The invention relates to terphenyl compounds having the general formula Ä1Ü:- where each of R1 and R2 is the same or different and is selected from the group consisting of:- alkyl, alkyloxy, alkenyl, alkenyloxy, alkynyl, alkynyloxy where * indicates an asymmetric carbon atom, provided that at least one of R1 and R2 is and where each of R3 and R4 is the same or different and ...

Disclosed is a sanitary disposable paper product having improved resistance to ink rub-off. Also disclosed is a sanitary disposable paper product having high color density print characteristics which exhibits improved resistance to ink rub-off. The sanitary disposable paper product comprises a fibrous sheet containing cellulose wherein the ink is applied to at least one surface of the paper.

A car door lock for locking elevator car doors when the elevator car is in transit and/or outside the door zone includes a solenoid activated lever that pushes a lock arm to open. The solenoid is activated in two phases to reduce associated noise. The car door lock includes an operator switch which signals the door controller that the door lock is opened and the elevator car door is free to be ope...

The invention relates to an absorbent article such as a sanitary napkin, an incontinence guard or a panty-liner, which article has a generally elongated shape with a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and exhibits two long sides, two short sides, two end portions and a central portion, located between the end portions, and exhibiting a transversely extending cross-sectional line fro...

A liquid crystal composition includes host material comprising (a) two or more phenylpyrimidinyl compounds of general formula (I), wherein X1 and X2 are independently selected from the group consisting of straight or branched chain (C1-C12)alkyl, straight or branched chain (C1-C12)alkenyl and straight or branched chain (C1-C12...

An OFDM receiver for interlocking FFT window position recovery with sampling clock control, and a method thereof are provided. This method includes the steps of: extracting a pilot signal from fast-Fourier-transformed OFDM received signals, and detecting inter-pilot phase differences; averaging the detected phase differences for a symbol and normalizing the mean phase difference by dividing it int...

A fast Fourier transform (FFT) window position recovery apparatus in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver is provided. This apparatus, in an OFDM system receiver which receives an OFDM symbol comprised of a useful data interval and a guard interval and recovers an FFT window position, includes: an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) (310) for converting a received OFDM signa...

A disposable garment having an improved disposal device having a one-piece disposal feature so as to provide convenient disposal of the disposable garment. The disposable garment includes a chassis having a front portion, a rear portion, and a crotch portion positioned between the front portion and the rear portion. Seams join the front and rear portions together to form two leg openings and a wai...

The invention relates to a disposable sealed diaper comprising a hip opening, two leg openings (64), first elastic means (20) running along at least one part of the leg openings, and an hour-glass-shaped principal part (2) consisting of a rear area (12), a frontal area (8) and an incremental area (10) formed between the leg openings. The principal part (2) has a layer (14), said layer being at lea...

The method is carried out in a locally defined region, inside or outside of the system (1), and intensifying the excitation of the nuclear spin of the object under test. The system forms or has at least one passive resonant circuit, with an inductance (2) and a capacitance (3). The resonant frequency of the circuit is essentially the same as the resonant frequency of the irradiated high frequency ...

An absorbent article having a body-facing cover layer (10), a garment facing barrier layer (4) and an absorbent element (2) between the cover layer (10) and the barrier layer (4). The cover layer (10) is a non-woven fabric formed from an interconnected network thermoplastic polymer fiber elements. At least a portion of the non-woven fabric is three-dimensional having a plurality of raised regions ...

A sanitary napkin including a middle region and lateral regions lying adjacent the middle region, and a transversely middle region A of the sanitary napkin 1 being configured to have a rigidity lower than that of the lateral regions B, B.

A sanitary napkin with a pair of wings includes a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core disposed therebetween, the wings including a portion of the backsheet extending bilaterally of the napkin and a breathable sheet material bonded to the portion by means of bonding lines extending in a transversely direction of the napkin and arranged intermittently in a longitudinal direction of the napki...

The absorbent article for disposal of body fluids includes a topsheet 2 compared of an upper layer sheet 6 made of liquid-pervious plastic film and a lower layer sheet 7 made of liquid-pervious fibrous assembly, and the upper layer sheet 6 extends in one direction and formed with a plurality of crest 11 and troughs 12 alternating in a direction orthogonal to the first-mentioned direction.

An absorbent article such as a panty liner 1 for disposal of body fluids discharged thereon includes a body facing side, an undergarment facing side and an absorbent core disposed therebetween, the undergarment facing side including a thermoplastic synthetic fiber layer 12 placed against a bottom surface of the core 4 and having a density lower than that of the core 4, a synthetic resin layer 13 h...

In obtaining a photomask blank 1 by disposing a sputtering target in a vacuum chamber and forming thin films 3, 4, and 5 with a three-layer construction of CrN/CrC/CrON over a transparent substrate 2 by reactive sputtering, the thin films are formed in a mixed gas atmosphere containing helium, and the helium gas flux in the mixed gas is controlled such that the crystal grain diameter of the CrC th...

A napkin comprises an absorbent core between a pervious topsheet and an impervious backsheet, with all parts extensible, and a fastener for securing the napkin to the garment, the fastener allowing at least parts of the napkin to extend. The napkin is pref. extensible both longitudinally and transversely and may require extending before applying to the garment, or may be extended by forces applied...

A napkin comprises an absorbent core between a pervious topsheet and an impervious backsheet, with all parts extensible, and a fastener for securing the napkin to the garment, the fastener allowing at least parts of the napkin to extend. The napkin is pref. extensible both longitudinally and transversely and may require extending before applying to the garment, or may be extended by forces applied...

Disclosed is a crystalline compound and a method for forming the compound having a chemical composition expressed, in terms of molar ratios, by the formula: M.n[R(COOH)x] wherein M is aluminum hydroxide, n is the number of moles of a carboxylic acid organic material reacted with a mole of M, R is an organic functional group or a bond and x is equal to or greater than 2. The method comprises r...

A welding method for a disposable diaper comprising steps of putting wing-like portions (21,22) provided on front and rear bodies (5,6) including a topsheet (2), a backsheet (3) and a core (4) sandwiched therebetween, one upon another, with said topsheet opposed face to face; placing cover sheet (20) having a melting point higher than a melting point of said backsheet on an outer surface of said w...