A plate-type chemical reactor and method of using same to react two or more mutually separated fluid component streams are disclosed, wherein the reactor contains one or more reactor plates including at least one reaction-chamber reactor plate; at least one reaction chamber formed on a front facial surface of the reaction-chamber reactor plate(s); and at least one heat exchange channel passing thr...

A living body component in a sample derived from a living body can be rapidly and accurately measured by reacting the sample with a reagent comprising a combined product of an affinity substance and a polypeptide having at least three acid residues derived from a strong acid, separating the resulting complex by a method applying negative change such as using an anion-exchanger, and determining the...

Multiple data stream searching is achieved by encoding a video broadcast into multiple types of data streams including video, audio and subtitle data. Addresses are generated for each of the data streams pointing to a position of the data stream to be stored on a record medium. These addresses are stored in areas of the record medium reserved by type of data stream such that location of any event ...

A golf club iron comprising a shaft, a head having a sole, a toe end, and a heel end. The head comprises a striking face and a cavity in the back portion. A vibration dampening ramp bar extends from the lower edge of the cavity and terminates at its lower end short of the upper edge of the cavity with the ramp bar being offset from the center of gravity of the club head. In a set of irons, the dis...

A dental material based on polymerizable monomers is described which contains at least one polymerizable monomer which has liquid crystalline properties. Compared with traditional materials, the dental material displays a lower decrease in volume upon polymerization and, because of its low viscosity, higher filler contents can be achieved.

The invention relates to monobutyltin trichloride which, as a stabilizer, comprises one or more glycerol esters of optionally unsaturated aliphatic carboxylic acids having 1 to 18 carbon atoms.

A catheter guide wire comprises a main section (12) having a circular cross-section and a distal end section (14) surrounded by a spiral (20). The distal end section (14) has a portion (18), adjoining the guide wire tip, in the shape of a wedge, the height of which diminishes towards the guide wire tip and the width of which increases towards the guide wire tip.

A microporous film of high molecular weight polyolefin useful in the prepration of filter mediums or non-aqueous battery separators and a process for producing the film are disclosed. The microporous film of high molecular weight polyolefin contains leaf vein-like fibrils as a main constituent on each of which fibrils indeterminate-form crystallites of not more than 1 .mu.m in size flocculate and ...

A para-oriented aromatic polyamide porous film, the porous film of a para-oriented aromatic polyamide comprising a fibril having a diameter of not more than 1 .mu.m and having a structure that fibrils are planary arranged in the form of a network or nonwoven fabric and laminated in the form of a layer, wherein a thermal linear expansion coefficient at 200 to 300.degree.C of the film is within of v...

A method is provided to facilitate the removal of mercury from soil containing mercury compounds. An iron, nickel, or other metal compound is added to soil contaminated with a mercury compound, then the mixture is heated to a temperature lower than the boiling point of the mercury compound.

A carbonization kiln for transforming pieces of raw material into charcoal. The kiln has an elongated container body formed by a peripheral wall and a pair of longitudinally opposed end walls. Each end wall has a fixed section and a pivoting section. The pivoting sections are adapted to be used for charging the raw material into the container body and removing the charcoal from the container body....

A control parameter setting section (4) gets the number of frames from among all frames of picture data of an object of compression for which coding processing has not been performed, gets the number of frames in one GOP, and discriminates from the remaining frame number and the frame number in the GOP whether or not coding processing comes to an end intermediately of the last GOP. When coding pro...