PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a luminaire by which a load, which is imposed on ceiling members by an eccentric load of an apparatus at the time of an earthquake, can be reduced. SOLUTION: This luminaire is equipped with an apparatus body 1, which can be inserted into a hole 6 formed in a ceiling 5, a ballast 30, which is installed on the apparatus body 1 in the position eccentric to the outside...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To insert a group of electrodes evenly into a battery jar by preventing a bent part at each inner bottom corner from obstructing the insertion of negative plates at both ends into the battery jar. SOLUTION: This lead-acid battery has an electrode group consisting of positive electrodes 7, negative electrodes 5, and mat type separators 6 serving also as electrolyte holders, al...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the reliability of a battery by avoiding the movement of an electrode group in a transversely or diagonally lying position relative to a battery jar, and thereby avoiding the deformation of separators or electrodes and the resulting short life. SOLUTION: This lead-acid battery has a pair of legs 6a, 6b provided at the lower part of a negative plate 2, and a plate g...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain the occurrence of external appearance failure due to a short circuit and green rust, to reduce a cost, and to improve productivity by covering a part of the surfaces of tab terminals with an insulating material. SOLUTION: A layer of an insulating material 5 is formed by applying and hardening an upper surface two-liquid epoxy resin adhesive of a positive electrode...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance capacity even in high efficiency discharge, and to improve a utilization factor by including a nonreductive acidproof sulfate generating cushioning in a specific pH value or more by electric potential difference titration for dripping an alkali solution in a positive electrode active material layer. SOLUTION: A nonreductive acidproof sulfate or an acidproof sulfate...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve adherence of a lattice body and an active material without exerting adverse influence on battery performance even if metal is aged in a short time by aging the metal while heating the metal by allowing the metal to abut to the periphery of the lattice body after coating the lattice body with paste by kneading lead oxide powder containing metallic lead, water and a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simply suppress variations in the amount added of a material for suppressing a decrease in an electrolyte, by making up the material for adsorbing metals lowering the hydrogen overvoltage of a negative electrode, of a phenolic organic compound having an aldehyde group and/or of a reduced form of a phenolic organic compound having an aldehyde group, and tableting the materi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To constitute an electrode plate group capable of coping with decrease in the distance between electrode plates attendant on making the electrode plate thin, and being free from the slippage of a separator. SOLUTION: A bondable mixture layer 14 comprising an adhesive and insulating powder is formed on each surface of a thin, long positive electrode plate 12 and a thin, long n...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the deformation of a battery container wall developed by pressure applied to an electrode group and suppress cracking in the joining part of a battery container and a cover caused by this deformation. SOLUTION: In a sealed lead-acid battery having an electrode plate group formed by stacking a positive electrode plate 1, a negative electrode plate 2, and a separato...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for controlling the braking energy and its control method with which a given braking energy can be obtained, regardless of the charged state of a battery, when a brake pedal is not pressed down on in a vehicle mounted with a motor. SOLUTION: Wheels 10, 12 of driving wheels are driven by the driving force of an engine 50 and a motor 28. Braking energy at th...

A sheet feeder 1 with closed frame side walls 10 comprises a main pile lifting unit 2, and an auxiliary pile lifting unit 5 for interruption-free sheet feeding to a sheet processing machine. The main pile S is supported on a lifting plate 6 driven by the lifting device 2, which includes lifting chains 7 and guide rails 8 installed on the interior of the side walls 10. The auxiliary pile lifting un...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an image of high quality which is free of coloration and has a wide field angle when a field angle is decreased or in the half-tone display by expanding the field angle in the right-left directions and top-bottom directions. SOLUTION: Between a liquid crystal display element 1 and polarizing plates 4 and 5, phase difference plates 2 and 3 are arranged which have a r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a display with high luminosity and a high contrast with a background and to improve the visibility. SOLUTION: The record display medium 5 formed by providing a liquid crystal/high polymer composite film 3 having liquid crystal dispersed in a high polymer matrix on an electrode substrate 6 is provided with a deflecting reflection plate 4 on the other surface of the ele...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To observe information while effectively using luminous flux even if external light is insufficient by properly setting the constitution of a lighting means. SOLUTION: The curvature, arrangement, etc., of the incidence surface 12 and surface 3 of a light source means 1 and an optical member 2 are properly set so that the luminous flux from the light source means 1 is made inc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce manufacturing costs, to reduce the occupancy area of a supporting member, and to improve a contrast rate without necessitating any process for aligning a mask when the supporting member is formed. SOLUTION: Openings 9a, 5a, and 5b are formed at a first pixel electrode 9 and a black matrix 5 of a substrate 1, and a supporting member 18 constituted of negative resist ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a projection display device capable of obtaining a clear image with high contrast with a simple constitution, and also which is made compact and whose efficiency is improved. SOLUTION: The device is provided with a dichroic mirror 101 for separating a luminous flux into luminous fluxes having B, G and R component wavelength areas respectively, a dichromic polarized...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable reading operation from an external CPU even when an inner memory is being reset. SOLUTION: While an inner memory is reset, an access from an external CPU is normally suppressed, but a ready signal is made effective (low state) regarding the external CPU and reading of the data from the internal memory is enabled by taking a NAND logic with an ACCSOK signal as effect...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thin-film thermistor, which can be reduced in 1/f noise and increased in electrical conductivity while its thermistor constant is increased, and consequently, can obtain a large S/N ratio with a small size, and a method for manufacturing the thermistor. SOLUTION: In a thin-film thermistor 10, a lower Cr electrode 11a and an upper Cr electrode 11b are respectively...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the lowering of contrast in the presence of external light and to obtain the desired luminance and contrast only with the light of a light source in the absence of external light by using at least a transparent resin, a reflecting agent and a diffusing agent. SOLUTION: The translucent half-reflector consists essentially of a transparent resin, a reflecting agent an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a while translucent film free from defects by using synthetic mica coated with titanium dioxide as a reflective filler. SOLUTION: The translucent film contains synthetic mica coated with titanium dioxide as a reflective filler and consists preferably of a reflective filler- contg. layer and a substrate film. The reflective filler-contg. layer is preferably a binder ...