PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light energy transmitting device capable of safely and easily transmitting a far lot of light energy having a high density to an optional place as compared to a conventional method. SOLUTION: A condensing device 3 for condensing light 2 of the sun 1 and a transmitting body 5 consisting of transparent quartz glass are provided. The size of transmitting body 5 is p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-voltage lead-acid battery not causing a short circuit between a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and capable of being mounted in such a small battery-mounting space as to limit its upper clearance. SOLUTION: An electrode group of 18 pairs series-connected by intercell connection bodies 7 are housed in a battery jar 1, and the interior of the batt...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-voltage lead-acid battery not causing a short circuit between a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and capable of being mounted in a small space other than a rectangular solid. SOLUTION: An electrode group of 18 pairs series-connected by intercell connection bodies 7 are housed in a battery jar 1, and the interior of the battery jar 1 is divided by...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a control device for an electric vehicle that generates a required braking force in good response by using the control of an electric motor together with the control of a mechanical braking force that has long response wasting time and much delay in response, and that improves the drivability by controlling the vibration of a driving system. SOLUTION: This control d...

A device for centrifuging various samples of a product or a mixture of products which are chemical or biological, the device including a vessel which is open at the top and contains a vertical central shaft driven in rotation by a rotary driving means, a horizontal plate mounted interlocked in rotation on the central shaft and provided on its surface with a plurality of through orifices for the mo...

Method includes : (a) opening rectifier (2) by lowering lower table (21) suing vertical jack (47), and placing frame (41) from its retracted to its resting position, where mobile body (42) is placed along axis of rectifier; (b) placing mobile body and gripping means (44) between lower and upper (22) tables using translation jack (43) so that gripping means are placed near bobbin (13). Afterwards, ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid a software error and to make operable plural processor or program modules inside a microprocessor by dividing a memory into respective memory areas through a monitoring unit while using an allocation table, and making these memory areas fixedly belong to respective program modules. SOLUTION: Corresponding to the allocation table stored in a memory monitoring part, a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To protect a disk by detecting plural operating states of a magnetic head with a single impact sensor, which can occur in the case the head load/ unload system is adopted as the magnetic head driving system of a magnetic disk device. SOLUTION: The magnetic disk device is provided with the impact sensor 21 for outputting a detection signal by detecting the impact exerted on th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate local bias of transmissivity and to suppress reflection of finish dimension errors to transmissivity errors. SOLUTION: A density filter has a transmissive part transmitting light and a light shielding part shielding light. A transmitting light quantity is 100% in an area except for a peripheral part and is gradually lowered at the peripheral part from 100% to 10%...

Method of control for an autonomous robot, with non contact obstacle proximity sensors, mounted in a housing on wheels, at least one of which is driven by an electric motor. Supply to the robot is by an tensioned electric cable connected to an electrical supply socket outlet. The method has the following stages: - the supply cable is run out over the path followed by the robot as it advances; - th...

The case has upper and lower portions (3,2) which are hinged and provided with a carrying strap (18). At each corner of the case there are shock absorbing regions (MA) which use opposed conical projections to provide increasing damping with increasing shock. A central region (5) in the lower portion (2) allows damped torsional oscillation about an axis perpendicular to the computer and an elastic ...

A mechanical component, to be heated by thee internal circulation of a fluid, in which a powder is brought, arranged in a container, to a high temperature and high pressure, is fabricated by hot isostatic compression. The process includes a previous stage of introducing at least one hollow insert into the powder so it emerges from one part or other of the container. A stage for the elimination of...

Vulcanizing apparatus has a press including a mould for receiving a tyre fitted with a new tread. The mould has devices preventing air getting in between the walls of the tyre and the surface of the mould cavity. An Independent claim is included for the following: (a) Retreading a used tyre using the above vulcanizing apparatus. Preferred Features: The mould may be assembled from sectors and uppe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable an error surely to be detected by evading conventional disadvantage without requiring additional expense to be required in the known method. SOLUTION: In this error detecting method, one measurement variable is expressed by two redundant signal values. The time change of two signal values is decided for error detection and when the signal change has no mutual correl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To give a feeling of affinity for an ATM to a young customer by issuing token obtained by crediting a specific value increasing in accordance with transaction between a member and a participant and by exchanging it for money, etc., by a public terminal. SOLUTION: When Rachel, a customer, 10 opens a royalty account at a bank 14 and receives a membership card 16, Rachel 10 visi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a superconducting conductor that is electrically stable and has high mechanical strength, by arranging, in a metal pipe, a superconducting wire rod material in which a super-conductive filament is embedded in a matrix made of copper or copper alloy and a strand of an aluminum wire rod. SOLUTION: This conductor comprises a metal pipe 7 with circular cross section an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To establish a good connection between a semiconductor pellet and a lead even in the case of a lead frame having a structure in which an island is secured to a frame by hanger pins and cannot be pressed from above when performing wire bonding. SOLUTION: In the main portion of a guide rail 8 supporting a lead frame 1 with a level difference between its island and a lead 5, the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To offer a semiconductor device for which a measure is taken to reduce damage to the underlying semiconductor elements by absorbing impact given to the bonding pad. SOLUTION: This semiconductor device has an aluminum film 9 having a semicircular cross section, and an arch-shaped plasma CVD oxide film 10 covering the aluminum film 9 between semiconductor elements (2 and 3) for...

An apparatus for sharpening objects (2) comprises abrading means (6) arranged for abrading an end portion of said objects (2) and for creating tip means (2a) in said objects (2) and support means (7) connected to rotation driving means (8) and arranged for supporting said abrading means (6), said abrading means (6) being fixed to said support means (7) by magnetic coupling means (15); the projecti...

The invention provides methods of preparing water-insoluble polysaccharide sponges, and sponges obtained by means of the methods. The methods comprise: (a) providing an aqueous solution of a soluble polysaccharide; (b) freezing the solution; (c) treating the frozen solution with a water-miscible organic solvent such as isopropanol to effect solvent exchange for the water in the frozen solution; an...