An interferometer apparatus is disclosed for determining the spatial relationship of two or more observed points (26, 28) such as the height of a magnetic transducer as it moves over the surface of a spinning recording disc. A light beam having two components of characteristic polarization and frequency is separated with one component being directed upon the two observation points (26, 28) one of ...

A manufacturing method for a thin semiconductor device assembly includes forming an internal frame for positioning an IC module within an external frame that forms the periphery of the thin semiconductor device assembly, positioning the IC module in the internal frame so that an electrode terminal surface of the IC module is exposed, and fixing the IC module in place by filling the external and in...

According to the method: - tomodensitometry of the hip and of the femur is carried out by taking stepped sections of the proximal third of the femur, - the contour of the medullary canal is digitised by computer means, - the digitised sections are downloaded into CAD (computer-aided design) software and, for each section, a set of so-called "spline" curves are produced, - these splines are giv...

Concrete composition which has a self-smoothing and self-levelling property making it possible to pour a volume of concrete whose surface will have a smooth and perfectly horizontal appearance without mechanical treatment of the surface following the pouring of the concrete. The liquid concrete composition traditionally comprises cement, sand and water and, in addition, ultrafine particles other t...

The invention comprises a tunnel-type heating furnace of modular construction for heating glass sheets carried therethrough in succession on a series of aligned rollers. The furnace enclosure includes a lower section of generally rectangular cross-section beneath the rollers and an upper section, which is of generally elliptical configuration in cross-section, above the rollers. The upper enclosur...

The process is characterised in that cefodizim is brought into solution using 1.5 - 2.5 mol of an organic amine base in ethanol with a water content of 4 - 15%, and the disodium salt of cefodizim is crystallised out by the addition of a sodium donor.

Image recording apparatus characterized by being equipped with the carriers (6,101) to carry recording sheet, recording head, carrier guides (15C,15M,15Y,15BK) which is so arranged as placing the carriers in between the guides and the recording heads (1C,1M,1Y,1BK) and pushing members (116C,116M,116Y,116BK) provided in between the recording heads and the carrier guides, the carrier guides being ro...

A capillary fill encapsulation technique and a device so encapsulated is described such that a selected region of a device may be encapsulated whilst leaving other regions of the device uncovered.

The distributed auditing subsystem invention runs in a UNIX-like operating system environment with a hierarchical file system. The invention provides an audit trail of accesses to the objects it protects and maintains and protects that audit trail from modification or unauthorized access or destruction. The audit data generated by the invention is protected so that read access to it is limited to ...

The multi-chip module comprises a substrate (21) of monocrystalline silicon, whose surface is enlarged, at least in part, by anodic, electrochemical etching in a fluoride-containing acidic electrolyte. Arranged on the enlarged surface of the substrate (21) there is at least one capacitor (23) which comprises a dielectric layer and a conductive layer, the substrate (21) and the conductive layer act...

The invention relates to a method for potential isolation of electrostatic paint application systems (10), in which electrically conductive fluid paints or surface coating agents (20), in particular water enamels, are placed at a high-voltage potential before they are fed to processing means using an insulated line (12), gas bubbles (18) being fed into the insulated line (12), the said gas bubbles...

A vitreous or vitreous-crystalline, rapidly dissolving material has the following composition (wt.%) before combustion: 20 - 55 CaO, 5 - 25 Na2O, 0.01 - 15 K2O, 0 - 15 MgO, 30 - 50 P2O5, 0 - 15 SiO2, 0 - 40 Na2SO4 and/or K2SO4. The new material can be obtained in vitreous or vitreous-crystalline form, depending on the cooling conditions. As a spontaneously crystallized glass ceramic, it contains t...

PCT No. PCT/DE91/00140 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 27, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 27, 1992 PCT Filed Feb. 22, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO91/14094 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 19, 1991.A cranking arrangement has a rotor, an output shaft driven by a rotor, a pinion carried by the output shaft for driving a toothed ring of an internal combustion engine, the output shaft being supported so that it can be displaced axially for ...

Improved methods and operating systems for use with a multi-mode microprocessor enable efficient operation in a multi-mode environment. Preferred embodiments for use with microprocessors which were not designed to switch from each mode to another mode enable multi-tasking of a mixture of programs written for different modes using the mode switching methods of the present invention. Frequently used...

Disclosed is a biologically pure culture of Aureobasidium pullulans deposited as NRRL 21064. Further disclosed are processes for decreasing the concentration of a type A/B chernical pollutants in an aqueous mixture containing the type A/B chemical pollutant which comprises adding sufficient amount of a fungal cyclic ether degrading microorganism to the aqueous mixture containing the chemical pollu...

The invention is directed toward polymerizing alpha-olefins either alone or in combination with one or more other alpha-olefins utilizing a bully ligand transition metal catalyst in a gas phase fluidized bed polymerization reactor operating in condensed mode.

A laminator for laminating a thin film (1) on a substrate (11) is disclosed wherein the thin film (1) is obtained by cutting a continuous thin film by a predetermined dimension a thin film supply detector (8) is disposed at a thin film supply path for detecting supplying condition at supplying phase of the thin film. The thin film (1) comprises a first transparent resin film (1A), a photosensitive...

A method of preparing an implant body in order to optimize the healing time of said implant, comprising bringing the implant body for a limited period of time into contact with a hydrogen peroxide solution at least on the surfaces intended to come into contact with surrounding tissue when implanted, the treated surfaces being cleaned by rinsing. The treatment of the implant surface with hydrogen p...

Disclosed herein is a method of producing a trim board, which comprises by steps: (a) hot-pressing trimming and piercing a resin-impregnated substrate at the same time to produce a shaped substrate; (b) laying an outer skin member onto one surface of the shaped substrate with an interposal of a hot-melt sheet therebetween; (c) pressing the outer skin member against the shaped substrate while the s...

L'invention concerne une composition de gunite destinée à réparer les surfaces en béton, caractérisée en ce qu'elle comprend du ciment et un granulat, ce dernier ayant un module d'élasticité statique moyen de 15 000-40 000 N/mm2 . D'excellents résultants sont obtenus lorsque le granulat comprend du sable et de petites quantités de poudre de chaux, de poudres ultra-fines de roches ou de micro-fi...