Abstract: In a driving device for moving an automatic seat belt between a seat occupant restraining position and a seat occupant liberating position, a rotatable member to which one end of an elongate drive member is attached and by which the drive member is taken up or pushed out is formed with a portion for containing the drive member therein, and the drive member is guided from the portion to an exit lying at a position deviated in the direction of the rotational axis of the rotatable member and is pushed out from the exit.

Abstract: In a regenerative gas turbine cycle in which heat recovery is carried out by a mixture of air/steam which is obtained by contact between water and a part of or the whole of compressed air, said compressed air being compressed by a compressor for compressing gas using air or air based gas as a combustion supporting/working medium gas; the improvement comprising: the mixture of air/steam and liquid phase cooled water being obtained through the contact between the compressed air and heated water which is used as heat recovering medium; said cooled water being used as heat recovering medium not only for heat recovery of turbine exhaust gas but also, for(a) intercooling of the compressor, and/or(b) precooling of compressed air for the contact operation;supplying water corresponding to the amount of water which contacts the compressed air and is lost by evaporation to the liquid phase water for contact or heat recovery as it is or after using as a heat recovering medium.

Abstract: A surface-modified synthetic fiber is provided by plasma irradiating a synthetic fiber containing fine particles. Recesses and projections are formed on the surface of the fiber. The recesses are formed by being etched with plasma in the portion not shielded by the fine particles; the projections are formed by not being etched in the portion shielded by the fine particles. The resulting fiber has an irregular surface such that the distance between the center points of adjacent projections is between approximately 0.03 and 1 microns and the number of projections is between approximately 1 and 200 per square micron.

Abstract: A locking device for a moving anchor used in an automatic seat belt system has an anchor member movable between a seat occupant restraining position and a seat occupant liberating position along a guide member secured to a vehicle body, a pivotable member pivotably mounted on the anchor member, a driving member operatively mounted on the pivotable member so as to pivotally move the pivotable member between a first position and a second position, a locking member provided on a base member secured to the vehicle body, and a biasing member biasing the locking member to a locking position.

Abstract: A high tensile steel which has a satisfactory yield strength of 60 kg/mm.sup.2 or more and excellent resistances to sulfide corrosive cracking and corrosion, and which comprises, as indispensable components, 0.05 to 0.50 wt % of C, 0.1 to 1.0 wt % of Si, 0.1 to 2.0 wt % of Mn, 0.05 to 1.50 wt % of Co and the balance consisting of Fe, is produced by hot- or cold-rolling it, rapidly heating the rolled steel to austenitize it, quenching the austenitized steel and, finally, tempering the quenched steel at a temperature not higher than the Ac.sub.1 point of the steel.

Abstract: In a retractor provided with an emergency locking mechanism comprising webbing take-up means having a main gear and an auxiliary gear, inertia sensing means, and locking means having an auxiliary locking member and a main locking member, a lock releasing device is provided comprising a pivotable cam mechanism designed to cause the main locking member to move into a position in which it is in non-engagement with the main gear and to cause the auxiliary locking member to move into a position in which it is unengageable with the auxiliary gear.

Abstract: A bulb type turbine generator in which upper and lower stay vanes house upper and lower oil tanks. The upper oil tank is connected to the rotary shaft bearing portion of the generator through an oil conduit and the lower tank is connected to a bearing portion. The oil conduits are disposed in the interior of the outer case so that oil passing through is cooled by the fluid flow. The outer casing together with the upper and lower stay vanes are divided to facilitate transportation and installation.

Abstract: A passive safety seat belt system having at least one member slidable in response to the opening-closing of a door of a vehicle is characterized by an elongated member having immovable one end lying at a suitable location on the body of the vehicle and the movable other end lying at a suitable location on the inside of the door and vice versa, and a link mechanism including lever mechanism pivotally supported on the inside of the door or the body. The lever mechanism serves to amplify and transmit the movement of the movable end of the elongated member to slide the slidable member.

Abstract: In a vehicle having a door openable and closable with the forward and sidewise portion of the vehicle body viewed from a seat as the center of rotation, a safety belt system comprises a first webbing, a loop for dividing the first webbing into a shoulder belt part and a waist belt part, a second webbing, and means for moving the loop. The opposite ends of the first webbing are respectively secured to the neighborhoods of the upper and the lower ends of the door edge opposite from the center of rotation. One end of the second webbing is secured to the loop and the other end thereof is attached to the side of the seat opposite from the door side. The moving means moves the loop back and forth along said opposite side of the seat and the forward extension thereof in response to the opening and closing of the door.

Abstract: A buckle assembly for seat belt comprises cover means consisting of a first and a second cover member forming a tongue insertion opening and a hollow chamber connected to the opening. The first cover member has a push button operating opening connected to the hollow chamber. A latch means including a plurality of members is disposed within the cover means and capable of taking up two positions, i.e. tongue locking position and non-locking position.

Abstract: A method of bleaching olefin sulfonates, which comprises adding more than 0.1% by weight of hydrogen peroxide, with more than 0.1% by weight of phosphate alone or silicate alone or a mixture of the two, to an olefin sulfonate having 12 to 22 carbon atoms, and treating at a temperature in the range of from 30.degree. to 130.degree. C.

Abstract: A contact retaining clip is fixed in an insulator cavity by the use of discontinuities around the clip which can be wedged or embedded in the insulator. Preferably a probe is inserted into the clip to expand it. The clip and/or the probe may be heated prior or during insertion or by heating after insertion of the clip but before expansion of the clip.