The use of oil-in-water-type emulsions of fatty acids (C12 to C18) and/or carboxylic acid waxes, with the possible addition of paraffin, with a solid body melting point between 40 and 80 DEG C with the use of non-ionogenic emulsifiers, possibly partly neutralised with lye, amine or ammonia, as an additive in the production of hydrocarbon-absorbent concretes or concrete blocks, and a process for p...

A shaving system includes a platform member with a support surface that has a plurality of apertures therein and guard structure integral therewith and disposed forwardly of the support surface, a cap member with a plurality of post elements for disposition in the apertures in the support structure, a primary blade member having a planar body and a cutting edge, a secondary blade member having a p...

A desktop computer system having the capability to suspend and resume the state of the computer system. The suspended system state is saved to the system hard file such that system power may be removed, effectively allowing a system suspend requiring no power from the power supply.

Summary: In order to be able to produce formed elements or building elements with a significantly increased strength with a building material or structural material, it is suggested to provide the material with a largely uniform fine pore structure or a microcellular structure. These fine pores preferably have a diameter in the range of approx. 0.01.mu. to approx. 5.mu. and are self-contained. The...

This invention provides an improvement in injection syringes by providing for a sound as an indication that the complete dose has been administered. The end of dose indicator (20) of this invention is operatively associated with the dose knob (15) of a injection syringe (1) which is raised to set the dose and pushed to inject the dose. The improvement comprises a means for producing a sound which ...

The present invention provides an anti-backup device which prevents the nut (10) from moving up the threaded piston (5) at the end of the dose by rotating in the opposite direction of that in which the nut (10) moves up the position to set the new dose by rotating dose knob. In this way, it is assured that movement of the nut up the threaded piston is due to rotating the dose knob (15) in the prop...

The present invention relates to a method for adjusting the pH of water to a value adjustable in the range from 1 to 13 and an apparatus for carrying out said method. The method comprises the arrangement for adjusting the pH of water in at least one step of a cascade system, in which said step comprises an electrodialysis cell, with one or two membranes or one or more pairs of selective membranes ...

In a situation where a first computer program has been translated to obtain a second computer program, an error occurring during execution of the second computer program is reported in the context of the first program. This is done by aborting execution of the second computer program when the error occurs; determining a first address which is the address of the instruction in the second computer p...

A multilevel cache memory system comprises a pseudo-error indicating flag (6) for storing a first logic state when the system is in a normal error checking mode and a second logic state when the system is in a pseudo-error verification mode. A plurality of first logic gate circuits, associated respectively with the levels of the cache memory (3), are arranged to be disabled in response to the firs...

A method and apparatus is provided for generating an interrupt signal in a data processing system, the interrupt signal being supplied to a control processor of the system to indicate the occurrence of any of a plurality of predetermined events in the system. The method and apparatus operate by: writing data to at least one memory location of a plurality of pairs of memory locations A, B of the sy...

A universal bus system having modules (P, P') communicating by way of a data bus (B), in which some of the modules are not physically accessible, although at least one module does have an externally accessible connection. Modules which are physically inaccessible may be remotely controlled/ observed via the at least one module with the external connection.

The invention relates to a method of initiating and/or promoting chemical processes by irradiation of starting materials present in a gas atmosphere with electromagnetic waves to form reaction products. In order to combine the advantages of the hitherto known irradiation with long-wave electromagnetic waves such as, for example, microwaves, and with short-wave electromagnetic waves such as, for ex...

A two-piece carrier ring is provided. First and second rings are affixed to opposing sides of the exterior portion of a leadframe and protect the leads from distortion. The rings are molded prior to bonding to the leadframe so that the rings may be formed from a wide variety of plastics. The premolded rings are polymerized prior to bonding preventing distortion of the leads by shrinking of the rin...

A knee prosthesis includes a femoral component in which the condyles have a continuous contact surface for the tibial bearing surface and in which the sagittal radius is constant from posterior to a point more anterior than the distalmost point. The tibial bearing surface is shaped to have a curvature which corresponds closely with that of the femoral condylar surfaces. The tibial component includ...

A condylar replacement knee prosthesis has a tibial platform adapted for attachment to a resected tibia, a femoral component adapted for attachment to a resected femur and a plastics meniscal component interposed between the femoral and tibial components. The upper surface of the meniscal component is shaped to correspond with bearing surfaces of the femoral component. The meniscal component is gu...

PCT No. PCT/GB93/01359 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 17, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 17, 1994 PCT Filed Jun. 29, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/01037 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 20, 1994.The present invention relates to a device to allow access of a medical sensor probe to a selected location within a patient's body. A disposable elongated tubular sheath (2) is releasably attached at its closed distal end (10) to the wall of ...

A porous mesh for use in forming articles comprising a network of pores and protrusions. The porous mesh has a specifically delineated mesh structure having a pore/protrusion size between 25 and 1500 microns and the pore structure is based on a uniform distribution of pores and protrusions on a cast or molded sheet wherein said pores and protrusions have similar effective diameters. The resulting ...

The invention provides an integrated electronic security lock, suitable for both commerical and domestic premises, and wherein the security code may easily be changed. The invention provides an intergrated electronic security lock, comprising: a lock mechanism activated by a motor responsive to a control circuit. An electronic key containing a first memory for storing a first code, said key being ...

A multiprocessor sharing a vector register (VR) with several scalar units (SU0, SU1). To each address in each bank (B0 to B7) of the vector register belong a plurality of memory modules (10), each for storing a vector element. The number of memory modules belonging to an address being equal to the number of scalar units sharing the vector register. Each of the memory modules is identified by a new...

A process for rehabilitation of internally reinforced concrete which comprises the temporary application of an adherent coating of an electrolytic material (12) to surface areas of the concrete. Distributed electrode (13) means, preferably a wire grid, is embedded in the adherent coating. Voltage sufficient to develop a current of about 1-5 amps/m<2> is applied between the reinforcement and the di...