A pleural drainage probe which consists of a flexible tube (1) into which a guide element (13) may be inserted and which is provided with at least two axially separated inflatable peripheral chambers (2,3) which are both connected to the outside via independent capillary conduits (4,5) made in the wall of the tube (1), each of said conduits, after branching (6,7) close to the end of the tube (1), ...

PCT No. PCT/EP93/00403 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 23, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 23, 1995 PCT Filed Feb. 19, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO93/16792 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 2, 1993The invention relates to a process for performing chemical and/or physical and/or biological reactions, in which the reactants are brought into operative connection with reaction particles 13 promoting or making possible the reaction. The inven...

The invention relates to a conveyor comprising a frame and drivable transport means, provided with carriers extending transversely to the direction of movement of the transport means, parallel to each other. The carriers are pivotally coupled to at least one flexible coupling means, whilst at least some of said carriers support pusher shoes. A pusher shoe is connected to a group of three guide whe...

A memory card comprises a metallic top cover, metallic bottom cover and frame housing a PC board and electrical connector. The top and bottom covers are joined by mechanical attachment to the frame and are grounded together by electro-mechanical connection and provide for grounding between the PC board and the covers. Mechanical latching mechanism provides for easy assembly of frame and covers by ...

1. Fluorobenzene derivatives of formula (I) in which R is H, an alkyl or alkenyl radical having 1 to 15 carbon atoms which is unsubstituted, monosubstituted by CN or CF3 or at least monosubstituted by halogen, it also being possible for one or more CH2 groups in these radicals to be replaced, in each case independently of one another, by -O-, -S-, -CO-, -CO-O-, -O-CO- or -O-CO-O- in suc...

A method is disclosed which permits the user of a computer system to directly manipulate iconic representations of software applications by automatically controlling the communications link between each icon and its associated source application. Upon receiving an indication that a user intends to move an icon displayed within a first client application, communications between the first client app...

A bed comprises a profiling mattress frame (40). Backrest (42) is arranged to be lifted by actuator (58) via a crank (56), and thighrest (46) similarly by actuator (60). Legrest (48) is freely pivoted to the thighrest (46). The angles of the parts are sensed and maintained in proportion by control means, so that as if for example the backrest angle (42) is steepened, the thighrest (46) is also rai...

An electrophotographic imaging apparatus has an engine driver board and a printer controller that are connectable to the engine driver. A testing device is connected to the engine driver board in order to test and/or monitor the operational function of the imaging apparatus by communicating with the engine driver board. In the imaging apparatus, the printer controller is disconnected from the engi...

To attach electronic components (3), in particular power semiconductors, to substrates (1), use is made of the pressure- sintering process in which the surfaces to be joined are pressed together at at least 900 N/cm<2> at the sintering temperature with a metal powder paste (10) being placed in between. Components (3) having a structured upper side can be pressure-sintered if they are placed, toget...

A floating point instruction control mechanism which processes loads and stores in parallel with arithmetic instructions. This results from register renaming, which removes output dependencies in the instruction control mechanism and allows computations aliased to the same register to proceed in parallel.

A curable silicone composition comprising: (A) an organopolysiloxane containing at least two silicon-bonded unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon groups and having a viscosity of from 100 to 200,000 cst at 25 DEG C, (B) a vinyl group-containing organocyclopolysiloxane having the general formula (I): wherein R represents a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms excluding unsaturated...

A method for processing a distributed application program in a SNA type network having a host processor executing a virtual machine type operating system and a relatively large plurality of terminals, in which a plurality of run ready virtual machines are established at the host and primed by preinitializing each machine with the host resident portion of the application program under the control o...

A method is described which permits a user of an Intelligent Work Station (IWS) in an SNA type network in which communication with the host processor employs LU 6.2 advanced program to program protocols and in which the host processor does not assign a dedicated virtual machine to the user during the period the user is active on the system, to notify the system of the user's current terminal addre...

The invention relates to fluorinated biphenyl derivatives of formula (I), wherein R<1> denotes an alkyl residue with up to 12 carbon atoms wherein one or two non-adjacent CH2-groups may also be replaced by -O-, -O-CO-, -CO-O- and/or -CH=CH-, m is 0 or 1, and X is -OCF3, -OCHF2 or, if m denotes 1, also F, CF3 or NCS.

The invention relates to optically transmissive, silica-containing compositions which exhibit a small change of refractive index with respect to temperature changes (dng/dT). The compositions are derived from silica sols dispersed in liquid organic polymers. The invention relates to optical systems comprising a plurality of elements that are optically interconnected by means of the inventive compo...

A first and second digital rate converter device and method provides for synchronization between a first digital sample sequence and a second digital output sequence related to the first digital sample sequence for a rate converter pair (501, 511; 601, 611). The method typically utilizes at least one of: queue monitoring and zero-crossing with resetting to minimize sampling timing error.

Es wird ein Förderer, insbesondere Stetigförderer, für Einzelbügel vorgeschlagen, der gegenüber einer senkrecht zur Transportrichtung T verlaufenden horizontalen Achse A um einen Winkel β geneigt ist und dessen Fördermittel eine umlaufend angetriebene Kette 1 bildet. Die Kette 1 weist über die einzelnen Kettenglieder 2 hinausragende dreieckförmige Mitnehmer 3 auf, die zum Transport der Bügelhaken ...

1. Fluorbenzolderivate der Formel I worin R: H, einen unsubstituierten, einen einfach durch CN oder CF3 oder einen mindestens einfach durch Halogen substituierten Alkyl- oder Alkenylrest mit 1 bis 15 C-Atomen wobei in diesen Resten auch eine oder mehrere CH2-Gruppen jeweils unabhängig voneinander durch -O-, -S-, -CO-, -CO-O-, -O-CO- oder -O-CO-O- so ersetzt sein können, daß O-Atome...

Zur Begrenzung der unbedingt notwendigen Wassermenge in einer automatisch gesteuerten Waschmaschine ist erfindungsgemäß im Laugenumwälzsystem 9 bis 11 eine Sensoreinrichtung 12 angeordnet, die zur Feststellung eines Volumenstroms in Förderrichtung der Pumpe 10 geeignet ist. Ferner ist die Steuereinrichtung der Waschmaschine derart eingerichtet, daß bei einem Signal der Sensoreinrichtung, das auf e...

The present invention relates to a method of determining characteristic properties of processes producing free radicals by measuring temperature and/or free radical concentration by means of detectors in regions monitored by at least 2 detectors.