PURPOSE: To provide a compound electrode material for lead-acid battery, which can prevent the generation of distortion owing to the stress at the time of expanding and which has the sufficient acid-resistance so that it is not dissolved even in the case where this compound electrode material is dipped in the sulfuric acid as the electrolyte. CONSTITUTION: This compound electrode material for lead...

PURPOSE: To improve a conductive material to reduce the electric resistance of an electrode plate, and enhance the utilizing ratio. CONSTITUTION: A conductive material having a chemical formula of BaPb1-x O3 (0

PURPOSE: To obtain sipes having high strength and precise shape and a tire mold, on the tread part molding surface of which the sipes are equipped, by a method wherein the sipe has a planer shape consisting of branched or closed figure. CONSTITUTION: A casting mold 21 is obtained by casting ceramic casting mold material with a rubber mold 17 for molding a casting mold and then turning the resultan...

PURPOSE: To provide differential lock mechanism that can automatically switch the operation and operation stop of an inter-axle differential gear. CONSTITUTION: A reduction gear 50 and a speed-up gear 52 rotated integrally are connected to a reduction pinion 32. A first gear 56 meshed with the reduction gear 50 is mounted on a through-shaft 12 through a reduction side one-way clutch 54, and a seco...

PURPOSE: To prevent unnecessary shift change during constant speed travel. CONSTITUTION: The travel resistance Fr of a vehicle is estimated (P41), and at the time of acceleration (Fr>=0), maximum driving force Fodmax in an ODD position is computed (P43). During the non-operation of an acceleration switch, total demand driving force Fa is made equal to travel resistance estimate value (P46), and du...

PURPOSE: To converge hunting swiftly by starting torque reducing control with engine torque, smaller than required engine torque, as initial engine torque in the case of the hunting of driving wheel speed being generated. CONSTITUTION: In the case of the driving wheel speed VW exceeding the second reference value VR2 a plurality of times, it is so judged that hunting is generated, and the number o...

PURPOSE: To reduce the superheating period of catalyst temperature so as to prevent degradation by shifting up a speed change stage to a high speed stage in the case of fuel cut-off being performed at the specified value or more of engine rotation, and increasing the fuel quantity while suppressing up-shift in the case of judging the low temperature time. CONSTITUTION: An engine control circuit 60...

PURPOSE: To omit the use of a throttle opening detecting means and the learning of the totally closed position of a throttle valve and obtain an excellent travel feeling. CONSTITUTION: A control device 11b formed of a microcomputer makes an atmospheric pressure correction to the detected intake pipe pressure Pb and obtains the first estimated throttle opening in the case of by-pass air flow = 0 an...

PURPOSE: To meet a recent demand for the elevation of temp. and to improve reliability by constituting a gas turbine of a material having respectively specified composition and strength characteristic. CONSTITUTION: An Ni-base alloy, having a composition consisting of, by weight ratio, 0.05-0.20% C, 20-25% Co, 15-25% Cr, 1.0-3.0% Al, 1.0-3.0% Ti, 1.0-3.0% Nb, and >=55% Ni, is used for a first-stag...

PURPOSE: To remove snow by melting it automatically with a solar heat by covering a snow melting area of the roof of a dwelling house or the like in the arrangement of heat radiating pipes and. installing a heat reservoir underground in a site and placing a plurality of vacuum tube type solar heat collectors in the vertical direction one upon the other. CONSTITUTION: Solar heat collectors 10 and a...

PURPOSE: To provide a differential limiting device allowing the establishment of different transfer ratios under the application of simple constitution by forming a semi-circular arc external pocket and assembling the internal and external pockets with the circular arc centers thereof slightly dislocated from each other. CONSTITUTION: At the time of a backward travel or coasting under the applicat...

PURPOSE: To shorten a shifting time and lessen a shifting shock by quickly changing a gear and smoothly changing torque as appearing on an output shaft, when a shifting process develops sufficiently after the fitting of a frictional engagement device at the engagement side. CONSTITUTION: When the prescribed gear change is implemented, the first frictional engagement device 1 is disengaged and the ...

PURPOSE: To avoid chemical influences and physical obstacles owing to adhesives, and improve the quality of sample pieces and reduce costs, by overlapping a reagent layer of an extremely thin thermoplastic resin film with a base material and impressing a torsional ultrasonic vibration and an external force thereby uniting the same. CONSTITUTION: A reagent layer 2 with a reagent in an extremely thi...

PURPOSE: To easily and evenly coat the surface of a collector with plumbic acid barium in a factory so as to prevent the active materialization of the collector by coating the collector for lead-acid battery with the fluid, which includes barium hydroxide, and heating it. CONSTITUTION: After coating the surface of a collector made of lead or lead alloy with lead dioxide (PbO2 ), the liquid 2, whic...

An electrode-carrying catheter has elongate, flexible tubing defining a proximal end, a distal end, and an electrically insulative outer tubular layer intermediate the ends, the tubing including a flexible core and a flexible non-conductive core-covering layer of plastic about the core. A plurality of electrically conductive electrodes is disposed on the outer tubular layer. In order to conduct el...

An aerodynamic umbrella having a curved canopy mounted on a horizontally disposed extension shaft which is rotatably mounted on a vertical mast, such canopy having a stabilizer member on the top thereof and being able to rotate the umbrella into the wind.

A tufted carpet comprising a base and a plurality of tufts. Each of the tufts have a looped portion on an underside of the base. The looped portions are fused to the underside of the base and to adjacent looped portions using heat and pressure, thereby forming a homogeneous layer of the looped portions on the underside of the base.

A test strip for determining blood glucose levels comprising a reagent which incorporates a dye color. Whole blood reacts with the reagent of the test strip resulting in a color change on the reagent portion of the strip which is controlled by the dye color, indicating the blood glucose level by visual comparison with a color chart, or by the use a photometer. The use of a copolymer in the reagent...

The invention relates to a process for the preparation of recyclate polyols by reacting rigid polyurethane foam with short-chain hydroxyl-containing compounds, which comprises adding at least one epoxidized native fatty oil to the reaction mixture after glycolysis at a temperature from 10 DEG to 80 DEG C. below the glycolysis temperature.

This disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for measuring the amount of time a personal computer system is powered on. A power on time (POT) routine is performed at a power on of the computer system. This routine sets up a timer to count the number of pre-selected time units (selected by a user) the system is powered on. The power on time count is stored in the PC's non-volatile memory. The ...