A battery (10) having positive and negative plates (11, 12) contained in a housing. The upper edges of the positive plates are connected to the lower edges by means of a member (25; 28) also contained in the housing. The member (25; 28) comprises a material having a greater conductivity than that of the material of the plates.

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...

Nitrogen-containing bases are added to the aldehyde starting material in a process for the production of alcohols by gas-phase hydrogenation of aldehydes in presence of a hydrogenation catalyst.

An improvement in the sealing of bonded batts of fiberfill is obtained by providing a barrier layer of bonded bicomponent binder fibers on one or both faces of the remainder of the batt to prevent or reduce the tendency of the fiberfill to leak through such faces.

The invention relates to packaging in the form of a packaging laminate for packaging transdermal therapeutic systems comprising at least one heat sealable layer (3) and a barrier layer (2). Said packaging is characterised in that the heat sealable layer is provided with a continuous anti adhesive layer (4).; En un material de empaque en la forma de un laminado de empaque para empacar sistemas tera...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solid-state X-ray source for a computed tomography(CT) imaging system. SOLUTION: The X-ray source 14 is provided with a cathode 58, preferably constituted by plural elements capable of addressing. The cathode is disposed inside a vacuum chamber 74, and thereby electrons which are emitted collide with an anode 68 disposed, spaced apart from the cathode 58. An elec...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positive electrode plate for a lead storage battery excellent in discharge characteristics and life characteristics which improves utilization rate of an active material and prevents degradation of life of a positive electrode plate. SOLUTION: The positive electrode plate for a lead storage battery which utilizes paste kneaded with lead powder containing minium, ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing device of a lead storage battery which can surely fill in an active material paste down to the bottom face of a lattice sheet 4 as well as keep fill of the active material paste constant. SOLUTION: It is so structured that a lattice sheet 4 is supplied from nearly a horizontal direction to the top end part of the periphery face of a filling drum 9 a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sealed type lead storage battery with excellent life performance. SOLUTION: With the sealed type lead storage battery provided with an electrode plate group consisting of a positive/negative electrode plate and a separator having electrolyte solution absorbed, and a battery case containing the electrode plate group, a negative electrode active material contains 0...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light-weight control valve type lead storage battery with decreased lead powder volume for use with a negative electrode plate by increasing utilization rate of a negative electrode active material. SOLUTION: Fibrous silica of average fiber diameter of not more than 10 &mu m by 0.2 to 2 percent by mass and carbon fiber of average diameter of not less than 1 &mu m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control valve type lead storage battery with high initial discharge capacity and long life. SOLUTION: Diarsenic trioxide is added by 0.01 to 1 percent to lead powder by mass. Then, dilute sulfuric acid is added and kneaded to make up a paste active material. Then, the paste active material is filled in a lattice body to manufacture a paste type positive electrode...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a seal type lead-acid battery having superior life time performance. SOLUTION: This seal type lead-acid battery comprises a polar plate group, consisting of positive and negative electrode plates and a separator having an electrolyte absorbed therein, a battery jar for housing the polar plate group, and the electrolyte contains carbon particles. The preferable conc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a seal type lead-acid battery having superior life time performance. SOLUTION: This seal type lead-acid battery comprises a polar plate group, consisting of positive and negative electrode plates and a separator having an electrolyte absorbed therein, and a battery jar for housing the polar plate group. This battery satisfies the relation 0.69

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a seal type lead-acid battery having superior life time performance. SOLUTION: This seal type lead-acid battery comprises a group of electrodes, consisting of a flat positive and negative electrode plates and a separator having an electrolyte absorbed therein, and a battery jar for housing the group of electrodes; the positive and negative electrode plates and sepa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a long-lived control valve type lead-acid battery which hardly causes short circuiting. SOLUTION: Two kinds of separators, mainly composed of glass fiber and having a two-layer structure of a separator (b), having a high fiber density and a separator a3 having a low fiber density and a separator (a) composed mainly of glass fiber and having a low fiber density, are...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control valve type lead-acid battery capable of extending life time. SOLUTION: An electrode group 2 is housed in a battery jar 1, in a state with a group pressure being applied thereto. The group pressure is set so as to be lower in the lower part of the polar plate group 2 than in the upper part thereof.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transfer film that has solved the problem of the transfer film and the manufacturing method of an organic electroluminescence element using the same and can make transfer in good condition, and a manufacturing method of the organic electroluminescence element using the same. SOLUTION: The transfer film 2 comprises a transfer auxiliary layer 5 that is formed betwe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a running vehicle which solves the problem of the inability of obtaining smooth running, when deterioration in the running condition is forecasted at the start of the vehicle, and starts smooth running, when the vehicle is started. SOLUTION: A golf cart 1 is provided with an electric motor 4 for running, an inclination sensor 53 for detecting the inclination &theta...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a synchronous generator system for wind-turbine power generation that can produce the output corresponding to the output of a vane wheel, by setting the rated output of a synchronous generator higher than the output obtained at the rated number of revolutions of the generator, and adjusting the field current supplied to the field winding of the generator when the n...

A multi-radiation source X-ray CT apparatus comprises a sensor array consisting of sensors arranged fixedly, a vacuum chamber arranged fixedly, a nd an X-ray generating unit provided inside the vacuum chamber. The X-ray generating unit comprises a cathode so arranged fixedly in the vacuum chambe r in such a way as to surround the sensor array to emit an electron beam, an anode arranged fixedly in ...