Abstract: An energy storage device includes an electrode body in which an electrode is stacked, a container in which the electrode body is accommodated, a cover plate structure including a cover plate that closes the container, and a spacer that is attached to the electrode body. The spacer includes a positioning unit that positions the cover plate structure. An engaging unit, engaging with the positioning unit, is provided in the cover plate structure.

Abstract: An energy storage device includes: an electrode body including curved portions formed by winding an electrode; a container in which the electrode body is accommodated; and a cover plate structure including a cover plate closing the container. The electrode body is accommodated in the container while one end portion in a winding axis direction of the electrode body faces the cover plate structure. The energy storage device includes spacers (side spacers) that are attached to curved portions, and one end portion of the spacer abuts on a part of the cover plate structure.

Abstract: An energy storage device includes: an electrode body including curved portions formed by winding an electrode; a container in which the electrode body is accommodated; and a cover plate structure including a cover plate closing the container. The electrode body is accommodated in the container while one end portion in a winding axis direction of the electrode body faces the cover plate structure. The energy storage device includes spacers (side spacers) that are attached to curved portions, and one end portion of the spacer abuts on a part of the cover plate structure.

Abstract: A safety device for a storage battery includes a charge-discharge lead one end of which is connected to a positive electrode side of the storage battery and the other end of which is connected to a positive terminal of the storage battery; a pressure-sensing device which deforms in response to the increase of the pressure in the storage battery; and a cutting device for cutting the charge-discharge lead. The cutting device is pressed by the deformation of the pressure-sensing device to cut the charge-discharge lead.

Abstract: A sealed type battery is disclosed which can reduce variations in the operating pressure of a safety valve, improve the reliability for the airtightness of a battery vessel, remove the contact of electrode plates and the case due to the rightward or leftward deviation of a group of electrode plates in the direction of the winding shaft, remarkably reduce the internal short-circuiting production rate, and realize cost lowering or reduction in the number of working steps. The battery is equipped with a safety valve in which a cover plate having a hole, a metal thin plate and a holding plate of metal having a hole are stacked with the metal thin plate sandwiched and integrally fixed by laser welding.

Abstract: A safety device of the present invention for a storage battery includes a charge-discharge lead one end of which is connected to a positive electrode side of the storage battery and the other end of which is connected to a positive terminal of the storage battery; a pressure-sensing device which deforms in response to the increase of the pressure in the storage battery; and a cutting device for cutting the charge-discharge lead. The cutting device is pressed by the deformation of the pressure-sensing device to cut the charge-discharge lead.

Abstract: A method for producing a cycloolefin, which comprises partially hydrogenating a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in the presence of water and a ruthenium catalyst supported on silica modified by zirconium oxide.

Abstract: A method for producing an aldehyde, which comprises hydrogenating a carboxylic acid or its alkyl ester with molecular hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst, wherein (1) chromium oxide of high purity having a specific surface area of at least 10 m.sup.2 /g and a total content of sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium of not more than 0.4 wt %, is used as the catalyst, and (2) the hydrogenation reaction is conducted while maintaining the carboxylic acid or its alkyl ester at a concentration of not more than 10 vol %.

Abstract: A process for producing an aliphatic or alicyclic aldehyde is disclosed, which process comprises the step of hydrogenating an aliphatic or alicyclic carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof with molecular hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the catalyst is a zirconium oxide catalyst which contains chromium as an essential component, has a weakly basic site amount of more than 0.03 mmol/g as determined by a temperature programmed desorption method using carbon dioxide as an adsorbate in which the amount of carbon dioxide desorbed in the temperature range of from 100.degree. to 250.degree. C. is measured, and has pores having a radius of from 20 to 500 .ANG. in an amount of not less than 0.1 cc/g and pores having a radius of from 1,000 to 50,000 .ANG. in an amount of not less than 0.05 cc/g as measured with a mercury porosimeter. Aldehydes can be obtained directly from aliphatic or alicyclic carboxylic acids or derivatives thereof in high yield.

Abstract: A method for producing a cycloolefin which comprises partially hydrogenating an aromatic hydrocarbon with hydrogen in a liquid phase in the presence of water and a catalyst having as main component ruthenium supported on a carrier, to form the corresponding cycloolefin, wherein an oxide with the total pore volume of pores having radii of from 20 to 100,000 .ANG. being from 0.3 to 10 cc/g and with the volume of pores having radii of from 20 to 200 .ANG. constituting at most 15% of the total pore volume, is used as the carrier for the catalyst.

