A two stage reaction for the production of steel from iron carbide is carried out in two separate but interrelated reactors. In the first reactor, iron, carbide, with slag formers, is fed into a feed end and the reaction is well-mixed by the vessel geometry, the stirring action below-surface injection of oxygen and iron carbide feed, and the evolution of gases from the liquid metal bath. The produ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To take out a high temperature heating medium without increasing number of panels and an installing area. SOLUTION: In the solar heat collecting apparatus comprising a plurality of heat collecting panels 3 each having a plurality of water flow tubes 7 for transferring heat from a solar light to liquid flowing therein, inlet side header tubes 5 coupled to one ends of the tubes...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air separator for a solar heat utilizing facility for preventing occurrence of a steam hammer occurring due to introduction of steam into a thermal storage tank by effectively separating warm water from the steam with a simple constitution without necessity of regulation without using a conventional valve. SOLUTION: In the air separator for a solar heat utilizin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make plant controller small in size and reduced in cost. SOLUTION: Small general operation modules 55a to 55n are constituted respectively by combining small general operation processors 51a to 51n of small element of a prescribed unit and small analog operation parameter memory 52a to 52n of a small element of a prescribed unit. Small bit operation modules 56a to 56m are ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the life performance, without damaging the initial performance of a battery by using a positive electrode plate consisting of an active material obtained by adding a specified quantity of tin or a compound thereof to a Pb-Ca grating, having an effective grid diameter of a specified value or more. SOLUTION: In a grid having an effective diameter of 7 mm or more, 0.2...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent turning into non-conductor by reducing contact resistance at an electrode of a lead-acid battery. SOLUTION: Electrodes 2, 3 of a lead-acid battery are immersed in a carbon aqueous suspension solution 1, and a specified D.C. voltage is applied to the electrodes 2, 3 to electrochemically perform doping of carbon particles 4. The one to have done oxidation processing,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To arbitrarily choose either a motor or an engine as a drive source by discriminating, when a PTO operating device is actuated, whether or not the noise generated by operating the device is of concern to environmental problems in an area where the PTO operation is taking place. SOLUTION: A motor 19 is connected to the reverse idle shaft of a manual transmission comprising a r...

The device comprises a first mechanical member (3) and a second mechanical member (1) which are movable relative to each other. The members are arranged at a close distance so as to cooperate with each other. A heating element (41) is provided in order to heat at least one of said first and second members, so as to maintain the dimensional stability thereof.

The present invention includes the hardware and software necessary to perform virtually any volume of complex transactions, and particularly a large volume thereof, is disposed in a central Application Processing Front End (APFE) which is shared by a plurality of merchants, thereby spreading the cost of the APFE among a large number of users. By including only the minimum amount of hardware compon...

A topographical support member (2) and method of forming a topographical support member (2) for use in producing nonwoven fabrics, especially tricot-like nonwoven fabrics. The topographical support member (2) includes a body (1) having a top surface (3) comprising a pattern of a plurality of peaks (5) and valleys (6) and a plurality of apertures (7). The apertures (7) have a conical top portion (7...

The parking violation management replaces paper violation notification with a smart card or a magnetic card (10) which is attached to the windscreen wiper arms of the vehicle. The vehicle identification and infraction details are recorded on the card, which can be used at remote terminals (7), connected to a central computer (6), to control collection of fines to discharge the offense.;

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An apparatus for reducing the oversized fraction of chips, especially the overthick fraction, which apparatus comprises a rotatingly fitted disc-like rotor part (1) to which is attached a number of chipping blades (2), and a fixed stator part (3) surrounding the rotor part (1), to which stator part is attached a number of counter blades (4), the blades (2) and counter blades (4) being arranged in ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable an excellent cooperative travel among vehicles even when the vehicle at the head of the vehicle group travels unstably by sending and receiving a set travel course between vehicles, and setting the travel target track of each vehicle according to the received travel course and automatically steering the vehicle. SOLUTION: A vehicle 31 determines a travel indication ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain excellent impact resistance by providing a frexture having a movable part provided in a load beam and having a movable part to which a head is attached on its top end side and a limiter member provided on the flecture and regulating the angle of inclination of the movable part, thereby suppressing the head from being inclined even when shock is inputted. SOLUTION: A...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify a microwave generating device by providing a first grid having multiple holes for controlling and focusing the electron flow from a cathode on a heating element and a first secondary electron emission decreasing means, a choke structure, an input cavity, a bias voltage resistor, a second grid, an anode having a second secondary electron emission decreasing means a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact waterproof connector with reduced number of parts items. SOLUTION: A waterproof connector 21 is provided with a connector housing 22, an operating lever 23 and a grommet 24, and the operating lever 23 inserted for fitting in a rotary shaft 39 provided in the connector housing 22 is engaged with a driven projection of a counter-connector via a cam groove 4...

A method for operating a reflectance-reading device involves triggering a timing circuit by an initial decrease in reflectance by the wetting of the surface whose reflectance is being measured by a fluid which passes through the inert matrix. The method is particularly suitable for the measurement of glucose levels in blood without requiring separation of red blood cells from serum or plasma.

The transport container can have a casing (10) with a base (12) and a side wall (14,16,18,20). The container can have multiple rigid receptacles (24,70) each having a closed base, a side wall (32) and an upper open end. Each receptacle receives a blood bag. There are elastic retainers (26) to hold each receptacle in the casing. Each retainer has an elastic strip with one end fixed to the base of ...

L'invention concerne un système de guidage pour un véhicule de transport en commun en vue d'assister le conducteur sur tout ou partie du parcours. L'invention réside dans le fait que le guidage est réalisé par un marquage codé optique (16) sur la chaussée qui est détecté et analysé par un dispositif embarqué ainsi que par un couloir défini par deux bordures latérales (18, 20) qui coopèrent avec...

L'invention concerne une boîte de vitesses (2), du type boîte de vitesses réglable en continu à enroulement sur roues coniques, qui possède deux paires de roues coniques, l'une (3) sur son côté d'entrée et l'autre (4) sur son côté de sortie, qui peuvent être sollicitées chacune en tension par au moins un actionneur pour mettre sous tension le moyen d'enroulement (5) qui relie entre elles, pour ...