to 4.5 dtex and a yarn size of 67 to 250 dtex for its warp and weft, the polyamide fiber containing 1 to 200 ppm of copper as a copper compound; the woven fabric having a product of yarn size of the fiber and weave density of not greater than 20,000, the woven fabric having at least 0.8 wt % of an oiling agent, the oiling agent being applied to the yarn prior to weaving, a Metsuke of 250 g/m2, a thickness of not greater than 0.30 mm, a mean bending rigidity (B) of 0.5 to 5 mN·cm2, and self-extinguishing properties; and a lightweight air bag produced by the woven fabric that can be compactly folded but hard to unfold to a loosely folded state, yet can smoothly deploy into a designed shape at the time of inflation.

Abstract: An air impermeable coated fabric, characterized in that it comprises a base fabric comprising fibers having a total fineness (yarn size) of 67 to 350 dtex and an elastomer film formed by application on at least one surface thereof, and the coated surface has friction coefficients (MIU) both in the warp direction and in the weft direction of 0.01 to 0.3, as measured according to KES measurement and the difference between the two friction coefficient values of 0.15 or less in an absolute value. The coated fabric has a coated surface having significantly improved sliding characteristics and thus is useful for manufacturing an air bag capable of being developed in a short time and with uniformity.

Abstract: After auto-placement, nets are classified into groups each having logically equivalent signals, terminal placement range of each net is determined, and overlap regions of respective pairs of the ranges in the same group is obtained. In each net of each pair having this overlap region, such an input terminal in the overlap region is found out that an wiring length between an output terminal and the input terminal is maximum (S30 and S31), and a decrement &Dgr; in wiring length is calculated assuming that the two input terminals found out are exchanged (S32). If &Dgr;>0 (S33), then the two input terminals are exchanged with each other (S34). Such processing is repeated until &Dgr;≦0.

Abstract: In a disk brake mounting apparatus wherein a knuckle 1 is provided with two disk brake mounting portions 2 and 3, and a disk brake 7 is fastened to the knuckle 1 with mounting bolts 5 and 6 passed through bolt-receiving holes provided in the mounting portions 2 and 3, respectively, the knuckle 1 is provided with a reinforcing connecting portion 15 formed by extending a body portion 10 of the knuckle 1. The reinforcing connecting portion 15 has its edge E1 extended radially outward in the radial direction of a rotor R with respect to a line L connecting the bolt-receiving holes of the two mounting portions 2 and 3. Thus, the torsional rigidity of the two mounting portions 2 and 3 is increased by the reinforcing connecting portion 15 to suppress vibrations in the opposite-phase mode in the rotor axial direction, thereby reducing low-frequency brake noise.

Abstract: A protective boot comprises a bellows portion, a cylindrical portion, a guide-bore-side mounting portion, a thick-walled portion, a thin-walled portion, a pin-side mounting portion and an air passage groove. In an operation for mounting of the protective boot, the pin-side mounting portion is inclined radially inward through the thin-walled portion while being slidably moved along the sliding pin, to thereby effect an escape of air contained in an annular space between the sliding pin and the boot through the air passage groove. The thick-walled portion prevents the pin-side mounting portion from bending radially inward to an undesirable extent. Thus, the operation for mounting of the protective boot can be smoothly conducted.

Abstract: A large amount of treated gas containing odor components is efficiently deodorized by performing ozone deodorization after water molecule deodorization, and thereafter performing ion deodorization. A composite deodorization system is provided with a first chamber for performing the water molecule deodorization connected with a fermentation system by a gas introduction opening supplied with the treated gas containing odor components from the fermentation system, a second chamber for performing ozone deodorization connected with the first chamber by a flow passage tube, a third chamber for performing ion deodorization connected with the second chamber by a connection tube, an ozone filter incorporated at a connection position of the second chamber and the connection tube, and a third chamber having a gas discharge opening for discharging the treated gas.

Abstract: The present invention produces excellent compost in a short time by always measuring environmental conditions and measuring the quality of compost being produced. A maturation chamber and a fermentation chamber are each provided with corresponding ones of various sensors for measuring the concentrations of carbon dioxide and oxygen, temperature, humidity, the concentration of ammonia, and the like. The sensors are connected via remote I/O modules to a panel computer provided in the monitoring chamber. A measuring robot installed in the measuring chamber is provided with sensors for the temperature, water content, and PH of compost being produced, and the concentrations of carbon dioxide and ammonia at which the compost is produced. The measuring robot is connected to a panel computer via a remote I/O module.

