PURPOSE:To obtain superior characteristics of solar heat selective absorption by using a mixture comprising a carbide of transition metal belonged to the periodic table group IV and Al. CONSTITUTION:The title material is constituted by forming a film, which is composed of mixed powder comprising a carbide of transition metal belonged to the periodic table group IV and Al, directly or via a binder,...

In a device for feeding card slivers to a processing machine, which comprises at least one sliver guide (1), said guide (1) has a guiding surface (20) over which the card sliver is passed. The guiding surface (20) is constructed as a monitoring device. A guide (1) of this type is produced by a method in which the housing (2) of the guide (1) is clamped upside down by its guide surface (20) to...

A device for carrying a sailboard, surfboard or the like, includes a spreader bar and a pair of slings supported therefrom. A fastener attaches each of the slings into an adjustable-sized loop to fit around the sail board. A strap supports the spreader bar from a user's shoulder and has an adjustable length for accommodating different-sized people.

Capsules and other shaped products formed from a moldable starch composition in an injection molding device is dislosed in the present invention. The composition comprising starch having a molecular mass range of 10,000 to 20,000,000 Dalton, and a water content range from 5 to 30% by weight. The starch contains about 0 to 100% of amylose, and about 100 to 0% of amylo-pectin.

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH SENSOR POSITIONING DEVICE The electrocardiograph sensor positioning device includes a pair of sensor locating members that are angularly adjustable with respect to each other to a determinable angular position. Cooperative indicia means provided on each of the sensor locating members furnish an indication of the relative angular position therebetween. Each of the sensor locating...

An absorbing article comprises a surface layer to be in contact with skins containing from 60 to 100% by weight of first fibers having a hydrophilic surface and a hydrophobic inside and from 40 to 0% by weight of second fibers which are hydrophilic at least at their surface, and a rearface constituted at least with one or more layers containing from 0 to 50% by weight of said first fibers and from...

A disposable absorbent pad for utilization as a diaper or adult brief, comprising an absorbent pad being covered on one side by a sheet of fluid impervious material, and on the other side by a pair of generally parallel strips of fluid impervious material overlapping the absorbent pad and the backing sheet, in the crotch area to prevent leakage of fluid from the absorbent pad in the crotch area.

The invention is generally accomplished by forming a three-dimensionally shaped, externally worn feminine protection device (10) which has been mechanically shaped by folding, molding or other forming techniques in such a way that it has a raised portion (34) located within the back one-half to two-thirds of the device that functions to cause the pad to readily fit to and generally align itself wi...

A silicon carbide sintered member is coated at its surface with zirconia, whereby the heat insulating properties are considerably improved.

A ceramic heater having a ceramic substrate, a heat-generating resistor disposed in the interior of the ceramic substrate or on the surface of the ceramic substrate and terminals connected to both the ends of the heat-generating resistor, wherein the ceramic substrate is composed of a sintered body of a nitride of an element selected from the group consisting of silicon and aluminum and the heat-g...

In an optical head, a laser beam emitted from a semiconductor laser is collimatted by a convex lens and is reflected by a polarizing surface of a prism. The reflected laser beam passing through a quarter wave plate is converged by an objective lens onto an optical disk. The laser beam reflected from an optical disk is returned to the prism through the objective lens and quarter wave plate. The ret...

In reproducing recorded information from a track on an optical disc by the use of a light beam, a tracking servo is employed for enabling the light beam to follow up the track. When there occurs any tracking deviation due to some flaw or the like on the track, the tracking servo is switched off if the number of times of such tracking deviation has exceeded a predetermined value within a preset tim...

A sanitary napkin (100) having flaps (20, 22) extending laterally from each of the longitudinal sides (15) of its central absorbent (11) is provided with body fluid sealing means (10) disposed between the absorbent element (11) and at least one of the flaps (20, 22) for restricting the transmission of body fluid from the absorbent element (11) into the flap (20, 22). The napkin construction create...

Apparatus for electronically measuring ligamentous insufficiencies in the knee, the apparatus constructed in an exoskeletal articulating framework that is secured above the knee to the patient's femur and below the knee to the tibia and has substantially skeletal conforming articulating joint members with measuring means for determining the relative motions of tibia to femur.

A three-plane goniometer or angle measuring apparatus includes three small potentiometers which are closely spaced together to measure rotation of the knee about three different axes. The unit is primarily mounted on a cuff on the outside of the thigh. The mounting assembly for the three plane goniometer includes a curved yoke where the ends of the yoke curve from the front to the rear, with the g...

A process for the production of brick products with a finished surface, e.g. bricks, with a surface coating consisting of a glaze and/or a vitrificated ceramic mass, on at least one of the side faces of the brick product forming a contact surface with overlying or underlying layers of brick products in the baking over during stapling of unbaked brick products one on top of the other, and/or on at ...

Method for producing a protective layer by subjecting a ceramic or a ceramic composite body being interconnected residual metal therein to a particular atmosphere, a protective layer can be formed from the interconnected metal. Such a layer can be protective, especially in corrosion environments which include various gaseous or solid species containing sodium and silicon, such as those found in gl...

PURPOSE:To improve the precision workability and releasability of a glass molded body by using a molding tool obtd. by forming a silicon layer on a base and a surface layer, etc., on the silicon layer. CONSTITUTION:This molding tool for a glass molded body is obtd. by forming a silicon layer on a base and a surface layer or an intermediate layer and the surface layer on the silicon layer. The base...

PURPOSE:To obtain a lens having superior surface precision by reducing the thickness of a central part of a cavity face by providing a stop hole to a back surface of a cavity die, etc., thus permitting uniform heating of the cavity part independently on the diameter of a lens even if it is increased. CONSTITUTION:The press forming device of a glass lens of this invention comprises cavity dies 16, ...

Method for producing a protective layer by subjecting a ceramic or a ceramic composite body being interconnected residual metal therein to a particular atmosphere, a protective layer can be formed from the interconnected metal. Such a layer can be protective, especially in corrosion environments which include various gaseous or solid species containing sodium and silicon, such as those found in gl...