A composite thermal barrier coating for a substrate has a first layer including a first ceramic material and a second layer including a second ceramic material impregnated with a glass, the glass being a ternary eutectic. The glass may consist of about 14.6 weight percent Al2O3, about 23.3 weight percent CaO, and about 62.1 weight percent SiO2. The first and second ceramic materials may include yt...

A magnetic head slider suspension assembly for loading a head slider having air bearing surface onto the surface of a magnetic rotating disc is shown. The magnetic head slider suspension assembly includes an elongated slider arm adapted to be attached to an arm mounting support. The elongated slider arm includes a deflectable central arm section or load beam having a support end at one end thereof...

PURPOSE:To improve the appearance, effectively utilize the installation space and harmonize with row of houses by a method wherein a processing space for connecting pipe or wiring is formed within an outdoor unit casing, a connecting valve is stored in the processing space and a connection pipe is connected to the valve. CONSTITUTION:A processing space 19 for a connecting pipe 18 or a wiring is fo...

PURPOSE:To enable thermal radiation of a heat exchanger to be carried out without using any fan irrespective of a natural air flow by a method wherein a duct is mounted on an upper part of a condensing heat exchanger, an upper part of the condensing heat exchanger is expanded more than its lower part and a compressor is stored in the heat exchanger. CONSTITUTION:A compressor 1 is mounted in a part...

PURPOSE:To facilitate the electrical connection of a piezoelectric element to a drive circuit without using any means like a soldering means, etc., and without deteriorating the performance of the elements by providing a pressure welding means which welds with pressure a vibration generating element to an electrode member. CONSTITUTION:A vibration generating element 4 is provided together with a h...

PURPOSE:To control the transmission of a message based on the time by adding the time information to the message for controlling the transmission of the message. CONSTITUTION:In an on-line system including a 1st terminal which requests the transmission of a message and a 2nd terminal which receives the message, the time information is added to the message received from the 1st terminal and the tra...

PURPOSE:To use a daily language, to omit the analysis of a true natural language, and to decrease the programs by storing the type and the attribute of the information requiring the input for the prescribed processing and the questions given to the users from an information processing system for acquisition of the necessary information. CONSTITUTION:An input means IN is provided together with the ...

PURPOSE:To carry on processing with no intervention of a user by switching automatically a working mode to a through mode even though a magnetic recording means has no its remaining recording area while the input data are spooled onto the magnetic recording means. CONSTITUTION:The device is provided with a magnetic recording means A which records the input data, an output means B which outputs the...

PURPOSE:To shorten the retrieval time by extracting options, which have titles of high frequency in access and generating a menu correspondingly to an information user to advance the retrieval and updating the menu at the time of the change of the frequency in access. CONSTITUTION:When the newly entered information user in connected to a system and requests transfer of a menu, a communication cont...

PURPOSE:To select an inspection item and its measure by generating and changing display sentence used in a monitor system by an independent sentence generation backup device having the word processor function and displaying the generated sentences. CONSTITUTION:A sentence generation backup device 2 generates and changes display sentences used in a monitor system 1. That is, inspection items 100 to...

PURPOSE:To facilitate positioning operation of placing an IC chip and to improve mounting accuracy by electrically connecting a printed circuit board to an IC pad by heating and pressurizing a solder or a tin-plated layer provided on a conductive pattern of a protrusion, and securing the chip to the board. CONSTITUTION:An IC chip 7 has a protective layer on its surface, and the layer is opened at ...

According to this invention, a process for substantially amplifying template nucleic acid present in a sample is described, wherein said amplification may be performed without prior knowledge of specific sequences, which process comprises apposition of random oligonucleotide primers to said template nucleic acid under conditions such that extension products of said primers are synthesized which ar...

HEAD SLIDER FOR MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE DEVICE A head slider for a magnetic disk drive device includes at least a pair of side rails having a surface mating with a magnetic disk, which surface is substantially flat or slightly curved. The side rails define a shallow recess having a width which is gradually increased from an air inlet side to an air outlet side, and a suction force or floating force is...

Un alliage à base de cobalt, qui présente une intéressante combinaison de résistances à la corrosion et à l'usure, contient nominalement, en pourcentages pondéraux, 25,5 de chrome, 8,5 de nickel, 3,0 de fer, 5 de molybdène, 2 de tungstène, 0,40 de silicium, 0,75 de manganèse, 0,06 de carbone, 0,08 d'azote et pour le reste, du cobalt et les impuretés normalement présentes dans les alliages de cette...

This invention relates to decorative ribbons, and to methods and machines for making them. More specifically, the invention relates to fabric ribbons that are edged with wire and trimmed with an overlay of decorative thread. According to the invention, a run of fabric ribbon is simultaneously edged with wire and tightly bound with a binding filament (such as monofilament) and a trim filament (such...

Method and apparatus for diagnosing posture abnormalities includes a video camera, a video display terminal, a subject platform positioned between the camera and the terminal so that the subject can view the terminal. A computer is employed to freeze a video image of the subject on said terminal so that an operator can obtain data regarding the relative positions of landmarks on said image using a...

A tibial component for a replacement knee prosthesis comprising a tibial tray (1) for connection to a suitably prepared tibia, said tray carrying fixed lateral and medial condylar bearing components (3, 4), only said medial component (3) having a shock absorber located beneath it.

Apparatus and method for obtaining a phase insensitive and/or polarization insensitive optical heterodyne reception for a FSK modulated transmission signal which uses a low intermediate frequency relative to the data rate of the transmission signals and at every clock of the transmission signal, the phase is keyed between 0 and 90 DEG at the starting time and in the middle of the clock time the p...

PURPOSE:To reduce the variation of a coding variable due to the characteristics of an image by using the displacement of an image whose forecasting image is to be generated from a reference image to control the coding variable of an image signal. CONSTITUTION:A reference image is set up in each frame interval or field interval of an image signal and a forecasting image for an image to be formed be...

BALL-AND-SOCKET JOINT PROSTHESIS WITH BEARING INSERT A ball-and-socket joint prosthesis, e.g. a hip joint prosthesis, which comprises an outer shell element, a ball component, and a replaceable bearing insert element positioned between the shell and the ball component. The bearing insert has a generally spherical inside surface which encompasses more than half of the ball component to thereby reta...