PURPOSE:To uniformly disperse a gelling agent in an electrolyte in a battery can without having a concentration difference by injecting a soled diluted sulfuric acid electrolyte containing the gelling agent in the battery can in which an electrode group is housed, then charging to form electrode plates, and refluxing the sol electrolyte by the gas generated from the electrode plates at formation. ...

PURPOSE:To prevent the oxidation of a negative electrode by oxygen gas without filling a battery with the hydrogen gas and oxygen gas generated by electrodialysis of water, and prevent a reduction in capacity by covering, in the end of battery can formation of electrode plate, an exhaust hole provided on a lid with a flat blocking member opened and closed by a small gas pressure in the battery. CO...

A die-cutting apparatus includes a die roll 12 and an anvil roll 14 having a cover (outer sleeve 22) on it. The die roll and anvil roll rotate about parallel axes, the position of the anvil roll axis being adjustable, for example by means of eccentric bearings, to compensate for a reduction in the diameter of the anvil roll following trimming of the cover. An encoder 88 is provided for sensing the...

A method of degassing and decarburizing molten stainless steel in a vacuum, which molten steel is produced in a steel making furnace. Molten steel is foamed in a vacuum tank. Before foaming the [N](%) in the molten steel is increased. The foam is produced by denitrification of the steel during vacuum degassing. Oxidizing gas is blown through a top-blow lance onto the surface of the steel in a vacu...

PURPOSE:To provide a silver halide photographic sensitive material capable of forming a high-resolution picture, capable of easily forming a pattern, from which a mask capable of clearly resolving narrowly spaced characters, etc., is obtained, with the finally obtained stripping positive dot quality improved and suitable to form a workable mask. CONSTITUTION:This silver halide photographic sensiti...

PURPOSE: To provide an automatic currency transaction code system provided with a composite credit check function. CONSTITUTION: This system consists of a remote bank terminal machines 16-1 to 16-8 for input of bids and offers, local, bank computers 14-1 to 14-3 which are connected to a communication network and are connected to respective bank terminal machines, and a central computer 10 connecte...

PURPOSE:To provide an AC superconductive wire having a high current density and a low loss by forming a magnetic element containing coating layer of high concentration around superconductive filaments inside a metal base, and coating it with metal having a high electric resistance. CONSTITUTION:A Cu alloy layer 11 made of a Cu-Ni alloy foil including 10% or more of a magnetic element such as Mn, F...

PURPOSE:To provide an AC superconductive wire where an NbTi superconductive wire cannot be broken in drawing by drawing a plurality of superconductive element wires covered with an Nb or TA layer and two kinds of Cu alloy layers each having a specific composition around a superconductive layer made of an NbTi alloy. CONSTITUTION:An NbTi alloy rod 4 is inserted into an Nb or Ta tube 3, to be insert...

PURPOSE:To realize more stable superconductive state with a large temperature margin with respect to a boiling point of liquid He, and to manufacture a highly stable superconductor in an inexpensive and simple process. CONSTITUTION:A superconductor is formed of continuous thin band of a laminate where layers 1 made of a Cu alloy phase and layers 2 made of Nb3Sn0.5 Al0.5 phase or an Nb3Ge phase. In...

PURPOSE:To provide a method of connecting oxide superconductive wires together, by which a problem of connection resistance is solved completely or to a large degree, and with which electrification is possible in a stable permanent current mode. CONSTITUTION:In a method of connecting oxide superconductive wires 2 and 3 together, the outer peripheral surfaces of which are coated with sheath materia...

PURPOSE:To mitigate a shock of stoppage of a vehicle body at the time of operation of a brake in accordance with a running speed just before a tilt to neutral when running is stopped or the direction of running is changed over to the forward or backward, and to stop the vehicle body on a slope in such a manner that no positional slippage of the vehicle body takes place, in a motor vehicle driven b...

The composition contains a (meth)acrylate copolymer mixed with an excess of (meth)acrylic acid. It makes it possible to obtain a dry, adherent, nontoxic, optionally removable protective film which can be employed on hot or cold articles, starting with a homogeneous, nonflammable and easily usable (by dipping, spraying and the like) solution.

PCT No. PCT/FR90/00854 Sec. 371 Date May 21, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date May 21, 1992 PCT Filed Nov. 27, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO91/08133 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 13, 1991.A control device for a parking brake for a vehicle includes an electric motor which rotates a crank to activate the parking brake with the provision of a disk having two concentric conductive tracks which are interrupted by an insulating space;...

In-situ manufacture of expanded polystyrene beads used for the manufacture of concretes for heat- and sound-insulation. Water and a surface-active agent are mixed with the beads which are expanded or to be expanded. When converted into vapour, the said mixture is intended to coat the beads during their expansion, thus eliminating the static electricity. This treatment may be replaced by a dry ioni...

In order to produce a needled nonwoven web having an improved surface quality, the needle board (1) of an apparatus for needling a nonwoven web should be provided with needles in a higher needle density. To that end the needles (2) of the needle board (1) are arranged in groups having a higher needle density and a perforated plate (5) of the stripper (4) and a perforated plate of the backing membe...

A primitive process building block is utilized in representing each state of a process and implemented as a computerized class object from which all process states are derived. The building block has a generic set of actions whereby control may be transferred between states. Such generic transitions for each state thereby describe relative flow of a Work Item in the process either forward or backw...

The invention relates to a handpiece which can prevent a visual field of an endscope from being disturbed by jetting of irrigation liquid, and which can perform safely and reliably selective separation of biological tissue such as a blood vessel or the like by ultrasonic vibration, in operation under a visual field of an endoscope which is restricted in operation. The handpiece for surgical operat...

ANTIBIOTIC COMPOUNDS The present invention provides a compound of the formula (I) (I) wherein: R1 is 1-hydroxyethyl, 1-fluoroethyl or hydroxymethyl; R2 is hydrogen or C1-4alkyl; Z is carboxy, sufonic acid, tetrazol-5-yl or C1-4alkylsulfonylcarbamoyl (-CONHSO2C1-4alkyl); A is a phenyl or thienyl ring; and A is optionally further substituted by one or two substituents or a pharmaceutically acc...

PURPOSE:To provide a virtual machine system (VMS) in which plural virtual machines (VM) are capable of utilizing a vector processor in a super computer. CONSTITUTION:In a virtual machine monitor (VMM) 410, whether or not the vector processor 200 is being used by the virtual machine other than the virtual machine (VM-1) to be activated, is discriminated, the activation of the VM-1 is withheld durin...

PURPOSE: To enable a conductive metal oxide on a substrate to be patterned high in both etching selectivity and resolution through oxygen plasma etching. CONSTITUTION: A conductive metal oxide film located on the surface of a substrate is patterned through an oxygen plasma etching process. A ruthenium oxide layer 14 is provided to a substrate 10 through the intermediary of a dielectric layer 12. T...