1. Electrode made of lead or lead oxide for galvanic cells is equipped with the active layer deposited over the conductive base. Unique characteristics: The active layer of lead or lead oxide has cross-linked structure. It is electrolytically deposited directly on the cross-linked glassy coal, that constitutes the conductive base.

Methods for making, methods for using and articles comprising cermets, preferably cemented carbides and more preferably tungsten carbide, having at least two regions exhibiting at least one property that differs are discussed. Preferably, the cermets further exhibit uniform or controlled wear to impart a self-sharpening character to an article. The multiple-region cermets are particularly useful i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air heating type evaporator for improving the performance of an evaporator by forcedly melting ice and frost, etc., accumulated in a pan. SOLUTION: In an air heating type evaporator installed in the lower part of an evaporator main body 100 for gasifying liquefied gas and equipped with a water-reservoired pan 101 for receiving falling matter such as ice and fros...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact amplifier of a high energy and super short light pulse. SOLUTION: This system is achieved by a light pulse amplification and emission system consisting of a pump light source 100 which generates a light pump pulse having a preliminarily dertermined wide, a signal light source 130 generating a light signal pulse, a combining optical system 160 which receiv...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform transmitting and receiving picture data between a portable computer and a digital camera by connecting simultaneously the portable computer and the digital camera being hard to connect directly to a video game device. SOLUTION: A portable computer 3 is connected to a video game device 2 performing data processing freely attachably and detachably, by connecting a di...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sealed lead-acid battery capable of restraining an increase in float current due to the deposition of lead sulfate and further restraining battery deterioration by causing the absorption of oxygen gas on the whole of an electrode plate without concentration on the surrounding part of a negative electrode. SOLUTION: This battery is constructed so that the porocity...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid driving device which can start an internal combustion engine by using a motor for running. SOLUTION: A hybrid driving device has a motor 2 linked with the sun gear 4 of a double-pinion type planetary gear mechanism 3, an internal combustion engine 1 linked with the carrier 6 of the planetary gear mechanism 3 and, further, an output member 9 linked with the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid driving device which enables backward running with a sufficient torque even if a charge value is small. SOLUTION: A braking means B1 which selectively fixes a rotary element 5 which is one of three rotary elements 4, 5 and 8 of a planetary gear mechanism and which makes the other two elements 4 and 8 rotate in directions opposite to each other by fixing th...

The non contact sensor (20), which is designed to measure the length of an electrostatic charged fibre (F), includes a pair of parallel electrodes (101,102) spaced at a predetermined distance D, before which the fibre to be measured is displaced. Each electrode is designed to deliver an analogue signal (E1,E2), representative of the passage of the charged fibre before the electrode with a mutual t...

Un mécanisme de montage et de démontage destiné à un rotor (8) dans une centrifugeuse comprend un arbre tournant (3), et un moyeu de rotor (5) agencé sur l'arbre tournant. Un trou d'accouplement (6) ménagé dans le rotor (8) est conçu pour loger le moyeu de rotor. Un poids (4) est relié au moyeu de rotor, et peut être déplacé radialement relativement au moyeu de rotor. Le poids est situé dans le...

The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for providing a wood surface (2) which as good anchorage for paint and/or glue and/or for arresting the formation of cracks. The wood is irradiated with pulsed light from a light source (3) of such strength and in such pulse numbers as to break covalent bonds in the material along the wood surface, at least so as to remove the damaged c...

Apparatus for inspecting the inside diameter of a container mouth (12) that includes a light source (16) for directing light energy into the container, and a light sensor (22) disposed with respect to the source and the container to receive light energy transmitted out of the container (14) through the mouth. A telecentric lens (28) directs onto the light sensor light energy transmitted through th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize a control valve and to improve durability by constituting a movable part displacing according to pressure of control fluid to be a pressure response object by being provided with a plurality of pressure response means and performing an opening and closing control of a valve means by energizing force corresponding to effective pressure receiving area smaller tha...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a weighing system which can be made compact by simplifying the structure and in which a weighing hopper can be mounted/demounted easily. SOLUTION: A hollow rotary shaft 11 and a fixed shaft 17 inserted therein are supported to extend in same direction by a supporting member 34 fixed to a load cell 33 and a weighing hopper 5 is fixed to the forward end of the rotary...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize picture quality by adding a correction voltage to the output of an operation reference voltage generating circuit because the luminance characteristic against the driving voltage of a liquid crystal panel fluctuates by temperature. SOLUTION: Voltages V1 and V2 are made into constant voltages. Then, a compensation voltage &delta V(T) is set as a function of enviro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to execute and prepare a program having structure suited to the improvement of maintenance as to a program execution device, a program preparation device and a storage medium for storing these programs. SOLUTION: The program execution device 300 executes a program described by using an object for starting processing included in another 1st object in respon...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the processing load on a connected host device by providing a file management part which performs management so that the recording medium corresponding to a command can be accessed by the host device. SOLUTION: An information processing system 100 is constituted by connecting an external storage device 120 to a host computer 110. The host computer 110 has an interfa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a card processor which attains the miniaturization and simplification of a shutter mechanism and attains improvement in convenience, safety and reliability by enabling the bidirectional conveyance of a card. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a carrier path 2 for carrying and guiding a card C, a shutter 4 provided while facing the card C, which is carried and g...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact semiconductor power converter, in which a semiconductor element and an electric apparatus can be cooled surely and efficiently, the type of the semiconductor element is not limited and the selection range thereof is widened. SOLUTION: An electrical apparatus 12 is contained in an oil tank 1 injected with insulating oil 10, a cooling plate 5 is fixed to a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the parts before and after material presented by a speaker and another material to be seen in an electronic conference system and also to prevent load for state management from affecting a network. SOLUTION: A conference participant of an electronic conference system ignores page information received from a speaker and operates a terminal to go and see other material ...