Abstract: In a motorcar having a compressed fuel cylinder charged with a compressed fuel disposed in a compartment, pipes connected to the fuel cylinder within the compartment are connected to a joint unit penetrating a partition wall partitioning the compartment from an outside and the joint unit is connected to pipes connected to an internal combustion engine and the like out of the compartment. A fuel charge passage, a fuel supply passage and a relief passage in a cylinder cap of the fuel cylinder and a fuel charge passage, a fuel supply passage and a relief passage in an interior side of the joint unit are connected with each other through an interior charge pipe, and interior supply pipe and an interior fuel relief pipe, respectively. A fuel charge pipe, a fuel supply pipe and a relief pipe out of the compartment are connected to a fuel charge passage, a fuel supply passage and a relief passage in an exterior side of the joint unit.

Abstract: A vehicle window opening/closing device is shown for opening and closing a window glass by link action executed by a sector gear that is reciprocally swung by rotation of a pinion gear. A lift arm and a coupling link are also provided. When the window glass is in its fully-closed-state, the journaling point at which the coupling link is supported by the sector gear is set to cross a fulcrum position defined by the positional relationship between the sector gear and the coupling link. A regulation portion composed of a regulating piece and a regulated piece is provided between the sector gear and the coupling link to thereby regulate movement of the coupling link in a beyond-fulcrum-position direction across the fully-closed-state. With this arrangement, the size of the device is not increased when a mechanism for locking the window glass when it is fully closed is attained.

Abstract: A fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine including a fuel tank having a resin liner. The fuel tank is constructed so as to withstand refueling of compressed gaseous fuel. Fuel filled in the fuel tank is supplied to the engine through a fuel supply passage. When the pressure within the fuel tank drops below a predetermined value, the supply of fuel to the engine is inhibited.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for picking up an end yarn so as to fix the same on a yarn package comprising picking up an end yarn from a yarn package by a suction device so as to hold the end yarn therein in a drawn state, inserting an end yarn handling bar between the held end yarn and the package surface, revolving the yarn end handling bar along the package surface while maintaining the bar beneath an outermost yarn layer connected to the yarn end until a layered portion is formed, in which the yarn end held in a drawn state coincides with the outermost yarn layer, and ejecting a jet of pressurized fluid onto or in the vicinity of the layered portion so as to entangle the yarn end with the outermost yarn layer so that the yarn end is fixed on the package.

Abstract: A linear actuator using a screw mechanism is provided which can be made free from play and can operate in a smooth fashion without involving any unacceptably rigorous tolerance control. An external thread of a screw rod is in threading engagement with an internal thread of a nut member for converting a rotational movement of the nut member into a linear movement of the screw rod, and a localized region of relatively tight fit is provided in the threading engagement. In particular, when the nut member is made of a molded plastic member, the localized region of relatively tight fit can be easily formed by grinding or cutting a part of the molding core for molding the internal thread of the nut member.

Abstract: A method for removing a wrapped yarn coil of an initial yarn portion of a package; the wrapped yarn coil being wound on a bobbin while being gripped by a slit-like groove formed on the bobbin end along a peripheral circle of the bobbin, and being followed by a transfer tail; including steps ofsevering the wrapped yarn coil at a position on the bobbin end in which the slit-like groove does not exist,while holding the severed ends of the wrapped yarn coil by suction, gripping the severed ends by grippers, andremoving the wrapped yarn coil from the slit-like groove along the periphery of the bobbin while rotating the grippers in the twisting direction so that a twist is imparted to the wrapped yarn coil held by the grippers.

Abstract: A rubber composition comprising 100 parts by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene high-saturation copolymer rubber containing 20 weight % or less of conjugated diene units, and 1-100 parts by weight of an unsaturated carboxylic acid metal salt having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R and R' represent aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon groups or a hydrogen atom, which may be the same or different from each other, Me represents a metal selected from the group consisting of Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ti, Cr, Mo, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ag, Zn, Cd, Hg, Al, Sn, Pb and Sb, and n is an integer of 2-4.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for picking up an yarn end so as to fix the same on a yarn package comprising picking up an yarn end from a yarn package by a suction means so as to hold the yarn end therein in a drawn state, inserting an yarn end handling bar between the held yarn end and the package surface, revolving the yarn end handling bar along the package surface while maintaining the bar beneath an outermost layer yarn connected to the yarn end until a layered portion is formed, in which the end yarn held in a drawn state coincides with the outermost layer yarn, and ejecting a jet of pressurized fluid onto or in the vicinity of the layered portion so as to entangle the yarn end with the outermost layer yarn so that the yarn end is fixed on the package.

Abstract: A power transmitting apparatus that includes an engine, a transmission disposed alongside of the engine in juxtaposed relation; and gears, a chain, a belt, or the like operatively coupling the output shaft of the engine and the input shaft of the transmission. The transmission comprises a countershaft-type transmission having, in addition to the input shaft, a countershaft and an output axis of rotation which extend parallel to the input shaft. The countershaft is disposed more closely to the engine than a plane which passes through the input shaft and the output axis of rotation of the transmission. Preferably, the output shaft of the engine and the input shaft of the transmission are operatively coupled with a resilient belt trained around a drive pulley coupled to the output shaft of the engine and a driven pulley coupled to the input shaft of the transmission.

