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A battery case for containing therein battery modules includes a tray member, cover member, and seal member. The seal member is applied to a joint part between the tray member and cover member. Insert members made of metal are embedded in the resin of the tray member. Each of the insert members is provided with an embedded bolt a threaded part of which protrudes upward, and embedded nuts. The battery case is provided with first fastening sections and second fastening sections. In the first fastening section, a nut member is screwed onto the embedded bolt from above the cover member. In the second fastening section, a bolt member is screwed into the embedded nut from above the cover members.

After completion of annealing for bonding of the base wafer 1 and bond wafer 2, the bond wafer 2 is thinned to a first thickness suitable for ion implantation, and boron is ion-implanted to thereby form a high-boron-concentration layer 10. A second thinning step based on selective etching is then carried out while using the high-boron-concentration layer 10 as an etch stop layer. This is successful in providing a method of fabricating an SOI wafer which is suppressed both in intra-wafer uniformity of the firm thickness and in inter-wafer uniformity of the film thickness even when a required level for the thickness of the SOI layer is extremely small.

Components of a crop re-hydration system are advantageously carried on free space of a large square baler. Specifically, a direct-fired steam generator is mounted at a rear location on the baler so as not to transfer heat to a hydraulic fluid supply tank located at a forward location on the baler. Further, the combustion chamber of the steam generator is coupled to a forwardly extending main steam conduit having a length sufficient for ensuring that the water injected into the combustion chamber is thoroughly mixed with hot combustion gases and changed to steam prior to reaching a steam distribution manifold located at a forward end of the baler. A combustion air intake filter is positioned in a relatively clean zone at an elevated location at the rear of the baler. Water tanks are mounted closely adjacent ground wheel axles of the baler so that the weight of the water does not unduly load the baler frame.

An interceptor missile including an infrared radiation detection subsystem and a window assembly in the hull of the missile optically coupled to the infrared radiation detection subsystem. The window assembly includes an inner window, an outer window, and a support subsystem between the inner and the outer windows defining a plurality of infrared transparent fluid flow cooling channels between the inner and outer windows. A source of fluid coupled to the cooling channels for cooling the outer window without adversely affecting the optical properties of either window.

The invention relates to an inductive proximity sensor for embedding in a mild steel mounting plate, comprising an enclosure with a front wall of synthetic material forming a sensing face at a front end of the enclosure, an oscillator comprising a sensor coil with a core made of a material with a relative magnetic permeability larger than 1, typically a ferrite, which is arranged within the enclosure behind the front wall so that an open side of the core is directed towards the sensing face in order to direct the magnetic field of the coil towards a target in front of the sensing face, a hollow cylindrical metal member arranged perpendicular to the sensing face and surrounding the core, and a measuring circuit for measuring an attenuation of the oscillator due to eddy currents. The core is radially surrounded by a metal layer with a low electrical resistivity of less than 15 μΩ·cm and with a thickness of less than 40 μm, in order to improve the embeddability of the sensor. Alternatively, this thin metal layer may be omitted, if the electrical resistivity of the metal member is adjusted to a value in the range of 15 μΩ·cm-50 μΩ·cm.

A wireless LAN system uses an address that is used by another device than terminals connected to a wireless LAN, as a multicast destination address. An access point sets an address that is used by another device than terminals connected to a wireless LAN of its own, as a multicast destination address. The access point generates a unique multicast frame, which is to be discarded by an ordinary terminal, with the multicast destination address set as a destination address according to a standard frame format, and sends the generated unique multicast frame through a wireless link. A special terminal stores the multicast destination address in advance. The special terminal receives a frame from the access point as a unique multicast frame if the multicast destination address is set as a destination address of the frame.

An electromagnetic relay including an electromagnet block having a rod-shaped iron core, a coil wound around the rod-shaped iron core, and a spool interposed between the coil and iron core. A yoke having one end section extends to a section at a side of a magnet pole section of the iron core. An end section of the yoke is arranged so that the magnet pole section has a gap on a base side. A moving iron is pivotably supported by an elastic support of a hinge spring. The electromagnet block is magnetized wherein a section drawn in the moving iron is drawn to the magnet pole section and pivoted to drive a contact switching unit. The hinge spring includes an elastic contacting portion extending toward an opposite side to the elastic support. The moving iron is integrated with a card member that comes in contact with the elastic contacting portion.

In a semiconductor integrated circuit, power source wiring for supplying power supply voltage to a plurality of flip flop circuits, and power source wiring for supplying different power supply voltage to a combinational circuit are provided individually, so that the power supply to the flip flop circuits and the power supply to the combinational circuit can be performed separately from, and independently of, each other. During shift operation in scan testing, the power supply voltage to the combinational circuit is set to a low voltage or cut off, thereby suppressing the amount of power consumed by the combinational circuit portion during the shift operation. At the same time, the power supply voltage to the flip flop circuits is set to a high voltage during the shift operation.

The present invention is directed to a method of reducing the nicotine content of a tobacco plant to less than addictive levels. The method includes the step of administering to the tobacco plant an effective amount of a nicotine reducing agent sufficient to reduce the level of nicotine in the tobacco plant so that the resulting nicotine content in the plant is reduced to a level wherein a tobacco product produced from the plant will yield a non-addictive level of nicotine in the central nervous system blood plasma of the user. The present invention is further directed to tobacco plants prepared by the method.