In the extrusion of feed-stuff pellets and relevant consumer products, the extruded products are subject to expansion as a result of the boiling of their water content when the products, after being exposed to high extrusion pressure and a correspondingly high temperature, are discharged to the atmosphere through the extrusion nozzles. Such an expansion is directly aimed at, but it is desirable to...

A statistical metric, based on the magnitude and standard deviations along linear projections of clustered array response data, is utilized to facilitate an evaluation of the performance of detector arrays in various vapor classification tasks. This approach allows quantification of the ability of arrays of different types including carbon black-insulating polymer composite chemiresistor sensors, ...

Die Erfindung betrifft ein automatisiertes simultanes chemisches Syntheseverfahren, das dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, daß für die kovalente Verknüpfung der Produkte mit Trägermaterial geeignete Verknüpfungsbausteine bzw. Linker vorgesehen werden, die eine selektive und schonende finale Abspaltung der Produkte erlauben, wobei insbesondere für die Synthese von oligomeren Verbindungen, insbesondere von...

There is disclosed an ink for ink jet which produces a high quality level image, is superior in intermittent ejection stability from an ink jet recording head, and can inhibit printing distortion or ejection defect from being caused by a thickened material of the ink attached to an ejection port surface. The ink contains colorant-containing resin fine particles, pigment fine particles, at least on...

An ink set for recording a color image with inks of two or more colors comprising at least one black ink and one color ink on a recording medium is provided. The ink set comprises a black ink containing a self-dispersible carbon black having at least one cationic group bonded directly or through another atomic group to the surface thereof, and a color ink containing an anionic substance and having...

A set of color ink-jet recording inks for recording a color image on a recording medium by using at least a black ink and a color ink, wherein the black ink has a cationic self-dispersible carbon black and the color ink has an anionic dye and an anionic substance. This ink set can achieve a high printing density and good printing grade without bleeding between black image and color image. It has a...

A gain-coupled DFB semiconductor laser device has a resonator including a MQW active layer (13) and a diffraction grating (23) which feeds-back the emission from the resonator to allow the resonator to lase. The gain-coupled coefficient kappa g and the length Lg of the diffraction grating (23) satisfy the following relationship: 0.5 The yield rate of the DFB l...

A receiver (500) utilizes parameters generated by a Viterbi decoder (530) to determine one of a plurality of coding rates in which user information is transmitted. The receiver (500) combines the parameters in a predetermined manner, the result of which is a detection statistic (dij). By utilizing the detection statistic (dij), the coding rate at which user information is accurately determined.

A laser system which generates short duration pulses, such as under five nanoseconds at an energy level of up to a few milli-Joules per pulse (mJ/p) with near diffraction limited beam quality. A laser crystal is pumped (excited) by diode lasers. A resonator having at least two mirror surfaces defines a beam path passing through the laser crystal. The beam path in the resonator is periodically bloc...

In addition to having a stop member in the form of a hollow cylinder which is slotted and can be spread by means of an adjustment screw, an adjustable stop for a cutter adjustably arranged in a main casting or body of a tool is also provided with a sleeve member which can be inserted into a longitudinal bore of the stop member. The sleeve member has inside threads which can be brought into engagem...

The utility model relates to an indication structure simplified Chinese pager which is composed of a high-frequency receiving plate and a Chinese logic plate by connection. The high-frequency receiving plate is a universal high-frequency receiving plate in the prior art. The structure of the utility model is characterized in that the Chinese logic plate is composed of a CPU chip, and a decoder chi...

A high-density focusing objective lens having a high numerical aperture (NA), which can be easily manufactured by an existing technique, and an optical pickup adopting the objective lens for use in high-density recording. The objective lens (155) includes: a first transmitting portion (156) placed at a relatively near-axis region from the optical axis, for divergently transmitting an incident beam...

An antitheft vehicle-carried GSM/CDMA-GPS terminal and wireless telephone is composed of host and wireless handle. Said host consists of master control module, G/C module for wireless transmission, GPS module for navigation locating, wireless handle communication module for communication with host, satellite receiving antenna for receiving GPS satellite data, and power supply module. It can effect...

A delay connection device for mobile telephone is composed of two speech signal processing circuits, multiplexer, speech memory, address decoder, microprocessor and other circuits. When there is incoming call, the recorded speech is sent to line and the incoming signals are listened under the control of user.

A method for dynamical distribution of wireless channels between circuit switch service and packet data service is based on the service priority and channel congestion rate. It can increase the utilization rate of wireless resources and the system efficiency and service performance of GSM network able to support GPRS packet data service.

Methods for whitening teeth including contacting teeth with an effective amount of particulate bioactive glass are disclosed.

A catalytic process and a device for preparing, in absolute safely, aqueous hydrogen peroxide solutions at high concentration levels directly from hydrogen and oxygen; more particularly, a method whereby hydrogen and oxygen are injected, into the aqueous medium in proportions corresponding to the flammability range of the hydrogen-oxygen mixture, and are present in proportions outside the flammabi...

A library of macrocyclic compounds of the formula (I) (see formula I) - where part (A) is a (see formula II) bivalent radical, a -(CH2)y- bivalent radical or a covalent bond; - where part(B) is a (see formula III) bivalent radical, a -(CH2)z- bivalent radical, or a covalent bond; - where part (C) is a (see formula IV) bivalent radical, a -(CH2)t- bivalent radical, or a covalent bonds and - wher...

A gastric drainage device comprises a nasal gastric tube 2, a container 3 for collecting the expelled gastric fluids and a hand-operated pump 4 interposed between the nasal gastric tube 2 and the container 3, for dispelling fluids from the tube 2 into the container 3. The pump 4 is preferably in-line between the nasal gastric tube 2 and the container 3 with the tube 2 preferably having a number of...

A skip ladder-ramp comprising "v" shaped cross-rungs 3 fixed between two parallel side supports 1 angled at the top to the horizontal allowing a wheel barrow to free-stand and forming an elbow 2 which rests on a skip. The ladder-ramp is of sufficient stiffness to prevent bouncing, with a cross-rung 8 fixed across the underside to overhang the edge of the skip preventing the ramp sliding off the sk...