A shaped article made of a wholly aromatic polyamide resin composition and having an excellent mechanical strength, strain-proof property and antistatic property, comprises a matrix consisting essentially of a wholly aromatic polyamide resin and a dispersoid comprising polytetrafluoroethylene resin particles in the form of fine networks of fibriles and, optionally, additional inorganic particles, ...

A disposable garment is described, such as an open diaper, a diaper in the form of pants or briefs or so-called baby-training pants, which diaper has an elastic, water-permeable top sheet 6, an elastic, water-permeable backing sheet 7 and elastic parts 4, 5 for the leg and waist openings, which are arranged respectively along the sides of the crotch area and along the ends of the front and back pa...

A disposable diaper (1) with a front section (2), a crotch section (3), a rear section (4) and a pair of liquid-permeable wing sections (5) is described. The wing sections extend laterally outwards from opposite sides of the rear section, so that the diaper can be applied by securing the wing sections to one another, with the front section (2) then being applied on these wing sections (5). Finally...

Here is disclosed an arrangement of elastic means (4A-4D) surrounding respective leg-openings (14) of garments (L) such as disposable diaper, wherein the elastic means surrounding each of the leg-openings comprises a plurality of first elastic members and a plurality of second elastic members; the first elastic members (4A) are positioned substantially along a front half of the leg-opening while t...

Here are disclosed disposable garments such as a diaper having adhesive areas on top- and/or backsheet(s) along leg-openings. Each of the adhesive areas is defined by a plurality of spiral adhesive traces. The stretchable elastic means are bonded to the top- and/or backsheet(s) along the adhesive areas, respectively.

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip (2), a die-pad (3) on which the semiconductor chip (2) is mounted, a package (6) encapsulating the die-pad (3) and the semiconductor chip (2), and a plurality of leads (4) electrically connected to the semiconductor chip (2) and projecting from the package (6), wherein each of the leads (4) has a lead body (4-1) made of pure nickel (Ni) having a...

A plastic semiconductor package suitable for high frequency operation includes an internal ground plane (40) connected to a ground ring (64) formed on the packaged semiconductor device. The ground plane is included as a portion of a lead frame strip adjacent to the individual lead frames. The ground plane is first folded underneath the paddle support of the lead frame, and the semiconductor die (6...

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At the transmitter side, carrier waves are modulated according to an input signal for producing relevant signal points in a signal space diagram. The input signal is divided into, two, first and second, data streams. The signal points are divided into signal point groups to which data of the first data stream are assigned. Also, data of the second data stream are assigned to the signal points of e...

An aircraft service system includes a plurality of attendant call lights (213) and reading lights (212) serving a different one of the passenger seats, a plurality of switch units (211) each for controlling one of the attendant call lights (213) and one of the reading lights (212) and a plurality of terminal units (200) each provided at a different one of the passenger seats. Each terminal unit (2...

A receiver comprising a digital code tracking loop which receives an input of real and imaginary components of a received signal and in which these components are processed in different branches which each comprise a multiplier (12a-12d) and a filter (13a-13d) connected in series. To improve the characteristics of the code tracking loop in the receiver, each branch of the code tracking loop furthe...

A card system and method for accessing a public transit system that employs a card pre-encoded with trip data permitting a set number of trips on the transit system and a card processing unit to receive and process a card each time access to the transit system is desired. The card processing unit includes a time write head to record the time of current use on the card and a time read head to retri...

Reaction canister and diffuser combination for a motor vehicle inflatable restraint system. The reaction canister has top panel (30) and a bottom panel (32) and the diffuser comprises a tube (20) having an apertured diffuser portion (22) and a cap portion. Loped edges (64,68) of a fabric bag are retained by grooves (68,70) in the assembly. The combination is configured such that a compressed gas c...

A process is described for the production of composite powders with ultrafine microstructures. The process involves three coordinated steps: 1) preparation and mixing of an appropriate starting solution; 2) spray drying to form a chemically homogeneous precursor powder; and 3) fluid bed thermochemical conversion of the precursor into the desired nanophase composite powder. Both spray drying and fl...

According to the invention, on a box frame 1 are carried transverse rigid shafts 17 and one motor-driven shaft 18 carrying a series of cams 7. On the shafts 17 are mounted levers 5 interconnected with links 6. The levers are fitted with rollers 19 that freely support the segmented mattresses 2 connected in groups by means of connecting racks 3. Appropriate guides 4 maintain the pitch of each group...

A semiconductor device assembly comprises a semiconductor device (10) attached to a substrate (20). The substrate has a metallization pattern (22) on the surface and a polymeric film (24) covering most of the surface and the metallization pattern. A window-frame shaped opening (26) is created in the film, exposing portions of the substrate surface. The semiconductor device is attached to the subst...

A passenger vehicle polling system is capable of polling one or more terminal units (30), where each terminal unit is provided at a different one of a plurality of passenger seats in a passenger vehicle such as an aircraft, to obtain information indicative of the state of each terminal unit (30). The polling is accomplished by transmitting a polling command signal from a head end apparatus through...

To display a more displayed natural screen without sense of strangeness, when displaying a video signal having a greater number of horizontal scanning lines than the number of horizontal display lines of the display means (6). The video signal is displayed by thinning at a rate of one out of every plurality of video signal groups. Accordingly, missing of only upper and lower portions of the video ...

Apparatus for mounting a paper roll product having a core on a coreless paper roll spindle having an enlargement. The apparatus includes an adapter spindle for sliding over the coreless paper roll spindle and a lock within the interior of the adapter spindle for locking the coreless paper roll spindle and the adapter spindle against substantial relative axial movement.

Extruded articles such as filaments and films are fabricated by blending the components of a curable liquid silicone rubber composition at temperatures of from -60 to +5 C and then extruding the composition into water maintained at a temperature of at least +25 C to cure said composition. The water bath preferably contains a surfactant to facilitate processing of the extruded article. The present ...