A solenoid valve having permanent-magnet latching is described, which can be operated in a monostable or bistable mode depending on the status levels of the available external control circuit. In the monostable mode, a circuit having a capacator becomes effective, the charging current of which capacitor, when the valve is switched on, holds a circuit of the same in the position where it is latched...

A diamond composite combined with a cobalt-containing substrate, comprising: a sintered mass of diamond, in which practically all the diamond particles are joined immediately with adjacent particles, a mass of cobalt-containing carbide, said latter mass being larger than the former and said first and latter masses being of a same cross section at the opposed ends, and an intermediate layer of a so...

Since the focus of an optical equipment stays on the extension of a straight line connecting the two base ends of a parallel linkage (25) and the focus (f) of the medical optical equipment (34) remains fixed at a fixed position when the parallel linkage is transformed, the medical optical (34) equipment does not need to be focused even when the parallel linkage is operated, and thereby operating t...

A method and apparatus for securing enlongate members (24, 28) of generally cylindrical form in end-to-end relationship, particularily for forming an optic fiber splice (30). Optic fibers are spliced by pressing a form, preferably an optic fiber of the same diameter as those to be spliced, into a deformable body (8) to create a groove for receiving the ends of the optic fibers in close alignment. ...

Safety device in the feeder of a paper-sheet processing machine with a stack-lifting chain (3), controlled so as to be freely rotating, for raising and lowering the feed stack (2), with drive means for carrying along the stack-lifting chain (3) for raising the feed stack (2), with drive means for carrying along the stack-lifting chain (3) for lowering the feed stack (2) and with means for disconne...

The invention relates to a method for optimising indication of the cutting position in a cutting machine, in the case of which a hydraulically actuable crosshead (8) is lowered onto sheet-like material (1, 5) which is stacked on a table (3) of the cutting machine before such material (1, 5) is cut, the crosshead pressure being reduced before the crosshead is placed on the material. It is proposed ...

2141875 9404760 PCTABS00030 Porous pipe (10) formed of particles (14) of vulcanized rubber dispersed in a binder resin (16) such as linear low density polyethylene preferably having a Melt Index below 1.0 and a broad distribution of molecular weights, is stabilized to reduce degradation by ultraviolet light by dispersing in the binder resin an effective amount of an ultraviolet stabilizer such as ...

PCT No. PCT/US93/07587 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 16, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 16, 1995 PCT Filed Aug. 17, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/04179 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 3, 1994This invention provides a method for inhibiting HIV replication in a patient which comprises administering to a patient infected with HIV a therapeutically effective amount of IL-4.

A nonwoven fabric made with multicomponent polymeric strands includes a blend of a polyolefin and ethylene alkyl acrylate in one side or the sheath of the multicomponent polymeric strands. The fabric has improved abrasion resistance, strength, toughness and softness properties. Composite materials including such multicomponent material bonded to both sides of an inner meltblown layer are also disc...

A process to manufacture and coat a sodium carbonate perhydrate containing 10.5% to 14% active oxygen which is stable in a non-phosphate detergent composition and which has a bulk density of from 900 to 1,050 kg/m3. Anhydrous sodium carbonate with a pore volume of at least 0.29 ml/g is contacted with 50% to 75% by weight hydrogen peroxide in the presence of 1-hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonic aci...

The process is started in the mixer by the mixture of the lead powder, which has its temperature increased, until it reaches 40 or 50 degrees centigrade then H2O is added at the temperature of 90 or 100 degrees centigrade, reaching a mass density of 80 grammes per (2,54)3 then H2O2, at density of 20 or 40 volume, allowing the mass to increase until it reaches the required density to make the mass ...

PCT No. PCT/SE95/00180 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 3, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 3, 1996 PCT Filed Feb. 22, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/23686 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 8, 1995A control apparatus and method for a coating device utilize a measurement system to determine whether a body supplied to the coating device is acceptable for coating and/or to establish template data in preparation for a coating operation. The me...

La presente invención se refiere a aparato para formar (esto es, crear o colocar) una ornamentación decorativa en la pared lateral de un neumático durante el curado o vulcanización del neumático, caracterizado porque comprende: un carrete de material laminado recibido en un portador, comprendiendo dicho material laminado una capa barrera que recibe una capa decorativa; un dispositivo primeros medi...

The invention concerns a collapsible umbrella against for instance sunlight, rain and so on, consisting of a shaft and a number of ribs (2) fixed pivotally relative thereto for supporting fabric-like material, which ribs (2) are each pivotally connected to the one end of a rod-like stretcher (9), the other end (10) of which is displaceable in lengthwise direction of the shaft (1) charcterized in t...

A method for the non-destructive determination of the stacking order and the fiber orientation of a fiber reinforced composite laminate comprises illuminating optically successively a series of spots of a cross sectional surface of the laminate under examination and detecting light radiated from the respective illuminated spots. An electrical output signal relative to the amount of light detected ...

A polysiloxane-polyoxyalkylene composition of the nominal formula: wherein R is an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms and R, R', R'' and R''' are individually monovalent polyoxyalkylene polyethers attached to the silicon atom through a difunctional link; and the polyoxyalkylene of R' is a poly(oxypropylene-oxyethylene) ether which contains 20% to 60% oxyethylene by weight and has a...

The surgical instrument includes a flat wire (5) that accepts a spring wire (8), which forms the chord (8a) and determined displacement distance (7a to 7b) outside the guide sheath (7), and is led back in a hook shaped shaft. A pull exerted on the flexible shaft (4) at the patient end of the guide tube (2) tensions the chord (8a), so that it forms an enlarged arc. The guide sheath is partly guided...

The critical fault detection system allows detected faults to be sorted in accordance with defined criteria, the number of detected faults within a given time interval compared with a threshold value, to allow a critical fault to be indicated, with a corresponding signal supplied. When the number of faults within the defined time interval is below the threshold value, the attained value at the beg...

The automatic ski-binding has the heel-holder for the ski-boot (4) joined off-centre to the binding unit (3). Thus the lengthwise axis (1) of the holder diverges to the side (5) from that (2) of the binding unit. This divergence can be adjustable and lockable. It can be determined by the wall thickness of the holder, or the latter can be inclined to the axis (2). USE/ADVANTAGE - Ski binding mainta...