The application describes an offshore support structure for drilling rigs and the like. It includes a column structure which stands on the sea bed. The structure is in at least two sections which are relatively tiltable from an initial position in a plane, or planes, which is, or are, transverse to the column axis by the sections being located one relative to the other by a joint means. The joi...

PURPOSE:To suppress the emission of unburned harmful substances and improve the feeling of speed change, by specifying the speed of opening and closing of a throttle valve. CONSTITUTION:Pipes 27, 28 installed with a normally-closed solenoid valve 25 and a normally-open solenoid valve 26, respectively, are coupled to a pipe 6. Negative pressure is introduced through the pipe 27. The atmospheric pre...

The appts. is for applications where it is required to distinguish between the colours of a colour-coding used with a product, or between the colours that indicate acceptable or unacceptable quality or condition of a product. A pulsed Xenon flashtube (1) is used as a light source for the illumination of samples to be tested (7) and light reflected from them is collected by the lens (8) and split u...

The present invention relates to a safety binding of a boot on a ski comprising two lateral clamps (4) movably mounted under the action of an elastic member (28) parallel to the plane of the ski (3) between a closed position in which the clamps coact with the sole of the boot and an open position. Each clamp (4) is connected to one end of a longitudinally slidable strip (45) by means of articulate...

A mechanism for raising and lowering a seat, especially designed for handicapped persons, comprises two supporting arms (A', B') which are both at one of their ends coupled to the seat (E), at the front and rear edge thereof, respectively. At their other end, the supporting arms (A', B') cooperate with a fixed point (1', 2') each. At least one of the supporting arms is coupled to a driving member ...

An improved windshield wiper blade is disclosed. The lip surface of a flexible windshield wiper blade having a low coefficient of friction is coated with an effective thickness of a coating material selected from the group consisting of elastomeric and plastic materials having a Young's modulus of from about 106 to about 1011. The treated blade exhibits substantially better wipe, wear and friction...

PURPOSE:To eliminate limit to a using clock frequency, by setting the down- switch timing of a presettable up-down counter with the constant of a pattern detecting circuit. CONSTITUTION:A sequence pulse generating circuit 23 produces a latch pulse La and a load pulse Lo when an input signal V arrives. As a result, a latch circuit 22 applies the output Qi of a presettable up-down counter 11 to a pr...

An artificial tooth with an implantable root adapted to permanently grow together with the jawbone and, also under high mechanical loads as is the case for natural teeth, will not allow for the production of a rejection or repelling reaction between the natural bone and the implant. The tooth root is essentially constituted of a biostable polymer matrix which is compatible with human tissue, in wh...

A signal is derived by a movable pick-up (16) which signal corresponds to A.C. voltage impressed on field windings (13, 15, 17, 19) of a D.C. motor (10). Observing the initial direction of the signal around the poles of the motor determines whether or not the field windings observed are properly connected and properly related to each other.

Process and apparatus for treating waste water by circulating it, together with oxygen-containing gas, through communicating downflow and upflow pipes enclosed in a treatment chamber, the pipes being open at their bottom ends, and controlling the flow of waste water/gas mixture from the downflow pipe to cause gas bubbles to escape downwardly, or part downwardly and part upwardly, in the treatment ...

PURPOSE:To execute the same job simultaneously in plural different terminals by the same user identification code, by constituting temporarily data file copies for respective terminals by these terminals. CONSTITUTION:A TSS conversational data processing system is constituted with n-number of time sharing system TSS conversational terminal devices 1-1'' having the same user identification code ID,...

A rigged truck comprises runways defined on the truck platform and extending lengthwise thereto close to a corresponding truck side, a carriage mounted for movement along said runways, a tower mounted rotatably on said carriage and having an operator's seat at the top, a main support which is carried, through a horizontal axis articulated parallelogram, cantilever-fashion on said tower and is mova...

Novel substituted benzenedisulfonamides are disclosed which compounds are active anthelmintic agents being particularly useful against fascioliasis in sheep and cattle. Speci?ically the active compounds are 4-amino-1,3-benzenedisulfonamide compounds substituted at the 6position with an unsaturated substituted alkyl group. Compositions and methods containing the novel substituted benzenedisulfonam...

PURPOSE:To obtain a decoder device superior in reliability, by comparing a signal, which indicates the odd or even parity, with output signals of the first and the second circuits which have true values only for the odd parity and the even parity of an input signal group respectively. CONSTITUTION:A decoder circuit 16 decodes an input signal group given to input signal lines 11-1i to give true ...

PURPOSE:To easily mount a lead frame to an external element such as printed circuit board by making thinner the plate thickness of lead than that of the other part. CONSTITUTION:The portion enveloped within a broken line 18 of a lead frame 11 is as thin as 0.25mm., but other portion is as thick as 0.41mm.. A semiconductor chip 12 is electrically connected to each lead by wire bonding. Since the ...

The invention relates to novel sugar esters and glycosides especially derivatives of D-glucopyranoside and D-glucopyranaronate suitable for the treatment of neoplasms, acne, psoriasis and dermatoses.

PURPOSE:To obtain an arithmetic sequence device which minimizes the change of a program, by providing a circuit, which selects an optional auxiliary RAM in accordance with a selected ROM, in the output side of an auxiliary storage device selecting circuit which selects an optional ROM. CONSTITUTION:By the address signal of a CPU 1, a memory controlling unit MCU 17 selects a main storage device ROM...

A device for induction welding apparatus fashioned partly from a metal plate is disclosed. The metal plate is constructed so as to form an inductive loop for generating eddy currents in electrically conductive material placed adjacent thereto. The metal plate contains a groove for carrying a cooling medium; a second, similarly configured non-conductive plate is attached to the metal plate over sai...