Abstract: An energy supply device such as a fan wheel generator for a mortar fuse or a battery which can be activated by a fan wheel. The energy supply device has a fast rotating fan wheel shaft which is supported in a housing body of the energy supply device. The fast-rotating fan wheel shaft and the housing body have a common bearing interface, wherein the bearing surface of the shaft or the bearing surface of the housing body is formed of a polytetrafluoroethylene material.

Abstract: A non-detonating heat transfer initiator. A representative heat transfer initiator is in the form of a heat transfer control medium, having a heat input portion and a heat output portion, and a non-detonating autoignition material, having an autoignition temperature, in thermal contact with the heat output portion. When heat is applied to the heat input portion, a transfer of heat through the heat transfer control medium to the heat output portion results, heating the heat output portion, such that, upon application of a sufficient amount of heat to the heat input portion, the heat output portion is heated to the autoignition temperature of the non-detonating autoignition material, igniting the non-detonating autoignition material ignites, thus producing a non-detonating thermal output.

Abstract: A short-action firearm has a chamber and bolt assembly with unique pressure, length and diametric relationships. The overall length of the chamber has a ratio to a diameter thereof, at a predetermined location on a wide portion of the chamber, of no more than about 4.2. Such diameter is at least about 0.53 inch, and the length of the wide portion of the chamber has a ratio to such diameter of no more than about 3.33.

Abstract: A car body 8 is supported on a bogie frame 4 through an air spring 5. Along to a width direction of the car body 8, to the bogie frame 4 a torsion bar 11 is provided. At both ends of the torsion bar 11, links 15 and 15 for inclining to direct for an inner side of the car body 8 through levers 13 and 13 are provided. Accordingly, a rolling displacement of the both ends of the car body is restricted and an upper and lower displacement in the same phase is not restricted. According to an occurrence of an excess centrifugal acceleration which acts on the car body 8, a car body inclination according to a link mechanism can be operated. For this reason, a light weight structure and a low cost structure can be attained. An inclination device having a light weight structure, a left and right riding good feeling in the passenger in a car, and a high fail-safe characteristic can be obtained.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a railway car for the transportation of semi-trucks. The railway car may have an interior defined by a support surface for the trucks, a pair of upstanding sidewalls, and a roof. End doors may be located at each end of the railway car for selectively permitting access to the interior thereof. The horizontal width at the ends of the railway car may be selected to permit the trucks to be loaded into the interior of the railway car.

Abstract: A pigment material for use in a coating composition suitable for coating a sheet material to be printed by an electrophotographic printer which pigment material comprises a blend of Components A and B as follows:

Abstract: Doped, pyrogenically prepared oxides of metals and/or non-metals which are doped with one or more doping components in an amount of 0.00001 to 20 wt. %. The doping component may be a metal and/or non-metal or an oxide and/or a salt of a metal and/or a non-metal. The BET surface area of the doped oxide may be between 5 and 600 m2/g. The doped pyrogenically prepared oxides of metals and/or non-metals are prepared by adding an aerosol which contains an aqueous solution of a metal and/or non-metal to the gas mixture during the flame hydrolysis of vaporizable compounds of metals and/or non-metals.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for forming permeable cement sand screens in well bores are provided. The compositions are basically comprised of a hydraulic cement, an acid soluble particulate solid, a liquid hydrocarbon solvent soluble particulate solid, a particulate cross-linked gel containing an internal breaker which after time causes the gel to break into a liquid, water present in an amount sufficient to form a slurry, a gas present in an amount sufficient to form a foam and a mixture of foaming and foamed stabilizing surfactants.

Abstract: Described are setting and hardening accelerators for hydraulic binders and said binder comprising compositions that are free of alkali metals and chlorides. The setting and hardening accelerators comprise, as main component, water-soluble fluoride comprising aluminum salts and water-soluble sulfate comprising aluminum salts, as well as optionally complexing agents and/or amines.

