In a data conversion apparatus (101) of a copyright protecting system, a data format judging portion (103) judges whether or not the data is of a super distribution format, attribute information obtaining unit (105) identifies the audio contents of the data and obtains the attribute information corresponding to the identified audio contents from the external equipment via said data transmission/re...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To install on one trestle by one time work by providing a solar heat collecting tube on a rear surface of a solar cell panel, and constituting the panel integrated through a heating medium in the tube. SOLUTION: A solar heat collecting tube 2 is provided on a rear surface of a solar cell panel 1, the panel 1 and the tube 2 are constructed in an integral structure, and install...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and device for manufacturing an electrode plate for a lead-acid battery in which lifetimes of the battery and electrode plate can be prolonged and characteristics can be enhanced, and design freedom of configuration can be extended even if a distance between the electrode plates is short, in the lead-acid battery of high performance as a typical example, o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a battery of long life and low costs with no burr and hardly reduced collector performance by providing a peripheral frame rib constructed of a vertical frame rib and a lateral frame rib and a bent part on a part of the vertical frame rib or the lateral frame rib of a grid constructed of the vertical frame rib and the lateral frame rib inside. SOLUTION: In this lea...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve an active material holdability and to maintain high discharge characteristics by forming recessed and projecting parts alternately disposed on front and back sides of the substrate of a battery having an electrode plate group wound with an electrode plate and a separator in a cylindrical shape, the plate being formed with an active material layer on front and back ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To dispense with an unnecessary separator part, because this part, in which a bag-like separator opposes to a battery jar inner wall, does not function as a separator, in a lead-acid battery having a plate group of the same number of positive plates and negative plates, each of the plates is enclosed bag-like separator. SOLUTION: This battery is constructed such that a plate ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sealed lead-acid battery without using an O-ring at a polar column insertion part of a cover. SOLUTION: A cylindrical metallic component is put on to cover from an upper part of a polar column 1 in a state that a cylindrical polar column 1 is inserted into a polar column insertion part 2 formed in a cover 5. Then, the cylindrical metallic part is rotated so that ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily manufacture a stator core excellent in strength. SOLUTION: Related to a stator core for an electromagnetic actuator comprising a housing groove 24 for housing an electromagnetic coil on one end surface, a structure wherein a plurality of magnetic layers 21 are laminated in the axial direction of center axis of the stator core while insulated from each other is provi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provided a hybrid vehicle which can efficiently regenerate energy. SOLUTION: A hybrid vehicle is constituted in such a way that, when the assist from a motor 8 and regeneration are not required, the voltage of the generated power of a generator 6 is adjusted to 12 V by means of a regulator 9 and, at the same time, an auxiliary battery 13 is charged to supply electric power...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid vehicle which is mounted with an automatic transmission requiring a clutch device between the transmission and an engine and which can eliminate the idle running feeling and impacts when the automatic transmission makes shifting operations. SOLUTION: A controller for a hybrid vehicle successively grasps the input drive force of an automatic transmission in...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid drive device for which an electricity storing device or motor of such a low voltage as 36 V, etc., can be used. SOLUTION: A hybrid drive device is constituted by connecting the sun gear S1 of an auxiliary transmission 16 composed of first planetary gears 30 and second planetary gears 32 to a motor generator 14, the sun gear S2 of the transmission 16 to an ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To adjust constant-speed run and deceleration properly by selectively implement a speed control means and a deceleration control means based on the setting of a target value. SOLUTION: A hybrid vehicle realizes deceleration higher/lower than deceleration by an engine brake by switching the operating condition of a motor 20 between regenerative running and power running. A map...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a motor having a speed reducer which can be assemblable efficiently by reducing the number of split surface fastening means. SOLUTION: In this motor with a speed reducer, a speed reducer case for housing the reduction gear mechanism of a speed reducer for reducing the rotation output of a motor body is divided into two as a pair of split cases. In the split surface ...

The invention concerns a composite plate for Pb/PbO2 batteries with bipolar electrodes, characterized by unidirectional electronic conduction provided by metal wires made at least at the surface of lead or lead alloy, arranged in a regular array and coated with a polymer, stable in an acid medium and capable of generating a strong bonding with the lead or lead alloy constituting the wire surface-t...

An apparatus and method are provided for treating collapsed bronchial tubes found in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, such as asthma. The apparatus delivers energy to inductively heat the tissue of the bronchial tube by directing electromagnetic energy into the tissue. The apparatus includes expandable electrodes that come into contact with the walls of the bronchial tubes. Th...

This invention relates to a surgical device and method. More particularly, it relates to a tissue ablation device assembly and method using a circumferential ablation member in combination with a position monitoring assembly in order to position the circumferential ablation member along a circumferential region of tissue at a location where a pulmonary vein extends from a left atrium.; La présente...

A system, and method for treating a stenosis or blockage in a bodily fluid passageway is described. The system includes a catheter (10), and a controller for generating radio frequency energy along a pair of output lines (40a, 40b), a monitoring circuit (70) for monitoring the phase of the radio frequency energy along the output lines, and an impedance matching circuit (60). A lumen is provided th...

A tissue ablation catheter for forming a lesion along a substantially circumferential region of tissue is described. The catheter includes one or more sensors for monitoring the temperature of the tissue being ablated. The temperature sensors are mounted on the interior or exterior of an expandable member that is affixed to a shaft of the catheter.; L'invention concerne un cathéther d'ablation de ...

An apparatus and method for the production of small, uniform sized droplets. The apparatus is a droplet generator (16) including a housing (26) defining a chamber (32) for holding a material to be ejected therefrom, an inlet and a droplet outlet communicating with the chamber. The housing is coupled to a pressurizing system connected to the inlet for applying pressure pulses to the chamber. The ho...

In a first aspect, the invention provides a diol latex composition comprising: (a) latex polymer particles comprising a residue of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, wherein the latex polymer particles have a size below 1000 nm; (b) a surfactant; and (c) a continuous liquid phase comprising a diol component, wherein the diol component comprises from 60 to 100 % by weight of the continuous phase...