Abstract: A controller for automotive air conditioner system includes first and second control units which are cooperable for controlling the condition of air supplied to the vehicular cabin. The first control unit has side edges, each of which engages the channel between horizontally extending rails formed on the inner surface of the side wall of the controller body. The first control unit can disengage from the channel to be detachable from the controller body so as to allow another control unit having edges of the same shape as those of the first control unit to be substituted for the first control unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for washing a semiconductor substrate with an organic solvent, which comprises the first stage of supplying an organic solvent to be used for the organic solvent washing of a semiconductor substrate to a washing device and washing the semiconductor substrate, the second stage of supplying the organic solvent containing water, electrolytes and particulate or clustery suspended substances, which has been withdrawn from the first stage, to a pervaporation device and separating and removing mainly water, and the third stage of supplying the organic solvent withdrawn from the second stage to a distillation device to obtain the organic solvent as a distillate and recycling the distillate as the organic solvent to the first stage, the three stages being combined to form a continuous circulation systems.

Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner is provided with a "lost motion" mechanism for drivingly connecting first and second shafts with one common actuator such that an air-mix door and a water cock are driven by the one common actuator.

Abstract: A movable air mix door serves to adjust the temperature of outgoing air from an air conditioner. The temperature of outgoing air depends on the position of the air mix door. A combination of a position sensor for sensing the actual position of the air mix door and a temperature sensor for sensing the temperature of incoming air into the air conditioner generates a first signal depending on the actual position of the air mix door and on the incoming air temperature. A second signal represents a target position of the air mix door. The position of the air mix door is controlled by a controller in accordance with the first and second signals. Since the combination sensor produces a signal dependent on incoming air temperature, the processing load on the controller is reduced in that the controller itself need not correct the target position in accordance with the incoming air temperature.

Abstract: A container closure for use in packaging flowable materials is disclosed comprising a closure shell, a peelable thermoplastic liner disposed on the inner surface of the shell and having a thick periphery and a comparatively thin central portion with a demarcated peeling tab extending to the periphery of the liner, and at least one adhesive interfacial layer separating the liner from and peelably bonding said liner to the shell and having a non-adhesive or weakly adhesive zone underlying and corresponding to the periphery of the liner and a relatively strongly adhesive zone underlying and corresponding to the central portion of the liner.

Abstract: This invention relates to a plating-inhibitor used in partially plating a steel plate with a molten metal, characterized by comprising (a) one or more water-soluble phosphate type bases selected from the group consisting of metal phosphates, metal condensed phosphates and their modified metal phosphates, a part of the water-soluble phosphate type bases being optionally replaced by one or more of the group of alkali metal silicates, quaternary ammonium silicate, silica sol and alumina sol; and (b) one or more inorganic inert powdery materials which are heat-resistant and substantially non-reactive with the molten metal.