Means for coupling an independently suspended medical x-ray source and detector for lateral fluorographic studies such as angiography. When coupled, the x-ray source and detector move vertically in opposite directions, move horizontally toward or away from each other, and pivot about horizontal axes so the distances between the focal spot and isocenter of examination and between the isocenter and ...

A process for producing a tire reinforcement is characterized by the fact that each reinforcement cord is projected individually into its place in the reinforcement. For this purpose, a machine is used which comprises laying members comprising essentially a rotary conduit which projects the cord by a radially outer extremity of the conduit and rollers which impose a linear speed of laying of the c...

A device for sensing the number of items (14) consecutively disposed in a compartment (12), preferable bottles or cans disposed in a beverage magazine (13) in a refrigerator (10). At each item (14) at opposite sides of said item electric conducting areas (20a, b, c; 21a, b, c) are provided which form a capacitor (22a, b, c). The capacitors formed in each compartment are interconnected to form a ci...

A device for sensing the number of items (14) consecutively disposed in a compartment (12), preferable bottles or cans disposed in a beverage magazine (13) in a refrigerator (10). At each item (14) at opposite sides of said item electric conducting areas (20a, b, c; 21a, b, c) are provided which form a capacitor (22a, b, c). The capacitors formed in each compartment are interconnected to form a ci...

Damage tolerant composites comprising high strength filaments in the form of bundles or tows of continuous fiber and a tough phase separated, crosslinked epoxy resin matrix are disclosed. The crosslinked epoxy resin matrix comprises infusible particles that reside primarily between plies of the composite and critically have a median particle size between l0 - 75 microns. Prepregs for making the da...

A device for sensing the number of items (14) consecutively disposed in a compartment (12), preferable bottles or cans disposed in a beverage magazine (13) in a refrigerator (10). At each item (14) at opposite sides of said item electric conducting areas (20a, b, c; 21a, b, c) are provided which form a capacitor (22a, b, c). The capacitors formed in each compartment are interconnected to form a ci...

A device for sensing the number of items (14) consecutively disposed in a compartment (12), preferable bottles or cans disposed in a beverage magazine (13) in a refrigerator (10). At each item (14) at opposite sides of said item electric conducting areas (20a, b, c; 21a, b, c) are provided which form a capacitor (22a, b, c). The capacitors formed in each compartment are interconnected to form a ci...

The fan-shaped X-ray beam of a slit radiography apparatus scans a body to form an X-ray shadow image on a screen (3). The fan-shaped beam is formed by a number of sectors situated next to each other. For each sector the transmitted X-ray radiation is controlled instantaneously during a scan by means of controllable beam sector modulators (7). The X-ray radiation is periodically modulated in a pred...

Disclosed is a thin film electroluminescent layer of a thin film electroluminescent device comprising, as a light-emitting medium, a body of a mixture of ZnS and at least one sulfide selected from MgS, CaS, SrS and BaS. The ZnS and the selected sulfide are doped with a transition metal or rare earth element which is optically active in the matrix. This EL device has good moisture resistance and we...

PCT No. PCT/SE87/00284 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 9, 1988 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 9, 1988 PCT Filed Jun. 17, 1987 PCT Pub. No. WO87/07879 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 1987.A container (1) consists of a container body (10) and a container lid (20) which, in a factory-sealed container, sealingly closed the lid in circumferential connection (21). In such instance the lid constitutes a bounding definition of the stor...

A cementitious composite material exhibiting an exceptional combination of high tensile, flexural and compressive strengths as compared with generally accepted values for Class H cements is produced from a mixture having a low pH and containing a tobermorite-like gel.

The present invention relates to total and partial esters of alginic acid with alcohols of the aliphatic, araliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aliphatic-cycloaliphatic and heterocyclic radicals, and salts of said partial esters with inorganic and organic bases. The said partial ester are not a partial ester of bivalent aliphatic alcohols. These compounds are intended to be used in pharmaceutical. applicat...

A new acidic polycyclic ether antibiotic, CP-63,517, having the formula: (I) and cationic salts thereof produced by submerged aerobic propagation of Streptomyces endus subsp. aureus, ATCC-39574, a new strain of microorganism isolated from a soil sample in Japan, a process for producing this antibiotic and methods for its use to improve feed utilization, promote growth of cattle and swin...

The invention relates to a process for preparing mineral and in particular, carbon-containing membranes on a porous mineral support. According to the process, at least one layer of a stable emulsion of mineral particles in a solution containing a thermosetting resin is deposited on a permeable, porous, mineral support. The resin undergoes a polycondensation treatment followed by coking, and the co...

Contaminated water is purified by introducing a finite amount of water to be purified into a filter (7), filtering the thus introduced water to obtain partially purified water, accumulating the partially purified water in a confined space (9a) to form a body of water (12) therein, heating (10) the partially purified water to a temperature to and about its boiling point, reintroducing the partially...

A dual field of view sensor, particularly adapted for use as a forward-looking infrared night vision detector, includes a single detector (24) for receiving a light signal and developing an output electrical signal therefrom. A rotating polygon scanner (16) having a plurality of reflective facet (14) thereon receives light (12, 34) from two separate optical systems (10, 32) and directs the light o...

The processor includes a master processing unit (12) having DMAI/O means (48), a wide bandwidth data memory (14), an address generator (28) operative to generate addresses for data loaded in the data memory, a concurrently operating pipeline control sequencer (31) operative to provide fully programmable horizontal format microinstructions synchronously with the addresses generated by the address g...

Solid cake lavatory cleansing block compositions comprise polyethylene glycol distearate having a dissolution time of at least 5.5 hours, and optional ingredients which include a gelling natural gum, fragrances, dyes, solid binders, filler material and mixtures thereof. The preferred gum is guar gum and, in that case, it is especially preferred that the filler should comprise sodium chloride.

A computer architecture is disclosed for analyzing automatic image understanding problems. The architecture is designed so that it can efficiently perform a wide spectrum of tasks ranging from low level or iconic processing to high level or symbolic processing tasks. A first level (12) of image processing elements is provided for operating on the image matrix on a pixel per processing element basi...