The microfluidic structure comprises first and second substantially planar form-stable base layers and an intermediate spacing layer of elastic material, said spacing layer being recessed to define a microcavity or channel system with at least one of said first and second base layers. The structure is produced by moulding the spacing layer, optionally applied to or integral with a first base layer...

A catheter for radio frequency ablation with a cooled electrode for use in tissue having a surface comprising an elongate member having proximal and distal extremities. A metal conducting electrode secured to the distal extremity of the elongate member and having a chamber therein. A conductor extends through the elongate member from the proximal to the distal extremity for supplying radio frequen...

A dispensed bead (10) of material is disposed between a sensor pair (14) for monitoring the bead. The sensor pair (14) transmits a beam of light towards the bead of material. A signal is generated which corresponded to the amount of light received. By utilizing this signal, gaps or other discontinuities can be found. This signal can also be used to determine the height of the bead and generate a p...

High molecular weight polyethyleneterephthalate resin is currently being used in vast quantities in manufacturing tire cord and in manufacturing trays for frozen foods which can be heated in either microwave or convection ovens. In some applications polyester resins having ultra-high molecular weights are required. For example, some techniques for producing polyester yarn by solution spinning dema...

A method for the preparation of cellular polymeric products which comprises reacting an organic polyisocyanate with an isocyanate-reactive composition, characterised in that the isocyanate-reactive composition comprises a blowing promoter which is a cyclic urea compound having at least one isocyanate-reactive substituent.

The tread loosening consists in gripping a zero-degree reinforcing cord which the top of the tyre must comprise in order to apply this method, and in pulling transversely on this cord until it is completely removed from the tyre. Thus, the tread is very easily separated from the carcass of the tyre.

To repair or join sections of a metal article, matching metal powder is sintered in the solid state to form a porous structure in the joint. A layer of matching powder, modified to incorporate melting point depressants such as boron and silicon is subsequently added to the surface of the sintered region. The joint is processed at a temperature where the modified layer melts while the sintered laye...

A syndiotactic polypropylene resin composition comprising polypropylene having a substantially syndiotactic structure and a nucleating agent. The polypropylene may be any of homopolymers, copolymers with a small amount of other olefin(s), and mixtures of these (co)polymers. A preferable resin composition is one having a crystallization temperature as measured by differential scanning calorimetry o...

A polymeric fabric having enhanced wettability, a method for producing such wettable polymeric fabric, and a composition for use in the method. The polymeric fabric is preferably a nonwoven. In one embodiment, the fabric includes a sorbitol succinate surfactant substantially uniformly distributed on the surface of the fabric. The sorbitol succinate surfactant is applied with a co-wetting aid which...

A composite surface acoustic wave filter 701 includes an interdigitated interdigital surface acoustic wave filter 710 having input and output terminals A, B. Two one-port surface acoustic wave resonators 71a, 71b are electrically connected in series to the interdigitated interdigital surface acoustic wave filter 710 respectively at the input and output terminals A, B, the one-port surface acoustic...

Therapeutic as well as preventive measures to improve cosmetic conditions and to alleviate the symptoms of dermatologic disorders with retinal and its derivatives is disclosed. Cosmetic conditions and dermatologic disorders in humans and domestic animals in which retinal and its derivatives may be useful include age spots, wrinkles, warts, eczema, seborrheic keratoses, acne, oily skin, psoriasis, ...

Fermented milk drinks contain at least 3 x 10<8> cells/m l of at least one type of lactic acid bacterium selected from the group consisting of Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus helveticus and Lactobacillus jugurti and a mixture of a galactooligosaccharide, which is represented by the following formula: Gal-(Gal)n-Glc wherein Gal means a galactose residual group, G...

The object is to create a method and a circuit arrangement for coding marking means in a contactless manner and to ensure a wide variety of applications in technical processes. The object is achieved by designing n switchable passive resonators (1) with the respectively assigned detection frequencies and burn-out frequencies as an array and by coding the n resonators in a specifically contactless ...

An identification system comprises an interrogator and a plurality of transponders. The interrogator includes a transmitter which transmits at least two independent interrogation signals to the transponders, and a receiver for receiving response signals from the transponders. The interrogator also includes processor means for identifying the transponders from data in the received response signals....

PCT No. PCT/FI93/00515 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 1, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 1, 1995 PCT Filed Dec. 1, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/13115 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 9, 1994A method of checking a subscriber equipment identity in a subscriber equipment identity register and a mobile telephone exchange, in connection with which there is a subscriber Equipment Identity register, which comprises lists containing subscrib...

A control for a clothes dryer with an induction drive motor and an electric resistance heater element. A single sense winding is threaded through sensors monitoring drive motor current and heater current, generating an output voltage each time the alternating motor or heater current passes through a zero-crossing. The control monitors the ON/OFF condition of the heater and samples the lagging phas...

The present invention relates to a three-pole plug of which the junction sleeve and the terminal holder are not individually and separately injection molded but are integrally formed into one piece at the very beginning. The sleeve has three bottom holes formed on its bottom surface, and the terminal holder has three slide grooves formed on its one side, communicable with the sleeve via the three ...

A pallet of corrugated fiberboard material has floor-contacting spaced, parallel and longitudinal extending base members perpendicularly interconnected at longitudinally spaced intervals by floor-contacting spaced, parallel and laterally extending deck members. One or both of the base and deck members has perpendicular cutouts with horizontally extending cuts backed up for fork tine lifting purpos...

An antithrombotic resin comprising polyurethane or polyurethaneurea prepared by using at least one polyetherdiol selected among polyols containing a polyoxyethylene group represented by general formula (I), wherein n represents a number-average degree of polymerization of 1 to 100, and polyols containing a polyoxytetramethylene group represented by general formula (II), wherein m represents a numb...

A steam-stripping process suitable for the removal of impurities from polysaccharides, including soluble starch hydrolysates, is disclosed herein. This process may be used in combination with other purification processes, such as ultrafiltration, ion exchange processes or treatment with activated carbon, as well as with a bleaching process. Soluble starch hydrolysates may also be purified by a com...