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CENTER ENGINE [13 records]

Record 1 2021-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Motors (Machinery)
DEF

An internal-combustion engine having cylinders arranged by pairs on opposite sides of the crankshaft and in one horizontal plane.

CONT

Horizontally opposed engines have a lower overall height than general series and V-type engines due to the structure of the piston being horizontally arranged in the crankcase. It makes the engine lightweight, compact and it lowers the vehicle's center of gravity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Moteurs mécaniques

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-10-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

Fuel enters the system through the ground refueling point attached to the center fuselage tank and leaves the system through the single jet engine. The engine is supplied with fuel from the feed tank.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-10-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Motors (Machinery)
  • Turbines
CONT

The inlet bullet fairing over the center of the engine contains the probe for measuring intake pressure(Pt2) for engine pressure ratio(EPR) indication.

OBS

nose dome (engine)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Moteurs mécaniques
  • Turbines
CONT

Une prise de pression PT 2 sur le cône d'entrée d'air et 6 sondes de pression PT 7 à la sortie des turbines sont reliées à un transmetteur d'EPR.

OBS

cône d'entrée d'air : Terme uniformisé par le CUTA - Opérations aériennes.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Motor Vehicles and Bicycles
  • Trade Names
OBS

... Assystem City Car... is remarkably easy to park, and not only because of its compact dimensions(3. 60 m long, 1. 60 m wide and 1. 60 m tall), or its light weight(only 600 kg), but also because it has three axles, a central one, with two wheels, and one wheel in each extreme of the car(front and end). These single wheel axles are the ones responsible for moving and turning the Assystem City Car. The front wheel is powered by an electrical engine with 20 kW(about 27 cv), which can push the car to 50 km/h of top speed and has 30 km of autonomy, basically what regular people need to go to work and back home every day. For the roads, there is a little combustion engine that delivers 60 cv in the rear axle. It can lead the vehicle to a top speed of 130 km/h and, with its 30 l fuel tank, can carry the Assystem City Car to up to 600 km. Both engines can be used together, what turns this car into a hybrid. This vehicle, albeit small, can carry up to five people and their luggage. It has a low gravity center, what enhances dynamics, its oval shape prevents serious accident consequences and, when visibility is low, a screen takes the place of the regular windshield and shows the driver infrared images of the road, guiding him/her safely to destination.

OBS

Assystem City Car: A trademark of Assystem.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de véhicules automobiles et de bicyclettes
  • Appellations commerciales
OBS

Assystem City Car [...] Les innovations portent notamment sur l'interface homme-machine. Les commandes des fonctions du véhicule sont regroupées sur un écran tactile situé sur une console centrale. Des menus contextuels permettent d'accéder au contrôle des organes et au système multimédia. Les éléments de confort comprennent radio, GPS [Global Positioning Systems], téléphonie et vidéo. Assystem a développé intégralement le logiciel de restitution de l'environnement extérieur, grâce aux 4 caméras externes et exploité le concept de «réalité augmentée» pour un affichage plus visible des informations d'aide à la conduite et de sécurité. Le véhicule se veut «communiquant», puisqu'il est équipé d'un accès à Internet, téléphone, TV numérique, lecteur DVD et MP2. Le véhicule se veut en outre respectueux de l'environnement, à travers deux éléments prinicipaux : - une motorisation hybride qui permet d'économiser de l'énergie [;] - une structure «dual frame», c'est-à-dire que le véhicule est doté d'une coque modulaire indépendante du chassis porteur en aluminium qui facilite le recyclage et répond déjà aux normes européennes devant entrer en vigueur en 2008 qui prévoient que les véhicules doivent être conçus pour être très recyclables, avec 85 % d'éléments recyclables, 10 % d'éléments valorisables, et seulement 5 % d'éléments non réexploitables.

OBS

Ce véhicule a été conçu en collaboration avec le groupe Assystem (spécialiste de l'ingénierie industriel et du conseil en innovation) et le designer Franco Sbarro.

OBS

Assystem City Car: Marque de commerce de la société Assystem.

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

Our new Maintenance Operation Center will repair or overhaul any commercial or military Lycoming turbine engine.

Key term(s)
  • Maintenance Operation Centre

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
CONT

Notre nouveau centre de maintenance pourra réparer ou réviser tout moteur à turbine Lycoming civil ou militaire.

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

As a part of the Federal Aviation Administration's Aircraft Catastrophic Failure Prevention Program, the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division under contract to the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center conducted a turbine disk containment test. The purpose was to demonstrate the containment capability of the Kevlar ring against full-size T53 engine rotor fragments.