Abstract: A sewing machine having an embroidery stitching function is disclosed, the sewing machine comprising a drive mechanism for driving an embroidering frame B, a means for holding the embroidering frame B and operatively connected to the drive mechanism to be driven thereby to move the embroidering frame B in X-Y direction relative to a vertically reciprocating needle on the surface of a machine bed, and a means for normally pressing the embroidering frame B against the surface of the machine bed with an optimal force to absorb the vibrations of the embroidering frame B which may be caused during embroidery stitching operation, thereby to prevent the embroidering frame B from vibration and/or moving fup from the surface of the machine bed to secure a stabilized embroidery stitching operation.

Abstract: With a first thread being held at its tail end, a first loop is made. The first thread is passed through the first loop and a second loop is made thereinto. A beginning end of a second thread is inserted into the second loop, and the second loop is pulled into the first loop, and the beginning end of the second thread is tied in the first loop of the first thread.

Abstract: A blind stitch sewing mechanism includes a sewing head (10) with a carrier (20), a needle shaft (34) rotatably supported on the carrier (20), which needle shaft is connected with a needle holder (36) radially extending from the needle shaft for holding an arc shaped needle curved about the axis (38) of the needle shaft (34), a needle drive (56, 58, 44, 42) for moving the needle (40) back and forth, a loop catcher (74) moveably supported on the carrier (20)for receiving a thread loop formed by the withdrawal of the needle from the work material, a catcher drive for moving the loop catcher (74) in timewise coordination with the movement of the needle (40), and means (14) creating a relative movement between the sewing head (10) and the work material, the loop catcher (74) being formed for a back and forth movement perpendicular to the movement path of the needle (40) and the means (14) creating a relative movement between the sewing head (10) and the work material being so formed that the created sewn seam runs

Abstract: An upper thread cassette includes a cassette member having a cassette body formed of synthetic resin material and a cassette cover that opens or closes the cassette body, a thread wound member mounting part that mounts thereon a thread wound member winding an upper thread therearound and is provided inside the cassette member, a cutting mechanism that cuts the upper thread supplied from the thread wound member mounted on the thread wound member mounting part, and a thread end holding member that holds an end of the upper thread cut by the cutting mechanism.

Abstract: Thrusters in communication with a feedback control system are provided on a cylindrical offshore marine member, such as a spar, for reducing and/or controlling vortex-induced-vibrations, low-frequency drift oscillations due to random waves, and low-frequency wind induced resonant oscillations. The thrusters are provided thrust instruction from the feedback control system based on marine member displacement and current velocity.

Abstract: A missile support and alignment assembly for use on a moving vehicle having a fixed missile launch tube mounted thereon. The assembly comprises a missile support assembly including (i) a loading tray for supporting a missile, (ii) a storage structure for supporting the loading tray, and (iii) mounts resiliently connecting the storage structure to the vehicle.

Abstract: The reflective marker allows a user to easily place the invention in a desired location without damaging the housing or structure of the marker. More specifically, the reflective marker that contains a foot cleat allowing a user to foot pressure to the cleat or to strike the cleat with a mallet/hammer to drive the invention into the ground. As a result, force is not exerted on the marker's external housing or marker's reflector, and the reflector's aesthetic appeal, structural integrity and reflecting capacity are kept intact. The reflective marker has a primary and a secondary anchor spike for securing the device in the ground.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for manufacturing a silicon carbide film in which a crystal orientation is continued on a single crystal substrate surface and silicon carbide is allowed to epitaxially grow, the method comprising the steps of:

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a ceramic film includes a step of forming a ceramic film 30 by crystallizing a raw material body 20. The raw material body 20 contains different types of raw materials in a mixed state. The different types of raw materials differ from one another in at least one of a crystal growth condition and a crystal growth mechanism in the crystallization of the raw materials. According to this manufacturing method, a surface morphology of the ceramic film can be improved.

Abstract: A CVD apparatus includes a process chamber connected to a process chamber through a connection path. A window made of a light transmission material is disposed in a wall that defines the excitation chamber. A light source is disposed outside the excitation chamber to face the window. The light source irradiates a flow of a process gas with light through the window, thereby exciting the process gas. A surface purge system is arranged to supply a purge gas along the inner surface of the window. The surface purge system has a purge gas port open to the excitation chamber.

