Production of conductive wires comprises coating a polyethylene granulate with a liquid cross-linking agent, melting the coated granulate in an extruder and extruding onto the conductive wire followed by heating the extruded layer to above the decomposition temperature of the cross-linking agent to cross-link such that the copolymer content in the cable coating is 1-8 wt.%. Process for the product...

The traceability of meat is improved by applying a unique carcass-identification serial number to selected areas of a meat carcass before it is separated into primal cuts. The serial number may be visible or invisible and is applied in a manually readable and an encoded, machine-readable form. An indelible ink which is specified for food applications is applied using a printing head carried and mo...

A system and associated method ablate body tissue using multiple emitters of ablating energy. The system and method convey ablating energy individually to each emitter in a sequence of power pulses. The system and method periodically sense temperature at each emitter and compare the sensed temperatures to a desired temperature established for all emitters to generate a signal individually for each...

Apparatus for quantizing compressed viedo data arranged in macroblocks calculates a quantizing parameter independently for each macroblock. The apparatus determines the relative coding complexity of respective macroblocks, and then determines which of the more complex macroblocks can withstand relatively severe quantization without significantly affecting image quality. This determination is made ...

A decontamination apparatus for medical devices includes a decontamination basin (14a, 14b) with a selectively opened and closed cover member (16a, 16b) to provide selective access to the basin (14a, 14b). A mixing chamber assembly (80) selectively dispenses detergent concentrate and decontaminant concentrate into a liquid to form a liquid cleaning solution or a liquid decontaminant solution, resp...

A coated steel wire (10) with a bright looking, preferably colored surface has a steel core (12) and this steel core (12) is covered with an intermediate coating layer (14) which gives the brightness to the steel wire. The steel wire is further coated with a transparent polymer (16) which is selected from the group consisting of thermoplastic polyesters, polyimides, polyamides, polycarbonates and ...

PCT No. PCT/EP95/02740 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 15, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 15, 1997 PCT Filed Jul. 13, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/03458 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 8, 1996The present invention relates to a solution of a polyacrylate resin in one or more organic solvents, containing one or more phosphites, characterized in that the solution contains from 0.05 to 1.0% by weight, based on the solids content of the ...

An image detection and background processing device and method having a image reader for reading a whole document and converting the read document to a digital image data of multi value. The image forming apparatus detects the density of a background in the document based on the digital image data obtained by the image reader, sets a reference value based on the background density as well as the d...

There is provided a resin composition for soft relining material that can meet the performances required in a soft relining material for denture base, such as a proper softness and fitness between a denture base and an oral mucosa, without using a phthalate-based plasticizer widely used in the conventional art resin composition for soft relining material, which is pointed out to have a possibility...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the spring receiving member of the compression spring of a tension device applying tension to the crawler travel body of a crawler travel device from being bent and deformed by the mud intruding between the spring receiving member and a support wall backing up it. SOLUTION: The spring receiving member 59 receiving the back face of the compression spring 61 is forme...

An antipilferage tag is disclosed which includes a resonant circuit adapted to receive an RF signal and to transmit a response signal when interrogated by said RF signal. The tag includes circuit components constituted by or fabricated from a metallized layer supported by a dielectric material.

The present invention is a stabilized resonant tag circuit for use as an electronic article surveillance tag. The tag has a flexible substantially planar dielectric substrate having conductors positioned on either side, at least one of the conductors including an inductor. The tag is stabilized by a flexible, substantially planar, tear-resistant, substantially vapor impermeable polymeric film adhe...

Electronic article surveillance (EAS) tags (20) are attached to articles of merchandise, not at the store (16) using EAS equipment (18), but in conjunction with the manufacture (10) of these articles. At that stage, the tags (20) are not detectable by the EAS equipment (18). They are made detectable upon receipt by an EAS-using store (16). For swept frequency RF EAS equipment (18), the tags (20) a...

A dental material composition based on polymerisable, ethylenically unsaturated monomers as binder, a catalyst for cold-, hot- and/or photopolymerisation and 1-95 wt.% (on total composition) of an inorganic filler (A) comprising one or more mixed apatites of formula A10(XO4)6Z2-B10-uCu(Y)6Z<1>2 (A1), A<1>10-r(X<1>O4)6-sZ<2>2-tB<1>r(Y<1>)sQ t- B<2>10-u'C<1>u'(Y<2>)6Z<3>2 (A2) or A<2>10-r'(X<2>O4)6-...

A cartilage and bone morphogenetic repairing material which contains a bone morphogenetic protein and a polyoxyethylene-p-olyoxypropylene glycol. In particular, it is preferable that a molecular weight of a polypropylene glycol, i.e., a component of said polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene glycol, being in the range of about 1,500-4,000 and a weight ratio of ethylene oxide being in the range of 40-80...

A device for mixing viscous liquids, comprising a cylindrical mixing chamber (100) that is open on one front and has a side wall, at least two injection nozzles (170), the nozzle openings of which are provided with exit bores (105B) in the side wall, and a piston (150) that can be displaced inside the mixing chamber (100) in axial direction, along the longitudinal axis (A-A) of the mixing chamber ...

A vehicle computer system includes a display device that is configurable for viewing by a driver of a vehicle while the vehicle is moving. The display device is responsive to a processor that executes application programs in conjunction with an operating system. A plurality of sensors are used to indicate the position of the display device, to indicate vehicle motion, and to indicate the state of ...

A method and device for activation of large quantities of security elements for the electronic article protection. The security elements are exposed to at least one magnetic field produced by one or more coils carrying a line current subjected to sine oscillations. The coils are supplied with current pulses that are shorter than the sine oscillations. The amplitude of the current pulses diminishes...

Security elements used to secure goods, as well as castings or injection-molded parts containing such security elements, for protection against theft are encased in a powder lacquer layer. Security elements for protecting goods contain soft magnetic and hard magnetic components. When a magnetic alternating field is applied to the soft magnetic components, they are excited in order to emit a charac...

Devices are disclosed for the display of the "activated" or "deactivated" state of electromagnetic or acousto-magnetic security tags, whereby it is possible to recognize, at a glance, whether the goods, for example on a pallet, have activated or deactivated security tags.