A guide wire (92) comprises a flexible cable having first and second conductors (98, 99) which extend along the length thereof. A connector assembly is provided for interconnecting the flexible cable to said guide wire and interconnecting the flexible cable to said guide wire and interconnecting the conductors carried thereby. The connector assembly includes a male connector with a sleeve and a co...

A fibre web (4) is transported by belts (2, 5) passing round rollers (32 to 43, 60 to 69). Some of these rollers are carried by main carriages (10, 14) movable to and fro above an apron (8) which is displaced parallel to the axes of the rollers and which receives the web (4) in the form of a lap. Auxiliary carriages (16, 18) are provided for keeping the length of travel of the belts (2, 5) constan...

Polypropylene fibre for reinforcing cement is a highly crystalline drawn thread having a breakage strength of at least 6 gram per denier, a wt.-average mol. wt. to number-average mol. wt. ratio of less than 5, an insoluble content of boiling n-heptane greater than 97 wt.% but less than 100 wt.%, and an isotactic pentad fraction greater than 94 wt.% but less than 100 wt.%, and having 0.05-10 wt.% o...

A catheter is provided having a main section (34) with proximal and distal ends and including an inner tube (48). An outer tube (46) extends along a longitudinal axis and combines with the inner tube to define an annular intake lumen (50), and a tubular tip section (38) is included having a smaller cross-section than the main section. The tip section has a return opening (42,44) and a transition p...

A filter, esp. for filtering the air for a combustion engine, consists of a raw air inlet (11), a housing (13,14), a filter insert (15) in the housing, and a clean air outlet (12). The raw air housing section (13) has a mesh base structure (19) which is surrounded by a sound damping material (18). A suction tube is pref. located at the raw air inlet, which consists of a sound damping material The ...

The tracheotomy tube (1) is inserted in the trachea and is made from a material which is tolerated by the human body, the interior of the tube provided with a guide (2) for insertion of a radioactive radiation probe (3) used for the after loading Brachytherapy. Pref. the guide is supported from the inside wall of the tube by a number of axially offset spacers (4), projecting radially and cooperati...

A screen winding apparatus includes a screen, e.g a blind 4 for a vehicle rear window 30, a winding mechanism containing a drive motor in a winding pipe 51, a drawing mechanism, for drawing the blind by extending an arm 10, and a torsion coil spring 43 for urging the leading end portion of the arm substantially perpendicular to the screen surface. A cylindrical portion (4c, Fig. 3, not shown) form...

A method for forming micro contacts of a semiconductor device, including the steps of forming a transistor on a semiconductor substrate, forming a pad conductive layer over the resulting structure, forming an insulating film over the resulting structure, thereby planarizing the structure, forming a photoresist film pattern on the planarized structure by use of a contact mask, etching the insulatin...

The invention relates to an arrangement (1) for fixing an endotracheal tube (2) or other similar probe by means of a biting piece tube (3) executed as a pipe through clamping by means of a clamping component (4), in conjunction with which the biting piece pipe (3) exhibits an accommodating space extending from its outside (6) to its inside (7) intended to accommodate the aforementioned endotrachea...

The present invention consists of a rolling shade base (10), a set of rolling shade capable of automatic contraction through a spring (12), two movable clips (30), a fixed clip (40), two support rods (50), a tractive line (70) and a motor base (80) with a set of an interior motor gear; the fixed clip (40) and two movable clips (30) are installed on the rolling shade base (10), and the fixed clip i...

In an ATM-network are included server devices which take care of connectionless data communication traffic and arrange that respective data packets arising from this trafic reach their destinations. The service devices deal with public data communications. The service devices also deal with private data communication traffic arising from the LAN network by means of function in the form of LAN-emul...

The awning tarpaulin (4) edge is secured to the rotary shaft (3) for coiling, while the opposite tarpaulin edge is secured to a bar (5). The awning, e.g. for a terrace, has arms (6,7) between the support (2) and the bar for the latter linear guidance arm. The arms are coupled to the support by a hinge linkage (8) with adjustable stops for setting the angle between the wall (1) plane and the bar g...

In a CVD method, a wafer (3) is retained on a wafer holder (2) in a reaction tank or chamber (1) to be put under reduced pressure. At least one through hole is made in an insulating film formed on a substrate of the wafer (3). A gas containing at least a metallic element is introduced into the reaction chamber (1) under reduced pressure so that a first metallic film of the metal element is formed ...

A medical laser treatment device comprising a laser generation source and a laser handpiece which comprises a light-guiding fiber used to guide a laser beam irradiated from the laser generation source, a probe for guiding the laser beam having been guided by the fiber to an object to be irradiated, at least two independent air supply passages and at least one water supply passage, the laser handpi...

This invention relates to a semiconductor device package (1), ccmprising a carrier body (2) which is to be mounted with a semiconductor device (4) and which has an annular adhesion layer formed thereon, a cap (3) which is to be adhered to the carrier body (2) to hermetically seal the carrier body (2), and an adhesive applied between the adhesion layer of the carrier body (2) and the cap (3) and ha...

In the speaker system, an acoustic pipe for conducting a sound wave is arranged in front of a speaker for reproducing a middle and low frequency sound. The acoustic pipe has a rectangular open end portion. A speaker for reproducing a high frequency sound is disposed within the acoustic pipe coaxially with and in front of the speaker for reproducing the middle and low frequency. With this construct...

PCT No. PCT/FR93/00159 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 13, 1993 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 13, 1993 PCT Filed Feb. 18, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO93/16941 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 2, 1993.Fluid dispensing container (1) equipped with a dispensing valve (2) carrying an outlet (3) through which the fluid is dispensed during the actuation of a pushbutton carried by the valve; a conditioning chamber (4) of variable volume defined by...

A substrate holding device incudes a chuck having an attracting surface for holding a substrate, an inside space and an inside heat pipe structure provided in the inside space; a temperature controlling block with a structure allowing flow of a temperature controlling medium therethrough, the temperature controlling block being thermally related to the attracting surface of the chuck through the h...

A load-lock unit is disposed between first and second atmospheres, stores a wafer transferred from the first atmosphere, is blocked off from the first atmosphere, is thereafter set in the same atmosphere as or a similar atmosphere to the second atmosphere, and is opened to communicate with the second atmosphere in order to transfer the wafer to the second atmosphere. The load-lock unit includes a ...