The invention concerns an insulating element made out of mineral fibers, which are bounded together with a fixing agent and/or by mechanical processing such as needling, felting or the like. The element has at least one mineral fiber layer and at least one surface layer. The surface layer presents a bigger apparent density at least in certain parts as compared to the mineral fiber layer. The inven...

A method and apparatus for treating waste material to remove selected components form the waste is described using a reactor or a series of reactors in fluid communication with each other for receiving the waste to be treated as influent. The influent forms a biomass including the waste and microorganisms and is treated by controlling the metabolic activity of the microorganisms by monitoring the ...

A method of effecting automatic callback in a mobile telecommunication system. A calling subscriber is permanently connected to a public switched telephone network and a called subscriber is a mobile unit which moves in the public land mobile network. A centrally located home location register keeps an account of where all mobiles registered in the mobile telecommunication network are located, wit...

In order to improve the productivity of pressure-resisting bottles by reducing the blow time from 4-5 seconds in a conventional bottle molding method to not more than 3 seconds, and mold pressure resisting bottles free from the occurrence of crazing and bottom-breakage, a biaxially stretched blow molded bottle (1) of a synthetic resin having a big foot type petaloid bottom is produced in a blow ti...

PCT No. PCT/IB96/00569 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 20, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 20, 1997 PCT Filed Jun. 7, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/41592 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 27, 1996A bifurcated endovascular stent is formed by a pair of tube-defining members, one of which is open at its ends and has a lateral opening between its ends. The other tubular structure is adapted to be advanced into one end of the first tube and ...

PCT No. PCT/IB96/00569 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 20, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 20, 1997 PCT Filed Jun. 7, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/41592 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 27, 1996A bifurcated endovascular stent is formed by a pair of tube-defining members, one of which is open at its ends and has a lateral opening between its ends. The other tubular structure is adapted to be advanced into one end of the first tube and ...

According to the invention, a novel guide member for integrally forming the fastening parts with the urethane mold and an integral molding method using said guide member are provided. The guide member comprises a guide portion that has an extended body which includes concave cross-section and at least one opening end, and isolation members provided near the ends of said guide portion. Said isolati...

An input control device is coupled to a host system. A displacement control device is centrally located in the input control device and controls the location of a cursor displayed over video images, scrolling of the video images and adjusting of the point of view of the images, the images being generated by the execution of an application program by a dedicated multimedia game system or a personal...

Disposable filter element, adapted for use in a high-pressure filter housing, has a plurality of layers of flexible filtering material (11,12,14,16,18,20,22,24), some layers being formed with openings (13,17,21) through which a portion of the fluid can flow without being filtered, and at least one downstream layer (24) of the filtering material being free from such openings. When all of the layers...

A three-dimensional fabric for reinforcing the composite material so that said material is irregularly functional with yarn orientation angle changed locally and optionally when weaving a three-dimensional fabric by the rotor-carrier type loom for such kind of fabric; and a method of manufacturing said fabric. In said fabric, a large number of yarns (1) oriented slantwise with respect to the lengt...

PCT No. PCT/GB93/01505 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 20, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 20, 1995 PCT Filed Jul. 16, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/02364 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 3, 1994This invention relates to a corrugated thermoplastic blank for a container. The blank (20) has a base panel (24) with wall panels (26, 28, 30, 32) connected to the base panel (24) by fold lines (38). The fold lines (38) comprise weld lines whic...

An ink jet recording apparatus for performing recording by ejecting ink to a recording medium (18, P), has a recording head (101, IJH) and head driving unit (200, 101A). The recording head (101, IJH) has a plurality of orifices (N1, N2, ... Nn) and a plurality of ejection energy generating elements (11, 12, ... 1n) each of which corresponds to each of the plurality of orifices (N1, N2, ... Nn). Th...

The invention resides in a rotary blow molding machine (1) in which under an extruder (10) for extruding a parison (2), a turntable (7) is arranged which has plural sets of molds (8, 8') mounted thereon for holding said parison (2) therebetween and blow-molding the parison, and said turntable is rotated by a motor (64), characterized in that an annular driven gear (61) is provided on said turntabl...

A plastic, cylindrical walled barrel (10) has a circular base (14) and an upper cover (16) with an outlet (20). Around the periphery of the upper cover (16) and forming part of the barrel wall (12) is a lifting and transporting lip (22). The lip (22) has a horizontal lower edge inclined downward and a vertical inner face (26) inclined inwards. The barrel outlet (30) projects from a recessed area o...

1. UN POLIPEPTIDO DE OBESIDAD (OB) QUE TIENE APRO- XIMADAMENTE 145 A APROXIMADAMENTE 167 AMINOACIDOS, CAPACES DE MODULAR EL PESO CORPORAL EN UN ANIMAL, O VARIANTES ALELICAS O ANALOGAS, INCLUIDOS FRAG- MENTOS, DEL MISMO QUE TIENEN LA MISMA ACTIVIDAD BIOLOGICA. 2. UN POLIPEPTIDO DE OB DE LA REIVINDICACION 1, QUE COMPRENDE LA SECUENCIA DE AMINOACIDOS DE SEQ ID No. 2,4,5 o 6, o VARIANTES ALELICAS O AN...