Rechargeable Pb-acid battery has an upper battery casing (10), lower battery casing (20), and an intermediate support extender (40). The bottom casing includes a number of support pins (29), integral with the casing. The extender has holes (43) passing through for flow of electrolyte and includes sockets (45) to fit over the pins (29). Pins (47) on the extruder fit in sockets (15) on the underside...

A panel arrangement for a bipole module specified in a certain patent has the module surfaces in the case of a system driven with liquid acid, divided on both sides into two regions or bays, an earthed panel chamber and a gas chamber. For a system construction with acid-absorbing fleece, the micro-glass fibre fleece covering the materials outside in the cells formed by two modules can project over...

A device for treating composite components has a flow path for a vehicle fluid conveying solid particles produced from the composite component(s) by crushing and a series of acceleration tools (70) moved in relation to a stator, arranged on a construction circle defining an annular space as a flow path and spaced apart about a rotating shaft of a rotor inside a cylindrical wall of a housing as the...

A creel has a frame provided with a plurality of parallel and longitudinally extending rows of holders each adapted to carry a respective filament-carrying bobbin with the holders of each row longitudinally staggered relative to the holders of adjacent rows and defining nonstraight gaps with the holders of the adjacent rows. Respective eyes are aligned transversely of the rows with the holders and...

An exercise device (100) having a footrest (102) including a plurality of angled surfaces (146,148,150) for placement of the user's feet and a pair of rotatable arms (104) extending from the sides of the footrest. A handle (118) is positioned over the arms and is resistively connected to the exercise device by an elastic cord (120) releasably attached to the handles and extending through the arms ...

A shredding apparatus (2) is described which comprises at least one module of a pair of counter-rotating cutting assemblies located in spaced apart parallel relationship wherein each assembly comprises a driving shaft (12, 14) upon which is mounted one or more cutters (34, 38, 42). The cutters (34, 38, 42) are provided with a pair of cutting surfaces or edges (65) which are located at either end o...

Systems for ablating body tissue comprise a family of electrode assemblies. Each electrode assembly (22) includes an extruded wall carrying an amount of electrically conductive material co-extruded within it. The extruded walls possess different electrical resistivity values by virtue of different amounts of electrically conductive material co-extruded within the walls. The systems also include me...

Systems and methods for heating body tissue places a multi-function structure (22) having an exterior wall in contact with body tissue. The structure includes an array of electrically conducting electrode segments (44) carried by the exterior wall. An electrically conductive network is coupled to the electrode segments, including at least one electrically conductive path (32) individually coupled ...

Electrode structures (20) are formed from flexible, porous, or woven materials. One such structure is made by forming first and second body sections (225), each including a peripheral edge. The first and second body sections (225) are joined together about their peripheral edges with a seam (224), thereby forming a composite structure. Another one of such structures is made by forming a body havin...

Systems and methods for heating or ablating tissue use a multifunctional electrode assembly (20). The electrode assembly includes a wall (22) comprising an electrically conductive material peripherally surrounding an interior area. The wall has an interior surface facing the interior area and an oppositely facing exterior surface. A first element operatively associated with the exterior surface of...

Electrode assemblies and associated systems employ a nonporous wall (22) having an exterior for contacting tissue. The exterior peripherally surrounds an interior area. The wall is essentially free of electrically conductive material. The wall is adapted to assume an expanded geometry having a first maximum diameter and a collapsed geometry having a second maximum diameter less than the first maxi...

A method and an apparatus for interlocking entrance of an unmanned dump truck, by which interference and collision between the unmanned dump trucks and a work vehicle in the work area are prevented. In the method, an unmanned dump truck (3) can enter the work area (91) only when another dump car (3a) is not in the work area (91) and the work vehicle (92) in the work area (91) issues an entrance pe...

A method of and an apparatus for inspecting an end of an object for a defect which can accurately detect any of defects caused by deformation of the object end in horizontal and vertical directions. Light from an end of an object (3) is received by a pair of image sensors (1, 2) disposed at a predetermined angle, and brightness outputs of picture elements of the image sensors are stored into a mem...

According to the present invention there is provided a polyester composition comprising an aromatic polyester having copolymerized therein a compound containing at least one sulfonic acid group or sulfonic acid metal salt group, and crosslinked polymer particles, preferably crosslinked polymer particles coated with a water-soluble polymer. The particles are incorporated in a slurried state into th...

A biaxially oriented base film made from polyethylene 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylate and a floppy disk for high-density magnetic recording made from the film. The film and the disk are characterized in that the vibration of the film surface is suppressed so as to enable the contact with a magnetic head under given conditions even at a high rotational speed and that they have an excellent viscoelasti...

A thermo-shrinkable polyester film of this invention is obtained from a composition that comprises acid components including telephthalic acid and glycol components including ethyleneglycol. The polyester film has a heat-shrinkage ratio of 30% or more in a certain direction at 100 DEG C, and a shrinkage ratio of 5% or more at the point of intersection of a curve showing the internal shrinkage stre...

A vehicle position is determined and four reference coordinate points N1, N2, N3 and N4 are extracted at predetermined distances on a road output from a CD-ROM or an IC card, and an angle theta of turning of the vehicle from the coordinate point N2 to the coordinate point N3 is calculated according to an expression, theta =( theta 1+ theta 2) from an angle theta 1 formed by a vector V12 betwee...

PCT No. PCT/EP93/03591 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 14, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 14, 1994 PCT Filed Dec. 17, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/17872 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 18, 1994.A front jaw for a safety binding comprising a lower part (3) of a housing, which lower part can be fastened to a ski, and an upper part (2) of a housing having at least one adjustable release spring (4) and two pivotal sole holders (14a, 14b)...

A mobile telephone fastening includes a cramping member and a gripping member. The cramping member has a base attached to a back of the mobile telephone and a buckle integrally extending from the base. The buckle has two opposed long edges and two opposed short edges. The gripping member includes an enclosure with a longitudinal recess, a press button received in the enclosure, a swing plate pivot...

A fastening for securing an apparatus, such as a pager or a mobile telephone, to a belt is disclosed. The fastening includes a body, a board and a flexure strip attached to the apparatus. The body defines a recess in a front portion thereof for receiving the flexure strip and has a plurality of ratchet teeth uniformly distributed at two opposed sides of a rear portion thereof. The board is movably...