Abstract: A plurality of suctioning flow paths for suctioning mobile phases meet each other at a meeting portion. The meeting portion is connected to an inlet flow path communicating with an inlet of a reciprocating pump. The suctioning flow paths are respectively provided with solenoid valves for opening and closing the respective flow paths. The suctioning flow paths are respectively provided with orifices between the solenoid valves and the meeting portion. The orifices are sections of the respective suctioning flow paths having smaller diameters.

Abstract: A pump 24 with speed control is utilized. A dispenser 12 may have a trigger 16 which actuates a valve 16. Dispenser control 18 has “up” and “down” buttons, 20 and 22 respectively. The controls 28 (comprising elements 18, 20 and 22) for the pump 24 are remote from pump 24. The controls communicate with the pump via wires or radio frequency (RF) 26 to regulate pump speed. Quick button (20 and 22) presses will incrementally change the flow setting while long button (20 and 22) presses will change the settings at a higher rate. This control method can also be tied to the controls located on the pump 24. The potentiometer 30 on the pump 24 will set a max setting, and any adjustments at the valve can go below this setting and back up to it, but never exceed it.

Abstract: A valve apparatus includes a valve housing, an electric valve, a positive pressure relief valve and a negative pressure relief valve. The valve housing defines therein a valve inside space divided by a partition plate into two spaces communicating with the first port portion and the second port portion respectively. The partition plate has an electric valve opening, a positive pressure relief opening and a negative pressure relief opening separately from each other. When the positive pressure relief valve opens the positive pressure relief opening, a fluid flows only from the first port portion to the second port portion. When the negative pressure relief valve opens the negative pressure relief opening, the fluid flows only from the second port portion to the first port portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a valve for alternately filling two working chambers (A, B) of a piston-cylinder system (1, 2, 3) of a pump with a fluid, wherein the valve has two valve pump outlets (PA, PB), for connection to the working chambers (A, B) of the pump and has a valve control element (64) that is displaceably arranged in a space of a valve housing (60, 61, 76, 77) and can be movably driven backwards and forwards between two end positions by a fluid, wherein the valve control element (64) has control ducts (67, 82, 83, 84) that co-operate with housing ducts (51, 71, 72, 80, 81) arranged in the valve housing (60) wherein the first valve pump outlet (PA) is connected to the housing ducts (71, 80) and the second valve pump outlet (PB) is connected to the housing ducts (72, 81), wherein in a central region between the two end positions the valve pump outlets (PA, PB) are connected to one another via control ducts (82, 83, 84) of the valve control element (64).

Abstract: Coupling holding means 50 comprising retainers 53 and retainer engaging portions 52 for holding a coupled state is provided between a socket S10 and a plug P10 of a coupler. Engaging pawl portions 54 are formed on the inner sides of a pair of retainers 53 provided on both sides of a nozzle portion 32. By causing the retainers 53 to move outwardly in a coupling operation, a gap between the retainers 53 and the nozzle portion 32 can be made small. By forming interference preventing portions 58 in the engaging pawl portions 54, the retainers 53 can be provided at a smaller interval than the outer diameter of the nozzle portion 32 whereby the coupler can be made even more compact. Further, by forming the retainers 53 higher than the foremost end portion of the nozzle portion 32, the nozzle portion 32 can be protected by the retainers 53 even in an unexpected event such as falling and damage will not extend directly to the nozzle portion 32.

Abstract: An insert, a system, and a method are provided for dispensing a compressed gas product. The insert includes a swirl chamber, inlet ports to the swirl chamber, and an outlet orifice. The insert has specifically configured parameters relating to the diameter of the swirl chamber, the diameter of the outlet orifice, the length of the outlet orifice, and the depth of the swirl chamber. The insert, system, and method can provide a dispensed compressed gas product with a remarkably constant flow rate and with a remarkably constant particle size.