OBS

containment: Demonstrated ability to retain every part within machine, following mechanical breakup of portion or whole of moving machinery, especially rotating portions of gas turbine engine.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
DEF

Essai destiné à démontrer qu'une pièce pouvant se rompre (aube de turbine par exemple) ne sortira pas du moteur en cas de rupture, les carters extérieurs de celui-ci étant suffisamment robustes pour ne pas être traversés par la pièce rompue.

Spanish

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Record 7 2007-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Scientific Research Facilities
OBS

The Glenn Research Center is a NASA center, located in Cleveland, Ohio between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and the Rocky River Reservation(Part of the Cleveland Metroparks). Glenn is a NASA research center, whose primary mission is to develop science and technology for use in aeronautics and space. It was established in 1942 as part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics(NACA) and was later incorporated into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) as a laboratory for aircraft engine research. It was initially named the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory after funding approval was given in June 1940. It was renamed the Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory in 1947, the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in 1948 and the NASA Lewis Research Center in 1958. On march 1, 1999, the Lewis Research Center was officially renamed the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field after John Glenn(American fighter pilot, astronaut and politician) and George W. Lewis(head of NASA from 1919 to 1947).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Installations de recherche scientifique

Spanish

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Record 8 2007-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronautics
CONT

The Return to Launch Site(RTLS)... abort mode is designed to allow the return of the orbiter, crew and payload to the Kennedy Space Center launch site, approximately 25 minutes after lift-off. The RTLS profile would accommodate the loss of thrust from one main engine between lift-off and approximately four minutes and 20 seconds, at which time not enough MPS propellant remains to return to the launch site. An RTLS would also be used if a time-critical failure occurred that required the earliest possible landing, such as a cabin leak or major cooling system failure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronautique

Spanish

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Record 9 2003-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Diesel Motors
CONT

It may be necessary to bar the engine slightly using an engine barring tool... so that the center screw is exactly between two teeth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Moteurs diesel
DEF

Levier à cliquet dont on se sert pour faire tourner manuellement un moteur diesel industriel.

Spanish

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Record 10 2003-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
CONT

The exhaust grid is... in the center of the DS1 engine and surrounded by its support skirt.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux

Spanish

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Record 11 2002-12-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Launchers (Astronautics)
DEF

Advanced engine design for SSTOs.

CONT

Linear Aerospike engine to be used for propulsion for the X-33 Reusable Launch vehicle(RLV). A testing of three thrust cells of Linear Aerospike engines was conducted to investigate injectors, chambers, and Aerospike ramps at Marshall Space Flight Center(MSFC). The X-33 was intended to demonstrate advanced technologies that would dramatically increase launch vehicle reliability and lower the cost of putting a pound of payload into space.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lanceurs (Astronautique)

Spanish

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Record 12 2002-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire-Fighting and Rescue Equipment
DEF

bayonet nozzle: A small spray applicator that has a head with a piercing device, it is used to control small fires in partitions, ceiling spaces, and other concealed areas.

CONT

Piercing nozzle are one type of broken stream nozzle. They are commonly used to apply water to areas which may otherwise be inaccessible.

CONT

The owner ... found smoke coming from roof vents in his house. He called the Fire Department ... [The] firefighters used a "piercing nozzle" to extinguish the fire. The special nozzle is designed to poke a hole in the ceiling and flow water from the sharp tip.

CONT

Piercing nozzle... can be used for automobile trunk or engine fires. Some kinds are designed with a spike as the nozzle at a 90 degree angle-good for overhand swing to penetrate hood or trunk. [It] can also be used to penetrate walls or low basements/crawlspaces that are hard to access. [I] have also heard of piercing nozzles being used to get water to the center of hay bales or other tight, hard to extinguish, materials.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel de secours et de lutte (incendies)
CONT

[Cette] source de financement supplémentaire [...] a permis d'acquérir l'an dernier du nouveau matériel [...] dont des lances perforatrices.

Spanish

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Record 13 1980-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gasoline Motors
  • Engines (Motor Vehicles)
CONT

The all new CVH(Compound Valve Hemi-Head) H-cylinder engine was designed specifically to squeeze the most power possible from every precious drop of fuel. By wing a hemispherical(half-round) head, and dishing out the top of the pistons, the fuel/air mixture is literally gathered in the center of the chamber and thoroughly mixed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Moteurs à essence
  • Moteur (Véhicules automobiles)
CONT

Le moteur totalement nouveau est comme sous le nom de "moteur à culasse hémisphérique à soupapes opposées" est un 4 cylindres conçu pour extraire le maximum de puissance de chaque goutte d'essence. En utilisant une tête de culasse hémisphérique et en arrondissant le haut du piston, on réussit à pousser le mélange air/carburant au centre de la chambre de combustion, assurant ainsi un mélange parfait.

Spanish

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