PURPOSE:To prevent deterioration of positive plate so as to improve instant availability and preservability, by washing a formed positive plate, then soaking it in a water-soluble nonpolar solvent such as 1,4-dioxan to replace the moisture within the positive plate, and drying it. CONSTITUTION:The positive plate of an instant type lead storage battery using combined positive and engative plates in...

ARENA TYPE GAMES A game apparatus can be used for both hockey and basketball when the method of play of both those games is modified slightly. Both games can then be played inexpensively and without special exclusive skills, yet without losing their basic exciting character. A goal assembly comprises a net with target holes, and pockets for retaining scores, scoring in both games being effected by...

A load detector which includes a pin-like member arranged between force-transmitting members, a hole formed in the pin-like member along its neutral axis for bending deformations thereof, an insertion member inserted in the hole and having at both end parts thereof securement portions and at a central part thereof one or more deformation-sensing portions which are provided with their axis of symme...

An apparatus and method for identifying and removing arteriosclerotic plaque deposits from blood vessels is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a catheter having an optical fiber for transmitting laser irradiation and an ultrasonic transducer mounted at the tip of the catheter for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic signals. The apparatus further comprises a transmitting unit for generating elect...

A method and device for automatically steering a trackless vehicle along a routing or guide line. A scanner senses the position of the longitudinal centerline of the vehicle with respect to the guide line and produces a position signal. A datum transmitter produces a datum signal. A comparator compares the two signals and produces a difference signal which is used by a control unit to produce a st...

A display apparatus for displaying the state of adjustment of a ski binding jaw composed of a plurality of maintenance elements for maintaining the boot in the horizontal plane. The display apparatus includes a sensor for sensing the proper and improper adjustment of the maintenance elements with respect to the boot in a horizontal plane, and an indicator element which produces a perceptible signa...

A tire manufacturing mold comprises a mold body having an inner circumferential surface corresponding to the contour of a tire being molded, and includes at least the tread thereof. The body has a mold attachment for molding recesses of the tire being molded and a joint surface with the inner circumferential surface of the mold body. The mold attachment is detachably fitted to the inner circumfere...

A method of bonding a label to a tag within a garment after the garment is manufactured is provided and consists of placing jaws of a heat activating press tool over the tag having a heat activated bonding agent thereon and the label and squeezing the jaws of the heat activating press tool so that the tag and the label will bond together.

Coating composition and skinned polyurethane foam articles coated with such composition, wherein the composition composed of a combination of [I] a two component type non-yellowing polyurethane, for top coat, comprising a OH-terminated urethane prepolymer and a non-aromatic polyisocyanate, and [II] a two component type polyurethane, for under coat, comprising an NCO-terminated urethane prepolymer ...

Lateral FET structure is disclosed for bidirectional power switching, including AC application. Integral avalanche protection is provided by a pair of isolation regions forming protective barrier junctions with a common layer, which junctions are in parallel with the reverse blocking junctions of the power FET in the OFF state and have a lower reverse breakover threshold for protecting the latter....

PURPOSE:To prevent the incidence of stray light to a photodetecting part even if a stick is formed of a transparent synthetic resin to increase the quantity of transmitted light by drilling a slit to an optical adjusting member onto the optical path between a light emitting part and photodetecting part. CONSTITUTION:The inserting part 8 between a light emitting diode 10 and a photodiode 11 is so a...

The control system comprises a starting valve wherein an engine revolution speed indicative fluid pressure and a start adjustment fluid pressure act on a spool of the valve against each other. The starting valve generates a start pressure to be used as a clutch engagement pressure for a hydraulic clutch. The start adjustment fluid pressure is generated by a start adjustment valve coupled with an e...

Fully dense consolidated powder alloys of iron, cobalt and/or nickel characterized by having an ultrafine microstructure exhibiting a substantially uniformly dispersed harding phase of particle size essentially less than 3 microns, are produced from prealloyed powders by rapidly quenching an atomized molten alloy charge and subjecting the solidified alloy powder particles to the step of hot consol...

An improved apparatus is disclosed for the production of particulate metal comprising a containment vessel having a sidewall extending to an endwall, a source of metal external to the vessel, nozzle means carried by the endwall, the nozzle means including a central bore and providing communication between the vessel and the external source of metal, the sidewall and endwall cooperating with the no...

Flame retarded polyacrylimide or polymethacrylimide resin foams containing at least 70 percent by weight of cyclic acrylimide or methacrylimide units and incorporating at least 1 percent by weight of phosphorus, present at least partially in the form of a phosphorus compound, XCH2-PO(OR)2, wherein R is methyl, ethyl, or chloromethyl, and X is hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl, or RO-CO-.

This invention relates to the manufacture of foam from phenolic resins and to the foam so produced. In order to overcome some of the limitations of the prior art closed cell phenolic foams, we have developed a method of preparing closed cell foams from modified, low cost phenol formaldehyde resoles, which exhibit high closed cell contents, low friability and low thermal conductivity. This specific...

A method of forming a continuous laser butt weld between two members is disclosed. The method comprises providing two members to be butt welded, positioning respective edges of the members in abutting contact with the two members being canted slightly with respect to one another so that the butt joint formed by the edges is open toward a first side of the member, with the edges contacting one anot...

A multifilament yarn of an aromatic polyamide, in particular poly-p-phenylene terephthalamide, is provided with an adhesive coating of a cured epoxy compound, the yarn having a free epoxide content not higher than 10 mmoles/kg. The yarn is made by spinning a solution of an aromatic polyamide into a coagulation bath and subjecting the resulting filaments to the subsequent steps of washing, applying...

A packaging propylene copolymer film consisting essentially of a random copolymer of propylene and an alpha -olefin having 4 or more carbon atoms or a random copolymer of propylene, an alpha -olefin having 4 or more carbon atoms and ethylene, said random copolymer satisfying the following conditions (1) to (3): (1) the content of the alpha -olefin having 4 or more carbon atoms in the copolymer ...