A sanitary napkin having an absorbent core with three longitudinally oriented trisections, a central trisection flanked by two outboard trisections. The absorbent core is formed of a single layer of tissue. The single layer of tissue is folded on itself to provide a two-ply thickness at each of the outboard trisections and a single thickness at the central trisection. The two plies of the outboard...

A motor with a gear reducer includes a housing, a stator secured to the housing and having an inner periphery thereof defining a central space therein, and a rotor formed of a magnet material and rotatably fitted in the central space of the stator. The rotor has an axial through hole formed therein in coaxial relation to an axis of rotation of the rotor. An output shaft is connected through a gear...

A studless pneumatic tire having excellent running performance of the tire on icy road surfaces. The tire has a plurality of block-shaped island portions (4) formed on a cylindrical tread (1) extending between a pair of sidewalls. The island portions (4) have laterally extending sipes (5) and are separated by a plurality of main grooves (2) extending in the circumferential direction as well as by ...

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the parallel displacement of a material web (1) in that the material web (1) is, between two driven bending rollers (6, 8), caused to form a freely depending bight or loop (11) whose lower end is read-off by a sensing device (12). The sensing device (12) controls the speed of the first bending roller (6), while the second bending roller (8) is...

A two stage reaction for the production of steel from iron carbide is carried out in two separate but interrelated reactors. In the first reactor, iron, carbide, with slag formers, is fed into a feed end and the reaction is well-mixed by the vessel geometry, the stirring action below-surface injection of oxygen and iron carbide feed, and the evolution of gases from the liquid metal bath. The produ...

A laryngeal airway device includes an air tube with proximal and distal ends, and a sealing member attached to the distal end of the air tube. The sealing member includes an anterior surface adapted to seat in the throat, against the hyoid bone, and to stretch the laryngeal inlet. A hole extends through the anterior surface and the sealing member and communicates through an air passage with the di...

A yarn winding store system assembly in the yarn feed to a jet loom, where the yarn is wound around a store drum. The store drum (6) has a protective disk (10) at the yarn take-off side. The weft yarn (2) is drawn off over the edge of the disk. The diameter of the protective disk (10) is equal to the diameter of the store drum (6). The disk is exchangeable, and located at a variable gap from the...

The system to feed a yarn (1) has a yarn eyelet (3) at the yarn feed gripper (2) to take the yarn through it. At least one yarn guide roller (4) gives the yarn (1) a contact-free passage through the eyelet (3). The yarn guide is formed by a pair of rollers (4), positioned in front of or behind the yarn eyelet (3), or they are within the eyelet (3). A setting unit adjusts the position of the guide...

The procedure involves scanning a volume scanning in the form of a spiral scanning. Data belonging to a target projection direction are extracted from the rows of the detector system (5) during the volume scanning of supplied data. An X-ray silhouette image, the topogramme, is reconstructed on the basis of the extracted data. The CT-unit has a detector system with the detector elements arranged i...

The invention relates to a device for cutting food products (12) comprising a support (10) for said product, a blade (14) revolving in a cutting plane (S) and an intercalated sheet feeding device (20), which guides the free end (22) of a continuos strip (24) by means of compressed air in front of the front end of the product support (10) in order to provide an intercalated sheet between slices of ...

The invention relates to a method of producing foamed slag in an arc furnace . According to the inventive method, the foamed slag is produced by the metere d injection of a carbon carrier by means of an oxygen carrier into the barrier layer between the slag layer and the molten metal. In order improve the protective function of the foamed slag, a particulate titanium carrier is additionally injec...

At breast (10) is compressed between a gamma ray camera head (30) and a compression member or compression plate (20). The breast (10) is compressed between a gamma-ray camera head (31) and a cassette holder (34).

A hybrid vehicle including an engine and a motor generator to serve as a pow er source, comprising a clutch for automatically establishing and cutting off t he transmitting of rotation between the output shaft of the engine and the inpu t shaft of the transmission, a power transmission mechanism for transmitting power between the input/output shaft of the motor generator and the input shaft of the...

A limited slip differential includes a differential case having a central axis, the differential case being connected to an input shaft of an engine, a drive body coaxially disposed within the differential case, a planetary gear unit disposed around the drive body, a cam assembly for performing a differential action depending on a speed difference generated by planetary gear unit, and a multi-plat...

A plurality of closed metal cells is provided. Each cell encapsulates a fluid or a fluid-like filler with a metal skin or cell wall. The closed cells are joined into an aggregate arrangement to form a composite material in which the bonded cell walls form a continuous metal matrix. The cell walls and the encapsulated cell filler fluid or fluid-like filler provide controllable stiffness and strengt...

The invention relates to an amorphous copolyester having a maximum melt viscosity at 1 radian/second and at about 260 to about 290 DEG C of about 12000 poise, a glass transition temperature ranging from about 88 DEG C to about 120 DEG C, and an inherent viscosity of at least about 0.6 dl/g. The amorphous copolyesters comprise the reaction product of a diol component and a dicarboxylic acid compone...

The invention relates to a composition, its use and a method of its use as a glazing adhesive. The composition comprises an adhesive agent with thermoexpandable microcapsules which act as pressure actuators dispersed therein. The microcapsules are heat triggered so as to release at least one expandable volatile agent encapsulated within the microcapsule shell.; L'invention concerne une composition...

An apparatus for the detection of surface flaws (F) in material (27) having a surface (25) which is partially reflective includes at least one light source (23, 23') arranged to direct incident light on a surface of an at least partially reflective material (27), and a light detector (29) disposed above the surface of the material (27). The light detector (29) and the at least one light source (23...

Gerät zur Messung von laserinduzierter Fluoreszenz von Pigmenten und/oder Umweltschadstoffen mit einer gepulsten Laserlichtquelle (10) zur Aussendung von augensicherem Laserlicht mit einer zur Anregung von Fluoreszenz der Pigmente und/oder Umweltschadstoffe an einem Messort (12) geeigneten Wellenlänge, einer Sendeeinrichtung zum Senden des von der Laserlichtquelle abgegebenen Laserlichts (Anregung...

A device, and method for performing cardiac ablations includes a therapeutic instrument, for example, an ablation catheter (10), to which is mounted a flexible, and braided electrode (14). The electrode configuration is selected so that it has a desired surface area for proper heat convection properties. RF energy (26) is delivered to the electrode to heat, thereby ablate local heart tissue, with ...