Abstract: The invention relates to the heating of an exhaust gas catalyst arranged on an internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection, variable valve drive and a blower device, whereby, after recognition of a cold start for the internal combustion engine, by means of a device, the valve lift (VH) and the valve overlap (VO) for the gas exchange valves and the position of a throttle valve, arranged in the inlet tract of the internal combustion engine are adjusted to give a positive pressure drop between the inlet side and the exhaust side of the internal combustion engine such that at least a part of the air pumped by the blower device is pumped directly from the inlet to the outlet side of the internal combustion engine into the exhaust line as flushing air. Optimal reaction conditions are thus obtained in the exhaust gas catalyst.

Abstract: This system for assisting the maintenance of a particle filter integrated into an exhaust line of a motor vehicle diesel engine is characterized in that it comprises means (1) for calculating the volume of ash from the engine lubricating oil, means (2) for calculating the volume of ash from the engine fuel, means (4) for calculating the usable volume (V.u) of the particle filter from a total volume of said filter when new (V.new) and the previously calculated volumes of ash, and means (5) for calculating a degree of clogging of the particle filter (d.c.) from the total volume of the filter when new (V.new) and the previously calculated usable volume (V.u) to trigger a maintenance request (Maint.Req.) if the degree of clogging (d.c.) exceeds a predetermined threshold (threshold).

Abstract: A method to regulate catalyst temperature by adjusting engine air and fuel amounts. The method provides catalyst temperature regulation while reducing fuel consumption.

Abstract: For fixing a catalytic body, which has a cylindrical case and is housed in an exhaust pipe, to the exhaust pipe that serves as part of an exhaust system connected to an engine. The catalytic body can be housed in and fixed to the exhaust pipe even if the catalytic body and the exhaust pipe are made of different materials, thus increasing the freedom in choosing materials for the case of the catalytic body and the exhaust pipe. A bracket, which is made of the same material as an exhaust pipe, is welded to an inner circumferential surface of the exhaust pipe. The bracket is crimped on the case of the catalytic body.

Abstract: A collar member including a main body part having a bolt hole for inserting a bolt and a flange part projecting horizontally to outside from the upper end of the main body part, a fitting member being a member for fitting with a vibration and heat insulating board main body part, having an inside diameter larger than the outside diameter of the collar member by specified dimension, and disposed at the outside of the collar member, and a spring member disposed in a specified dimension between the collar member and fitting member for coupling the collar member and fitting member at least on three positions. As a result, mounting on the vibration source is stable, the heat insulation effect and vibration control effect are high, and the cost is reduced.

Abstract: A hydrodynamic converter is provided having a pump wheel, which is flowed through in operation from the inside to the outside; a turbine wheel, which is flowed through in operation from the outside to the inside; guide blades between the pump wheel and the turbine wheel; and guide blades between the turbine wheel and the pump wheel. The converter can have a speed ratio of between the speed nT of the turbine wheel and the speed nP of the pump wheel of between 1.2 and 4 at approximately even or falling ? progress. The converter can also have different speed ratios between pump and turbine, which can be realized with the ratio R/r equal to or larger than 1.

Abstract: A power steering apparatus includes a hydraulic power cylinder, and a reversible pump driven by a motor. A steering assist sensor senses a steering assist force provided to a steering wheel. A controller ascertains a pump discharge quantity of the reversible pump, and a cylinder volume variation of the pressure chambers of the hydraulic power cylinder; and calculates a leak quantity of the reversible pump from a difference between the pump discharge quantity and the cylinder volume variation. The controller controls the motor to cause the motor to produce a desired fluid pressure in accordance with the steering assist force and the leak quantity.

Abstract: In a hydraulic power steering system employing a power cylinder accommodating therein a piston connected to a steering mechanism for steering assistance, and having first and second hydraulic chambers defined on both sides of the piston, hydraulic pressure is supplied through first and second fluid lines to the respective hydraulic chambers. A communicating circuit is provided to intercommunicate the first and second fluid lines therevia. A directional control valve, disposed in the communicating circuit, has a poppet valve mechanism, which is switched to a valve-open position in presence of a hydraulic power steering system failure, to intercommunicate the first and second fluid lines with the poppet valve mechanism opened.

