Methods for making, methods for using and articles comprising cermets, preferably cemented carbides and more preferably tungsten carbide, having at least two regions exhibiting at least one property that differs are discussed. Preferably, the cermets further exhibit uniform or controlled wear to impart a self-sharpening character to an article. The multiple-region cermets are particularly useful i...

An improvement in the sealing of bonded batts of fiberfill is obtained by providing a barrier layer of bonded bicomponent binder fibers on one or both faces of the remainder of the batt to prevent or reduce the tendency of the fiberfill to leak through such faces.

The method transports a band of plastic material, especially a band of rubber, to further processing. In the novel unit, successive cross sections of the band of rubber, considered along the direction of travel, are deformed transversely to their path, before reaching the further processing station. The deformation is such that one side of the band, forms an edge running parallel to the direction ...

Process for welding bodies made of ceramic, glass-ceramic, glass or a material in the glass state, and ceramic, glass-ceramic, glass or a material in the glass state comprises pre-heating a region of the body made of ceramic, glass or a material in the glass state around and/or in the joining zone under atmospheric surrounding conditions with a temperature below the melting temperature of the body...

Die Erfindung betrifft ein Röntgenuntersuchungsgerät mit einem Patientenlagerungstisch (1), einem in Tischlängsrichtung auf einem ersten Wagen (6) verfahrbaren Durchleuchtungs-Bildwandler (61), einem darauf ausgerichteten und mit dem ersten Wagen gekoppelten Übertisch-Röntgenstrahler (2) und mit einem Aufnahme-Bildwandler (71), der auf einem zweiten Wagen (7) verfahrbar ist. Dabei wird ein schnell...

An allocation controller (42) allocates target driving force (tTd) to engine torque controller and drive system controller based on accelerator opening and speed from target driving force map (40). Based on the output of vehicle running condition judging unit (41), the increase or decrease of compensation control of final target driving force (tTd') is performed.; Eine Vorrichtung zur Steuerung de...

The control system has an actual vehicle motion state detector (M1), a reference motion state detector (M2), a first comparator (M3) for comparing actual and reference motion values, a degree-of-actuation computation device (M4) using the results of the comparison, a vehicle characteristics controller (M5) for controlling/regulating the drive force or/and the braking force based on the computer de...

In a data conversion apparatus (101) of a copyright protecting system, a dat a format judging portion (103) judges whether or not the data is of a super distribution format, attribute information obtaining unit (105) identifies t he audio contents of the data and obtains the attribute information correspondi ng to the identified audio contents from the external equipment via said data transmission...

The invention relates to a pharmaceutical preparation for treating blood- clotting disorders which is characterized in that it contains at least one protein selected from the group of pro-proteins of the blood clotting and additionally contains a coagulation-physiologically inert receptor binding competitor. The invention also relates to the medical application of said preparation.

A laryngeal airway device includes an air tube with proximal and distal ends, and a sealing member attached to the distal end of the air tube. The sealing member includes an anterior surface adapted to seat in the throat, against the hyoid bone, and to stretch the laryngeal inlet. A hole extends through the anterior surface and the sealing member and communicates through an air passage with the di...

A method of forming a foamed slag on a stainless steel melt in an electric furnace involves introducing, into the slag, a powder containing metal oxide and carbon which react to form bubbles of the reduced metal vapour and carbon monoxide and thus create a stable foam. The metal oxide is an oxide of a volatile metal, especially zinc or lead, and at least part of the powder is dust from an electric...

An apparatus and method for installing a deck (3) on an offshore substructure (15) is provided. The apparatus comprises a deck supported by lifting mechanisms (6) compressed until transported to an offshore substructure having an upper end (16) located above the water surface. The lifting mechanisms are then extended and the apparatus moved on the surface of the water to position the deck over the...

A test strip comprising a support carries an active electrode and a counterelectrode, and a layer of material within which a small volume of liquid to be tested can be distributed and provide contact between the electrodes, and wherein an analyte-specific reagent is coated on the material. The layer of material can conveniently be provided in the form of a tape from which sections can be cut or us...

The invention concerns a disk cache for secure writing comprising means (62) for standby power supply for a specific time interval, to a computer system powered by two main electric power supply elements (60, 61) and including, at least one hard disk unit (1a, 1b, 1c), a host system (3), all disk units (1a, 1b, 1c) being connected by a bus (2) to a connection (30) of the host system (3) (host bus ...

In the present invention, a force to separate the mold portions for both sides of tire, created by the pressure of a heating/pressurizing medium introduced into a tire during the vulcanization of tire, is offset via an upper disk (114), a segment (110) having protrusions at both ends, and a lower disk (103). A force in the radial direction to move a tread mold (109) outward is offset via the segme...

Polyester films 5-30 microns thick having (i) a degree of crystallinity of greater than or equal to 50 %, (ii) a planar birefringence delta P of less than or equal to 0.160, (iii) a breaking strength in the longitudinal direction (RRMD) and the weakest of the two breaking strengths in diagonal directions (+/- 45 degrees . w.r.t. the longitudinal direction) (RR45) such that (RRMD)-(RR45) is less ...

A stretched resin film having as a base material a resin composition composed of the following components (A), (B), (C) and (D): (A) a thermoplastic polyester resin 100 parts by weight; (B) a modified olefin based resin obtained by graft polymerizing 0.01 to 20 parts by weight of an alpha , beta -unsaturated carboxylate based monomer having a hydroxyl group and 0.01 to 50 parts by weight ...

Myocardial revascularization is performed by an apparatus and method which forms channels in the myocardium from inside the ventricular cavity without penetrating the full thickness of the ventricular wall. A catheter has a fiber optic connected at its handling end to a laser, and terminates at the insertable end of the catheter. A servomotor controls the advancing of the fiber to stop positions r...

The peripheral ring of a sectorised mould for tyres is constituted by a set of metal sheets 1 bearing on each other and stacked so as to be mutually pushing each other back. The ring therefore has the permanent tendency to increase in diameter. This tendency is combated by, for example, a conical shrink-fit element (hoop) which radially and simultaneously pushes back all the metal sheets 1.