PURPOSE: To reduce irradiation amount of radiation by providing a detecting means to detect simultaneously X-ray passed through a plurality of sections of a patient. CONSTITUTION: A gantry of a rotation-one-revolution type CT scanner 11 comprises an opening 14 to accept a patient, and an X-ray irradiation source 16 mounted rotatably thereon at a constant distance from a detector's row 17. The irra...

PURPOSE:To improve the control responsiveness at the start of traction control by permitting the brake power of a brake device for driving wheels to be selectively put into the sharp increase mode and the gentle increase mode, and selecting the sharp increase mode in the initial stage of brake application in which the driving wheel has an excessive slip tendency. CONSTITUTION:Antilock control is p...

A segmental drum (10) has spaced-apart inflatable turnup bladders (24) for folding each edge (28) of a belt (30) applied to the drum (10). The spacing of the bladders (24) is adjustable by axial movement in opposite directions of central hub assemblies (42,44) threaded on screws (76). Fine adjustment of the spacing to straighten the fold line (32) of each bladder (24) is provided by axial adjustme...

A process for converting solid plastics materials, preferably waste materials, into usable lower hydrocarbonaceous materials by contacting said plastics materials at elevated temperatures with an acidic zeolite catalyst.

Improved gasoline compositions containing a minor amount of a polyalphaolefin having a viscosity at 100 DEG C from 2 to 20 centistokes, and optionally also an aliphatic polyamine, an alkali or alkaline earth metal salt of a succinic acid derivative, and/or a polyolefin; together with a concentrate for the production of such gasoline composition and a method of operating a spark-ignition engine usi...

This invention relates to the use of Nisin an antimicrobial substance (produced by certain strains of Streptococcus lactis) for controlling the growth of spoilage bacteria in alcoholic beverages both during and after production. The process of the invention comprises adding to or incorporating in an alcoholic beverage an amount of nisin or nisin-producing culture sufficient to inhibit spoilage. In...

PURPOSE:To enhance the orientational property of the superconducting thin film and to improve its critical current density of the thin film by the chemical liq. phase method by strictly controlling the drying and thermal decomposition after coating, heat treatment and further calcination. CONSTITUTION:The org. acid salts of the elements constituting a superconducting ceramic are dissolved in an or...

PURPOSE:To accelerate crystallization at low temp. at the time of forming an oxide superconductor thin film on a substrate by irradiating the vaporized particles of the constituent metal atoms with the light capable of ionizing at least one kind among the vaporized particles to form the thin film. CONSTITUTION:The constituent metal atoms of an oxide superconductor are vaporized (e.g. vaporization ...

PURPOSE:To provide the superconductor having a high zero-resistance superconductivity transition temp. and a large volume ration by incorporating specified rare-earth elements and alkaline-earth elements, Ba, Ca, Cu and oxygen in a specified ratio. CONSTITUTION:The superconductor has a composition shown by formula I. In the formula, alpha and gamma are at least one kind of element selected from Nd...

Mouldings of a fast-hardening inorganic, water-containing moulding composition are proposed which are formed from finely dispersed electrostatic precipitator dust from lignite-fired furnaces by reaction with an alkaline alkali metal silicate solution and fillers. Foamed articles are produced by addition of foaming agents to the moulding composition.

PURPOSE:To raise the superconductivity critical temp. by adding Ti oxide to the powder of a Y-Ba-Cu-based oxide superconductor material and calcining the mixture. CONSTITUTION:The powder of TiO2 or Ti2O3 is added to the powders of the oxides of Y, Ba and Cu constituting the Ln, Ba2Cu3O7-x-based oxide superconductor (Ln is Y or rare-earth elements) in the ratio of Ln/Ti=1/0.1-1/1.0 and mixed in the...

PURPOSE:To obtain the superconducting ceramic provided with high mechanical strength and environmental resistance without deteriorating its critical temp. and superconductivity by adding a specified amt. of Zr or Hf to the ceramic. CONSTITUTION:The superconducting ceramic is obtained by sintering the material having a composition shown by the formula. The Y in the ceramic is not replaced by Zr or ...

Alkenyl aromatic thermoplastic synthetic resinous elongate foam bodies having a machine direction, a traverse direction and closed noninterconnecting gas-containing cells are prepared using at least 70 percent by weight of 1,1,1-trifluoroethane and or 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane as a blowing agent or part of a blowing agent mixture. These foam bodies have an average cell size of 0.01 to 0.3 millimet...

ARC-210 A process for the deaeration of aqueous polymeric solutions, particularly fiber-forming solutions, by thin film evaporation.

Expandable styrene polymers which contain from 10 to 90% by weight of a crosslinked styrene-diene copolymer containing from 2 to 45% by weight of the diene, and from 1 to 10% by weight of a C3- to C6-hydrocarbon as blowing agent can be processed to give foams which have high resistance to aromatics.

In the preparation of expandable styrene polymers by polymerizing styrene, if desired together with up to 50% by weight of other monomers, in aqueous suspension with addition of a C3- to C6-hydrocarbon as blowing agent and, if desired, conventional additives in effective amounts before, during or after the polymerization, foaming is reduced if the aqueous phase contains from 0.05 to 0.3% by weight...

An oriented heat sealable multilayer structure. The structure comprises a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, the substrate comprising a polyolefin film; a polymeric heat sealable layer on the first surface of the substrate, the layer comprising a polymeric material selected from the group consisting of a terpolymer of ethylene, propylene and butene-1, a random copolymer of ethy...

Incorporation of fibrous filler into a styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) by mixing a fibrous filler, SBR latex and a coagulant, feeding the resulting coagulated fiber-filled SBR latex to a dewatering extruder and through a flow restriction that applies back pressure sufficient that water present in the SBR is forced out of a vent upstream from the flow restriction and discharging the fiber-filled SBR...

A snap hinge closure connects two parts, such as, for example, a lower and an upper part of a closure. Both parts have casing walls which, in the closed position of the hinge, match vertically above one another. On both sides of the film hinge, tension bands are positioned, which, in the closed position, are tensed. The tension bands are held, with their ends, in recesses (11) in the casing walls,...