Abstract: A yarn carrier for a circular knitting machine has a swing member swingably attached to a support member and a spring between the swing member and the support member so that if an accidentally closed latch of a latch needle accidentally hits the swing member, such as may occur during unintended stopping of the machine, the swing member is pushed rearward, away from the latch needles, to effectively cushion the contact pressure and protect the latch needle from suffering physical damage. The swing member may also have two depressions, one to provide clearance for the latch needles when moving relative the swing member in a generally vertical direction as the thread is engaged, and one to provide clearance for the latch needles when moving in a generally horizontal direction, after the thread has been engaged and the latch needle is moving away from the support member.

Abstract: A driving apparatus for a DC circuit breaker of reverse current insertion type. The driving apparatus includes a magnetic repulsive coil for instantaneously driving a movable electrode of a vacuum valve directly in an opening direction, and a first coil of capacitor energization type and a second coil for voltage tripping purposes as trip coils for an operating mechanism connected to the movable electrode through a contact spring whereby the magnetic repulsive coil and the first trip coil are respectively energized by capacitors in the case of tripping under faulty conditions and only the second trip coil is energized in the case of tripping under other conditions than faulty conditions.

Abstract: A DC circuit breaker and a method of commutation during a commutation capacitor capable of being directly charged from a main DC line are disclosed. A breaker unit is inserted in a main DC line and is connected through a first switch in parallel to a series circuit including a commutation capacitor and a reactor. At end of the commutation capacitor is connected to the power side of the main DC line, and the other end thereof to the negative bus of the DC line through a charge capacitor. A series circuit including a magnetic repulsive coil and a second switch is connected in parallel to the commutation capacitor, which is directly charged from the power side of the main DC line. When the breaker unit starts to open, the second switch is turned on so that the polarity of the charged commutation capacitor is reversed to permit a discharged current to flow in the breaker unit in the opposite direction, while at the same time starting the opening of the breaker unit.

Abstract: A surface roughness measuring instrument wherein an analogue output signal from a displacement detector (32) for electrically detecting a turning displacement of a measuring arm (5) is converted into a digital signal, and this output signal is interpreted to thereby provide measure of surface roughness of a work (18) to be measured. This surface roughness measuring instrument divides a length to be measured, which is set by a setter (42) by a number of samplings N, i.e. 2.sup.n, which are arranged equidistantly, and includes a timing circuit (40) for sampling-controlling an analogue/digital converter (39) at the times of samplings.

Abstract: A contact point type measuring device being equipped with contact point type encoder having scale contact points and brushes to supply pulse type measured signals, a counter circuit and a display section of measured value, such device comprising the scale contact points consisted of larger scale contact points arranged in a required distance and of smaller scale contact points dividing the larger scale contact point distance at a certain required pitch, the counter circuit including a larger scale counter counting larger scale measured signals obtained from the larger scale contact points and a smaller scale counter counting small scale measured signals obtained from the smaller scale contact points and resetting such counted value by the larger scale measured signals, and the display section of measured value including an upper figure displayer displaying counted value of the larger scale counter and a lower figure displayer displaying counted value of the lower scale counter, and parts of such device being