PURPOSE:To provide a method of manufacture of a storage battery in which a group of plates can be smoothly enclosed in a cell chamber. CONSTITUTION:Before a group of plates 5 is pressed into the cell chamber 7 of a battery jar 6, the outside surfaces of retainers 1a and 1b located at both ends of the group of plates 5 and the stacking surface of the group of plates which is located on the bottom w...

PURPOSE:To enhance the thermal stability of a sealed lead-acid battery by preventing the negative electrode absorption reaction of oxygen gas from occurring intensively on the outside surface of each negative electrode plate located at the outermost side of a group of plates. CONSTITUTION:Three positive electrode plates and four negative electrode plates are assembled into a group. On both of the ...

In a process of separating a liquid sample having phase portions of different densities by centrifugal separation, a phase separator container is employed. The phase separator container comprises a housing having concentric inner and outer cylindrical walls defining a longitudinal axis and a top wall and further a piston body constituting a bottom wall of the housing. The piston body defines toget...

An iodinated neuroprobe is provided for mapping monoamine reuptake sites. The iodinated neuroprobe is of the formula: wherein R=a CnH2n+1 group where n=0-6, an alkenyl group, a monofluoroalkyl group including nF where n=18 or 19, or a mCnH2n+1 group where n=1-6 and where m=11 or 14 for at least one mC; R'=a CnH2n+1 group where n=0-6, a p-iodophenylmethyl group, a p-iodophenylethyl gro...

A continuously variable transmission control system having adjustable driving and driven sheave assemblies (124,126) connected drivably by a torque transfer belt or chain (144), each sheave assembly having a fluid pressure operated servo with a pressure chamber, distribution of control pressure to one servo (150,158,162) effecting a transmission ratio adjustment, control of pressure distribution t...

Multi-phase RF ablation employing a two-dimensional or three-dimensional electrode array produces a multitude of currents paths on the surface of the ablation zone. This results in a uniform lesion with a size defined by the span of the electrode array. An orthogonal electrode catheter array suitable for cardiac ablation is used in conjunction with a two-phase RF power source to produce uniform sq...

Polyurethane/polyisocyanurate foams with low K-factors and enhanced flammability properties as measured by the Butler Chimney test are produced through the use of a blowing agent composition comprising aliphatic hydrocarbon and a fully halogenated brominated halocarbon is a mole ratio of from 10:1 to 1:2.

PURPOSE:To provide a dispenser, with which an applied material a from a nozzle is promptly fixed to a material to be applied without using a thermostat, and to facilitate the formation process of the inner surface of the panel of a cathode-ray tube. CONSTITUTION:A dispenser 10 is provided with a nozzle 14 for discharging an applied material, a hardening promotion means 15 for promoting the hardeni...

PURPOSE:To revise the copying operation automatically for a predetermined period by adding information related to a date and time in an original picture and to inhibit copying of a confidential original for a specific period. CONSTITUTION:An operation section 4 starts a picture read section 3 commanding a hard copy and reads an original picture on an original plate. Then a picture discrimination s...

PCT No. PCT/DE94/00710 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 17, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 17, 1996 PCT Filed Jun. 18, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/01270 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 12, 1995A windshield wiper arrangement which includes a windshield having a wiping area and a sensor-active surface on its wiping area. A wiper sweeps over the wiping area during a wiper operation. A wiper control system includes: a drive motor for dr...

PCT No. PCT/DE94/00714 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 15, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 15, 1996 PCT Filed Jun. 18, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/01561 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 12, 1995An arrangement for indicating a change in a reflective element of a radiation-permeable medium having a detection side disposed opposite the reflective element. The arrangement includes two measured sections each having a radiation source for ...

A pacemaker having a fault-tolerant elective replacement indicator (ERI) triggering scheme in which transient excursions of parameters used as criteria for triggering ERI are rejected as triggering events. Periodic assessments of certain indicia of battery depletion are made, and subjected to a long-term low-pass filtering operation in order to reduce the effects of transient excursions of the ind...

An automated highway system reduces the data processing requirements on the vehicles and distributes the processing requirements throughout the automated highway system infra-structure. In this system, a vehicle is detected by use of a vehicle on-board transponder. This transponder responds to an omni-directional radio frequency transmission from a highway control facility used by the automated hi...

The present invention is a class of organosilicone terpolymers which may be used to abate the foaming of diesel fuel at silicon levels below 1.2 ppm. Said silicone terpolymers are modified alkyl phenol derivatives and polyethers grafted on a polysiloxane copolymer. Said polysiloxane terpolymer has a structure of MDxD*yD**zM, where M is O.5Si(CH3)3, D is a OSi(CH3)2, D* is OSi(CH3)R, R is a polyeth...

A process is provided for reclaiming rejected polycarbonate articles, such as an automotive headlamp-lens having a thermoplastic acrylic primer and a defective silicone hardcoat. The silicone hardcoat can be selectively removed with an aqueous alkaline bath treatment. The treated polycarbonate article can be recovered with the thermoplastic acrylic primer remaining substantially intact; the articl...

There is a need for degradable films, particularily in agricultural mulch applications. The present invention provides for films having a controlled life from 30 to 160 days. The film comprises photodegradable sheet material having a thickness from 0.1 to 10, preferably, from 0.2 to 5, most preferably from 0.3 to 1.0, mils and comprising a polyolefin sheet and from 50 to 1,000 parts per million of...

The present invention relates to a process for preparing elastomeric thermoplastic blends which comprises the following steps: a) mastication of a blend which comprises a polyolefin elastomer, polyolefin thermoplastic resin and a vulcanizing agent; b) mastication of a blend which comprises the product obtained in step (a), a polyolefin thermoplastic resin and vulcanizing agent.

PURPOSE: To facilitate the management of organization. CONSTITUTION: A data base system establishes a management environment in the organization for providing the flow of information between the networks of a discrete response center. Concerning this system, the matrix of activity patterns cooperated with the various functions of the organization is prepared. An activity managing software expresse...

PURPOSE:To provide a stabilizing material for superconductor capable of approximating the synthetic specific ratio to that of aluminium material alone under extremely low temperature and high magnetic field with copper clad-aluminum constitution. CONSTITUTION:A stabilizing material for superconductor has a composite material constitution in which an aluminium material 22 is covered with a copper m...

PURPOSE:To provide an insulation material which compensates characteristic even at a film thickness of several 10nm and a thin film manufacturing method thereof, and a structure of a stable superconductive thin film and its manufacturing method. CONSTITUTION:Bi4Srn-1 Ti2+nO3n+9 crystal (n is an integer of 1 or more) of a lamination structure whose basic structure of crystal is composed of a (Bi2O2...