A seamless polyimide composite tube which includes a polyimide layer, a conductive primer layer on the surface of the polyimide layer and a fluororesin layer on the surface of the primer layer and a method of manufacturing the composite tube.

Clusters of water-swellable polymer fines, having high rates of absorbency without gel-blocking are prepared by suspending water-swellable polymer particles in an inert hydrophobic liquid, such as hydrocarbon, and slowly adding to the particles an aqueous solution, which can be water or an aqueous solution or mixture of water-soluble monomer and silica or a similar compound to silica.

An apparatus for automatically processing an animal carcass, the apparatus comprising carcass support means (170, 171, 201) for supporting a carcass (82) after removal of the viscera and for restraining the carcass (82) against lateral movement, splitting support means (81) selectively movable lengthwise along the carcass (182), the apparatus being characterised by an opposed pair of spine trackin...

The thermal insulating brick in the shape of rectangle, square or arc is made up of such raw materials (wt.%) as flyash (55-88), expanded pearlite (25-35), used polystyrene foam particles (3-10), and cement (5-15) through proportional mixing, addition of appropriate water, stirring and moulding under 7-10 kg pressure, and features good insulating performance and light weight.

The light building slab is made up through mixing cement, sand and pebbles; addition of expanded pearlite, powdered cinder and water; stirring; laminated moulding of the mixture, glass fibre and wire net; compacting, demoulding and removing built-in tubes; and curing, and may be used as non-bearing wall, ceiling and roof. Its advantages include high strength, good flame-retardance, sound-isolating...

PCT No. PCT/EP94/00068 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 12, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 12, 1994 PCT Filed Jan. 11, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO94/15784 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 21, 1994.The glazing element in accordance with the invention comprises in its simplest form a pane and a textile spacer fabric arranged at the covering surface of the pane. The spacer fabric comprises at least two covering layers, which are connected...

A power transfer device includes a planetary gear unit which includes a sun gear, a carrier, a ring gear, and a plurality of planet gears journaled on the carrier and in mesh with the sun and ring gears. The planetary gear unit is shiftable between first, second and third positions to establish a high speed two-wheel drive mode in the first position wherein the carrier is engaged with an input sha...

The invention pertains to a mix scheme for producing, from various base paints, solvent-containing coating agents of precisely defined shading, characterized in that the mix scheme contains A) various base paints A which contain less than 5% by wt. water, at least one color- and/or effect-producing pigment, organic solvent, at least one water-dilutable or water-dispersible binder as well as possib...

The invention pertains to a method of coating metals by applying a substance that contains (A) at least one polymer and/or at least one constituent that cures into a polymer and (B) elementary silicon. Component (A) preferably contains a polyorganosiloxane and/or a constituent that cures into a polyorganosiloxane.

A method of extracting an image of a moving object comprises the steps of extracting edge-enhanced input image from an input image taken by an image pick-up element moving in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis, recollecting a background edge-enhanced image from the input edge image, transfer in parallel horizontally and vertically the background edge-enhanced edge image so to correspond to a...

PURPOSE:To prevent the surface of a molding material from damaging or cracking and to prevent a connection from malfunctioning by forming rising pieces formed by protruding in opposite direction to the protruding direction of lead wires at the opposite end side of a side end formed with an inductor plating part at the center of a conductive plate. CONSTITUTION:A conductive plate 21 has an inductor...

A wheel assembly for a wheelchair includes a mounting plate (42) fixed on one side of the seat portion, a motor (43) and a gear unit (4) which includes a gear disc (441), and a gear shaft (45) that extends through the gear disc (441). The motor (43) includes a driving worm (432) fixed on the motor shaft so as to mesh with the gear disc (441). The gear disc (441) is formed with an engaging recess (...

A thermal olfactory alarm is associated with a winding of an electric motor to provide an indication of undue temperature rise of the winding. The alarm may include two or more temperature rise steps, progressing from advance warning to critical. The alarm does not affect operation of the motor but provides the operator with an indication of an overheating situation developing to enable the operat...

A method and apparatus for compensating substrate distortion in automatic optical inspection (AOI) systems eliminates false error signals during printed circuit boards (PCB) defect detection. The present invention is used in feature edge transition AOI systems that employ pixel to pixel comparison between CAD and scanned PCB feature databases. The present invention divides the substrate into a plu...

Moulded prods. (inserts) (I) are obtd. by polymerisation of ethylenically polymerisable materials (II) in moulds, to give prods. with at least part of the surface incompletely polymerised. Also claimed is a mould (III) for the prodn. of (I), consisting of an oxygen permeable material and with an oxygen-permeable film for covering the mould cavities. Also claimed is a process for the prodn. of (I) ...

Novel dispersant compositions for lubricating oil are described. They exhibit little fluoroelastomer antagonism and are effective in controlling sludge, varnish and wear. The dispersants comprise two components. One is formed by reacting aminoguanidine with a long chain succinic acylating agent. The product may be borated if desired. The other component is formed by reacting (i) a succinic acylati...

The invention relates to a system comprising a theft detection device for generating an electromagnetic detection field in a control zone and for detecting the presence of anti-theft labels in the control zone. An anti-theft label radiates an electromagnetic response signal when it is located in the control zone. The system further comprises an identification device for generating an interrogation...

A surface acoustic wave filter having a configuration in which a plurality of series surface acoustic wave resonators and parallel surface acoustic wave resonators are connected is used as a receiving filter included in a receiving circuit of a communication apparatus capable of simultaneously transmitting and receiving signals. When the transmitting frequency is higher than the receiving frequenc...

A variable length coder for converting a source digital code, which is provided from an image signal encoding apparatus using an inter mode or an intra mode compression, to a variable length code by using a first VLC table and a second VLC table, while gauging the amount of output data from the encoding apparatus with a quantization parameter ranging from 1 to 31, comprising: a first VLC unit for ...

An apparatus for adaptively demultiplexing an input bit stream for use in a decoding system comprises a buffer module having a plurality of buffers for temporarily storing the bit stream, a flag state detector for detecting the number of the buffers that exhibits the full state or the empty state and a buffer module controller for adaptively controlling the overflow or the underflow of the bufefer...