PURPOSE:To prevent the generation of a short circuit due to the fall-out of the active material from a base plate, and to prevent lowering of performance due to the elongation of an electrode plate base at the time of discharging by providing an electrode plate group of electrode plates, positive electrode plates and a separator, which is provided continuously at the bottom of the negative electro...

An integrated, vacuum-driven shed blood processing system that collects, dilutes, filters and washes postoperatively shed blood and concentrates red blood cells for reinfusion to the patient. The location of the centrifuge bowl (25) between the surgical site and the vacuum source (34) used to clean the site allows the immediate collection of shed blood in the bowl (25) without an intermediate rese...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the strength of pressed components of an automatic transmission only at their necessary portions without deteriorating press-working productivity. SOLUTION: An annular plate member 5, which is adapted to be engaged with a locking part 7 placed around a shaft-shaped member periphery 10 against axial movement so as to hold an axial load on its plate face, has a reinf...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain smooth coasting on a downward slope with varied gradients without making a driver feel uncomfortable by continuously changing the target input rotating speed by adding the correction quantity per unit time in the case of acceleration exceeding the threshold during coasting. SOLUTION: A speed change controller 7 is connected to an engine controller 6 to send a change...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To speedily turn a motor into an operating state in which a distributed load is outputted without deteriorating emission or operating characteristics in a power output apparatus for distributing required torque to the motor and an electric motor by outputting it to a drive shaft. SOLUTION: A maximum load change quantity Lmax of an engine is calculated based on a temperature W...

Blank for a gun barrel, consisting of a steel bar, which bar, in one or more hot working steps, has been repeatedly wrung about its own longitudinal axis.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain excellent joining in the case of executing frictional joining. SOLUTION: Plates 34 in the side becoming the outer surface of a structure are formed into prates 34a which protrudes in the side of the end part in a butting part of hollow shaped member 31, 32, and recessed parts 39 are provided in the inner surface side of the structure. The shaped member 31, 32 are pl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture a structure at low cost by projecting the end part of a first plate more than the end part of a second plate at the end part side, providing a recessed part in the connecting part of a third plate and the first plate and further, arranging the corner part connecting the recessed part with the outer surface of the third plate in the range of the extension line o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a good joined part by providing projecting parts protruded in the thickness direction of each member at the end parts of the first member and at the end parts of the second member, inserting a rotary tool into the butted portion from the projecting part side and friction-joining the butted portion. SOLUTION: Joining parts of two hollow shape materials 31, 32 are pro...

PURPOSE:To prohibit invasion of water or mud into a box main body by providing a second passage provided on the upper side of a chamber for guiding cooling air sucked into the chamber into the box main body. CONSTITUTION:External cooling air is introduced to a box main body 34 from a suction passage member 41, and plural batteries contained in the box main body 34 are cooled. At this time, the coo...

PURPOSE:To obtain an org. EL element having high reliability and luminous efficiency by using an indole deriv. having a specific backbone as a compd. for the element. CONSTITUTION:An indole deriv. having a backbone of formula I or a compd. having a backbone of fomrula II is used as a compd. for an org. EL element. In those formulas, R<1> to R<7> are each H, halogen, OH, carboxyl, cyano, nitro, ami...

Foamed and expanded beads of a crosslinked aliphatic polyester resin having a gel fraction of at least 5 % by weight. The expanded beads may be obtained by crosslinking beads of a non-crosslinked aliphatic polyester resin with a crosslinking agent including an organic peroxide to obtain crosslinked resin beads having a gel fraction of at least 5 % by weight, and then expanding the crosslinked resi...

An apparatus comprising: a sprayer for inoculating a microbe on a first division divided from at least one sample of a plant to be examined; sample leaving device for leaving a second division divided from the sample not inoculated with the microbe and the first division inoculated with the microbe, for a predetermined period of time under a predetermined condition; first and second photodetector ...

PURPOSE:To offer a method to manufacture a dispersion-type liquid crystal electro-optical device which can be easily extended to a large area so that the substrates has uniform space and can be produced at low cost. CONSTITUTION:The liquid crystal electro-optical device consists of a pair of substrates having electrode layers, at least one of the substrates transmits light, and a dimming layer con...

An umbrella canopy frame has a structure adapted for various shapes (eg a car, a square, a cone or a wide-brimmed Chinese farmer's hat), the frame having a main shaft 10, a fixed notch 11, upper and lower sliding notches 20,30 located consecutively below the fixed notch, positioning ribs 40, upper spreaders 41, upright ribs 42, upper angle-forming clamps 50, lower spreaders 60 and clamping pieces ...

In a process for stabilizing a foamed starting slip material, the starting slip material which is foamed comprises the following constituents:a. inorganic sinterable material,b. a source of blowing gas,c. a framework former which forms a framework when the pH of the starting slip material is changed,d. pH control material,e. liquid,f. if desired, one or more of the following materials:dispersantbi...

Disclosed is a process for producing particles of the modified carbohydrate polymer chitosan. Such chitosan particles are "activated" as a consequence of the specific steps used in the process. The process involves precipitation of dissolved chitosan from an acid solution thereof by the step-wise addition of neutralizing agent to the solution. A partial neutralization is carried out under shear ag...

A distributed verified trusted third-party system (VPS) (10) and method enable electronic/digital transactions through real-time verification and authentication, with improved privacy and security, encompassing the whole payment range from very large to very small. The VPS (10) includes hubs (16-20) storing client data and connecting clients (22) to vendors (24) to mediate secure electronic transa...

To provide a filler-containing PTFE granular powder for molding, which has a high apparent density, a small electrostatic charge and excellent flowability and gives a molded article which is free from lowering of tensile strength and elongation and coloring attributable to a surfactant. Also a process for preparing the granular powder is provided. The granulation is carried out by wetting 100 part...