PURPOSE:To improve the starting property at a low temperature by making the amount of antimony in a positive electrode grid larger than that in a negative electrode grid. CONSTITUTION:In a positive electrode grid body, antimony of the larger amount than in a negative electrode grid body is added. Particularly, the antimony total amount in the positive electrode grid body is made less than 1.0wt.%,...

PURPOSE:To improve the charge-restoration property by regulating the antimony amount in a lead alloy grid to be 0.005wt.% to 0.25wt.% to the amount of the positive electrode active substance. CONSTITUTION:The maintenance property is related strongly with the antimony amount in the grid alloy, and the antimony amount in the lead alloy grid is regulated to be 0.005wt.% to 0.25wt.% to the positive el...

PURPOSE:To realize automation by holding an electrode group on an electrode group lifter under the condition to receive no influence of the hard pressure of the electrode group, unifying the height of the electrode group with a guide plate and a pusher, and unifying the width directions of the electrode group with side plates furnishing projections. CONSTITUTION:A guide plate 1 with projections, a...

A sheet feeder for the supplying of stream of single sheets to a sheet-processing machine. Preferably, a pile of sheets is carried by a pile table to a sheet-singling apparatus. The sheet-singling apparatus transfers a continuous stream of individual sheets, via a conveying table, to the sheet-processing machine. The invention allows for an extension of the time for changing the pile of sheets, du...

A cutting apparatus for cutting objects into minute pieces with high exactitude and high precision comprises, as an integral unit, a pair of cutter shafts disposed substantially in parallel to each other, a motor attached to one of the cutter shafts, gears for rotating the other cutter shaft in a direction opposite to the direction in which the one cutter shaft is rotated, a plurality of substanti...

A method of monitoring yarn quality in a yarn texturing process comprises measuring the velocity of the travelling yarn at two locations and comparing the measured velocities. At a first location the yarn tension is sufficient to draw out the crimp and at a second location the tension is lower such that the crimp is developed. Apparatus for performing this method comprises a measuring device (28) ...

Die Vorrichtung zum Einführen des Fadens (17) in den Fangschlitz (19) einer leeren Spulenhülse (11) während des Wechselvorganges von der vollen zur leeren Spule auf einen Spulautomaten (1) weist ein Fadenleitblech (21) auf, welches mit Einschnitten (27) zum Auslenken des Fadens (17) aus der imaginären Ebene durch den Fadenwulst (55) versehen ist. Damit der dem Fadenwulst (55) während des Wechselvo...

A dual sensing intrusion detection system comprising a passive infrared radiation detection sensor (12) which generates a first output signal (32) in response to the detection of an intruder in the volume of space, a second detection sensor (6) which is directed to the same volume of space and generates a second output signal (46) in response to detection of the intruder and a switch (38) which ac...

PCT No. PCT/US88/02155 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 6, 1989 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 6, 1989 PCT Filed Jun. 22, 1988 PCT Pub. No. WO88/10229 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 29, 1988.This invention relates to apparatus for receiving and mounting or supporting strand material packages formed by winding strand materials such as textile strands about hollow elongate cores. The apparatus has a central shaft, a rear support moun...

Ein Magnetventil (10) weist einen Betätigungsmagneten (12) auf, dessen Magnetanker (20) zum Bewegen eines mit ihm über eine Schleppverbindung (24) verbundenen Ventilgliedes (22) entgegen der Wirkung einer Ventilfeder dient. Der Magnetanker (20) weist selbst einen Steuerkörper (58) auf, der in eine Spule (60) mit einer Erregerwicklung eintauchbar ist. Diese Spule (60) ist Teil einer elektronischen ...

The utility model relates to a water curtain-type solar energy water heater, which comprises a heat collecting plate, a bottom plate, a water tank and a circulating water inlet pipe, wherein, the plate types of the bottom plate and the heat collecting plate are arbitrary, and the bottom plate and the heat collecting plate have the same shape and a distance of 1 to 4 mm; after the heat collecting p...

This invention relates to rigid closed-celled polyisocyanate-based foams exhibiting improved dimensional stability and a process for their preparation. In particular, it relates to resulting foams containing within their cells, a gas mixture comprising from 15 to 70 mole percent carbon dioxide and from 30 to 85 mole percent of a halocarbon mixture. The halocarbon mixture itself, comprises (a) from...

This invention relates to a process for preparing a rigid, closed-celled polyisocyanate-based foam in the presence of water and a blowing agent. The blowing agent comprises one or more organic compounds, particularly halocarbons, having a boiling point of from 222K to 272K at atmospheric pressure, and is substantially free of organic compounds having a boiling point of 273K or greater. Preferred h...

A metal polisher 1 is semi-cylindrical in shape to permit polishing a protruded or a recessed surface portion of a workpiece. A number of grooves 4 are formed circumferentially on a surface on which polishing teeth 3 are formed so as to temporarily store chipped dust arising from a polishing operation and drain the dust as stored.

PCT No. PCT/FR89/00221 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 9, 1990 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 9, 1990 PCT Filed May 9, 1989 PCT Pub. No. WO89/11107 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 16, 1989.Receiver for rotating lasers used for guiding machines (for example public works machines), which comprises a receiver assembly proper (6) disposed on a support (9) enabling it to be fastened on the machine, a cell consisting essentially of plate...

A fire alarm system includes a receiver (1) adapted to detect the presence of a fire on the basis of analog detection data contained in a received signal which is connected by means of a transmission line (2) to a plurality of analog type sensors (3), each of which is arranged in a respective monitoring area monitored by the receiver and is adapted to produce analog detection data representative o...

The invention provides a method for communicating the need to move a mobile robot, such as an AGV<1>, from one location (node) (2,4,6-10) to another, on a node-by-node basis, incrementally, among the nodes established in a physical environment such as a factory. The invention also provides the means to generate the commands necessary to accomplish this motion, by providing specific steering and dr...

The invention is a modular and hierarchically organized set of computer programs which comprise methods for controlling a system of semi-autonomous automatically guided vehicles, such as mobile robots. The methods include control programs which: execute in stationary control computers; communicate between the stationary control computer programs and corresponding programs which execute in mobile c...

An application program automatically creates and presents a customized user interface by determining a set of operations which is appropriate for the current user based on various relevant characteristics of the user and presenting only the specified operations in the menus, icons, application bars or other interface components of the application program.