A novel suture anchor comprising (a) a coupling member having a first end portion and a reduced second end portion, and a shoulder formed at the junction of the first end portion and the reduced second end portion, (b) at least one barb, the barb having a first end and a second end and being curved in its normal unstressed state and being capable of being elastically deformed to a substantially st...

A blunt-ended cannula device for use with a pre-slit resealable injection site (492), the cannula device (512) comprising an elongated member (518) with a fluid flow channel extending generally axially therewithin and through a distal end of the member, the member being generally cylindrical along a substantial portion of its length, and terminating in a generally tapered distal end portion having...

Bei einem Polystyrolbeton für Betonfertigteile, welche außer Zement und Zuschlag zur Gewichtsersparnis ein Granulat aus aufgeschäumtem Polystyrol enthalten, wird erfindungsgemäß vorgeschlagen, dem Styroporbeton in der Ausgangsmischung zur Rißbegrenzung bei der Herstellung von Betonfertigteilen alkalische textile Fasern beizumischen.; In polystyrene concrete for precast concrete units which, in add...

Die Erfindung betrifft eine Vorrichtung zur genauen Messung der Verteilung lokaler, physikalischer Größen an einem im Normalfall unzugänglichen Ort (z.B. im lebendem Gewebe) und zur drahtlosen Übertragung der Meßwerte und eines Erkennungszeichen für den die Meßwerte übertragenden Transponder an eine außerhalb des Meßortes stationierte Auswerteeinheit. Durch die Zuordnung des Meßwertes zum Ort des ...

A method and an apparatus for continuously hardening visible-light-curing resins are disclaimed. An object (10), such as an orthodontic bracket, made of visible-light-curing resins, is carried on a conveyor (2) past a row of halogen lamps (1), and sensors (6) detect the temperature in zones of the row whereby controllers (7) activate cooling fans (5) to maintain the temperature in each zone. The o...

A prosthetic device which comprises both a modulus matched component having a safety factor of more than about 2 and a second, typically metal, component. Such prosthetic devices are particularly applicable to hip-joint replacements.

An additive for hydrocarbon fuels includes ethanolamine nitrate as an additive to reduce the quantity of smoke and improve the efficiency of combustion. Fuels are improved by the addition of the additive, which can be prepared by the reaction of ammonium nitrate and anhydrous ethanol in the presence of one or more nitro compounds of formula where R is a hydrogen atom or a C1-4 alkyl radical...

Stable suspensions of coated magnetic particles, preferably resuspendable bioactive particles particularly useful in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, are produced by disrupting, what are presumed to be, crystalline agglomerates of a parent particulate magnetic starting material in the presence of a coating material, such that coating can take place during the disruption. The particles are generally coa...

Motor-wheel characterized in that the movable part or rotor is arranged about the fixed part or stator and whereon is mounted a rim capable of receiving a conventional tyre or a tread. The motor has two free shaft ends which are used to couple the motor-wheel to the vehicle frame by means of a fork-like part, as well as to introduce the supply cables to the inductive coils through a hole axially d...

PURPOSE:To enable easy and tight fixing of a cushion to the base plate of a chair by forming a U-shaped attaching groove on the peripheral fringe of the base plate, heating and pressing the peripheral flange of a cushion which is stuck with a face cover to bend and form an attaching part, and forcing the attaching part into the attaching groove to engage with each other. CONSTITUTION:The base plat...

PURPOSE:To easily manufacture a semiconductor device of high reliability and high quality by forming an opening or the like formed at the coupling part of a carrier tape to an insulation film as a melted resin passage at the time of resin-sealing of a semiconductor chip. CONSTITUTION:A semiconductor chip 2 having a plurality of electrodes is disposed in the center device hole 3 of a carrier tape s...

PURPOSE:To reduce the design man hours of a multilayer wiring board, and to decrease the number of printing masks to be prepared, and besides to facilitate the manufacturing by stacking power source matching layers collectively on the parts mounting side. CONSTITUTION:A multilayer wiring board 4 is composed of an enlarged layer 7, a power source matching layer 8, a signal layer 9, a power source l...

Compositions for the inhibition of carries and gingivitis, containing a protein or polypeptide particularly phosphoproteins or polyphosphopeptides including those containing the amino acid sequence (X-Y-Z)u where X and Z are a phosphoserine, phosphothreonine, phosphotyrosine, glutamate or aspartate, Y is any amino acid and n is 1 or more. Particular examples of suitable active ingredients are ...

PURPOSE:To reduce labor of inputting for reading coordinate value by calculating an absolute coordinate value to a substrate for reading line pattern in the base line width area of a cursor. CONSTITUTION:The cursor for coordinate indication inputting has a mark of base line width area and a group of photoelectric conversion elements 5 divides luminance in the visual field of the cursor 2 into unit...

Disclosed is an improved system for verifying the spelling and providing hyphenation points for text words from a plurality of interspersed languages. The control system includes control codes which are inserted in the text to define the language of the text following the control code. The system accepts the control codes and responds by comparing the text following the control code against a stor...

An improved integrated circuit chips cooling module (100) in which a cooling member (1) having an inside space through which a coolant flows is attached to each of the integrated circuit chips (2) by pressure welding or anchoring to effect cooling, wherein the improvement comprises providing coated portions for each portion of the surface of coolant flow system (5, 7, 10) where the coolant leakage...

Surfaces of natural and artificial stone are damaged by undesirable colour applications, since pigments penetrate into the pores and capillaries of the base material, colouring it in such a way that it becomes difficult or even impossible to remove the colour. Such damage is avoided by impregnating the surfaces to be protected, forming a separating layer upon which a disposable, colour-absorbing l...

NMR imaging data are acquired using a variable phase-encoding gradient. NMR non-imaging data are acquired using fixed phase-encoding, and motion data are derived from such NMR non-imaging data. Gating data are extracted from the motion data and used to select from the NMR imaging data to produce gated image data. The gated image data are used to produce a reconstructed image.

The present invention is directed to methods and apparatus for effectively proportionating a mixture of compressible and non-compressible fluids and in particular, the present invention is directed to apparatus and methods for forming a coating composition mixture containing a substantially accurate proportionated amount of at least one supercritical fluid used as a viscosity reduction diluent.

A single-stage continuous aeration-batch clarification process for purifying wastewater containing pollutants includes the steps of continuously aerating the wastewater in the presence of biologically active solids and powdered adsorbent in an aeration zone (2), and transferring a portion of the mixture of wastewater, biologically active solids and powdered adsorbent to a settling zone (14) where ...