PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a useful economic hot-water system by controlling the water supply route of a city water-pressurized hot-water supplier which is constituted to be supplied with water from a solar water heater and city water by means of a switching means that can arbitrarily select the operation mode of the hot-water supplier. SOLUTION: A city water-pressurized hot-water supplier i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a thin and lightweight product at low cost by coupling a water supply pipe at the cold water flow-in part of a solar heat collecting section and coupling the hot water flow-out part with a hot water storage tank through piping thereby simplifying the structure. SOLUTION: The inventive system comprises a solar heat collecting section 1 for warming water, and a tank 2...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead-acid battery having less dead space and excelling in liquid-tightness between cells. SOLUTION: In a lead-acid battery having electrode-plate groups 4 housed in respective cell chambers 3 of a mono-block type battery jar 1 and intermediate terminals 14, 14 of different polarities of adjoining cells connected by an inter-cell connection body 19 striding over a...

La présente invention concerne un parasol autonome.Ce parasol autonome est caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend un bras support (10) constitué d'au moins une section (1 1, 13, 111, 21 1, 213) de forme déterminée, une section (11, 111, 211) étant destinée à recevoir la toile du parasol, lorsque celui-ci est en position repliée, la ou les sections (11, 13, 111, 211, 213) du bras support (10) étant mo...

A method for plugging wells for use in connection with extraction of a fluid. Above a leakage site in the well, from which the fluid flows into the well from a subsurface formation surrounding the well, there is a set a seal (20), which seals the well, and on the bottom of which is a sensor device (22) for measuring well data. On the top of the seal (20) is a connecting part (24) which is connecte...

An interactive electronic commerce system using intelligent virtual objects in a three-dimensional virtual reality space over a communication network such as the Internet, is provided. The interactive electronic commerce system includes a server, first and second intelligent virtual objects, first and second control units and an interface unit. The server is accessed by customers and distributors ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a semiconductor device in which a stress being applied to a semiconductor chip can be detected easily. SOLUTION: The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor chip 1 mounted on a substrate wherein elements 3 for detecting strain of the semiconductor chip 1 are formed at specified positions in the chip 1 and electrodes 2, 2a for applying an electric signal to th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress unevenness of magnetic flux density distribution generated caused by enlargement by setting the uniformity of a superconductor consisting of a composite oxide of RE, Ba and Cu to a specified value or less. SOLUTION: Of the equivalent curve corresponding to a magnetic flux density of 0.6× Bm with respect a to surface maximum magnetic flux density Bm near the c...

The invention concerns novel microspheres particularly useful in pharmaceutics as particulate vectors for carrying biologically active substances, in particular hydrophilic substances, for oral administration. The invention is characterised in that said microspheres consist of a support material continuous lattice wherein is optionally dispersed a substance, said support material containing at lea...

A speed sensor (13) located on the gearbox side of the differential (11) and used to compensate engine performance calculations for road irregularities may have any disfunction diagnosed by checking that the indicated speed is greater than a threshold during deceleration. Deceleration may be detected by a variety of indications such as throttle closed, collector pressure below no load pressure or ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an etching treatment method capable of etching treatment of a tantalum oxide layer, without changing an etching treatment station and etching agent, when a dynamic RAM is manufactured. SOLUTION: This etching treatment method is provided with a process for forming a lower electrode structure 22 of a capacitor on a semiconductor substrate 20, and a process forming se...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress increase of the number of photolithography steps and form a highly reliable capacitor by isolating the upper plane of an upper electrode from the upper plane of a first silicon film to be a lower electrode by the side plane of a first spacer insulating film when a capacitor dielectric film is anisotropically etched. SOLUTION: A first insulating film and a capacito...

A material used to form a biasing element for a magnetomechanical EAS marker has a coercivity that is lower than the coercivity of biasing elements used in conventional magnetomechanical markers. The marker formed with the low coercivity material can be deactivated by applying an AC magnetic field at a level that is lower than is required for deactivation of conventional markers. The marker with t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a piezoelectric body element which is small, has a large electric machine coupling factor and which is easy to perform impedance matching with a circuit. SOLUTION: An interdigital type electrode 28 consisting of two comb-shaped electrodes 26 and 27 is formed on one plane 24 of a plate-shaped piezoelectric body 23 and also an interdigital type electrode consisting o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to eliminate jitters from a multiplied signal transmitted on an asynchronous channel by adding a marker which indicates a relative position of each packet in relation to the time to each packet of a digital signal, emitting each packet when the marker reaches a prescribed value and outputting the digital signal. SOLUTION: A marker which indicates a relativ...

Device for positioning a videoprojector used in back projection, which device comprises supporting means (3, 9, 11) for said projector (15). According to the invention, actuating means (6, 8, 13, 16, 17, 18) are provided for transmitting shift and/or rotary movements to said supporting means (3, 9, 11), said actuating means (6, 8, 13, 16, 17, 18) being controlled by a remote control.

Illumination system for a videoprojector, which comprises a lighting lamp (1) emitting a light beam on a first optical axis (AB) and a projection lens (10) crossed by said light beam along a second optical axis (DE), said first optical axis (AB) and second optical axis (DE) not being substantially parallel to each other and respectively pertaining to a first plane (P1) and second plane (P2), said ...

The two toughened glass window sheets are sealed (6) at the periphery of the smaller sheet (2), and separated by 0.2 mm thick spacers at 30 mm centres. The sheets are equally wide, but one (3), is slightly longer and carries the terminal connections (9) of collector conducting strips (8) of metallic silver in frit, serigraphically deposited along both long sides. A thin conducting layer (7) is dep...

The present invention relates to a system and a procedure for distribution of a service request in a computer system based on a client-server architecture and comprising at least one client (1), which sends service requests to servers (2<1>, 2<2>, ..., 2); one or more servers (2<1>, 2<2>, ..., 2), which provide callable services for the client (1); and middleware means (3). According to the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate assembly work and to efficiently carry out the assembly work. SOLUTION: A side wall fixing member 42 is constituted of a fixed plate part 48 fixed on a side wall part 38 and a tongue piece part 49 connected to this fixed plate part 48, a recessed part 49a to position an inside joint plate 43 by being engaged with a protruded part formed on an inside joint plate ...