A low calorie, low fat, high total solids, high protein content, thin-bodied, fruit-containing yogurt product is prepared by a process comprising admixing a butterfat-containing milk product in sufficient amount to provide a butterfat content in the yogurt product of less than about 0.5% by weight, a stabilizer, a nutritive sweetener, and non-heat modified nonfat dry milk solids and processing the...

An electrical plug intended for connection to electrical, aerial or similar sockets, and including a casing comprising at least two mutually joined parts (1a, 1b), contact pins (2, 3) being accommodated in the casing and projecting out from it. One pin (2) is fastened in one part (1a) and another pin (3) is fastened in the other part (1b). Both parts (1a, 1b) are joined to each other (at 4) for pi...

PURPOSE:To effectively use distributed gateway system by separating an information processor into a back end system to supervise a user and a front system to interface the user, and providing a name server to indicate which information processor controls. CONSTITUTION:Front information processors 2-1-2-m(2) connected with users 6-1-6-x(6) transmit user identification signals to a name server 1 and...

PURPOSE: To effectively open a constricted or closed blood vessel by arranging a shaft for driving a drilling tool in a drilling head and providing the device with a means for extracting a removed material by suction at its base end. CONSTITUTION: A catheter 1 has a front end 2 and a base end 3 and the drilling head is arranged at this front end 2. This drilling head includes the drilling tool 4 c...

PURPOSE:To easily and smoothly insert operation yarn in a yarn insert hole, in inserting the operation yarn in the yarn insert hole, by vibrating at least one of suture yarn and the operation yarn in the axial line direction of the yarn insert hole. CONSTITUTION:The needle base of a suturing needle N is grasped by a pair of molds 12, 13. Next, a foot switch 21 is turned ON and vibration is generat...

PURPOSE:To cool a vibrator by preventing a leak current without exerting effect on the vibration mode of the vibrator, by filling the space between the vibrator and a radiation member with a magnetic fluid transmitting the heat between both of them hermetically closed magnetically. CONSTITUTION:A horn 2 is connected to the leading end of a vibrator 1 and a vibration transmitting member 3 is connec...

PURPOSE:To make a noise of an outdoor unit low by a method wherein supporting elements at a shaft constitute a supporting member for enclosing a fan motor in symmetrical with a center of the shaft, annular vibration-proof rubbers are fixed to both side surfaces near the center of shaft of the fan motor and their outer circumferences are indirectly supported to a protective guard. CONSTITUTION:An o...

Ceramic composite comprising a porous ceramic body having directly fitted thereon a dense ceramic body, the composite is produced by a process which comprises the steps of: separately producing the porous ceramic body and the dense ceramic body, inserting a projecting portion of the dense body into a bore portion of the porous body, and simultaneously sintering both the dense and porous bodies at ...

An implantable prosthesis including a base member, such as the stem of a hip joint prosthesis, having a porous region on its surface, and the region of porosity being coated with a bioabsorbable material, such as alpha -tricalcium phosphate, which enhances permanent bone ingrowth into the region. A method of manufacture of the prosthesis includes the steps of providing a coating material and appl...

Catalyst element, comprising a body which serves as support for the catalytically active material and is made of ceramic material, which may be foamed, characterised in that the catalytically active material is firmly incorporated into the ceramic body by sintering. The ceramic body can be composed of catalytically active material in the mass, but catalytically active material can also be sintered...

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Method for producing a piezoceramic element with ink jet tubelets in a row arrangement, the internal volume of the ink jet tubelets being manufactured in such a way that carbon threads are inserted between two blank ceramic films of a sandwich structure and burn away during sintering and leave behind the cavities of the ink jet tubelets.

Process for improving the microbial cleansing of soils contaminated with hydrocarbons and, in particular, mineral oils by microbial oxidation, where there is a metered addition to the contaminated soils directly or to the removed contaminated soil layers of, in addition to the oxygen required for decomposition and supplied by aeration, soluble feedstuffs, water and soluble or dispersed bio-surfact...

Disclosed is a modular connector adapted to provide a removable electric connection between a source of electricity and electrical equipment which includes a cover operatively connected and movable relative to the base of the modular connector and containing insulation piercing means, and a cam mounted to the base including means adapted to engage a cable positioned on the base and move said cable...

Electrically conductive microparticles characterized by high conductivity and low density are comprised of electrically nonconductive microballoons having an electrically conductive coating of a metal. When dispersed in an electrically nonconductive matrix, an electrically conductive composite material is formed in which the microparticles form a network of contacting particles throughout the matr...

A disposable container is disclosed for collecting waste liquid. In its interior a housing has an absorption body for absorbing the waste liquid into the interior of the container and a liquid holding body which is held in contact with the absorption body in order to retain the waste liquid which has been absorbed by the absorption body. The container can be mounted on an ink jet printer in order ...