Abstract: A method of partially applying a hot-melt pressure sensitive adhesive composition to a backing material, in which

Abstract: An apparatus for applying liquid of a pasty application medium to a moving web includes a curtain applicator unit, which discharges the application medium onto the web as a curtain or veil which moves substantially under the force of gravity, and a device which at least prevents complete coverage of at least one of the edge strips of the web over a predetermined width. According to the invention, this device deflects the at least one edge strip out of the plane of the web, at least in the area of the curtain applicator unit.

Abstract: The development of oviparous species such as birds after hatch is enhanced by feeding a subject prior to hatch. The subject is fed with a nutrient composition and/or an enteric modulator. A preferred nutrient composition contains at least one protein, peptide, amino acid or carbohydrate; a preferred enteric modulator is hydroxymethylbutyrate. Feeding may be accomplished by administering the nutrient composition and/or enteric modulator into the amnion where it is then orally ingested by the subject.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically shaving animals' udder and part of their legs while they are in a milking compartment for automatically milking animals. A shaving device is movably connected to one side of the milking compartment and is movable both transversely and longitudinally as well as vertically relative to the milking compartment for automatically shaving animals in a period of about 30 seconds in preselected areas in the vicinity of their udders and hind legs. The shaving machine has a robot arm with a shaver provided on its end. The shaving machine is preferably hingeably connected to the side of the milking compartment and its operations are controlled by a computer so that animals identified by an identification system are shaved, say, every tenth time that they enter the milking compartment to be milked therein, or are shaved therein after a selected duration of time after being previously shaved in the milking compartment.

Abstract: Methods are provided for preparing absorbent material, comprising providing non-broken down and uncut recycled fiber sludge having a moisture content of greater than about 40%; pelletizing said recycled fiber sludge to form wet pellets; and drying said wet pellets. The absorbent material is particularly useful as an industrial-grade waste liquid absorbent and/or an animal litter.

Abstract: A locking system for pets. The system includes a locking leash assembly comprising a leash with a pet-securing region and a handle region. The handle region is adapted to be held by a user. The pet-securing region includes a lock assembly having a locked configuration and an unlocked configuration. In the locked configuration the lock assembly is adapted to secure together spaced-apart portions of the pet-securing region, thus defining a closed perimeter. The closed perimeter is sized to extend around a portion of a pet and configured to prevent removal of the leash from the pet. The lock assembly in the unlocked configuration is adapted to permit the release of the spaced-apart portions of the pet-securing region. In some embodiments, the leash includes a coupling structure adapted to be removably interlocked to a pet collar.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a pure mixture comprising fuel, water and an emulsifier for a combustion device. According to the method, a mixture pump located in a fuel circuit ensures that a volume of the fuel mixture used by the combustion device is constantly replaced with an identical volume of fuel, water and emulsifier. The quantity of water and emulsifier added to the mixture and consequently, the mix ratio of the components in the fuel mixture, is metered according to the fuel volume flow of fuel that is drawn from the fuel tank by the mixture pump, as metered by a metering device. The method guarantees for less operation and does not necessitate any intervention in existing control systems for the combustion device. A device for carrying out the method can be constructed simply by fitting an add-on device into an existing fuel circuit.

Abstract: A control method comprises the steps of: selectively supplying fuel gas to some cylinders of an engine on the basis of the power required from it; selecting the quantity of fuel gas supplied to each of the cylinders; and selecting, in successive engines cycles, different cylinders to supply with fuel gas according to a predetermined scheme of rotation.

Abstract: There is provided a cooling system for a liquid-cooled engine wherein the cooling effect exerted by the combination of a pump and a blower is optimized according to the state of the load on the engine so that the necessary cooling effect can be provided by the pump and the blower and that the power consumption can be reduced. In the cooling system, according to the load on the engine, a target cooling water temperature (Tmap) value and a combination of the operation duty ratios of the pump (500) and the blower (230), which produce the target water temperature (Tmap), are formed into a map. In an actual cooling system, when the target water temperature (Tmap) is obtained, the pump and the blower are respectively controlled by the duty ratios so that the sum (Lc) of the power consumptions thereof can be minimized.

