A method for emplacing a medical anchor in a borehole in biological tissue, the method comprising the steps of providing a borehole in the biological tissue, inserting the anchor into the borehole with a tool such that the anchor is affixed to the tool and in approximate alignment with the borehole, manipulating the tool, the step of manipulating the tool causing the anchor to pivot about an axis ...

Centrifugal apparatus for the continuous separation of solids-liquid mixtures and the internal washing of separated solids is provided with one or more conduits to deliver washing liquid into centrifugally sedimented solids tumbling and suspending these solids in washing liquid. A distal end of each wash conduit is positioned in close proximity to the inner surface of the centrifuge bowl near the ...

Electronic anti-intrusion warning and protection system for isolated houses, apartment blocks and business premises generally, comprising one or more electronic units, remote transmitting (50), supplied with microtelecameras (51), placed in the internal (10) and external (40) areas to be guarded, whether associated or not to various services such as street lamps (41), light bulbs, street buzzer pa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform predictition and control before going to a running scheduled position using information obtained from a navigation device by providing a time deciding means on a terminal end device, providing a running position deciding means and a vehicle position advancing means on a navigation system control part, and providing a stop judging means and a vehicle speed setting m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate separation in a state that paste paper strongly adheres to an electrode, the paste paper does not adhere to each other, and respective electrodes holds the paste paper, by setting Bekk smoothness of one surface higher than a specific value and Bekk smoothness of the other surface lower than a specific value, for the paste paper for coating both surfaces during f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce times of an aging process and a drying process, miniaturize facility of the processes for automation, by storing an electrode group in a battery jar, which is formed by piling positive and negative electrodes with separators sandwiched between the positive and negative electrodes wherein paste is filled into a lattice body, and by aging the electrode group in the ba...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an extremely easy-to-handle additive and extend charge/ discharge cycle life by dispersing inorganic salt or/and boric acid having large coagulation force in powders of partially saponification polyvinylalcohol. SOLUTION: Preferably, polymerization degree of partially saponification polyvinylalcohol is not less than 30 and not more than 450, saponification degree o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To drive accessories, such as an alternator and a compressor, even when an engine is in a stop without inviting increase in cost or weight in a hybrid car. SOLUTION: An electric motor 2 is placed between an engine 1 and a transmission 3 so that the electric motor 2 can be connected to and disconnected from the engine 1 through a clutch 4, and further a plurality of accessorie...

Process for recovering polyester polymer as a microporous solid from a mixed polymer recycle stream which comprises: (a) contacting the mixed polymer recycle stream at elevated temperature with a selective solvent in which polyester polymers are soluble and other polymers present in the recycle stream are substantially insoluble to form a solution of polyester polymer in the selective solvent; (b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical measuring equipment superior in reproducibility and accuracy of measurement. SOLUTION: An optical measuring equipment has a rubber ring sheet 213 fixed by a fixing hook 25, while abutting against a liquid crystal panel 12. The rubber ring sheet 213 has an inside diameter sufficiently larger than the outside diameter of the opening 212a of a flange 212. S...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a circuit pack self-testing system adapted to testing on an electronic device of a circuit pack. SOLUTION: The self-testing system 10 executes various testing programs in a testing set, and maintains a history record of a test result from the set in a nonvolatile memory 30. The record is updated only in the case that the latest result is different from the result r...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate the development of a user program without the need to set a display format by a user as the width of an item is varied by detecting the user varying the width and then obtaining and determining a display format to be set according to a table wherein the kinds of data to be displayed as predefined items, settable display formats, and necessary irreducible widths ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the manufacturing cost of chip resistors by eliminating the need for using expensive silver (Ag). SOLUTION: This chip resistor includes a chip block 10, an electrode portion 20 provided with an upper electrode 22, which is formed on top face and both end faces of the chip block, and an end face 24, an electrical characteristic layer 30 of the resistor, which is prin...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the resistance of a gate electrode and increase a latchup preventive capability by formaing a metal interconnection layer on an emitter electrode through an insulation layer to make a contact between the metal interconnection layer and a gate electrode. SOLUTION: Connections 9b between gate electrodes 9 and 9a and contacts between the connections 9b and a gate inter...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide electronic equipment by which a microcomputer is reset and automatically restored when the microcomputer is malfunctioned due to lightening or the like and reception of a command signal is tentatively disabled in a wired broadcast system, where an operating mode of the electronic device on a transmission line is set with a command signal sent from a center device t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve accuracy of symbol synchronization acquisition and to enhance error rate under a multi-path environment. SOLUTION: A multiplier 103 calculates a correlation value between a received signal and a signal delaying the received signal by one symbol, an integration device 104 integrates the calculation results, a subtractor 105 subtracts an output of the integration dev...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a new power transformer for a telephone set to realize a low cost being in compliance with standards of a power supply system configuration relating to the telephone set resulting from tightened safety standards. SOLUTION: A bobbin 1 used for a telephone set power transformer 12 is structured by taking insulation and insulation distance into account where the bobbin...

La présente invention concerne de fines particules de métal revêtues d'oxyde 10. Elles comprennent de fines particules de métal de coeur 12 qui sont recouvertes d'une couche de revêtement d'oxyde 14. L'invention concerne aussi un procédé permettant de produire ces particules. Il comprend les étapes consistant à mélanger un métal en poudre et un oxyde en poudre, à amener ce mélange dans un plasm...

Procédé d'analyse et de localisation de pannes matérielles dans une machine informatique stockant des informations d'erreurs de fonctionnement générées par les différents composants matériels sensibles de la machine, caractérisé en ce qu'il consiste à créer une interface homme/machine (I) par l'intermédiaire de laquelle les composants et les règles d'interprétation des erreurs sont décrits dans...

A multilayer, biaxially oriented polypropylene film (I) comprises a base layer and at least a sealable top layer. The base layer contains a mixture (II) of resin and wax whereby the resin has a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 600-1500 and the wax has number average molecular weight (Mn) of 200-700. An Independent claim is included for the production of (I) by orientation by a stretch rati...