PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a storage battery which will not cause inclination of cover plates 3 by supporting the cover plates 3 on each stair with a largest cover plate thickness part dmax located on both sides of barycentric position and cover plate supporting legs 37, when the cover plates 3 are accumulated. SOLUTION: The cover plate support legs 3, in which a cover plate thickness d2 fro...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an expanded metal grating for a lead storage battery capable of suppressing expansion of a development part, with good current collecting efficiency at a tab part. SOLUTION: A tab part 3 is continuously formed, vertically, as a non- developed part where no notch 4 is provided to a lead alloy sheet. On both sides of the vertical tab part 3, a developed part 5 is for...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lead storage cell with a control valve which hardly causes short circuit, has a superior output performance and is easily produced. SOLUTION: Positive pole plates (1) and negative pole plates (2) are alternately arranged. The positive pole plate (1) is positioned in a U-shaped retainer (3) and the lower end of the positive pole plate (1) is covered with the turni...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce self-discharge of a sealed lead storage battery and enhance its life performance by preventing the electrolyte stratification and heterogenizing of the positive-pole active composition on completion of the battery bath chemical formation. SOLUTION: A manufacturing method for the sealed lead battery comprises the steps of: inserting pole groups into the battery bath;...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive control device for a hybrid vehicle capable of obtaining the responsiveness of a drive force in an engine brake range and enhancing fuel economy. SOLUTION: A force-transmission block range, wherein a motor travel range switching means (force-transmission block means) 104 blocks the transmission of a force for motor travel using a clutch C2 (force-transmissi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the power consumption in accordance with the surrounding temperature of a liquid crystal panel. SOLUTION: A gate driver 102 and a source driver 103 are provided on a liquid crystal panel 101 which has a plurality of pixel electrodes 110 arranged in row and column directions. A video signal processing circuit 104 outputs video signals to the source driver. A control ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system for architecting a secure solution. SOLUTION: The secure solution which meets the needs of a customer but which is appropriate and repeatable and may use components which are insecure or not trusted is designed. In its preferred embodiment, a security system includes subsystems selected from access control, information flow, identity and credent...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a design automation device which can design a circuit diagram using address allocation information and information about data bus width, and can design the circuit diagram efficiently with few mistakes. SOLUTION: CPU and peripheral IC device, which a developer mounted, are selected, and address space allocation and data bus width are set using an address allocation...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make an IC card with only required information for a disabled person to utilize a public transport fare disabled reduction system extracted from personal information written in a physical disability certificate issued to a person recognized to be disabled (a disabled person) from a prefectural and city government. SOLUTION: Fingerprint information for identification or ide...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the time and the cost required for customization and specifi cation definition for it by utilizing ready-made software as much as possible. SOLUTION: A client 102 and a server 103 are connected through a communication network 101. Ready-made goods data related to a lot of customized software is preserved in a ready-made gods database 104 connected to the server 103....

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a card reader (10), especially a manual insertion type hybrid dip card reader. SOLUTION: The card reader (10) is provided with a magnetic read head (28) for reading a magnetic stripe (62) on an integrated circuit card (60) and an integrated circuit interface (42) for reading a terminal (64) on the card (60). The interface (42) is fitted to a movable carrier (40), t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically issue a substitute ticket when train service is stopped. SOLUTION: This substitute transportation system having an automatic ticket machine capable of issuing substitute ticket, is constituted of a reading means to read data recorded in a ticket inserted into a main body of the automatic ticket machine, a judging means to judge whether or not the substitute t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize the passing time of an automatic ticket examination machine in admission and exit even when a ticket is computerized and to simultaneously obtain reliability in security similar to that in that conventional case. SOLUTION: Computerization of the ticket is made possible by holding an electronic reserved seat in a portable terminal including a cellar telephone 1. An...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a control panel which is provided with a countermeasure against low temperature considering the case it is used under a low temperature environment below the lower limit of the usable temperature range of electronic components for control, etc. SOLUTION: A cord-like heating body is prepared by successively coating a heating wire 11a with a thermosensitive resin laye...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent loss of a parking ticket by eliminating the need of the parking ticket and to simplify the parking management. SOLUTION: This managing device is provided with a camera 12 to photograph the video of a vehicle entering an entrance chamber, a display device 17 having a screen 23 to show the video of the entered vehicle photographed with the camera 12, and a vehicle se...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for claiming payment of charges at an unmanned parking lot in addition to a telephone rate by using a cellular telephone which a user has and to provide a system therefor. SOLUTION: A parking lot management center 20 is informed of a parking request and an exit request from the cellular telephone which the user has. The parking lot management center 20 the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a parking lot management system by which a cart is reliably collected to a storage place. SOLUTION: The parking lot management system is provided with a parking ID managing means 1 to issue a parking ID for identifying a user of a parking lot in the case of admission and to collect it in the case of exit, a cart managing means 2 to lend and collect a cart for shopp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology which makes mounting of an on-vehicle machine to a vehicle unnecessary and which does not limit the payer of the toll of the vehicle to only specified persons such as the owner of the vehicle, etc., by installing an ETC communication function to a cellular telephone. SOLUTION: In the case of using ETC, a reader/writer 6 and an IC card 7 to be inserted ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To determine first whether a detected object is a standstil object, on the basis of the speed and the yaw rate its own vehicle and then to compute the relative speed by matching on time series for relative speed computation using the determined result of the standstil object. SOLUTION: This vehicle surroundings monitor is provided with an object position detecting means for p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a PID accommodation comparison apparatus and its method for speeding up PID detection in multi decoding in an MPEG-2 system. SOLUTION: The PID accommodation comparison apparatus comprises a plurality of PID accommodation means 560 and 570 to be compared for separating and accommodating total PID values to be compared into at least two bit strings, a plurality of re...