Abstract: An electro-hydraulic system for operating a cooling fan and providing hydraulic fluid to a power steering system of the vehicle includes a hydraulic pump unit including first and second fixed displacement pumps and a common drive shaft for these pumps. A hydraulic fluid reservoir is connected to the inlet of each of the pumps. A priority valve is operatively connected to the outlet of the first pump and has an outlet connectible to the power steering system. This valve also has a second outlet connectible to a hydraulic motor for the cooling fan. This valve is arranged to provide a constant flow of hydraulic fluid to the power steering system. A hydraulic line connects an outlet of the second pump to the hydraulic motor. Hydraulic fluid flow through this line is combined with hydraulic fluid flow from the first pump to drive the motor.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to controlling an operation oil supplied to an option apparatus without changing a design of a control valve assembly which controls an operation oil supplied to a traveling motor, etc. when additionally engaging an option apparatus to a small size excavator.

Abstract: A hydraulic controller for working machine according to the present invention, which presupposes an electronic control system where an integrated bleed-off valve common to hydraulic actuators is used for bleed-off control and the bleed-off valve is controlled by the secondary pressure of a proportional solenoid valve controlled by a controller, is constituted to compensate supply of a pressure oil for the hydraulic actuators even if the secondary pressure of the proportional solenoid valve is stopped, by providing, at the bleed-off valve, a fail-safe position with a fail-safe path which opens with an opening having smaller area than an unload opening.

Abstract: An invented dual, coupled check valve mechanism is described for a direct drive, reversible hydraulic power source for hydraulic circuits that includes a manifold hydraulically coupled to the respective input/output ports and a reservoir of the hydraulic power source defining a translation passageway having mid-passage drain hydraulically coupled to the reservoir, where each end of the translation passageway has an angled annular valve seat opening to larger diameter plenum containing a check valve ball. A translating rod with a length greater and a circumferential diameter less than that of the translation passageway located in the translation passageway prevents the respective check valve balls from simultaneously seating on the valve seats at the respective ends of the translation passage way.

Abstract: A thermal bend actuator (6) is provided with a group of upper arms (23, 25, 26) and a group of lower arms (27, 28) which are non planar, so increasing the stiffness of the arms.

Abstract: The invention relates to an energy storing method and apparatus for use by end-users of energy, such as commercial property owners and operators. The system differs from past systems, insofar as it is not intended to be used by and in connection with energy suppliers, such as large utility and power supply plants and grids. The system preferably relates to the manner in which an end-user of energy can implement energy and costs savings, by using energy storage and time-shifting methods, to control and regulate the consumption of energy in a manner that achieves a cost savings over a period of time.

Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine annular combustion chamber (1) comprising an outer axial wall (2), an inner axial wall (4), and a chamber bottom end (8) connecting the said walls, the chamber bottom end being provided with several passages (34,36,72) enabling initiation of a cooling air film (D2) along the hot inner surface (30) of the outer axial wall and initiation of a cooling air film (D1) along the hot inner surface (32) of the inner axial wall, the outer axial wall and the inner axial wall being multi-perforated roughly over their full length in order to enable reinforcement of the cooling air films. According to the invention, the outer axial wall and the inner axial wall are provided, in an upstream part, with a first zone (54,40) of perforations (38) formed such that cooling air is introduced inside the combustion chamber in reverse flow.

Abstract: A cooling structure for electronic equipment is designed for cooling a heat-generating body (2a) disposed inside a case (20) by recovering heat generated by the heat-generating body (2a) and dissipating the heat to the outside of the case (20). The cooling structure includes a heat-receiving section (4) for recovering heat generated in the heat-generating body (2a), a thermally insulated space (6) provided with an air inflow orifice (42a) and an air outflow orifice (42b) and thermally insulated from the heat-generating body (2a) and heat-receiving section (4) by a thermally insulating member (40), a heat-dissipating section (7) provided inside the thermally insulated space (6), a heat transfer member (5) for transferring the heat recovered in the heat-receiving section (4) to the heat-dissipating section (7), and a fan (22) for generating forcibly an air flow in the thermally insulated space (6).

Abstract: A temperature controller for a semiconductor-fabricating tool includes a Peltier element disposed on an outer wall of the semiconductor-fabricating tool, and a battery for providing a current to the Peltier element. The Peltier element a heat-emitting plate for emitting heat by the current provided thereto, and a heat-absorbing plate for absorbing a heat. A first temperature sensor senses a temperature of the Peltier element. A second temperature sensor senses an interior temperature of the semiconductor-fabricating tool. A controller controls an amount of the current provided to the Peltier element in accordance with a temperature of the Peltier element sensed by the first temperature sensor and an interior temperature of the semiconductor-fabricating tool sensed by the second temperature sensor.

