A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, an insulating film and a wiring pattern. The insulating film has a first opening and a plurality of second openings. At least part of the semiconductor element is positioned in the first opening when the semiconductor element is disposed on the insulating film. The second openings are provided aligned around the first opening. Each of the se...

A method and apparatus for treating waste material to remove selected components form the waste is described using a reactor or a series of reactors in fluid communication with each other for receiving the waste to be treated as influent. The influent forms a biomass including the waste and microorganisms and is treated by controlling the metabolic activity of the microorganisms by monitoring the ...

The invention relates to the manufacture of a tire (10) in a bladderless tire mold (12) that incorporates sealing rings (16, 18, 70) that enable the tire (10) to be easily and quickly installed within the tire mold (12) so that the pressurized gas or fluid used to inflate and vulcanize the tire (10) does not leak around the tire bead sections (44, 46) of the tire (10) and escape into the mold cavi...

A method of forming an object comprises depositing a flowable material onto an area of forming surface 28 and allowing the deposited material to at least partially harden on the forming surface to form a portion of the object 48, and then displacing the forming surface relative to the formed portion so as to re-expose at least a part of the surface. Further material is then deposited onto the expo...

A gas stream containing methane and at least one acid gas, H 2 S or CO 2 , is treated with a solvent, preferably methanol, in a counter-current absorption column CA. The solvent is expanded V 1 and then separated SM, generating a gaseous phase rich in methane 14 and a solvent phase which is further expanded V 2 and heated E 1 . The expanded solvent, containing acid gas, is then regenerated in a ...

A method of enabling an on-board vehicle navigation system to compute a route from a current position of the vehicle to a desired destination is provided. A user of the navigation system in a vehicle utilizes a cellular telephone 172 or any other wireless, two-way audio communications link to contact an operator in a remote communications center. The user informs the operator of his desired destin...

UNA CAPA DE PINTURA DE CALIDAD AUTOMOTRIZ DE ALTO BRILLO EXTERIOR TIENE UNA APARIENCIA AUTOMOTRIZ EXTERIOR Y UNAS PROPIADADES DE DURACION, ESTA LAMINADA EN LA SUPERFICIE EXTERIOR DE UN MIEMBRO DEL CUERPO DE UN COCHE MOLDEADO EN PLASTICO O EN PANEL. EN UNA EXPRESION, LA CAPA DE PINTURA INCLUYE UNA CAPA TRANSPARENTE EXTERIOR SOBRE UNA DE COLOR. LA CAPA TRANSPARENTE Y LA DE COLOR ESTAN CADA UNA CUBIE...

DISPOSITIVO PARA LA FABRICACION DE TUBOS DE PLASTICO. EL DISPOSITIVO PARA LA FABRICACION DE TUBOS DE PLASTICO (23) PRESENTA UN PAR DE MEDIAS COQUILLAS (2) QUE SE COMPLEMENTAN ENTRE SI PARA FORMAR UN MOLDE. ESTA PROVISTO DE UNA CAMPANA DE ACONDICIONAMIENTO (62). LOS CONDUCTOS DE ALIMENTACION ESTAN CONFIGURADOS COMO TUBOS FLEXIBLES DE ALIMENTACION (50) DE MATERIAL SINTETICO RESISTENTE A LA TEMPERATU...

SE PROPORCIONA UNA COMBINACION DE MANGO DE AFEITAR Y CUBIERTA DISPENSADORA DE HOJAS, EL CONJUNTO DE MANGO DE AFEITAR (10) COMPRENDE UNA PARTE PARA SUJETAR QUE ESTA FORMADA POR DOS PARES DE PLACAS (14,16) MONTADAS SOBRE LOS LADOS OPUESTOS DE UN ELEMENTO CORPORAL SUBSTANCIALMENTE PLANO Y LISO (12). EL PAR DE PLACAS (14,16) SE EXTIENDEN HACIA ABAJO EN ANGULO MAS ALLA DE UN EXTREMO DEL ELEMENTO CORPOR...

