An HDTV receiver design includes a reconstruction section and an inner loop section. The reconstruction section comprises a receiving section (211) for accepting the television receiver's antenna signals, for separating out the component signals from the received signals and for decoding the separated signals. The decoded signals are applied to a quantization decoder (202) that is responsive to ve...

Disclosed is a modularly expandable switch-based apparatus which is used to interconnect multiple Personal Computers as nodes of a parallel system. The invention includes a bus-based expansion card which is inserted into a card slot in each of the Personal Computers to provide an adaption from the Personal Computer MicroChannel to the interface to a multi-stage switch network. Thus, the disclosed ...

The system generates a composite image on a pixel-by-pixel basis by selectively mapping source pixels provided by video sources of different video formats onto destination pixels in the composite image. The mapping is accomplished by encoding the source pixels into digital words, each word having a color information part and a video format identifier, used to decode the color information part upon...

The invention concerns a muscle-powered wheeled vehicle with an electric auxiliary drive (5) and a control unit (10) which controls the auxiliary drive to deliver an additional torque depending on the muscle force acting on the wheel (2) concerned, the muscle force being determined by a sensor (4). The drive can be integrated into the vehicle design in optimum fashion and the drive characteristics...

PCT No. PCT/DK95/00309 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 12, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 12, 1997 PCT Filed Jul. 14, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/02468 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 1, 1996A method and plant for the purification of polluted water by the activated sludge method is provided in that a mixture of polluted water and recycled sludge is subjected to biological treatments in at least two treatment zones, and maintaining ...

PCT No. PCT/EP95/03275 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 21, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 21, 1997 PCT Filed Aug. 17, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/06809 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 7, 1996The invention relates to a process for producing modified, fiber-reinforced xerogels having porosities greater than 60% and xerogel matrix densities below 0.6 g/cm3 and to their use as thermal insulating material.

PCT No. PCT/EP95/03275 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 21, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 21, 1997 PCT Filed Aug. 17, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/06809 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 7, 1996The invention relates to a process for producing modified, fiber-reinforced xerogels having porosities greater than 60% and xerogel matrix densities below 0.6 g/cm3 and to their use as thermal insulating material.

A method for manufacturing a retardation film having a suitable retardation using a film casting method but without requiring any special heat-treating process. The post-drying process in the film casting method is divided into three or more chambers, and the tension applied to the film is controlled under the condition that the tension does not exceed a yield value determined based on the amount ...

PURPOSE:To detect early false commodities bearing foul trademarks in a distribution process by adding the registered identification code to each commodity. CONSTITUTION:An identification code 9 is added to each commodity or its packing for identification of commodities from each other in a distribution process. This code 9 consists of a maker number and a commodity number, for instance. The commod...

A magnetic head device has a magnetic head slider by means of which information is recorded in and read from a magnetic recording medium. The magnetic head slider is supported by a supporting structure having an internal cavity, an opening formed in a portion of the structure where the magnetic head slider faces the magnetic recording medium and communicating with the internal cavity, and a gas pa...

Nonwoven spun-bond is produced by a stationary pressure apparatus in which the shaft below the spinneret has an inlet section followed by the downwardly converging intermediate section, a drawing section and a diffuser opening above the collecting belt through which air is drawn by a suction device. The process air velocity profile has an intersection point with the drawing value at the intermedia...

A continuous ink refill system for an ink jet printer that uses disposable ink jet cartridges having a first predetermined ink capacity includes an ink reservoir that is external to a print carriage on which the disposable ink jet cartridges are mounted. The ink reservoir contains a second predetermined ink capacity that continuously refills an ink container within the disposable ink jet cartridge...

A conjugated polymer or oligomer comprises arylene vinylene units having an aromatic ring or a E -configured vinylidene linking group which bears an electron-withdrawing substituent which is fluorine or perfluoroalkyl. Such electron withdrawing groups improve processibility and stability of the polymer or oligomer when used in optical devices such as electroluminescent devices.

A washing machine has an agitator rotatable within a spin tub and is rotatable with the tub during a spinning phase or independently of the tub during an agitation phase. During initial loading of water into the machine, the spin tub is floated until it is out of engagement with the agitator. The disconnection is detected by having the motor rotated during the loading, the loading on the motor cha...

A vehicle lamp includes a reflection mirror, a front lens, and a light source arranged between the reflection mirror and the front lens, the central axis of the light source is perpendicular to the principal optical axis of the reflection mirror, on the reflection mirror, there is formed a reflection surface composed of a large number of reflection steps which are defined by portions of paraboloid...

A capacitive sensor for detecting the amount of ink remaining within an ink cartridge 8 comprises first and second capacitive plates 12,14 which may be formed by an array of plates as shown or may be continuous plates, each plate being connected to a voltage source 18, and an ink bag 16 positioned between the plates. A capacitance meter 20 is arranged to measure the capacitances between each plate...

In an optical arrangement (8), passive optical elements in the form of windows (12,14) are positioned against optical entrance and exit surfaces of an active optical element (10) and held in place with end support members (22,26) and fasteners (30,32,34,35). The windows (12,14) are formed of a material such as GaAs, GaAlAs or ZnSe having a higher optical damage threshold than the active optical el...

PCT No. PCT/EP95/03275 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 21, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 21, 1997 PCT Filed Aug. 17, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/06809 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 7, 1996The invention relates to a process for producing modified, fiber-reinforced xerogels having porosities greater than 60% and xerogel matrix densities below 0.6 g/cm3 and to their use as thermal insulating material.

PCT No. PCT/EP95/03275 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 21, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 21, 1997 PCT Filed Aug. 17, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/06809 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 7, 1996The invention relates to a process for producing modified, fiber-reinforced xerogels having porosities greater than 60% and xerogel matrix densities below 0.6 g/cm3 and to their use as thermal insulating material.

A liquid treatment apparatus for removing potentially combustible substances from water includes a biological fluid bed reactor (16) that is supplied by a first conduit with contaminated water (14) and that treats this water, under aerobic conditions, before discharging it as treated effluent (22) containing a significantly reduced concentration of contaminants. The liquid treatment apparatus also...