Abstract: Disclosed is a technology capable of efficiently supplying a heater core 12 or a heat accumulation system 15 or an internal combustion engine body 1 with cooling water heated by a cooling water heating mechanism 20 by restraining an unnecessary heat radiation from the cooling water in an internal combustion engine including the heat accumulation system.

Abstract: A first cooling system is formed in a motor-assist device for a vehicle such that a motor housing including a motor is provided with a cooling path communicating with a cooling path in an engine, and the former cooling path is connected to a radiator, a water pump and the engine in that order. A second cooling system for cooling an inverter, which is separate from the first cooling system, is provided in the rear of the vehicle. The second cooling system includes a water pump and a radiator mounted on a lateral rod brace. Accordingly, the size of the second cooling system can be determined based on the amount of heat generated only in the inverter.

Abstract: The invention furnishes an electrically powered coolant pump (1) particularly suited for an internal combustion engine. It comprises a pump housing (2) having an elongate shape which encloses a pump wheel (31) on the inlet side and subsequently downstream therefrom encloses an electric motor (4), with an annular flow passage for the coolant being formed between the pump housing (2) and the outside of the electric motor (4). The electric motor (4) is encapsulated against the coolant, and the structural component of electric motor and pump wheel is retained in the axial range of the electric motor (4) with the aid of at least one web in the pump housing (2) through which the connections (6) for driving the electric motor (4) are routed.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprising at least one intake valve and/or exhaust valve moving axially between a closed position and a position of maximum opening and means for moving the valves adapted to move, on command, this valve between the closed position and the position of maximum opening, the valve movement means comprising an elastic member adapted to maintain this valve in the closed position, a hydraulic actuator selectively adapted to move this valve from the closed position to the position of maximum opening by countering the action of the elastic member, and a hydraulic circuit adapted to supply pressurized fluid to the hydraulic actuator, the hydraulic circuit comprising a delivery duct connected to the hydraulic actuator and pumping means adapted to supply pressurized fluid into the delivery duct, the pumping means comprising the elastic member and the hydraulic actuator.

Abstract: A variable valve system for an internal combustion engine has a plurality of valves provided for one cylinder of the internal combustion engine. The plurality of the valves are disposed on one of an intake side and an exhaust side of the one cylinder. The plurality of the valves has a first valve, and a second valve. The variable valve system further has a first variable gear for variably controlling at least a lift of a valve lift characteristic of the first valve, and a second variable gear for variably controlling at least a lift of a valve lift characteristic of the second valve. The first variable gear and the second variable gear operate independently of each other.

Abstract: An engageable cam follower (1) for acting on a pushrod in the valve train of an internal combustion engine is provided. This cam follower (1) includes of a thin-walled hollow cylindrical housing (2) in whose borehole (3) is positioned an internal element (4) axially movable with respect to the housing (2). The housing (2) and the internal element (4) each possess a radial borehole (13, 10) aligned in a relative position to each other. Positioned in the radial borehole (10) of the internal element (4) is a piston (11) having a convex end (14) and movable toward the radial borehole (13) of the housing (2) for coupling the internal element (4) with the housing (2) in the relative position. According to the invention, the borehole (3) ofthe housing (2) is shaped in the area ofthe radial borehole (13) of the housing (2) as a flattening (15) extending in the longitudinal direction of the cam follower (1).

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an improved assembly for operating at least one exhaust valve and at least one intake valve in a cylinder in an engine. The assembly includes a rocker shaft, an intake rocker arm pivotally mounted on the rocker shaft for operating at least one intake valve of the engine cylinder, an exhaust rocker arm pivotally mounted on the rocker shaft for operating at least one exhaust valve of the engine cylinder. The improved assembly includes a lash adjusting assembly for adjusting a lash between at least one of the intake rocker arm and the at least one intake valve, and the exhaust rocker arm and the at least one exhaust valve. The improvement further includes a fluid supply assembly for supplying fluid to the lash adjusting assembly to operate the lash adjusting assembly. The improved assembly further includes a control assembly for controlling the operation of the supply assembly in response to predetermined engine operating conditions.

