The anchor includes a body (14) and a plurality of barbs (44) located in axially aligned, circumferentially spaced relation to each other about the body. The barbs have a normal configuration wherein they extend rearwardly and radially outwardly from the anchor body to outer ends which are normally located outside a longitudinal projection of the largest geometric cross-section of the body transve...

Eine Vorrichtung zum Antreiben, Führen und Lenken eines Fahrzeugrades (R) umfaßt einen lenkergeführten Federzylinder (1A,1B) der von Hydrauliköldurchführung (6') durchsetzt ist. Die Hydrauliköldurchführung (6') speist einen im Bereich der Radnabe (13) vorgesehenen Hydraulikmotor (2), welcher ein gleichfalls im Nabenbereich (13) vorgesehenes Schaltgetriebe (4) beaufschlagt. Die Radnabe (13) ist im ...

A lubricating oil composition is herein disclosed which comprises as the main compounds, (A) a base oil comprising a mineral oil or a synthetic oil; (B) a hindered phenol compound represented by the general formula (I) or (II) wherein m is an integer of 1 to 5; (C) an alkylated diphenylamine compound; and (D) a borated succinic acid imide compound. This lubricating oil composition is excel...

The invention relates to a magnetostrictively resonating label, intended for a detection or identification system. The label consists of a strip of amorphous magnetostrictive material (3) with a strip of hardmagnetic material opposite thereto (4,5). The hardmagnetic material (4,5) serves to ensure the presence of a bias magnetic field in the magnetostrictive material (3). The strip of hardmagnetic...

Simulcasting from a television transmitter facility of both NTSC video signals, via a UHF/VHF portion of the broadcast spectrum, and digital HDTV signals, over a prescribed UHF portion of the broadcast spectrum, by converting the NTSC video signals into digital format at the television studio and multiplexing the digitally formatted NTSC signals and digital HDTV signals into a combined NTSC/HDTV d...

The invention relates to the electrical powering of a window covered with an electrically conductive layer and comprising a sheet of a transparent material of the PVB, PU, PVC type, which adheres to the layer. The invention proposes to bring the electric current to the layer by metallic foils flattened against the layer by the sheet of material of the PVB, PU, PVC type. The invention applies to th...

An image window (N) is intermittently moved along the contour (CT) of a subject image (I). At respective paused position of the image window, a spacial differential of the density level is calculated for each pixel in the image window. A differential histogram is produced from the respective differentials, and a threshold level (Eth) is determined from the differential histogram and a designated p...

A three component refrigerant composition for use in vapour compression refrigerators and avoiding the use of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons comprises a three component mixture of: (i) a major portion comprised of chlorodifluoromethane (R22) or pentafluoroethane (R125); (ii) R125 or octafluoropropane (R218); and (iii) propane in non-flammable proportions. f

The invention relates to a moulded heating window made up of a curved sheet of glass with electrical wiring. The transparent collecting bands are partly covered with a darker layer of enamel having a greater heat absorption capacity, by which means it is possible, by adjusting the layout of this layer of enamel, to modify the heating of the glass sheet during heating prior to bending and thereby t...

Cleaning, activating and metallizing of bore holes in conductor boards is performed by supplying a liquid treatment medium in form a standing wave onto a lower side of the conductor board by a surge line which is formed as a nozzle arranged under a transporting path and substantially normal to a transporting direction of the horizontally guided conductor board.

A fluidized bed reactor in which an air distribution plate (20) is disposed within an enclosure (10) for supporting a bed (18) of particulate material including fuel. The air distribution plate includes a plurality of vertically disposed nozzles (28) extending therethrough for receiving air from an air plenum (22) and discharging the air in an upward direction into the bed at a velocity sufficient...

A coordinate input apparatus of the present invention in which operation is switchable from an image pickup mode for displaying on a display apparatus an image of an object for image-taking to a coordinate input mode for inputting coordinates at a location indicated by a point indicator and vice versa, so that when the coordinate input mode is set, the duration of scanning by an image pickup eleme...

A method and apparatus for distributing the processing of cursor-independent scrolling functions, between a host processor and a workstation via a workstation control interface, the workstation control interface being connected to a plurality of workstations, wherein the host processor formulates a data stream incorporating scrollable panel data, definitions of cursor-independent scrolling keys, d...

PURPOSE:To easily position a cursor by outputting the position data on a point on a contour line projected on an image sensor as an X-Y coordinate value by the image sensor incorporated in the cursor for outputting the coordinate value and outputting the position data when the image of the contour line is projected in the effective operating range of the image sensor. CONSTITUTION:The cursor 3 for...

PURPOSE: To provide excellent reflow characteristics even when no flux is used at the time of forming a connection through tin-containing solder areas by reflowing the solder under the presence of a gas which is used for reducing a metal oxide. CONSTITUTION: A close-contacted connecting structure of first and second objects is formed by close-contacting the objects with each other through tin-cont...

PURPOSE:To smoothly perform interaction between remote places, by performing the referring and editing operation of a document as observing the same document displayed on a display means by two interactors. CONSTITUTION:Commands inputted from key input means 4 and 24 of computer interactive devices 6 and 26 respectively are delivered to editor processing means 3 and 23 of both interactive devices ...

A washing machine includes a brush less motor 10, a position sensing element 11 for sensing a rotational position of a rotor of the motor 10, and a motor drive control circuit 9 composed of an inverter main circuit 6 for driving the motor 10 and an inverter control circuit 8 for controlling the inverter main circuit 6 based on a signal generated by the position sensing element 11. Signal voltage r...

In the case of electronic control devices with a microcomputer and non-volatile memories of the read-write type, individual customer requirements regarding programming can be accommodated by the fact that the control device stores selected values of certain parameters, classified according to frequency, and substitutes the values of one or more parameters by a selected value in each case if the la...

Fine particle size cement compositions useful for cementing in a subterranean zone penetrated by a well bore, comprise a fine particle size hydraulic cement, from 20% to 90% (by weight of the cement) of a fine particle size pozzolanic material, and sufficient water to form a pumpable slurry. The particle size of the cement and of the pozzolanic material is not more than 30 microns. The Blaine Fine...

The invention relates to a method of cleaning hot flue or process gases utilizing a barrier filter module (12) formed of a monolithic ceramic filter support structure coated with a thin porous ceramic layer having a pore size of about 0.04 to 0.5 microns, and a catalyst module (14) formed of a support structure coated with catalyst. The steps are: passing the gas through the barrier filter module ...