An absorbent article and method are disclosed for providing side leakage protection for an undergarment and absorbent article positioning guidance for proper placement on the undergarment. An absorbent configured to fit the pudendal region of a woman and a liquid-impermeable baffle are provided with a pair of garment-attachment adjustable scroll members for receiving an arcuately shaped crotch por...

An absorbent article and method are disclosed for providing side leakage protection for an undergarment and absorbent article positioning guidance for proper placement on the undergarment. An absorbent configured to fit the pudendal region of a woman and a liquid-impermeable baffle are provided with multiple pairs of garment-attachment nesting ridges for receiving an arcuately shaped crotch portio...

A stain protection article and method are disclosed for providing protection against side leakage around a feminine care absorbent article. A pair of stain resistant strips have a stain protection sheet member aligned along a comfort cuff member shaped to accommodate the inside leg of a user. A garment-attachment adhesive on the stain resistant strips attaches to a crotch portion of an undergarmen...

An apertured, compression-resistant web is disclosed, the web comprising a first surface having a plurality of microapertures forming volcano-shaped surface aberrations, a second surface generally parallel to and spaced apart from the first surface. A plurality of fluid passageways extend between the first surface and the second surface to place the first surface and the second surface in fluid co...

The present invention relates to elastic articles comprising a crosslinked or crosslinkable ethylene polymer and a method for making the same. In particular, the invention relates to a shaped article (e.g. film or fiber) characterized by improved elasticity at elevated temperatures and comprising a substantially cured, irradiated, or crosslinked (or curable, irradiated or crosslinkable) homogeneou...

In the inventive method for the sanitary rinsing of an animal, an assembly line is provided which includes a plurality of shackles. Each shackle includes an inventive RFID tag which includes a machine readable unique shackle number. Once an animal is stunned and attached to a shackle the animal is moved to a weighing station, which is equipped with an RFID tag reader, weighs the animal and transmi...

A lubricant composition of suitable viscosity miscible in non-chlorinated, fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerants includes polyhydric alcohol esters, such as TMP, mono and/or di-pentaerythritol esters, made with branched carboxylic acids.

PURPOSE:To prevent wires and leads from crossing each other due to wire sweep caused by mold flow and easily discriminate between passed and failed products through X-ray test. CONSTITUTION:The semiconductor device is sealed with a resin after the device is constituted in such a way that inside and outside electrode pads are alternately arranged on a semiconductor chip 2 and leads 4A with inner le...

PCT No. PCT/EP93/02667 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 16, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 16, 1994 PCT Filed Sep. 30, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/07447 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 14, 1994An apparatus for removing tissue from the eye performs various types of corrections using a relatively large beam, but oscillated or dithered to prevent the formation of ridges during the removal process. Various types of corrections are conte...

A closure assembly comprising a door (1), for sealingly closing a door frame (3), is divided into two or more closure members, subdoors (2) arranged one above the other so as to provide progressively higher closure against rising floodwater. Preferably, the lowermost sub-door (21) is of such a height to enable it to be stepped over, thus allowing access whilst keeping out floodwater. The invention...

A pressing medical treatment apparatus (10) comprises a pressing section (55) for pressing the back of a human body and a detecting section (66) for detecting spinous process. The detecting section (66) includes a pressure sensitive sensor (23) for detecting spinous process, and it is movable in the plane parallel to the back of the human body by the aid of a guide section (21). The detecting sect...

PURPOSE: To provide a laser beam machine with which processing of a relatively large and smooth taper angle is exactly and rapidly executable and mass productivity is excellent. CONSTITUTION: A laser beam 102 oscillated by a laser oscillator 101 is converged by a mask and a laser beam transmissible part deforming mechanism 180, by which the laser beam 108 having a desired and arbitrary shape is fo...

Aqueous application systems for applying additives to polymeric particles, methods of preparing aqueous emulsions which include at least one processing, stabilizing or other functional polymer additive and an emulsifiable wax. Also disclosed are methods of applying additives to polymeric particles and to polymeric particles treated by such methods.

The combination of a belt tensioner and a support therefor, a belt tensioner, a kit therefor and methods of making the same are provided, the combination comprising a belt tensioner mounted to a support by a single bolt and having a removable pin extending therefrom and being received in an offset opening in the support to orient the tensioner relative to the support and to prevent rotation of the...

A non-nodal mounting system for an ultrasonic element includes a drive ring and a flexible disk. The drive ring is rotatably connected to a mounting housing. The flexible disk is fixed at a radially inner portion to the ultrasonic element and at a radially outer portion to the drive ring. The flexible disk can include flexible fingers for reducing the force transmitted to the drive ring. Also, the...

Fiber Bragg grating coupled light sources can acheive tunable single-frequency (single axial and lateral spatial mode) operation by correcting for a quadratic phase variation in the lateral dimension using an aperture stop. The output of a quasi-monochromatic light source such as a Fabry-Perot laser diode is astigmatic. As a consequence of the astigmatism, coupling geometries that accommodate the ...

A medical device, and related method, use apicaroial ablators and detectors for intraoperative epicardial approaches to ablation therapy of cardiac conduction pathways. An opicarlial gripper is sized to grasp the cardiac circumference or smaller structures on the epicardial surface of the heart. Ablators are disposed on The arms of the gripper for epicardial ablation of cardiac conduction tissue. ...

The invention relates to new peptide fragments, fusion proteins containing said peptide fragments, methods for producing same and the use of the peptide fragments. The invention also relates to a method for the purification of fusion proteins and a method for detecting proteins. The invention further relates to nucleic acids coding for the peptide fragments or the fusion proteins and to vectors co...

An internal control voltage outputted from a voltage comparator controls the gain of a second amplifier. The output from the second amplifier, supplied to one input of the voltage comparator, is compared with an external control voltage supplied to the other input thereof. Such a negative feedback loop enables the gain of the second amplifier to be completely proportional to the external control v...

The present invention provides a reliable modular production quality excimer laser capable of producing 10 mJ laser pulses in the range of 1000 Hz to 2000 Hz with a full width half maximum bandwidth of about 0.6 pm or less. Replaceable modules include a laser chamber (211), a pulse power system comprised of three modules; an optical resonator comprised of a line narrowing module (206) and an outpu...