Abstract: A torque converter with a lockup clutch includes a fluid passage into which flows operation oil supplied from a converter chamber, which is surrounded by the pump impeller and the turbine runner, to a lockup chamber in which engagement and disengagement of the lockup clutch are performed, the fluid passage being connected to an oil drain passage for the operation oil without passing through an engaging portion of the lockup clutch, and a valve formed at a point on the fluid passage and capable of controlling a flow amount of operation oil.

Abstract: Platy potassium titanate having a mean major diameter of 1-100 &mgr;m and a mean aspect ratio of 3-500 and obtainable by subjecting magnesium or lithium potassium titanate to an acid treatment to thereby prepare platy titanate, immersing the platy titanate in a potassium hydroxide solution and then subjecting it to calcination.

Abstract: Lepidocrocite potassium magnesium titanate having a composition represented by the formula K0.2-0.7Mg0.4Til.6O3.7-4 and obtainable by subjecting an aqueous slurry of lepidocrocite potassium magnesium titanate having a composition represented by the formula K0.8Mg0.4Ti1.6O4 to an acid treatment and subsequent calcination.

Abstract: The invention provides an ATM switch which realizes hierarchical shaping for each virtual channel and each virtual path with a simple configuration. Cells are sent from cell buffers of an ATM core switch by FIFO operation to output side connection information application sections of output side circuit interfaces. In each of the output side circuit interfaces, the output side connection information application section acquires connection information such as a service class based on an intra-switch connection identification number applied to each cell and applies the connection information to the cell. An output cell buffer queues cells for each virtual channel. A VC cell rate control section reads out cells from the output cell buffer in accordance with the connection information and performs traffic priority control and rate control of the cells to be outputted.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape measuring apparatus includes a moving frame arranged to surround a measurement space. The moving frame is arranged to be movable in a vertical direction. A plurality of sensors is disposed opposite to each other on two opposite sides of the moving frame and are arranged to effect a horizontal scanning of light to measure distances to a human body being measured. A driving mechanism moves the moving frame. An analyzer calculates distances to the human body, based on output signals from respective sensors, to analyze data of a surface position of the human body, i.e., a three-dimensional shape thereof. The apparatus further includes a placement state on which the human body is placed. Since the sensors are located so as to face the front and the back of the human body, the apparatus can also measure portions below an armpit and below a crotch.

Abstract: A pressure-receiving plate for a friction device includes an annular portion and pawls formed integrally on the inner or outer periphery of the annular portion. The annular portion has one side provided with a friction surface which contacts a friction disk engaged with one of a driving member and a driven member, and another side provided with reduced-thickness portions formed by applying crushing work that takes hardness and surface roughness of the friction surface into consideration. The pawls are engaged with the other of the driving member and driven member.

Abstract: A linear bearing structure comprises a bearing bush, a plurality of annular ball retainers each holding a plurality of bearing balls, circumferentially and a pair of annular endpieces respectively removably secured to ends of the bush to confine the ball retainers therein. The bearing bush comprises an outer metal cylinder and an inner cylindrical lining layer formed by a bearing material having a small coefficient of friction and a small coefficient of wear and is provided with a slit which has a predetermined width and extends along the axis of the bush over the entire length thereof so that the bush can be circumferentially elastically compressed by a magnitude corresponding to the width of the slit. Each of the endpieces has, at the inner side thereof, an annular groove having a diameter smaller than that of the bush so that by compressing the bush into the annular grooves of the endpieces at the ends of the bush, the bush and the endpieces can be elastically fitted together.

Abstract: A pressure-receiving plate for a friction device includes an annular portion and pawls formed integrally on the inner or outer periphery of the annular portion. The annular portion has one side provided with a friction surface which contacts a friction disk engaged with one of a driving member and a driven member, and another side provided with reduced-thickness portions formed by applying crushing work that takes hardness and surface roughness of the friction surface into consideration. The pawls are engaged with the other of the driving member and driven member.

Abstract: An automatially tiltable small roller structure of slide bearing type for video tape recorders which has a small roller (10) including an elastic rubber cylinder (11) and a sleeve (12) integral with the inner periphery of the cylinder, the sleeve having a lower inside diameter surface (13) and an upper inside diameter surface (14) with a smaller diameter the former to form a stepped portion (15) inside the sleeve (12), an outer race (21) fitted to the stepped portion, a row of bearing balls (23) fitted in the outer race and located at a middle point between the opposite ends of the sleeve, a shaft (30) having a lower shaft portion (31), an upper shaft portion (32) having a smaller diameter than the lower shaft portion and a tapered surface portion (33) extending between the two shaft portions, the bearing balls being provided such that they are brought into rolling contact with the tapered surface, a region of the upper shaft portion adjacent thereto and the inner peripheral surface of the outer race and firs

Abstract: A disk assembly is comprised of a circular plate having an outer flange portion extending in the radial direction and a plurality of tongues each of which is pressed out in the axial direction and an annular member whose inner radius is equals to that of each tongue, wherein each distal end of each tongue is snugly fitted in the annular member and the outer flange portion is fixed to one side of the annular member.