Abstract: A system and method are provided in at least one embodiment to filter water through a vortex leading into a disk-pack turbine having an expansion chamber and outlets into a discharge chamber that leads to at least one discharge port. In a further embodiment, the system includes an intake module, a vortex module, a disk-pack module, and a motor for driving the disk-pack turbine. The intake module brings water into the system and routes the water to the vortex module that speeds up the water into a vortex that flows into the disk-pack turbine that discharges into a discharge chamber that leads to at least one discharge port. The disk-pack turbine includes a plurality of disks that are spaced apart forming chambers between the disks that provide at least one passageway between the expansion chamber and the discharge chamber.

Abstract: Various diaphragm valves and accessories therefore are disclosed herein which improve on existing diaphragm valves and accessories and overcome many of the shortcomings of same. Related methods to these valves and accessories and/or their manufacture, assembly or use are also disclosed.

Abstract: A pipe switch having a setting system, a housing and a closure element. The housing includes an inner wall in which a feed opening and at least two discharge openings are provided. The position of the closure element is rotatably changeable relative to the discharge openings. The setting system including a control and a drive controls the closure element such that a plurality of positions of the closure element relative to the discharge openings are realized accordingly. The closure element may be in the form of a slide or a two-part element having flaps. The setting system in cooperation with the closure system provides the plurality of positions of the closure element relative to the discharge openings, in each of which the sum of the cross-sectional areas of a first and of a second discharge opening not covered by the closure element is substantially constant.

Abstract: A pulsation damping capsule for connection to the pressure side of a piston pump having a metal membrane housing that is assembled from two membrane shells joined together in a hermetically sealed manner. The metal membrane housing separates an internal space from a surrounding pressure medium. The membrane shells are connected along a circumferential seam such that the pulsation damping capsule can compress and expand in a resilient-elastic manner as an energy convertor when subjected to external pressure as a result of pressure medium pulses. A reshapeable mass is arranged in the internal space and when the membrane shells are in the resilient-elastically compressed state, the mass completely fills an intermediate space that remains between the two membrane shells, so that the mass is precisely matched to the internal contour of the reshaped membrane shells while avoiding the formation of hollow spaces.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for inducing fluid flow. A fluid flow apparatus includes a directional membrane, a directional flow mechanism, and an oscillation module. The directional membrane allows a fluid to pass through the directional membrane in a first direction and resists fluid passing through the directional membrane in a second direction, the first direction substantially opposite the second direction. The directional flow mechanism allows a fluid to flow in a third direction and resists fluid flow in a fourth direction, the third direction substantially opposite the fourth direction. The oscillation module induces an oscillation in the directional membrane, wherein the oscillation of the directional membrane induces a flow of the fluid through the directional membrane in the first direction.

Abstract: A fluid flow control arrangement for controlling the flow of fluid within a pipeline, the fluid flow control arrangement having a flow control arrangement housing associated with a fluid flow pipeline and a valve plug element displaceable within the flow control arrangement housing, wherein the valve plug element has elastic characteristics such that the valve plug element assumes at least a first shape in which the fluid flow path within the pipe is open and fluid flows unrestricted and the valve plug element assumes at least a second shape in which the valve plug element blocks a fluid flow path within the pipe so as to stop fluid flow within the pipeline.

Abstract: A bleeder plug is provided with a bleeder body having a nipple portion and a threaded portion and being provided with a through hole extending from the nipple portion-side end to the threaded portion-side end; a seat pin having a press fitting portion to be press-fitted in an opening of the through hole at the threaded portion-side in the bleeder body and a seat portion blocking a bleeder hole, and a groove formed in a contact surface between the bleeder body and the seat pin and communicating the opening of the through hole at the nipple portion-side with an outside space via the contact surface.

