Abstract: In a pump equipment having one or more rotary pumps for hydraulic circuit, the intake port is communicated with the shaft hole for inserting the drive shaft and fluid flows through the shaft hole to a fluid groove provided in inner surfaces of the pump room for the purpose of lubrication. To prevent fluid leakage to outside, first and second oil seals are disposed for filling the clearance between the drive shaft and the shaft hole and, preferably, a communicating conduit is provided between the first and second oil seals to transmit the fluid leaked through the first oil seal to a low pressure fluid conduit of the hydraulic circuit. In particular, in the pump equipment having plural rotary pumps, the respective discharge ports of the rotary pumps are located at the points which are nearly symmetrical with respect to the center axis of the drive shaft to counterbalance each other the reaction forces against the drive shaft to be produced by the high pressure at the respective discharge ports.

Abstract: A computer system is provided that allows the content of a user's collection of fixed and removable media to be managed without regard to a specific type of media. The computer system performs equally well with files on floppy discs, removable hard-disks such as Iomega Zip, CDDA discs, CD-ROM discs, DVD-ROM discs and recordable or re-writeable variants of CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs.

Abstract: In a pump equipment having one or more rotary pumps for a hydraulic circuit, the intake port is communicated with the shaft hole for inserting the drive shaft and fluid flows through the shaft hole to a fluid groove provided in inner surfaces of the pump room for the purpose of lubrication. To prevent fluid leakage to the outside, first and second oil seals are disposed for filling the clearance between the drive shaft and the shaft hole and, preferably, a communicating conduit is provided between the first and second oil seals to transmit the fluid leaked through the first oil seal to a low pressure fluid conduit of the hydraulic circuit. In particular, in the pump equipment having plural rotary pumps, the respective discharge ports of the rotary pumps are located at the points which are nearly symmetrical with respect to the center axis of the drive shaft to counterbalance each other, the reaction forces against the drive shaft to be produced by the high pressure at the respective discharge ports.

Abstract: A pressure-adjusting reservoir which can reduce an unstable movement of a ball valve therein to release a pulse of brake fluid. The pressure-adjusting reservoir has a pressure-adjusting valve constructed so that a tip portion of a pin pushes up a ball valve to open a valve hole when brake fluid reserved in a reservoir chamber is less than a predetermined amount, and the tip portion of the pin is released from the ball valve to close the valve hole when the reservoir chamber is filled with the predetermined amount of brake fluid. The tip portion of the pin has a slant surface slanting with respect to a sliding direction of the pin. In this case, the ball valve contacts with at least two portions including the slant surface and one of a part of a valve seat and inner wall of a housing, and is supported at plural portions. Therefore, the unstable movement of the ball valve can be reduced.

Abstract: In the rotary pump, a sealing member is provided at a clearance between a casing and axial end surfaces of the inner and outer rotors, the sealing member extending from an outer circumference of the outer rotor, via the inner rotor between a drive shaft and a discharge port, to another circumference of the outer rotor so that brake fluid communication from the discharge port to an intake port may be prevented, but the brake fluid communication between the outer circumference of the outer rotor and almost all of teeth gap portions on a discharge port side and, further, between almost all of teeth gap portions on an intake port side and a clearance between the drive shaft and the inner rotor may be allowed.

Abstract: A brake control apparatus for automotive vehicles is provided which has two separate hydraulic brake lines leading to wheel cylinders and performs a brake assisting operation to hold the wheel cylinder pressure higher than the master cylinder pressure in each of the hydraulic brake lines when a brake pedal is depressed by a vehicle operator. The brake control apparatus also includes a fluid pressure difference regulator which regulates a pressure difference between the two hydraulic brake lines so as to fall within a given allowable pressure range, thereby minimizing adverse effects on the brake assisting operation which are caused by electric and/or mechanical performance difference between the two hydraulic brake lines.

Abstract: A high-capacity jukebox device for storing and accessing computer readable media. The present invention comprises a 1394-to-ATAPI bridge for coupling to other devices via an IEEE 1394 bus, an ATAPI drive coupled to the ATAPI bridge for communicating with the other devices, and a jukebox controller for controlling the robotics mechanism of the jukebox device. Significantly, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the ATAPI drive comprises a first serial port and the ATAPI jukebox controller includes a second serial port coupled to the first serial port for communicating with the ATAPI drive. In this way, the expensive conventional SCSI LSI and SCSI firmware are eliminated from the jukebox controller, effectively lowering the manufacturing and development costs of the jukebox of the present invention. An additional benefit is that ATAPI drives are less costly than SCSI drives and are more widely available.

Abstract: A housing of a brake booster 100 includes a pair of shells 1 and 5 and a ring 3 interposed therebetween which cooperatively define an interior space for accommodating a power piston 13. The interior space is divided into a front chamber 15 and a rear chamber 16 partitioned by the power piston 13. The power piston 13 has a diaphragm 2 interposed between the front chamber 15 and the rear chamber 16. The diaphragm 2 is shiftable in an axial direction thereof in response to pressure imbalance between the front chamber 15 and the rear chamber 16. A convolution chamber 2d is provided between an inner side of the housing and an outer peripheral edge of the diaphragm 2. The convolution chamber 2d is defined by a resilient annular member flattened in the axial direction and isolated from both the front chamber 15 and the rear chamber 16.

Abstract: A braking system actuator includes a casing which accommodates therein a plurality of electromagnetic valves for controlling operations of a hydraulic circuit. A plurality of terminals which are connected to an external circuit are embedded in a surrounding wall of the casing with a given distance for insulation from each other. Connecting portions of the terminals for the electromagnetic valves extend from the surrounding wall of the casing to reach the neighborhood of corresponding solenoid terminals of the electromagnetic valves for connection therewith. On the other hand, connecting portions of the terminals for a motor which drives a hydraulic pump are connected to positive and negative terminals of the motor, respectively.