Abstract: In the disk brake, mounting portions of the caliper of a disk brake extending toward the entrance side and the exit side with respect to the rotation direction of the disk. Relative to the rotation direction, the length of the mounting portion on the entrance side is greater than that of the mounting portion on the exit side so that the cylinder portion is offset toward the exit side. Further, the mounting portion on the entrance side has thickenings formed to extend in a longitudinal direction thereof, so that with respect to the direction of the axis of the disk, the thickness of the mounting portion on the entrance side is greater than that of the mounting portion on the exit side. During braking, when a bending moment acts on the caliper, which can cause inclination of the caliper relative to the disk, flexural rigidity of the mounting portion on the entrance side is higher than that of the mounting portion on the exit side.

Abstract: A disk pass portion for receiving a part of a disk is provided between a cylinder portion and an outer claw portion of a caliper body at the inner peripheral side of a bridge portion of the caliper body. A pair of mounting portions extend arcuately from both sides of the bridge portion to lie outside the disk pass portion with respect to the radial direction of the disk. A pair of sliding pins are secured to the distal ends of the mounting portions through pin bolts and slidably fitted in pin-fitting holes provided in a mounting member supporting the caliper. When the brake is activated, friction pads are pressed against the disk by the caliper. At this time, deformation of the caliper by reaction forces from the disk is small around the area where proximal portions of the mounting portions are connected to the caliper body.

Abstract: A disc brake includes a carrier with an inner beam secured to a knuckle, a pair of in board and outboard brake pad assemblies located on opposite sides of a rotor and slideably supported on the carrier, and a caliper extending over the periphery of the rotor and axially moved to urge the in board and outboard brake pad assemblies into frictional engagement with the opposite sides of the rotor. The carrier is constructed so that the difference in natural frequency between a bending mode and a torsion mode is at least 300 Hz. The carrier has a moment of inertia of area/polar moment of inertia of area ratio of at least 0.75.

Abstract: In a method of lubrication between two sliding members at least one of which is made of a ceramic material, the improvement according to the present invention is characterized in that soot as produced by burning a hydrocarbon fuel is supplied between the two sliding members.

Abstract: A drum brake in which a parking brake is incorporated. A parking brake lever is mounted in the interior of a vehicle and is operable to pull a parking lever through a cable. The rotation of the parking lever causes a pair of brake shoes to be forced tightly against a brake drum. This results in the generation of a braking force. A stopper member is provided to limit the maximum angular position of the parking brake. This design prevents contact of the parking lever with a rotary shaft due to excessive pulling of the parking lever and thus damage of the rotary shaft as well as the parking lever.

Abstract: A master cylinder includes a cylinder defining a cylinder bore therein with one end of the cylinder being open, a sleeve fitted into the cylinder bore, a piston slidably disposed in the sleeve, and a stopper mounted on the one end of the cylinder for abutting against the sleeve to prevent the sleeve from coming off the cylinder. The sleeve includes at least two sleeve members fitted into the cylinder bore in serial disposition from the inner end to the open end of the cylinder bore. A cup seal is disposed between two adjacent sleeve members of the aforementioned at least two sleeve members. The master cylinder further includes a resilient member for forcing one inner sleeve member of the two adjacent sleeve members onto the other sleeve member of the two adjacent sleeve members, thereby forcing the other sleeve member toward the stopper.

Abstract: A master cylinder in which a sleeve is provided inside a cylinder main body to define a first pressure chamber in cooperation with primary and secondary pistons. A plurality of through-holes adapted to communicate with an outlet port are disposed in the sleeve in such a manner as to be longitudinally spaced away from each other. positioning means is provided between the sleeve and the cylinder main body for positioning the sleeve with respect to the circumferential direction relative to the cylinder main body. The sleeve is positioned relative to the cylinder main body in such a manner that at least one of the plurality of through-holes adapted to establish communication between the outlet port and the first pressure chamber when the pistons are at their rearmost positions is located to face the top portion of the circumferential wall of the cylinder main body.