A non-woven facing fabric for absorbent articles such as sanitary napkins with improved water repellency and stain resistance. The facing fabric comprises a web of hydrophobic fibres intermittently bonded with an absorbent binder material and top coated with a repellent material. Preferably, the web has a plurality of apertures therethrough.

_ 9 _ O.Z. 0050/41218 In the preparation of expandable styrene polymers by polymerizing styrene, if desired together with up to 50% by weight of other monomers, in aqueous suspension with addition of a C3- to C6-hydrocarbon as blowing agent and, if desired, conventional additives in effective amounts before, during or after the polymerization, foaming is reduced if the aqueous phase contains from ...

- 12 - O.Z. 0050/41217 of the disclosure: Expandable styrene polymers which contain from 10 to 90 % by weight of a crosslinked styrene-diene copolymer containing from 2 to 45 % by weight of the diene, and from 1 to 10 % by weight of a C3to C6-hydrocarbon as blowing agent can be processed to give foams which have high resistance to aromatics.

The wheels (9) of a motor vehicle are driven by AC electric motors (8) which are supplied with power from an AC generator (2) driven by an engine (1). The power from the generator (2) is rectified by a rectifier (3) and is then converted to AC by an inverter (4). The inverter (4) is controlled by a controller (5) in dependence upon the depression of an accelerator pedal (6). Power is supplied to t...

A diagnostic system for an electrical generator winding which has first and second passages for conduction of cooling gas. The temperature of the gas exiting the passages is determined and converted to a normalized value which may be either high, low or normal. A diagnostic computer determines the existence of predetermined combinations of high, low or normal for the two readings and these predete...

A ceramic package includes a high thermal conductive ceramic substrate (AlN or SiC sintered substrate) on which a semiconductor element is mounted, and a mullite sintered frame having metal conductive paths therein and joined to the substrate.

A process for detecting anomalies in a fluidized bed, e.g. the incidence of agglomeration in gas-fluidized bed polymerization, comprises sensing and converting into electrical signals the pressure at one level, or the pressure difference between two or more levels in the reactor, processing these signals by computer to produce a pressure spectrum and comparing with a reference spectrum obtained in...

2072750 9106593 PCTABS00005 Polyamide, polyurea, polyhydrazide, and polyurethane materials having substantially modified surfaces which are antimicrobial are disclosed. The disclosure also relates to selective ultraviolet (UV) photon irradiation, high energy electron irradiation low energy electron irradiation and chemical reducing processes for preparing such antimicrobial, polymeric materials. T...

In the present invention, continuous data acquisition of substrate hydrolysis by a protease enzyme is achieved through the use of a fluorescent peptide substrate, wherein the quantum yield of fluorescence increases upon proteolytic cleavage of the substrate. Incubation of a viral protease enzyme with the fluorogenic substrate results in a timedependent increase in fluorescence intensity which is l...

The invention provides a substantially purified antigenic polypeptide subunit of Urinary Tumor Associated Antigen having, after reduction by .beta.-mercaptoethanol and separation by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, a molecular weight of about 90 to 100 kD. Monoclonal antibodies, methods of detecting cancers, methods of immunotherapy, methods for monitoring a malignancy, a method of detecti...

A method for detecting the presence of a replacement disk in a fault tolerant, intelligent mass storage disk array subsystem having a microprocessor based controller in a personal computer system and rebuilding the replacement disk independent of the computer system processor. The method calls for the microprocessor controller to run a disk array check at system powerup or at specified intervals a...

An improved Schirmer I Tear Test is provided. The improvement comprises a strip having a graduated migration scale printed an the test strip and the presence of a water soluble marker dye that comigrates with the tear migration front. Both improvements serve to increase the reproducibility of the test and ease which with the results are read.; IMPROVED SCHIRMER I TEAR TEST An improved Schirmer I T...

2072620 9106866 PCTABS00005 The invention provides a substantially purified antigenic polypeptide of urinary tumor associated antigen having, after reuction by beta-mercaptoethanol and separation by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, a molecular weight of about 90 to 100 kD. Monoclonal antibodies, methods of detecting cancers, methods of immunotherapy, methods for monitoring a malignancy, a m...

Sanitary napkins and other absorbent products as well as a method for their use are provided by this invention. The sanitary napkin includes wick means disposed on a body-facing side of the napkin which is biased away from the body-facing side to provide a body-contacting portion disposed in a different plane from the plane of the body-facing side.

A silicon substrate having a thin film circuit layer (62) formed on the surface of the substrate (61) is laid on a metallic base (51) and a semiconductor chip (52) made of compound semiconductor such as gallium arsenide is disposed in a hole (63) defined in the central portion of the silicon substrate (61) so that the semiconductor chip (52) can be directly fixed to the metallic base (51) for diss...

The invention relates to an arrangement for influencing, particularly blocking, a switching apparatus, preferably a remotely controlled switching apparatus, in dependence on mains condition data by means of feeding in an external voltage and a subsequent evaluating circuit with setpoint and actual-value comparison. For the purpose of feeding in the external voltage, an impulse generator for genera...

31 Two oligonucleotides are provided which function as amplifying primers when used in tandem in the polymerase chain reaction with HPV DNA. The primers are of the formulae: IU: 5 -TIIN1IN1IIN2TAAAACGAAAGT-3 and IWDO: 5 -N1TCN1N3AIGCCCAN2TGIACCAT-3 wherein N1 is A or G, N2 is C or T and N3 is A or T.

A powder-containing composition for use as a film-forming coating on substrates, comprising particulate powder and clay dispersed in water. The composition is also suitable for use in aerosol cans.

Docket Number: 444577CAN2A Each of the individual metal-polymer composite layers of an electronic interconnect such as a multi-chip substrate (MCS) can be made to have uniform thickness by diamond turning both the surface of a body on which the MCS is to be built and then successively diamond turning the face of each metal-polymer composite layer that is built on that body. Apparatus useful in lar...

The invention provides a two-stage upflow process for coal gasification. An oxygen-containing gas and a first increment of a coal-in-water slurry are ignited in a horizontal fired sagging reactor (3) by means of horizontal coaxial juxtaposed burner nozzles (6, 6a) mounted in the reactor, thereby converting the oxygen, the coal, and the water into steam and gaseous combustion products. The discharg...