Attachment means such as a coupling (12) serve for the detachable attachment of a bucket 11 on the dipper arm 2 of a mechanical earth mover, for example a hydraulic excavator. The attachment device 12 directly attaches to the dipper arm and a tipping link of the excavator at the normal bucket attachment points and in use remains so attached. The device 12 has locating projections 13 which engage a...

A deactivatable tag 19 for use in an electronic article surveillance system comprises a support on which is mounted a resonant circuit formed in pan by a spiral conductor 31. The resonant circuit is responsive to receipt of a first energy level signal to emit an alarm signal to indicate the presence of the resonant circuit in an interrogation zone. Coatings 113T, 114T form an activatable connectio...

A defect detector circuit for an inductive load driving circuit which has a surge comparator circuit for comparing a surge generated from an inductive load when the current of the inductive load is interrupted with a reference value on the basis of an output from a surge absorber circuit for absorbing the surge, and a surge time deciding circuit for outputting a defect signal when a time that the ...

A tag or marker is disclosed which comprises a substrate; an 'active' magnetic material which is a soft magnetic material having a high magnetic permeability and a low coercive force; and a deactivating material which is a hard or semi-hard magnetic material having a moderate or high coercive force and a moderate magnetic permeability, whereby the deactivating material, when subjected to a suffici...

Koppelnetz für ein ATM-System, mit Koppeleinrichtungen mit Eingängen zum Empfang von Zellen, Ausgängen zum Senden von Zellen, Mitteln zur Übergabe einer an einem beliebigen Eingang empfangenen Zelle an einen beliebigen Ausgang, und Speichern (PS) zum Zwischenspeichern von Zellen, bei dem jede Zelle das Koppelnetz derart durchläuft, daß in einem ersten Teil in den durchlaufenen Koppeleinrichtungen ...

A multi-directionally responsive, dual-status marker (10) such as shown in Figure 1 for use in electronic article surveillance systems having an alternating magnetic field within an interrogation zone. The marker comprises a piece (12) of a high permeability, low coercive force magnetic material substantially coextensive with a piece (14) of remanently magnetizable material, in which the first pie...

PURPOSE:To improve holding characteristics for a crew member in a seat device equipped with an adjustment means for suiting a seat surface shape to the crew member's form by detecting a seat surface height in adjusting the seat surface shape, and vertically shifting a seat support part on the basis of the detected result. CONSTITUTION:When a crew member's seating is detected from the output of a l...

An ink jet recording apparatus having a recording head (9) for ejecting ink and a carriage (11) for loading the recording head (9). Bearings (25, 25 min ) attached to the carriage (11) and mounted on a guide shaft (23) are displaceable with regard to the carriage (11), and the bores (25C, 25C min ) of the bearings (25, 25 min ) are eccentric with regard to the guide shaft (23). This enables the ca...

An ink cartridge (51) interchangeably provided for an ink jet recording apparatus provided with a recording head for causing the discharge of ink to thereby effect the recording of an image, and containing the ink therein and effecting the supply of the ink in conformity with the discharge of the ink is characterized by the provision of a medium (19) provided with information for controlling the d...

In a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method a cardiac monitor (62, 64) monitors the cardiac cycles of a patient in an examination region (10). Each cardiac cycle includes an R-wave (40) at the beginning of the end-diastole. A conditioning pulse trigger (74) enables a preconditioning pulse control (34) to generate a conditioning pulse (42) at a time selected in accordance with the R-wave (...

L'invention a pour objet un coulis d'injection à base de ciment pour le colmatage et la consolidation de fissures fines. Selon l'invention, le coulis d'injection est réalisé à partir d'un ciment Portland finement broyé avec élimination de toutes les particules de dimensions supérieures à 30 microns, ledit ciment étant additionné d'un fluidifiant réducteur d'eau dans une proportion ne dépassant pas...

PURPOSE: To minimize a sealing gap by forming a shroud made of material such as a flexible sheet, which is pressed by gas pressure or another means to sealing-contact with a slot cavity or the seal edges of an associated exhaust port, at respective valves. CONSTITUTION: When a valve 22 is in the upper position, a shroud 28 is contained in a substantially flat slot cavity 24. When the valve 22 pivo...

The invention relates to a planar textile structure, particularly a paper machine textile or a textile for the purposes of filtration, comprising a load-bearing basic structure. In order to enable a rapid and advantageous adjustment of the properties of the planar textile structure, staple fibres are applied to the basic structure. The staple fibre may be applied within the basic structure or to a...

A method of and apparatus for forming a through bore or recess in a turbine blade (14), for a lacing wire hole for example, includes a machine (62) capable of approaching the area to be machined in a first direction during which an initial machining operation may take place and them moving in a second direction completing the machining operation. Support means (36,38,41,75) are provided to ensure ...

The invention concerns a method for smelting of waste plaster and ferrous material in a flame smelting furnace in which the recovered product is a sparingly soluble slag suitable for further use or for storage, and a gas containing sulphur dioxide whose content is optimal for recovering the sulphur as elementary sulphur, as sulphur dioxide in liquid form or as sulphuric acid.

Methods and apparatus are set forth for use with a cache memory resource (that includes a plurality of cache blocks for storing data) and a cache directory (for keeping track of which of said blocks are in use, the number of times each block is referenced and block age), for determining which of said plurality of cache blocks is to be replaced with data to be stored in cache memory on a cache miss...

An MR-active sample is positioned along a given coordinate axis within a magnetic field of the gradient coil and away from its isocenter. A number of time-sequential gradient coil pulses are applied to the gradient coil for generating a corresp. number of gradient magnetic field pulses. The sample is irradiated with an RF excitation pulse a given time delay which is increased following application...

An implantable prosthetic hip joint includes a spherical acetabular shell articulating within the acetabulum socket of a pelvis and including a spherical shell portion defining an inner spherical surface, and a skirt portion extending downwardly there from; a femoral head including a femoral head and a stem secured to the femur of the person; a hemispherical bearing insert mounted in the spherical...

A fuel injection control apparatus of an internal combustion engine wherein the mean value of the engine rotational speed is found in a range of a 45 DEG crank angle about the crank angle of the peak engine rotational speed in the power stroke of the cylinder in question, then the fuel injection amount of the cylinder of the next power stroke is calculated based on this mean value of the engine r...

There is provided aqueous silane emulsion compositions comprising hydrolyzable silanes, water thickening agents, water and optional buffers, biocides and water beading additives. The compositions are useful in rendering porous masonry substrates or wood water repellent.