An adapter for connection of an integrated circuit package to a circuit board, the package being of the type having solder leads, and the adapter comprising a plurality of pins for connection to the circuit board, a plurality of lead frame elements, each lead frame element connected to a pin, and each lead frame element including a connection region sized and positioned for making a solder connect...

PURPOSE:To swiftly and easily render printing conditions most optimum by providing a control means which furnishes an electric signal which forms a flying droplet for a recording unit control means to have a liquid jet recording unit preliminarily discharge the flying droplet, and generates a command signal. CONSTITUTION:The title device is provided with the following components: (a) a liquid jet ...

PURPOSE:To restrain the noise of a laser diode from appearing in the second harmonic wave laser light outputted from a laser optical resonator. CONSTITUTION:Laser light for pumping outputted from a laser diode 1 enters laser medium 5 via a lens 2. Thereby fundamental wave laser light is generated. When said laser light enters a nonlinear optical crystal element 6, the second harmonic wave laser li...

PURPOSE:To provide the constitution of a piezoelectric element for maximally utilizing the piezoelectric characteristics of the piezoelectric electric element for an ink-jet printer head in a shape having the walls of a plurality of piezoelectric materials which will be shear deformed by applyed voltage, ink flow paths formed among the walls of said piezoelectric materials and a plurality of ink g...

The invention relates an oligonucleotide probe reagent consisting of a nylon membrane with a high density of anionic carboxyl groups to which membrane at least one oligonucleotide probe containing a 5' amine is covalently bound via an amide bond and to a method for attachment of the oligonucleotide probe to the nylon membrane. The single, 5' end attachment of the oligonucleotides to the membrane s...

A rotary lawn mower blade has a plurality of shredders with cutting edges affixed to the blade. The shredders provide additional cutting edges for fine shredding of vegetation.

The invention relates to an apparatus for transferring articles (1) such as eggs or fruit from a supply conveyor (2) to a receiving station (9, 10, 11). The supply conveyor (2) having at least one row of article holders and releasing means. The apparatus further comprises driveable resilient receiving means (3) disposed beneath the conveyor (2) for receiving articles (1) dropped from the conveyor ...

An improved gas dissolving and releasing liquid treatment system involving the use of multi-stages gas dissolving pressure vessel and the use of a pressurized water release assembly and an open vessel is described. The gas dissolving and releasing liquid treatment system includes a liquid pressure pump, a pressure vessel, a gas injector, an inlet nozzle assembly, a gas compressor, gas regulators, ...

An optical system for use in conjunction with a one or two dimensional array of high brightness sources where such sources are individually rotated by multiple reflective elements and in turn may be captured by beam filling optics and subsequently re-imaged by symmetric and asymmetric optics where the asymmetric optics preferentially image a single dimension while leaving the focus in the second d...

The invention relates to an apparatus consisting of 6 segments which are positioned around a liquid-carrying hose or tube and are fastened by means of a plurality of self-tapping screws. Located in the horizontal segments are magnetic fields, provided with detoners which shape the magnetic radiation and direct it in one direction. As a result of the two horizontal segments being positioned opposit...

A conveying apparatus for selective lateral alignment of packages with laterally spaced apart right-hand or left-hand vertical planes includes a conveying surface made up of support members connected together in an endless web and a pair of diverting shoes mounted to each support member. A network of guide tracks guides the movement of one of each pair of guide shoes along either a non-diverted pa...

A process for producing an optical fiber comprising the following stages: a stage of production of a preform having an axis of symmetry and their ends and comprising an optical core as well as at least one cylindrical recess whose axis is parallel to the axis of symmetry of the preform; a drawing stage at a temperature making possible the softening of the drawn part of the preform to obtain a holl...

PCT No. PCT/DE88/00665 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 16, 1989 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 16, 1989 PCT Filed Oct. 27, 1988 PCT Pub. No. WO89/03928 PCT Pub. Date May 5, 1989.The invention relates to a catalyzer installation for spark-ignition engines which are operated with air/fuel ratios of lambda 1, particularly for boat engines, the catalyzer being subdivided into a reduction part located upstream in the exhau...

In a hydraulic tensioner, shock absorber or lash adjuster having a plunger in a cylinder filled with hydraulic fluid, and having a coiled compression spring acting on the plunger in a pressure chamber on one side of the plunger, air scavenging through the restricted space between the plunger and the cylinder wall is improved by providing radial grooves either on a face of the plunger contacted by ...

An expandable carbonaceous paste comprising natural graphite flakes and expandable graphite flakes, such as acid treated graphite flakes, mixed with a hydrocarbon viscous liquid such as tar so that when the paste is exposed to heat, the paste will expand and have good thermal conductivity characteristics and then upon further heating the paste will convert to a rigid carbon structure.

A method of aligning two images of the same scene by matching features in a first image to features in a second image is disclosed. The method comprises identifying edges of objects in the first image using two different processes. The edges identified using both processes are compared and combined into one image representing confirmed edges which are readily identified in other images of the same...

UN APARATO MEDICO QUE EMITE IONES METALICOS MICROBICIDAS Y SE INTRODUCE EN EL TEJIDO CORPORAL, SE COMPONE DE ELASTOMEROS DE POLIURETANO CON UNIDADES DE POLIMEROS DE SILICONA ORGANICAS COLOCADAS EN LA CADENA DE POLIMEROS. ESTE MATERIAL CONTIENE REPARTIDA UNIFORMEMENTE LA SUSTANCIA QUE EMITE LOS IONES METALICOS. EL PROCEDIMIENTO PARA LA FABRICACION DEL APARATO MEDICO, MEDIANTE LA ADICION DE LA SUSTA...

A multi-processor computer system executes a single-thread program having a plurality of callable procedures in program modules. The local memory of each processor contains a program stack, the object code of each module that executes on that processor, and an agent object and data structures containing linkage information. In addition, the local memory contains a c-stub module for each procedure ...

Sensitive and/or chemically reactive detergent additives can be shaped in the form of spherical particles having the desirable properties of being non-friable, non-dusty and at the same time fast-dissolving. The process comprises the steps of treating a mixture comprising said detergent additive and a hydratable material with a polymeric material of high Tg in a high-speed mixer/granulator. A pref...

A cold therapy panty is provided which includes a front portion and a back portion with a crotch area formed therebetween. A receptacle is located adjacent the crotch area of the panty and extends along the crotch area. An absorbent pad for absorbing bodily fluids and a cold pack for applying cold therapy to the crotch of the wearer are inserted into the receptacle. Alternatively, the absorbent pa...