PCT No. PCT/EP97/02018 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 9, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 9, 1998 PCT Filed Apr. 22, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/01915 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 15, 1998A method and apparatus for producing lead storage batteries are provided. Essentially grid-shaped lead electrodes are produced and are provided with a pasty, active mass. Immediately thereafter separator material is provided on both sides of the...

Device and process for containing and controlling the balloon while unwinding the feeding spools in automatic spoolers, in which a balloon containing crossbar is kept close to the upper part of the spooling tube but not in contact with the same: in this manner, the yarn of the balloon is at every turn forced by the bar to re-approach its tube and be contained by the same. The yarn is then passed t...

A centrifuge apparatus which 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, said supporting turntable (1) being connected with a first activating means (5) for rotating the turntabl...

The invention concerns a method for selectively extracting furan lipids and polyhydroxylated fatty alcohols of avocado, characterised in that it comprises steps which consist in: preparing an unsaponifiable matter of avocado; then in subjecting the unsaponifiable matter of avocado to a step of molecular distillation using adjusted temperature and pressure means to obtain either a distillate compri...

The invention relates to devices for wind energy conversion into the electric one and may be used at wind-electric plants. Summary of the invention consists in that the rotor of the electric generator is vertically fixed to the lower part of the windmill rotor. The electric generator stator is fixed coaxial with the windmill rotor inside the rotor of the electric generator so that the rotor of the...

PURPOSE:To improve operating feeling and working efficiency by controlling an electronic governor control device for maintaining rotating speed of an engine at a constant level and a car speed transmission mechanism for gear shift-controlling car speed according to working load condition so as to maintain engine rotational speed at a constant level. CONSTITUTION:At the time of running working when...

PURPOSE:To reduce an outer diameter size and dragging torque by providing a multiple plate brake for fixing the rotary element of a planetary gear mechanism selectively and an one-way clutch, and engaging either one element of the one-way clutch with an extension housing. CONSTITUTION:In the rotary element of a planetary gear mechanism PG3 on a casing 3 end part side, its rotation in a certain fix...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a transmission performance such as improving a running feeling under an automatic transmission mode and enabling a fast and positive over-riding shift under a manual mode to be carried out. SOLUTION: There are provided an actuator 2A for a clutch, an actuator 3A for a gear shift, and a control means 11 for outputting an instruction signal to both actuators 2A, 3a i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent any shift hunting from occurring at a time when it is reset to its normal shift control from decelerating shift control to aim at the positive execution of a fuel cut. SOLUTION: In a decelerating driving state where an idle switch is turned to ON (S1), gear shifting is controlled so as to become more than engine speed Nc or a condition that a fuel supply to an engi...

PURPOSE:To properly set a sphere where the drive of second drive wheels consisting of rear wheels or the like is conducted by means of a second drive means. CONSTITUTION:This device possesses a first drive means 98 that is equipped with an engine 2 and drives first drive wheels consisting of either of front wheels 1FL, 1FR and rear wheels 1RL, 1RR, and a second drive means 99 that is equipped with...

A vehicle control system having a laser radar for detecting an obstacle present ahead on a course of travel of the vehicle; and control device for operating a brake or an alarm based on an output of the laser radar when a distance from the vehicle to the obstacle is less than a first predetermined value or is less than a third predetermined value. In the system, a millimeter-wave radar, which is i...

PURPOSE:To provide a power transmitting device formed in small size to lighten weight by integrally providing a differential mechanism and a mechanism interlocked with this differential mechanism. CONSTITUTION:A power transmitting device comprises a differential gear case 9, plurality of pinion gear sets formed of the first/second pinion gears 37, differential mechanism 47 having the first/second ...

PURPOSE:To take out the rotation of an engine by directly inputting the rotation of the engine into a pump shaft of a HST-type speed change gear, taking the rotation of a motor shaft as output, and enabling the rotation of the engine to be continuously varied. CONSTITUTION:An HST-type speed change gear is fixed to a hole bored on a cylinder block 5 of an engine from below and so provided as to pro...

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for imaging the head area of a patient by taking both cephalometric X-ray and photographic images of desired objects to be imaged. The method is conducted by using a mechanism (1) applicable to cephalometric X-ray imaging, which comprises an X-ray source (5) in front of an object, an X-ray receiving element behind the object, and patient positioning ...

A method and apparatus for simultaneously supplying varying proportions of hot and cold direct reduced iron(DRI) material from a source of hot DRI for melting, storage, briquetting, or transport. The system uses gravity to transport hot DRI material from a reduction furnace to a furnace discharge section, which transports desired amounts to a cooling receptacle and to a hot DRI vessel. The cooling...

A disposable absorbent article comprising a backsheet, a topsheet, a fluid acquisition / distribution region and at least one fluid storage region, said article having a total product acquisition performance of more than 3.75 ml / sec in the first gush and more than 0.5 ml / sec in the fourth gush and an in bag stack height of less than 9.9 mm, characterised in that said topsheet allows to retain ...

The present invention provides a holder for securing an absorbent article comprising a flexible sheet having less than four pouches designed to secure at least one edge of an outer perimeter of the absorbent article. In one embodiment, there are two pouches substantially parallel to each other and extending transversely across the flexible sheet, the two pouches designed to secure opposing edges o...

A balancing vehicle that supports a rider on a support such as a seat in a such a manner as to allow the position of the center of gravity of the vehicle to be varied by motion of the support. Motion of the support additionally provides for control of a drive that propels the vehicle in a manner responsive to the position of the center of gravity. The vehicle is thus capable of control by leaning ...

PURPOSE:To provide the title device which gives a high luminance at a low driving voltage by forming a luminescent layer contg. an electron-transporting compd. and a luminescent material comprising a specific substd. poly(p- phenylenevinylene) between a pair of electrodes. CONSTITUTION:The title device is produced by forming a luminescent layer contg. an electron-transporting compd. [e.g. 2-(4-bip...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a reflection type electro-optic device which allows the use of the conventional switching element array as it is and does not require the alignment with a light shielding mask by providing the other substrate of a pair of substrates with a reflector. SOLUTION: This device is constituted by holding a liquid crystal layer 104 between a pair of the substrates 102, 103....