Abstract: To operate a poppet valve in an internal combustion engine, a valve operating mechanism comprises a valve spring retainer which has a taper bore, a pair of cotters which is inserted in the bore to support the poppet valve, and a valve spring between the valve spring retainer and a cylinder head. There is provided means for preventing the cotters from falling out the bore.

Abstract: There is provided a multi-cylinder engine having an intake manifold comprising a plurality of induction pipes which are connected to a cylinder head at one ends thereof and at the other ends thereof extend to be away from the cylinder head, are then curved to extend along a side of a cylinder block, are curved further to approach the cylinder block and finally extend toward the one ends side. In the multi-cylinder engine, a starter motor is disposed in a gap defined between the intake manifold and the cylinder block.

Abstract: Sprockets are fixed to ends of camshafts supported in a cylinder head via camshaft holders, and a timing chain is wrapped around these sprockets. An oil drain hole is provided for supplying relief oil of a hydraulic control valve to the timing chain, and an oil jet is provided for issuing a jet of oil at high pressure from the hydraulic control valve to the timing chain. When the engine is rotating at low speed oil is supplied only through the oil drain hole, and when the engine is rotating at high speed, oil is supplied through both the oil jet and the oil drain hole. The timing chain wrapped around the sprockets of the camshafts can thereby be reliably lubricated according to the operational state of the engine.

Abstract: Camshaft sprockets are fixed to ends of an intake camshaft and an exhaust camshaft supported between a lower camshaft holder and an upper camshaft holder, and a timing chain is wrapped around these camshaft sprockets. A variable cam phase mechanism is provided on the intake camshaft sprocket, and an oil jet that issues a jet of oil for lubricating the timing chain is disposed between the exhaust camshaft sprocket and the lower camshaft holder. The jet of oil issued by the oil jet is directed toward the section where the intake camshaft sprocket is meshed with the timing chain. The oil jet that issues a jet of oil for lubricating the timing chain can thereby be arranged in a compact manner.

Abstract: Sprockets are fixed to ends of camshafts supported in a cylinder head via camshaft holders. A timing chain is wrapped around these sprockets. The relief oil from a hydraulic control valve for controlling a variable valve operating characteristic mechanism passes through an oil passage formed in the plane in which the cylinder head and the camshaft holder are joined and flows out of an oil drain hole, thus lubricating the section where the sprocket is meshed with the timing chain. The section where the sprocket of the camshaft is meshed with the timing chain can thereby be lubricated reliably by a simple structure.

Abstract: A catalyzer for a Diesel engine , where the catalyzer is located inside the combustion chamber, the pre-combustion chamber, the injector or the pre-heater. In one embodiment, the interior of the pre-combustion or combustion chamber is coated with a ceramic layer and submerged in an aluminum hydroxide and zirconium suspension. A coating of catalytic metals, such as rhodium, platinum, palladium, copper, silver aluminum, manganese and zinc, is then applied to the ceramic base inside the chamber. In another embodiment, the coating is applied by replacing the ceramic base by a bath of catalytic metals.

Abstract: A pressure regulator for use in regulating the outlet pressure of a pump for use in an engine comprises a piston member which is moveable with respect to an outlet opening under the influence of fluid pressure acting on the piston member to control the degree by which the outlet opening is obscured. The pressure regulator comprises a biasing arrangement for applying a biasing force to the piston member which opposes the pressure of fluid acting on the piston member. The biasing arrangement comprises a moveable abutment member which is cooperable with a stop member so as to vary the rate at which the displacement of the piston member varies with fluid pressure acting on the piston member. The stop member is pre-set in a fixed position relative to the regulator housing such that movement of the abutment member is terminated when the abutment member is urged into engagement with the stop member. The invention also relates to a transfer pump comprising a pressure regulator.

Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders and a cylinder halting mechanism for halting operation of at least one of the plurality of cylinders. The cylinder halting mechanism is controlled to operate all of the plurality of cylinders or to halt the operation of the at least one of the plurality of cylinders. The operating state of the cylinder halting mechanism is detected based on the amount of change in the detected intake pressure of the engine.

