PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform power-ON resetting by making one digital circuit reset a processor when a proper operating voltage is applied and if a functional failure occurs to the processor in operation. SOLUTION: The microprocessor 1 is applied with the operating voltage U and a discriminated low-voltage signal of this operating voltage U is used as a reset signal for an oscillator 3, a mult...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To limit access to an IC card by an illegal action and make a security high by providing a counting means which counts the cumulative number of commands which are executed after an activation and an operation limiting means which limits the operation when the cumulative number exceeds an allowed number. SOLUTION: The counting means 7 counts the cumulative number 5 of all comm...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect the move of a moving body such as a vehicle from one of two adjacent travel lanes to the other lane by discriminating the crossing of the moving body over the boundary part of two travel lanes based on the state change of a received signal. SOLUTION: When a certain vehicle passes between lane change sensors 110(i-1) and 110(i) and moves from a travel lane L2 to a la...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reflect the travel control of a vehicle having a communication function, etc., with the existence of a vehicle by transmitting control information based on the existence of the detected vehicle to the vehicle following that vehicle and having the communication function, etc., when that vehicle moved into a prescribed travel lane is detected. SOLUTION: When an approach sign...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve monitor sounds in recording audio signals in a digital audio device. SOLUTION: The digital audio device improves the monitor sound in recording a digital audio signal having a number of sampling signals (for example, 48.1, 44.1, 32kHz, etc.) and the device is provided with a PLL circuit 16 which extracts clocks from the above digital audio input signals, a frequenc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain insulation and dispense with enlargement of power source and its capacity by arranging a shield material made of a good conductive material between a site free of a heating site surrounded by a work coil of the heating site and the work coil. SOLUTION: An end face of a metal tube 1 is processed for a protrusion taper and an end face of a metal tube 2 is processed ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize the characteristic of a high-temperature by thermistor, mixing a (Mn&sim NCr)O4 spinal powder with Y2 O3 powder and baking the mixed raw-material powder at a specific temperature to make both the components react with each other, and by obtaining a high-temperature thermistor material made of a specific spinel and a specific perovshite. SOLUTION: Mixing of Cr2 O3...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an image reader in which reading is conducted as soon as an image is recorded without making a reader large in size. SOLUTION: A taking up shaft 41 is provided to a side opposite to a patrone P containing an electronic development recording medium M with respect to a lens barrel 11. A recording medium guide member 45 formed semi-cylindrically around a taking shaft 4...

A fluid sampling apparatus for use in a hole in the earth having a rigid wall and containing a fluid comprising a flexible tubular member extendable within the hole and inflatable to a diameter effective to urge the tubular member against the rigid wall. At least one fluid pump is in communication with the tubular member and the hole for transferring fluid between the tubular member and the hole w...

A connector for a spring brake actuator comprises a threaded bolt having at least one flat portion on an outer surface thereof, a nut having a threaded central aperture threaded onto the bolt, and an embossment on the nut, extending inwardly of the central aperture to frictionally engage the flat portion of the bolt, so that the embossment prevents rotation of the nut with respect to the bolt. A m...

An abdominal exercise device to assist in exercising all three abdominal muscles includes a platform which is placed on a flat supporting surface. A substantially U-shaped body cage is pivotally mounted on the platform and extends outwardly therefrom and includes a U-shaped neck and head support portion and a pair of platform connecting portions adjustable connected thereto. A padded cushion mount...

A method and apparatus for ablation of body tissue. A catheter provided with a hollow needle is employed both for mapping the location to be ablated by injection of an excitability reducing agent and for ablating tissue, employing RF energy in conjunction with an injected, conductive fluid.

A process produces foam bodies having various properties and containing cellulose-containing materials broken up and/or partially broken up and/or not broken up, and additives, if need be. The cellulose-containing starting materials are first processed further for forming a moist pulp and subsequently subjected to a heat treatment by microwave radiation. The properties of the foam bodies so produc...

Compositions of precipitated anionic polymers containing mixtures of certain salts as well as processes for making and using the same are disclosed.

A particulate co-processed unattrited microcrystalline cellulose:hydrocolloid composition wherein the respective components are present in a weight ratio of from about 99:1 to 70:30. The composition is useful as a spheronizing agent for producing spheroids of uniform size and sphericity and having high drug loadings. The composition is produced by drying a slurry of the microcrystalline cellulose ...

PCT No. PCT/JP93/01870 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 7, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 7, 1995 PCT Filed Dec. 24, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/14878 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 7, 1994A molded article having an adhesion of at least 50 squares per 100 squares in crosscut adhesion test and at least 40 squares per 100 squares even after kept in a warm water of 70 DEG C. for 1 hour, a haze value of 1.0% or less in Taber abrasion ...

PCT No. PCT/US95/00707 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 12, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 12, 1996 PCT Filed Jan. 17, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/19376 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 20, 1995The invention deals with porous aggregates and a process for making same. The aggregates generally comprise discrete particles which are bound together, the aggregates having intra-aggregate volumes which may contain drug substances or other f...

The density of rigid foamed articles made by the thermal decomposition of a blowing agent in a vinyl chloride polymer is reduced by the use of an organotin mercaptoalkylcarboxylate, alone, or in combination with an organotin halide or carboxylate which activate the blowing agent. Sulfides made from said organotin mercaptoalkylcarboxylate are also superior activators of the blowing agent.

Fluoropolymer having unstable end groups is used to form foamed fluoropolymer structures without added blowing agent.

A styrene resin composition is disclosed which constitutes 45 to 92% by weight of a styrene resin (A), 5 to 45% by weight of an olefin resin other than an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester copolymer(B), and 3 to 25% by weight of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester copolymer (C). The styrene resin composition of the present invention may be used to make a variety of shaped articl...