The invention relates to an assembly comprising a horticultural facility, such as a horticultural greenhouse (A), inside which photosynthesis can take place and which is provided with elements which allow sunlight through, and a livestock-breeding facility (B), such as a pen, inside which a biological oxidation process can take place, in which the livestock-breeding facility comprises an air outle...

A control apparatus and method for an internal combustion engine are provided for preventing a sudden increase in rotational speed of the internal combustion engine associated with a release of braking when a driven object is braked during the execution of a feedback control, thereby ensuring high drivability. The control apparatus controls an internal combustion engine equipped in a driven object...

A cholesteric liquid crystal driving device according to the present invention includes a first driving circuit for displaying one part of the image data to be displayed by a cholesteric liquid crystal on a first scanning line by driving the cholesteric liquid crystal on the first scanning line in accordance with first and second cycles; and a second driving circuit for displaying the other part o...

In an electroplating process the ion concentration is regulated. The electrolyte is enriched by Donnan-dialysis in conjunction with a cation-exchange membrane or a micro-porous membrane. A number of cations are removed from the separating metal within the electrolyte, simultaneously maintaining charge equalization and electrolyte electro-neutrality. The separating metal is copper, nickel, cobalt, ...

Reinitialization of counting the length of the bobbin threads comprises measuring the speed of rotation of the empty bobbin and speed of rotation of formation of the threaded bobbins and comparing the maximum speed attained at the winding phase and minimum speed obtained at the consecutive progressive phase with the empty bobbin. - Method of reinitialization of counting the length of the bobbin th...

A multilayer piezoelectric device has a laminated body 1 having piezoelectric layers 2 laminated in the direction of a given axis "A" and internal electrode layers 4, 5 each disposed between two respective neighboring piezoelectric layers2. The device further has a underlying layer 3 disposed on a side of the laminated body 1 and electrically connected to the internal electrode layers 4, 5, a firs...

A power distribution control device 42 calculates a low-µ information magnitude, associated with the friction coefficient of the road surface, based on the slip rate and the vehicle acceleration operation magnitude. If the low-µ information magnitude exceeds an addition evaluation threshold, the power distribution control device 42 adds the low-µ information magnitude. If the low-µ information mag...

In a method for machining a composite workpiece (1) which comprises an electrically non-conductive portion (2) and an electrically conductive portion (3), the electrically non-conductive portion (2) is machined by means of a laser and the electrically conductive portion (3) is machined by means of electro machining.

A suspension control device includes a wheel grip state estimation means (M1-M10;Fig.16) for estimating grip state of vehicle wheels based on variations of aligning torque of wheels to be steered, a vehicle rolling control means (SPxx,FT,RT) for controlling vehicle rolling, and a control parameter setting means (B1-B6;Fig.5) for setting a control parameter of the vehicle rolling control means base...

PURPOSE: A medicine packing machine is provided to remove a medicine remaining in a hopper without a manual operation of a person only by driving a suction device by forming a duct communicating to the suction device. CONSTITUTION: A medicine packing machine collects a medicine supplied from a medicine supply port(6a) of a hopper(3) detached to a body in a medicine collecting port(5a) and packs th...

An apparatus and method for determining at least one downhole formation property is disclosed. The apparatus includes a pretest piston (118a) positionable in fluid communication with the formation, and a series of flowlines pressure gauges (120a,123a,130a), and valves (121a,124a,128a) configured to selectively draw into the apparatus for measurement of one of formation fluid and mud. The method in...

A digital video system includes a sample rate converter and an inverse-sample rate converter. The sample rate converter converts video data from a non-orthogonal pixel domain to an orthogonal pixel domain. The inverse-sample rate converter converts the video data from the orthogonal pixel domain to the non-orthogonal pixel domain. The inverse sample rate converter utilizes a timing signal generate...

The invention provides a filter element which has a reduced initial pressure loss, can reduce an energy cost and can secure a high air flow rate, a filter element which has an elongated gas removing service life and filtering service life while keeping a high gas removing performance and a high dust removing efficiency, a manufacturing method and a method of use of the same. In a filter element (1...

A device for enhancing and processing printed cardboard, cardboard packaging, paperboard, paper or similar substrates (2), especially designed for a rotational stamping process, wherein the substrate (2) can be introduced in between two rotating processing cylinders (4, 5) in an advance direction (A) and is processed as it passes there through by tool parts (7, 8) acting in a working gap (6). The ...

A sheet feeder has a feed passage and includes feed roller pairs, sensors, and a controller. The feed roller pairs are arranged along the feed passage and feed sheets of paper in a feed direction along the passage by nipping the sheets. Each of the sensors is fitted at or near one of the feed roller pairs and senses a specified point on each of the sheets when the sheet is nipped by at least the a...

A multi wind wheel energy-accumulating wind power generator unit and system adopts a multi-pressure point oar-typed hydraulic turbine to collectively release the dispersed force formed by a plurality of wind wheels in the form of fluid hydraulic conversion and transmission, in order to implement the energy-accumulating single machine huge output force capability generation effect. The invention co...

Provided are a multi-display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the multi-display apparatus. The method includes preparing a pair of unit panels respectively comprising display devices, etching main bodies of the pair of unit panels, and connecting the pair of unit panels so that etched portions of the main bodies of the unit panels overlap in a thickness direction of the unit panels.

The invention relates to a secondary Li-ion battery and a method of preparing a negative pole piece thereof. The paste containing different negative active materials or the paste of different ratios are coated by level on the two sides of a negative current collector respectively according to a certain order to form a plurality of negative diaphragm layers, and different thickness can be used for ...

The invention discloses a method for prolonging the service life of sealed lead-acid batteries. The method includes that polyvinyl alcohol, poly acrylate or carboxymethyl cellulose is added into electrolyte solution, and a carbon particle layer is equipped on the surface of a negative pole rod, which can enhance negative hydrogen overpotential and prevent negative active deterioration, and also in...