Abstract: A charging element device comprises a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal which are located at one end of a cylindrical battery case having a positive electrode and a negative electrode equipped therein and which are respectively connected to the positive electrode and the negative electrode, with an electrolyte solution charging opening being formed at the other end of the battery case. The electrolyte solution charging opening is sealed by a plug having a safety valve, and the safety plug reduces an inner pressure of the battery case when the inner pressure is not less than a predetermined pressure.

Abstract: A cell module structure comprises a bus bar plate and plural cylindrical cells. The bus bar plate including plural bus bars each having a positive bus bar terminal, a negative bus bar terminal, and a screw formed in one of the terminals, the bus bars being serially connected to each other with the positive bus bar terminal corresponding to the negative bus bar terminal; and a control substrate integrally provided to the bus bar and connected to the bus bars. The cell includes a positive cell terminal and a negative cell terminal coaxially aligned at an end thereof, and a screw formed in the terminal having the same polarity as that of the bus bar terminal which is formed with the screw to which the above screw is screwed. The screw of the cell is screwed to the screw of the bus bar, so that different terminals with no screw are brought into contact with each other, whereby the plural cells are serially connected.

Abstract: A cell module structure in which cylindrical cells are connected to each other via a terminal connecting portion of a bus bar plate. An inner cell terminal and an outer cell terminal having different polarities are coaxially aligned at an end of the cell. An inner connecting terminal and an outer connecting terminal corresponding to the inner cell terminal and the outer cell terminal of the cell are coaxially aligned in the terminal connecting portion of the bus bar plate. The inner cell terminal and the outer cell terminal of the cell are connected to the terminal connecting portion of the bus bar plate in a connected condition in which the outer cell terminal of the cell contacts the outer connecting terminal of the terminal connecting portion, and the inner cell terminal contacts the inner connecting terminal.

Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor with a control circuit component. When the electric double layer capacitor is provided in plural and these capacitors are serially connected for charging thereof through a source of DC power, the control circuit component balances charge Voltage of each electric double layer capacitor. The control circuit component is mounted to a control circuit board. The control circuit board has a diameter smaller than that of a sheath can of the electric double layer capacitor and is fixedly secured to a cover such that it does not project upwardly beyond an upper end of a pole projection, serving as a positive electrode, of the electric double layer capacitor.

Abstract: An electric double-layer capacitor housing has a bottomed outer case for accommodating an electric double-layer capacitor therein, a lid closing an open end of the bottomed outer case, the lid having a through hole defined therein, an electrode terminal mounted in the through hole in the lid for electrically connecting the electric double-layer capacitor in the bottomed outer case to an external circuit, and an insulative sealing member interposed between the lid and the electrode terminal and sealing the through hole. The electrode terminal includes a terminal body, a projecting rod extending from the terminal body, an outer sleeve spaced radially outwardly from the projecting rod, a tapered portion spreading radially outwardly and downwardly, and a flange extending radially outwardly from the tapered portion.

Abstract: An electric double-layer capacitor includes a plurality of electrode elements each having a current collector, a polarized electrode disposed on a surface thereof, and a strip-like current collecting lead extending from an end of the current collector. The electrode elements are stacked as alternately belonging to respective polarities, and the current collecting leads of the electrode elements are stacked into lead assemblies of the respective polarities. A separator is interposed between the stacked electrode elements, and the lead assemblies are connected respectively to electrode terminals. The lead assemblies of respective polarities serve as respective connectors connected to the electrode terminals. Each of the connectors has a flat joint region as at least a portion thereof. The current collecting leads of each of the lead assemblies are integrally joined to each other by the flat joint region by ultrasonic welding before the connector is connected to the electrode terminal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a substituted thiazolo[3,2-a] azepine derivative having inhibitory activity against angiotensin I converting enzyme and neutral endpeptidase and is represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1##

Abstract: The invention is one which provides in a brake device possessing an energy production unit, a force transmission unit which receives the drive force of the energy production unit and produces outputs by advancing and retreating, and a clutch unit which is provided between the energy production unit and the force transmission unit and maintains the advance and retreat positions of the energy force unit when outputs are produced, a guide structure which allows displacement of the force transmission unit and of the brake shoe in an advance and retreat direction relative to the force transmission unit. A buffer unit is provided in the guide structure which urges the force transmission unit and the brake shoe in separate directions and which, on transmission of a reaction force greater than the maximum output of the force transmission unit, allows the brake shoe to move in the advance and retreat directions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a substituted thiazolo?3,2-a!azepine derivative having inhibitory activity against angiotensin I converting enzyme and neutral endpeptidase.

