PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To lengthen the life by placing a fiber mat and a synthetic resin separator between a positive plate formed by filling a pasty positive active material in a grid substrate made of the specified alloy and a negative plate so that the fiber mat is faced to the positive plate. SOLUTION: A glass fiber mat 3 is closely placed on both sides of a positive plate 1, a polyethylene sep...

A method of preparing porous fiber reinforced polymer composite sheets has been developed to allow a more efficient preheating of the sheet prior to molding and includes the steps of blending reinforcing fibers with resin matrix forming fibers to form a web. This web is then heated to a temperature wherein the resin matrix forming fibers melt and envelope the reinforcing fibers, taking them togeth...

An object of the present invention is to provide a tread centering device which automatically detects the position of tread center and holds it in a straight form even when the center of tread is not positioned in a straight form. The device mainly comprises a plurality of detectors (28) for detecting a groove (27) for centering the tread (25), a holding plate (11) which is inserted into the detec...

PURPOSE:To provide a combined power generating system which can easily control the flow rate, pressure and the temperature of steam at the inlet of a steam turbine without deteriorating the feature of a system which use a part of steam used in the steam turbine system so as to cool blades of a gas turbine. CONSTITUTION:Steam led from a high drum 143 incorporated in a gas turbine blade cooling syst...

A power plant in which hydrogen and oxygen are combusted to produce a flow of high pressure, high temperature steam. The steam is expanded in a high pressure turbine employing closed steam loop cooling for the stationary vanes and rotating blades. A heat recovery steam generator produces the cooling steam by transferring heat from the expanded steam exhausting from the high pressure turbine to fee...

PURPOSE:To provide a combined cycle power generation plant for achieving higher plant heat efficiency even. when the temperature of a gas turbine entrance is high by cooling the turbine by steam. CONSTITUTION:A gas turbine plant 11 and a steam turbine plant 12 are combined together, and an exhaust heat recovery boiler 14 for utilizing exhaust heat from the gas turbine to generate steam for driving...

PURPOSE:To enhance operability so as to shorten a starting time by providing a valve controller for controlling a main steam bypass valve disposed in a main steam bypass system where steam is relieved from a superheater of an exhaust heat recovery boiler to a condenser. CONSTITUTION:A steam turbine plant 1 provided with a boiler 3, a steam turbine 4, a condenser 11 and a water condensing and feedi...

PURPOSE:To increase a reheating steam temperature generated in a waste heat boiler by effectively utilizing waste heat to be fed from a gas turbine unit to a waste heat recovery boiler. CONSTITUTION:A reheating unit and a superheating unit incorporated in a waste heat boiler 19a are divided into a reheating high voltage portion 23a, a superheating high voltage portion 24a, a reheating medium volta...

Coins (4), round tallies etc are changed in shape or size when fed into the gap (18) between two profiled rollers (1,1a), the profiling such as to destroy totally or in part the original face and/or impression on the flat faces. Localized deformation of the coins fed into the gap (18) increases their dimension normal to the flat face in respect of the original coin. The roller profile can also mod...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display device with excellent display quality in a wide temp. range by correcting increase in interasurface dispersion of a pixel electrode voltage accompanying temp. rise. SOLUTION: A controller 4 receives various signals, and controls a data signal outputted by a data driver 3 and a scan signal outputted by a scan driver 2 to drive a thin film tr...

Disclosed is an electroluminescent element comprising an anode, a cathode and, disposed therebetween, an organic luminescent layer comprising a mixture of a fluorescent luminescent agent, at least one hole moving and donating agent capable of moving holes and donating the same to the luminescent agent and at least one electron moving and donating agent capable of moving electrons and donating the ...

A metal-ceramic laminar-band multi matrix composite, intended for use in oxidizing, reductive or inert media at temperatures up to 1500 DIVIDED 2800 DEG C and a method of the manufacture is provided. The composite material contains up to 85 vol. % of an oxide component, for example, yttria, zirconia, hafnia, up to 85 vol. % of a compound devoid of oxygen, such as zirconium carbide, and 15 DIVI...

A folding chair having a frame comprised of a pair of front crossed legs, a pair of back crossed legs, and two pairs of side crossed legs, each pair of crossed legs pivotally connected together where they cross. The front legs and the front, side legs are pivotally connected to first and second lower, front pads. The back legs and the back, side legs are pivotally connected to first and second low...

Disclosed are olefin polymers in nonextruded, aspolymerized particle form having a regular, essentially symmetrical geometrical shape, which are stabilized by depositing on their surface a mixture which is either melted, or in which at least stabilizer (A) is in the liquid state, and which comprises the following stabilizers (percent by weight on the polymer): A) from 0.02% to 0.015% of one or m...

Nonextruded concentrates in particle form, each particle comprising: A) a matrix consisting of a nonextruded particle of an olefin polymer or copolymer, having a porosity, expressed in percentage of voids on the volume of the particle, higher than or equal to 15%; B) one or more additives, pigments or fillers, or combinations thereof, deposited on the surface of the matrix (A) and/or inside it...

PURPOSE:To shorten the length of a composite brake system in the axial direction and make it compact by providing a first friction plate, which is pressed by and engaged with a first piston sliding between the outside circumference of a cylinder and a case, and a second friction plate which is pressed by and engaged with a second piston sliding between the inside circumference of a cylinder and th...

A crosslinkable organosilicon prepolymer and a crosslinked organosilicon polymer comprising alternating hydrocarbon and cyclic polysiloxane radicals, which is the hydrosilation reaction product of: (a) at least one polyene having at least two non-aromatic, non-conjugated carbon-carbon double bonds highly reactive in hydrosilation, the carbon-carbon double bonds being either in an alpha, beta or ...

PURPOSE:To form a superconductive layer in the state where a base material is curved, and work a compression stress onto the base material after passing it through a sup port device to make the superconductive layer fine by forming the contact surface of a base material support device making contact with the base material into a convex surface, and providing a feed-out part and winding part in suc...

An integral polyether-sulfone membrane with a pore system open at the outer boundaries is in the form of flat films, tubular films or hollow fibers having a maximum pore diameter of 0.02 mu m to 2 mu m. The pore system is cellular throughout with cells having polyhedrally symmetrical boundaries. The cells are arranged asymmetrically from one surface of the membrane to the other, the asymmetry fa...

PCT No. PCT/EP91/01232 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 7, 1993 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 7, 1993 PCT Filed Jul. 2, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO92/01008 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 23, 1992.The present invention relates to a process for the production of water-swellable products, using very fine particles of water-swellable polymers, characterized by the following steps: a) the very fine particles of water-swellable polymer are dis...