SE DESCRIBE UN PROCESO PARA LA ELABORACION DE LACADO EN MULTIPLES CAPAS MEDIANTE EL CUAL SE APLICA UNA PRIMERA CAPA DE RECUBRIMIENTO SOBRE UN SUBSTRATO CONDUCTOR ELECTRICO A PARTIR DE UN PRIMER AGENTE DE RECUBRIMIENTO ACUOSO MEDIANTE SEPARACION ELECTROFORETICA, HUMEDOEN-HUMEDO CON UNA SEGUNDA CAPA DE RECUBRIMIENTO A PARTIR DE UN SEGUNDO AGENTE DE RECUBRIMIENTO ACUOSO QUE YA HA SIDO PREVISTO Y SIEN...

LA INVENCION SE REFIERE A UN PROCEDIMIENTO PARA LA SEPARACION DE METALES PESADOS A PARTIR DE MATERIALES CONTAMINADOS, EN PARTICULAR A PARTIR DE SUSTANCIAS SOLIDAS DISPERSAS, SUELOS, DESPERDICIOS ORGANICOS, LODOS ACTIVADOS DE CLARIFICACION O SIMILARES. DE ACUERDO CON LA INVENCION DEL PROCEDIMIENTO ABARCA LA SIGUIENTES ETAPAS: A) AFLUENCIA DE LA SUSTANCIA ORGANICA DESINTEGRABLE Y AGUA EN EL MATERIAL...

A method is provided for manufacturing a branch pipe liner bag (11) which can be integrally joined with a main pipe liner bag so that water is prevented from penetrating through a joining portion between them. A tubular unwoven fabric member (1) having its outer surface covered with a highly sealable film (2) is prepared, and a portion of the film covering one end portion (1a) of the tubular unwov...

PCT No. PCT/EP93/00677 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 9, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 9, 1995 PCT Filed Mar. 20, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/22253 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 29, 1994The present application concerns a method and an apparatus, in a communication network, for processing the various fields of a protocol header preceding a data stream to provide a unique connection identifier for processing the data stream. All ...

A filter assembly treats cleaning and rinsing fluids used in industrial-scale washing machines (10). The filter assembly incorporates a cross-flow filter (Q1), two working chambers (A1, A3) and two settling tanks (A2, A4) which are incorporated together in a single unit. The novelty is that: (a) a filter circuit is formed by the following aggregates linked in series; (i) a first settling tank (A2)...

Disclosed is a physiological electrical signal connector system which one connector connected to an electrode set and another connector connected to a digital signal convertor which leads to a patient monitor. Each type of electrode set has a specific code identified with it and when connected to the digital signal convertor, the connector code is recognized by the digital signal convertor. The co...

A device and method for measuring the anisotropic mechanical properties of tissue is provided. The device comprises a flexural resonator driven by a transducer (4) to oscillate at a plurality of angles of oscillation while in contact with a tissue to be analyzed. The resonance frequencies and resonance peak widths for the flexural resonator are measured at each of the plurality of angles of oscill...

PCT No. PCT/IB96/00826 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 5, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 5, 1998 PCT Filed Aug. 22, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/09165 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 13, 1997The inventive method relates to manufacturing of thermoformed packaging items or parts thereof having a non-uniform wall thickness and containing at least one layer with a specific function which at least one layer needs for this function a spec...

The invention relates to a heat-insulating coating material for supporting structures consisting of: at least 40 % by weight of cellulose, a maximum of 25 % by weight of borax and sassolite, at least 5 % by weight of graphite, at least 5 % by weight of graphite, at least % by weight of an elastomer binding agent, and borosilicate.

The invention relates to a co-extruded multilayer plastic pipe comprising an inner pipe and an outer pipe and between them a middle layer of a softer material than the inner pipe. The invention also relates to a method of producing a co-extruded multilayer pipe in a multilayer extruder, and an apparatus for producing the co-extruded multilayer pipe.

In an ink jet recording apparatus having recovery means for executing the recovery operation of the recording head (2) by discharging ink from the recording head (2) and waste ink storage tank (1055) to store the ink exhausted by the recovery means, the amount of waste ink currently stored in the waste ink storage tank (1055) is calculated in accordance with the exhaust amount which is exhausted b...