The power transmission is interposed between the internal combustion engine and the drive ratio selection transmission of a vehicle. The motor/generator is operatively connected to the power transmission, and the power transmission selectively adds and subtracts torque provided by the motor/generator to the torque provided by the internal combustion engine. The power transmission effects the opera...

The invention is a process for reducing the fatty alcohol content of a mixture of fatty alcohol and fatty glycoside product by passing the mixture through a forced circulation evaporation zone to form a mixture of fatty alcohol and fatty glycoside product with a reduced fatty alcohol content and passing the mixture with the reduced fatty alcohol content to a wiped film evaporator to remove additio...

A process for preparing aliphatic polysaccharides in which a slurry of a hydrous saccharide source in a first portion of aliphatic alcohol is introduced into a second portion of the aliphatic alcohol maintained at an elevated temperature and under a reduced pressure to form a mixture of saccharide source and alcohol with a reduced water content, introducing an acid catalyst into the mixture with t...

A continuous method of bleaching an alkylpolyglycoside, substantially free of alcohol, with peroxy compounds, preferably hydrogen peroxide, which is highly efficient to provide an unexpected high degree of color reduction from a dark brown to a light, white product, from an extinction coefficient color respectively of about 10 to about 15 to about 0.025 to about 0.15. The bleaching is carried out ...

PCT No. PCT/EP93/02131 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 1, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 1, 1995 PCT Filed Aug. 12, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/04544 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 3, 1994Alkyl glycosides are prepared by reacting alcohols with monosaccharides or compounds which, under the reaction conditions, form monosaccharides, in the presence of amphoteric surfactants in the acid form as catalysts, and subsequently neutralizin...

A method is provided for assessing the contamination status of materials with respect to possible presence of microorganisms, particularly pathogenic microorganisms, by measuring the production of a specific gas or vapour evolved by a sample of the material when it is incubated with a bacterial enzyme substrate. More particularly the present invention relates to the selective detection of (Escheri...

The subject of the invention is the compounds of formula (I): in which: - either A and B each represent a hydrogen atom, - or A represents a hydrogen atom and B an OH radical, - or A and B together form a carbon-carbon double bond, - and Z represents a hydrogen atom or the residue of a carboxylic acid. The compounds of formula (I) have valuable antibiotic properties.; L'inventio...

A bi-directional broadcasting system for preparing a plurality of pay video programs and a plurality of channels on the broadcasting side and designating one of the plurality of channels according to the selection of a specific pay video program by the receiving side to thereby broadcast the selected pay video program through the selected channel as occasion demands. In the bi-directional broadcas...

There are disclosed both one- and two-dimensional, high resolution, brushless DC servomotors that are linear, rotary, planar and cylindrical in nature. All of these employ a capacitive method for deriving the required position and motor commutation information. In suitable circumstances, particularly two-dimensional planar motors on air bearings, the method allows the use of the motor ferromagneti...

The invention relates to cyclodextrin glycosyltransferases which produce gamma -CD to an increased extent in the conversion of starch or starch-like substrates into CD, characterised in that their protein sequence in the region between amino acid position 180 and amino acid position 240 contains the amino acid sequence Asn Leu Xaa Asp (SEQ. ID NO: 1), where position 1 of the protein sequence at t...

A washing line unit comprises a housing (2, 3) fixable to a wall, a spool (6) for carrying a line, a handle (12) for rotating the spool, and a pivoted pawl (11) engageable with teeth (10) at one end of the spool to lock the spool against unwinding when, in use, the line is at a desired height. The unit may be made of a plastics material. The pawl can be pivoted to permit unwinding of the line. The...

A method and circuitry for coordinating exceptions in a processor in which instructions may be executed "out-of-order", depending on the availability of execution resources; this would generally cause problems when an exception is generated by an instruction which has been executed speculatively, or out-of-order. The processor generates a result data value and an exception data value for each inst...

A rubber sheet forming apparatus (1) comprising a rubber extruder (2) composed of upper and lower rubber extruder main bodies (4,5) for kneading and sending out forward rubber, a main body block (6) mounting the upper and lower rubber extruder main bodies (4,5), an upper head (9) and lower head (10) coupled to the main body block (6) so as to form a nozzle port (7), and a roll forming device (3). ...

A process for the production of mono-olefins from a hydrocarbon feed containing one or more paraffinic hydrocarbons having at least two carbon atoms, the process comprising partial combustion of a mixture of the hydrocarbon feed and a molecular oxygen-containing gas in contact in a reaction chamber with a catalyst capable of supporting combustion beyond the normal fuel rich limit of flammability t...

There is provided a leadframe assembly for supporting a hybrid circuit. The hybrid circuit is supported by either the base of an electronic package or by a die attach paddle and electrically interconnected to a leadframe by wire bonds. A plurality of semiconductor devices are mounted on the assembly and supported by either metallization pads formed on the hybrid circuit, a dielectric layer of the ...

PCT No. PCT/SE94/01142 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 5, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 5, 1995 PCT Filed Nov. 29, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/15731 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 15, 1995A method and apparatus thereof for collecting control data for the production of replacement dental parts. The method includes the steps of imaging a body area and a replacement part with a single imaging device which is arranged to take a simul...

PCT No. PCT/SE94/01142 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 5, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 5, 1995 PCT Filed Nov. 29, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/15731 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 15, 1995A method and apparatus thereof for collecting control data for the production of replacement dental parts. The method includes the steps of imaging a body area and a replacement part with a single imaging device which is arranged to take a simul...

PURPOSE:To surely stick to the outer periphery of a pipe by providing a pair of pressing sections excited by springs on the right and left of a saddle holder liftably fixed via a lifting rod and pressing both flanges and the branch of a saddle joint. CONSTITUTION:A lifting rod 8 is screwed into the female screw hole of the horizontal section of a lifting body 6, and a saddle holder 10 is rotatably...

A pressure vessel (10) is disclosed for holding fluids and the like. The vessel includes an outer shell (18) fabricated of a composite material. A damage mitigating material (50) is integrated within the outer shell, with a major thickness (52) of the shell being disposed inside the damage mitigating material and a minor thickness (54) of the shell being disposed outside the damage mitigating mate...

REIVINDICACIONES : 1. UN METODO PARA PRODUCIR UNA ESTRUCTURA ABSOR- BENTE EN UN ARTICULO ABSORBENTE, TAL COMO UN PANAL UNA TOALLA SANITARIA, UN PANTI-PROTECTOR, UN PRO- TECTOR DE INCONTINENCIA, UN PROCTECTOR DE CAMA, UN VENDAJE O APOSITO PARA HERIDAS O LLAGAAS, UN AB- SORBENTE DE SALIDA Y LO SIMILAR, CARACTERIZADO POR COMPRIMIR UNA TELA TENDIDA AL AIRE DE FIBRAS DE CELULOSA A UNA CAPA FORMADA EN S...