PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To keep stable performance of a battery, in which the electrolyte is difficult to reduce during the service under high temperature for a long time by using the negative electrode active material to which the oil is added in a liquid-type lead-acid storage battery to be manufactured in the battery jar forming method. SOLUTION: In a liquid-type lead-acid storage battery to be m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide equipment for taking X-rays that can take both normal X-rays and phase images easily. SOLUTION: The equipment for taking X-rays has a radiation source (11) with small focus, a table (18) that holds objects (15) for taking X-rays, a reading device (30) that manipulates information on X-ray images obtained after X-rays pass through the objects, a device for adjusting...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a stepless transmission gear for which a slide of a power transmission member is made to suitably prevent by reducing a cylinder jack of a variable cycle engine without deteriorating fuel consumption. SOLUTION: Because the pressure interposed by a belt type stepless transmission gear 16 is varied in accordance with the number of cylinder jack o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify turning operation and prevent a butt from being uneven. Ž

SOLUTION: A four-wheel drive vehicle is provided with a means for detecting a steering angle of a steering wheel, a front wheel rotational speed increasing means for increasing a rotational speed of front wheels when turning, a means for braking a rear wheel of a turning inside during turning, and a me...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress reduction of operation feeling of a brake pedal by a driver and to simplify a structure of a hydraulic braking device. Ž

SOLUTION: A hydraulic pressure of a brake cylinder is reduced while a pressure intensifying control valve is made to the closed state when operation stroke of a brake pedal becomes constant and regeneration braking torque is increased. Sinc...

A centrifuge apparatus is used for collecting white blood cells (WBC), primarily mononuclear cells, from whole blood stratified into layers. A thin mononuclear (MNC) layer is formed at the interface of red blood cells and plasma. A barrier is positioned in the separation vessel of the centrifuge at a location to intercept the thin layer. MNC fluid is allowed to pool behind the barrier before colle...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a wasted electric power and fuel consumption and to perform a creep driving capable of meeting a hill or a step. SOLUTION: A target creep torque is computed from a vehicle speed Vcar in a target creep torque compute 31 and is annealed in a filter process 32. Then using the annealed target creep torque, a creep driving engine torque is computed in a target engine tor...

A microtome for producing thin sections, in which the cutting operation is performed by way of a relative movement between a cutting knife and an object. A drive system (14) having a drive motor (17), a control circuit (15), and a handwheel (8) is provided to generate the relative movement. The handwheel (8) is connected to an encoder (16) that delivers corresponding signals to the control circuit...

A tire noise reducing system comprises a pneumatic tire (2) with a hollow, a wheel rim (3) on which the tire is mounted so that said hollow forms a closed cavity (4), and a noise damper (5) disposed in the closed cavity, wherein the noise damper is formed by fixing a strip of a porous material to the tire or wheel rim, the noise damper (5) has a volume in a range of from 0.4 to 20 % of the volume ...

The disclosure is directed to a laser processing apparatus employing a polygon mirror (10), capable of processing an object (40) efficiently. The apparatus is comprised of a laser generator for emitting a laser beam, a polygon mirror (10) rotating at the axis (11) and having a plurality of reflection planes (12) which reflect the laser beam incident thereon from the laser generator, and a lens (20...

Welding of two or more steel sheets (1, 2), at least one of which has a protective layer of a material with a low vaporization temperature, is carried out by directing a laser beam (L) on two overlapped flanges (1a, 2a) of the sheets (1, 2), which are clamped in position during welding by means of clamping devices (3). These clamping devices are able to hold the flanges to be welded (1a, 2a) in a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technology with which a particulate collected with a particulate filter installed in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine can be suitably trapped. Ž

SOLUTION: The emission control device of the internal combustion engine is provided with the particulate filter installed in the exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine, and an oxidation r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power output device which smoothly performs gear change of a transmission. Ž

SOLUTION: In a car in which an engine, a motor MG1 and a drive shaft are connected to a planet gear mechanism and which is equipped with a motor MG2 connected to the drive shaft via a transmission and a battery which performs exchange of electric power between motors MG1 and MG2, wh...

On a comminution device such as a paper shredder 11, a thickness measuring arrangement 25 is arranged on a means 14 comprising a feed opening 15 for feeding to a cutting mechanism 17. The thickness measuring arrangement 25 can compress an introduced stack of paper 23 and cause, via a deflectable lever 26 and a deflection dependent thereon, the cutting mechanism 17 to start or, in the event of exce...

A control device for a vehicular drive system is disclosed as including reverse drive for suppression means operative to preclude output member, such as an output shaft and drive wheels, of an automatic transmission portion from inputting a reverse drive force to a differential portion. This prevents a power transmitting member from rotating in a direction opposite to a rotational direction of the...

The present invention is directed to a method and system for regulating coverage range within an intrusion detection system. The intrusion detection system may include at least two sensors, each of the sensors having an individual range of coverage The system may additionally include at least two predetermined settings for determining a collective coverage range of the at least two sensors. A sele...

A weld projection (8), especially for laser welding, has an indent (10) that is disposed in a first component (4) and that can be welded together with at least one second component (6). The invention is characterized in that the weld projection (8) has a projection (14) and can be brought into contact with the second component (6) via the projection. A shielding housing (1) including such a weld p...

An electrode ( 30 ) comprises a plate ( 31 ) having a major surface to which there has been attached an initially separate raised pattern ( 32 ) for guiding application of and/or retaining electrolyte paste adjacent the plate ( 31 ).

A steering apparatus having a ring type support yoke is provided. The apparatus includes a rack bar (301) provided with a rack gear (311) at one side of the outer circumference thereof, a support (313) provided on the other side of the outer circumference of the rack bar, and a support yoke (303) surrounding the rack bar so as to come into contact with the support (313), thereby reducing manufactu...

The arrangement is assembled of four clamping jaws and the gap retaining unit to be used in particular for body components of a vehicle to be joined by laser welding. The unit comprises two slightly elastic flat elements attached with one end to a clamping block acting in combination with a swivel lever. Each of the elements is provided with a scanner (12) joined to an inclined support surface (11...