PURPOSE: A secondary battery is provided to prevent the short of anode tab, to improve safety, to prevent non-uniformity of the thickness of electrode plate assembly, and to improve productivity. CONSTITUTION: The secondary battery comprises a cathode plate(34), an anode plate(32) and a separator insulating the electrode plates. The secondary battery is characterized by further comprising an elect...

A method of fabricating the drill bit includes employing known layered-manufacturing techniques to fabricate the bit crown, positioning a bit gage mold adjacent the bit crown, and disposing a core material within an interior of the bit crown and a cavity of the bit gage mold. A mold that may be employed to fabricate the drill bit includes an initially conforming mold region, in which the prefabric...

A method of making a multi-layered sliding bearing by spreading copper or a copper-based alloy powder on a steel substrate, sintering 5 and then rolling 6 the powder and re-sintering 7 and re-rolling 8 with reduction of not less than 10%. The bearing is then heat treated 9 at a temperature above the recrystallisation temperature of the copper/copper alloy but below that of the steel (e.g. at a tem...

A method for the evaluation of the ultrastructure of connective tissue, such as cartilage, including (a) providing a probe operative in the near-infrared or mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, (b) positioning the probe either to be in contact with the connective tissue (for detecting attenuated total reflectance) or within a sufficient distance from the surface of the connective t...

Máquina de anudar, etiquetar y paletizar carretes a la salida de bobinadoras o de cualquier otra máquina productora de carretes de hilo, esencialmente constituida por un puesto (2) de posición de los carretes (3) a la salida de una bobinadora (1) o de cualquier otra máquina productora de carretes y de corte del hilo de arrastre, por un robot (4) o un sistema análogo de prensión del carrete (3), su...

SE DESCRIBE UN PROCEDIMIENTO Y UNIDAD PARA TRATAR MATERIAL EN CHAPA (2), CARACTERIZADO PORQUE EL MATERIAL EN CHAPA (2) SE ELABORA ENTRE DOS RODILLOS (3), QUE GIRAN ALREDEDOR DE EJES PRACTICAMENTE PARALELOS (4), Y QUE COOPERAN MUTUAMENTE, DE ACUERDO CON UNA DETERMINADA LEY DE INTERACCION, QUE DEPENDE DE LA RELACION ESPACIAL DE LOS DOS RODILLOS (3); AJUSTANDOSE ESTA RELACION PARCIAL, EN EL MOMENTO D...

A running control portion (10) of a parking assist ECU (1) determines an inclination of a road surface based on information such as outputs of a wheel speed sensor (32) and an acceleration sensor (33), and a brake hydraulic pressure which an actuator (34) applies to a wheel cylinder (38). The running control portion (10) execute a vehicle speed control by controlling a braking force applied by the...

A vehicle traveling control system (100) includes a control mode for controlling a vehicle speed (V) by applying braking force (Pt) so as to maintain the vehicle speed (V) at a predetermined upper threshold vehicle speed (Vref) or smaller than that while a predetermined driving force beyond a creeping torque has been applied. The applied driving force is reduced when a target braking force require...

This invention relates to a powder composition comprising a silicone represented by the following formula (1) comprising an alcoholic hydroxyl group, and a powder, to an oil-based powder composition formed by dispersing this powder composition in an oil, and to a cosmetic material containing these materials. R<1> aR<2> bSiO (4-a-b)/2 where, in formula (1), R<1> are identical or different organi...

The method involves selecting a language and outputting the location name in the selected language. The selected language is compared with a stored speech attribute of a location name and the name is output in the form allocated to the attribute associated with the selected language. AN Independent claim is also included for the following: a navigation device for a vehicle and an information bear...

The present invention relates to a sintered body of a carbonitride alloy with titanium as main component which has improved properties particularly when used as cutting tool material in light finishing cutting operations at high cutting speed. This has been achieved by combining a carbonitride based hard phase of specific chemical composition with an extremely solution hardened Co-based binder pha...

Methods for producing medium-density articles from recovered high-density tungsten alloy (WHA) material, and especially from recovered WHA scrap. In one embodiment of the invention, the method includes forming a medium-density alloy from WHA material and one or more medium- to low-density metals or metal alloys. In another embodiment, medium-density grinding media, such as formed from the above me...

The grinding machine according to the invention comprises a first support (1) designed to support a tyre (2) in a vertical position and able to rotate about a first horizontal axis (3), a second support (7) positioned vertically on one side of the tyre (2), a third support (8) which can be moved manualy, which is connected to an upper part of the second support (7) by a connector (11) with at leas...

The present invention relates to a transport device for transporting sheets ( 2 ) in a plant comprising a high-speed printer which is provided for printing the sheets ( 2 ) or a continuous web which is cut to sheets ( 2 ). The transport device includes at least one vacuum means ( 9 b) having at least one vacuum opening ( 9 c , 9 d) and at least one conveyor belt ( 9 a) with vacuum holes ( 9 e) whi...

An Internet-enabled rental vehicle reservation management method and system are disclosed. Via the system and method, authorization limits can be assigned to the users who create and manage replacement rental vehicle reservations through the system, where these authorization limits impose financial commitment monetary limits that the users can make on replacement rental vehicle reservations over a...

A method and apparatus for acquiring data representing formation parameters while drilling a wellbore is disclosed. A well is drilled with a drill string having a drill collar that is located above a drill bit. The drill collar includes a sonde section having transmitter/receiver electronics for transmitting a controlling signal having a frequency F and receiving data signals at a frequency 2F. Th...

A control system controls a hybrid vehicle having an engine (1) for rotating a drive axle (2), an electric motor (3) for assisting the engine (1) in rotating the drive axle (2) and converting kinetic energy of the drive axle (2) into electric energy in a regenerative mode, and an electric energy storage unit (14) connected through a drive control circuit to the electric motor (3), for storing elec...

A motor/generator (26) and drive wheel (47) are connected to an engine (1), and the drive wheel (47) is driven by the engine (1) and motor/generator (26) according to running conditions. A sensor (63A, 63B) which detects a slip of the drive wheel (47) and a sensor (62) which detects a depression of an accelerator pedal (61) are provided, and the motor/generator (26) Is operated as a generator when...

In a hybrid vehicle wherein the rotation torque of a motor and engine are input to a continuously variable transmission, a target speed ratio is determined from a target engine rotation speed set based on a target drive torque of said vehicle and a vehicle speed. A target combined torque of the motor and engine is set based on the target drive torque and a real speed ratio of the transmission. A t...

In the present invention there is disclosed a process for the preparation of small cell foam materials, which comprises using as nucleating agents modified dense star polymers, which have a highly branched interior of one monomeric composition and an exterior structure of a different monomeric composition capable of providing a hydrophobic outer shell and which have a particle diameter of from abo...