A low cost, real time vehicle lane position detection system is provided for determining and maintaining the position of the vehicle on a highway. The system comprises an image sensor mounted on the front of an automotive vehicle and an integrated processor for performing real-time lane mark detection. The sensor/processor system identifies highway lane marks on the detector image plane by using a...

Disclosed is a biaxially oriented film and a laminated film containing specified organic particles at a content of 0.001 to 20% by weight. The strength when deformed by 10% (S10) of the organic particles is in the range of 3 to 30 kgf/mm2, the thermal decomposition temperature for causing 10% loss in weight thereof is not lower than 350 .degree.C . The weight average diameter thereof is in the ran...

An ink pressure regulator for use inside of a flexible ink bag reservoir for a replaceable or refillable ink cartridge comprises a bow spring (60) configured to have substantially linear force/deflection characteristics and a pair of plates (40, 50) which collapse to a substantially flat shape to minimize the amount of ink remaining after printing has depleted the ink from the cartridge. The regul...

A collapsible ink reservoir structure (25) to facilitate assembly of a replaceable or refillable printer ink cartridge is comprised of a relatively rigid frame (20) and flexible membranes (22, 24) forming an ink reservoir having side walls which collapse to a substantially flat shape to minimize the amount of ink remaining in the reservoir structure after computer generated printing has depleted t...

A plurality of frames associated with sequences of video source material representing a series of scene changes are digitized. A computerized process analyzes the digitized information and identifies one or more frames of the source material associated with and representative of each such scene change and/or sequence. The representative frames are displayed. A selected frame from the display will ...

An energy absorbing roadside crash barrier (10) includes a scissors linkage (12) having first and second ends. The scissors linkage (12) is movable between an extended position and a collapsed position. A mounting element is coupled to the first end of the scissors linkage (12) to mount the scissors linkage (12) to a roadside obstacle. Deformable energy absorbing elements (40) are mounted to the s...

To replace the azeotropic mixture of chlorodifluoromethane and of chloropentafluoroethane (CFC 502) in low-temperature refrigeration, the invention proposes to employ a pseudoazeotropic mixture containing, on a mass basis, 1 to 15 % of difluoromethane, 37 to 50 % of pentafluoroethane and 35 to 62 % of 1,1,1-trifluoroethane. The thermodynamic properties of this mixture are very close to those of th...

Pour remplacer le mélange azéotropique de chlorodifluorométhane et de chloropentafluoroéthane (CFC 502) en réfrigération basse température, l'invention propose d'utiliser un mélange pseudo-azéotropique contenant en masse 1 à 15% de difluorométhane, 37 à 50% de pentafluoroéthane et à 62% de 1,1,1-trifluoroéthane. Les propriétés thermodynamiques de ce mélange sont très proches de celles du mélange C...

MEDICAL SHAFT MOVEMENT CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD The present invention is a device and method for controlling longitudinal movement of a tube relative to a shaft slidably disposed within the tube, especially in the catheterization of a patient. An operative segment on the shaft cooperates with an ancillary tool to create a coupling force field between the shaft and the tool. The tube can then be m...

A cord stopper has a socket having a pair of opposed through holes formed through opposed sides thereof and a plug having a passage formed therethrough. The plug is reciprocally movable through the socket between a pulled-out position where the through holes and the passage are in alignment with each other and a depressed position where the cord is clamped between the edges of the through holes an...

System having a planetary plate 2 comprising a brush holder/grinder/buffer system of the planetary type 1 comprising: - a satellite-bearing plate 21, the axis of which preferably incorporates universal means for keying 22- 220, 221, 222, 223 to a domestic electrical appliance for washing, cleaning and/or polishing and/or sanding down floors, - the said satellite-bearing disc 21 includes on its per...

The connector has at least three connector parts (3, 4, 5). Each of these has a number of electric contacts (15, 16, 17, 15', 16', 17', 15'', 16'', 17''). The contacts (15, 16, 17) of any connector part (3) used for the filed bus system are connected to corresp. contacts (15', 16', 17', 15'', 16'', 17'') of all remaining parts (4, 5) via internal electric leads (15a, 16a, 17a). ADVANTAGE - Optimis...

The activity of inhibitors of vacuolar-type H+-ATPases in the inhibition of vacuolation induced by (Helicobacter pylori) is disclosed. Preferred agents are the macrolide antibiotics bafilomycins A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2 and D, especially bafilomycin A1. The use of such compounds in the treatment of diseases, including peptic ulceration, is claimed.

The barrier (3, 22) is pivoted on a supporting body (9) by means of two separated coaxial vertical pins (26, 28); the axial displacement of the barrier with respect to the said pins (26, 28) and its release from them are prevented by a bolt (10) which is disengaged at the moment of an initial angular yielding of the barrier about the said pins (26, 28), so that the barrier (3, 22) is released axia...

A feeding group 1 feeds the paper band M to a wetting group 3 to distribute glue over one face of the paper; a cutting unit 5 cuts transversely from the band a piece of length equal to the length of the tube being formed; the piece is made to move laterally into a transverse alignment section 7 and then made to advance into a winding section 9 with a rotating mandrel 305 and a mandrel holder 301 s...

Self-propelled vehicle whose two driven wheels 40 are provided, towards the inside of the carriage, with a conical taper with which it holds the pole P to be climbed and with which, by the action of the opposing wheels 15 fitted on the hinged arms 14, it adheres suitably to the abovementioned two driven wheels and the pair of rollers 41 placed in the upper front part of the vehicle to stabilise it...