Abstract: A brake device equipped with an actuator having a power-transmission member generating a pushing force by receiving a drive force so as to advance. A pressure-detection device is provided for detecting the reaction pressure being applied to the power-transmission member and a clearance controller is provided for making the power-transmission member perform a return stroke. A brake shoe is attached to the power-transmission member and generates a braking force on the wheel tread surface. Such clearance controller is provided with a stroke memory unit which detects when the pressure signal from the pressure-detection device has reached a reference value when the pushing force of the power-transmission member is output and memorizes the stroke position of the power-transmission member as the reference stroke position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an amino acid derivative having an angiotensin I-converting enzyme inhibition activity, a vasopressin antagonism and an atrial natriuretic peptide hydrolase inhibition activity.This amino acid derivative is represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an acyl group; R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an ary group which may have a substituent, a heteroaryl group which may have a substituent, an arylalkyl group which may have a substituent or a heteroarylalkyl group which may have a substituent;m and n represent each independently an integer of 0, 1 or 2 andJ represents a cyclic group having an angiotensin I-converting enzyme inhibition activity.

Abstract: Disclosed is a load-setting device for railway cars which is installed on each such railway car and which sends an output to at least one of a power-running control unit and a brake control unit. The output is sent in the form of a load signal corresponding to an actual load applied on such railway car. The device comprises a preset-value generator which sets an initially preset pseudo-load signal corresponding to such railway car; a load-calculation circuit; and a load signal generator. The load calculation circuit is connected to receive the pseudo-load signal, at least one of power-running command and braking command as determined by acceleration-deceleration signals, an actual acceleration and deceleration signal on the basis of a railway car speed signal, and a slip-sliding detection signal. The load-calculation circuit modifies the pseudo-load signal in response to such at least one of such power running command and such brake command and such acceleration and deceleration signal.

Abstract: The biphenylmethane derivative having the formula (I) is useful to prevent and treat hypertension and cardiac failure. ##STR1## in which R1 is hydrogen, an alkyl, a cycloalkyl, a halogenated alkyl, --S--R7, --SO2--R7, --C.tbd.C--R7 or --(CH2)p--OR7, R7 being hydrogen, an alkyl, a cycloalkyl or a halogenated alkyl, p being zero or 1, --A1=A2--A3=A4-- is --CH=CH--CH=CH--, --N=CH--CH=CH--, --CH=N--CH=CH--, --CH=CH--N=CH--, --CH=CH--CH=N-- or --CH=N--CH=N--, R2 and R3 are each hydrogen, a halogen, a lower alkyl, a lower alkoxy, a carbamoyl or cyano, R4 is hydrogen or a lower alkyl, R5 is 1H-tetrazol-5-yl, carboxyl (--COOH) or a carboxylic ester and R6 is hydrogen, a halogen, hydroxyl or a lower alkoxy, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A pyrrolidine compound having the following formula and a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof is disclosed. It is useful in the pharmaceutical field. ##STR1## in which X is hydrogen, a halogen, or a lower alkyl, Y is --(CH2)n--, n being zero, 1 or 2, --S(O)p--, p being zero, 1 or 2, --O--, or --NH-- and R is phenyl, a substituent-having phenyl, naphtyl, a substituent-having naphthyl, a heteroaryl or a substituent-having heteroaryl.

Abstract: The biphenylmethane derivative having the formula (I) is useful to prevent and treat hypertension and cardiac failure. ##STR1## in which R1 is hydrogen, an alkyl, a cycloalkyl, a halogenated alkyl, --S--R7, --SO2--R7, --C.tbd.C--R7 or --(CH2)p--OR7, R7 being hydrogen, an alkyl, a cycloalkyl or a halogenated alkyl, p being zero or 1, --A1.dbd.A2--A3.dbd.A4-- is --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH--, --N.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH--, --CH.dbd.N--CH.dbd.CH--, --CH.dbd.CH--N.dbd.CH--, --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.N-- or --CH.dbd.N--CH.dbd.N--, R2 and R3 are each hydrogen, a halogen, a lower alkyl, a lower alkoxy, a carbamoyl or cyano, R4 is hydrogen or a lower alkyl, R5 is 1H-tetrazol-5-yl, carboxyl (--COOH) or a carboxylic ester and R6 is hydrogen, a halogen, hydroxyl or a lower alkoxy, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: The biphenylmethane derivative having the formula (I) is useful to prevent and treat hypertension and cardiac failure. ##STR1## in which R1 is hydrogen, an alkyl, a cycloalkyl, a halogenated alkyl, --S--R7, --SO2--R7, --C.tbd.C--R7 or --(CH2)--OR7, R7 being hydrogen, an alkyl, a cycloalkyl or a halogenated alkyl, p being zero or 1, --A1.dbd.A2--A3.dbd.A4-- is CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH--, --N.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH--, --CH.dbd.N--CH.dbd.CH--, --CH.dbd.CH--N.dbd.CH--, --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.N-- or --CH.dbd.N--CH.dbd.N--, R2 and R3 are each hydrogen, a halogen, a lower alkyl, a lower alkoxy, a carbamoyl or cyano, R4 is hydrogen or a lower alkyl, R5 is 1H-tetrazol-5-yl, carboxyl (--COOH) or a carboxylic ester and R6 is hydrogen, a halogen, hydroxyl or a lower alkoxy, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.