Abstract: A nickel positive electrode for an alkaline storage battery includes an active material mixture and a conductive support. The active material mixture, which is composed mainly of nickel hydroxide, additionally contains nickel powder, a second powder compound and at least one of cobalt, cobalt hydroxide and cobalt oxide. The nickel powder has a specific surface area of from 0.1 to 3 m.sup.2 /g and an average particle diameter of from 0.1 to 15 micrometers, and the second powder compound contains at least one element including Ca, Sr, Ba, Cu, Ag or Y. A sealed nickel-hydrogen storage battery may incorporate the nickel positive electrode.

Abstract: A nickel positive electrode for an alkaline storage battery comprises an active material mixture mainly composed of nickel hydroxide and a conductive support. The active material mixture contains at least one member selected from the group consisting of cobalt, cobalt hydroxide and cobalt oxide, and carbon powder having a lattice constant "d" of a (002) plane such that 3.35 .ANG.<d.ltoreq.3.45 .ANG..

Abstract: A press apparatus for use in manufacture of a liquid crystal panel presses upper and lower glass substrates placed between a pressure-exerting plate and a pressure-receiving plate while a seal located around the glass substrates is being heated and melted. The pressure-exerting plate is supported by a pressure-transmitting plate through three load cells. The pressure-transmitting plate presses the pressure-exerting plate against the pressure-receiving plate through the load cells and thereby presses the glass substrates uniformly. When a difference between the detection values of the load cells exceeds a predetermined value, it is determined that the glass substrates are not being pressed uniformly and the pressing operations thus stopped.

Abstract: A multi-piston swash plate type compressor with an internal lubricating arrangement for an air-conditioning system used in a vehicle such as an automobile including a cylinder block body having a swash plate chamber formed therein receiving a swash plate, cylinder bores formed therein for receiving pistons, and a central axial bore formed therein for receiving a driving shaft, the driving shaft being rotatably supported in the axial bore by radial bearings provided therein and by thrust bearings provided around the shaft at the sides of the swash plate. The compressor has suction and discharge chambers communicated with the cylinder bores through reed valves. The swash plate chamber is fed with a refrigerant inclusive of a lubricating oil from the air-conditioning system, and the refrigerant is then fed to the suction chamber through the axial bore.

Abstract: A method of forming from a sintering material slurry a shaped-body to be sintered having a complicated configuration. A mold is prepared using frames, a shielding member swollen with a solvent, and a filler including a substance formed of particles, and utilizing the action of vacuum. A sintering material slurry is poured into the thus prepared mold to form a shaped-body to be sintered.

Abstract: A multi-piston swash plate type compressor for an air-conditioning system used in a vehicle such as an automobile, the compressor having combined cylinder blocks closed, at both axial end faces thereof, by front and rear housings each having a radially inner suction chamber and an outer discharge chamber isolated from the suction chamber, valve plates interposed between the axial end faces of the combined cylinder blocks and the front and rear housings, respectively, a plurality of elongated screw bolts axially and hermetically assembling the combined cylinder blocks, the front and rear housings and the valve plates, and an internal sealing and guiding unit arrnaged in the suction chambers of the front and rear housings for rigidly holding the valve plates against a high pressure of a refrigerant after compression, to reinforce the hermetic seal between the axial end faces of the combined cylinder blocks and the valve plates, and for guiding refrigerant flows within the suction chamber to provide a uniform di

Abstract: A compressor comprising a cylinder block having a plurality of compression chambers and a housing having a discharge chamber and an outlet port. The housing is mounted on the cylinder block through a valve plate having discharge ports for discharging fluid from the compression chambers into the discharge chamber. At least one bulkhead wall is provided in the housing, extending from a position near at least one of the discharge ports toward the outlet port for separating the at least one discharge port and an adjacent discharge port.

Abstract: A corrosion resisting copper alloy, especially suitable for use in fabricating heat exchangers, comprises 25 to 38% by weight zinc, 0.005 to 0.04% by weight phosphorus, the remainder of the alloy being copper, the alloy having a recrystallized grain size within the range of 2.mu. to 10.mu..

Abstract: An upper tank of a heat exchanger for an automotive vehicle is divided into an upper room and a lower room by a partition wall, on which a positive pressure valve and a negative pressure valve are provided for respectively forming a passageway from the lower room to the upper room when the pressure in the lower room exceeds a predetermined value and a passageway from the upper room to the lower room when the pressure in the lower room becomes lower than a predetermined value, whereby the upper room serves as a reserve tank.