In order that the experience of on-line shopping be made easier for the shopper, the shopping checkout for several independent electronic merchants is combined into an integrated activity for the shopper.

The machine has first and second conveyors (1,3) for first and second type of goods (A,B), and a packaging station (7) to form a packaging material hose (72). The machine also has a feeder station (2), in which second type goods are formed into a stack by the second conveyor, and placed by a conveyor part (4,10) on one good of the first type, to form a second group. The second group is held by a h...

The system includes a series of terminals for telephone inquiries which are located in accessible public places. Each terminal has a central processor unit (CPU) controlling the components and functions of each terminal, and input-output devices. This includes an analog to digital circuit with an associated microphone and loudspeakers, and a video coder-decoder. A central controller has an inquiry...

Pigment master batch comprises: (A) 10-60 wt.% pigment; and (B) 40-90 wt.% micronized polyolefin and/or polyolefin wax, containing ≥ 1 wt.% material having a particle size 10 micro m, ≥ 10 wt.% material having a particle size 100 micro m, and ≥ 90 wt.% material having a particle size 500 micro m.

A braking signal produced by the driver operating a brake pedal (21) is converted into a desired braking moment and a motor traction moment set value is determined according to the braking moment. The gear ratio of an automatic transmission (4) is automatically set according to the engine traction moment set value, using a gear change characteristic. The characteristic curves are set taking accoun...

An optical disk recording/reproducing device which records a signal on a disk using a laser beam irradiated from a laser element driven by a pulse signal, wherein an average level detector circuit (70) detects an average level of a monitor signal obtained when a basic pulse signal is applied to the laser element, and an average level of a monitor signal of a reference basic pulse signal is stored ...

An article that comprises a fine-grain, homogeneous microstructure is essentially oxide- and sulfide-free and segregation defect free. The article is produced by a process that comprises forming a source of clean refined metal that has oxides and sulfides refined out by electroslag refining (1); and forming the article by nucleated casting (2). The invention also sets forth the article made by a s...

A hand held microsurgical instrument for applying laser energy to selected locations (sites) in an area under the skin (or other exposed translucent tissue) to provide localized photothermolysis of underlying tissue at these sites, is described. The laser energy is focused into a spot within the tissue. This spot is of sufficiently small size so that the energy density is sufficient to provide sur...

A packaging material comprises a film, based on a polymer contg. polyamide blocks and polyether blocks, which is permeable to water vapour, ethylene, CO2 and O2. Permeability to CO2 is much greater than that to O2.

A system for nitrate removal from aquariums, both fresh water and marine aquariums, by means of permeable polymeric beads which contain a combination of fermentative and denitrifying bacteria and a carbon source. Preferred beads are beads made from sodium alginate or chitosan. The bacteria, in the presence of the carbon source, are able to reduce nitrate to nitrogen gas. Bacteria which are not har...

本发明涉及用于制造半导体装置或类似物中使用的改进的抛光垫。本发明的抛光垫具有亲水抛光材料的优点并且足够薄，通常用来改善可预知性和抛光效果。; This invention describes improved polishing pads useful in the manufacture of semiconductor devices or the like. The pads of the present invention may have an advantageous hydrophilic polishing material and are sufficiently thin to generally improve predictability and polishing performance.

制备丙烯聚合物发泡珠粒料的方法，包括在发泡剂存在下挤出熔体强度为5-40CN的丙烯聚合物。; Foamed propylene polymer articles are prepared by subjecting pre-foamed beads, that consist essentially of propylene polymers having a melt strength from 5 to 40 cN, to thermoforming by sintering.

热塑性聚酯模塑材料，其含有A)80～100％重量的具有结晶放热反应曲线的半宽度为≤5℃的聚丙烯酸亚烷基酯和B)0～20％重量的另外添加剂，A)和B)的重量百分比之和为100％。该热塑性聚酯模塑材料被用于通过吹塑、型材挤塑和/或软管挤塑生产模制品。; The invention relates to the use of thermoplastic polyester molding compounds, containing A) 80 to 100 wt. % of a polyalkylene arylate, especially polybutyleneterephthalate, with a half-width of crystallization heat releases of <=5° C. and B) 0 to 20 wt. % of other additives...

