PURPOSE:To enable water flowing through flow passages arranged in spacer members to be heated by a method wherein some plate-like spacer members are arranged in a vertical direction between a floor member and a ceiling member and solar heat is absorbed from their light collecting surfaces. CONSTITUTION:In a building structure such as a multiple dwelling house 100 having an interior space such as o...

PURPOSE:To provide a positive electrode plate for lead-acid battery, which presents a high rate of utilization of active material and has a high strength. CONSTITUTION:Polyolefin fiber is plasma oxided to make polymer fiber which is equipped with hydrophilic functional radicals. This polymer fiber is added to an active material paste, and an electricity collector is filled with the resultant paste...

PURPOSE:To obtain a sealed lead-acid battery, which can be manufactured easily and which has a large discharge capacity. CONSTITUTION:In a sealed lead-acid battery, a clearance between a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate and the circumference of a plate group are filled with granular silica, and this granular silica and plate group are practically impregnated with sulfuric ac...

PURPOSE:To lower the charging current at the time of trickle charge to restrict the speed of corrosion of a positive grid due to the oxidation, and to obtain a sealed-acid battery having a long lifetime by restricting the oxygen gas moving and absorbing reaction to the minimum. CONSTITUTION:A sealed lead-acid battery has a separator, which is mainly composed of glass fiber and impregnated with the...

PURPOSE:To obtain a lead-acid battery, in which the diffusing property of electrolyte in the surface of a plate is improved and the adhesiveness of plates to a separator is improved and a fall of the active material from a grid is prevented and the battery capacity can be realized sufficiently. CONSTITUTION:A positive plate 1, both surfaces of which support an active material protecting layer 3a, ...

PURPOSE:To obtain a sealed storage battery having a large capacity and a long lifetime. CONSTITUTION:A grid material 3 of a positive electrode and a separator 6 and a grid material 4 of a negative electrode are held by a frame 1 made of synthetic resin with a predetermined space in the laminating direction. The separator 6 is held by the frame 1 so as to separate the inside of the frame 1 perfectl...

PURPOSE:To prevent the generation of short circuit at a lower part, and to prolong a lifetime by providing a saddle for supporting a leg part of a positive plate, and not providing a saddle for supporting a leg part of a negative plate. CONSTITUTION:A saddle 2 for supporting a leg part of a positive plate is provided, and a saddle for supporting a leg part of a negative plate 3 is not provided. At...

PURPOSE:To prevent the generation of short circuit at a lower part, and prolong a lifetime by providing a plate group support mode of a substance, which can be dissolved by sulfuric acid, in the bottom part of a battery jar. CONSTITUTION:Plate group supports 8 are provided as a substitute for negative plate supporting saddles 2, and the supports 8 are made of the material, which is soluble in the ...

PURPOSE:To use a worm hear into a differential apparatus to realize a remarkable deceleration ratio by slanting motors which rotate inverse directions with an inclination angle with respect to the vertical line. CONSTITUTION:An internal armature 1 rotates a left worm wheel 6 via an internal worm gear 3 and transmits its rotation to a left drive shaft 9. Receiving a reaction force of the internal a...

PURPOSE: To display graspherically the position of an object as a geometric relevant to space and/or time by forming a map by accumulating a medium having a flat face and objects in a pattern. CONSTITUTION: A sample 12 of an object is supplied to a separator 14. The sample 12 is raw cotton containing foreign substance such as cotton fibers, neps, and trash and the separator 14 separates the fibers...

PURPOSE: To analyze a continuous inspection region at high speed by operating one or more of a plurality of cameras by first synchronized signals and operating one or more of the remaining cameras by second synchronized signals delayed from the first signals. CONSTITUTION: A X-Y table moves an inspection head transversely on a circuit board at a speed as two times high as a conventional speed, e.g...

PURPOSE: To provide a method for executing an arithmetic operation in parallel to a composite operand including plural multibit element data items. CONSTITUTION: An arithmetic operation is executed to a composite operand including plural element data items. Generally, in the arithmetic operation, an inter-element signal, for example, a carry signal, or a scaling signal, or a deviation bit is gener...

PURPOSE: To attain an arithmetic operation in parallel to the subset of element data items present in a composite operand by executing a logical arithmetic operation in parallel to a mask operand and a composite operand. CONSTITUTION: A processing circuit 120 executes an arithmetic operation to a composite operand by a control signal from a control circuit 128, and a result data item and a flag bi...

PURPOSE:To appropriately inform of even the frequency generation or occasional generation of event by judging whether a designated interval time has elapsed or not for each kind of the detected event and informing a managing device of the judged result. CONSTITUTION:When any event is generated in an information processing system S1, this generated event is detected by an event detection part 3, an...

PURPOSE:To perform license management which can be put in flexible operation utilizing advantages of a network while preventing application software from illegally being used by deciding whether or not a software program is permitted to be operated on the basis of license information and an operation state when a license acquisition request is sent. CONSTITUTION:Five computers are connected to the...

PURPOSE:To obtain a cathode body structure for magnetron which can make not only expensive lead wires shorter, but also the assembly of the cathode body structure easier, and is suitable for automatic assembly. CONSTITUTION:External terminals 36 and 37 are added to lead wires 31 and 32 for leading out cathode terminals through metal plates 34 and 35 for sealing, so as to make the expensive lead wi...

PURPOSE: To effectively impart the cable-ready feature by generating video signals by decoding and expanding packeted digital information through an enable channel. CONSTITUTION: A cable 202 is connected to a band-elimination filter 203, a selectable channel receiver 206, the input of an ITV channel receiver 208, and the output of an up-link modulator 210. The ITV channel receiver 208 is turned so...

A control system for enabling a conveyor cart or carts to run automatically along a running track. The or each cart comprises a sensor for detecting a guiding line extending along the running track and outputting detection data, and a steering control device operable in response to the detection data for steering the conveyor cart to follow the guiding line. The sensor is switchable for selectivel...

The invention relates to an alpine ski binding which is intended to hold the rear end of a boot on a ski. The binding comprises a body 3 connected to the ski and a member 2 for retaining the rear end of the boot which is carried by the body. The binding also comprises a bearing plate 9 for the boot, on which the rear end of the sole rests. It is characterised in that the bearing plate 9 is movable...

Apparatus for the detection of defects in a moving band, characterised in that it comprises optical means (25, 27) for inspection of the lower face and optical means (29, 31) for inspection of the upper face of the band, separate optical means (33, 34) for detection of the edges of the band, electronic means (35, 36) for indication of defects associated respectively with the optical means (25, 27,...