PURPOSE:To obtain the subject concrete by curing a composition comprising cement, silica fume, a high-performance water reducing agent, and a specific ultra-lightweight aggregate. CONSTITUTION:Firstly, pyroclastic flow deposit due to volcano activity containing 70-80wt.% of silica component such as silas and <=5wt.% of iron component is pulverized to a mean particle diameter of <=10mum; the result...

PURPOSE:To provide a cable connecting method allowing the connecting work between a cable and the brake lever of a drum brake to be performed positively in a simple way. CONSTITUTION:A connector 14 with a holding means for the end fitting 7a of a cable 7 is used, and the connector 14 with the end fitting 7a of the cable 7 held thereto is pulled to draw the end fitting 7a into the vicinity of the c...

PURPOSE:To provide a device having a differential function of the differential gear and a differential operation limiting function in two rotational directions through operation of a mechanical clutch. CONSTITUTION:Between output shafts 18, 19 connected to a differential gear 11 and their corresponding outer wheels 21, 22 there are disposed a control retainer 27 rotating jointly with the outer whe...

A process and apparatus for converting an MPEG-2 bitstream into an SMPTE-259 compatible bitstream is characterized by a frame rate converter which is selectively enabled to drop every 1001st frame of the incoming MPEG-2 bitstream depending on the input bitstream frame rate. If the input bitstream frame rate is other than 29.97 or 59.94 Hz, a frame dropper is enabled to discard every 1001st frame. ...

Silver or silver oxide-doped silicic acid is claimed which is produced pyrogenically by flame oxidation or preferably flame hydrolysis. The dopants are added at 0.0001 wt.% to up to 20 wt.%, preferably 1-10000 ppm. The dopant is a salt (mixture) of Ag or a suspension of an Ag compound or metallic Ag or their mixture. The BET surface of the doped oxide is 1-600 (preferably 40-400) m<2>/g. An Indepe...

PURPOSE: To easily, rigidly and electrically connect each electrode with bonding pads by suing short bonding wires which do not cause malfunction to a semiconductor element, by stretching a part of bonding pads on a film for preventing flowing-in whose wetability to a conducting adhesive part member is low. CONSTITUTION: A plurality of bonding pads 8 with which electrodes of a semiconductor elemen...

Fermented milk having a value of b standing for the slope of more than 0.17 when, in the range giving the minimum decreasing rate of viscosity within the range of from r = 10<-><1> to r = 10<2>S<-><1> in the shear rate dependence test of static modulus, the decreasing rate is substituted into the formula y = ax<-b>. A process for producing said fermented milk which comprises blending a yogurt mix ...

Disclosed is the photochemical conversion of tachysterol compounds into previtamin D compounds and of trans-vitamin D compounds into cis-vitamin D compounds, under the influence of radiation, by exposing a solution of the organic compound to be converted in the presence of a non-polymeric photosensitizer to light with approx. 300 - 1,000 nm wavelength, and by then isolating the resulting product, ...

The invention relates to a combustion unit, which for effecting a circulating mass process comprises a reactor chamber (R), whose lower part is, for formation of a fluidized bed, fitted with a grate structure (10), at least one particle separator with means for purifying the combustion gas containing solid material, formed in the fluidized bed, from said solid material, and a return duct (6a) for ...

The invention concerns a device for the capillary transport of a liquid between two opposite, essentially planar layers, in which the two layers are arranged parallel to one another at such a distance that there is a capillary-active gap between the two layers, wherein at least one of the two layers contains at least two discrete adjacent parts and capillary-active transport of the liquid is possi...

The present invention is directed to a process for preparing 1,2-dichloroethane by reacting ethene with hydrogen chloride and oxygen over a copper-containing fluidized-bed catalyst. The discharge of the catalyst from the reactor per se is avoided if the catalyst is virtually completely retained in the upper part of the reactor by means of superfine filtration.

Strain of Lactobacillus useful as probiotics in food and naturopathic medicines and which is resistant in vitro against hydrochloric acid and gastric juices and tolerates bile salts without deconjugating them whereas strong assimilation is occurring and which has good survival at the passage through the stomach and the gastrointestinal tract and which strain is growing optimally at about 37° C., w...

PURPOSE:To provide a means which makes a child hard to hang on to an air bag module unintentionally and enable it to obtain a low impact value with a hip point of a rear seat as a center. CONSTITUTION:A back impact absorber of a seat back has an air bag module 3 whose one side is engaged with the back of a seat back frame 2 by a claw and the other side is screwed and fixed and an assist grips 13 w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure low fitting force (insertion force) of a connection terminal between a bus bar and an electronic circuit board and mount the connection terminal on the whole periphery of the electronic circuit board. SOLUTION: An electric connection box with an electronic circuit which is provided with an electronic circuit storage part in part of an electric connection box for sto...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly and surely execute a conference at a remote place by automatically enabling storing of file data on the basis of a conference data or the other party of the conference and relation to each other and making a storing operation and a taking out operation of the file data later simply executed by inputs only of the conference data and the other party of that conferenc...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a further miniaturized SAW device without requiring a material cost and an assembly cost and the packaging method to a substrate of a SAW chip. SOLUTION: For this surface acoustic wave(SAW) device, the electrode surface 3b where a SAW electrode is formed of the SAW chip 3 is arranged facing the surface where a wiring pattern is formed of the substrate 6, a bump 3a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a data processor to properly set the priority to work items requested from plural low order processors. SOLUTION: When the execution request of processing work is inputted from a low order processor 3 to a request input means 11, a communication establishing means 12 establishes a communication state. A work measuring means 13 measures the lapsed time in the communi...

PURPOSE:To automate an extraction work and improve a work environment, by opening the top plate of a drum can, inserting a suction nozzle from an opened part, thereby sucking contents. CONSTITUTION:In dissolver 2, water is held at a water-level greater than the height of a drum can 1. When the drum can 1 filled with yellow phosphorus is placed in a specified position outside the dissolver 2, a car...

A synchronous vector processor SVP device (102) having a plurality of one-bit processor elements (130) organized in a linear array. The processor elements are all controlled in common by a sequencer, a state machine or a control circuit (controller) (128) to enable operation as a parallel processing device. Each processor element (150) includes a set of input registers 9154), two sets of register ...

A novel packaging of semiconductor elements, such as MCM tiles, with a variety of printed circuit or wired boards (PWB), the packages occupying a small size, at least in the vertical direction, relative to prior art OMPAC devices. The MCM tile includes an interconnection substrate with peripheral metallizations and at least one chip or integrated circuit (IC) mounted on the substrate by solder ref...