PURPOSE:To improve chargeability, capacity restorableness and reliability after being left overdischarged by making tin oxide or indium oxide to be held on the positive electrode base of a lead storage battery. CONSTITUTION:Tin oxide or indium oxide (SnO2, InO2) as a compound, which is, stable acid and acidifying atmosphere and moreover conductive, is made to stick to a base at a high temperature....

PURPOSE:To enlarge porosity for improving capacity of a lead storage battery by making said battery to discharge with a minute current at 50-100% of the theoretical electric load required for producing PbO2 in a formation process while continuing formation again thereafter. CONSTITUTION:When performing electric discharge with a small current (0.001-0.01CA) on the way of formation, lead sulfate hav...

PURPOSE:To get rid of residue of PbOn in a positive electrode active material by stopping power supply at the time of 50-100% of a theoretical quantity of electricity required for generating PbO2 on a positive electrode plate while using a current value larger than the power supply current value prior to the stop of the power supply, when the power supply is reopened, in order to perform formation...

A four-wheel drive automobile has a driving system which includes a transversely oriented engine unit, a transmission having input and output shafts which extend transversely of the car body, an inter-axle differential gear mechanism, front and rear inter-wheel differential gear mechanisms, and a differential gear lock mechanism. The inter-axle differential gear mechanism, the front inter-wheel di...

The transmission device comprises first (I) and second (II) groups of input and output gears arranged on either side of a set of input (22, 28, 34, 46, 56,40) and output (24, 32, 36, 48, 54, 42) gears which produce a given speed ratio. The presence of first and second clutches (18, 20) enables both sequential as well as non-sequential gear shifting between the groups of gears and/or the gear locat...

An improved centrifuge assembly comprising a channeled rotor assembly and a fluid container disposed in the channel, whereby the centrifugal separation effects in the fluid container are determined by the geometry of the channel in the rotor. This arrangement is particularly useful for two-stage blood platelet separation. The fluid container is preferably formed from semirigid plastic material and...

An improved centrifuge assembly comprising a channeled rotor assembly and a ring-like fluid container disposed in the channel, whereby the centrifugal separation effects in the fluid container are determined by the geometry of the channel in the rotor. The fluid container is preferably formed from semirigid plastic material in the form of a tube having a rectangular cross section and is considered...

A continuous flow device for separation of particles of differing densities in a centrifugal force field. Very small particles of differing densities that are normally very difficult or impossible to separate in the useful commercial gravity separation devices can be separated because of the increased settling force due to the centrifugal force field and also the buoyant force on the particles of ...

PCT No. PCT/NO88/00042 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 14, 1989 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 14, 1989 PCT Filed May 13, 1988 PCT Pub. No. WO88/08902 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 17, 1988.A method and apparatus for positioning in the sea a buoyant platform having a plurality of legs which are movable relative to the platform. One or more tubular elements are detachably suspended from one or more of the legs, such that upon lowe...

The device consists of a sleeve (A), with a form similar to a parallelepipedon approximately, made by molding of not very rigid plastic materials of a known type, said sleeve being open on one of its sides (B2) whereinto the shank of a razor shall be inserted, thanks to the small pressure. On the opposite face to the open side (B2) of said sleeve (A), the first letters of the week days and/or the ...

A power line disturbance (PLD) detector circuit includes a digital counter which is driven by pulses provided by a clock in an associated data processing system. The PLD detector circuit includes a comparator amplifier for comparing primary AC power to a DC reference voltage on a cycle-by-cycle basis. The amplifier generates a reset pulse once during each AC cycle as long as the AC voltage exceeds...

The heel support (6) makes it possible to adjust to various heights and lengths of a sole. It comprises a heel support housing (11) with a front part (13) which presses on the edge of the heel end of the ski boot sole and so fixes the ski boot on the safety binding. An opening lever (10) has a lower part (28) which slides on a curved part (27) of the heel support housing. The opening lever (10) is...

A toe piece for a safety ski binding comprised of a base plate, and a pair of elongated, generally parallel side members each pivotally mounted at one end to the base plate. A connecting link having a detent depression pivotally connects the other ends of the side members to each other to form a linkage. The linkage is laterally movable about the pivotably mounted ends of the side members relative...

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A process for the preparation of the enantiomeric pairs (1R-3R- alpha S+1S-3S- alpha R) and (1R-3S- alpha S+1S-3R- alpha R) from a mixture of all 8 stereoisomers of the compound alpha R/S-cyano-3-phenoxy-4-fluorobenzyl 3R/S-(2,2-dichlorovinyl)-2,2-dimethyl-1R/S-cyclopropanecarboxylate, comprising dissolving the mixture in a secondary or tertiary alkylamine having 2-6 C atoms per alkyl radical, su...

PURPOSE:To control illuminance automatically and to perform highly accurate position detection, by providing a projecting light, which projects light on the surface of a part to be detected approximately vertically, providing a reflecting light, which reflects the projected light at a specified angle, using either one of the lights in correspondence with the kinds of the parts to be detected, and ...