PURPOSE:To reduce the number of constituting parts of a speed meter mechanism and provide sufficient lubrication by providing a speed meter drive gear in a pre-load spacer formed between bearings rotatably holding a gear shaft, and engaging a speed meter driven gear fixed to a speed meter shaft with the speed meter drive gear. CONSTITUTION:Teeth of a speed meter drive gear 48 are formed on the out...

PURPOSE:To improve the sudden discharge characteristics and life span of a lead storage battery by applying the discharge process during the charge of the first formation process that uses an alkaline, neutral, or low concentration sulfuric acid aqueous solution. CONSTITUTION:Discharge is performed once or more in addition to charge during the first formation process that uses an electrolyte selec...

PURPOSE:To improve the overcharge resistant performance of a sealed lead storage battery, in which unformed positive and negative plates are subjected to formation in a container, by carrying out the formation in two stages. CONSTITUTION:The first formation in which a positive plate influencing the overcharge performance is principally formed and the second formation in which the amount and the co...

Exercise apparatus which allows a wide range of limb movements for exercises without throwing the body off balance and in a manner which provides balance and equal support and resistance for the limbs by providing an elongate member 1, two limb support members 9 secured adjustably to the elongate member at spaced positions along the length thereof, and means (3, 7) securing the elongate member wit...

An electron beam x-ray computer tomography scanner is improved so that a compact, tiltable configuration without mechanical motion is achieved. By introducing the electron beam in a direction which is largely parallel rather than perpendicular to the scan plane, the long large diameter evacuated electron beam tube of prior art is eliminated. As a result, the scan system according to the invention ...

The efficiency of producing liquid products from a cryogenic air separation process using a distillation column system having at least a high pressure distillation column (902) and a low pressure distillation column (904) in thermal communication with each other and in which system the low pressure column (904) operates at a pressure of 60 to 520 kPag (9 to 75 psig) and at least 50% of the feed ai...

The utility model relates to a solar energy collector which is mainly solves the problems of some solar energy collecting apparatus, the efficiency is not high; the weight is relatively great and the cost is relatively expensive. The heat collection tank body of the utility model is a rectangular parallelepiped container which inner wall is coated with black heat absorption material. The faç...

An apparatus for severing (collar) blanks from a web of material is disclosed. Knife rollers (10) which are provided with knife edges (17) are used to sever blanks of (thin) cardboard from a web. A knife roller (10) is pressed against a counter roller (11). For this purpose, there are provided resiliently adjustable pressure elements (30). The pressure is exerted on the counter roller (11) in the ...

The present invention relates to a container, system, and method for creating parenteral solutions at a site, remote from sterile environments. The system includes a flexible container that is empty except for a prepackaged amount of a solute that is housed in the interior of the container. The container includes at least one port and a sterilizing filter in communication with an interior of the p...

PURPOSE:To continue the operation by dynamically degenerating the multiprocessor system even when a partial slave procesor is turned to be illegal operation. CONSTITUTION:A processor function allocation table 10D in a common area 1D holds the function allocation information of an OS to slave processors 1B and 1C, and a processor function changing means 6A of a main processor 1A changes the functio...

PURPOSE:To provide the customer display device in new structure which eliminates the dead angle by a device structure. CONSTITUTION:Display openings 7a are formed on the top and reverse sides of a chassis 7, a couple of liquid crystal panels 1 and 1 are sored in the chassis 7 back to back so that liquid crystal display parts are exposed through the display opening 7a, and display control is perfor...

An intruder alarm eg. a multi detection building intruder alarm system, having intruder detection devices, and control circuitry which is controllable by means of timer display and key pad and operating relays 10 and 11, from a pre-programmable, automatic 24 hr, 7 day clock timer 9, and associated circuitry, to set and unset the intruder alarm system, switching the alarm system on and off automati...

The viscosity of bitumen, bitumen-like mixes based on polymer and bitumen and mixes of bitumen and additives is reduced by mixing said bitumen or mixes with at least one gas in a dynamic high shear mixer or in a static mixer.

A process for producing a foamed polymer comprises the steps of: mixing, in a dissolver, a mixture constituted by at least one isocyanate and a first unsaturated anhydride, adding to the mixture, a second aromatic anhydride, at least one foaming agent, a vinylidene compound, poly(vinyl chloride) and a heat stabilizer; until a paste is obtained curing said paste at atmospheric pressure, and at a te...

PURPOSE:To prevent generation of any crack in the oxide superconductor of the oxide superconductive wire material having its oxide superconductor clad by a metal sheath, or occurrence of any exfoliation between the oxide superconductor and the metal sheath, due to thermal expansion of the metal sheath caused when heat treatment is performed in order to obtain the oxide superconductor. CONSTITUTION...

PURPOSE:To provide a superconductive wire material of which the oxide superconductor has a high crystalline orientation degree and which exhibits no magnetic-field anisotropy. CONSTITUTION:The superconductive wire material is one which includes a plurality of oxide superconductors in the metal matrix 1 and which is composed of multicore assemblies A1 to A4 each of which is constituted by the oxide...

PURPOSE:To provide an oxide superconductor of which the electric superconductive characteristics are less deteriorated even when a large electric current is passed therethrough. CONSTITUTION:Conductors 1 and 4 are longitudinally disposed in a manner that they are circumferentially arranged in parallel. In each of the conductor arrangements 1 and 4, adjacent two of the conductors are alternately lo...

PURPOSE:To enhance the superconductive characteristics as well as to prevent the breakage of the filament when manufacture is made of the Cu-clad Nb-Ti alloy superconductive wire. CONSTITUTION:A plurality of primary elemental wires each consisting of a Cu-clad Nb-Ti alloy core wire are inserted into a Cu-made tube HIP machining and hot-extrusion are carried out with respect to the resulting tube. ...

PURPOSE:To provide a manufacturing method for an oxide superconductive wire material exhibiting a higher critical current density than in the prior art. CONSTITUTION:A first heat treatment is conducted, with respect to raw materials of oxide superconductive material machined into wires, at a temperature of partially melting these raw materials. Thereafter, a second heat treatment is conducted at a...

A foamed plastic is provided which is excellent in heat resistance and mechanical strength. The foamed plastic is produced by foaming a resin which comprises an N-alkyl-substituted maleimide unit in an amount of 30 to 98 mol % and an olefin unit in an amount of 70 to 2 mol % of the entire polymer, and has a weight-average molecular weight of from 1x103 to 5x106 in terms of polystrene.