A selectively positionable fluid conduit for gas removal from or gas introduction to a specific environment is disclosed. The fluid conduit includes a tubular wand having an orifice at the distal end thereof. Unwanted gases are removed by suction force through the orifice. Desirable or therapeutic gases are introduced to a specific location through the orifice. The tubular wand is coupled to a mal...

A procedure for supplying systematically the power for a building with rooms where the illumination may not exceed a certain measure uses rectangular profiled carriers (2) with smooth walls. The carriers project vertically and parallel in the air and they are mounted vertically and horizontally on or in both the wall and ceiling. The total length of a carrier is a multiple of a certain module leng...

Coloured polyamide (PA) powder coatings which are stable to weathering, are made from conventional PA powders by coating the substrate first with at least one layer of pigmented PA and then with at least one layer of unpigmented PA containing weathering stabilisers. Also claimed are: (i) a process for the production of coloured PA coatings as above, in which the pigmented layer(s) is/are whirl sin...

An apparatus and method for facilitating plasma processing and in particular chemical plasma enhanced vapor deposition, plasma polymerization or plasma treatment of barrier materials onto the interior surface of containers (20). Barrier materials are useful for providing an effective barrier against gas and/or water permeability in containers and for extending shelf-life of containers, especially ...

The present invention is a non-ideal barrier coating sequence composition comprising oxides and organic polymers. The non-ideal barrier coating sequence composition is useful for providing an effective barrier against gas permeability in containers and for extending shelf-life of containers, especially plastic evacuated blood collection devices.

Amorphous alloys having the formula Fea Cob Nic Six By Mz are employed as monitoring strips for mechanically oscillating tags, for example for anti-theft protection, together with a source of a pre-magnetization field in which the strip is disposed so as to place the strip in an activated state. In the formula, M denotes one or more elements of groups IV through VII of the periodic table, includin...

An adsorbent for adsorbing and eliminating disease-related factors in body fluids, in particular, low-molecular weight proteins typified by beta 2-microglobulin and chemokines, which comprises a compound having a log P (P: partition coefficient in octanol/water system) of at least 2.50 fixed on a water-insoluble carrier of a porous structure made of cellulose having an exclusion limit molecular w...

A phosphorus ester oligomer having structure (I) wherein A can be the same or different in each monomeric unit and each is independently selected from the group consisting of oxygen, sulfur, lower alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkylamino, substituted or unsubstituted arylamino and aminoalkyl; B1 and B2 can be the same or different and each is independently selected from hydrogen, lower alkyl...

A personal communications controller (PCC, 10) may be programmed with a customized service configuration (52) based on which telecommunications functions in connection with multiple telephone terminals (16) are managed. The PCC system is designed to provide enhanced service value to all of the telephone terminals throughout a residence coupled to a single telephone communication line (12) entering...

A method is disclosed for supplying arbitrary types of information in a digital signal conformant to the structures defined in ISO standard ISO/IEC 13818-1, known generally as MPEG2 Systems. The method extends Program Stream and Transport Stream Structures by application of principles developed for standardization of bidirectional data communications protocols to define a universal messaging synta...

An outer tube for housing a double-ended needle in a manner to be vertically slidable is air-tightly and detachably connected and fixed to a seal portion at the mouth portion of a vessel containing therein a solution, an inner tube for housing therein an inverted vial containing therein drug is connected to the top end of the outer tube in a manner to be movable from a shallow fitting position to ...

A method for determining the quality of dispersion of glass fibers in a thermoplastic resin preform layer compares the mean characteristic length of the glass fiber bundles in the preform layer to a predetermined value indicative of dispersion of the glass fibers. The thermoplastic resin preform layer characterized by this method comprises a plurality of individual glass fibers and some degree of ...

A method for closing a passage in a filter body sample made from a solidifiable plastic or plastifiable particle-based material and comprising a plurality of coextending throughgoing passages separated by common passage walls, the method comprising deforming passage walls adjacent to the passage. This method vastly simplifies the manufacturing of filter bodies for use in e.g. filtering flue gasses...

A motor-vehicle dashboard (1) has a wall (5) projecting from the instrument panel (3) having an aperture (7) within which there is pivotally mounted the flattened body (10) of a liquid crystal video display, which can be moved between a folded rest position, lying in the plane of the wall (5) and an unfolded position of use, substantially orthogonal to this plane.

Tetra:borate-free lubricant comprises an aqueous solution of a mixture of an alkali triphosphate of formula: X5P3O10 and a compound of formula: Y5P3O10, (YPO3)w or ZBO2 (where, X, Y and Z = Na, K or Li; and X and Y are different and are Na and K; and w= 4000-6000). Also claimed is the production of the lubricant by mixing (KPO3)w in deionised water, and then adding the remaining components of the ...

Hollow inorganic microspheres with an average size of 0.5-1000 mu m and having a shell of fused and at least partially crystallised material and an average value of 0.3-1 for the Exner shape factor fe = 4A/ pi Dmax<2> in which A = the projected area of the external surface of a particle and Dmax = the maximum diameter of the particles, as a measure of the deviation from circular of the particle....

The energy saving plug box is fitted with a timer, which is connected by cable to a keying device. So that the time can be preset to activate the electric water heater at certain times, and can be switched off after the expiry of the preset time. An automatic electronic switch-off unit is provided, which is activated automatically if the manual switch has been left on. The switch off unit is start...

The method involves using video cameras to monitor a specific area. The camera outputs are switched to a converter to provide an input to a processing unit that controls the output section, such as sirens and lighting. The images generated by the cameras are divided into specific sectors (17) and for each sector an average value for the brightness and/or colour is established. The average values...

Crystalline silica is claimed which is characterised by having less than 20 wt.% of its particles of size below 53 mu m. The silica is transparent, and its use in dentistry is claimed. Preferably the silica is of the SKS-1H or SKS-2H type.

The detection method for movement made by an intruder within a monitored region, involves interpreting a video image obtained using a matrix of detector cells (DZx) over an interval from time x to time y. The detector matrix is typically 6 by 6. Each cell in the matrix is characterised by a brightness value (H), and a sequence of the luminance values is obtained over the period. The values are ...