Porous electrodes for lead acid storage batteries without supporting plates or grids. The electrodes are porous, self-supporting, structurally integral and electrically continuous. Lead-acid batteries incorporating such electrodes exhibit improved performance characteristics as compared to conventional lead-acid batteries. The electrodes are made by forming a molten mixture of metal (e.g. lead) an...

PURPOSE:To make a construction which makes changeover from 4-wheel drive to 2-wheel drive or vice versa unnecessary, by providing a rear side drive shaft with two differential gears and providing each of said differential gears with a regulating means which regulates the rotating speed of a shaft extended to a left or a right wheel. CONSTITUTION:A front side drive shaft 14 is provided with 1st dif...

PURPOSE:To improve starting performance by obtaining clutch torque based on a clutch control element at a stall condition during clutch engagement, and by obtaining engine torque based on engine load and revolving speed whereby making stall revolving speed changeable based on both torque. CONSTITUTION:During an engine operation, change in revolving speed DELTANe is obtained by an engine revolving ...

PURPOSE:To attempt a reduction in additional torque to a starter when a vehicle is moved with the starter actuated by providing a switching means which has the starter connected with a power supply line even when the shift position of a transmission is in a parking one of in any one except a neutral position. CONSTITUTION:When the shift lever of an automatic transmission is operated from a P posit...

PURPOSE:To protect a wind fan from a strong wind, turbulent flow and the like, by providing fixed guide walls between an annular floor and roof and arranging a fan driven generating mechanism part in a space formed in the inside of said walls. CONSTITUTION:Between an annular floor 2 and roof 3 a number of fixed guide walls 4 are radially provided and in a cylindrical space 5 formed in the inside o...

PURPOSE:To prevent a transmission case from becoming longer as well as to aim at the promotion of its miniaturization and lightweightiness, by installing an oil passage to be interconnected to both of the oil passage of a drive pinion shaft and a lubrication flange being attached to the transmission case. CONSTITUTION:In a lubricating part of a hydraulic clutch for a running transmission mechanism...

A system for feeding production and/or packing material onto manufacturing lines, which system has compartment for storing the material; guide tapes for mobile trucks traveling between a storage area and manufacturing lines. The guide tapes define routes selectively traveled along, in use, by the mobile trucks for transporting and feeding the material to the manufacturing lines. A computer control...

Automatic winding of yarn on a take-up package of a textile winding machine is controlled with devices including a yarn severing device actuated when the winding is interrupted, a device for sensing the quality of winding of the package, and a processing device that is responsive to a batch change signal which corresponds to an indication of dissimilarity of characteristics between the take-up yar...

An inner anti-lacerative laminate for a motor vehicle windscreen or window comprises a polymeric film support layer e.g. polyethylene tenephthalate having an enhanced adherable surface on one side and an improved scratch-resistant (abrasion-resistant) coating of a radiation cured copolymer of a tri-or tetra-acrylate monomer and acrylic acid on its opposite side. The adherable surface of the polyme...

A controlled system for the clutch in a torque converter of an automatic transmission wherein the clutch is normally engaged in a predetermined range of vehicle and engine operating conditions for efficient operation. An atmospheric pressure sensor is used in the control system to disengage the clutch in that predetermined range at higher altitudes to allow the torque converter to function to incr...

1. Device for aligning the centre position (58) of a metal strip (2, 3), which is running off a coil, with the centre position (59) of a machining station (55), comprising an adjusting device (8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14) for transversely adjusting the metal strip (2, 3), a strip edge sensing device for detecting the two strip edges (7), the sensing means of which (17, 19 and 18, 21) are attached transve...

1. Adjustable weir plate (17) for fully encased screw centrifuges, the outer cover (16) of which, located at the liquid outlet end, has a series of discharge openings (15) which are arranged at equal radial spacings from the rotation axis (20) of the casing (11) and are uniformly distributed over the circumference, each of which is covered, in a radially outer region, by a weir plate (17), which a...

A solid bowl centrifuge for dewatering sludge exhibiting a conical solid bowl and an inner rotor part which revolving at different speeds and has apparatus for axially transporting solid components for improved separating and reduced energy consumption. The sludge is introduced at a tapered end and solid components are discharge at an expanded end. Introduction of sludge is effected through a radi...

Coatings, which act as barrier layers to inhibit migration of alkali metal ions from a glass surface and/or act as colour suppressing underlayers for overlying infra-red reflecting or electrically conducting layers, are deposited by pyrolysis of a gaseous mixture of a silane, an unsaturated hydrocarbon and carbon dioxide on a hot glass surface at a temperature of 600 DEG C to 750 DEG C.

A machine for shredding material comprises a base, a shredder body selectively rotatably mounted on said base, and hinges associated with the shredder body and adjustable between a first position and a second position for selectively securing the shredder body to the base wherein the shredder body is fixed to the base when the hinges are in the first position and the shredder body is free to rotat...