Anodes of the batteries are made from a given mixture. The mix incorporates 30 kg quartz sand, 600 kg ball-milled lead powder, 69 kg H2O,50. 4 kg H2SO4 with a density of 1.4 g/cm3>, and 0.5 kg polyester fibers. Cathodes are made of a mix incorporating 30 kg quartz sand, 600 kg ball-milled lead powder, 60 kg H2O, and 5.7 kg material expander in the form of 0.9 kg soot, 1.2 kg indulin and 3.6 kg BaS...

An electronic apparatus has a plug-in unit and a housing that can increase a number of optical modules connected thereto. In the plug-in unit, a first connector is connectable to an optical module connected to an optical cable. A connector housing accommodates the first connector and has an insertion part into which the optical module is inserted. An attachment lever is used for fixing the plug-in...

An active-matrix-type display apparatus ensuring sufficient luminous intensity of display devices within a display plane and allowing improved display properties is provided. Such display apparatus having of a plurality of pixels comprises a lower electrode formed on a substrate; organic layers formed on the lower electrode; and an upper common electrode formed on the organic layers; in which a pl...

A foam composite made up of a scaffold of an open cell hydrophobic material having plurality of surfaces defining a plurality of pores, and a coating of a substantially hydrophilic foam material disposed upon the surfaces of the hydrophobic foam. The resulting foam composite exhibits structural characteristics of the hydrophobic foam and absorbency characteristics of the hydrophilic foam.

Novel magnetic assay methods and systems. According to a preferred embodiment, a chromatographic medium, which preferably comprises a test strip, is provided that is designed to be contacted with a test solution having activated magnetic particles such that the solution flows bilaterally thereacross. A magnetic field, generated by a magnet or electromagnet, is selectively applied to the medium whi...

A metal layer A constituting the stripe-shaped cathode electrode is formed on the surface of the organic electroluminescence layer 13 , a peeling film B is stuck to the surface of the metal layer A through such an adhesive C as to reduce adhesion to the metal layer by the irradiation of ultraviolet light, and a pattern according to the stripe-shaped cathode electrodes 14 is baked onto the peeling ...

The object of the present invention is to propose a structure of a display device in which water is prevented from passing through the side faces of a display device using an organic light-emitting element and a gap between substrates is made uniform. On the first substrate having the light-emitting element provided thereon, the thicknesses of the layers deposited in the peripheral area, the pixel...

A lifetime evaluating system includes a digitalizing unit, an acquiring unit and a determining unit. The digitalizing unit digitizes an original metallographic image of a mechanical element to form a digital image. The acquiring unit acquires a plurality of labels from the digital image. Here, each of the plurality of labels is a set of pixels with a predetermined property. The determining unit cl...

A back clip fixture of a receiver and transmitter device assembled by a back clip and a receiver and transmitter device is characterized that a concave slot is respectively disposed at positions opposite two sides of the detachment seat for facilitating the mounting and dismounting of a joint seat piece; more especially, the lower positioning piece has a slot location for fitly assembling an upper...

A method and system for remote administration of clients performing critical processes are disclosed herein. A client management module is used to monitor a subset of processes performed by a client. When the client management module detects that a process of the subset has terminated or become inoperable, the client management module can restart the process, as well as notify a remote system mana...

"SISTEMA E MéTODO PARA CONSTRUçãO E GERENCIAMENTO DE UM BANCO DE DADOS RELACIONAL DE UMA CADEIA PRODUTIVA". é descrito um sistema e um método para construção e gerenciamento de um banco de dados relacional de uma cadeia produtiva para indexar e integrar bancos de dados, de forma a promover associações entre os parâmetros definidos nos respectivos bancos de dados e formar um banco de dados relacion...

"MANTA". Composta a partir de polipropileno, para isolamento termo acústico e contra o fogo. A manta é formada de fios e fibras (2) desalinhadas, com 'n' camadas (3) em forma circular, continuada e constante, entrelaçadas entre si e com ancoragem aleatória., formando um vazio interno.

A system for controlling a torque reduction at shifting for an automatic transmission is provided with actual gear-ratio detecting means for detecting an actual gear ratio out of input rotation and output rotation of the automatic transmission, and torque-reduction amount computing means for calculating a torque-reduction amount out of a torque-reduction set gain set previously, which is a rate of...

An abdominal exerciser including a leg rest assembly optionally pivotally connected to a weighted main frame. The leg rest assembly may include a first member and second and third members extending transversely from the first member. One or more pads may be affixed about the first member. The second and third members may terminate in a hinge member such as a female coupler. The main frame may incl...

The present invention discloses a process for devulcanizing cured rubber into devulcanized rubber that is capable of being recompounded and recured into useful rubber products, said process comprising heating the cured rubber to a temperature which is within the range of about 150° C. to about 300° C. under a pressure of at least about 3.4x10⁶ Pascals in the presence of a mixture of car...

A method for the production of a water-absorbent agent comprises mixing an absorbent resin containing a carboxyl group with an additive soluble in the aqueous solution of at least one member selected from the group consisting of inorganic acids, organic acids, and polyamino acids and a cross-linking agent capable of reacting with the carboxyl group. A water-absorbent agent obtained by adding from ...

To easily and correctly manage a plurality of articles, a capture device 12 captures articles to which radio tags having different IDs are attached, and the tag IDs of the radio tags of the articles are received using a tag ID reception card 10 . A captured image is associated with a received tag ID and entered. A plurality of articles are managed in a group using captured images and received tag ...

The present invention relates to a method and a system for online creation and ordering of customized material for printing, where each customer at front end, through a computerized interface, participates in the process of creating, editing, proof printing and finally ordering print-ready files through Internet, via a printing service provider which automates the production of the print-ready fil...

A method and system is disclosed for communicating information from a downhole location to the surface including a plurality of releasable vessels containing predetermined signal information affixed to the vessels prior to placement of the vessels downhole and indicative of the presence of at least one of three or more predetermined downhole conditions and a sensing and releasing system that sense...

According to the present invention, maintenance data about a plurality of distribution terminal devices which are different from each other in frequency with which they are in use and circumstances under which they are in use are transmitted to a host computer, whereby a lifetime of a semiconductor laser can be predicted and an occurrence of a trouble can be detected without receiving information ...