Abstract: A method for repairing a defective circumferential weld joint between two pipe sections in a pipeline is described. A weld excavation machine is used to remove a weld defect. The machine comprises a weld excavating tool and a tool guiding apparatus. The machine may be modular in form allowing the machine to be dissembled into discrete portable parts. The method includes arranging the tool guiding apparatus in fixed relation to the pipeline, guiding the weld excavating tool around the pipe and along the weld joint by means of the tool guiding apparatus and using the weld excavating tool to remove material from the defective weld region. An excavation may thus be formed having parallel vertical walls. The excavation is then filled with weld material by means of a welding apparatus.

Abstract: Segments each comprising an internal surface panel and outer wall panels at the peripheral edges of the internal surface panel are linked together in the circumferential direction to constitute a pipe unit. A wire or a band of aramid fibers is attached to the pipe unit, and the pipe units with the wire or the band of aramid fibers attached thereto are linked in succession in the pipe length direction to assemble a rehabilitation pipe inside an existing pipe. The wire or band of aramid fiber has high tensile strength, and can be embedded within a solidified filler that fills the gap between an existing pipe and the rehabilitation pipe, and therefore a high-strength composite pipe can be constructed.

Abstract: A venting pipe used to guide a gas stream in a turbojet including at least one hollow rotary shaft inside which the pipe is mounted, the pipe extending generally along an axis. The pipe includes at least two pipe segments configured to be aligned longitudinally and assembled to one another while retaining a degree of freedom in relative translation thereof, at least one of the segments including a deformable mechanism configured to deform radially as the pipe segments are tightened against one another in the shaft of the turbojet, to bear on the shaft. The pipe structure facilitates mounting of the pipe.

Abstract: A resin sheet that is comprised of a thermoplastic resin capable of being thermally welded to a lining material of a main pipe is attached to a flange of a lateral pipe liming material via a resin-absorbing material. The resin sheet and the resin-absorbing material are thermally welded. The flange and the resin-absorbing material are respectively impregnated with a thermoplastic resin, which is cured to bond the flange and the resin-absorbing material. A similar configuration is provided to the bottom side of the flange as well. The resin sheet of the thermoplastic resin is integrally bonded to the flange, so that the flange of the lateral pipe lining material and the main pipe lining material can be reliably bonded by a simple method through thermally welding of the lining material of the main pipe and the resin sheet, even in a case in which the flange is hard.

Abstract: A fiber cement felt includes: a base fabric layer including MD and CMD yarns interwoven with each other, wherein the CMD yarns comprise twisted monofilaments; and at least one batt layer overlying the base fabric layer.

Abstract: A double-faced woven fabric includes a first and a second weave unit interlocked to each other at a plurality of stitching points. The first weave unit includes a plurality of interlaced first warp and weft threads to define a first face, and the second weave unit includes a plurality of interlaced second warp and weft threads to define a second face, which is not coplanar with the first face. The stitching points are formed by crossing the first warp threads over predetermined second weft threads, so that the stitching points are always covered by float second warp threads adjacent to the stitching points. The double-faced woven fabric with the interlocked first and second weave units has largely increased fabric strength and can present different textures, colors or patterns on the first and the second face to thereby provide good applicability.

Abstract: A fabric may be used in high visibility personal protection clothing. The yarn is capable of being dyed to a high visibility color and a non-fusible yarn are combined in a single fabric so as to provide a fabric which not only has heat and flame resistance but can also be dyed to high visibility colors. In particular, the fabric includes a flame retardant dyeable yarn and a non-fusible fibre yarn, wherein the yarns form a double faced fabric. The fabric may be a double faced weave wherein the flame retardant yarn is a flame retardant polyester and the non-fusible yarn is an aramid yarn.

Abstract: A wire straightener comprises a wire feed path, a first set of rollers disposed in a first plane along the wire feed path, a second set of rollers disposed in a second plane along the wire feed path, the first and second planes being substantially perpendicular to one another, a first motor operable to adjust a position of at least one of the rollers of the first set of rollers when actuated, and a second motor operable to adjust a position of at least one of the rollers of the second set of rollers when actuated.