Abstract: In a laser beam machine tool, the problems of power losses, misalignment, high cost, and other problems associated with moving laser heads are eliminated by using a five-axis table in which a biaxial work holder, capable of rotating and tilting a workpiece is mounted on a three-axis table mechanism. In the three-axis table mechanism, an X-axis table is supported on linear motion bearings in overlapping relationship on a Y-axis table, which is, in turn, supported on linear motion bearings on a vertically movable Z-axis table, which is also supported in linear motion bearings. The X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis tables are driven by servo motors through ball screws so that backlash is avoided.

Abstract: A work rotating device for a laser beam machine utilizes a work-supporting bed rotatable by a speed reducer mounted on a frame adapted to rest on a table of the laser beam machine. In a first embodiment, the speed reducer is fixed to the frame, and the frame has two orthogonal surfaces alternatively engageable with the table so that the axis of rotation of the work can be either vertical or horizontal. In a second embodiment, the speed reducer is manually tiltable in the frame by direct manual rotation of a shaft on which the speed reducer is mounted. In a third embodiment, the speed reducer through which the work is rotated is mounted on a shaft which is connected to a handwheel through another speed reducer. In a fourth embodiment, the speed reducer through which the work is rotated is tilted by a servo motor operating through a speed reducer.

Abstract: A wiring device in a direct current machine, wherein brush are slidably held in brush boxes of a brush holder, a coupler embedded therein with lead terminals for feeding electric power to pigtails connected to the brushes is fixed to the brush holder, and a brush holder and the coupler are clamped by an end bracket and a yoke. Side walls connecting the brush boxes to each other are expandingly formed on an edge portion of the brush holder. A cutaway portion for positioning the coupler is provided in one of the side walls, and an engageable portion engageable with a forward end portion of the coupler is expandingly formed on the brush holder between the cutaway portion and the respective brush boxes.

Abstract: A water drain device of a revolving electric machine, wherein an oil reservoir chamber is formed at a position adjacent a bearing housing chamber in a housing having a rotor housing chamber and the bearing housing chamber, a rotor in the rotor housing chamber is supported by bearings in the bearing housing chambers, and an oil seal in slidable contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotor is provided at a position adjacent the oil reservoir chamber. In the housing, an oil discharge channel opens in a direction in which gravity drains oil in the oil reservoir chamber out of the housing, a water discharge channel connects the rotor housing chamber and the vicinity of an outlet of the oil discharge channel, and an air vent channel connects the rotor housing chamber to the oil discharge channel through the oil reservoir chamber. A drain cover forming a fluid discharge channel is mounted in the vicinity of the outlet of the oil discharge channel and an outlet of the water discharge channel.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing .beta.-form Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 comprising firing amorphous or .alpha.-form Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 of high chemical purity in a non-oxidizing atmosphere under an elevated pressure at a temperature of at least about 1600.degree. C., as well as a process for producing an article comprising such .beta.-form Si.sub.3 N.sub.4.

Abstract: A water and oil repellent having excellent desoiling properties composed of a compound comprising at least two terminal segments and an intermediate segment connecting the terminal segments and having a molecular weight of from 800 to 20,000, each terminal segment containing at least one polyfluoroalkyl group connected by a --CONH-- linking group, said intermediate segment being a urethane oligomer containing at least two --CONH-- linking groups and a hydrophilic molecular chain, and said terminal segments and intermediate segment being connected by a --CONH-- linking group.

Abstract: A high performance water and oil repellant composed of a compound comprising at least two terminal segments and an intermediate segment connecting the terminal segments and having a molecular weight of from 800 to 20,000, each terminal segment containing at least one polyfluoroalkyl group connected by a --CONH-- linking group, said intermediate segment being a urethane oligomer containing at least two --CONH-- linking groups in one molecule, and said terminal segments and intermediate segment being connected by a --CONH-- linking group.

Abstract: A cylinder block for an internal combustion engine includes the skeleton frame formed of metal and a waterjacket surrounding the frame formed of a heat resistant plastic. The engine includes a cylinder head and the cylinder bearing supports and a sleeve forming a cylinder bore. The engine block, cylinder head and main bearings are fixed together with bolts which pass through portions of the framework parallel to the metal sleeve. The engine also includes an air intake pipe with the portion of the pipe adjacent the waterjacket integrally formed with the waterjacket.

Abstract: The invention relates to a swirl-chamber Diesel engine. A swirl-chamber Diesel engine is disclosed which has a main combustion chamber, a swirl chamber, and a communicating passage for connecting them. The problem encountered is that, when the engine runs at low speeds, fuel droplets within the swirl chamber will gather and flow along the communicating passage into the main combustion chamber. To prevent this unfavorable fuel flow, a depression is formed within the swirl chamber to collect the fuel droplets. The depression is disposed adjacent to and communicating with the communicating passage via a rounded lip to provide an arrangement which will make it easy for the combustion gases flow to draw the collected fuel from the depression. Since the fuel is drawn from the depression by the combustion gases flow, carbonization of fuel on the depression wall will not take place.

Abstract: Fluorine-containing elastomers comprise the grafted copolymer havig rubber-like elasticity and having chemical linkages at the reactive sites of fluorine-containing polymeric segments and organopolysiloxane segments.

Abstract: For use in a swirl-producing recombustion chamber of a Diesel engine, a glow plug comprises a shell which can be screwed into an engine block so as not to protrude into the precombustion chamber and a cylindrically shaped heating head attached to a plunger which is received in the shell and can be electromagnetically or hydraulically moved relative to the fixed shell. The heating head can be protruded from the shell so as to extend into a central region of the precombustion chamber when preheating of air is necessary but, at other times, can be retracted almost entirely into the shell so as not to obstruct violent swirling of air in the precombustion chamber.