Sealed lead-acid cells are disclosed which include an internal cell restraint contacting the interior surface of the cover and positioned between the positive plates and the cover, the internal cell restraint cooperates with an external cell restraint, such as a coated metal face plate, to direct positive plate growth which occurs in service away from the cover, the features disclosed allowing pla...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for laser beam machining, by which a molten point or a crack deviant from a planned cutting line on a surface of the work to be machined is not generated and the work to be machined is accurately cut. SOLUTION: A property modification zone is formed inside the work 1 to be machined by irradiating the planned cutting line 5 with a pulse laser beam L by plac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for laser beam machining with which a work to be machined is precisely cut without a molten part or a crack which is deviated from a planned cutting line on the surface of the work to be machined. SOLUTION: The device is provided with a laser beam source 101 which emits a pulse laser beam of which pulse width is 1 &mu s smaller, a power adjustment part 401...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential limiting device for a vehicle capable of always controlling restraining torque to a proper value according to a driving state of the vehicle and thereby improving traveling performance of the vehicle, without requesting the driver to perform a complicated setting operation. SOLUTION: Restraining torque reflecting the state of a road surface can be co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reconcile improved fuel consumption and drivability by preventing booming noise and vibration in a lockup operation and establishing lockup control from a low vehicle speed range. SOLUTION: Booming noise and vibration in lockup control are prevented by means of a torque fluctuation detecting means for detecting a shortage or overage of torque generated by an engine, a gene...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a braking control device capable of accurately deciding the intension of a lane change by a driver and preventing generation of inadvertent automatic braking as much as possible. SOLUTION: When each relative angle of a steering angle and a front target object is above a prescribed value, it is judged that the driver has the intention of the lane change, and a stand...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize the whole of a movable block so that films are not used wastefully by a method wherein a tube film 20 is held between the opposed parts of passages 48 and the film 20 is drawn under vacuum. SOLUTION: A permanent gap 46 is formed between a pair of seal bars 35, 36 provided respectively in vertically movable blocks 22, 23, while opposed passages 48, 48 formed out...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pair of shoes for a snowboard and snowboard bindings for fitting them, which have great mechanical strength, small assembling errors, and high safety, and enable pushing in of the shoes into the bindings with small effort. SOLUTION: A fitting rod 16 and a fitting pin 14E are composed as separate bodies, and only the fitting pin 14E is energized by a coil spring 1...

"SOLDAGEM SOBREPOSTA COM FEIXE INCLINADO". A presente invenção refere-se a soldagem a laser, particularmente, a um método para soldar a laser um par de componentes que se confinam, inclinando-se um feixe a laser para a superfície de um dos componentes para formar um ângulo agudo de menos do que 70<198> na direção de percurso do feixe. é também provido um aparelho de soldagem tendo uma cabeça de la...

An integral, pre-formed edge closure fabricated from a non-corrosive, durable material includes an anchoring flange for attachment to a roof structure, an upper flange, an intermediate panel spanning between the anchoring flange and the upper flange, a cant panel positioned at an acute angle relative to the upper flange to define a cant strip along a length of the edge closure, and a mounting stri...

A laryngeal mask of the type used to facilitate lung ventilation and the insertion of endo-tracheal tubes or related medical instruments through a patient's laryngeal opening as used during general anesthesia, intensive care, or critical patient care. The mask includes an inflatable positioning shield formed to fit within a patient's oropharynx and seal around the circumference of the laryngeal op...

Impedance and capacitance-related parameters are monitored in the electrical circuit of a tissue-ablation apparatus wherein RF electrical power is administered at predetermined frequencies. Tissue temperature has been found to correlate well with low-frequency impedance, or with the resistive component of impedance at any frequency. Therefore, one or both of these parameters are calculated and tra...

A high-frequency instrument for an endoscope including an electrically insulating sheath having a high-frequency electrode provided at the distal end thereof. A operating part is connected to the proximal end of the sheath. The operating part has an electrically conducting member electrically connected to the high-frequency electrode. An electrically insulating member covers the whole outer surfac...

Fine powders are made from molten metals and alloys on a continuous basis. A rapidly spinning shallow cup has an atomizing fluid such as water, oil or any other hydrocarbon supplied to the cup to form a thin sheet or layer which is distributed on the inner surface of the cup. Within the cup a stream or spray of molten metal is propelled into this thin sheet of atomizing fluid. The metal interacts ...

A method of a manufacturing rotating electromagnetic component to have both soft and hard (permanent) magnet regions, in which powder technologies are used to net-shape mold the component. A soft magnet powder material and an insert or powder of a permanent magnet material are compacted to form a rotating electromagnetic body containing soft and hard magnet regions. A partial sintering operation i...

Polyurethane foams containing a syntactic phase and a cellular, non-syntactic phase are useful as reinforcing foams, such as in automotive applications. The foams are conveniently made in the reaction of a high viscosity isocyanate-reactive component and a high-viscosity polyisocyanate component, at least one of which contains a plurality of hollow microspheres.

An automatic steering system for a vehicle is provided which includes a memory section for storing data for a steering angle of a wheel with respect to a distance of movement of a vehicle in correspondence to four parking modes. If a desired parking mode is selected by a mode selecting switch and the vehicle is moved at a creep while depressing a brake pedal, a control section controls the operati...

On receipt of route information, map data in an area near the route is read. One intersection existing on the route is extracted from the read map data, and intersection-connected links connected to the intersection are extracted. The road widths from the center line to the right and left sides are specified for the intersection-connected links based on attribute data such as the actual road width...

A system for remote management of private networks having duplicate network addresses is provided which consists of a plurality of managed customer networks (16) within a customer domain (12). The managed customer networks (16) within the customer domain (12) are linked to a level one manager (34) and have unique network addresses. The managed customer networks (16) within the customer domain (12)...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a spread base for cooked bread, having as the raw material oil and fat with freely regulated hardness. SOLUTION: This spread base is obtained by using as the raw material therefor oil and fat including an ester compound and liquid oil.