Abstract: A select-fill dispensing system and method for a dispenser assembly utilizes a camera to sense a desired fill level based on the location of a user's finger with respect to a container. In use, a consumer places his or her finger along a container to indicate the desired fill level of the container. Image data from the camera is transmitted to a controller and processed for distortion correction, edge based image segmentation and morphological operations are carried out to remove background noise. The processed image data is utilized to detect the presence of the container, as well as the shape of the container, the position of the container opening, and the top and bottom points of the container. The controller provides a means for controlling the dispensing operation, including a fill rate, based on the desired fill level and the shape of the container.

Abstract: Compressed gas delivery system and process for use thereof wherein compressed gases are withdrawn from compressed gas storage vessels, passed through pressure regulated flow control valves and critical flow venturis to control the mass flow rates of the compressed gases forming the blend of the compressed gases prior to dispending the blend.

Abstract: A system for the cold-weather storage of gaseous fuels includes a gas source having an inlet pressure, a compressor having an inlet and an outlet, the inlet selectively communicating with the gas source and the outlet having a discharge pressure greater than the inlet pressure, a heat exchange apparatus having an inlet and an outlet, the inlet selectively communicating with the compressor so as to receive pressurized gas therefrom, a high-pressure storage tank having an inlet and an outlet, the inlet selectively communicating with the compressor so as to receive pressurized gas therefrom, and a valve assembly for selectively directing the pressurized gas to the heat exchange apparatus and the high-pressure storage tank in dependence upon a temperature within the storage tank.

Abstract: Device for dispensing a liquid under pressure where said device comprises connection means for connecting said device to the source of liquid, and where the device in the opposite end of the connection means has an outlet body which outlet body may be brought into a closed position where no liquid is dispensed, and an open position where liquid is dispensed, which outlet body incorporates a separate valve body cooperating with a valve seat, where said valve body has a head portion and a stem portion, where said stem portion in the closed position extends out of an opening in said outlet body, and where a lower surface of said head portion in the closed position is in contact with said valve seat and in said open position is out of contact with said valve seat.

Abstract: A process for insulating the void in a thermal distance piece in a low-temperature or cryogenic storage tank uses a vacuum source to draw insulation into the TDP. Two remotely spaced openings to the void are provided. A strainer is temporarily mounted in one of the openings. The other opening is connected to a suction wand. The wand has an inner cylinder that extends through an outer cylinder and projects outwardly from a proximal end of the outer cylinder. Distal air vents are provided on the inner cylinder, near a distal cap that connects distal ends of the cylinders. Proximal air vents are provided on a proximal cap that connects a portion of the inner cylinder to a proximal end of the outer cylinder. The distal end of the wand is inserted into a container of insulation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connector for containers containing medicinal active ingredient, which connector makes it possible to transfer active ingredient from one container into another container.

Abstract: An instrument for filling a substance supply container of a device for personal care treatment has a filling needle having a proximal end connected or connectable to a storage reservoir and a distal end, a substance transport conduit extending from the proximal end to at least one outlet provided in a radially facing surface portion closely adjacent the distal end of the filling needle. A sleeve is arranged around the filling needle and is movable between a first position closing off the at least one outlet and a second position proximally away from the first position and the at least one outlet. A system including such an instrument, a container for cooperation with such an instrument and for provisioning a device for personal care treatment as well as a device for personal care treatment including such a container are described.

