PURPOSE:To achieve the long life span and high capacity of a lead storage battery and improve its mass production by pouring molten lead or molten lead alloy around an active material to obtain a lead wire and winding it with its surface covered with a separator to obtain a plate. CONSTITUTION:The surface of a lead wire 2 containing granules or granulated lead powder as an active material 1 is cov...

The invention is directed to a magnet valve having a magnet coil and a magnet armature, which are coaxially surrounded by a secondary coil that measures the inductions arriving in the magnet coil. According to the invention, those inductions that arise in the magnet coil not only from a current flowing there but also by the motion of the magnet armature in the magnet coil are measured while the cu...

A thread-tensioner comprises a pair of rolling contact bearings (10) and a body or shell (12) to which the inner races (20) of the bearings are fixed. The outer race (22) of each bearing (10) has a groove (24) for receiving a thread.

A single-photon emission computed tomography system includes three gamma camera heads (22a), (22b), (22c) which are mounted to a gantry (20) for rotation about a subject (12). The subject is injected with a source of emission radiation, which emission radiation is received by the camera heads. A reconstruction processor (112) reconstructs the emission projection data into a distribution of emissio...

A method and equipment for securing cut wire ends on-the-fly to respective full and empty spools which employs a length of adhesive tape drawn from tape-dispensing units (5, 8) for automatically taping the leading wire end to an empty spool (11b) and the trailing end to wire wound on the full spool (11a).

An electronic gear transmission control apparatus commands an optimum gear position based on a shift schedule map according to a vehicle speed and an accelerator opening. When an upshift over two or more gear positions is commanded on the basis of the shift schedule map, a gear shift to the commanded gear position is restrained, and a gear shift to a gear position which is one gear position higher...

In a device for feeding card slivers to a processing machine, which comprises at least one sliver guide (1), said guide (1) has a guiding surface (20) over which the card sliver is passed. The guiding surface (20) is constructed as a monitoring device. A guide (1) of this type is produced by a method in which the housing (2) of the guide (1) is clamped upside down by its guide surface (20) to...

A combined ball tension control and stop motion unit (10) in which the exit opening (33) of the ball housing of the ball tension control component (11) is mounted to the stop motion component (12). An interior yarn guide (31) is mounted in an opening in the stop motion housing and projects into the outlet end of the ball housing. An electronic sensing element on a printed circuit board (24) partia...

PCT No. PCT/EP91/01020 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 6, 1993 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 6, 1993 PCT Filed Jun. 3, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO92/03785 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 5, 1992.As soon as the computers of a two-out-of-three computer system arrive in their program run at a synchronization point, they interrupt the execution of the program run and transmit synchronization-readiness signals to the partner computers. The pr...

PCT No. PCT/EP91/01020 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 6, 1993 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 6, 1993 PCT Filed Jun. 3, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO92/03785 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 5, 1992.As soon as the computers of a two-out-of-three computer system arrive in their program run at a synchronization point, they interrupt the execution of the program run and transmit synchronization-readiness signals to the partner computers. The pr...

A non-PVC, non-DEHP material is provided for medical grade products such as tubing and containers. The material comprises a monolayer blend of a polyurethane based material. In an embodiment, the resultant product of the present invention has good low temperature characteristics, is autoclavable, and RF sealable. Accordingly, the resultant product can be utilized for applications which heretofore ...

PCT No. PCT/GB91/00536 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 3, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 3, 1992 PCT Filed Apr. 5, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO92/08967 PCT Pub. Date May 29, 1992.A method for inspecting garments for holes includes front-lighting the garment against a contrasting background and forming a pixel image thereof, isolating garment pixels from background pixels by automatically selecting an optimum binarization ...

PCT No. PCT/FR91/00291 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 27, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 27, 1992 PCT Filed Apr. 10, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO91/16868 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 14, 1991.Liquid is enclosed in a resiliently deformable container, the neck of which has a microfiltering membrane which is permeable to the liquid but impermeable to air when wet. Since the container resiliently recovers its shape after it is deforme...

PCT No. PCT/DE92/00155 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 27, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 27, 1992 PCT Filed Feb. 25, 1992 PCT Pub. No. WO92/15218 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 17, 1992.In the case of an umbrella, in particular a stand umbrella, sunshade, garden umbrella and the like, having a framework, a roof construction and an umbrella roof, in which the roof rods (5) are articulated on a pole part (2), which is displace...

PCT No. PCT/DE92/00153 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 27, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 27, 1992 PCT Filed Feb. 25, 1992 PCT Pub. No. WO92/15217 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 17, 1992.In the case of an umbrella, in particular a large umbrella, garden umbrella, stand umbrella and the like, having an umbrella pole (2), a pole part (3) which is displaceable telescopically with the umbrella pole (2) and on which roof rods (5) ...

The invention relates to a filtration bag, intended to allow sterile filtration of blood in order to separate the components thereof. The filtration bag comprises an external envelope formed by an assembly of two sheets (9, 10) made of a plastic material, joined at their periphery (25). According to the invention, a filtering medium (11) is held in a flexible leaktight frame (12) which delimits in...

A method for preparation of a biaxially stretched polyester film with good slip and release properties comprising coating an acrylic resin-based aqueous resin compound, which is derived from adding an amino-modified silicone compound having the structural formula (1), a waxy additive and inert inorganic particles to an acrylic resin, on at least one surface of a mono-axially stretched polyester fi...

For heat treating products having a substantially circular cross section and being composed of mineral fibers containing a binder in solution in water, a metal container impervious to microwaves and equipped with a conveyor device includes a source of hot gas which is directed to the surface of the product. The conveyor in the form of a movable belt and a ceiling of fixed plates cooperate to roll ...

An armoured submarine cable has a support collar 25 spaced from one end thereof and is secured to the armouring 26,27 of the cable on each side of the collar. The collar has an annular groove 24 which includes a radial shoulder which is downwardly facing when the cable adjacent the collar is disposed substantially vertically and which locates on flanges 23 of a support structure 21 in order to sup...

A clamping mechanism for frictionally securing together two radially adjacent concentric components of a gear drive wherein an annular clamping disc having concentric inner and outer peripheral edges and a substantially conically shaped convex portion between the edges is partially disposed in an annular recess in one of the gear drive components. Force applying means, such as tensioning bolts, co...