PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a battery terminal which can facilitate fastening work of a battery terminal by reducing turning force to less than the half of that in a conventional way, without increasing the length of a lever, and which can prevent generation of failure to attach a cover after fastening work. SOLUTION: A hinge part 21 which pivots one end of a battery cover to the free end par...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable an electric double-layer capacitor to be enhanced in capacitance even through continuous processing by a method wherein active carbon is subjected to plasma continuous discharge processing which is carried out under a prescribed electric power for a prescribed time in an argon atmosphere which contains a specific amount of oxygen. SOLUTION: Active carbon such as pow...

PURPOSE:To lessen the dead space and make a lead-acid battery have high energy density by inserting a nut or a bolt in a strap which composes a group of electrode plates and uniting the strap with a terminal. CONSTITUTION:Positive or negative electrode plates of a group of electrode plates 1 are joined as a strap terminal 5 and the strap terminal 5 is formed while a bolt being inserted in, so that...

PURPOSE:To improve the durability of a main power supply and an auxiliary power supply while sufficiently securing the accelerating performance of a motor vehicle. CONSTITUTION:When a required power P exceeds a limit value PMmax of a main power supply 2, the power is output by the main power supply 2 as a battery up to the limit value PMmax of the main power supply 2 among the required power P; a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a management system applicable even when a work is placed on a pallet consisting of a disk and a cylinder by providing the palette, a data carrier, a head and an ID controller for the system. SOLUTION: The system has a turnable pallet consisting of a disk and a cylinder erected upright in the center of the disk and moving with a work placed thereon and has a torus ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent overcharge and overdischarge of non-aqueous secondary battery. SOLUTION: The overcharge/overdischarge preventing device has a voltage detection means for detecting voltage between the opposite ends of each battery and a switching means provided in series to the batteries between respective charging terminals and discharging terminals. When the voltage of the respec...

A rotary heat regenerator wheel in which one or more performance characteristics, such as heat exchange efficiency and air flow rate, can be adjusted during manufacturing, during or after installation and/or after use of the regenerator. The wheel comprises removable segments having differing performance characteristics. One embodiment of the regenerator wheel includes segments containing both lat...

PURPOSE:To secure the coupling of cases and to prevent the damage of a product by making the light part of the gross weight of the cases have a fitting structure and making the heavy part have a screw structure for the coupling of a body. CONSTITUTION:After a surface panel 11 and a base part 12 are coupled by a fitting, screws 27 and 28 are screwed into the screw holes 20 and 21 of the middle stop...

PURPOSE:To efficiently generate power even if hydrocarbon containing sulfur is used as fuel. CONSTITUTION:In a high temperature solid electrolyte fuel cell using hydrocarbon containing sulfur as fuel, a desulfurizing catalyst 101 is filled in a fuel supply chamber 11, and heat insulating materials 104, 105 are arranged in a power generating chamber 15 and a fuel discharge chamber 16 respectively. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the energy efficiency of desiccant air-conditioning by combination of an adsorption heat pump and a desiccant air-conditioning cycle. SOLUTION: An air conditioning device is provided with a second absorber 11 of a second cycle device operated at temperature lower than that of a first absorber of a first cycle device. A heat-exchanging device 21 is formed between a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the efficiency of energy by providing one route in which a refrigerant evaporated by a low-pressure evaporator is absorbed by a low-pressure absorber, a refrigerant evaporated by a high-pressure evaporator is absorbed by a high-pressure absorber, and a heater exchanges heat with the high-pressure absorber and a condenser, and providing the other route in which a co...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-temperature sealing material having strong sticking force and high sealing performance by setting the powder sizes of zirconia powder and alumina powder to specific values, and specifying the mixing ratio of them. SOLUTION: Zirconia powder uses the coarse powder of 8-wt.% yttria stabilized zirconia, and its thermal expansion coefficient is 10.9× 10<-6> ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a charging system which makes cable connection between a ground controller and a charger unnecessary, and enables automatic suitable charging work corresponding to the residual amount of a battery of a self-propelled carrier vehicle which has arrived on electrode plates. SOLUTION: This charging system is constituted of a plurality of intelligent chargers 1, which a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce an aluminum alloy sheet for a closed type rectangular battery exterior packaging can excellent in press formability and blistering resistance. SOLUTION: In the method for producing an aluminum alloy sheet in which an Al alloy contg., by weight, 0.4 to 0.6% Si, 0.15 to 0.25% Cu and 1.1 to 1.3% Mn, and the balance Al with inevitable impurities is subjected to melting...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sulfide crystallized glass having very high lithium ion conductivity at room temperature. SOLUTION: The lithium ion conductive sulfide crystallized glass has a composition of Li2S 50-92.5 mol%, and P2S5 7.5-50 mol%, and a crystallization rate of 30-99%, and the crystallized glass consists of a glass phase part containing Li2S and P2S5 as a main component, and a c...