A thermoplastic polyester resin composition characterized by comprising 30-70% by weight of a polyester resin (A) constituted mainly of a polyalkylene terephthalate, 5-35% by weight of a graft polymer (B) obtained by graft-polymerizing at least one selected from the group consisting of an aromatic vinyl monomer and a methacrylate monomer in the presence of a rubbery polymer, and 10-45% by weight o...

In accordance with illustrative embodiments of the present invention, a paint shield that covers all exposed surfaces of an electrical outlet or switch assembly and its cover plate includes a front wall having top, bottom and side walls extending rearward thereof, and devices such as a pair of prongs or a suction cup which temporarily attach the shield to the assembly with the rear edge sections o...

A desensitizing apparatus for magnetizing a desensitizable marker used with an electromagnetic article surveillance system. The apparatus includes a rectangular, non-metallic plate positioned so that its length is perpendicular to a likely direction of travel of the marker to be magnetized. A row of X-shaped arrays of elongated magnets is embedded on the plate. A marker passing over the row of mag...

An EAS system having a protection zone in which tags are to be detected and a transition zone outward of the protection zone beyond which tagged articles for sale and/or monitoring can be displayed. The EAS system includes a receiving and processing unit which processes received signals in accordance with first and second different criteria to develop a first signal which can, be used to indicate ...

A frame of compressed video data is formatted for transmission into a plurality of data segments, a first group of which are encoded in the form of a plurality of four-level symbols and a second group of which are encoded in the form of a plurality of two-level symbols for providing improved noise performance. The partition between the first and second groups of data segments may be established on...

La presente invención se refiere a un acoplador de inyección o sitio de inyección utilizable con un dispositivo de cánula roma, acoplador de inyección que está caracterizado porque comprende: un alojamiento que tiene en el mismo un pasaje para fluído y una primera y una segunda aberturas dentro del alojamiento, en comunicación con el pasaje; un sello flexible llevado por el alojamiento, para sella...

PURPOSE:To obtain a medical capsule which is excellent in safety to an organism by forming an electrode of a pH sensor from a metal oxide based on iridium to allow the upgrading of measuring accuracy of a pH value. CONSTITUTION:A capsule body 2 is provided with a center cylinder 3, a pH sensor 4, a telemeter circuit board 5 and a battery housing section 6 and the pH sensor 4 is provided with a pH ...

PURPOSE: To obtain a covering of a structural wall for oil storage structures having non-condensation characteristics of water on its surface along with superior heat insulation characteristics and water permeability by forming the finished covering by a heat insulation layer, a water vapor intercepting layer and a stucco finishing layer. CONSTITUTION: A side wall 26 of a tank 20, having a vertica...

A novel medical device, SNOPPER-The Snoring Stopper TM anti-snoring mouth device, is inserted into the mouth. The device comprises a denture-like(10) apparatus for supporting electrodes(12) in such a manner that the electrodes make contact with the roof of the mouth. Electrical stimulation induces contraction of relaxed muscles, thereby preventing or stopping snoring. Electrical energy is provide...

Conductive balls (44), preferably solder balls, are attached to pads (32) on a substrate (30) using a vacuum pick-up tool (34). The pick-up tool lowers the conductive balls into a bath of flux (48) without allowing the balls to touch the bottom of a recess (47) in a flux plate (46), thereby reducing the likelihood of dislodging the solder balls from the pick-up tool. The pick-up tool withdraws the...

Liquid composition based on organic solvents to facilitate the adherence of coatings to substrates. A composition having the following ingredients provides excellent adherence characteristics to coatings applied to various substrates pretreated with the composition. The composition contains a mixture of organic solvents as follows: from 17 to 35% of xylenes, from 4 to 14% of ethylbenzene, from 55 ...

Precise control of pyrocarbon being coated upon an object in a fluidized particle bed is achieved by monitoring the pressure difference between a region above the bed and a region in the lower portion of or just below the bed. Measurement of such pressure differential has been found to be truly representative of bed size in such a coater, and bed size is recognized to be a most important factor in...

An optoelectronic device comprising: a plurality of light emitting elements; light receiving elements, each light receiving element facing a light emitting element; a lead made of a thin metal plate and having the light receiving elements fixed thereon, the lead being connected by wires to ground electrodes provided on the light receiving elements; a plurality of ground terminals common to the lig...

A data recording disk file of the liquid-bearing type has an improved head-disk interface provided by a transducer carrier with new properties. The carrier supports a conventional head for reading and writing data to the disk. The carrier has an air-bearing surface near its front end, a ski pad near its rear end, and a plurality of ski feet or struts which support the air-bearing surface off the l...

A pad array semiconductor device (35) includes a thermal conductor (28) integrated into a circuitized substrate (14). A semiconductor die (12) is mounted on the substrate overlying the thermal conductor to establish a thermal path away from the die. The thermal conductor may also be covered or surrounded by a metallized area (37, 39), which together may serve as a ground plane in the device. Prefe...

The present invention relates to a control method and a control apparatus of a washer wherein washing processes involving washing, rinsing and de-watering are performed fully automatically by the introduction of functions of a commonly-used remote controller, thus providing the user conveniences and usefulness, and more particularly to a control method and a control apparatus of a washer wherein, ...

PURPOSE:To enable the estimation of the mutation of a gene by synthesizing an error spectrum consisting of a set of the mutation probability of each base on a partial DNA sequence on the character string of a gene to be estimated, calculating the sum of the mutation probabilities after the synthesis and estimating the base having high total mutation probability to have high probability to cause mu...

PURPOSE:To provide a coating having excellent anticorrosive performance and high adhesiveness for steel material wherein a paint film of primer is not deteriorated by a method wherein specific heat-resistant, anticorrosive coating material, as primer, is applied to the surface of steel material and after the primer is dried, specific powder coating material is applied thereto and baked. CONSTITUTI...

PURPOSE:To realize a blow time shorter than that in a prior art to enhance a productivity and to mold a pressure bottle body free from an occurrence of crazing or bottom cracking. CONSTITUTION:In molding a synthetic resin-made biaxially-oriented blow-molded bottle body 1 having a bottom part of a big-foot petaloid form, the bottle body 1 is blow molded in a blow time of 3 sec or less. Immediately ...

PURPOSE:To bend a seat back in the middle simply and quickly by uniting an upper structure with the top of a lower structure with a hinge, and coupling a first cylinder mechanism, which has a fluid lock mechanism, with the hinge part. CONSTITUTION:A seat body 7 is placed on a rotary mechanism 5. A seat back is composed of an upper structure 12 and a lower structure 13. A first cylindrical mechanis...