PURPOSE: To obtain a solar heat utilizing hot water supply system wherein the heat storage capacity of a heat storage tank is made variable according to conditions of heat collection such as the quantity of solar radiation and the temperature of open air and high-temperature water is obtained by storing the heat of a large quantity of hot water when the conditions of heat collection are good and b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide parallelized ion beams useful for flying time mass spectrometry by compressing ions in an area of an ion trap having two end cap electrodes, and simultaneously impressing voltages having different polarity on both electrodes. SOLUTION: An ion trap 12 is formed as a quadrupole ion trap. End cap electrodes 22 and 24 have a hyperboloidal surface, and contain opening p...

PURPOSE: To provide a sealed lead-acid battery whose discharging voltage in the latter half is kept high without shortening the cycle life. CONSTITUTION: A retainer is composed of a positive contact layer made of glass fibers with average diameter not larger than 0.6&mu m and negative contact layer made of glass fibers with average diameter 1-4&mu m larger than the former glass fibers. As a result...

PURPOSE: To suppress occurrence of short circuit at an upper part of a positive plate and a negative shelf part by wrapping the positive plate with a U-shaped lower separator from the lower side and further wrapping the plate with an inversely U-shaped upper separator in which a cut part for leading out an ear is formed. CONSTITUTION: An unwoven cloth made of glass fibers with length about two tim...

PURPOSE: To provide a lead-acid battery having high durability to vibration by increasing the strength of an electrode pole for interconnection of cells. CONSTITUTION: At least two of ribs 2 are successively formed along the height direction of a cylindrical pole 1 in the circumferential face of an electrode pole for interconnection of cells and the width (m) of the cross section surface area of t...

PURPOSE: To provide an electrode plate in which paste is filled around a grid carried, so as not to expose a branched skeleton of the grid on the lower surface by forming a projection on the upper surface of a belt conveyer and arranging an elastic body in the same height as the projection. CONSTITUTION: Paste 4 is filled from the upper part from a hopper in a grid 2 carried in the arrow direction...

PURPOSE: To lengthen the life of a negative plate by adding a very small amount of specified metal or compound to a negative active material. CONSTITUTION: Paste prepared by adding about 0.002% or less metal whose hydrogen overvoltage is lower than lead or compound of the metal, such as oxide and sulfate, to an active material containing lignin, barium, and carbon is filled in a negative grid made...

PURPOSE: To provide a lead-acid battery in which oxidation degradation of a separator is retarded and life characteristics are enhanced. CONSTITUTION: A positive plate in which roundness having a radius of curvature of 0.2mm or more but t/2mm or less is formed in the lower part of a grid skeleton 1 positioned in the lowermost part of a grid whose tensile strength is within the range of 6.0 to 9.0k...

PURPOSE: To provide a sealed lead-acid battery, which can reduce the quantity of use of material for a battery jar and which has the excellent battery jar forming property and which can restrict the collapse of the wall surface of the battery jar, which faces the end surface of a plate group. CONSTITUTION: The outer wall surface 1 of a battery jar, which faces the end surface of a plate group, is ...

PURPOSE: To provide a sealed lead-acid battery having a long lifetime by preventing the lowering of the performance due to the stratification of the electrolyte and the deterioration of the electrolyte. CONSTITUTION: A positive plate 1, a negative plate 2, a mat-shaped separator 3, which is mainly composed of glass fiber, an electrolyte holder 4 made of the fine glass mat, a battery jar 5 and a ch...

PURPOSE: To improve the trickle lifetime at the time of discharging at a high factor by using an expand plate grid, and using polypropylene resin battery jar at a low moisture permeability so as to lower the reduction of the electrolyte during the use of a battery. CONSTITUTION: An expand plate grid is used for a positive plate 1, and this positive plate 1 is sandwiched by separators 2 made of a g...

PURPOSE: To provide a sealed lead-acid battery, of which trickle lifetime characteristic is improved. CONSTITUTION: A sealed lead-acid battery has a battery jar alternately provided with rib parts which contacts with the surface of a plate without rib parts in the inner wall thereof arranged opposite to the surface of the plate. The rib part occupies 30% or more of the surface of the inner wall of...

- La présente invention concerne un dispositif pour supporter temporairement une pile résiduelle de feuilles lors du changement automatique de pile dans le margeur d'une machine d'impression, comportant des dents de fourche pouvant être introduites dans une palette de support de pile.
- Selon l'invention, les dents de fourche (1) sont montées de façon rotative autour de leur axe longitudina...

Installation and process are claimed for separating the components of air by cryogenic distillation, in which the air is compressed (in 2), refrigerated (in 4), dried and decarbonated (in 10) by circulation through adsorbents, cooled to its liquefaction temperature (in 12) and distilled with production of a residual gas (16). The residual gas is expanded and separated into a hot flow and a cold fl...

PURPOSE: To set a correct destination path regardless of a traffic regulation when setting a the destination path using the Dijkstra method. CONSTITUTION: The path cost using the Dijkstra method according to link information and connection information is calculated and a destination path is set by link connection for minimizing the path cost. Then, the path cost is set to a child node for each con...

PURPOSE: To provide a spectral analysis measuring device which costs less than that when an integrating sphere is used, and in which variation in quantity of light affects measuring accuracy in less than that in an integrating sphere. CONSTITUTION: This spectral analysis measuring device comprises a light source part 3, a light quantity detection means 4, and a computation means which, from the qu...

PURPOSE: To provide a device for inspecting a continuous sheet-shaped object for defects, by which any foreign material and bubbles inside a glass plate and scratches and irregularities on the surface of the glass plate are identified. CONSTITUTION: This inspection device has, under a glass plate 1, a bright field- lighting system 10 and a dark field-lighting system 11, and has, over the glass pla...

PURPOSE: To provide an optical system of a small-sized real image type variable power finder which is short in the overall length of an objective lens and is well corrected in aberration in spite of having high variable power. CONSTITUTION: The objective lens consists, successively from an object side, of a first lens group G1 having negative refracting power, a second lens group G2 having positiv...

PURPOSE: To improve the throughput of the system by omitting the selection of the check point data that is performed by a CPU of operating system at a check point, the transfer of the check point data, etc. CONSTITUTION: A CPU 11 receives a store device full generation notification signal 91 and sends a check point instruction signal 92 to a data extension processor 60. The CPU 11 monitors a check...

PURPOSE: To provide an IC card device capable of disabling a card storing function at the time of service interruption, and when an inserted card exists, ejecting the card. CONSTITUTION: When an IC card 22 is not inserted yet, an ejection checking member 25 is fixed on a latch-disabled state by an electromagnetic solenoid 32, and when a card detector 33 detects the insertion of the card 22 in a cu...