Abstract: A belt tension adjusting device is composed so that a part of the force producing the bending moment exerting to the connecting arm supporting shaft (6) attached to the engine body and supporting the connecting arm (8) for rocking is transmitted to the auto-tensioner supporting shaft (15) attached to the engine body and fixing the fixing end (32c) of the actuator (32), in order to reduce the bending moment exerting to the connecting arm supporting shaft (6).

Abstract: A belt tension adjusting device composed to ease positive detection of plastic elongation of belt is proposed. The time for the belt to be replaced by new one can be recognized in early stages and accurately. The plastic elongation of the belt can be detected visually from the front or upper side of an engine without unsighted by the auto-tensioner (automatic belt tension adjuster) and the belt. Further, workability of replacing belt is improved. The device comprises a crank pulley (1), accessory drive pulleys, a belt looped over the pulleys, a tension pulley (5), an actuator (32), a connecting arm (8), an auto-tensioner (3) for adjusting belt tension automatically, an indicating member which is attached to the moving end of the actuator (32) to move in conjunction with the moving end, and an detecting member for detecting the position of the indicating member, whereby the plastic elongation of belt can be estimated by detecting the position of the indicating member visually.

Abstract: A vacuum lamination device for laminating a lamination member includes a base plate having an uneven surface contacting the lamination member for placing the lamination member, a frame member fixed to the base plate and having a discharge port for evacuating a processing space, and a cover member for hermetically sealing the processing space in the lamination process. In a vacuum lamination method, the lamination member is placed on the uneven surface, and the cover member is placed so as to cover the lamination member. Then, a gaseous material in the processing space is evacuated through the discharge port while heating the processing space.

Abstract: A vacuum lamination apparatus for performing a vacuum lamination process on a lamination material includes a base plate having two opposing sides for placing the lamination material; and evacuation members having an approximately triangular cross-section and fixed hermetically to the base plate at the two opposing sides. Each of the evacuation members has an evacuation port with a constant distance relative to the base plate. The vacuum lamination apparatus also includes end plates fixed hermetically to ends of each of the evacuation member, and a cover sheet placed on the base plate for covering the lamination material and the evacuation members to form a lamination space for performing the vacuum lamination process.

Abstract: A combination vessel is capable of carrying out temporary fastening while always bringing down a ring portion subsequently to breakage of a bridge part during an opening operation. A cap portion and a ring portion of a cap type sealing tool are coupled to each other through a bridge part. Through breakage of the bridge part during opening of the cap portion, the ring portion is pulled down while a sliding protrusion on an internal wall in a lower stage area of the ring portion always contacts by pressure an upward spread zone on an external wall of a neck zone of a bottle portion.

Abstract: To develop a combination vessel capable of carrying out temporary fastening while always bringing down a ring portion subsequently to breakage of a bridge part during opening. A cap portion (11) and a ring portion (12) in a cap type sealing tool (1) are coupled to each other through a bridge part (13). Through breakage of the bridge part during opening, the ring portion is pulled down while a sliding protrusion (12uc) on an internal wall in a lower stage area of the ring portion always interposes an upward spread zone (2nx) on an external wall of a neck zone of a bottle portion (2) by pressure. In addition, a vertical convex to block the opening turn (12rc) provided on an inner periphery of the ring portion and a vertical convex (2rc) to block opening turn provided on the external wall (2rz) of the neck zone of the bottle portion do not block attachment of the cap type sealing tool (1) but blocks accompanied rotation of the ring portion during the opening of the cap portion, thereby breaking the bridge part.

Abstract: An electronic transaction terminal, in which a memory for information for storing therein an identification number inputted from a ten-key and a power unit for memory for supplying power to this memory for information are connected to each other with a film for printed pattern wiring (FPC). The FPC is placed throughout the internal surface of a security case. If someone tries to make a hole on the security case, any point of the wiring pattern of the FPC is cut off. For this reason, power supply to the memory for information is shut down and data on the memory for information is deleted.

