The present invention relates to a protective cover for beds to prevent wetting and soiling of the linen and mattress including a continuous moisture impermeable barrier layer, an absorbent layer bonded to the barrier layer and integral marginal flaps for securing the cover under the mattress. A fabric substrate is provided to add mechanical strength to the protective cover. A covering fabric is q...

A process for controlling a gas phase polymerisation reaction in a reactor when changing from a first product (i) made at a first set of conditions to a second product (ii) made at a second set of conditions, comprises: (a) comparing (i) and (ii) reaction temperatures, and changing the product reaction temperature set point to the (ii) reaction temperature if this is lower than the (i) reaction te...

A method and an apparatus are disclosed for providing enhanced pay per view in a video server. Specifically, the present invention periodically schedules a group of non pre-emptible tasks corresponding to videos in a video server having a predetermined number of processors, wherein each task is defined by a computation time and a period. To schedule the group of tasks, the present invention divide...

A device is proposed for welding molded parts made of plastic with at least one welding section having a heating element of a resistive wire for the purpose of producing a welded joint with at least one additional plastic section, such as a pipeline element, wherein the molded part has a resistor identifying the molded part type, characterized in that means are provided which permit the simultaneo...

An available bit rate scheduling method and apparatus for asynchronous transfer mode communication of a plurality of cells over a network characterized by a system clock frequency f and an allowed cell rate ACR. Each cell belongs to an assigned virtual circuit communication channel which is defined by a set of negotiated traffic parameters. The invention partitions the ACR's of the virtual circuit...

A mounting rail, particularly for use in building construction, is formed by an elongated rail member of approximately C-shaped cross section having a rear wall with spaced openings and pair of side walls extending from and at substantially right angles to the rear wall. The side walls have free edge sections spaced from the rear wall bent inwardly towards one another and forming cross members ext...

The invention provides a dispersion shift optical fiber which is capable of a zero dispersion wavelength division multiplex optical transmission in the wavelength band of 1550nm and a wavelength division multiplex transmission using the optical fiber. With the dispersion shift optical fiber according to the invention, the relationship between the relative refractive index difference .DELTA. 1 of a...

The first resistance coupled to the circuit input to work with a transistor as a voltage divider for an input signal, for an amplifier connected to the resistance. A damping and/or rectifying component is coupled to the circuit output, between the amplifier and the base of the transistor. A second resistance is coupled between the emitter of the transistor and earth. This second special resistance...

An MPEG coded picture decoding apparatus includes a stream buffer memory (1) for storing an MPEG stream, a pack header processing section (3) for separating a pack header of the MPEG stream and extracting SCR information, a PES packet processing section (4) for separating a header of a PES stream, extracting PTS information and separating packets, a GOP detection section (5) for detecting a GOP of...

A hollow package manufacturing method includes the adhesive spreading step, the adhesive applying step, and the cap adhering step. In the adhesive spreading step, an adhesive is spread on a circular table to a uniform thickness. In the adhesive applying step, an open end face of a cylindrical cap having a bottom is urged against the circular table to apply the adhesive to the cap. In the cap adher...

A mobile station comprises a power detector, an averaging circuit, and a signal fade detector. The power detector measures a channel signal power (receive signal power) of a receive signal received by a receiver. The averaging circuit averages the receive signal power measured by the power detector. The signal fade detector detects the fade of the channel signal power with the average of the re...