An oil/gas reservoir completion pipe (1) is provided with at least one external sensor, e.g. 2-6 sensors, such as a resistivity electrode (6) or a pressure (7) or temperature sensor (9), at least one of which is preferably external to the pipe supported by means of strapping, or a releasable or non-releasable framework or housing externally mounted on the pipe. A method of determining one or more ...

A method and apparatus for creating a phase shifting mask and a structure mask for shrinking integrated circuit designs. One embodiment of the invention includes using a two mask process. The first mask is a phase shift mask and the second mask is a single phase structure mask. The phase shift mask primarily defines regions requiring phase shifting. The single phase structure mask primarily define...

In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method of separating a coating from a base plastic in a multilayered structure, comprising the steps of (A) providing the multilayered structure comprising at least a coating and a base plastic; (B) contacting the multilayered structure with a mixture comprising (i) a major amount of water, (ii) at least one basic compound or acid compound, (ii...

An article of manufacture includes an oxygen scavenger and poly(lactic acid). The article can be in the form of a film, coating, gasket, liner, insert, sealant, or fibrous matte. A film includes at least one layer including an oxygen scavenger, and at least one layer including poly(lactic acid). A package can be made from the film for enclosing an oxygen-sensitive article such as food. The poly(la...

A combination slant board and abdominal rocker includes a slant board which comprises a rigid body support elevated at one end to incline the body support. The abdominal rocker has a frame with a base section pivotally mounted adjacent to the body support and a grip section spaced from the base section. A neck rest is mounted to the frame between the base section and the grip section. The grip sec...

PCT No. PCT/EP97/05159 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 14, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 14, 1998 PCT Filed Sep. 19, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/12255 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 26, 1998Microporous PTFE (ePTFE) is known to possess certain properties based on which it is excellently suited for specific purposes, for example, the material is air-permeable and water vapor-permeable, but not water-permeable so that it can be used...

The present application relates to injection formulations of avermectins and milbemycins based on a solvent mixture comprising sesame oil, medium-chain triglycerides, glycol esters or fatty acid esters and a further solvent from the group consisting of mono- or polyhydric aliphatic or aromatic alcohols and their derivatives (e.g. cyclic carbonates; acetates; acetals; ketals) or castor oil.

A semiconductor memory device comprising a silicon substrate, a plurality of switching transistors formed on the silicon substrate, an insulating layer having an opening and formed on a surface portion of the silicon substrate where the plurality of switching transistors formed, and a plurality of capacitors for accumulating electric charge formed on the insulating layer and connected respectively...

A resistive structure formed on an integrated circuit substrate is disclosed. The structure includes a plurality of resistive elements serially connected. Each resistive element comprises a forward biased semiconductor junction and a reverse biased semiconductor junction. The resistive value of each resistive element can be varied with a preferred range being from about 500 megohms to about 5 giga...

PCT No. PCT/EP96/02233 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 25, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 25, 1997 PCT Filed May 24, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/38234 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 5, 1996Process for producing a multilayer lacquer coating, in which a primer of an electrophoretically depositable aqueous coating agent (1) is electrophoretically applied on to an electrically conductive substrate and is then stoved, whereupon a color...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a coating film on an aluminum foil capable of exhibiting slippery feeling of a casting surface and securing the film thickness of an edge part and its forming method. SOLUTION: The coating film of the aluminum foil is composed of a polyester-urethane based powder primer layer 13 applied at least on the casting surface 12, an acryl based solvent color layer 14 applie...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a thin metal oxide film pattern for IC excellent in resolution without applying a sol-gel method by using a precursor soln. contg. a radical polymerizable organometallic compd. contg. a radical sensitive monomer part and a metal bonding to the monomer part, a photopolymn. initiator and a solvent. SOLUTION: This precursor soln. contains a radical polymerizable organome...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the electric and physical characteristics by forming a BST layer having a first compsn. on a substrate and a BST layer having a second compsn. on that BST layer. SOLUTION: To deposit BST layers, using the MOCVD method, Ba-toSr compsn. ratio is adjusted to deposit BST layers of 20-200&angst having a compsn. ratio X=Ba/(Ba+Sr) of 0-0.4 at temp. of 400-650± C an...

The invention relates to three-layer metal pipe coating compositions based on a powder primer, on a thermoplastic hard adhesive and on a polyolefin cladding. The powder primer contains epoxidized novolak resins, phenolic crosslinking agents and fillers based on crystalline silicic acid modifications. The invention likewise relates to a process for the exterior coating of metal pipes by a three-lay...

An electrical connection element to be brazed on a conductive layer placed on a glazing consists of a segment of flexible metal braid, a plug mounted on one of its ends and a connection piece to be brazed mounted on the other end. The connection piece to be brazed is a piece of rigid sheet metal.

The present invention relates to the use of paramagnetic materials, such as lanthanide chelates, as contrast agents in magnetometric analysis, especially imaging. The invention is particularly directed to structural and functional diagnosis or imaging.

A method is specified for detecting ground faults on the conductors of an electrical machine, in which method the conductors of the machine are biased with respect to ground by means of an injection voltage (Ui). An optimum utilization of the injection transformer (5) is achieved when the injection signal (Ui) comprises in the transmission period (S) a square-wave signal which switched over period...

An apparatus for coding and/or decoding information data can edit information data at the compression unit by use of a high-efficiency two-way motion compensation predictive system. A motion compensation processing circuit (1) includes one-way predicting circuit (first motion compensating circuit (14)) for motion-compensation-predicting video data (Dv) based on frame information just behind the vi...

A compact disc-like display device is adapted to display a sequence of pictures which jointly represent a full-motion video scene, which picture sequence is digitized by means of some suitably chosen encoding algorithm. The digitized picture sequence comprises a series of video blocks. Since the disc continues to rotate at the normal speed when the picture sequence is displayed in slow motion, or ...

A computer system optimized for real-time applications which provides increased performance over current computer architectures. The system includes a standard local system bus or expansion bus, such as the PCI bus, and also includes a dedicated real-time bus or multimedia bus. Various multimedia devices are coupled to one or more of the expansion bus and/or the multimedia bus. The computer system...