A cutting device (10) for a yarn (36) running onto a cross-wound package (12) in a traversing triangle, with a knife (5) located below the traversing triangle and with a yarn-lifting device (42) which is movable between positions located below and above the traversing triangle, either remains in its upper position as long as the yarn (36) is being wound as a final winding (58) in parallel turns ar...

A field emission source is used in conjunction with a three element asymmetric lens system to provide an electron gun having greater magnitude beam currents focused on a smaller spot size than has been previously possible for intermediate energy beams. The three element asymmetric lens system has a lower spherical aberration than prior art electrostatic guns and a very low chromatic aberration coe...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make flatness and coloring uniformity excellent by forming a diffusion prevention film principally of high-fusion-point metal, metal oxide, or metal nitride on a glass substrate, and composing a colored layer of low- fusion-point glass containing organic pigment. SOLUTION: The color filter 1 is equipped with the colored layer 4 across the diffusion prevention layer 3 forme...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To uniformize application to a needle-like cathode by applying specific metallic oxide powder and an applying solvent to the needle-like cathode joined to a heating filament. SOLUTION: A heating filament 2 composed of a W-made wire rod molded in a hair pin shape is welded to a stainless steel terminal 4 embedded and installed in a ceramic insulating insulator 5, and a W singl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the discharging voltage characteristic at the time of efficient discharging, and to prevent the absorption of adhesive agent to a separator and electrodes at the time of filling the adhesive agent so as to stabilize the battery capacity by obliquely extending a lug part from a part close to a central part of an upper part of an electrode toward a partitioning wall ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrode, which can manufacture a lead-acid battery having excellent energy density, without hindering the lifetime characteristic by laminating an acid resistant and oxidization resistant sheet having multiple through holes and a lead or lead alloy sheet, and filling the active material in these through holes so as to form an electrode, and having continued bu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prolong the cycle lifetime performance by adding a specified quantity of a germanium compound to the positive electrode active material. SOLUTION: Germanium compound at 0.01-2.0% in relation to the weight of the positive electrode active material is added to the positive electrode active material so as to improve the lifetime performance of a battery. 1/3 CA discharging ca...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prolong the cycle lifetime performance by adding a specified quantity of a strontium compound to the positive electrode active material. SOLUTION: Strontium at 0.001-2.0% in relation to the weight of the positive electrode active material is added to the positive electrode active material. 1/3 CA discharging capacity is nearly equal to the case of additive-free till the ad...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the discharging effect of a concentration cell on the edges of plates so as to enhance life performance during undercharging by specifying, relative to the total amount of electrolyte, the amount of electrolyte in the portion of a separator whose surface does not make contact with the plates. SOLUTION: A group of plates comprises a flat-paste positive plate 1, a neg...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain productivity similar to that of the water-cooled type by controlling the temperature of a space using an air-conditioning cooling device during formation in which each battery enclosure on a frame is connected to a battery-jar-forming power source device. SOLUTION: High frames 1 are arranged in parallel at a fixed interval to each other, and a lift conveyor 2 is p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of a lead storage battery capable of being easily storing a polar plate group a battery jar without damaging. SOLUTION: A polar plate group 6 and a rectangular battery jar 1 are prepared for, a height of the battery jar 1 is higher than a height of a side wall 4 and a bulkhead 2 opposite to an action face of the polar plate group 6 to be stor...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an sealed lead storage battery of such type having a polar plate group being horizontally disposed in a battery jar and capable of improving discharging characteristics and service life characteristics. SOLUTION: A polar plate group 6 composed of a positive electrode plate 3, a negative electrode plate 4, and a separator 5 is horizontally disposed in a battery jar ...

An energy converter for generating high-power pulses includes a housing defining a chamber having an open side; an electrode assembly supported in the chamber; a power supply for applying a voltage to the electrode assembly; a fluid medium accommodated in the housing and being in contact with the electrode assembly for receiving pulses from the electrode assembly; and a diaphragm attached to the h...

A method and apparatus for path planning are presented. Path planning involves propagating cost waves in a configuration space representation of a task space. A space variant metric and budding are used for cost wave propagation. The disclosed method and apparatus are readily adaptable to robots with n degrees of freedom.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect a surface defect of even a cast product of a complicated shape, by emitting to a surface to be inspected lights with different angles from a plurality of directions to the circumferential direction of a photodetecting axis of an image pick-up camera. SOLUTION: A cast product 1 is illuminated by illuminating devices 3a, 3b and an inspection face of the product 1 is p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an examination kit for qualitatively and quantitatively determining the existence of one kind or plural kinds of analytes in a fluid- sample. SOLUTION: The kit is provided with an analysis device for qualitatively and quahtitatively determining the existence of one kind or plural kinds of analytes in a fluid-sample, along with a reader to be engaged with the analys...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a film having excellent durability in which the retardation in the film plane directions is smaller than the retardation in the thickness direction of the film and optical characteristics are made uniform in a wide area by using an org. clay composite material which can be dispersed in an org. solvent. SOLUTION: A layer containing at least one kind of org. clay comp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize optical characteristics by improving the refractive index anisotropy of the quarter-wavelength plate layer built in a reflection type guest- host liquid crystal display device. SOLUTION: This reflection type guest-host liquid crystal display device is assembled by using a substrate 1 arranged on an incident side and a substrate 2 joined to this substrate 1 via a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a liquid crystal display panel which is visible without a back light even in a dark place by successively sticking a light transmission plate and a reflection plate to one surface side of this panel and including a light emitter in the peripheral part of this light transmission plate. SOLUTION: Two sheets of transparent electrode substrates 2 are prepd. as the light...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a color liquid crystal display device which is constituted to decrease crosstalks or to prevent the occurrence of the crosstalks by further lowering the resistance of transparent electrodes. SOLUTION: The one member constituted by successively forming the transparent electrodes 16 and an oriented film 17 on a glass substrate 14 and the other member constituted by s...