A method and apparatus for reliably assembling battery cell elements having relatively large numbers of electrode plates separated by a single interleaved spacer. The apparatus includes a rotatable element-assembly drum formed with a plurality of plate receiving slots at circumferentially spaced intervals about the periphery thereof, a first plate supply station for directing first electrode plate...

The invention provides an apparatus for pre-processing sensor data that represent measurements of a physical parameter of a material under inspection. Sensors are employed to provide a multiplicity of data associated with a corresponding multiplicity of small areas of the material; and a multiplicity of reference data are also generated, each reference datum being associated with a particular sens...

A viscoelastic composition is disclosed, made of a particulate weight-adding agent dispersed within a viscoelastic material. The composition is formed of at least about 85% plasticizer and particulate weight-adding agent, and the ratio of weight-adding agent to plasticizer of at least about 3:1. A viscoelastic or soft weight is formed by said composition.

PURPOSE:To steadily control the gas leakage from the gasifying zone to the dry distillation zone of a continuous vertical oven when dry distillation of oil shale is effected therein, by using specified control units to control the flow rate of the gas discharged from each of the gas circulating loops provided for these two steps. CONSTITUTION:In an oil shale dry distillation system in which a cont...

PURPOSE:To prevent the formation of clinker and improve the degree of gasification, by using a double-walled pipe for supply of gas to the gasifying zone of a dry distillation oven and controlling the flow rate of the gas for gasification supplied through each of the inner pipe and outer pipe and also the concentration of oxygen in the inner pipe and outer pipe and also the concentration of oxygen...

PURPOSE:To relatively easily produce a stainless steel sheet having black and transparent appearance by forming a thin graphite film contg. a specific ratio of diamond-like carb on to specific film thickness on the surface of a stainless steel by a chemical vapor deposition method. CONSTITUTION:While a DC voltage is impressed to a stainless steel substrate as a cathode, a reaction is effected in a...

The method of operating a radiation therapy machine involves causing a source to emit a two dimensional fan beam in one plane. The location of the subject to be treated is movable along a line perpendicular to the plane. An adjustable device for shaping the beam and controlling its intensity is interposed between the subject and the source. A desired shape and intensity distribution for the portio...

PURPOSE:To improve the radiation effect and lower the temperature of electric parts by mounting a U-letter shaped mounting plate on the side of a blower of the radiation fins with a uniform gap and projecting the mounting plate towards the up-stream side of a blower when it is mounted with the down- stream side open. CONSTITUTION:When a blower 12 is driven, air is sucked in through a heat exchange...

1. Injection device for dosed injection, with a holding device (20) for a container (12) in particular having the form of a cartridge and containing the liquid to be injected, with a hypodermic needle (16) which can be moved in the proximal direction relative to the housing (30, 32), of the injection device during the injection operation and with a plunger (18) which is associated with a spring ar...

PURPOSE:To reduce a loss of energy and obtain a high heating effect by keeping an individual vessel of food a little more pressurized than the atmospheric pressure and heating an object to be heated with moisture attached on the surface of the object. CONSTITUTION:In an individual vessel 2 a drain board 19 is provided and on the drain board a food 1 is placed. When a steam torch 6 is actuated, wat...

PURPOSE:To be able to always efficiently record in a sufficient and effective gradation by disposing a magnetic force generator and magnetic fluid at the rear of discharging direction from an energy generator on a liquid passage. CONSTITUTION:When a pulse voltage according to a print command is applied to a heating electrode 7 provided in a liquid passage 1, liquid 2 near an orifice 3 is heated to...

An electrochemical cell has an annular flow passage for electrolyte solution. The cell is designed such that, in an intermediate zone, the passage is of constant cross-section (to achieve high electrolytic activity) and, in end zones, the passage progressively increases in cross-section to a maximum value (to lower the current density in regions in which unwanted deposition of salts may preferenti...

PURPOSE:To reduce electric power supplied to plugs and prevent the clogging with carbon in a combustion passage by controlling an electric current carried to a vaporization flow plug or an ignition plug in accordance with the change in the temp. of a combustion device or the open air inhaled as combustion air. CONSTITUTION:When a temp. signal TR from a thermometer 51 placed at a heat insulating ch...

PURPOSE:To produce a titled metallic mold which is repeatedly usable putting a sleeve made of a hard material on a pin at the top end of a master, forming the mold in this state around the pin and pulling the master and pin except the sleeve alone which is left in the mold. CONSTITUTION:The pin consisting of the hard material is fixed to the top end of the master 20 consisting of a conductive mate...

PURPOSE:To prevent the swelling of a disk due to the pressure of sealed air by forming a vent communicating space partitioned by an ultrasonic horn body and the surface of an optical disk with the outside air to the ultrasonic horn body between internal and external annular-shaped machining surfaces on which an ultrasonic horn is brought into contact with the disk. CONSTITUTION:Two disks 3, 4 mutu...

PURPOSE:To effectively execute coupling of a push-on type by constituting the titled connector so that a claw part of the optical connector is fitted into a groove part of the insertion guide of an optical connector plug, and the claw part is covered with the ejector part of the plug from its outside. CONSTITUTION:When a plug A is inserted into an adaptor B by aligning its fitting direction, by ho...

PURPOSE:To miniaturize a connecting case, and to facilitate its installation to a limited place, by fixing as one body an optical fiber welding and connecting part and an optical fiber welding and connecting part reinforcing body. CONSTITUTION:Welding and connecting parts 3 of plural welded and connected optical fiber core wires 2 are aligned and placed so as not to be superposed, in a recessed ty...