Fine powders of iron with less than 5% by weight graphite, copper, and an organic binder can be formed into shapes having a green density of up to about 7.4 g/cc and sintered in a hydrogen containing atmosphere to yield parts having minimum variations in physical properties. Incorporation of small quantities of copper, e.g. 1% or less by weight, negates variations in physical properties of sintere...

The density of rigid foamed articles made by the thermal decomposition of a blowing agent in a vinyl chloride polymer is reduced by the use of an organotin halide in combination with a mercaptocarboxylic acid ester or a sulfide of such ester or a mixture of the ester and the sulfide to activate the blowing agent.

A method is provided for obtaining a customized skin foundation product to cover human skin imperfections. The steps include spectrophometrically measuring a customer's normal skin to obtain normal skin coloration values of lightness, redness and yellowness respectively denoted as L, a and b units. Thereafter the normal skin coloration values are converted through calculation to a modified value d...

Apparatus and method for the precision aiming of a radiation beam for treating an internal cancer tumor in a patient. The method of treatment includes introducing at least one reference marker into the patient in a defined and locatable position in relation to the cancer tumor. A defined point in the cross section of the beam is located by a sight that is compared to the position of the reference ...

Apparatus and method for the precision aiming of a radiation beam for treating an internal cancer tumor in a patient. The method of treatment includes introducing at least one reference marker into the patient in a defined and locatable position in relation to the cancer tumor. A defined point in the cross section of the beam is located by a sight that is compared to the position of the reference ...

A two-part electromagnetic radiation shielding device (10) for mounting on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB). The device (10) comprises a substantially open frame member (6) for receiving an electric or electronic component requiring shielding, and a closing can or cover member (1). The frame and cover members (6; 1) are constructed from electrically conductive material and have peripheral sides (7; 3...

A system and method for providing dynamic channel assignments in a microcellular system surrounded by a macrocellular system. The method character izes the RF environment of the microcellular system and the macrocellular environment. C hannels are then ranked according to the signal-to-interference ratio computed from the measured RF characteristics. A call is assigned to a highest ranked idle cha...

A human CDR-grafted antibody which specifically reacts with ganglioside GM2, wherein said antibody comprises CDR 1, CDR 2 and CDR 3 of heavy chain (H chain) variable region (V region) comprising amino acid sequences described in SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:2 and SEQ ID NO:3, and CDR 1, CDR 2 and CDR 3 of light chain (L chain) V region comprising amino acid sequences described in SEQ ID NO:4, SEQ ID NO:...

A modular support for staircase steps comprising a vertical cylindrical body (3) having, at its top, a rigidly coupled horizontal supporting plate (4) for a corresponding step. The cylindrical body (3) is provided with two walls (8) which protrude in a vertically parallel fashion from the cylindrical body (3), below the supporting plate (4). A coupling element (12) is associable with the cylindric...

The invention provides a MPEG-2 broadband multimedia terminal for audiovisual communication, or distribution, including a MPEG-2 encoder, a MPEG-2 decoder, a workstation for the presentation of audio, visual and data signals generated by the MPEG-2 decoder, and a control unit for overall management and control of said terminal. The MPEG-2 encoder and decoder have architectures for implementation o...

The invention provides a MPEG-2 broadband multimedia terminal for audiovisual communication, or distribution, including a MPEG-2 encoder, a MPEG-2 decoder, a workstation for the presentation of audio, visual and data signals generated by the MPEG-2 decoder, and a control unit for overall management and control of said terminal. The MPEG-2 encoder and decoder have architectures for implementation o...

A device for filtering air contaminated with oil comprises a pleated filter material (1) with separator elements (2) in between the pleats, housed inside a casing (3). The filter material comprises 3-12 ~mn fibres. Preferably the filter material comprises a binder-free glass fibre needlefelt with a thickness of 12-40 mm.

An electric motor is coupled to the grill spit and is electrically connected to the current supply. A current switch connects the grill unit and the motor to the current supply. The grill unit is vertically arranged and a heat-reflecting and insulating well is placed behind the grill unit. The connections of the current switch to the grill unit and the motor are watertightly enclosed in the heat-r...