Abstract: A mold assembly for forming a lens blank which gives a contact lens includes an upper and a lower mold half which cooperate with each other to define a substantially fluid-tight mold cavity when the two halves are assembled together. The mold cavity is filled with a monomer liquid which is polymerized to provide the lens blank that is to be subjected to a cutting operation for forming a base and a front curved surface of the contact lens. The upper mold half includes a flexible thin-walled portion which has a downwardly convex shape and which partially defines the mold cavity. The thin-walled portion is deformable to absorb expansion or shrinkage of the monomer liquid during polymerization thereof in the mold cavity. The lower mold half includes a base portion at which the lower mold half is clamped by a chuck of a lathe during the cutting operation. A mold portion of the lower mold half has a molding surface which is provided with a recess or protrusion for holding the lens blank on the lower mold half.

Abstract: An ocular lens obtained by reacting a hydroxyl group-containing polymer shaped to have an ocular lens shape, with a silicon-containing compound of the formula (I):O.dbd.C.dbd.N--R.sup.1 --Si.sub.n O.sub.n-1 (CH.sub.3).sub.2n+1 (I)wherein R.sup.1 is a C.sub.1-6 linear or branched alkylene group, and n is an integer of from 1 to 15.

Abstract: An ocular lens material made of a copolymer obtained by polymerizing copolymerizable components comprising (A) a fluorine-containing di(meth)acrylate having urethane bonds, of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, each of R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently represents a C.sub.5-15 alkylene group, R.sup.5 represents a C.sub.1-20 alkylene group containing from 1 to 20 fluorine atoms, each of m and n independently represents an integer of from 1 to 5, and each of x and y independently represents 0 or 1, (B) a silicone-containing di(meth)acrylate having urethane bonds, of the formula (II): ##STR2## wherein each of R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, each of R.sup.8 and R.sup.9 independently represents a C.sub.1-10 alkylene group or a C.sub.2-10 ether group, R.sup.

Abstract: A process for producing a tinted contact lens, which includes dissolving a soluble vat dye in a monomer capable of dissolving the soluble vat dye therein, mixing the monomer having the soluble vat dye dissolved therein and other monomers, polymerizing the monomer mixture and processing the resulting polymer into a shape of a contact lens.

Abstract: A soft ocular lens material obtained by copolymerizing polymerizable components comprising (A) a fluorine-containing (meth)acrylate having a hydroxyl group of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R.sup.2 is a C.sub.5-15 perfluoroalkyl group, and n is 0 or 1, (B) a hydrophilic monomer, and (C) at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of silicon-containing (meth)acrylates and siloxane-containing styrene derivatives, wherein the ratio of the amount of the fluorine-containing (meth)acrylate (A) to the amount of the hydrophilic monomer (B) is from 20/80 to 70/30 by weight ratio, and the ratio of the total amount of the fluorine-containing (meth)acrylate (A) and the hydrophilic monomer (B) to the amount of the monomer (C) is from 30/70 to 90/10 by weight ratio.

Abstract: An ocular lens material made of a copolymer consisting essentially of (A) a polysiloxane macromonomer having polymerizable groups bonded by one or more urethane bonds to the siloxane main chain and (B) an alkyl (meth)acrylamide, wherein the weight ratio of the polysiloxane macromonomer to the alkyl (meth)acrylamide ranges from 10:90 to 90:10.

Abstract: An ocular lens material made of a copolymer comprising, as main copolymerizable components, (A) a polysiloxane macromonomer having polymerizable groups bonded via one or more urethane bonds to the siloxane main chain and (B) an alkyl (meth)acrylamide, wherein the weight ratio of the polysiloxane macromonomer to the alkyl (meth)acrylamide is from 5/95 to 90/10.

Abstract: A method for tinting a water-absorptive contact lens to have a mark tinted thereon, which comprises superimposing on a water-absorptive contact lens in the dry state a screen provided with a tinting pattern corresponding to the mark to be tinted on the contact lens, applying to the contact lens through the tinting pattern of the screen a dye solution containing a vat dye and an alkaline reducing agent, followed by insolubilizing the vat dye.