A multi-cell battery includes a battery box having at least three battery plate compartments, wherein the plates in one compartment lie in planes substantially perpendicular to plates in the other two compartments. The compartments can be of rectangular shape and arranged with the length direction of one compartment substantially perpendicular to the length direction of the other two compartments.

The method involves joining, by means of a laser weld seam, of two steel sheets (1, 2) of which at least one is provided with a coating with a low melting point. Before welding, the sheets in the joint region are oriented to one another at an acute angle ( alpha ) and that the weld seam is shaped as a fillet weld. Also claimed is a sheet-metal component made up of least two deep-drawn sheets joine...

A centrifuge apparatus is used for collecting white blood cells, primarily mononuclear cells, from whole blood stratified into layers. A thin mononuclear (MNC) layer is formed at the interface of red blood cells and plasma. A barrier is positioned in the separation vessel of the centrifuge at a location to intercept the thin layer. An MNC collect port is positioned in front of the barrier to colle...

The conveyor (15) conveys the bobbins (10) from a store (13) to a pin which fits into the central hole (11) in the bobbin, preferably in conjunction with a packaging machine. The conveyor has an up-and-down moving lifting-head (18) gripping a bobbin and traveling along a vertical guide especially on an upright column (17). preferably by a carriage (22) moving along guides.

A directional control valve has an axially displaceable control piston inside a valve housing and a travel sensor arranged on the valve housing to detect the position of the control piston. The sensor includes a travel sensor tube which is pressure tight and sealed on one end and has a directional transmitter rod extending into the other end. The directional transmitter rod is secured to the contr...

Ein Mammographie-Röntgengerät umfasst eine Röntgenröhren-Anordnung (2), eine Kompressionsvorrichtung (4), einen Objekttisch (3) und einen großflächigen Festkörper-Detektor (7) aus amorphem Silizium (aSi), der in einer in den Objekttisch (3) einschiebbaren Detektor-Kassette (6) integriert ist. Die Kassette (6) weist einen ersten Teil wenigstens einer Übertragungsvorrichtung (23,24) für die Zufuhr d...

Bei einer Scheibe, insbesondere für eine Skibrille, welche aus Polycarbonat besteht und längs ihrer Außenkontur in einen Rahmen einsetzbar ist, ist vorgesehen, daß die Scheibe längs ihrer Kontur-Oberfläche (6) versiegelt ist. Eine Skibrille mit einer derartigen Scheibe zeichnet sich dadurch aus, daß der Rahmen aus Polyvinylchlorid (PVC), insbesondere Weich-Polyvinylchlorid besteht. ; The le...

A texturing machine (1) of the type comprising in a frame (2) a yarn path (3) for a yarn (F), running between a feeder on the creel side (4) and a feeder on the collection side (5), together with a heater (6) and a cooler (7) disposed in succession along the said yarn path (3), in which the cooler (7) comprises a guide (8) for the yarn (F) and at least one Peltier element (16) associated with the ...

Prodn. of a mould for moulding tyre treads with a sculptured shape having non-demouldable designs moulded by mould elements. For each non-demouldable design a moulding element (4) is made having one part defining the design (4) and a second part situated in a housing forming the anchorage (5) of the element in the mould. A counter mould (1) is made with known demoulding movement and into which are...

The utility model discloses a solar water heater with automatic water supply and pipeline discharging. The utility model is composed of a water tank, a heat collector, an automatic water supply device, a pipeline discharging device, an integrative indicating device and a matched pipeline. An automatic water supply pipe is arranged on the upper part of the water tank, and is connected with a float ...

Available lead-acid accumulator has nitrile rubber or ternary ethylene-propylene rubber column, which has poor resilience to result in unstable valve opening and poor aging resistance to result in relatively short accumulator life. The present invention uses, instead, fluorosilicon rubber column, which has good resilience to result in stable valve opening and good aging resistance to result in re...

The superenergy emulsoid electrolyte consists of silicon dioxide, lithium hydroxide and sulfuric acid and is prepared through stirring and heating to mix homogeneously. It has high energy storing density and can be used to produce accumulator with large capacity, fast charge, small internal resistance and high weatherability and without pollution and need of maintenance.

La plaque composite destinée aux accumulateurs Pb/PbO2 à électrodes bipolair es est caractérisée par une conduction électronique monodirectionnelle donnée p ar des fils métalliques constitués au moins superficiellement de plomb ou d'alliage de plomb, disposés suivant un réseau régulier et enrobés par un polymère, stable en milieu acide et pouvant créer une liaison forte avec le plomb ou l'alliage ...

Mehrere eine Strecke (S) in gleicher Richtung befahrende Züge (Z1, Z2) werden virtuell gekoppelt und bilden dann für die Einrichtung (E) zur Sicherung des Fahrbetriebes Fahrzeugverbände, deren Spitze durch das führende Fahrzeug des ersten Zuges und dessen Ende durch das letzte Fahrzeug des letzten Zuges gebildet wird. Die Züge werden durch dafür vorgesehene Einrichtungen (AS) im Abstand geführt. D...

The invention relates to a method and device for determining fiber orientation in a paper sample. The surface of the sample (1) is illuminated from an oblique angle (11) by means of more than one light source (2, 3). The illumination is rotated on the surface of the sample by electronically switching the light sources on and off in turn by means of a switch (12). The intensity of the light reflect...

The invention is a system and method for managing a resource shared by a plurality of autonomous vehicles. Each vehicle includes a navigator for causing the vehicle to travel a specified route to the resource and for generating a queue position request upon approach to the resource. A queue or fleet manager establishes a queue to control access to the resource. The queue manager generates a queue ...

The invention relates to an arrangement for controlling a loading element of a crane, the loading element (8) of the crane comprising an actuator (10) and a current supply cable (9) for supplying current to the loading element (8), and the arrangement for controlling the loading element comprising transmission means (3) for generating and transmitting control signals (5, 7) for controlling the act...

The present invention relates to user communication and monitoring system (UCMS) for computer networks, where a user connects her client computer through networks to the host computer chosen by her and an information connection is formed, which has following features: the host computer has information as files and software for uploading a requested file to network , the client computer has softw...

The present invention relates to a biaxially oriented polyester film comprising a polyester containing 0.001 to 3.0% by weight of porous spherical silica particles and having a degree of deformation of said porous spherical silica particles of 1.2 to 5.0, which polyester film is obtained from extruding and biaxially stretching said polyester containing said porous spherical silica particles having...

In order to provide an open-celled rigid polyurethane foam, which realizes a low material cost per unit volume of the foam and excellent surface smoothness because of its unique structure, and a thermal insulation material comprising the foam, an open-celled rigid polyurethane foam which has an open cell content of not less than 99% in a state that a skin layer is left on the foam is produced by f...