Abstract: A feed gas supply unit for a fuel cell system uses a feed gas supply and/or cooling fluid passages to cool the control unit, bearings, and motor of the feed gas supply device.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for vaporizing cryogenic fluids in which an intermediate heat transfer fluid is first heated across a heat transfer surface with ambient air, and then the heat transfer surface provides heat to vaporize the cryogenic fluid.

Abstract: A system for processing and transporting compressed natural gas having a separator for separating the pressurized high-energy content gas into saturated gas and liquids; a decontamination unit for removing impurities from the saturated gas to create a decontaminated saturated gas; a dehydration unit for dehydrating the decontaminated saturated gas to remove water forming a dry pressurized gas; a chiller for cooling the dry pressurized gas cooled from ambient temperature to between ?80 Fahrenheit and ?120 Fahrenheit forming a two-phase gas; a floating vessel; at least one storage module located on the floating vessel that maintains a pressure ranging from 800 psi and 1200 psi; and wherein the floating vessel transports at least one storage module a distance ranging between 500 nautical miles and 2500 nautical miles and utilizes the vapor phase during transit to power the floating vessel.

Abstract: An electronic controller maintains the operating temperature of a cryopump by controlling a heater coupled to the cryopump. The heater is coupled to a cryopumping surface of the cryopump. The controller can control the operation of the heater in response to feedback from temperature sensors coupled to the cryopump. The controller can cause the heater to shut-off if a temperature sensor reads out of its normal temperature range.

Abstract: A tandem compressor system is utilized that receives refrigerant from a common suction manifold, and from a common evaporator. From the compressors, the refrigerant passes to a plurality of condensers, with each of the condensers being associated with a separate zone for heat rejection, preferably at different temperature levels. Each of the condensers is associated with at least one of the plurality of compressors. By utilizing the common evaporator, yet a plurality of condensers, the ability to independently control temperature and amount of heat rejection to a number of zones is achieved without the requirement of having a dedicated circuit with multiple additional components. Thus, the overall system cost and complexity can be greatly reduced. In embodiments, one or more of the plurality of compressors can be provided by a compressor bank, having its own plurality of compressors.

Abstract: A driving method of an air conditioning system is disclosed. The air conditioning system includes a first cooling device combined with a heating function and having a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion device, a passage control device and an interior heat exchanger, a second cooling device provided at an outlet side of the blower and having a cooling pad containing moisture and ventilating, a tank storing refrigerant, a pump, a sprayer and a filter, a control unit electrically connecting to the first and second cooling devices and a humidity sensor and alternatively driving the first cooling device and the second cooling device according to humidity of outdoor air delivered from the humidity sensor during air conditioning mode.

Abstract: A heat pump system for providing water heating and air conditioning, comprising one or more compressors for circulating a refrigerant in the system, a hot water tank having a heat exchanger for heating and storing the hot water, an outdoor heat exchanger and a fan for rejecting or extracting heat to or from the outdoor environment in air cooling, or water heating and/or air heating modes of operation respectively, an indoor heat exchanger with a fan for conditioning and supplying air to an indoor space. The system is particularly suitable in applications which require water heating and house cooling all year round. The system may also be adapted to other situations such as year-round water heating with seasonal air cooling, or year-round water heating with seasonal air cooling and heating, etc., and used for different applications, e.g., space heating and cooling simultaneously.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a main body provide with a storage compartment and a door for opening and closing the compartment, a display unit installed on the door, for displaying an image of a television, and a heat discharging unit installed at one side of the display unit, for releasing heat generated from the display unit. Accordingly, overheating of the display unit and deterioration of refrigeration performance can be prevented.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for cooling air that utilizes a removable reservoir that may be filled with a consumable beverage or other cooled liquid or solid material. The bottom of the reservoir is made of a thermally conductive material that is placed within an air duct within a base unit that has a battery powered fan capable of drawing in warm air from outside of the base unit and cooling it by passing it over the thermally conductive material in a turbulent fashion and expelling it back into the surrounding environment. An expandable hose may also be included to direct the airflow in a desired direction or location. The unit may also include an alternative path for airflow such that the airflow may be heated. The unit may also be secured to an open air vehicle such as a golf cart to provide cooled or heated air for golf course patrons.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a refrigerant cycle apparatus which can optimize the capability of releasing heat from a refrigerant in a gas cooler and an auxiliary heat exchanger under use conditions at a low cost. There are provided an intermediate cooling circuit which once releases heat from a refrigerant discharged from a compressor and then returns the refrigerant to the compressor, and a fan which ventilates an inter cooler of the intermediate cooling circuit and a gas cooler. The inter cooler has substantially the same ventilation area as that of the gas cooler.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes: a refrigerator body having a cooling chamber for storing food items and a mechanic chamber provided at one side thereof; a heat exchanger disposed in the mechanic chamber and performing heat exchanging while a refrigerant passes therethrough; a cross flow fan disposed facing the heat exchanger and blowing air for heat exchange; and a compressor mounted inside the mechanic chamber and compressing a refrigerant. A space for the mechanic chamber can be reduced, and thus, a cooling chamber for keeping food items can be enlarged.

