The invention provides a tablet feeder that is simple in construction and yet capable of accurately preventing drawbacks from occurring due to jamming of medicine or the like. A motor 6 installed on a case support block 3 is driven to rotate a rotor 9 disposed in a medicine receiving case 1 through a plurality of gears. The tablets received in the medicine receiving case 1 are held in the pockets ...

A laryngeal airway device includes an air tube with proximal and distal ends, and a sealing member attached to the distal end of the air tube. The sealing member includes an anterior surface adapted to seat in the throat, against the hyoid bone, and to stretch the laryngeal inlet. A hole extends through the anterior surface and the sealing member and communicates through an air passage with the di...

The rotary cutter has a rotary drum (1) with multiple cutting flails (4) pivoted parallel to the drum axis (2). Each flail has a centre of gravity (G) separated from the fail pivot against. Each flail has a stop assembly (6-8) mounted within its pivot pin to allow pivoting of the flail only when a set resistance is met, applied orthogonal to the against of its pivot pin (5).

Refractory metal products, such as tantalum on non-refractory conductive metal backings, e.g. copper, can be rejuvenated after metal consumption in selected zones by powder filling the zones and high energy heating at high scan speed to sinter the added powder, without complete melting of the powder fill, thus establishing a microstructure consistent with the balance of the reclaimed product and a...

A method of preparing shrimps comprises the following steps: Steam boiling the shrimps at a high pressure exceeding the atmospheric pressure, and at an elevated temperature exceeding the boiling temperature of water at the atmospheric pressure for a specific period of time for keeping the meat of the shrimps in a compressed state due to the pressurisation while rapidly heating the shrimps to the e...

A method of preparing shrimps comprises the following steps: Steam boiling the shrimps at a high pressure exceeding the atmospheric pressure, and at an elevated temperature exceeding the boiling temperature of water at the atmospheric pressure for a specific period of time for keeping the meat of the shrimps in a compressed state due to the pressurisation while rapidly heating the shrimps to the e...

Ce système de robot nettoyeur comprend un appareil de recharge externe (80) et une borne d'alimentation (82) connectée à une source d'alimentation en courant, une marque (89) d'identification d'appareil de recharge formée sur l'appareil de recharge externe, et un robot nettoyeur (10), comportant un capteur de marque d'identification (15') qui détecte la marque d'identification (89) d'appareil d...

PCT No. PCT/EP93/01959 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 27, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 27, 1995 PCT Filed Jul. 22, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/03515 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 17, 1994Rigid polyurethane foams are prepared by the reaction of 1) polyisocyanates with 2) compounds of a molecular weight of from 150 to 1500, having at least two hydrogen atoms active towards isocyanates and which one tertiary nitrogen atom in the ...

A method of preparing shrimps comprises the following steps: Steam boiling the shrimps at a high pressure exceeding the atmospheric pressure, and at an elevated temperature exceeding the boiling temperature of water at the atmospheric pressure for a specific period of time for keeping the meat of the shrimps in a compressed state due to the pressurisation while rapidly heating the shrimps to the e...

Composition for preparing a rigid polyurethane foam improved adhesive strength, and a rigid polyurethane foam made therefrom are provided. The composition for preparing a rigid polyurethane foam is prepared using cyclopentane system as a physical blowing agent, and polyols having a low viscosity, and has an increased adhesive strength without damages of other properties.

The present invention relates to a method of inhibiting or reducing the proliferation of prostate cancer cells, such as androgen independent prostate cancer (AIPC) cells, the method comprising administering to the cells a PLA2 inhibitor. In one embodiment the PLA2 inhibitor is a conformationally constrained molecule derived from a peptide consisting essentially of amino acid residues 70-74 of a hu...

A bet matching system receives data representative of a bet placed on the outcome of an event such as a sporting match. The data includes the odds which a user wishes to take in terms of probability units, and a stake. A relational database system is arranged to match the bet against an earlier or later opposing bet, or bets, on the reverse outcome by looking for a match within the contra odds for...

The device has a stop unit (96) fixed with respect to a carriage (10), and control units (105, 107) comprising a constraint gauge placed on the stop unit. The constraint gauge measures an axial constraint e.g. axial clamping stress, exercised by a complementary transmission unit (74), for measuring control variable (F), to control the clamping stress.;

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The brake has an actuator displacing the control of a key of a piston blocking unit. The actuator has a valve to connect two hydraulic rooms with a source of brake fluid to drive the key between a position, where a piston (5) is free to move back and a position, where the key blocks the piston retreat. The key surface applied with the pressure in one room is different from the surface applied with...

An orifice (44) in the center of a rotor (43) communicates with an orifice (41) in the center of a stator (40) to allow debris to pass through without damaging the rotor blades. The communicating section (48) varies between a maximum and a minimum section as a function of the position of the rotor and part at least of the section is in the center of the rotor-stator assembly The communicating sec...

The method involves determining a survival criterion of a management hypothesis. Information e.g. sales information on which the hypothesis works is supplied to determine a result of every hypothesis. The management hypothesis that does not respect the criterion is eliminated based on the result. The management hypothesis daughter is generated from a management hypothesis mother surviving the elim...

The procedure consists of covering the mollusks (1) with a layer of a semi-rigid thermo-shrink plastic film (2) at least 50 microns thick on both sides, and sealing the film in zones (4) between adjacent mollusks and heating to a temperature of 60-90 degrees C for 3-10 s, and preferably 80 degrees C for 8 s. The plastic film can be in the form of two sheets or a single folded sheet, welded in line...

An electrically-operated device with variable optical/energetic transmission or reflection properties comprises at least one support substrate provided with a stack of layers with electrochromic function including at least two active electrochromic layers, separated by an electrolyte. The stack is arranged between two electrical leads, respectively a lower lead closest to the support substrate and...

The invention concerns remote transactions, secure access to networks and remote payments and micro-payments using a prepaid card delivering unique disposable codes to be scratched. The invention is characterized in that it consists in producing a card comprising a serial number and codes to be scratched.

Each of sites 1a to 1c makes public the web page on which an advertisement image handled by a merchandise sales site (server 3) is posted. When each user has an incentive to purchase the merchandise by the advertisement image while referring to the web page from the user terminals 2a to 2c, he or she moves to the merchandise sales site by clicking the advertisement image, etc. The access source ex...