This centrifuge apparatus comprises a container (10) including a cylindrical member (11) with a lower rim and a piston member with a tubular piston rod (12). A supporting turntable (1) with a first gripping means (27) releasably grips the lower rim when the container (10) is placed thereon, the supporting turntable (1) being connected with a first activating means (5) for rotating the turntable (...

Described is a method of concentrating waterborne pathogenic organisms from water potentially contaminated by dilute densities of the organisms. Potentially contaminated water is directed along an elongated flow path (34) which rests generally within a plane perpendicular to an axis of rotation, and is subjected to centrifugal forces by rotating the flow path about the rotational axis. The method...

PURPOSE:To prevent abrasion and fall of insert by casting the periphery side of an insert, in which whirl-stop and through-stop projections are provided in the periphery thereof, so as to be covered integrally with a case, and supporting a shaft with the inner peripheral surface of the insert. CONSTITUTION:An insert 9 is inserted to the outer periphery of a bearing 8 for supporting an input shaft ...

PURPOSE:To remove noise of a control frequency, caused by a braking force control so as to improve controllability by processing acceleration of a drive wheel during a braking period by a filter of the characteristic which removes a frequency component of the acceleration of the drive wheel corresponding to the control frequency in the braking force control. CONSTITUTION:In a device in which an en...

PURPOSE:To obtain a sealed lead-acid battery, of which cycle lifetime is prolonged and of which recoverability of capacity after a long term storage is improved, by adding stannic oxide and stannous sulfate in the positive electrode active material. CONSTITUTION:Stannic oxide and stannous sulfate are added in the positive electrode active material. Since the stannic oxide as a conductor is mixed i...

PURPOSE:To restrain variation of coupling force by shifting spline engaging positions of inside plates and outside plates against respective rotating members in the circumferential direction, between the inside plates mutually and between the outside plates mutually. CONSTITUTION:In assembling, spline holes 103 are fitted to spline bosses 101 so that the lack tooth parts 112, 114,... of inside pla...

A stable and durable electrode assembly for a lead-acid storage battery to provide a longer-life lead-acid storage battery is described. A synthetic resin-made separator and a glass mat, which is wider than the separator, are coordinately stacked together and then folded in such a manner that the separator is positioned within the glass mat and the side edge portions of the separator overlap and t...

A packaging unit (1) for continuously producing aseptic sealed packages (2), containing a pourable food product, from a tube (14) of packaging material filled with the food product; the unit (1) has a first and second chain conveyor (10, 11) respectively having a number of jaws (12) and a number of counter-jaws (13), which interact with and grip the tube (14) to heat-seal the tube at successive cr...

A cell for a lead acid battery comprises: at least one cathode layer of lead-containing material; at least one anode layer of lead-containing material; at least one separator layer sandwiched between the cathode and anode layers that comprises glass fiber and polymeric material; and a casing. The cathode, separator and anode layers are arranged in overlying spirally wound relationship to form a ce...

The invention provides an impact member for assembly with a rotor arranged in a comminuter used for the size reduction of feed material. The impact member, disposed radially about the rotor, comprises a carrier and a replaceable impact plate both configured for complementary registration so as to be cantilevered from the carrier and to provide an essentially locking arrangement to withstand the im...

Spooling method from hanks and relative reeling-off device to transfer yarns (11) from a hank (12) to a spool (13), wherein the hank (12) is mounted on a reel (14) suitable to rotate around an axis (24), the method providing to use a magnetic drawing assembly (38) to supply a contribution of power for the rotation of the reel (14) such as will not contrast with or brake the normal unwinding of the...

Catalytic composition, optionally supported on an inert material, characterized in that it comprises (i) oxides and/or hydroxides of a first metal (M1) and (ii) halides of a second metal (M2), wherein M1 and M2, the same or different, are selected from metals belonging to groups IIa, IIb, IVb, VIII, Ib, Va, Lanthanides, and relative mixtures. Its preparation and use in the selective transformation...

A method of applying dense adherent metal coatings on the surfaces of various materials (particles and substrates) including dielectrics, semiconductors and metals, is provided. The method utilizes solid-phase reactions. After degreasing and cleaning of the surface of materials, the particles of a compound chosen from the group of metals, alloys, metal oxides, metal hydroxides, metal sulfides are ...

A device for crizzle detection, provided with a means for rotating a glass container placed at an inspection position, a data collecting means which has N light projectors and M light receivers arranged on a generally semispherical mointing jig around the mouth or thread of the glass container and which is adapted to collect N x M pieces of data for each scan over the glass container, a means for ...

PURPOSE:To obtain a lightweight liquid crystal shutter even with a large area and permit the strong light shielding performance by generating the optically transparent state and the light scattering state by applying and cutting off the ac electric current field. CONSTITUTION:A mixture consisting of low molecular liquid crystals and high molecular liquid crystals or a mixture consisting of the low...

Provide is a method for detecting defects in a film structure of a thin film formed on a substrate, comprising projecting a light flux in a direction precisely parallel or nearly parallel to the face of the substrate; separating a reflected light from the thin film and the substrate from a scattered light toward the direction precisely perpendicular or nearly perpendicular to the face of the subst...

Different components of television programs, such as the video and audio components or different time segments of the program, are assigned to different channels transmitted in the form of packetized digital information in at least one of the channels of a multi-channel cable television distribution system. A particular subscriber's converter (200) is configured to receive a particular subset of p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide such a connection structure as being capable of easily doing connecting work while keeping sufficient precision and restricting the increase in a cost. SOLUTION: In a connection structure, the ends of plural hanger rails 16 formed of aluminum shapes are cut to be connectable at a mutually right angle and square frames 17a-17b are mutually connected by welding to fo...

A method of manufacturing monodisperse polyurethane fine particles, comprising the steps of: contacting a polyurethane prepolymer liquid with a dispersant via a hard porous membrane having a uniform porous diameter; extruding said polyurethane prepolymer liquid through said hard porous membrane into said dispersant in the form of droplets; and having said polyurethane prepolymer droplets hardened ...