Abstract: There is provided an exhaust-heat using refrigerating system which can add the function of refrigerant heater, condenser or super-cooler by using exhaust heat. The system comprises a heat pump apparatus 1 equipped with a compressor 12, a first heat exchanger 14, a pressure-reducing device 15 and a second heat exchanger 21, and an absorption type refrigerating machine 5 equipped with a regenerator 51 using exhaust heat as a heat source, a condenser 53, an evaporator 54 and an absorber 55. A third heat exchanger 17 is connected to the first heat exchanger 14 in parallel, and the heat source of the third heat exchanger 17 is achieved from the evaporator 54 of the absorption type refrigerating machine.

Abstract: In a refrigerating apparatus in which a plurality of application-side heat exchangers (41, 45, 51) are connected to a heat-source side heat exchanger (4), liquid lines for a plurality of channels in a refrigerant circuit (1E) share a liquid side communication pipe (11) in order to reduce the number of pipes. Further, the liquid side communication pipe (11) is provided adjacent to a low-pressure gas side communication pipe (15) for at least one channel so as to contact it in order to supercool a liquid refrigerant by a low-pressure gas refrigerant. Thus, workability for connecting the pipes is improved and a refrigerating ability may not be decreased even if communication pipes (11, 15, 17) become long.

Abstract: A piping structure of an air conditioner causes a looped main piping connected to a compressor of an outdoor unit of the air conditioner to be branched into two or more branch pipings within a predetermined interval of the main piping and cause the branch pipings to be jointed at an arbitrary location. According to the piping structure, it is possible to reduce a vibration by an interference phenomenon, which is generated when either a refrigerant pulsation or a periodic vibration of the compressor is divided and then combined.

Abstract: Liquid nitrogen is filled in a low temperature vessel; an ejector that sucks liquid nitrogen by blowing a cooling agent (liquid or gas) such as low temperature helium gas or liquid helium of pressure higher than in the space within the vessel is disposed in the vessel; the liquid nitrogen blown with the cooling agent is cooled by the cooling agent to become fine particles of solid nitrogen which fall down; and gas in a space of the vessel is discharged out of the vessel so as to maintain the pressure of the space higher than the atmospheric pressure. A gaseous phase of liquid nitrogen in an adiabatic vessel is depressurized to vaporize nitrogen in a liquid phase so that a temperature of the nitrogen is reached to the triple point of nitrogen by lowering temperature thereby and solid nitrogen is produced by keeping at the triple point, and that the produced solid nitrogen is transformed into slush by stirring the content of the adiabatic vessel.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for the recovery of ethane, ethylene, propane, propylene, and heavier hydrocarbons from a liquefied natural gas (LNG) stream is disclosed. The LNG feed stream is directed in heat exchanger relation with a warmer distillation stream rising from the fractionation stages of a distillation column, whereby the LNG feed stream is partially heated and the distillation stream is partially condensed. The partially condensed distillation stream is separated to provide volatile residue gas and a reflux stream, whereupon the reflux stream is supplied to the column at a top column feed position. A portion of the partially heated LNG feed stream is supplied to the column at an upper mid-column feed point, and the remaining portion is heated further to partially or totally vaporize it and thereafter supplied to the column at a lower mid-column feed position.

