The present invention relates to batteries and battery systems. In particular, a battery is described which comprises a container which houses a plurality of cells. Each of the cells share a common negative terminal (4). Two or more positive terminal cells are provided. The specification also describes the use of such batteries to power cranking and auxiliary circuits according to a cell discharge...

The present invention relates to batteries and battery systems. In particular, a battery is described which comprises a container which houses a plurality of cells. Each of the cells share a common negative terminal (4). Two or more positive terminal cells are provided. The specification also describes the use of such batteries to power cranking and auxiliary circuits according to a cell discharge...

PURPOSE:To contrive effective utilization of thermal energy for enhancing thermal efficiency by providing a thermoelectric power generating device in addition in a gas turbine power generating device and a steam turbine power generating device. CONSTITUTION:A combined cycle power generating equipment comprises a gas turbine power generating device A in which a gas turbine 4 and a generator 5 are t...

PURPOSE:To reduce the generation of a gear shifting shock by a method wherein the decision number of revolutions during completion of control of variation of an engine output for relaxation of a gear shifting shock is set in a way that from a change in the number of revolutions during preceding gear shifting, the number of gear shifting completion revolutions responding to an actual gear shifting ...

Method for correcting in a scanner defects caused by movements of the scanner, which consists in disposing a test bar (P) which introduces a large attenuation and making the scanner perform a complete turn about a centre of rotation O and obtaining m distinct image captures of the test bar (P) each corresponding to an angular position alpha j. Analysis of the signals from each image capture enabl...

Un boîtier de fil dentaire a la forme d'une boîte avec un tiroir à l'intérieur. Le fond du tiroir comprend un moyeu qui est soumis à une force de rappel pour pousser une bobine montée à l'intérieur du tiroir vers le côté opposé de la boîte. La force de rappel est telle que la bobine pousse avec une force prédéterminée sur le côté opposé de la boîte afin de maintenir une certaine tension dans le...

The invention relates to a process for the production of substantially non-alcoholic beer by a continuous yeast treatment at a low temperature. In the process, wort which has been clarified and possibly treated by evaporating and/or with an absorbing agent is passed through a packed column reactor containing immobilized yeast at a temperature ranging between the freezing point of wort and +10 DEG ...

PURPOSE:To obtain ethylene cracking furnace tube having high strength at high temperature, excellent processability, welding property, etc., and resistance to coking by including individually specific amounts of Cr and Ni and specific finely pulverized layer. CONSTITUTION:Steel tube containing 15-30wt.% Cr and 15-50wt.% Ni is subjected to cold forming of >=20% degree of forming or cold forming fro...

The manufacture of a reinforcement for a tire comprises the following steps: (a) a continuous cord is hooked to retention means disposed in two circles which are a distance apart which corresponds to the length of the path of a cord from one side of the reinforcement to the other so that the cord, disposed in this way, defines a cylinder by a plurality of passes back and forth from one retention m...

In this method for controlling the displacement of the system of movable robots comprising several movable robots and the control station intended to control these movable robots, the control station gives one of several movable robots destination instructions, the robot, in response to this instruction, seeks out the route to the destination in accordance with the instructions from the control st...

Automatic investigation of a measurement object whose image is a camera has at least two longitudinal edges bounding a reference surface involves illuminating it from different directions. Its image is acquired by a camera unit whose output signal is fed to an electronic evaluation unit. The object is either illuminated with undifferentiated light, and images taken for different zones, or illumina...

The invention relates to a process for the production of substantially non-alcoholic beer by a continuous yeast treatment at a low temperature. In the process, wort which has been clarified and possibly treated by evaporating and/or with an absorbing agent is passed through a packed column reactor containing immobilized yeast at a temperature ranging between the freezing point of wort and +10 DEG ...

To seal a cable junction, an insert is placed between two branch cables (42a,42b;55,56;56,101a,101b) of the junction, which is then enclosed by a heat shrinkable envelope (45,58,103). The insert has at least one insert part having a block (32,43a,43b,50,70,80,100a,100b,100c) of heat fusible material attached by one or more flanges (31,41a,41b,51,82,102a,102b,102c) of heat conductive material to th...

Molded articles of thermoplastic elastomer obtained in accordance with the present invention comprise a molded product prepared from a thermoplastic elastomer containing a partially cross-linked product of ethylene/ alpha -olefin copolymer rubber and a polyolefin resin, a primer layer containing at least one compound selected from the group of saturated polyesters and chlorinated polyolefins and f...

A process for the manufacture of low density flexible polymethane foam via a catalyzed reaction of a highly reactive, high ethylene oxide, high functionality polyol, a hydrophili polyhydric compound, water and polyisocyanates.

A method for producing a filled water-crosslinkable silane copolymer composition comprising (A) a silane copolymer having a silane content of from 2 to 50 percent by weight, (B) a second polymer prepared from at least one olefin monomer selected from the group consisting of ethylene, propylene, butene, isobutylene, octene, 4-methyl-pentene-1 and hexene, (C) at least one filler in an amount of fr...

PURPOSE:To obtain an oxide superconductor which is extremely high-density and possesses crystalline orientation properties, by a method wherein an oxide becoming a superconductor is cast into a metallic vessel becoming a sheath material in a fused solution, solidified and made into a composite billet, which is surface-reduction-processed while performing intermediate heat treatment at least once a...

PURPOSE:To obtain an oxide superconductor having a desired critical temp. with high work efficiency by dissolving org. monocarboxylates or hydroxides of the constituent elements of the oxide superconductor with the exception of oxygen in org. monocarboxylic acid, applying the resulting soln. to a base material and carrying out sintering. CONSTITUTION:Org. monocarboxylates or hydroxides of the cons...

PURPOSE:To obtain a thin film of an oxide superconductor at a relatively low temp. without deteriorating the characteristics by simultaneously evaporating the constituent elements of the oxide superconductor with the exception of oxygen so as to attain a prescribed compsn. ratio and by depositing the resulting vapors on a substrate after passing through plasma of gaseous oxygen. CONSTITUTION:A sub...

PURPOSE:To form an oxide superconducting layer having superior characteristics on a base material made of a heat resistant polymer at a temp. at which the polymer undergoes no change by evaporating part of a target made of an oxide superconductor with laser light and depositing the evaporated particles on the base material after activation with plasma. CONSTITUTION:The periphery of a target T made...