Abstract: A fuel injector control circuit reduces the number of gates required by arranging high side and low side gates in a matrix. Each coil is selectively activated by activating a unique pair of a high side gate and a low side gate, thus reducing the total number of gates required.

Abstract: An electromagnetic control valve has a passage for conducting fluid. An electromagnetic actuator generates an electromagnetic force. A main valve body opens and closes the passage in accordance with the electromagnetic force generated by the electromagnetic actuator. A bypass is formed in the main valve body. A sub valve body opens and closes the bypass in accordance with the electromagnetic force generated by the electromagnetic actuator. The electromagnetic force generated by the electromagnetic actuator is adjusted such that the sub valve body is opened and closed while the main valve body closes the passage.

Abstract: A rocker shaft holder that supports a rocker shaft and a camshaft holder that supports an intake camshaft and an exhaust camshaft in association with the rocker shaft holder are superimposed and connected to each other on the upper surface of a cylinder head, and a fuel pump that supplies fuel at high pressure to an injector is driven by a journal on a shaft end of the exhaust camshaft. The fuel pump is fastened to the cylinder head by means of a bolt; to the integral type camshaft holder, in which a plurality of bearings are integrally connected together via connecting parts, by means of a bolt; and to the rocker shaft holder by means of bolts, and the rigidity of the parts on which the fuel pump is mounted is thereby enhanced to reliably support the camshaft and the rocker shaft.

Abstract: An evaporative fuel treating system is free from the problem that the number of opportunities for fault detection is reduced by the restriction on the timing for diagnosis, and capable of performing a fault diagnosis on the whole purge passage from a fuel tank to an intake pipe. After an atmospheric air inlet valve of a canister has been closed, the operation of a purge pump is stopped when the negative pressure in the fuel tank has reached a predetermined value as a result of the operation of the purge pump. At the same time, or immediately after the purge pump has stopped, a flow control valve provided on or near the intake pipe is closed. After a predetermined period of time has elapsed, a change in pressure in the fuel tank is detected, thereby inspecting the purge passage for a leakage. Therefore, a fault diagnosis can be performed irrespective of the engine operating conditions. Accordingly, there is no reduction in the number of opportunities for fault detection.

Abstract: A process for controlling an internal combustion engine having a regulated turbocharger and integrated exhaust gas temperature is provided. The maximum cylinder filling capacity (rlmax) is taken from a stored characteristic field, which extends over the rpm (n) range. The values stored in the characteristic field are determined in the application and are standardized to a lambda value which can be preset, preferably to be lambda=1. When operating the internal combustion engine, the value of the maximum filling capacity (rlmax) taken from the characteristic field is corrected to the current fuel mixture composition.

Abstract: The need for the delivery of insulin by injection can be reduced or eliminated by delivering an aerosolized monomeric insulin formulation. Repeatability of dosing and more particularly the repeatability of the blood concentration versus time profile is improved relative to regular insulin. The blood concentration versus time profile is substantially unaffected by specific aspects of the patient's breathing maneuver at delivery. Further, the rate at which blood glucose is lowered is increased by the use of monomeric insulin. Particles of insulin and in particular monomeric insulin delivered to the surface of lung tissue will be absorbed into the circulatory system. The monomeric insulin may be a dry powder but is preferably in a liquid formulation delivered to the patient from a hand-held, self-contained device which automatically releases an aerosolized burst of formulation.

Abstract: A method for delivering an agent to the pulmonary system, in a single, breath-activated step or a single breath, comprises administering from a receptacle enclosing a mass of particles, to a subject's respiratory tract, particles which have a tap density of less than 0.4 g/cm3 and deliver at least about 50% of the mass of particles. The particles are capable of carrying agents. The agent is (1) part of the spray-drying pre-mixture and thereby incorporated into the particles, (2) added to separately-prepared particles so that the agent is in chemical association with the particles or (3) blended so that the agent is mixed with, and co-delivered with the particles.