Abstract: A jewelry design for adorning an ear which includes a conically-shaped stud mounting extending conically outward from a conical point to form a conical basket for securing a stone therein, a post with a near end attached to the conical point and a far end, and a nut engagable with the far end of the post for securing the stud mounting to the ear; a dangling element; and an intermediary connecting member which removably engages an exterior surface of the conical basket, and which includes a jump ring extending outward therefrom for flexibly supporting the dangling element so that it is removably suspendable below the stud mounting.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an item of jewelry comprised of a ring with shank, where the shank defines a disk opening. A message disk is mounted within the disk opening. The message disk is rotatable, transversely to the shank within the disk opening, so as to display an inscription thereon.

Abstract: The method of making borosilicate glass with a surface having reactive SiOH groups on it includes preparing a borosilicate glass melt and dissolving at least 30 mMol per liter of water in the borosilicate glass melt. The borosilicate glass contains from 70 to 87 percent by weight, SiO2; from 7 to 15 percent by weight, B2O3; from 0 to 8 percent by weight, Al2O3; from 0 to 8 percent by weight, Na2O and from 0 to 8 percent by weight of K2O. The borosilicate glass with the easily modified reactive surface can be used as a substrate for chemically covalent immobilization of reactive substances. This substrate can be used to make a biochemical chip, such as a DNA or gene chip, or dirt-proof window glass.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is an improved sheet glass forming apparatus. In another embodiment, a precise thermal control system redistributes the flow of molten glass at the weirs to counteract the degradation of the sheet forming apparatus which inevitably occurs during manufacturing. In yet another embodiment, the invention introduces a counteracting force to the stresses on the trough in a manner such that the thermal creep which inevitably occurs has a minimum impact on the glass flow characteristics of the forming trough. Another embodiment creates a variable external cross-section which provides hydraulic stresses that are in opposition to the surface tension and body force stresses and thus, reduces the influence of surface tension and body forces. In an alternative embodiment, the glass is preferentially cooled across its width to create forming stresses during solidification, which ensures that the glass sheet drawn is inherently flat.

Abstract: The present invention provides doped titania-doped silica glass articles having low thermal expansions and low variations in thermal expansion. According to one embodiment of the invention, a titania-doped silica glass article has a titania content of between about 5 wt % and about 9 wt %; a coefficient of thermal expansion of between about ?30 ppb/° C. and about +30 ppb/° C. at a temperature between 15° C. and 30° C.; and a variation in coefficient of thermal expansion of less than about 5 ppb/° C. at a temperature between 15° C. and 30° C.

Abstract: A method for bending a sheet of glass involving heating the sheet of glass to a softening temperature, transporting the sheet of glass in an essentially horizontal path as far as a station for bending the sheet of glass between two forms, shaping the sheet of glass by pressing between the two forms, and cooling the sheet of glass in an appropriate station. Shaped rollers receive the sheet of glass after it has been bent and the rollers are oriented parallel to the direction defined on the sheet of glass by the direction in which it is conveyed into the bending station.

Abstract: In the method for loading a glass processing installation (5) with loading portions (10a), glass plates (10, 10b) are extracted repeatedly from a storage unit (20) in a predetermined sequence and divided into a residual portion (10b), which is stored in the storage unit, and a loading portion (10a), which is delivered to the glass processing installation. It is thereby possible to selectively load the glass processing unit with portions of glass plates of certain dimensions and of a determined sort. The device for loading a glass processing installation comprises a storage unit (20) with at least two compartments (21), each compartment being capable of receiving at least one glass plate (10, 10b), and displacing means for displacing a glass plate in a compartment at least partially out of the compartment.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for bending glass panels. The upper tier of successive mould carriers defines a number of heating sections, the last one of which is an actual bending section. The lower tier of successive mould carriers defines a number of cooling sections, which are located below the heating sections. The mould carriers are provided with an open-structured or otherwise highly heat transmissive bottom. Underneath bending sections, effecting gravitational bending on an upper mould carrier track, lie cooling sections, each of which is individually provided with controlled cooling air circulation by means of cooling air exhaust fans. Following the sections performing the controlled cooling or annealing, the mould carriers are adapted to be conveyed along a lower mould carrier track nonstop under a plurality of preheating sections by a single passage.

Abstract: A three-piece panty garment can include three panels formed from halves of tubular blanks knit on a small-diameter circular knitting machine designed for making pantyhose. As a result, such a panty garment can comprise a girth that is substantially three times the diameter of a small-diameter circular knitting machine knitting cylinder. Such panty garments and methods of making such panty garments can provide larger size panty garments, for example, size 10, 12, and 14, made on a circular knitting machine designed for making pantyhose.

