PAINTABLE ADHESION PROMOTER SYSTEM FOR POLYVINYL CHLORIDE PLASTISOLS Disclosed is an improved plastisol composition comprising a finelydivided vinyl chloride polymer, filler, a primary plasticizer, and a polyaminoamide-polyimidazoline adhesion promoter. The improvement for overcoating said plastisol with an acid catalyzed topcoat comprises a plasticizer/promoter phase which comprises said primary ...

37 FILMS OF WHOLLY AROMATIC POLYESTER AND PROCESSES FOR PREPARATION THEREOF Disclosed herein are (1) a film of a liquid crystalline wholly aromatic polyester which is non-oriented and transparent, which film can be prepared by dissolving a liquid crystalline wholly aromatic polyester in a solvent, casting the resulting solution to form a film and volatirizing the solvent from the film as cast and ...

This invention relates to a transform coding apparatus where linear transform is performed for input signal series such as image signals, and transform coefficients are quantized from lower frequency components to higher frequency components in the transform region, and then the quantized transform coefficients are coded and outputted. The quantized transform coefficients being zero are counted, a...

This invention relates to the reduction of oxidized sulfur compound SOX emissions produced during combustion of sulfur (S)-containing combustible compounds. More particularly, this invention provides a method for reducing such emissions wherein the combustible compound is mixed with an admixture of a water soluble and a water insoluble sulfur sorbent. Use of such admixtures, remarkably, produces a...

A plug for use with self-regulating cables or the like is disclosed. The plug enables simple and safe installation of a self-regulating cable or the like into the plug. It also enables an operator to connect the conductors of the plug to the cable conductors with the use of a single screwdriver and without the necessity of stripping or cutting tools. The plug ensures that all conductors are proper...

The present invention relates to a novel heat treatment process, and the alloy products produced thereby. The heat treatment process includes heating an alloy at a temperature and for a time sufficient to cause crystallization, cooling the alloy at a rate greater than about 10 DEG C. per minute, preferably greater than about 50 DEG C. per minute, and most preferably greater than about 100 DEG C...

In the device for detecting partial discharges in winding elements of an electrical machine, the winding element to be investigated is sampled over its length, with high voltage applied, by means of a drivable probe and the radio frequency signals initiated by the partial discharges are received by means of an antenna. The antenna signal is detected and evaluated in a test set (11) connected downs...

An improved technique for efficient frequency scaling wherein the number of coefficients to be included in each sub-block (e.g. 4x4) is selectable (201), and a code indicating the number of coefficients within each layer is inserted in the bitstream at the beginning of each encoded video sequence. This technique allows the original runs of zero coefficients in the highest resolution layer to remai...

A transmission system is provided having a sender side apparatus, a receiver side apparatus, and a transmission line connecting the sender and receiver side apparatuses. The sender side apparatus provides a selector for receiving image data signals of a plurality of channels in parallel and, frame by frame, selects an image data signal of one of the plurality of channels for each frame. The select...

A system for automatically detecting a variation of video information, comprising a video information variation detecting circuit for converting a video signal outputted from a monitoring camera into digital data, storing the digital data, or video data by one frame and comparing the current inputted video data with the stored video data to detect a portion different from each other as the variati...

A terminal connection device changes and connects a plurality of terminals to one telephone line according to kinds of ringing signal sequences sent through the telephone line. The terminal connection device comprises switches connecting between the telephone line and the terminals, a control circuit commanding ON/OFF operation of the switches, and a photo coupler converting the ringing signal obt...

A method of data transfer applicable to processing elements (24a, 24b) which are interconnected by a network (18) to form a multiprocessor system, whereby when a datum is to be transferred from a processing element to the network, the datum is sent to a transfer controller (3a) of the processing element at the same time that it is being read out from memory (2a) to be used by the processor (1a) of...

A digital data processor for matrix-vector multiplication is provided, and comprises a systolic array of bit level, synchronously clock activated processing cells each connected to its row and column neighbours. On each clock cycle, each cell mutiplies an input bit of a respective vector coefficient by a respective matrix coefficient equal to +1, -1 or 0, and adds it to cumulative sum and carry in...

PURPOSE: To make it possible to disassemble a midget vehicle easily for transport, by making it possible to remove a driving wheel, arranging each DC motor including a transmission gear within the boss of the wheel without a projecting section, and detachably fixing the stator elecments of each DC motor to the base of a wheeled chair through a supporting member. CONSTITUTION: A driving wheel is a ...

The present invention relates to a picture processing apparatus. In particular, a picture processing apparatus suitable for executing the contour tracking of an image comprises a picture element address computation section including adders and registers, a direction code computation section for coding the transition of the picture element address as a direction on the screen, a computation control...

DIGITAL TO AMPLITUDE MODULATED ANALOG CONVERTER A low cost, high quality converter for generating an amplitude modulated signal in response to a sequence of digital words representing a modulation signal, such as a video image. The converter receives the sequence of digital words at an input rate. The input sequence of digital words is combined with a sequence of factors at a sample rate to genera...

An NMR system performs a pulmonary vascular scan comprised of a series of slice acquisition. Each slice acquisition employs a series of fast pulse sequences (GRASS) which are completed in one cardiac cycle. The view order of each slice acquisition is altered such that the low order views are acquired at a desired contrast delay interval after receipt of a cardiac trigger signal.

Isomerisation esp. tachysterol cpds. into previtamin D cpds. and trans-vitamin D cpds. into cis-vitamin D cpds., under the influence of radiation, is by exposing a soln. of the organic cpd. to be converted in the presence of a non-polymeric photosensitiser to light with approx 300-1000 nm wavelength. Resulting prod. is then isolated. Substd. thiophene deriv. (STD) having substantial absorption in ...

A modified activated sludge system is provided wherein wastewater is treated to reduce BOD, nitrogen, and/or phosphorus. The disclosed system features a zone sequence nitrification/denitrification, with nitrification induced by recycling mixed liquor that contains a significant concentration of oxygen and nitrifying bacteria. With a further modification, the main treatment zones of the treatment s...

A coating composition containing a film-forming organosilane polymer and a sterically dispersed macromolecular polymer having silane functional macromonomer chains which react with the silane functionality of the organosilane polymer. The coating composition can be used as the clearcoat over a conventional pigmented basecoat, or as a basecoat or monocoat or primer when a suitable amount of pigment...