一种交联烷基乙烯基醚/马来酸酐共聚物的制备方法，该共聚物具有口用护理制品所需的改进的线性粘弹特性，其中采用多元醇化合物在约50-90℃下令烷基乙烯基醚/马来酸酐共聚物进行交联，从而制得交联产品。; A process for preparing a cross-linked alkyl vinyl ether/maleic anhydride copolymer having improved linear viscoelastic properties desired in oral care preparations, wherein the cross-linking of an alkyl vinyl ether/maleic anhydride copolymer with a polyol compound is carried out at a temperature of ...

本发明描述由氯丁二烯共聚物制得的极好的无粉医用手套及其制造方法。本发明的手套不需要戴手套用的粉状试剂就可容易地戴上，它经过氯化和辐照消毒的后加工之后仍可保持它的抗刺穿性、拉伸强度、伸长500％时的应力和断裂伸长率。另外，本发明的手套在辐照消毒后表现出极小的退色(由泛黄指数变化的百分率测得)、极小的自粘性和极小的与手套包装材料的粘性。; A unique powder-free medical glove fabricated from a neoprene copolymer, and a method of making same is described. The gloves of the invention are easily donned without the use of powdered donning agents and retain their puncture r...

一种热塑性薄膜，它包含：聚烯烃，如聚乙烯，作为主要成分；聚(环氧乙烷)作为次要成分；以及总共约0.1wt％～约30wt％接枝到聚烯烃和聚(环氧乙烷)上的单体。该薄膜呈现一种反相形态，致使聚(环氧乙烷)形成薄膜中的连续相，而聚烯烃形成分散或不连续相。该薄膜最好用于用即弃个人卫生用品。; A composition comprises a polyolefin, such as polyethylene, as a major constituent and poly(ethylene oxide) as a minor constituent. The composition exhibits an inverse phase morphology so that the poly(ethylene oxide) forms a continuous phase and the polyol...

以100重量份的结构材料为基础计，本发明的结构材料包括20重量份或更多的热塑性芳族聚酯和热塑性脂族聚酯的聚合物混合物。热塑性芳族聚酯在聚合物混合物中的含量高于热塑性脂族聚酯的含量。; A structure material of the present invention comprises 20 parts by weight or more of a polymer mixture of a thermoplastic aromatic polyester and a thermoplastic aliphatic polyester on the basis of 100 parts by weight of the structure material. The content of the thermoplastic aromatic polyester in the poly...

本发明涉及一种用于读和/或写光记录介质(21)的设备，该设备具有光扫描器(2)、光源(4)、聚焦器件(6)、倾斜检测装置和倾斜补偿装置(7)。本发明的目的是提供这种类型的设备和一种相应的方法，该方法能够使用尽可能少的设备功能来最佳地补偿倾斜。根据本发明，借助于具有一个光栅(1)、一个检测器元件(13， 23)、一个用于光源(4)和聚焦器件(6)的控制装置(11)以及一个用于倾斜补偿装置(7)的控制装置(12)的倾斜检测装置，可以达到这个目的。; The present invention relates to an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to optical recording media (21) with optical scanner (2), light source (4), focusing means (6), t...

本发明一般地涉及如在医学中为检查患者而应用的核自旋断层造影(同义词：磁共振断层造影，MRT)。在此，本发明特别涉及一种具有对造影剂支持的血管造影MRT测量进行图形计划装置的核自旋断层造影设备。; In a method and processing device for a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, with which a test bolus measurement is conducted for a subsequent angiography measurement using contrast agent, a test bolus pop-up is displayed in an interactive graphic user interface, and a time curve of at least the a...

制剂用纤维素粒子，其包含不少于10％量的平均聚合度为60至350的微晶纤维素，并且其具有0.60至0.95g/ml的敲击堆密度，不低于0.7的长宽比，1.10至1.50的形状系数，以及10至400μm的平均粒径。; Cellulose particles for pharmaceutical, which contains microcrystalline cellulose having an average degree of polymerization of from 60 to 350 in an amount of not less than 10%, and which have a tapped bulk density of from 0.60 to 0.95 g/ml, an aspect ratio of not less than 0.7, a shape fact...