Abstract: There are provided a stitch cam including a first cam in which a stitch size determining cam surface for a large-sized stitch and a receiving cam surface are formed in the same phase, and a second cam which has a common retracting cam surface and in which a receiving cam surface is formed in the same phase as a stitch size determining cam surface for the small-sized stitch, and drive mechanism for the first cam and the second cam, wherein the second cam is supported on the first cam in such a manner that when the first cam is shifted in the front-and-back direction by the drive mechanism of the first cam, the second cam is shifted together in the front-and-back direction and also shifted relative thereto in the front-and-back direction by the drive mechanism of the second cam so that the stitch size determining cam surface provided in the second cam can be displaced with respect to the stitch size determining cam surface provided in the first cam, whereby a small-sized stitch and a large-sized stitch are form

Abstract: A cement balance weight for a drum type washing machine and its manufacturing method. The balance weight includes a housing having a predetermined inner space and an opening for cement injection. The housing includes coupling features that assist coupling the balance weight with a tub.

Abstract: A combination lock and padlock combination for visually indicating a key opening permission being allowed or not is disclosed. A wheel includes two opposite projections on one end surface, spaced protuberances on the other end surface, two opposite key opening marks provided on an outer surface, and an annular flange proximate the protuberances, the flange being partially exposed. In response to turning the wheel to conceal the marks, a co-owner is aware that a key opening mechanism is disabled. Also, forcedly inserting a key into the key opening mechanism for opening the combination will be futile since a downward movement path of a protrusion on a spring biased shuttle assembly is blocked by the lower projection even if an engagement member of the key opening mechanism is aligned with mated bottom legs of the shuttle assembly.

Abstract: A combination lock and padlock combination for visually indicating a key opening permission being allowed or not by forming two opposite marks on a wheel is disclosed. In response to turning the wheel to conceal the marks, a co-owner is aware that a key opening mechanism is disabled. Also, forcedly inserting a key into the key opening mechanism for opening the combination will be futile since a downward movement path of a protrusion on a spring biased shuttle assembly for disengaging with an indentation of the wheel is blocked by either recessed portion of the wheel even if an engagement member of the key opening mechanism is aligned with mated bottom legs of the shuttle assembly.

Abstract: A lock including a frame, a handle operated latch bolt, a handle shaft, a latch bolt actuating mechanism and a mechanism for locking the handle shaft. The latch bolt locking mechanism includes a locking lever which is fixed with respect to the handle shaft and arranged to cooperate with a stop element on the frame. The latch bolt locking mechanism further includes an electromagnet which moves the locking lever with respect to the handle shaft or the stop element with respect to the frame so that the locking lever can be unlocked and locked behind the stop element. The locking device, which is either formed by the locking lever or by the stop element, is movable by the electromagnet in a direction forming an angle greater than about 45°, preferably greater than about 65°, with a flat plane extending at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the handle shaft. A more reliable locking and unlocking of the handle shaft can be produced.

Abstract: A mortise lock having a double locking function is provided, which includes: a deadbolt for performing a locking function of a door by going in and out the door; a latchbolt going in and out the door by a handle installed on the door; and a locking member for maintaining the latchbolt in a locked state by keeping the latchbolt projected when the deadbolt is projected, whereby it is possible to improve the security, and reducing breakage and malfunction of the deadbolt due to forced operations of the door, since the door employing the mortise lock cannot be forcedly opened without breaking the latchbolt as well as the deadbolt.

Abstract: A control knob having a locking mechanism that can be pressure-activated and controlled from the outside by the operator. When activated, the locking mechanism engages a structure on which the knob is mounted, preventing the rotation of the knob. The locking mechanism includes a keylock having a latch that can be turned with a key so as to engage a catch of the knob-housing seat of the locking mechanism.

Abstract: The invention relates to a forming tool for forming sheet blanks in a diaphragm press of the kind comprising an openable, closed pressure chamber, which is divided in a gas and liquid tight manner by means of a flexible diaphragm. The forming tool is arranged on one side of the diaphragm and a sheet blank to be formed is arranged between the forming tool and the diaphragm. The opposite side of the diaphragm is pressurized by a fluid being supplied at high pressure to cause the flexible diaphragm to deform and, thus, the sheet blank to be pressed against the forming tool. The forming tool comprises an elongate cutting and flanging tool along at least part of its periphery and/or around an intended opening in the sheet blank.