A decanter centrifuge comprises a drum (1) with a conveyor (2) containing an inlet (4). The liquid to be separated flows in a jet centrally into the inlet (4) towards an end wall (11), at which the liquid is radially distributed and flows axially onwards towards the second end wall (13) through an area of the inlet (4) free of members imparting an angular velocity to the liquid. The inlet (4) is p...

a) Support for a hybrid board carrying electronic structural components, especially for a multi-pole electronic apparatus for a motor vehicle. b) Support characterised in that, by means of at least one springy blade 22, the support 18 presses the hybrid board 17 against at least one bearing surface 26 of the support 18, the end 22a of the springy blade 22 facing the printed-circuit board 14 bearin...

Apparatus for mixing fluids (e.g. liquid hydrocarbons and steam) comprising a tubular mixing section having in its upstream end part an annular inlet opening (2) for a first fluid defined inside substantially coaxially arranged inlet means (7) for a second fluid and an outlet opening for a fluid mixture. The invention further relates to a process for mixing fluids (e.g. for use in catalytic cracki...

Electromagnetic brake, comprising a brake wheel (6), a friction surface (5) touching the wheel during braking and attached to an anchor plate (3) moved by brake springs (14) and an electromagnet (7,8) and an anchor which together disengage the friction surface from contact with the brake wheel when a current is supplied to the magnet. To compensate the wear of the friction surface, the brake has a...

Disclosed is a semiconductive rubber foam having a volume resistivity that can be controlled to a practical level and retaining an initial softness (hardness) even after the lapse of time. This semiconductor rubber foam is composed of a molded article obtained by curing and foaming a rubber composition comprising (A) 100 parts by weight of a chlorinated ethylene/?-olefin copolymer rubber and (B) 1...

Items of merchandise (30) are protected Prom shoplifting or theft by affixing to them special responder targets (32), which are formed by drawing a material of high magnetic permeability into a thin wire and thereafter rolling the wire into a flattened strip and annealing the strip and severing the strip into individual lengths. The flattened strip may be positioned on an adhesively coated base st...

Contact of acid or alkaline cleaned aluminum surfaces, particularly cans, wi th a water based composition containing a combination of (i) alkoxylated phosphate esters, (ii) ions of aluminum, zirconium, iron, tin, and/or cerium, (iii) a metal etching component, and (iv) a combination of alkoxylated alcohol and alkoxylated alk yl phenol emulsifiers, gives the surface after drying lowered surface fri...

Amino acid derivatives of the formula I p-C1-C6H4-CH2-CO-Z-NR1-CR2R3-CO-NR4-CHR5-CO-Y-R6 I wherein Y, Z, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 have the meaning indicated in Patent Claim 1, exhibit tachykinin-agonistic (e.g. vasodilating and/or tachykinin-antagonistic (e.g. analgesic) effects.

O<6>-Benzylated guanine guanosine and 2'-deoxyguanosine compounds of formula (I), wherein Z is hydrogen, ( alpha ) or ( beta ), and R is a benzyl group or a substituted benzyl group, cause a depletion of O<6>-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGT) activity in mammalian cells. These compounds may be administered to a host so as to reduce AGT levels in tumor cells of the host in order to increase h...

A metallization layer structure includes an intermediate layer (15) formed on an aluminum nitride ceramics base (11). The intermediate layer contains aluminum titanium nitride. A titanium layer (12) is formed on the intermediate layer. A heat-resistant metallic layer (13) is formed on the titanium layer. A metallic layer (14) for facilitating soldering or brazing is formed on the heat-resistant me...

The azeotrope of 1-chloro-1,2,2,2-tetrafluoroethane and dimethyl ether is useful as a refrigerant, aerosol propellant and po- lymer foam blowing agent.; 2077454 9113932 PCTABS00007 The azeotrope of 1-chloro-1,2,2,2-tetrafluoroethane and dimethyl ether is useful as a refrigerant, aerosol propellant and polymer foam blowing agent.

A processor (102) specially adapted for use as a coprocessor. The processor is implemented as a microprocessor. The adaptations include the following: The microprocessor has a master-slave pin (207) which receives an input which determines whether the microprocessor operates as a bus master (301) or a bus slave (303). Certain output pins have three-state bus drivers (1001) which employ feedback to...

A web inspection system has a plurality of time-delay-and-integration transversely spaced cameras (104) synchronized by a pulse encoder (110) sensing web movement. Each camera output is digitized and stored in a parallel memory (584) of a corresponding video processing unit (218) where parallel series processors (590) detect white count, black count, and center value of defects. A control computer...

A guidewire (10,42) for use in endovascular electrothrombosis in combination with a microcatheter (44), the guidewire comprising: a core wire having a main body (12,16;32) and a distal portion (18,26;36,46), said distal portion (18,26,36,46) being susceptible to electrolytic disintegration in blood; and a coil (28,56) for endovascular insertion within a vascular cavity, said coil being coupled t...

A system for feeding and positioning articles being processed comprises: a conveying device for driving and conveying said articles; a passage detecting component (8) for detecting the passage of a part to be detected of one part of an article, which is being thus conveyed and driven, past a forward mark point which has been set at a position spaced apart by a specific distance immediately in fron...

The external contact pads of an integrated circuit chip are connected to an overlying printed circuit board by means of wrapped wire connector conductive buttons held in place in a button board in registration with individual ones of the chip contact pads and contact areas on the overlying printed circuit board. The printed circuit board is pressed in place against the integrated circuit chip so a...

A connection structure between lead frames (3) and a base plate (1) of aluminum nitride, to be applied as a connection structure between components of a semiconductor apparatus, comprises the base plate formed of a sintered body of aluminum nitride on which a semiconductor device is to be mounted, the lead frames including, as a main material, iron alloy containing nickel in 29 wt.% and cobalt in ...

PARKING TICKET ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM An automated parking ticket enforcement system includes a base station computer with memory for storing a data file representative of vehicle license plate numbers and coded violation information associated with the numbers. A plurality of standalone computers are compatible with the base station computer and have separate memory capacity into which the data file ...