The invention pertains to a process and device for the gripping at a storage station, transfer and placement of a sheet of flexible plastic material at the stacking station in an automatic production process for compound structures, especially compound panes. In accordance with the process, the sheet made of flexible plastic material is grasped by suction connected to a swinging stamp, first exert...

A high-frequency incising and excising instrument for use in a body passage, the instrument having a wire loop for projection from the distal end of a tubular sheath and manipulated from the proximal end of the tube for hooking a phyma, polyp, growth, or the like, to be excised and for excising the phyma, polyp, growth, or the like, by applying high-frequency electric current to the wire loop. The...

A system for automatic micro and macro inspection of patterned wafers, including a X-Y stage for supporting and positioning a wafer at a macro inspection station and a micro inspection station, a plurality of cassettes for storing a plurality of patterned wafers before and after inspection, a transfer arm and apparatus for transferring a wafer from the cassettes to a predetermined location on the ...

On-line apparatus for analyzing the formation of a moving web of paper, using a source of light directing a beam through the paper and a photodetector receiving the light which has passed through the paper, has a circuit preferably including a tunable band pass filter and demodulator producing a D.C. output reflecting size and distribution of flocs. The output gives similar results to those obtain...

A keyboard interface for a data processing system in which a keyboard and a data processor unit are connected through a single clock line for transmitting a clock signal from the keyboard and a single data line for transmitting a serial bit frame having a serial scan code identifying a depressed key in synchronism with the clock signal. The interface uses an error detection and retransmission proc...

PURPOSE:To obtain a solid fuel which is excellent in humidity and swelling resistance, long-term stability and mechanical strength and easy to produce and handle, by adding a binder comprising asphalt and petroleum pitch to a pulverized solid combustible material. CONSTITUTION:100pts.wt. asphalt is melt-mixed with 67-900pts.wt. petroleum pitch. The mixture is allowed to cool and pulverized to obta...

A plasma arc welding and cutting torch for non-transferred and transferred arc operation comprises a hollow grip connected to a source of plasma-forming gas, a fixed electrode, and an axially slidable nozzle assembly. The assembly is associated with contacts which are used to make and break an auxiliary circuitservinghe main power circuit.

A measuring tube is inserted into a bore hole for measuring underground fluid pressure and is sealed against the bore hole wall for limiting the areas or regions in which the pressure measurement is to occur. A measuring cell is inserted into the measuring tube wall in each of these areas or regions and includes a mobile pressure sensing element against which acts the pressure of the medium surrou...

The object of the invention is to develop an easily fabricated and assembled gear train arrangement, specifically a worm gear arrangement, which requires only a low overall height and at the same time assures operating reliability under extreme temperature ranges for application is motorized vehicle accessory drives such as power window lifts, wherein an output shaft mounted in a gear housing is l...

A conversion lens upon attachment on the image side of a master lens increases the focal length of the entire system. The conversion lens comprises three components of negative, positive and negative powers in this order from the front, has a negative power as a whole, and satisfies the following conditions: 2.00.15 where fi and ni are the focal length and the refr...

An apparatus is provided for forming gas-filled spheres of metal, glass or other material, which produces spheres (12) of uniform size and wall thickness in a relatively simple system. The system includes concentric nozzles, including an inner nozzle (18) through which gas flows and and an outer nozzle (20), which jointly define an annular passageway (50) through which a liquid flows. The flow rat...

A polymer blend which is useful for forming heat sealable plastic film which comprises from about 60% to about 40% by weight of a polypropylene terpolymer comprising about 0.1 to about 10.0 mole percent ethylene, about 0.1 to 10.0 mole percent 1-butene, and the balance propylene, and 40% to 60% of a copolymer of ethylene and alpha olefins containing four or more carbon atoms wherein the ethylene c...

The present disclosure is directed to foam particles of a linear, uncrosslinked ethylenic resin which can be expansion molded by heating in its uncrosslinked state. The present disclosure is also concerned with a process for preparing foam particles of a linear uncrosslinked ethylenic resin and a process for the in-mold foam molding of said resin particles.

A process for the preparation of a stable aqeuous ketone resin or ketone/aldehyde resin dispersions and a process for the production of surface coating binders. For this purpose, a melt or a highly concentrated solution of the ketone resin or ketone/aldehyde resin is dispersed in water in the presence of an organic protective colloid. These aqueous resin dispersions can be used, in combination wit...

Herein disclosed is a system using a plurality of laser beams, in which the positions of the respective laser beams are detected as the differences between the outputs of detectors of an optical detector arrangement and controlled by the difference signals so that they may be held mutually precisely. This system finds its suitable application to an optical disk recording system or a laser beam pri...

PURPOSE:The titled foam free of blending out and excellent in heat resistance, flexibility and high-frequency sealability, consisting essentially of a vinyl chloride resin and a PE copolymer at a specified blending ratio. CONSTITUTION:A blend polymer consisting essentially of 0.25-2.40pts.wt. vinyl chloride resin (A) having a vinyl chloride component content of 65-100wt% and an average degree of p...

A power transfer device for four-wheel drive in combination with a power transmission comprises a transfer casing detachably secured at one side thereof to the transmission casing, first and second inner casings respectively assembled within the transmission and transfer casings in a coaxial relationship, a first ring gear integral with the first inner casing and in mesh with an output gear of the...

There is disclosed a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising the steps of forming a polysilicon film on a semiconductor substrate through an oxidation film, forming a mask of a predetermined pattern on the polysilicon film, forming a molybdenum film on the polysilicon film, and silicifying those regions of said molybdenum film not covered by the mask so that a structure of the un...

Gasoline composition comprising a major amount of a gasoline suitable for use in spark-ignition engines, and a minor amount of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt of a succinic acid having as substituent on at least one of its alpha -carbon atoms an unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 20 to 200 carbon atoms, or of a succinic acid derivative having as subs...

An article surveillance system includes a generator of a first inductive magneticc field having on and off duty cycle portions. The generator derives the first magnetic field at a predetermined AC frequency during the on duty cycle portions. The articles to be detected includes a structure which responds to the predetermined frequency of the first magnetic field to derive a second inductive magnet...