PURPOSE: A display apparatus having a plurality of discharge cells in a unit light emitting region is provided to improve image quality by preventing wall charges from being completely discharged in case of erroneous address discharges. CONSTITUTION: A display device performs an image display according to pixel data on each pixel according to an input video signal correspondingly to the input vide...

PURPOSE: A plasma display panel device and a method for driving the same are provided to increase a light emitting efficiency of the plasma display device by using the relation between sustain pulse timing and emitting efficiency. CONSTITUTION: A plasma display panel device includes a panel unit(100) and a display driving unit(200). The panel unit includes an electrode pair(14) having a first and ...

A method of manufacturing a battery includes providing a cell for a battery having alternating positive and negative electrode plates, each of the electrode plates being separated by an electrically insulative separator layer. Each of the positive and negative electrode plates includes a projecting tab extending from an adjacent upper portion thereof, the projecting tabs of the positive plates bei...

Process for jacketing battery plates, especially lead plates for industrial batteries, comprises placing a second layer of fiber fleece and a plastic film around the battery plate which already has a first layer of fiber fleece. An Independent claim is also included for a device for carrying out the process comprising a station (B) for applying the first fiber fleece layer (12) around the battery...

A compact and mobile gantry for 3-dimensional Application Specific Emission and/or Transmission Tomography (ASETT) imaging of the breast in single photon or coincidence emission modes, and single photon, or coincidence, or x-ray transmission modes. While the ASETT gantry was designed, built and evaluated for imaging metabolically active lesions in the pendant breast, it can also be used to image o...

Use of factor XIII for treating coumarin-induced hemorrhage or bleeding. The coumarin may be warfarin or dicoumarol. A patient having coumarin-induced bleeding is treated with factor XIII alone or in conjunction with vitamin K.

A rear end(2) of the punch(1) is inserted into the tire vulcanizing mold and the front end(4), which forms a hole in a tire tread profile block, comprises a shaft(8) and a head(9). The outer cross-section of the front end may be non-round in at least some areas. Both the head(9) at the front end and the supporting shaft(8) may have a non-round cross-section. Shaft or head cross-sections may be tr...

A transmission control system for a hybrid vehicle is comprised of a hybrid transmission (4, 7 and 8) including two motor/generators (MG1, MG2) and a controller (22) connected to the hybrid transmission. The controller is arranged to change the torque control of the motor/generator under the torque control to the revolution speed control and to change the revolution speed control of the other moto...

A hybrid transmission for variably producing a transmission ratio is comprised of first and second motor/generators (MG1 and MG2) and a differential mechanism constructed by two double-pinion planetary gearsets (2 and 3). The two double-pinion planetary gearsets are coaxially arranged and commonly employ common pinions (P1). The differential mechanism includes at least four rotating members which ...

In a vehicle behavior control system, a target braking force applied to each wheel of the vehicle is obtained based on a master cylinder pressure so as to be proportional to a vertical load of each wheel (S20). When it is determined that a braking force is applied to the vehicle running on a road with uneven friction coefficient (S40), an excess yaw moment caused by the difference between the targ...

A method of intermittently disabling the generation of an alarm signal by a plurality of interconnected adverse condition detectors (18) during a temporary alarm locate period such that the adverse condition detector (18) actually detecting the adverse condition can be identified. In an interconnected system of adverse condition detectors (18), all of the detectors (18) generate an alarm signal (9...

A plasma display apparatus includes a plurality of electrodes for electric discharge, and a drive circuit which drives the plurality of electrodes. The drive circuit includes first and second outputting circuits provided on a board (50), a connector (57A) provided on the board (50) and coupled to the plurality of electrodes, and a conductive plate which is provided on the board (50), and provides ...

The present invention refers to a field emitter beam source (10) comprising at least one emitter (11); at least one extracting electrode (19) to extract a beam current (IE) from the emitter (11); a current source (12) for providing a predetermined beam current (IE0); a first voltage source (13) for providing a first voltage (UA) between the emitter (11) and the extracting electrode (19) to switch ...

The battery has a housing with several cells, a lid with a lower part and an upper part at a distance from it that seals the lower part and labyrinthine outlet channels for oxygen separation between the upper and lower parts. The lower part has a break near the upper part bounding on the outlet channels. The cells in the region of the break are separated liquid-tight from each other by cell separa...

In an X-ray device and workplace for obtaining radiological exposures of the head and jaw region of a patient an X-ray source emits a conical X-ray bundle which is detected at and an X-ray detector to acquire a 3D dataset of the head or jaw region of the patient. The workplace also can include a navigation system.

This invention is a prosthetic linkage (110) for use with skeletal muscle (M). The linkage (110) includes a plurality of longitudinally extending filaments (14) forming a strand (12). The strand (12) has a first portion (20) that includes a core portion (22) wherein the filaments (14) extend generally parallel to each other, and an exterior portion (24) wherein the filaments (14) are braided along...

An assembly separates a multi-phase mixture into liquid (54) and dry (52) phases and employs a decanting centrifuge (100) with an annular immersion disc (14). A liquor weir is located on the end-face of the centrifuge drum (20). An Independent claim is also included for a separation process in which after starting the centrifuge drum (20) and setting an initial tank depth, the mixture (50) is intr...

A polytrimethylene terephthalate preoriented package, formed of wound layers and weighing 2 kilograms or more, of a poly (trimethylene terephthalate), in which the yarn package satisfies the following conditions (1), (2) and (3): (1) a difference in diameters between the edge portions and middle portion of the package is in a range from 0 to 5 mm; (2) a difference in dry thermal shrinking stress...

A lead acid battery has a positive plate (3) containing antimony, a negative plate (2); and a separator (1) containing an organic compound capable of capturing metal ions. The organic compound is preferably lignin.

A method for making a sintered article (14) comprising providing a plurality of individual blocks (19) of sinterable matrix material, arranging said blocks in abutting relationship to form an assembly of said blocks in a sinter mold wherein said assembly comprises a plurality of said blocks extending in at least one direction thereof and sintering said assembly under pressure in the mold to form a...