The sprung foot has at least 2 tension springs (5) between an outer sleeve (8) and a threaded spindle (2), received within a threaded sleeve (3) acting as a support leg for the treatment or massage couch or bench. The outer sleeve has a base plate (7) at its bottom end, with a folding bellows (9) covering the gap between its top end and the outside of the threaded sleeve.

An optical pickup using a parallel plane plate type beam splitter is disclosed, in which the astigmatism produced by the fact that the light beam passes through the beam splitter is compensated by means of a correcting lens having anisotropically curved surfaces.

Handle (2) is shaped non-symmetrically along its longitudinal axis with the striking face and/or perpendicular to the axis.; Griffe für diese Schläger werden bisher in unterschiedlichen Formen und Stärken zu ihren Längsachsen aber immer symmetrisch hergestellt. Nachteil dieser Griffe ist, daß bei Ausführung der einhändigen Rückhand das Handgelenk nicht fixiert werden kann, Fehlschläge sind die Fol...

A wireless battery-operated window covering assembly is disclosed. The window covering has a head rail in which all the components are housed. These include a battery pack, an interface module including an IR receiver and a manual switch, a processor board including control circuitry, motor, drive gear, and a rotatably mounted reel on which lift cords wind and unwind a collapsible shade. The circu...

A roll-up type industrial door including a flexible vinyl sheet forming a curtain for closing a door way having an upper end, a lower end and two opposite side edges. The sheet has a thin main area and elongate side edge sections that are thicker than the main area. A sloping shoulder is formed where each side edge section meets the main area. A curtain winding mechanism is connected to the upper ...

A double-pane window having a light-control assembly within its peripheral frame. The light-control assembly has an upper section which is adapted to redirect light entering the window through the outside pane so that the light, exiting the window through the inside pane, is reflected upwardly against a ceiling surface of the interior of a room, on the wall of which the window is mounted and a low...

A portable pain relieving device comprising a liquid medicine continuous injector (1) for continuously allowing a liquid medicine to flow out for a preset time via the control passage (131) of an outflow unit (13), a 3-way connector (2) having three-direction flow passages and detachably connected at one end (21) to the outlet of the injector (1), a reservoir (4) detachably connected to the interm...

A device for treating a substantially gaseous medium includes a number of parallel plates (14) which are connected to each other and provided adjacent to each other in such a manner that they by means of port holes of the plates (14) form a first channel (5) and a second channel (9, 9'). The first channel (5) is arranged to transport the gaseous medium, and the second channel (9, 9'), which is sep...

Autodeposited coatings useful for protecting metal surfaces and in the production of rubber-to-metal composites are obtained by curing polymers based on epoxy resins which are adhered to the metal surfaces. One or more epoxy resins, such as for example, the combination of a diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A and a flexibilizing epoxy resin, may be prereacted to form a polymer of higher average molecu...

Ein Kraftstoffeinspritzventil weist einen Aktor (1) und einen Servokörper (2) auf, in den ein zentraler Servokanal (5) eingebracht ist. In die Wandung des Servokanals (5) mündet ein Rücklaufkanal (22). Ein Ventilkolben (3) ist axial in dem Servokanal (5) verschiebbar angeordnet und überträgt die Auslenkung des Aktors (1) auf einen Schliesskörper (41), der zusammen mit dem im Servokanal (5) eingebr...

An automobile navigation system includes display means that guides a car with an arrowhead alone when running on a guidance lane while displaying a map in the event of a deviation from the guidance lane.; L'invention concerne un dispositif de navigation automobile comprenant un écran qui guide une voiture au moyen d'une flèche lorsqu'elle se déplace sur une piste de guidage, une carte s'affichant ...

A car navigation device (10) for accurately acquiring VICS information from each VICS information FM multiplex broadcasting station and providing useful VICS information to users. A B-prefecture-based VICS FM multiplex broadcasting station (26) and an A-prefecture based VICS FM multiplex broadcasting station (27) are respectively in charge of providing VICS information broadcasting in areas belong...

A method for assaying phosphorylation (or dephosphorylation) enzyme activity on a substrate peptide by evaluating the phosphorylation of the substrate peptide which can be phosphorylated by DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK), ATM and ATR by an immunological technique with the use of an antibody capable of recognizing the phosphorylated state. Application of this assay method makes it possible ...

Ein Bett-Bediengerät für den Pflegebereich weist ein Gehäuse 10 und Bedienungseinrichtungen (18, 20, 22) auf, die für die Betätigung von Funktionseinheiten vorgesehen und wenigstens teilweise an einer Wandung des Gehäuses (10) angeordnet sind. Um ein funktionssicheres und leicht zu reinigendes Bett-Bediengerät für den Pflegebereich zu schaffen, weist die Wandung des Gehäuses (10) an ihrer Aussense...

The invention concerns thermoplastic moulding compounds containing a) 5-95 parts by wt. of polyolefin selected from the group comprising polyethylene and polypropylene; b) 5-65 parts by wt. of uncrosslinked ethylene/propylene copolymer rubber with an ethylene content of 45-80 % by wt. relative to the total amount of rubber and/or 5-65 parts by wt. of cycloolefin copolymer with an ethylene content ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an article which has antireflection films having stainproofing and antifogging functions by using a layer of a metal oxide having photocatalyst activity in constituting the high-refractive index layer right below the uppermost layer of the multilayered antireflection films of which the uppermost layer is a low-refractive index layer. SOLUTION: This article consists ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the step for bonding each piezoelectric by forming two piezoelectric parts on the opposite sides of a thin metal plate while inverting the direction of polarization through a decomposition controllable nonpaste method and then forming an electrode film on each side face of the piezoelectric parts opposite to the thin metal plate. SOLUTION: A first electrode film ...

The invention concerns thermoplastic moulding compounds containing a) 5-95 parts by wt. of polyolefin selected from the group comprising polyethylene and polypropylene; b) 5-65 parts by wt. of uncrosslinked ethylene/propylene copolymer rubber with an ethylene content of 45-80 % by wt. relative to the total amount of rubber and/or 5-65 parts by wt. of cycloolefin copolymer with an ethylene content ...

Methods and compositions for detecting and localizing light originating from a mammal are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for targeting light emission to selected regions, as well as for tracking entities within the mammal. In addition, animal models for disease states are disclosed, as are methods for localizing and tracking the progression of disease or a pathogen within the animal, and fo...