PURPOSE: To provide a lead-acid battery with excellent high-rate discharge performance and less deterioration in performance even at extremely low temperature by using a paste paper sheet whose wet strength is a specified value in the manufacture of the lead-acid battery comprising electrode plates using an expanded grid. CONSTITUTION: In the manufacture of a lead-acid battery using an expanded gr...

PURPOSE: To provide a lead acid storage battery whose capacity is heightened without lowering the charge performance and life of the battery by adding a specified amount of a macromolecular type nonionic surface active agent to an electrolyte consisting mainly of dilute sulfuric acid. CONSTITUTION: A macromolecular type nonionic surface active agent of 0.001-0.1wt.% is added to an electrolyte cons...

PURPOSE: To obtain a hybrid electric automobile in which a battery is protected against undue power supply at the time of brake operation where power is generated from a generator while being regenerated. CONSTITUTION: If a detector 28 detects OFF operation of accelerator when a brake operation detector 26 is not detecting the operation, an engine control section 30 increases the field current of ...

A method of asymmetrically severing a plate (3) of brittle material, in which by means of a heat source (5) a thermal load is provided along a heating track asymmetrically with respect to the desired cutting line (7) and the plate (3) is severed along the desired cutting line (7).

L'invention se rapporte à un procédé ainsi qu'à un dispositif destiné à identifier l'instant d'impact de retombée de l'armature mobile d'une soupape électromagnétique, notamment un injecteur de carburant, lors de la désexcitation. En vue d'obtenir un signal d'impact de retombée de l'armature mobile, de forte vraisemblance, il est prévu, durant le mouvement de retombée de l'armature mobile, d'ét...

PURPOSE: To obtain a visual display device whose entire size is compact, in which light quantity lowering inside an eyepiece optical system is small, which has a wide angle of view, and which has sufficiently corrected off-axis aberration. CONSTITUTION: This visual display device is constituted of a two-dimensional picture display element 1 displaying an observed picture, and an eyepiece optical s...

PURPOSE: To provide a video KARAOKE system constituted in such a manner that interrupted advertisement videos are continuously displayed from the first to the last at the time of the next and subsequent reproduction and that a publicity effect as advertisement is sufficiently exhibited. CONSTITUTION: An advertisement video is displayed on a monitor television 56 when playing of KARAOKE music and r...

PURPOSE: To provide a recording/reproducing device for enabling reproduction only when specified conditions are satisfied in a case where video software is distributed via digital broadcasting or communication lines. CONSTITUTION: A transmitted signal is ciphered by a ciphering circuit 22 and recorded. Reproducing conditions are transmitted and stored in a memory 29. When reproduction is to be per...

PURPOSE: To facilitate the package capable of making any other electronic part reflow simultaneously by a method wherein surface side terminals electrically connecting to respective connecting terminals are arranged while a.resin layer is provided with aperture parts exposing the surface side terminals for cutting down part numbers. CONSTITUTION: A semiconductor chip 1 is arranged on the upper sur...

PURPOSE: To provide an input signal switching device with circuits and power consumption in the case of selecting a specified channel from the input signals of multiple channels in a CATV or the like. CONSTITUTION: Electronic two-input-one-output circuits 100, 101, 102 and 103 by an amplifier circuit and a diode are used and the applying voltage of the power supply terminals 58, 59, 62, 63, 72, 72...

PURPOSE: To effectively utilize even a channel to which scrambling is performed by forcedly displaying a specified picture or sound in a receiver when the scrambling is not appropriately cancelled. CONSTITUTION: Transmission signals are provided with video signals to which scrambling is performed and digital character signals and a password overlapping with the video signals. The receiver is provi...

PURPOSE: To provide a data receiver suitable for charging for deciphering and storage of signals capable of receiving and deciphering or storing enciphered signals while protecting a copyright. CONSTITUTION: An arithmetic operation is performed to the initial value of a cipher separated in a reception separation circuit 111 in an arithmetic circuit 112 and a key signal is calculated. The calculate...

PURPOSE: To eliminate time lags between conversations as much as possible by performing delay so as to match the output timings of respective pieces of medium information when the deviation of reception time between the respective pieces of the medium information is at a level for making a user feel uneasy but outputting the respective pieces of the medium information as they are when the deviatio...

PURPOSE: To provide an information delivery device capable of quickly delivering information contents that a user requests and to provide an information delivery system capable of dispersedly storing delivery information. CONSTITUTION: When a control means 11 receives the request of the delivery of information, the means 11 delivers the initial service part from a primary memory 13 of small capaci...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plurality of methods for realizing a multimedia conference. SOLUTION: At the time of calling a multimedia conference, the communication link establishing device 134 of a first end-point device establishes a point-to- point communication link to a second end-point device through a network. Then users respectively input requests to user interface devices 105, 107, ...

PURPOSE: To connect again a disconnected video conference terminal as required by deciding the necessity of re-connection based on a cause of the disconnection when the line of a video conference is disconnected and making call back automatically to the line requiring the re-connection. CONSTITUTION: When withdrawal of a member terminal in a conference is normal disconnection, a line disconnection...

PURPOSE: To reduce the scale of registered person data and to enable efficient telephone/conference by registering received image data after reducing the amount of data when the registered person data are not registered. CONSTITUTION: When the received data from the opposite side are incoming to a line interface 5, under the control of a system control part 100, a call number detecting part 3 extr...

PURPOSE: To save a user the troubles of opening/closing a lens cap. CONSTITUTION: An MPU 18 instructs an open/close cap control circuit 16 to open the lens cap of a video camera 10 in accordance with the user's demand control signal on a control signal line 20. The MPU 18 instructs the open/close cap control circuit 16 to close the lens cap in accordance with the use end control signal on the cont...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately expand an adjusted monotone compressed file having a first section containing compressed code words and a second section containing a plain text into an expanded file having a certain size and containing the plain text. SOLUTION: A memory buffer 100 having the size of an expanded file is assigned and an adjusted monotone compressed file 120' is stored in the ...

PURPOSE: To effectively utilize the monitor screen of a video telephone system. CONSTITUTION: The image of a human body is picked up by a video camera 1, the image of a document is picked up by the video camera 2, and outputs from the respective video cameras are composited in a composite processing part 4. The output from the composite part passes through a digital telephone line and is transmitt...