Abstract: An anti-lock control system for motor vehicles is designed to have its computed vehicle speed modified as the motor vehicle is braked. In this invention, the computed vehicle speed persists along a reference deceleration gradient line representing a predetermined acceleration follow-up limit measured with respect to the wheel speed for a predetermined period of time from a point of time when the deceleration of the computed vehicle speed reaches the reference deceleration gradient line for the first time after the motor vehicle was braked. Thereafter, the computed vehicle speed is modified to follow a deceleration gradient line with a gradient that is gentler than that of the reference deceleration gradient line, until a threshold speed is reached, which is lower by a predetermined amount than and follows the computed vehicle speed with such a speed difference.

Abstract: An anti-lock control device of a hydraulic brake system which enables a rapid building up of braking hydraulic pressure during normal braking but, once an anti-lock control is commenced, reduces the rise of the recovery of the braking hydraulic pressure so as to optimize the same for anti-lock control. The hydraulic braking system having a pneumatic pressure source, a brake valve, converting device for receiving the pneumatic pressure supplied from the pneumatic pressure source through the brake valve and converting the received pneumatic pressure into braking hydraulic pressure, wheel cylinders for receiving the braking hydraulic pressure, and pneumatic pressure control valves for controlling the pneumatic pressure in a pneumatic pressure chamber of the converting means so as to control the braking hydraulic pressure.

Abstract: The straight guide driving device comprises a guide rail fixedly attached to an immovable block such as the microscope body, a movable block such as a microscope tube block mounted so as to be displaced along the guide rail and a rack-pinion connection interposed between the immovable block and the movable block for driving the movable block. The rack-pinion connection has a pair of rack members which are fixedly attached to the movable block and arranged respectively in the vicinity of both the opposite sides of the guide rail. Accordingly, the movable block can perform straight movement with very high accuracy along the guide rail.

Abstract: In an anti-lock control system for motor vehicles, the design is made such that when the motor vehicle is running on a rough road, reduction of the brake hydraulic pressure can be prevented from being started early by detecting that the motor vehicle is running on the rough road, and such that any adverse effects can be avoided which tend to be produced in the case where a device for coping with the rough road is applied when the road surface on which the motor vehicle is running is a low-.mu. road surface or when the motor vehicle is running with a low speed.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the wheel speed for an anti-skid control system of a motor vehicle, comprising a sensor for generating a pulse signal, the cycle of which corresponds to the rotational speed of the wheel. The wheel speed signal is provided in every control cycle having a constant time. If the wheel speed is not provided because the rotational speed of the wheel is low, the anti-skid control is performed in accordance with a compensated wheel speed calculated on the basis of the wheel speed measured immediately beforehand.

Abstract: A method of separating 2,6-dimethylnaphthalene from a feed material containing a mixture of dimethylnaphthalene isomers comprises the steps of:adsorption separation using an adsorbent of a zeolite Y containing alkali metal or zinc and a desorbent of an organic solvent mainly composed of paraxylene and/or orthoxylene to obtain a solution consisting of the desorbent and the feed material containing 2,6-dimethylnaphthalene at a concentration of at least 60 wt % on the feed material other than desorbent; andcrystallization of the solution having a concentration of the desorbent at 30 to 90 wt % to obtain 2,6-dimehtylnaphthalene of high purity in a crystalline form.

Abstract: An anti-skid control system for a motor vehicle in which, when a wheel speed to be controlled and being decreased through buildup of brake pressure becomes equal to a reference speed, this equality is judged as a fulfillment of a brake pressure reduction starting condition, and thus reduction of the brake pressure is started. The highest wheel speed is detected and a computed vehicle speed is set up based on the highest wheel speed by having the increase and decrease of the highest wheel speed limited to a predetermined range. The computed vehicle speed and the wheel speed to be controlled are compared; and when the comparison indicates that the wheel speed to be controlled is equal to or higher than the computed vehicle speed, no reduction of the brake pressure is started irrespective of whether the brake pressure reduction starting condition is fulfilled.

Abstract: Oxocarboxylic acids, for example adipaldehydic acid can be advantageously produced by a process, in which cyclohexanones are oxidized with molecular oxygen in the presence of water and iron or iridium compound, preferably also in the presence of a sulfur or organic nitrogen compound.

Abstract: An improved process for catalytic hydrogenation of aromatic carboxylic acids to produce aromatic aldehydes is described, using a catalyst comprising zirconium oxide containing as an essential component at least one element selected from the group consisting of chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, zinc, bismuth, lead, rhenium and the elements of Group III of periods 3 to 6 of the periodic table; the process results in improved catalyst activity and produces the desired aromatic aldehydes in high yield.

Abstract: Catalytic isomerization of 10 types of dimethylnaphthalenes, which are classified into four groups, can be carried out by using as a catalyst a zeolite defining the main pore opening consists of a ten-membered oxygen ring.