A method and a device for separating a component, such as fibrin I from blood, by centrifugation. The method involves feeding of blood admixed an anticlotter to a first annular chamber in a device, where the annular chamber is defined by a cylindrical outer wall and a cylindrical inner wall, both walls extending coaxially about a common axis, as well as by a top wall and a bottom wall, where the t...

In a system for controlling a clutch for vehicle having an automatic gear-transmission control system, the clutch is controlled so as to be disengaged when a gear of the transmission is in a prescribed low-speed gear position at which strong engine braking power can be expected and fuel-powered operation of an engine for powering the vehicle has stopped during the running of the vehicle, whereby i...

PURPOSE:To prevent interference of brake control with the throttle control and have the accelerativeness under low speed running and the stability under high speed running compatibly by correcting the control amount of a throttle valve in the direction of closing in accordance with the braking forces on the left and right drive wheels. CONSTITUTION:When a means M2 judges that the starting conditio...

A shift control system for use in an automatic transmission which is connected to an engine and capable of changing the output torque of the engine during a shift. The automatic transmission includes first and second transmission assemblies connected in series to each other and each having a plurality of rotary components. The shift control system comprises: a shift timing decider for deciding whe...

A muscle exerciser comprises a rigid body 1 consisting of a support 2 that bears against the leg and a loop support 3. A resilient loop of material 6 consisting of resilient cord 7 and a halter-piece 8 is releasably attached to the loop support 3 at one of a plurality of sites so that the apparatus is adjustable for overall length to accommodate users of different heights. The exerciser can be use...

An apparatus for the cutting and creasing of plastics material sheet is disclosed which comprises a cutting and creasing tool (12) and a corresponding plate (10) arranged for mutual contact characterised in that the plate (10) is free of raised surfaces and is covered with a plastic material (22), preferably nylon. Additionally, an apparatus for preheating corrugated plastics sheet material (23) i...

Recombinant tropoelastins and variants of recombinant tropoelastins produced from synthetic polynucleotides, as well as the synthetic polynucleotides themselves are provided. Also provided are cross-linked elastins or elastin-like products prepared from the tropoelastins or variants.

PCT No. PCT/AT96/00049 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 18, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 18, 1997 PCT Filed Mar. 15, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/30086 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 3, 1996A suspended trimming device in which two lengths of cable are suspended from a yoke and have loops at their ends, in which the yoke is suspended to pivot at least about a horizontal axis. According to the invention, the yoke is suspended on an ...

A centrifuge apparatus is used for collecting white blood cells, primarily mononuclear cells, from whole blood stratified into layers. A thin mononuclear (MNC) layer is formed at the interface of red blood cells and plasma. A barrier is positioned in the separation vessel of the centrifuge at a location to intercept the thin layer. An MNC collect port is positioned in front of the barrier to colle...

PCT No. PCT/EP96/01316 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 30, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 30, 1997 PCT Filed Mar. 26, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/30131 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 3, 1996A process for the multi-layer coating of electrically conductive substrates by the electrophoretic deposition of a first coating layer comprising an electrophoretically depositable aqueous coating medium, to which a second coating layer, compri...

PCT No. PCT/AU96/00178 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 26, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 26, 1997 PCT Filed Mar. 28, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/31098 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 3, 1990A method of obtaining an image of a boundary of an object, the boundary representing a refractive index variation, the method including irradiating the boundary with penetrating radiation having high lateral spatial coherence and a propagation ...

A mold for tire vulcanization comprises a plurality of segments (2) forming respectively a part of a circular interior complementary to land portions and groove portions of the tread portion of a tire product and being separable from each other in the tire circumferential direction, and each of the segments (2) comprising a plurality of pieces (4) forming the said circular interior part and a bloc...

The flat battery (1) includes: - an elementary electro-chemical cell (100) including plane electrodes (16,18) of opposite polarity respectively fitted with contact zones (26,28); - an envelope (40), containing the cell (100), formed from a thin flexible electrically insulating film which forms an effective seal between the cell constituents and external agents. The envelope (40) has substantially ...

A method and an apparatus for specifying slice planes in an X-ray CT, capable of specifying a slice plane corresponding to the desired tomographic image easily and accurately. In the apparatus, scans of the body to be examined are carried out and the projection data are stored in the large capacity memory (11) first. Then, a scanogram of the body to be examined is displayed, on which a cursor (21,...

Sliding materials having both a low friction coefficient owing to self-lubricity and enough abrasion resistance to be used as sliding materials. First, milling powder in which a solid lubricant is finely dispersed in a metallic base material is produced by mechanically alloying a fine powdery metallic base material and a fine powdery solid lubricant. Second, this milling powder is mixed with metal...

The present invention includes the hardware and software necessary to perform virtually any volume of complex transactions, and particularly a large volume thereof, is disposed in a central Application Processing Front End (APFE) which is shared by a plurality of merchants, thereby spreading the cost of the APFE among a large number of users. By including only the minimum amount of hardware compon...

The utility model belongs to the field of secondary power sources for electrochemistry, the utility model is a verily all closed maintaining free colloidal accumulator, without any hole. The utility model is composed of an upper cover for a casing (3), a lower body for the casing (4), a spacer plate (5), a wall penetrating welding head (6), an anode group (7), a cathode group (8), etc. The utility...