Abstract: A bulging apparatus has a heating station, a tube expanding station, a preforming station, and a main forming station. A straight tube as a workpiece is gripped by first holding mechanisms or second holding mechanisms, and delivered between the stations as the first holding mechanisms or second holding mechanisms are displaced. During a preforming process and a main holding process, both the first holding mechanisms and second holding mechanisms can be lifted and lowered vertically and can be moved horizontally.

Abstract: In a press working apparatus 10, while a servo motor 24 is acting, an upper die 38 is made to come close to a lower die 52 and press working of the first time is conducted on a steel plate 12. A slider 32 is raised to a movable punch preparation position. A movable punch 90 is protruded from a die face 38a of the upper die 38 by width H and locked by a mechanical lock 94. The upper die 38 is made to come close to the lower die 52 again and the steel plate 12 is pushed with the upper die 38 and at the same time an additional worked portion 12a is pushed and deformed with the movable punch 90 so as to conduct press working of the second time. After the movable punch 90 has been retracted, the slider 32 is raised.

Abstract: A front cross member 202 of a rear subframe 53 has a recessed portion 221 which is recessed continuously over a longitudinal direction thereof. The recessed portion 221 is formed at a lower portion of the cross member 202 and is recessed upwardly, and an elastic bush 240 is fitted in a resulting recess. The elastic bush 240 has an elastic element 243 which connects together an inner tube 241 and an outer tube 242 which surrounds the inner tube 231 and is mounted on the rear subframe 53 at the recessed portion 221 as a bracket. The bracket 221 has bracket plate portions 263a, 263b which each have a plane which is brought into contact with an end face of the inner tube and folded-back portions 235, 235. The bracket 221 is disposed in such a manner as to hold therein both ends of the inner tube 241 and is configured such that the elastic bush 240 is mounted thereon by passing a bolt 224 through the inner tube 241.

Abstract: A rubbery adhesive composition wherein at least one adherend is a rubber composition including butadiene rubber as a rubber ingredient, characterized in that butadiene rubber is included as a rubber ingredient and 3˜20% by weight of the butadiene rubber is syndiotactic-1,2-polybutadiene. Thus, it is possible to enhance the strength of the rubbery adhesive composition itself to improve the adhesion property before and after vulcanization without damaging the adhesion property at the interface.

Abstract: A heavy duty pneumatic radial tire comprises a carcass ply wound around a bead core from inside toward outside to form a turnup portion, a rubber chafer arranged at an outer surface side of the turnup portion, and a reinforcing rubber arranged between a portion of the rubber chafer and the turnup portion, in which the reinforcing rubber is made of an anisotropic material having different properties at least between the circumferential direction and the radial direction of the tire, and 100% moduli M.sub.1, M.sub.2 of the reinforcing rubber in the circumferential and radial directions and 100% modulus M.sub.3 of a coating rubber for the carcass ply satisfy relationships of M.sub.1 /M.sub.2 >1.1 and M.sub.2 /M.sub.3 <1.0.

Abstract: A heavy duty pneumatic radial tire comprises a pair of bead portions, a pair of sidewall portions, a tread portion, a radial carcass ply and a belt, in which at least three rubber layers having different hardnesses exist in a zone ranging from the cords in a turnup portion of the carcass ply to an axially outer portion of the bead portion throughout a region of the bead portion corresponding to a line drawn normal to the axially outer portion of the bead portion in a contact area increased portion of the bead portion sandwiched between two contact end positions of an axial outside surface of the bead portion on a flange of a design rim as measured under particular conditions, and the at least three rubber layers are comprised of a coating rubber of the carcass ply and a softest rubber layer and a hardest rubber layer, and the softest rubber layer and hardest rubber layer have particular values of 100% modulus.

Abstract: In an interactive editing apparatus, a three-dimensional object to be edited is a set of polygonal surfaces which are arranged in a three-dimensional space and have the same number of sides. These polygonal surfaces are arranged on the three-dimensional space to display on a perspective view, the sides of the polygonal surfaces are linearly enveloped to express a polygonal three-dimensional object. When a user edits any one of vertex positions, data regarding the edited vertex and associated other vertex positions are updated. Further in the interactive editing apparatus, data regarding vertexes and faces of the object are managed using data cells, and shape data before the last editing are stored in the data cells together with present shape data, whereby an undo function is realized.

Abstract: A solid graphic arranging/editing method enables a user to enter or edit a solid graphic viewed on a display. According to the method, three points of a rectangular parallelepiped are specified, and the solid is arranged to be inscribed within the parallelepiped. A reference plane is then defined and a first point on the reference plane is specified. A local coordinate plane is also defined and a second point is specified on the local coordinate plane. A rectangle lying in the local coordinate plane and having the first and second points as diagonal vertices is then displayed. Auxiliary lines perpendicular to the local coordinate plane and passing the second point are also displayed and a third point on a selected auxiliary line is displayed. A rectangular parallelepiped is then displayed having the rectangle as one surface and the third point as a vertex. The position of the solid and the scales are then adjusted such that the solid is inscribed in the rectangular parellelepiped.

Abstract: In a 3-dimensional animation generating apparatus which uses a computer, the user generates a number of static images having parent-child relationships and which serve as key frames in the sequence from the start to the end of the animation, a number of animation frames specified by the user being automatically inserted between the key frames by means of interpolation. In this 3-dimensional animation generating apparatus, the times of each of the key frames as specified by the user are stored, the parent object coordinates and child object coordinates generated by the user are stored in a world coordinate system, along with parent-child relationship in each of the key frames.

Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire, particularly for a construction vehicle, has a carcass ply arranged toroidally between a pair of bead cores, containing rubber coated steel cords disposed radially therein, being turned up around each bead core from the inside to the outside of the tire and the turn-up portion of which around each bead core extends to around 1/2 height of the tire height H. When the radical length of an overlapping portion of the turn-up portion of the carcass ply and the main carcass ply is h.sub.1 and the thickness of the overlapping portion is w.sub.1 within a range of .+-.0.1 H having half height H/2 of the tire height H as the center, the radial length h and the thickness w of a reinforcing rubber material arranged between the turn-up portion of the carcass ply and the main ply satisfy the following formulae(1) 0.2w.sub.1 .ltoreq.w.ltoreq.1.0w.sub.1, and(2) 0.5h.sub.1 .ltoreq.h.ltoreq.1.0h.sub.

Abstract: An earthquake isolating and vibration absorbing equipment for structures is provided with a hanger secured to one of a floor including a ground and a supported member of a structure installed on the floor, a lever, one end of which is swingably mounted on the hanger, a weight member mounted on the other end of the lever, a holder secured to the other one of the floor and supported member, and arms for connecting one end of the lever to the free end portion of the holder. The structure provided with the equipment is less influenced by an earthquake or vibrations under the action of the lever on which there is mounted the weight member having a weight far lighter than that of the structure.