An electrical receptacle assembly includes a housing and a mounting bridge. The housing includes front and back covers adapted to mate together. The front cover has opposite forward and rearward sides and opposite top and bottom ends, and the back cover has opposite forward and rearward sides and top and bottom ends. The forward side of the front cover is a wall covering the same whereas the rearw...

An acetabular cup assembly for use with a femoral implant. The cup assembly includes an outer shell, a bearing liner configured to fit into a cavit y in the shell, a generally annular retaining ring and a locking ring configured to h old the retaining ring in the shell adjacent the bearing liner. The locking ring is slidable between locked and free configurations, with at least part of the locki n...

A system for exhaust gas purification disposed in the exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine, which includes a zeolite as adsorbent component capable of adsorbing the hydrocarbons present in the exhaust gas emitted from the engine and a catalyst capable of reducing the harmful substances present in the exhaust gas; the system satisfies the following condition: a/c = 3 to 50 cc/g wherein a i...

A position sensing device (2) contains a magnetic field generating device (3) having at least one magnetic pole (4j) and a sensor device (5) with at least one sensor (6) with an enhanced magnetoresistive effect. The magnetic field generating devi ce (3) should be arranged with respect to the sensor device (5) in such a way that the sensor (6) is laterally offset with respect to the magnetic pole (...

The method for unloading the reams from a machine for the production of securities comprises the following steps: a) placing of a container (1) having at least one door (6) on the same side as the tray rack (31) of the machine (34), b) positioning and locking of the container relative to the rack, c) transfer of the trays (32) carrying the reams (36) from the rack into the container, d) closing of...

A junction box for shielded cable, especially data transmission cable, is described, which consists of a lower part and an upper part of die- cast metal. The wires of the cables to be connected are introduced into a loading block, which can be latched into the lower part. A mounting plate, on which a printed circuit board is seated, is mounted in the upper part; the jacks are mounted on ...

A bone fixation apparatus for anchoring a surgical member to bone for the fixati on of bone or soft tissue to bone. The bone fixation apparatus includes a post device having a leg portion slidably insertable into a hole formed in bone. The leg portion is of su fficient length relative to the interior diameter of the hole to resist removal of the leg porti on from the hole when forces substantially...

A device for prosody generation at visual synthesis. A number of half-syllables are stored together with registered movement patterns in a face. When synthesizing speech, a number of half-syllables are put together into words and sentences. The words and sentences are given a stress and pattern of intonation corresponding to the intended language. In the face, a number of points and their movement...

A device for prosody generation at visual synthesis. A number of half-syllables are stored together with registered movement patterns in a face. When synthesizing speech, a number of half-syllables are put together into words and sentences. The words and sentences are given a stress and pattern of intonation corresponding to the intended language. In the face, a number of points and their movement...

A method of speech synthesis for reproduction of facial movements of a person with synchronized speech synthesis. The speech is put together of polyphones that are taken from a database. A databank is established containing polyphones with the polyphones belonging to facial movement patterns of the face of a first person. Polyphones from a second person are also registered and stored in the databa...

A method of speech synthesis for reproduction of facial movements of a person with synchronized speech synthesis. The speech is put together of polyphones that are taken from a database. A databank is established containing polyphones with the polyphones belonging to facial movement patterns of the face of a first person. Polyphones from a second person are also registered and stored in the databa...

Catheter system (1) consisting of a sleeve (4), a catheter (9) and a membrane (8 ) partially arranged in the sleeve (4), which can be fixed in a skin passage unit (111) in s uch a way that the catheter (9) protrudes from the skin passage unit (111) towards the interior of the body, characterised in that the individual components of the catheter system (1) are i nseparably connected to one another.

Implantable cylindrical device (1) for connecting a hose arranged outside of the human or animal body to a hose (2) arranged inside of the said body, characterised in tha t an anchoring plate (13) falling away peripherally from the skin surface is arranged around the cylindrical device (1). This allows the skin to unroll over the anchoring plate subject to a tilting moment of the port body.

In a server providing access for multiple users to the World Wide Web, selected pages from periodically updated Web sites are precached. Pages linked to the home page for a Web site which are likely to be accessed by a user are retrieved and stored on the server. In response to offline browsing requests by subscribers to the Web site, the pages or portions of pages which are not already present in...

A funnel wind generator comprising at least one vertically located turbine and having thereabout a plurality of outwardly extending wings which direct the flow of wind to the turbine to cause efficient operation thereof.

A process for thin film formation is provided which comprises a step of separation of a substrate constituted of a nonporous Si layer, a porous Si layer formed thereon, and a less porous Si layer formed further thereon into the nonporous Si layer and the less porous Si layer at the porous Si layer, wherein the separation is caused by projecting a laser beam through the side face of the substrate. ...