Abstract: An optical recording and reproducing apparatus comprising an erroneous recording prevention component which prevents this apparatus from making an erroneous recording or erasing operation while it records data on a writable disk. The apparatus is arranged such that, while it is performing a recording or erasing operation, a state of its beam of light just about to go off the control point of tracking and a state of its beam of light just about to go off the control point of focusing are each monitored and, when either of the states is detected, the recording or erasing operation is canceled. Hence, laser power of the beam of light can be controlled before the beam of light completely goes off the control point of tracking, thereby preventing the beam of light from affecting data having been recorded along other tracks.

Abstract: A method for the quantification of an antigen, antibody, or antigen-antibody complex in a sample solution involving measuring the results of an immunochemical agglutination reaction or an agglutination inhibition reaction by spectrophotometry, wherein after the initiation of the agglutination between the antigen, antibody, or antigen-antibody complex to be determined and sensitized carrier particles to which a substance specifically bindable to the said antigen, antibody, or antigen-antibody complex is bound, a fixing compound is added to fix aggregates formed by the agglutination. A measuring reagent kit or pack includes all the components for use in carrying out the above method.

Abstract: A method for the quantification of an antigen, antibody, or antigen-antibody complex in a sample solution involving measuring the results of an immunochemical agglutination reaction or an agglutination inhibition reaction by spectrophotometry, wherein after the initiation of the agglutination between the antigen, antibody, or antigen-antibody complex to be determined and sensitized carrier particles to which a substance specifically bindable to the said antigen, antibody, or antigen-antibody complex is bound, a fixing compound is added to fix aggregates formed by the agglutination. A measuring reagent kit or pack includes all the components for use in carrying out the above method.

Abstract: An immunochemical process and the reagents for measuring hapten by using an agglutination inhibition reaction, anti-hapten antibody sensitized particles and a hapten-carrier conjugate which is capable of agglutinating said particles.

Abstract: Immunochemical measurement by either (1) the reaction of the measurement substance with the insolubilized substance and then the reaction of the reaction product of the first procedure with the labeled substance or (2) the reaction of the measurement substance with the labelled substance and then the reaction of the resulting reaction product with the insolubilized substance, or (3) the simultaneous reaction of the three substances.

Abstract: Immunochemical process of measuring antigenic substances such as human chorionic gonadotropin, growth hormone, insulin, immunoglobulins using a labeled antibody, which makes a monovalent bond to the antigen, and insolubilized antigen.The labeled monovalent antibody used is a monovalent antibody obtained by digesting the antibody to an antigen to be measured with papain according to Porter's method or by reducing a fragment obtained by digesting the antibody with pepsin according to Peterman's method.

Abstract: An immunochemical measuring method using a second antigenic substance and a labeled antibody to the second antigenic substance.An unknown amount of an antigen (Ag 1) to be measured and a given amount of a conjugate (Ag 1-Ag 2) coupled a second antigen (Ag 2) to the Ag 1 are reacted with a given amount of an antibody (Ab 1) to the Ag 1. Ag 1-Ag 2 bind to the Ab 1 in proportion to their respective amount, forming an Ab 1-Ag 1-Ag 2 complex. Then, by reaction of the complex with a labeled antibody (labeled Ab 2) to the Ag 2, Ab 1-Ag 1-Ag 2-labeled Ab 2 is formed. It is possible to estimate the amount of Ag 1 to be measured by determining the activity of labeled Ab 2 attached to the complex.

Abstract: A compound of the formula: ##STR1## WHEREIN Q is a hydrogen atom, --CH.sub.2 CH(OH)CH.sub.2 Rf or a hydrocarbon residue having a valence corresponding to m which may contain one or more of --O--, --COO--, --NH--, --N.dbd. and ##STR2## IN THE CHAIN, R is a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon residue or --CH.sub.2 CH(OH)CH.sub.2 Rf and m is an integer of not less than 1, Rf being a perfluoroalkyl group, an .omega.-hydro-perfluoroalkyl group o an .differential.-chloro-erfluoroalkylgroup having 4 to 20 carbon atoms, which is useful as an agent for rendering fibrous materials oleophobic and anti-soiling and may be prepared by reacting a perfluoroalkylpropylene oxide of the formula: ##STR3## wherein Rf is the same as defined above, with a reagent of the formula:Q'(NHR').sub.mwherein Q' is a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon residue having a valence corresponding to m which may contain one or more of --O--, --COO--, --NH-- and --N.dbd.

Abstract: A 2-hydroxy-1,1,2,3,3-pentahydroperfluoroalkyl derivative of either one of the formulae:[RfCH.sub.2 CH(OH)CH.sub.2 OOC].sub.m QandQ'(NR.sub.1 R.sub.2).sub.m'wherein Rf is a perfluoroalkyl, an .omega.-hydro-perfluoroalkyl or an .omega.-chloro-perfluoroalkyl group having 4 to 20 carbon atoms, Q is a hydrocarbon residue having a valency corresponding to m which may contain one or more of --O--, --COO-- and --OH in and/or on the chain, Q' is a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon residue having a valency corresponding to m' which may contain one or more of --O--, --COO--, --NH--, --N.dbd. and ##STR1## IN THE CHAIN, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each a hydrogen atom or a group of the formula: --CH.sub.2 CH(OH)CH.sub.2 Rf, at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 being --CH.sub.2 CH(OH)CH.sub.2 Rf, m is an integer of not less than 2 and m' is an integer of not less than 1, which is useful as an oil-repellent agent or an anti-soiling agent for fibrous materials.