PURPOSE: A method for manufacturing a spiral type lead storage battery is provided to eliminate defects in cast on strap processing, and to reduce the amount of lead used in the battery by the lack of a strap, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost. CONSTITUTION: The method for manufacturing a spiral type lead storage battery comprises the steps of: coating an anode active material on one base pl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a negative electrode plate for a lead acid battery and its manufacturing method wherein a sulfation phenomenon is hard to occur. SOLUTION: This negative electrode plate for the lead acid battery is such that an active material paste, which comprizes lead powder particles 3 wherein a layer composed of carbon particles or graphite particles 2 and of liquid glass is a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the hunting of a continuously variable transmission when controlling driving force. SOLUTION: Driving wheels connected to an engine 4 through a continuously variable transmission 6; a CVT controller 3 to set the change gear ratio of the CVT 6 according to the driving condition of a vehicle; a driving force control start deciding means to decide the idle running of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure the proper operation of a vehicle regardless of the state of a digital automatic operation processing device (CPU). SOLUTION: Vehicle speed sensors 20a, 20b output wave-form signals corresponding to the vehicle speed. A CPU 7 automatically travels a vehicle by utilizing the vehicle speed information obtained from the wave-form signals via digital processing. The wav...

The present invention provides a motor drive controller for a vehicle having an engine and a motor disposed therein as a vehicle-propulsion system, the motor having both driving and power-generating functions, comprising: an engine controller for controlling a running state of the engine; motor controller for controlling both driving and power-generating states of the motor in a manner independent...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To preclude a canister from increasing in the amount of evaporated fuel storage, while preventing the driver of a hybrid automobile from having a sense of incompatibility during the automobile running. SOLUTION: A hybrid automobile is equipped with a storage amount presuming means 61 for presuming the amount of evaporated fuel storage of a canister, a drive change deciding me...

A parking lock device comprises a parking lock mechanism (12) which locks an output shaft (1A) of a vehicle automatic transmission (1) when a shift lever (18) is changed over to a parking range, and an automatic brake device (14) which brakes the vehicle. When the shift lever (18) is changed over to the parking range at a vehicle speed is not less than a predetermined vehicle speed VSP1, a control...

A vehicle powertrain includes an electric motor (4) and a clutch (12) between the electric motor and a motor driven road wheel (3L, 3R). Powertrain play between the electric motor (4) and the road wheel is eliminated upon determination that powertrain play elimination (PPE) is needed for motor torque transmission to the motor driven road wheel. The PPE includes controlling engagement of the clutch...

PURPOSE: To switch the braking and non-braking of an eddy current type reduction gear, using the hydraulic power source of an automatic transmission. CONSTITUTION: A brake drum 15 is connected to the outer end part of the output shaft 18 of an automatic transmission provided with a torque converter 32. A magnet supporting cylinder 13 with numerous magnets 13a connected at circumferentially equal s...

The invention relates to a method and device for the continuous treatment of a cellular suspension, especially whole blood, for obtaining an erythrocyte concentrate which is returned to a patient by autotransfusion. According to the invention, there are three treatment steps, namely sedimentation of the cellular suspension, addition of washing solution to the cell concentrate and renewed sedimenta...

PURPOSE: To provide a rolled material delivery device which requires no damping device and can deliver a strip-like film at a predetermined speed following an increase or decrease in the roll diameter of material film. CONSTITUTION: A fourth driving motor 40 is connected to a rolled film 15 and the rolled film is rotated in a predetermined direction to deliver the strip- like film at a predetermin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the weight of a frame and transmission case in combination having a heavy weight. SOLUTION: A transmission case M concurrently used as a machine body frame is formed such that the upper surface of a case intermediate part Mb continued to the rear of a case front part is lowered to a level lower than that of the upper surface of a case front part Ma coupled directly ...

PURPOSE:To operate a solar heat utilization system in the state where it is fitted to the purpose of a user by setting the operation conditions of one circulation system of first and second circulation systems in response to application conditions fixed to an individual solar heat utilization system. CONSTITUTION:A first circulation system includes a heat collector, a floor heater 12, a heat mediu...

A traction control system and method of a four-wheel drive vehicle comprises an engine control apparatus, a brake drive apparatus for automatically and independently applying brake to each of four wheels, wheel speed detecting means, vehicle speed detecting means, steering angle detecting means, yaw rate detecting means, target yaw rate calculating means, yaw rate deviation calculating means, slip...

A centrifugation bowl for separating blood products, includes a cylindrical filter core disposed within the bowl preferably coaxial with the bowl and preferably rotating with the bowl. The centrifugation bowl (214) includes a rotating bowl body (302) with a closed bottom (306) and defining an enclosed separation chamber (304). The filter core (328) includes a filter membrane (330) that is sized to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cut bag conveying device, which holds a bag ranging from its front portion to its rear portion where the bag is separated from the next bags adjacent to each other and is used for a powder agent filling and packaging machine which fills bag sections made by forming many width sealing sections from a long film folded in half with a specified quantity of powder ...

A sheet handling apparatus such as a sheet feeder includes a platform 50 for carrying a vertical stack of sheets such that sheets can be fed from the top of the stack, e.g. by a feeder and separator mechanism 10, 20, the platform having dimensions allowing the sheets to droop below the platform in at least one overhanging region (H1, H2 figure 6). The overhanging regions may be at either side of a...

In one embodiment, a perforating gun 56 may create tunnels 58 in a formation 60, the firing of the gun generating an overbalance condition by means of which treatment fluid from an applicator tool 62 is driven into the tunnels - either from a pressurised chamber 63 upon opening a port 64 using a time release mechanism 66, or from a shell 57 with chamber 59 of treatment fluid surrounding the perfor...

A conveying means adapted to provide a link between a combine harvester and a processing apparatus which is towed from the combine harvester, said conveying means being supported between the combine harvester and processing apparatus, said conveying means having an inlet positioned to receive trash flowing from the trash outlet of the combine harvester and an outlet positioned to deliver trash to ...

An adhesive tape attaching jig (50) that allows adhesive tape, which widens along its length, to be continuously attached to an adherend in a stable and reliable manner. The attaching jig (50) has a construction comprising the combination of a tape holder (11, 12) which receives and holds adhesive tape in the attaching jig, a tape attacher (9) which contact bonds the adhesive tape that has been gu...