FIELD: capping and pouring equipment preventing from dropping and used for dispensing of individual portions of bottle content. ^ SUBSTANCE: pouring dropping-preventive apparatus 1 has skirt 2 and device, mounted on skirt outer surface and adapted for hermetically fixing on neck, and upper widening part 21 positioned on upper end 22 of skirt. Nature and thickness of material forming at least protr...

FIELD: electrical engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed electrolyte that can be used for miscellaneous devices operating on cesium orthophosphate based solid electrolyte of cesium-cation conductivity has cesium orthophosphate and in addition, bivalent metal orthophosphate, as follows: Ba, Sr, Ca, Mg, Pl, Cd, Zn; it meets general formula Cs3- 2xMxPO4, where M is bivalent metal. ^ EFFECT: enlarged func...

FIELD: electrical engineering; fuel cell battery for various power installations such as vehicles or emergency power supplies. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed fuel cell battery has at least two series-connected fuel cells each incorporating anode with hydrogen-sorbing alloy, oxygen (air) cathode, and additional electrode connected in parallel with cathode and made in the form of nickel oxide electrode dispo...

FIELD: welding techniques and procedures. ^ SUBSTANCE: method can be used in gas-plasma processing of materials. Method is based upon getting gas mixture when applying working voltage and current to elementary sources of gas mixture which are made in form pack of metal plates to be disposed in air-tight case with electrolyte and space for automatic grouting. Gas flows are summed into total flow wh...

The present invention relates to a stabilized biocompatible membrane useful in fuel cells. A perforated substrate (42) having perforations (49) forms perforated anode (44) and perforated cathode (45). A biocompatible membrane (61) is formed across the apertures and is flush with anode (44) or can be attached to adjacent cathode (45). Biocompatible membrane (61) can include one or more polypeptides...

FIELD: nuclear engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed method for producing ceramic nuclear fuel pellets includes preparation of two-component mixture of uranium dioxide powder and erbium oxide powder with erbium mass percent ranging between 0.37 and 0.64 at conditional mass fraction of U-235 being 2.6 to 2.8 mass percent. This is followed by introduction of binder, preparation of molded pieces which a...

FIELD: nuclear power engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: pellets with adjustable microstructure are composed of uranium dioxide or uranium dioxide with 2.0-8.0% of gadolinium oxide additive including alumina. In addition to alumina, alloying additive also contains at least one oxide selected from TiO2, Nb2O5, SiO2, CaO, MgO, BeO, Na2O, and P2O5 in amount providing content of aluminum and oxide-forming eleme...

The arrangement consists of at least an electrically operated conditioning arrangement (24,28,32,36), a warm air supply system with heat source and a conducting arrangement (18) for conducting warmed air into the inside of a vehicle (20). A fuel cell system (38) provides electrical energy for the conditioning system and/or the conducting system. The warm air supply system includes the fuel cell sy...

FIELD: power engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: solar power plant comprises concentrator, receiver of solar radiation, and accumulator. The concentrator is made of a transparent sphere filled with a transparent liquid for concentrating the light beam at the receiver of solar beams. The heat accumulator is provided with a coil. ^ EFFECT: enhanced reliability, simplified structure, and reduced cost. ^ 1 dwg

FIELD: solar wind power engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: heater comprises electric generator with wind wheel, tail beam of rectangular cross-section, shaft, and tail assembly which is composed of two or more rhomboid panels provided with photoelectrical transducers from their sides. The ring water accumulator is mounted in the bottom section of the shaft and connected with the photoelectrical transducers...

FIELD: nuclear power engineering; fuel assemblies for pressurized-water reactors. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed fuel assembly has its guide channels passing for relative movement through spacer grids and secured on fuel bundle by means of interference fit between flexible subchannels and fuel elements, stops being installed on at least one of guide channels above spacer grids. Axial clearances provided be...

FIELD: electrical engineering; storage batteries for off-line power supply systems. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed method for servicing metal-hydrogen storage batteries in off-line power supply system includes conduction of charge-discharge cycles, bypass of battery cells having lower capacity by means of discharging bypass diodes, and voltage measurements across each cell. Battery charge is commenced with...

A post anchor for anchoring a member to a post is disclosed. The post anchor comprises two segments: a drill end and a second end. The drill end is adapted to drill a hole in a post. A member is anchored to the post by attaching the member to the second end of the post anchor. The drill end is adapted to drill a hole in a post so that the post anchor is arranged in the hole without any axial play....

FIELD: electrical engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed device tat can be used to raise efficiency of electrical energy consumption due to relieving power supply mains of reactive currents has three-phase diode bridge connected to supply mains through three reactors; connected at dc output of this diode bridge through isolating diodes are three storage capacitors. Device also has bridge inverter buil...

A method and apparatus that enables incremental control the flow of downlink data on an external interface-by-interface basis, reducing the risk of repeatedly exhausting internal memory resources. A mobile device ( 300 ), having a plurality of device interfaces ( 328-330 ) for transmitting data received from a network ( 306 ) through a network controller ( 302 ), includes an identity associating l...

A mixing device for mixing air and water in a water purifier includes a water inlet pipe (2) and an air inlet pipe (3). The air inlet pipe (3) extends coaxially within the water inlet pipe (2) and defines therewith an annular gap (4) for providing an annular water jet. Downstream of the annular gap (4) there is provided a mixing member (6) for mixing water and air. The mixing member (6) includes a...

The present invention relates to collagenous membranes produced from amnion, herein referred to as a collagen biofabric. The collagen biofabric of the invention has the structural integrity of the native non-treated amniotic membrane, i.e., the native tertiary and quaternary structure. The present invention provides a method for preparing a collagen biofabric from a placental membrane, preferably ...