PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solar heat harnessed hot water supply system which enables long-term and accurate control of starting or stopping a circulation pump in an indirect heating type forced circulation system. SOLUTION: The conditions of controlling an optical sensor 17 of this solar heat harnessed hot water supply system are properly set so that a circulation pump 16 is started as th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a hot water temperature rise even in winter when the solar energy is small by providing a control mechanism for regulating a storage hot water amount in a hot water storage tank in response to an amount of the solar energy. SOLUTION: Normally, a hot water storage amount is set so that a water level (water level A) is located above a hot water storage tank 11. But, a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately execute braking or alarm operation and to prevent a driver from feeling physical disorder by providing the vehicle control device with an abnormality detection means for detecting abnormality of 2nd and 1st object detection means having respectively different position measuring accuracy levels and driving a brake when a vehicle approaches an object up to a 2nd p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pole column enabling to locate a terminal in arbitrary position by increasing the latitude of the terminal position in a lead-acid battery. SOLUTION: In a pole column 3 which connects strap, that is, an ear of a plate with a terminal 2, the shaft center on the terminal side of the pole column 3 connecting a terminal bushing with the strap differs from the shaft c...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead-acid battery of superior high/rate discharge characteristic without changing manufacturing facilities. SOLUTION: Using an alloy of Pb-Ca, Pb-Sn or Pb-Ca-Sn, a lead powder is manufactured in a ball mill type or burton pot type manufacturing machine. This is used as a material lead powder for the electrode of a lead-acid battery. That is, powder is produced us...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain the deformations or breakages of a battery jar caused by elongation of a positive electrode plate and short circuiting with a negative electrode plate. SOLUTION: A protrusion 7 which is inclined at an angle of 10 deg. to 70 deg. to an inner sidewall of a battery jar 4 is provided on a side edge of a positive electrode grating 2 to hold the active material of a pos...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the removal or peeloff of an active material from grating surface, when an expanded metal grating is used as a positive electrode grating. SOLUTION: An expanded metal grating is used as a positive electrode grating to hold an active material of a positive electrode plate, and this grating is formed of alloy comprising lead-calcium-tin alloy, including alkali metal ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide superior power generating efficiency, while saving the fuel gas by changing the cathode exhaust gas and the compressed air to the high temperature compressed air with a heat exchanger, and burning the fuel gas as an oxidant for a gas turbine combustion unit to drive a high temperature gas turbine for power generation. SOLUTION: Compressed air 20 compressed by an ai...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the deformation or breakage of a battery jar by elongation of a positive pole plate, and short circuit between the positive electrode side and the negative electrode side. SOLUTION: An expanded metal grating is used in a positive electrode plate 1 to constitute an pole plate group 4, a group pressure of 20-50 kg/dm<2> is applied to the pole plate group 4, and a ra...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the shock generated from the changeover of the clutch of a vehicle, by estimating the output of its internal combustion engine after judging whether its clutch is released or not based on the sensed values of its required driving force and its speed, and by releasing its clutch when its two motors are so controlled by controlling correctively its one motor that the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid driving device which enables a backward running with a sufficient torque even if a charging capacity is small. SOLUTION: A hybrid driving device has a torque amplification mechanism 12 which is connected to an output member 2 of an internal combustion engine 1 an output member 9 of a motor 6 which is driven by a power, and amplifies and outputs a torque ou...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the shock of a hybrid vehicle when starting its internal combustion engine and improve its responsiveness, by increasing the output torque of its motor by the corresponding torque to the one obtained through adding the inertial torque responding to the varying rate of the rotational speed of its internal combustion engine to the necessary torque for rotating its en...

he X-ray appts includes a carriage with a base, a top, a front and rear portions, and two opposite sides. A number of wheels are attached to and arranged about the base so as to stably support the base from a floor. A mast is also included which has front, back and two opposed sides, and first and second ends, while the first end is attached to carriage. An articulated X-ray tube support arm is in...

The bipolar battery has a cell bank which includes several anodes (16) and cathodes (26), alternatively grouped and insulated by separators (14), with a central hole in of the anodes and cathodes and having several insertion holes formed in the peripheral parts of the anodes and cathodes. The anode and cathode connection parts (19, 25) are inserted through the connection holes and anode and catho...

Different axle rotation speeds cause the exit of fluid from a pump, which is modulated by passing it through a nozzle opening in a housing. A piston can be moved in and out of this opening in an axial direction, the cooperating glide surfaces of the piston and opening combining to form a seal between the pressurised and non-pressurised sides of the construction. At least one channel provided insid...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tracking preventing jig that surely prevent tracking. SOLUTION: This preventing jig A1 is provided with a preventing jig main body 9 and a pair of insertion pieces 11. At this time, a clearance (e) is generated between a pair of insertion pieces 11 and a pair of blade receiving part 2 of a receptacle K as well as to keep the inserted state in a state that the pre...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a liquid phase plating member invade into a gap between a conduc tor and a terminal so as to accelerate diffusion and decrease the gap, and increase reliability in junction strength, by connecting the terminal, on which a low melting point metal similar to the plated element wire or its stranded wire is plated, to the plated element wire or its stranded wire, which is...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a neon tube glowing device capable of improving the light emitting efficiency thereof in comparison with the sine wave lighting while perfectly preventing the unevenness of light emission of the neon tube such as generation of stripe pattern and moving stripes. SOLUTION: In a discharge lamp glowing device for lighting a neon tube 2, the current flowing in the neon ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detach an electronic apparatus from the body and to guarantee safety of the body when a load larger than a specified value appears at the time of hanging it on the neck for use. SOLUTION: First and second flexible cords 11 and 12 which extend from apparatus body 1, are mutually connected and constitute a neck hanging part 10. Cord holding parts 42 detaching the first and t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the load that is applied to a host device and also to effectively avoid the congestion that occurs in a network by deciding the instantaneous sending or the sending with storage for an event that is produced from the result of comparison performed between the number of events which occurred at the same time and the threshold that secures a proper number of occurred ...