The invention concerns a lead-acid battery having all the surfaces of all the electrodes under high pressure and their circumferences kept unchanged by support from mechanically rigid cell walls such that only the thickness of the electrodes is allowed to expand under strong resilient load during the discharge and return during charge. The pressure is 0,49 -10<5> - 9,81 -10<5> Pa (0.5-10 kp/cm<2>)...

PURPOSE: To prevent rapid acceleration/deceleration by calculating acceleration from output information of a car speed sensor, and outputting control information with the acceleration in a preset range, in the case of outputting the control information of adjusting a car speed so as to obtain an intervehicle distance in the prescribed value or more. CONSTITUTION: In a program control circuit 3, wh...

PURPOSE: To provide a control device for a vehicle which prevents generation of a shift shock in the case of operating a shift operating device from a non- running range to a running range. CONSTITUTION: In the case of deciding a shift lever 114 switched from an N or P (non-running) range to an R (reverse running) range by a shift decision means 134, a combustion cylinder of an engine 10, operated...

PURPOSE: To provide a method for nondestructive inspection of a packaging seal to check the seal of a container containing a liquid in a nondestructive manner. CONSTITUTION: To a sealed part 11 of a liquid food container 10 made by forming a packaging material web into a box and sealed at a specified part an ultrasonic signal US at a specified level is transmitted from a probe 13 and the ultrasoni...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus capable of reliably and easily taking out a printed sheet as a sample sheet. SOLUTION: At least a concentrated or bundled single blow air source (a blowoff pipe 10) is arranged in front of the front edge of a paper discharge pile 2, and is oriented toward a front edge range of the paper discharge pile 2 under a sheet raising device 9.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a prescribed wedge-shaped part between stacked paper and paper sheet to be further manufactured even at a high manufacturing speed by improving a device for changing the stacked paper of a paper sheet printing press by inserting a stacking rake into the upper side of the stacked paper to form an auxiliary stacked paper. SOLUTION: A singular or plural wedge-shaped me...

PURPOSE: To provide a battery charging device capable of intermittently charging a battery without feeding electric power from the outside. CONSTITUTION: The first fan 7 rotated by the wind pressure when a car is lifted is fitted to the shaft 7a of a generator 8. When the car is lifted, the first fan 7 is rotated by the wind pressure, and the generator 8 generates electric power. The generated ele...

PURPOSE: To impart widely usable property to change of size and measure of a weft length-measuring and storing drum and facilitate a threading operation in yarn breaking to the subject balloon breaker for the weft length-measuring and storing drum of a fluid-injecting loom. CONSTITUTION: At least two plate-like bodies 7 are fixed mutually apart to a supporting member 3 of a weft length-measuring a...

PURPOSE: To aim at a reduction in nitrogen dioxide (NOx) content by mixing a part of auxiliary air in gas turbine exhaust, making fuel into an incomplete combustion in case where this gas turbine exhaust is in short supply to an air quantity necessary for a boiler combustion, while feeding a slipstream in an incomplete combustion area with the nest of the auxiliary air, and having the combustion c...

PURPOSE: To simplify processing of each part and to reduce the number of parts by a method wherein an engaging groove is formed in the side, on the side adjoining a second gear, of a first gear and a claw part for detent engageable in a rotation direction with the engaging groove of the first gear is formed on the side, adjoining the first gear, of the second gear. CONSTITUTION: A plurality of rad...

PURPOSE: To reduce the amount of necessary recirculating water to save a power for a recirculating pump and improve a plant efficiency by a method wherein the recirculating water for increasing a condensed water temperature at the inlet port of a low-pressure stack gas cooler is heated by the drain of a waste heat recovering heat exchanger and a high-pressure feed water heater to increase the temp...

PURPOSE: To reduce NOx in the exhaust gas of a boiler by a method wherein an air box for a boiler is provided with a nozzle, charging only the exhaust gas of a gas turbine, and another nozzle, supplying air, while an area for effecting incomplete combustion of fuel by the exhaust gas of the gas turbine is formed so as to be neighbored to another area for effecting the complete combustion of the fu...

A novel method for making a steering wheel is provided. The steering wheel so produced is also provided. The steering wheel preferably comprises a hooped channel (felly) which is dimpled and pierced. A central hub assembly is also provided, the hub having also been pierced and the holes therein countersunk. The hub and channel are interconnected through the use of a plurality of spokes, preferably...

PCT No. PCT/EP93/03577 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 30, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 30, 1994 PCT Filed Dec. 16, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/14141 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 23, 1994A banknote selector comprises an aperture obstructed by a balance rotary shutter, the angular position of which is insensitive to the vibrations of the selector.

A blood collection tube holder includes a flexible waist band that is fastened around the waist of the person collecting blood samples; a storage pouch mounted on the band for storage of other articles used in the blood collection procedure; and a tube holder mounted in a secondary pouch attached to the storage pouch. The tube holder comprises tube receptacles that receive and releasably support a...

An artificial lens unit insertable into a capsular eye lens zone from which a natural lens has been removed, comprising the lens having a light refracting optical portion defining an axis, and consisting of plastic; the unit including haptics for positioning the lens in the capsular zone, the haptics extending at angles relative to a plane normal to the axis and passing through the lens; and the h...

Ultrafine amorphous metal particles which combine the properties of ultrafine particles with those of an amorphous alloy and a method for the production thereof are disclosed. The ultrafine amorphous metal particles are produced by a method which comprises discharging a plasma arc against a raw metal capable of forming a carbide in a reaction gas using an inert gas as a main component thereof and ...

A toner for developing an electrostatic image has a binder resin and a colorant. The binder resin contains a polyester resin at least part of which has a long-chain alkyl group having 22 to carbon atoms and has a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group at its terminal.

A method of making a signal charge transfer device, including the steps of: forming first conductivity-type channel regions (30) in each of second conductivity-type wells (20) formed in a first conductivity-type semiconductor substrate (10); forming a plurality of first electrodes (50a) uniformly spaced from one another, and then forming an insulation film (40) for insulating the first electrodes ...

A Si3N4 reinforced aluminosilicate ceramic composite made of A. from about 5 to about 40 weight percent of Si3N4 reinforcement material; B. from about 15 to about 35 weight percent of the recrystalization products formed from a molten glass composed of (1) from about 8 to about 16 weight percent of Al2O3, (2) from about 14 to about 45 mole percent of an alkaline earth oxide selected form the group...