This invention relates to apparatus for forming groups of battery plates. The apparatus has dual plate supplies 11, 11' and 13, 13' arranged to feed, respectively, main conveyors 15, 15' and envelopers 12, 12' so that each main conveyor 15, 15' only needs to travel at a speed which will deliver up to about 150 plates per minute whereby the apparatus can supply up to around 300 plates per minute to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medicine packaging device capable of preventing an adhesion of medicine and performing an appropriate packaging process irrespective of its simple and less-expensive configuration. Ž

SOLUTION: This medicine packaging device comprises a packaging strip transferring unit for transferring a packaging strip in a longitudinal direction, a recovering hopper having...

A regeneration control system permits highly efficient regeneration while a vehicle is traveling stably. The regeneration control system includes a total regeneration amount determiner for determining the total regeneration amount of a first electric motor connected to front wheels and a second electric motor connected to rear wheels, a regeneration amount allocation determiner for determining reg...

There is provided a method for a silver powder capable of decreasing the viscosity of a photosensitive paste using the silver powder and improving the film state, sensitivity and linearity of the paste even if the particle diameter of the silver powder is small. The surface of a silver powder produced by a wet reducing method is smoothed by a surface smoothing process for mechanically causing part...

AN OPTICAL DATA STORAGE SYSTEM COMPRISES A MULTIPLE DATA SURFACE MEDIUM (12) AND OPTICAL HEAD. THE MEDIUM (12) COMPRISES A PLURALITY OF SUBSTRATES SEPARATED BY A LIGHT TRANSMISSIVE MEDIUM. DATA SURFACES (90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104) ARE LOCATED ON THE SUBSTRATE SURFACES WHICH LIE ADJACENT A LIGHT TRANSMISSIVE MEDIUM. THE DATA SURFACES (90,92,94,96,98, 100, 102, 104) ARE SUBSTANTIALLY LIGHT T...

AN OPTICAL DATA STORAGE SYSTEM COMPRISES A MULTIPLE DATA SURFACE MEDIUM (12) AND OPTICAL HEAD. THE MEDIUM (12) COMPRISES A PLURALITY OF SUBSTRATES SEPARATED BY A LIGHT TRANSMISSIVE MEDIUM. DATA SURFACES (90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104) ARE LOCATED ON THE SUBSTRATE SURFACES WHICH LIE ADJACENT A LIGHT TRANSMISSIVE MEDIUM. THE DATA SURFACES (90,92,94,96,98, 100, 102, 104) ARE SUBSTANTIALLY LIGHT T...

A carrier for an article such as a folded multipurpose hand tool. The carrier is molded of a stiff but resiliently flexible material and includes a body to which is attached an arm that can be placed around a person's belt. The arm has a hook at its lower end that can be latched into mating engagement in a receptacle in the body of the carrier. Grip members hold an article securely in the carrier....

L'invention concerne un dispositif d'éclairage (1) pour un poste (2) apte à déterminer sur une image, la présence de défauts sur la surface (s) de la bague d'un récipient (4) transparent ou translucide. Selon l'invention, il comporte :- au moins un système d'éclairage (11, 20) apportant en tout point d'une surface englobant la surface (s) de bague, un éclairement quasi-constant selon tout ou pa...

An apparatus and method for operating an electrically powered device (42) in a packer (40) using the piping structure (24) of the well (38) as an electrical conductor for providing power and/or communications. The electrically powered device (42) may comprise an electrically controllable valve (44), a communications and control module, a modem, a sensor, and/or a tracer injection module.

A system provides management of personal information and safe payment. A payment intermediation server receives personal information for member subscription, intermediates member subscription using the personal information, intermediating payment processing by providing a payment page at purchase of user, and concluding the transaction according to user confirmation. An independent site terminal r...

An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a first, second and third light sources emitting first, second and third light flux having first wavelength of »1, second wavelength of »2 and third wavelength of »3, respectively; and an objective optical system converging the first, second and third light fluxes onto an information recording surface of a first, second and third optical disk, respectively, ...

A process involves adding a peroxide masterbatch to a molten blend of a fluorocarbon elastomer and a thermoplastic material. The peroxide masterbatch contains greater than or equal to 5% weight percent organic peroxide, further contains a fluorocarbon elastomer, and typically also contains a crosslinker containing at least two sites of olefinic unsaturation. The fluorocarbon elastomer in the molte...

An optical pickup apparatus, includes: first - third light sources (LD1-LD3) emitting first - third light fluxes respectively; a diffractive optical (L1) and; an objective optical system having a light converging element (L2), wherein the diffractive optical element includes a first area whose center is on an optical axis; a second area formed in a ring-shape and arranged outside of the first area...

The present invention relates to a component and material traceability control apparatus (7) for controlling manufacturing lot identification information of any of a component and material constituting a product manufactured according to a process where a manufacturing apparatus (1) with not less than one component and material reserve unit (12) picks up a needed amount out of the component and ma...

In a production planning method, among those production step types the product procurement periods of which satisfy the desired time of delivery, allocation to production steps with longer product procurement periods is performed, in order from orders with shorter desired times of delivery; or, in a production planning method, expectation values and request values are compared, and allocation is p...

The system has a clamping device (S) with a step by step drive unit (D) that drives a bar (1) in the clamping direction. The unit has a kneader arm (3) for round trip movement under the action of a motor. The arm drives the bar in the moving direction due to wedging effect. The unit has a retaining unit (R) to prevent return of the bar when the arm returns. A release unit releases the bar using th...

The caliper has a piston (7) sliding in a hydraulic actuator (6), and a hydraulic chamber with variable volume, containing hydraulic oil and arranged between the bottom of the actuator and the piston. A groove (13) is arranged in the body of the actuator, and a return joint (12) is housed in the groove. The body of the actuator is equipped with a groove tread (14) which extends from the chamber to...

In one embodiment, a matrix of free-standing semiconductor shapes are oxidized to form a low capacitance isolation tub. The adjacent rows of shapes in the matrix are offset with respect to each to minimize air gap and void formation during tub formation. In a further embodiment, the spacing between adjacent rows is less than the spacing between shapes within a row.

A system and method for transmitting a clear image of a whiteboard work surface for remote collaboration. The image is separated into two portions; the projected image of the work surface, and the writing physically added to the whiteboard by participants. This separation allows several benefits. The bandwidth requirements are much lower than video teleconferencing, and the benefits of whiteboard ...

Converting inputted information of an image into information suitable for the edge detection, and calculating a difference value of adjacent pixels of the image, and adding an absolute value of the difference value to the calculated difference value of the pixels corresponding to the adjacent pixels if the difference value is negative, to generate an edge image.