A leather layer is burned, preferably under a protective gas blanket, with a laser beam to increase the water vapor permeability for use of the leather in automotive vehicle seats.

PURPOSE:To suppress the dimensional reduction of the expanded grating body in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction thereof and make small the varation in the amount of reduction when filing a paste-like active material on the grating while conveying this grating body in which a number of sheets are in continuous connections. CONSTITUTION:Grooves 8 are previously formed in both sid...

PURPOSE:To increase trickle cycle life by using an electrode plate prepared by covering at least part, except for a frame, of a grid facing to a counter electrode with an active material layer having a specified thickness, and by making unevenness on the surface of the electrode plate in a specified value or less in at least one side electrode. CONSTITUTION:Glass fibers having a specified diameter...

PURPOSE:To increase trickle cycle life and to reduce production cost by arranging a particle filled layer whose parctcles have mean pore sizes larger than the mean particle size of a separator in the surroundings of an electrode group. CONSTITUTION:Glass fibers having a specified mean diameter and a specified porosity is used in a separator. A positive plate and a negative plate combined with the ...

PURPOSE:To provide a sealed storage battery capable of maintaining high group pressurization of an electrode plate group, and reducing an oxygen gas absorption area of a negative electrode plate so as to prevent thermal runaway. CONSTITUTION:An electrode plate group 1 consisting of negative electrode plates 1b1, 1b3 on both side in the laminating direction is covered at the outside periphery there...

The device comprises a mechanical feeding device (6) which grips the end (30) of the paper and presses it onto the end face of the product to be sliced (e.g. sausage or cheese).

A centrifugal processing system for cultured cellular suspensions comprises a reservoir for pooling a desired volume of the cellular suspension from a plurality of individual containers in which the cellular suspension have been cultured. A centrifugation chamber is provided operative in response to centrifugal force for separating the cellular suspension into a cellular component and a supernatan...

The system is applicable for the conversion of solar energy into heat and electric power. By it, solar energy is converted having maximum high efficiency factor at every time of the day regardless of the season. The device consists of a converter unit (1), a driven unit (12), control unit (3) and sensor unit (4). The converter unit (1) is driven in discrete time intervals and it is automatically f...

Method and apparatus for ablation of cardiac tissue includes a catheter (2, 60) having an elongated flexible body (6, 64), a tissue characterization assembly including a transducer (34) at the distal end (16) of the body and a tissue ablation assembly having a tissue ablation tip (32) at the distal end of the body. The tissue ablation tip is positioned adjacent the tissue to be ablated using the v...

A beeper holder includes a casing having two lugs and a hook on the back at different elevations; a back plate having two mounting flanges bilaterally and perpendicularly disposed near a top side thereof and turned about a pivot pin connected between the lugs on the casing, a projecting strip spaced between the mounting flanges, and a retaining hole near a bottom side thereof for receiving the hoo...

A safety ski binding in which the bottom of the ski boot is held out of contact with the top of the ski to eliminate the influence of frictional forces on the safety release and in which the anti-friction roller of the toe support structure is mounted on the ski in such a manner that its vertical axis of rotation remains substantially constant during engagement and disengagement.

A plurality of helically wound tire beads are made by winding them on a forming wheel at two predetermined tension levels. The tension levels are generated by a braking pulley and magnetic particle brake in conjunction with a programmable logic controller. The first few turns of wires are made at a relatively low tension level. Subsequent turns are made at a higher tension level. The lower tension...

An electronic apparatus and method includes a memory for storing data to be sent to an input and/or output device, a transmitter for transmitting data stored in the memory, a power source for supplying power to the input and/or output device, a device for outputting predetermined test data to the input and/or output device, a detector for detecting the value of the voltage supplied by the power so...

PURPOSE: To provide a device for monitoring a web made of fibrous substance, which receives an imaging signal from an imaging unit so as to produce digital data corresponding to the imaging signal, and which analyzes the data. CONSTITUTION: A web contains a plurality of contents such as fibers and impurities, and an imaging unit receives electromagnetic radiation from the web, and delivers an imag...

PURPOSE:To provide a road environment recognizing device capable of easily and surely recognizing the sign of a travelling road without receiving influence by obstructions and noise and recognizing the position of a vehicle in front. CONSTITUTION:This device is constituted of a picture recording means 1, an edge picture extraction means 2 for extracting only the outline of an object from road pict...

PURPOSE:To enable accurate and easy detection of impurities even if the amount thereof is very small. CONSTITUTION:A wafer 2 whereon a polysilicon film is formed is mounted on a lower electrode 3 and a high frequency voltage is applied between the lower electrode 3 and an upper electrode 4 from a high frequency power supply 8 while oxygen gas is supplied to the wafer 2 through a through-hole 5 of ...

PURPOSE:To repair a disconnected section on a wiring board to such a state that there may be no difference between the disconnected section and a normal wiring having no disconnected section easily and accurately. CONSTITUTION:This is a method for repairing a disconnected section 12 wherein laser light is cast on part of the disconnected section 12 which is brought into contact with a solution 3 c...

In a method of measuring the flash duration of a flash unit, the momentary light intensity is converted into an electrical signal that is determined and stored, and that is delayed by at least that time interval that exists between the beginning of the flash curve and the maximum thereof. The stored maximum is compared with the delayed signal, with the flash duration being determined from the sign...

UN FILTRO DE DISCO PARA EXTRAER FILTRADO DE UN LODO, TENIENDO DICHO FILTRADO DE DISCO UNA PLURALIDAD DE SECTORES, CADA SECTOR COMPRENDE: SUPERFICIE PRIMERA Y SEGUNDA QUE TIENEN FORMADOS SOBRE LAS MISMAS UNA PLURALIDAD DE CANALES DE RECOLECCION SUPERFICIALES PARA RECOLECTAR FILTRADO; UN ORIFICIO HUECO ORIENTADO RADIALMENTE FORMADO EN CADA SECTOR A LO LARGO DE UNA LINEA CENTRAL RADIAL DE DICHO SECTO...