PURPOSE:To improve the discharge capacity and life performance by setting the difference between the filling density of an active material of each portion of an electrode plate divided into three in the height direction and the average filling density of the whole electrode plate to a prescribed value or below. CONSTITUTION:This clad type electrode plate for a lead-acid battery is 300mm or above i...

A vehicle driving controller for reducing a feeling of incompatibility of a driver is disclosed. Such a vehicle driving controller has a first detecting section for detecting a drive environment of a vehicle, a second detecting section for detecting a throttle opening of the vehicle, a driving control signal calculating section for outputting a driving control signal through calculations based on ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly change and set to a set car speed intended by an operator by changing the car speed using a value larger than a target acceleration generally used in the acceleration and a value smaller than a target acceleration generally used in deceleration. SOLUTION: Where an acceleration switch operation continues till a prescribed time (S782: NO), a value formed by adding a ...

An electrode element is composed of a conductive base having a coating containing a metal of the platinum group and an oxide of bismuth. The electrode element is free from the problems involved in the conventionally used lead electrodes.

A gripping device for a manipulation system, particularly a robot, for receiving workpieces and feeding them from a readied stack of the workpieces to a manufacturing plant such as a metal sheet folding machine, punching press, welding plant, etc. The device has a gripper head fitted with gripping means such as suction cups, magnets, tongs, etc., and a detection system for detecting characteristic...

A gripping device for a manipulation system, particularly a robot, for receiving workpieces and feeding them from a readied stack of the workpieces to a manufacturing plant such as a metal sheet folding machine, punching press, welding plant, etc. The device has a gripper head fitted with gripping means such as suction cups, magnets, tongs, etc., and a detection system for detecting characteristic...

A method of treating a surface for the removal of a surface portion comprising irradiating the surface with laser light, wherein the irradiation is effected by covering said surface in a sequential manner with a plurality of discrete spots of laser light. The spots of laser light overlap and may be arranged in a geometric arrangement defined by the locations of the centers of the spots of laser li...

A fibre for spunbonded fabrics comprising a propylene polymer composition (A) having an MFR (1) value from 6 to 150 g/10 min and being selected from (i) a crystalline propylene random copolymer or crystalline propylene polymer composition en containing at least 0.8% by weight of ethylene and having a melting temperature of 153° C. or higher, a content of fraction soluble in xylene at room temperat...

A method of treating a surface for the removal of a surface portion by scabbling comprising the steps of oscillating, in a first direction, a laser beam incident upon the surface and superimposing a nett direction of travel of the incident laser beam over the surface in a second direction such that the incident laser radiation traverses the surface so as to effect surface removal. The amplitude of...

A bi-directional cracking valve that can be selectively opened. Bi-directional cracking valve (10, 70) is formed using an elastomeric membrane (34). Centered within the elastomeric membrane is a slit (36) that remains closed, blocking fluid flow through the device until a differential pressure across the elastomeric membrane exceeds a predefined cracking pressure, sufficient to force fluid through...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic component mounting method and an apparatus which can eliminate a reflow step. SOLUTION: This apparatus has constituent parts arranged along a conveyor device 14. The conveyor device 14 is provided at its start end with a stocker 16 for keeping substrates 12 before mounted and at its termination end with a magazine rack 18 for keeping the substrates 12...

PURPOSE: To simply install a beam and cheese, and enable automatic installation according to necessity in a kinky thread preventive device to prevent the occurrence of looseness when twisting wound round the beam and the cheese is rewound. CONSTITUTION: A support bar 2 is provided to install a beam and cheese, and a rotary arm 6 is pivoted on a base stand 7 on which the support bar 2 is installed,...

A reflection type liquid-crystal in which a light guide plate is in tight contact with a liquid-crystal display element having a reflecting layer through a bonding layer with refractive index in a range of from 1.40 to 1.55 and whole light transmittivity in a range of not less than 90%, the light guide plate being designed so that incident light from an incidence side surface is emitted from a low...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set the brightness of an indication surface below the upper limit value at emergency by a lamp current higher than its lower limit value with an improved effect by providing a cold cathode fluorescent lamp, an conductive reflection plate, a regular AC lighting device and an emergency DC lighting device and by generating leakage current on the reflection plate at the time o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for storing and conveying a green tire which can improve the molding productivity of the tire in a small space, deal with various production in the case of molding and store the tires in the excellent state of the quality of the tire. SOLUTION: A green tire conveying conveyor 6, a centering unit 7 and an input side transfer unit 9 are inst...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily obtain a thin-shaped high-efficiency polarized light separating element by constituting the polarized light separating element of a diffraction grating and an optical anisotropic layer formed adjacent to the diffraction grating. SOLUTION: This polarized light separating element 101 is constituted of the diffraction grating 102 and a double refraction layer 103. The ...

The card reader has a card path, a closure device which prevents insertion of a card into the card path and a guide which holds the closure device and moves it into open and close positions. Moving parts (3) close to both sides of the card path are moved to the sides by an inserted card. Movable parts (2) connected to the moving parts protrude into a detection section which opens the closure devic...

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for determining whether or not a biosensor comprising two working electrodes and one reference electrode is well manufactured, and for rapidly and accurately quantifying a specific substance contained in a biological sample. The method comprises the steps of: sequentially supplying the respective working electrodes with power supply voltage; sequentially det...

The present invention relates to a mesoporous platinum electrode for detecting biochemical substrate, comprising an electrode and a mesoporous platinum layer covering the surface thereof, and a method for detecting a biochemical substrate using the mesoporous platinum electrode. Using the present invention, glucose concentration can be selectively determined while excluding interference of interfe...

To recap a tire, hot rubber mix is applied under pressure to a receiving surface of the tire from a collecting b block disposed thereagainst while relative rotation occurs between the block and the tire. The block is configured to cause the hot mix to be pressurized as it approaches an exit orifice of the block which forms the hot mix into strip form, whereby the strip has a width less than one-te...