Method and apparatus for making an image of a lumen and surrounding tissue in a body by inserting a transducer in the cavity and emitting ultrasound signals and collecting and processing echo signals to form an image. The apparatus comprises signal processing means arranged for performing the steps of and the method comprises the steps of: a) obtaining echo signals from tissue at a given state o...

Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren und eine Schaltungsanordnung zur Bestimmung der Menge des von einem elektrisch angetriebenen Schneidwerkzeug geschnittenen Schneidguts. Erfindungsgemäß werden die Schwankungen des von einem Antriebsmotor aufgenommenen Stroms erfaßt, gefiltert und ausgewertet. Durch Vergleich mit einem Referenzwert kann die Verschmutzung des Schneidwerkzeugs mit Schneidgutresten...

A coding device (101) encodes image data with the coding self-contained within specific image data units, and supplies the encoded data stream to a packetizer (103) to generate packets from the encoded image data stream, and a packet header adding device (104) adds to each packet a packet header containing time information whereby the temporal position of the packet is determined. Thus, temporal i...

Dva nové bakteriociny mikroorganismu Streptococcus thermophilus mající sekvence aminokyselin SEQ id. č. 1 a SEQ id. č. 2, signálních peptidů těchto dvou bakteriocinů, nukleotidových sekvencí, k'odujících tyto bakteriociny a zvláště operonu, k'odujícího tyto bakteriociny, které má sekvenci SWQ id. č. 3, dále pak kmenů, produkujících alespoň jeden z těchto bakteriocinů a zvláště kmene CNCM l-1351, z...

The invention is directed to a method and a circuit arrangement for determining the quantity of the material cut by an electrically powered cutting tool. According to the present invention, the fluctuations of the current consumed by a drive motor are detected, filtered and evaluated. By a comparison with a reference value, it is possible to determine the soiling of the cutting tool with cut resid...

Substantially linear ethylene polymers, such as ethylene/octene copolymers and ethylene/propylene/diene modified polymers, when added in a viscosity modifying amount to an oleaginous material, such as a lubricating oil, provides the material with a viscosity index that exceeds that of the material alone. The substantially linear ethylene polymers, prepared by constrained geometry catalysis, may be...

The proposed multimedia presentation computing device is beneficial as it is low in cost and is extremely user friendly. The device is easy to set up and control, is easily connected to various input and output devices, easily stores and manipulates data and effectively presents the resulting material. To create this multimedia presenting computer device we require an input unit which will receive...

An EAS marker assembly is a packaging and delivery method for large numbers of individual ferromagnetic EAS markers. The assembly is especially suited for use with an automated or semiautomated EAS marker insertion system. The EAS markers have an adhesive layer on each side to allow the markers to be attached between pages of a book. The assembly includes a plurality of markers carried by a differ...

There is provided a method for insulating an annulus surrounding a tubular in a wellbore comprising filling the annulus with an emulsion of liquid sodium silicate and an acid forming agent, increasing a temperature in the annulus, and forming a silica gel in the annulus, the silica gel effective in insulating the annulus. Said annulus may be formed between a well casing and a steam injection tubin...

A cardboard material casket including a cardboard material inner box having a bottom, two opposed sides and two opposed ends. A cardboard material outer wrap has an outer directed side with a finish different from a finish of the cardboard material inner box. The outer wrap has a bottom located below the bottom of the inner box. Side and end walls of the outer wrap extend from the bottom of the ou...

A package for an integrated circuit (12) that contains a plurality of small circular dielectric spaces which separate vias from a conducive plane of the package. The package has a first internal conducive plane, a second internal conductive plane and a plurality of bond pads (18) located on a top surface of a substrate (14). The substrate (14) has plurality of vias that extend through the first co...

A process for manufacturing an electronic interconnect structure, the process including the steps of: a) depositing an adhesion metal layer over a dielectric material surface having at least one exposed aluminum surface; b) depositing a barrier metal layer over the adhesion metal layer; c) depositing a layer of aluminum over the barrier metal layer; d) depositing a seccnd barrier metal layer over ...

A threading device for a machine for processing web-shaped material, having a guide rail extending at least sectionwise through the machine, includes a pulling device movable along the guide rail for pulling a web behind it, and an electric linear drive for activating the pulling device; and a method of threading the web through the processing machine.

PCT No. PCT/EP97/02309 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 20, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 20, 1999 PCT Filed May 6, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/49640 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 31, 1997Polluted waste waters are introduced into a tank (1, 100) in which a number of cavitation oxygenizers (5, 6, 11) are installed close and parallel to the bottom of the tank and divided into three types, one (5) that expels re-circulated water and...

No-bake inorganic binder compositions for binding particulate material and methods for curing such inorganic binders. The inorganic binder compositions are composed of silicate and phosphate components. The no-bake compositions further contain curing catalyst such as a catalyst selected from the group consisting of aliphatic carbonates, cyclic alkylene carbonates, aliphatic carboxylic acid esters,...

A lighting device has a light holder positionable on a mounting support, the light holder also having an outer light holder edge. The light holder includes a centrally located light holder top that projects from the mounting support for fastening a light source. A light protector is detachably fastened on the light holder. The light protector covers the light source and any holder regions projecti...

The integrated semiconductor circuit has a semiconductor chip, a housing that accommodates the semiconductor chip, and a lead frame that connects the contact areas of the semiconductor chip and forms external terminals of the integrated semiconductor circuit. The conductors of the lead frame are sunk, in the regions of the housing in which the distance between the edge of the housing and the semic...

A method of and apparatus for flushing a printhead (2) of a continuous ink jet printer (1) are disclosed, which printer has a feed line (13) to which ink is normally fed in use. A gutter line (14) is also provided through which unused ink is removed from the printhead (2). A bleed line (12) is connected to the printhead for bleeding ink from the printhead, and a flushing line (11) is connected to ...

Hybrid circuit comprises one or more semiconductor switches (15), which are sunken in the break-through (14) of a substrate, pref. flush to the substrate surface (11) carrying the hybrid circuit structure formed by conducting layers (13, 19), so that an electrical contact is formed between the switches (15) to connecting leads (20, 21). The novelty is that the conducting layer system (13, 19) is f...

A high temperature thermal sprayable material, such as a metal or metal oxide, is adhered to the surface of a thermal sprayable plastic particle to form a cladding layer thereon. The high temperature material cladding layer provides a thermal barrier that allows use of the plastic in a high temperature thermal spray process to create a duplex coating containing plastic.