PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a natural cooling apparatus having a higher radiation cooling capability by combining a black body and a selective radiation film. SOLUTION: A natural cooling apparatus includes a condenser 2 having a selective radiation film, a circulation apparatus 3, a controller 4 being a circulation controller, and a flow controller 8. The natural cooling apparatus further inc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the life performance of a lead-acid battery and group batteries generating a temperature difference in use by increasing the quantity of the lignin added to a negative electrode active material toward the high- temperature portion from the low-temperature portion on the negative electrode of the battery. SOLUTION: A negative electrode active material added with lig...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To unify the voltage characteristic when a battery is discharged and improve the life performance of group batteries and battery packs by increasing the quantity of the anisotropic graphite added to a positive electrode active material toward the low-temperature portion from the high-temperature portion on the positive electrode of the battery. SOLUTION: A positive electrode ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the chemical efficiency and the discharged current utilization factor of an active material and the compatibility of the discharging capacity and life by using a current collector made of a solid bored body, and forming irregular sections on the surface of an active material layer in response to the undulations of the current collector. SOLUTION: A metal thin plate...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the negative electrode plate of a lead-acid battery to extend its life in use under high temperature environments. SOLUTION: A negative electrode active material paste containing 0.2wt.% of leas salt or barium salt of lignosulfonic acid is filled in a grid (current collector) formed of a Pb-Ca alloy, and aged and dried to form an unformed negative electrode plate. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain the life performance lowering of a sealed battery following high capacity, by housing an electrode plate group, having a space part wherein the center part of the electrode plate group is penetrating vertically to an electrode plate surface, in a battery jar having a bottomed double cylindrical state where the center part is not existing. SOLUTION: A hole 2, with ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To drive a motor to start from a suspended state by a vehicle driver having an engine and a motor-generator without using a pole position sensor. SOLUTION: A vehicle driver has an engine 1, a motor-generator 20, an output shaft 40 through which those driving forces are outputted, and a clutch 35 by which they are coupled with and decoupled from each other. A controller has a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To remove the occurrence of creak of the fellow gears by providing a groove wherein one side of the periphery of a bracket can be fitted, at the brim of the inside periphery of the bracket catcher of the first case member and providing a press part capable of pressing the other part of the periphery of the bracket, at the brim of the inside periphery of the bracket catcher of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To change the transmission rate of engine driving force by compact structure, in a hybrid vehicle. SOLUTION: A differential gear mechanism 2 is installed, and the output shaft 11 of an engine is connected with the arm body 21 of the mechanism 2. The rotary shaft 41 of a dynamo-electric machine 4 is connected with a solar gear 23. The input shaft of a pump 6 for power stay is ...

A gas re-combination accumulator comprising at least two electrodes and a porous material impregnated with an aq. electrolyte inserted between the electrodes; the electrolyte comprises an additive with at least one stable fluorinated organic cpd. having at least one free atom in cationic form.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily specify the cause of a fault in detail if some abnormality occurs as to the electronic controller to which plural control units are connected through a communication line. SOLUTION: In a vehicle control system which connects plural ECUs (electronic control unit) 10-40 controlling respective parts of a vehicle by the communication line 50 and sends and receives part ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically switch measuring instruments. SOLUTION: This device is equipped with a 1st upper/lower-limit value detector 12, a 2nd upper/lower-limit value detector 15, a deviation computing element 4, an excessive deviation detector 5, an instrumentation equipment selection switch 18, an interlock setting switch 19, a preliminary instrumentation equipment abnormality dete...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect malfunction of both a main and an interruption routine by outputting a specific value inputted to data by the main routine, by the interruption routine a specific time later, and resetting the data. SOLUTION: The main routine after initializing a count value TC and data DT to 0 inputs the reset code of a watchdog timer circuit 2 to the data DT. Further, when the int...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely select a manual running mode by switching at a desired spot in the vehicle provided with an autonomous running mode. SOLUTION: Based on the detection signals from various kinds of sensors, an automatic operation controller 10 controls an actuator 14 and performs an autonomous running. This controller is provided with a changeover switch 16 and performs the switching...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a magnetic recording medium decreased in medium noises particularly at the time of recording and reproducing as magnetic recording media, such as magnetic drum, magnetic tape and magnetic disk. SOLUTION: This magnetic recording medium is constituted by forming a CrTi alloy film as a nonmagnetic ground surface film on a nonmagnetic substrate and forming a CoCrPtTa a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent bouncing of a magnetic head and reduce the thickness of the magnetic head by restricting the vibration of a plate spring part without arranging a support member above the plate spring part. SOLUTION: The magnetic head 2 is supported by a support arm 3 comprising a plate spring material and pressed to come into contact with a disc in a state where the arm 3 is defor...

The present invention provides an improved method for determining a coarse direction in an orientation system of a an autonomous device (10), for instance a dust cleaning robot together with a system of active beacons or transponders. A transmitter (20) for transmitting sensing signals is displaced in relation to the rotational center (25) of the the device (10). When the device is rotated around ...

Moule perfectionné (1) pour le moulage et la vulcanisation de bandes de roulement annulaires notamment destinées au rechapage de pneumatiques, comprenant au moins un noyau rigide (3) définissant la surface intérieure de la bande de roulement, et une couronne (2) divisée en secteurs (21) mobiles radialement entre une position d'ouverture et une position de fermeture de ladite couronne (2), assur...

PCT No. PCT/EP90/01981 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 29, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 29, 1992 PCT Filed Nov. 20, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO92/00108 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 9, 1992.The present invention relates to a powdery, water-insoluble, cross-linked resin which absorbs aqueous or serous liquids as well as blood and is composed of a) 55 to 99.9%-wt. polymerized, unsaturated, polymerizable, acid-groups-containing mono...