Abstract: For hand-operated garden shears, in particular tree-pruning shears, with a ratchet mechanism, it is proposed that, between a hand lever (H2) and a scissor lever (H1) between which a ratchet lever (RH) can engage in different latching positions according to the ratchet mechanism, there is also provided, in addition, a preferably rotatable abutment surface (AF) on the hand lever (H2) and a mating bearing surface (GF) on the lever extension, or vice versa, which, at the end of an initial closing operation with the ratchet lever (RH) in a first ratchet position, allow a continuation of the cutting operation as a direct cut without further use of the ratchet mechanism.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to wood chippers and baling machines and methods of operation therefor, and more specifically, to an apparatus and a method for chipping tree branches and the like and baling wood chips formed from such chipping activities. The apparatus includes a chipper assembly having a chipping mechanism operable to reduce the trimmed branches to wood chips. Also provided is a bale forming assembly operatively connected to the chipper assembly. The bale forming assembly has a housing and a baling mechanism contained within an interior space of the housing. The housing has an opening defined therein for receiving wood chips from the chipper assembly. The opening provides access to the interior space of the housing. The baling mechanism is operable to form a bale from the wood chips produced by the chipper assembly.

Abstract: Described herein is a method that can be used for heat treating a metal in at least one of the following processes: carburizing, carbonitriding, nitrocarburizing, and neutral carbon potential annealing operations that are used in a 1 atmosphere pressure furnace and in an atmosphere that is oxygen free and comprises nitrogen and at least one hydrocarbon.

Abstract: A spring consists of, by weight %, 0.27 to 0.48% of C, 0.01 to 2.2% of Si, 0.30 to 1.0% of Mn, not more than 0.035% of P, not more than 0.035% of S, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. The spring has a nitrogen compound layer and a carbon compound layer at the surface at a total thickness of not more than 2 ?m. The spring has a center portion with hardness of 500 to 700 HV in a cross section and has a compressive residual stress layer at a surface layer. The compressive residual stress layer has a thickness of 0.30 mm to D/4, in which D (mm) is a circle-equivalent diameter of the cross section, and has maximum compressive residual stress of 1400 to 2000 MPa.

Abstract: The heat treatment method of the present invention includes: a first step of mist cooling a treatment object retained at a prescribed temperature by supplying mist-like coolant, to a target temperature near to and higher than a first transformation point at which a structure of the treatment object begins to be transformed into a prescribed structure; a second step, following the first step, of retaining the treatment object for a prescribed time in a state where supply of mist-like coolant is stopped; and a third step, following the second step, of cooling the treatment object to a temperature lower than or equal to the first transformation point. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a heat treatment method capable of suppressing irregularity and deformation in the structure of the treatment object.

Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes, by mass %, C: 0.03% to 0.30%, Si: 0.08% to 2.1%, Mn: 0.5% to 4.0%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.0001% to 0.1%, N: 0.01% or less, acid-soluble Al: more than 0.004% and less than or equal to 2.0%, acid-soluble Ti: 0.0001% to 0.20%, at least one selected from Ce and La: 0.001% to 0.04% in total, and a balance of iron and inevitable impurities, in which [Ce], [La], [acid-soluble Al], and [S] satisfy 0.02?([Ce]+[La])/[acid-soluble Al]<0.25, and 0.4?([Ce]+[La])/[S]?50 in a case in which the mass percentages of Ce, La, acid-soluble Al, and S are defined to be [Ce], [La], [acid-soluble Al], and [S], respectively, and a microstructure includes 1% to 50% of martensite in terms of an area ratio.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can provide a method for producing hot dip galvannealed steel sheet which exhibits high strength, high ductility, and a significant degree of alloying. Such exemplary method can be applied to, e.g., a pickled hot rolled steel sheet or an annealed and pickled cold rolled steel sheet containing between about 0.02% and about 0.2% C and between about 0.15% and about 2.5% Mn, and may include one or more procedures for rinsing the sheet, preplating the sheet with Ni, rapidly heating the sheet in a nonoxidizing atmosphere to a sheet temperature of about 430° C. to 500° C., then hot dip plating the sheet in a galvanizing bath containing between about 0.05% and about 0.2% Al, and then immediately heating the sheet rapidly for an alloying treatment. Such exemplary method can provide an improved alloying speed, improved plating appearance and better plating adhesion.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultra high strength steel plate with at least 1100 MPa of tensile strength that has both an excellent strength-stretch balance and excellent bending workability, and a method for producing the same. The metal structure of the steel plate has martensite, and the soft phases of bainitic ferrite and polygonal ferrite. The area of the aforementioned martensite constitutes 50% or more, the area of the aforementioned bainitic ferrite constitutes 15% or more, and the area of the aforementioned polygonal ferrite constitutes 5% or less (including 0%). When the circle-equivalent diameter of the aforementioned soft phases is measured, the coefficient of variation (standard deviation/mean value) is less or equal to 1.0. The ultra high strength steel plate has at least 1100 MPa of tensile strength.

Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet has excellent deep drawability with a tensile strength of 390 to 700 MPa and an r-value of 1.1 or more in the orientation in which the r-value is lowest. A steel slab is subjected to finish rolling by hot rolling at a finish rolling delivery temperature of 800° C. or higher, coiling at 550° C. to 720° C., and cooling to form a hot-rolled steel sheet. The hot-rolled steel sheet is pickled and cold-rolled to a rolling reduction of 50% to 85% to form a cold-rolled steel sheet. The cold-rolled steel sheet is annealed at an annealing temperature of 760° C. to 950° C. In this step, a strain of 0.1% to 2.0% is applied in the temperature range of 700° C. to the annealing temperature.

Abstract: The present invention provides an Ni-base dual multi-phase intermetallic compound alloy which has a dual multi-phase microstructure comprising a primary precipitate L12 phase and an (L12+D022) eutectoid microstructure, and which comprises: more than 5 atomic % and up to 13 atomic % of Al; at least 9.5 atomic % and less than 17.5 atomic % of V; more than 0 atomic % and up to 12.5 atomic % of Nb; more than 0 atomic % and up to 12.5 atomic % of C; and a remainder comprising Ni.

Abstract: Ferritic stainless steel sheet for an exhaust part which has little deterioration in strength even if undergoing long term heat history and is low in cost, excellent in heat resistance and workability characterized by containing, characterized by containing, by mass %, C: less than 0.010%, N: 0.020% or less, Si: over 0.1% to 2.0%, Mn: 2.0% or less, Cr: 12.0 to 25.0%, Cu: over 0.9 to 2%, Ti: 0.05 to 0.3%, Nb: 0.001 to 0.1%, Al: 1.0% or less, and B: 0.0003 to 0.003%, having a Cu/(Ti+Nb) of 5 or more, and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 including a cylindrical annular structure 10; a rubber layer 11 that will become a tread portion, provided along a circumferential direction of the annular structure 10, on an outer side 10so of the annular structure 10; and a carcass portion 12 including fibers covered with rubber, provided on both sides 2S in a direction parallel to a center axis (Y-axis) of a cylindrical structure 2 including the annular structure 10 and the rubber layer 11. In a meridian cross-sectional view of the structure 2, an outer side 11so of the rubber layer 11 and the outer side 10so of the annular structure 10 have the same form.

Abstract: A tire includes a tire carcass and a tread extending circumferentially about the tire carcass. The tread includes a plurality of tread elements disposed in a tread pattern The plurality of tread elements have one of two different pitch lengths and are disposed in a noise-reducing pitch sequence.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 according to the present invention comprises at least land portion formed by circumferential groove 3,5 extending in circumferential-direction. The land portion includes land portion 11 having groove side wall 17 forming the circumferential groove 3 and land portion 15 having groove side wall 19A forming the circumferential groove 3. The groove side wall 17 and the groove side wall 19A meander in the circumferential-direction in surface view. A groove width of the circumferential groove 3 in width-direction changes in predetermined cycles in the circumferential-direction. The land portion 15 includes wide land portion in which width of the land portion in the width-direction is predetermined width, and narrow land portion in which the width in the width-direction is narrower than the predetermined width. A surface of the wide land portion is provided with recess portion 23 recessed inward in radial-direction from surface of the land portion 15.

