The method for diagnosing microprogrammed computers consists of locating malfunctioning computer circuits with the aid of basic control data from which individual basic control words are selected under the control of diagnostic control data, and activating those basic microorders contained in the selected basic control words which provide for execution of a predetermined diagnostic procedure. A de...

An anti-skid device is intended for use on pneumatic tires when the tires are used on ice and snow. The device includes a supporting disk with anti-skid arms pivotally displaceable about axes extending parallel to the axis of the wheel on which the pneumatic tire is mounted. The supporting disk is fixed to the wheel by a fixing disk and a retaining ring mounted on the wheel rim. The combination of...

Glycosyl halides which are O-acylated or O-alkylated at least in the 2-position are transhalogenated with alkali metal hydrogen difluorides in a polar-aprotic solvent and, if appropriate, the product is anomerized with the addition of less than the stoichiometric amounts of an inorganic fluoride with a Lewis acid character. Depending on the substrate, the glycosyl fluorides with the 1,2-trans or 1...

Urine incontinence protection device for male patients consisting of a protecting bag having an opening for the introduction of the male genitals, said bag consisting of two congruent walls (1) and (2) which roughly have the form of a parallellogram and are attached to eachother along three of its edges (3, 4, 5) so that the third edge (6) will form an opening and constitutes the entrance of the d...

Attitude control mechanism for a flexible bag component of a composite pneumatic chamber including a fixed section over which an inturned portion of a flexible bag pneumatic chamber section rolls includes a cantilever bag attitude control stem having its root anchored in a mounting closing the end of the flexible bag remote from the rigid pneumatic chamber section and extends through a central gui...

In an apparatus for the pulsewise dispensing of very small amounts of liquid controlled with a measuring instrument comprising an ejecting device for the pulsewise ejection of a desired amount of liquid, a pump is provided for supplying liquid to the vessel from a reservoir. The pump includes a neck portion having an inlet at the bottom thereof and a foot portion, with at least the foot portion im...

A sync signal extracting circuit suitable for a digital information processing apparatus, such as a digital video tape recorder, is provided, which can promptly detect an incorrect sync state and which can quickly and accurately recover a correct sync state. The circuit extracts the sync signals or portions from a digital information signal consisting of a plurality of successive blocks, each cons...

Surgically non-invasive method of and apparatus for altering the growth, repair of maintenance behavior of living tissues and/or cells by inducing voltage and concomitant current pulses of specific time-frequency - amplitude relations therewithin.

Apparatus in a video signal processing system for improving the quality of a color image reproduced by a color kinescope in response to chrominance and luminance components of the video signal, the chrominance signal being subject to phase transitions likely to generate chrominance subcarrier components sufficient to contaminate the luminance signal. Chrominance signals delayed by an amount corres...

Reusable article of unitary construction for dispensing conditioner for fibrous materials in an automatic laundry dryer and/or washer or similar container for fibrous materials, comprising a first layer of magnetized, substantially form retaining sheet material such as soft rubber, adapted to forcibly, magnetically engage an inner metal surface of said dryer and/or washer in form-retaining relatio...

For temperature-control valves or in order to influence the same by means of remote control, for example for radiator valves, a thermostatic transmitter is provided. This transmitter substantially comprises an inelastic vessel 1 having a compressible bellows 3 and a piston 6 for carrying out the control movements. The space between the vessel 1 and the bellows 3 is closed hermetically and filled w...

In the playback of a video disc record employing an FM carrier recording format, a defect compensation system is provided which substitutes delayed video signals for current video signals when a defect is encountered. A phase locked loop including a phase detector and a voltage controlled oscillator is employed in FM detection circuits. A defect detector compares the phase between the oscillator o...