FUEL TANK CARRIER A fuel tank carrier is formed from three parts -- a base, a handle, and a top ring. The base supports the bottom of a fuel tank bottle. The ring is pivotally secured to the handle and is pivotable between an upwardly extending loading position in which the fuel tank can be inserted into the base and a holding position in which the top ring encircles the fuel tank.

A deactivatable electronic theft detection marker is made from a strip or ribbon of high magnetic permeability strip or ribbon and then high magnetic coercivity material is deposited on the strip or ribbon by electroplating.

: Device for transmitting a plurality of television signals through a transmission channel. A device for simultaneously transmitting a plurality of television signals comprises an adjusting circuit (5) for adjusting the bitrate for each television signal in dependence upon the complexity of this signal with respect to the joint complexity of the plurality of television signals. The device provides...

This invention is directed to a system for a totally implantable circulatory device which combines the following components into a single integrated system: an actuation means for convertng energy into a pulsating blood flow, a volume displacement chamber for storage of a volume displacement mediums during the diastolic phase of the blood chambe r, control electronics for the control and monitori...

The invention is directed to a unified system for an electrohydraulic ventricular assist device adapted for implantation in the thorax and for cannulation to the blood circulatory system comprising an internal electronic controller for generating an actuating signal actuating means for converting the actuating signal into a back and forth rhythmic displacement of a fluid, a blood pumping chamber h...

The present invention relates to a new method of preparing sugar acetonides, such as for example 1,2:5,6Di-O-isopropylidene-.alpha.-D-glucofuranose, by reacting the corresponding sugar, e.g. D-(+)-glucose, with acetone in the presence of a Lewis acid and a carboxylic acid derivative of general formula wherein X represents a leaving group which may be substituted by a hydroxyl group.

17 SIGN SUPPORT FOR ENGAGING A SUSPENDED CEILING An apparatus for hanging a sign from a suspended ceiling of the type including T-runners and intervening ceiling panels comprises a ceiling engaging member defined by an extruded bar having a pair of tabs attached to each end so as to extend outwardly in the horizontal top plane of the bar. The bar includes a vertically extending slot for receiving ...

The present invention relates to an optical amplifying device (10) for amplification of an optical signal incident to a photo diode and to the use of the same. The amplifying device comprises a laser device (110) and an electrical feeding circuit. The laser device is so formed that it comprises one single laser device comprising a number of active regions or laser structures electrically connected...

The present invention relates to an optical amplifying device (10) for amplification of an optical signal incident to a photo diode and to the use of the same. The amplifying device comprises a laser device (110) and an electrical feeding circuit. The laser device is so formed that it comprises one single laser device comprising a number of active regions or laser structures electrically connected...

An edge emitting laser device with at least two laser structures arranged in one and the same optical cavity. The laser structures are substantially arranged in the optical direction of propagation and each laser structure comprises an active region, said active regions being electrically connected in series.

An edge emitting laser device with at least two laser structures arranged in one and the same optical cavity. The laser structures are substantially arranged in the optical direction of propagation and each laser structure comprises an active region, said active regions being electrically connected in series.

POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE OPTICAL FOUR-PHOTON MIXER The present invention provides an apparatus and method for performing polarization-insensitive four-photon mixing of optical signals. The polarization-insensitive optical mixer includes a polarization splitter for splitting an optical signal into parallel and perpendicular polarization components, different mixing paths for mixing a pump signal of...

An improved error control coding scheme is implemented in low bit rate coders in order to improve their performance in the presence of transmission errors typical of the digital cellular channel. The error control coding scheme exploits the nonlinear block codes (NBCs) for purposes of tailoring those codes to a fading channel in order to provide superior error protection to the compressed half rat...

A synchronization adder circuit for digital data communication is provided. This circuit includes an A/D converter, a waveform-shaping circuit, a square circuit, a low-pass filter, and an adder. The A/D converter samples at given sampling points in time per sampling cycle a received signal transmitted through a plurality of subcarriers to digitize sampled values to provide digital signals. The wav...

A shortcircuiting system, particularly useful for by-passing an electrolyzer in a multiplicity of monopolar or bipolar electrolyzers in an electrolysis circuit, said system comprising power supply means for feeding electrolysis current to said electrolyzers, a jumper switch means for by-passing said electrolyzer and means for controlling and interrupting the electric current supplied to said elect...

SHORTCIRCUITING SYSTEM FOR USE IN MONOPOLAR AND BIPOLAR ELECTROLYZERS A shortcircuiting system, particularly useful for by-passing an electrolyzer in a multiplicity of monopolar or bipolar electrolyzers in an electrolysis circuit, said system comprising power supply means for feeding electrolysis current to said electrolyzers, a jumper switch means for bypassing said electrolyzer and means for con...

The preparation of acyclovir through the alkylation of N2- formyl guanine with 2-oxa-1,4-diacyloxybutane and hydrolysis of the intermediate so obtained is described.

This invention relates to toughened ceramic compositions based on silicon carbide characterised by the presence of ZrC in association with oxides capable of producing a liquid phase at the sintering temperature, the SiC being present in a quantity up to 95% by weight, the ZrC in a quantity between 5 and 20% by weight. The oxides are selected from the group comprising MgO, Y2O3, ZrO2, TiO2, Al2O3, ...

Polymer associations based on polycaprolactone (PCL) reinforced with polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) in the dispersed phase, containing between 5 and 35% by weight, and preferably between 10 and 30%, of methyl polymethacrylate in a finely subdivided form, and a corresponding method of production by reactive mixing in accordance with the following procedure: - mixing of a mixture containing polycapro...

The subject of the invention is a voltage amplifier circuit which incorporates within its own feedback loop a broadband transformer TR of small size compared with the current flowing in its windings, by means of which the desired voltage component Va is injected into the output circuit, including the output load impedance Ro and the generator Vp of the principal current Ip flowing in Ro. The circu...