Abstract: A traction enhancement device for mounting on a wheel of a vehicle comprising a pair of traction assemblies each comprising a central structure for positioning adjacent to a wheel and a plurality of traction structures mounted on and radiating outwardly from the central structure. A mounting structure for releasably mounting the traction assemblies together may be configured to permit adjustment of a distance between the central structures of the traction assemblies. A biasing structure may be configured to selectively apply an inwardly directed force on the traction assemblies to bias the traction structures toward each other and against the circumferential surface of the wheel. At least one traction structure includes a rigid element configured to be positioned adjacent to the circumferential surface and a flexible element positioned along a portion of the rigid element to be positioned adjacent to the circumferential surface when the device is mounted on the wheel.

Abstract: A tire for a vehicle may include a cavity, and the cavity may be filled with a lighter than air gas. The gas may be hot air. The gas may be neon. The gas may be ammonia. The gas may be methane. The tire may include an interior surface having a reflective surface. The tire may include a tire tube having an exterior surface having a reflective surface. The tire may include a tire tube having an interior surface having a reflective surface.

Abstract: A groove is positioned within the bending region of the first tire sidewall and deforms segment by segment within the rolling tire footprint. An air tube positioned within the sidewall groove is in contacting engagement with groove sidewalls and resiliently squeezes and collapses segment by segment as the groove constricts segment by segment within the rolling tire footprint. A series of adjacent projecting ridges extend from a groove sidewall segment into the groove air passageway, the projecting ridges operatively positioned to vary the applied pressure on the air tube increase the air pressure within the air tube passageway as the air tube rolls segment by segment with the tire through tire footprint. The series of projecting ridges are constructed having a variable amplitude and/or spacing frequency in a direction of air flow within the air passageway to increase the pressure applied to the air tube and air pressure of the air flowing through the tube passageway.

Abstract: A band 12 of a tire 2 includes a topping rubber, and a cord that is helically wound in a circumferential direction of the tire 2. A carcass 10 includes a first carcass ply 22, and a second carcass ply 24 that is layered over the first carcass ply 22, so as to be located outwardly of the first carcass ply 22 in the radial direction. The first carcass ply 22 is turned up around beads 8. The turnup ends 36 are located inwardly of the second carcass ply 24 in an axial direction. A tip of an apex is located inwardly, in the radial direction, of the end of the tread, and outwardly, in the radial direction, of a position that is distant from the end of the tread in the radially inward direction by one-third of a length of the straight line LH.

Abstract: A substrate holder pair comprising a first substrate holder and a second substrate holder that holds a first substrate and a second substrate bonded to each other, between itself and the first substrate holder. The first substrate holder includes a pressure receiving portion that, when the first substrate holder is separated from the second substrate holder, is pressed by a pressing member, and the second substrate holder includes a passing portion through which passes the pressing member, to enable pressing of the pressure receiving portion by the pressing member.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an elongate insert configured to be integrated by CIC in a metal container, including coated yarns bonded together, the coated yarns being formed from metal-coated ceramic fibers. The method includes placing the coated yarns side by side in a bundle and pulling the fiber bundle through a shaping element so as to compact the fiber bundle transversely while forming the fiber bundle so as to have a defined cross section. A metal part incorporating a fibrous insert can be manufactured by the CIC technique.

Abstract: An adhesive fastening element (802) for holding a workpiece (808), the adhesive fastening element (802) comprising: an outer member (804); and a consumable inner member (806) disposed inside the outer member (804) and releasably movable relative to the outer member (804) along a longitudinal axis of the adhesive fastening element (802); wherein the consumable inner member (806) comprises a bonding surface which, in use, is bonded by an adhesive (810) to the workpiece (808) and is removed and replaced to detach the workpiece (808) from the adhesive fastening element (802).

Abstract: Electrostatic charging performance may be improved by determining a satiation charging current for objects/products passing through a charging system and then applying the determined satiation charging current the objects/products. Charging performance may be improved in either or both of discontinuous product train applications or continuous web applications.