Abstract: An optical connector includes a cylindrical front body formed with a center bore having a front cylindrical bore, a rear cylindrical bore and a tapered bore therebetween. A fiber holding unit made of a flexible material is separable into two parts, whose mating surfaces are formed with grooves for holding an optical fiber and at front and rear portions with spacers for partially preventing contact between the mating surfaces in the proximity of the spacers. The two assembled parts form cylindrical outer surfaces at front and rear ends and a tapered outer surface between the cylindrical outer surfaces. The two assembled parts with the optical fiber interposed therebetween are able to be fitted in the front body from its rear end.

Abstract: In this computer system, a plurality of processing elements (PE), each having at least two channel processors which manage corresponding communication channels separately, are connected in a ring via the channel processors to form a processing element loop (10). Some of the processing elements are designated as process managers (SM.sub.1 -SM.sub.n) which manage the corresponding process frame groups (20) comprising a predetermined number of process frames. At least one other element is designated as a master manager (MM) which manages those process managers. The respective process managers (SM.sub.1 -SM.sub.n) each allocate a predetermined process to any one process frame of the process frame group (20) which that process manager manages in accordance with each requirement from the master manager (MM) to cause that process frame to execute the predetermined process.

Abstract: A retarding control apparatus for an automotive vehicle includes first retarding signal output circuit for calculating a speed of a decrease in engine output based upon an engine output detecting signal, and outputting a corresponding retarding signal to a retarder; and first cutting circuit for cutting a connection between first retarding signal output circuit and retarder when a rate of decrease in distance to an object ahead of the vehicle calculated based upon a distance detection signal is less than a predetermined value and the distance to the object is greater than a predetermined value.

Abstract: In a hydraulic pressure control apparatus for an automatic transmission, a retarding control apparatus has a first retarding signal output for processing the engine output decreasing rate and outputting a corresponding retarding signal, the absorbed power of the engine upon retarder operation is sensed, and the pressure oil is regulated to a predetermined pressure wherein the predetermined pressure is modulated responsive to the absorbed power of the engine. A second retarding signal outputting outputs a retarding signal corresponding to braking operation and a switch changes over the connection to the retarder, upon detecting a braking operation, from the first retarding signal to the second retarding signal and vice versa. The shifting shock during operation of retarder is eliminated even under elevated hydraulic pressure during the retarder operation.

Abstract: An automatic transmission control system includes a shift valve having a valve body, a spool, a sleeve, a plunger and a return spring. An area of the plunger is acted on by a throttle pressure and is smaller than an area of a land acted on by the throttle pressure. Accordingly, the spool is movable against the throttle pressure to make a upshift when the governor pressure is over a predetermined value in relation to the throttle pressure.

Abstract: A control apparatus for an automatic transmission connected to a hydraulic control circuit having a first changeover valve for switching a main transmission mechanism having at least two speed ratios between high and low speed ratios in dependence upon at least vehicle velocity, and a second changeover valve for switching an auxiliary transmission mechanism, which is provided in addition to the main transmission mechanism and has at least two speed ratios, between high and low speed ratios at a vehicle velocity higher than a changeover velocity of the first changeover valve. The control apparatus has a third changeover valve for switching the auxiliary transmission mechanism from low to high at a vehicle velocity lower than the changeover velocity of the first changeover valve, and from high to low when the vehicle velocity rises above the changeover velocity of the first changeover valve. The third changeover valve is capable of forming an intermediate speed, such as a 1.5 or 2.5.

Abstract: In the conventional cam device for a pressure regulating valve, when the cam is rotated abruptly, a contact force between the roller and the cam surface decreases abruptly particularly during the cam return stroke. On the other hand, a rotational force also tends to be applied to the plunger during the plunger return stroke. Therefore, there exists a problem in that the roller rotates together with the plunger out of a correct engagement between the roller and the cam surface. To overcome this problem, the roller and the cam surface are engaged in convex and concave engagement relationship. A convex is formed in the roller and a concave is formed in the cam surface or vice versa.

Abstract: An automatically tiltable small roller structure, which comprises a shaft, a small roller including an elastic rubber cylinder and a sleeve, and a plurality of bearing balls. The sleeve is integral with the inner periphery of the elastic rubber cylinder, and mainly composed of polytetrafluoroethylene (fluoroplastics). The shaft is fitted in the roller structure. The bearing balls are fitted in a circumferential or annular groove formed on the shaft, and are provided such that they are in rolling contact with the inner periphery of the roller and the outer periphery of the shaft in the groove. The groove is provided at a middle point between the opposite ends of the roller. The depth of the groove is set such that the bearing balls project slightly from the groove, so that a slight gap is formed between the inner periphery of the roller and the outer periphery of the shaft. The axes of the roller and shaft are thus slightly tiltable in relation to each other.

Abstract: A rotary cam assembly includes a support shaft provided on a fixed bracket, a cam follower supported on the bracket so as to be slidably displaceable, a plate cam the outer circumferential portion of which has a cam surface contacted by the cam follower, the plate cam being freely rotatably mounted on the support shaft at a center hole, a cylindrical member extending along the central axis of the support shaft and having one end connected to the plate cam via coupling means formed in the center hole of the plate cam, and an input member connected to the other end of the cylindrical member for rotating the plate cam.

Abstract: A pressure modulator valve device having adjacent modulator valves, each including a sleeve, a plunger slidably fitted in the sleeve and a cam, the cams being connected to each other by a connecting member, a single supporting member for operatively supporting each of the cams and which is in contact with each sleeve so as to cover a front surface of each modulator valve, and a spring for biasing each sleeve in the direction of the single supporting member.