A porous ceramic sinter and a process for producing the same are disclosed, which sinter has macropores with a pore size of from 20 to 2,000 .mu.m and three-dimensionally communicating pores that are made of interstices between secondary particles.

A flag assembly has a flag or planar member and a bracket having a first member to which the planar member is attached for supporting the planar member and also having a second member extending downwardly therefrom such that the second member is insertible into a bore formed in a post such that the weight of the first elongate member combined with the weight of the flag causes the lower-most end o...

A device for manufacturing expandable polystyrene (EPS) pellets includes a continuous process extruder, a die, a pelletizer and a hot water annealing quencher assembly. The pelletizer cuts strands of EPS material extruded from the extruder and die into uniform EPS pellets. The annealing quencher assembly includes a quencher tank, a water vortex substantially immersed therein for generating a slurr...

A pumpable ceramic fiber composition having, by weight, from about 20% to about 30% of ceramic fiber, from about 5% to about 10% of a sodium silicate binding agent, from at least 1% to less than 5% of a binder migration retarding agent, from about 0.5 to about 2.5% of a viscosity modifying and lubricating agent, and from about 60% to about 70% of a liquid vehicle, preferably water. The pumpable ce...

Antimicrobial hydroxyapatite powders containing hydroxyapatite power and one or more organic antimicrobial agents selected from hinokitiol, protamine and sorbic acid.

Molded articles prepared from flexible sheet molding compounds, and method of making the same. A flexibility modifying agent is incorporated into a thermoset resin composition (e.g. sheet molding compound) to improve the flexibility characteristics of the thermoset resin composition by lowering the flexural modulus. The thermoset resin composition also contains therein an isocyanate terminated ure...

A simple, environmentally benign building for on-site erection and fabrication is made of monolithic, architectural, structural walls, beams, girders, joists and panels of relatively high physical strength which exhibit great durability and resistance to fire, wind and seismic damage and which have highly desirable acoustic and thermal transfer characteristics. The wall is constructed by casting a...

A crystal controlled clock oscillator resin encapsulated in a surface mount device (SMD) package incorporates on a lead frame a crystal oscillator, an integrated circuit, a power supply filter capacitor and, optionally, a feedback resistor. In the fabrication of the device, resin is injected at a position and in a direction relative to the components so as to minimize disturbance of the lead frame...

A lightweight warp knitted textile fabric suitable for use as the loop component of a hook-and-loop fastener is formed of a set of ground yarns knitted in a relatively stretchable construction with a first set of loop forming yarns formed in a stitch pattern producing elongated underlap loops extending outwardly from the technical back of the fabric which can be readily interengaged with the hook ...

A child resistant drug assemblage is disclosed comprising a container having rows of spaced drug cell cavities each of which receives a unit drug dose of medication. The container is provided with a lock means that enables it to be readily opened by an adult but difficult to be opened by a child. Each of the drug dose modules has a plurality of drug cell cavities each of which can hold unit daily ...

A nonreusable syringe is provided having an automatically retracting hypodermic needle to prevent accidental injury after injection or undesirable reuse of the syringe. The needle is retracted by a spring located behind the syringe piston and disposed to prevent re-extension of the needle after use. A locking mechanism holds the needle in position for injection. The piston includes means to releas...

A hypodermic syringe with cylindrical guard that surrounds the needle and its tip at all times will protect medical personnel from possible injury from contaminated needles. The needle guard retracts into a cylindrical cavity when pressed against a patient and extends by a spring when the needle is withdrawn.

A method for producing rolled plastic pellets comprising from about 5 to about 10 weight percent cellulosic fiber and less than about 10 weight percent water from mixed plastic waste comprising polymeric film.

Disclosed are opioid peptides recovered from hydrolysates of wheat proteins with an acid protease and further a neutral or alkaline protease. Of those peptides, the structure of four opioid peptides was identified by the amino acid sequence of Gly-Tyr-Tyr-Pro (SEQ ID NO:1), Gly-Tyr-Tyr-Pro-Thr (SEQ ID NO:2), Gly-Tyr-Tyr-Pro-Thr-Ser (SEQ ID NO:3) or Tyr-Pro-Ile-Ser-Leu (SEQ ID NO:4). They are usefu...

A semiconductor device including a lead frame provided with a die pad and a plurality of leads arranged around the die pad, a semiconductor element mounted on the die pad, and a molding resin for sealing the semiconductor element. A spacing defined between the die pad and the leads is sized, i.e. made very small, that a flow velocity of a first portion of the molding resin flowing in a peripheral ...

A system and method for floating point computations involving matrices or vectors includes a plurality of identical processing units connected to a linear chain with direct data communication links between adjacent processing units. Each such processor is also connected to its own private memory. A sequence of instructions is sent by a controller to all floating point processing units and their as...

A toroidal x-ray tube housing (A) has an evacuated interior. An annular anode (B) is connected with the housing closely adjacent the window such that a cooling fluid passage (12) is defined in intimate thermal communication with the anode. A cathode assembly (32) is mounted within the evacuated housing or an annular ring (30) that rotates an electron beam (22) around the large diameter annular ano...

This disclosure describes an efficient method of moving data from one location in memory to another without caching the data. This includes data transfers from one main storage location to another, transfers between main and expanded storage, and transfers from one expanded storage location to another.

An improved error recovery system in which all operations which the Central Processor performs are categorized into one of a plurality of recovery types. The determination of category is made based on which architected and machine dependent facilities they manipulate and the manner in which the facilities are manipulated. This classification of instructions into types allows for the amount of chec...

Det er beskrevet en implanterbar karbonkomposittfingerleddsprotese (10) med et første (14) og andre(16) legeme roterbart festet slik at de danner et leddmed en enkelt akse. Leddet har en kjerne som innbe-fatter en tredimensjonal vevet karbon-karbonkomposittmed høy tetthet for styrke og en basis for støttestam-roene som innbefatter et porøst glassaktig karbon for åfremme vekst av benvev og de samvi...