Abstract: According to one embodiment, a secondary battery control apparatus includes a charger/discharger and a charge/discharge controller. The charger/discharger connects a plurality of secondary batteries, and charges one secondary battery by electric power discharged by another secondary battery. The charge/discharge controller controls the charger/discharger such that charging and discharging are performed between the plurality of secondary batteries by using the charger/discharger if battery temperature information detected by temperature detector is lower than a preset threshold temperature, wherein the charging is stopped and switched to discharging or pause if voltage information detected by the voltage detector reaches the upper limit voltage of the secondary battery, and the discharging is stopped and switched to charging or pause if the voltage information detected by the voltage detector reaches the lower limit voltage of the secondary battery.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device including (1) a pair of substrates on the surface of which a transparent electrode and an alignment film are formed in turn, and the alignment films are arranged with a gap so that the films face each other, (2) a liquid crystal which fills the gap, (3) two polarizer plates holding the pair of substrates between them, and (4) a driving circuit connected to the transparent electrodes for applying a voltage between both substrates, the improved display device including a vertically arranged splayed nematic liquid crystal wherein a nematic liquid crystal which is substantially free from a chiral liquid crystalline compound and has a negative dielectric anisotropy is used as the liquid crystal; molecules of the liquid crystal between the pair of the substrates are oriented so that their molecular axis are arranged on planes orthogonal to the substrates; liquid crystal molecules, in the vicinity of the surface of the substrates, are oriented vertically or semi-vertically so that

Abstract: A refrigerator cabinet having an outer box comprised of a top wall and both side walls which are formed by bending one steel sheet that has been previously coated with paint, wherein one of front flanges adjacent to each other at the upper corner or corners of the outer box at least on the unsupported side of the door is bent along an inclined reference line extending from the corner to form a bent portion while at the same time forming a predetermined space on its rear side, the other of the front flanges is bent along said inclined reference line to form a stepped portion, and said bent portion is laid on top of the stepped portion, whereby the front surfaces of the front flanges adjacent to each other at said corner or corners are substantially flush with each other to come into sealing engagement with a door seal strip formed on a door.

Abstract: A cooling device for a refrigerator comprising a plurality of cooling tubes, each of the cooling tubes being formed by helically winding a thermally conductive metal pipe having radial spine fins over the entire periphery thereof, being substantially in parallel to the axis of helix thereof and being connected together through a bent connection portion, to provide a continuous refrigerant passageway.

Abstract: A computerized tomography system and method using penetrating radiation having a radiation source for radiating penetrating radiation into the interior of a thin sliced layer portion of a subject, in a manner that it expands substantially in a fanned fashion, a detector for substantially dividing the radiation after passing through said sliced layer portion into a plurality of radiation beams diverging at a defined angle, thereby detecting the intensity of said beams, a moving unit for substantially linearly scanning each of said beams at least once in a direction transverse of said sliced layer portion, a data processing unit for reconstructing an image of said sliced layer portion on the basis of detected data delivered from said detector, and a display unit for displaying said image on the basis of the results of said reconstruction.