A process for producing sugar alcohols having six carbon atoms, which comprises hydrogenating ketohexose, such as psicose, tagatose, sorbose and the like, in the presence of a catalyst containing a metal selected from the elements belonging to the eighth family in the periodic table, such as nickel, ruthenium, platinum, palladium and the like, is provided. According to this process, sugar alcohols...

A pixel-data processing circuit adapted to resize pixel data in a first vertically processing mode is reconfigurable to operate in a nonresizing mode, wherein each mode receives pixel data at a first pixel rate and outputs pixel data at a different pixel rate. In one particular example embodiment, pixels are received at two pixels per cycle and output to a storage unit at one pixel per cycle. In a...

An in-line web-centering apparatus for centering a web of material in an aseptic internal area of a form-fill-seal packaging machine. The web-centering apparatus has a support member, a tracking assembly, and an alignment mechanism, each contained within the internal aseptic area of the packaging machine. The support member is internally fixed to the form-fill-seal packaging machine. The tracking ...

According to the invention, the coil of a magnet coil arrangement has a coil body which comprises a winding (14) and is extruded with plastic (17). A plug-in base with contact connectors is formed on the coil, wherein one of the connectors is used for connection of the grounding conductor (18). A metallic housing is placed over the coil. Connection of said metallic housing to the contact connector...

A power transmitting device (6) for a vehicle (1), includes: an input shaft (11) to which a power generated by a power unit provided in a front portion of the vehicle is transmitted; an output shaft (12) for transmitting the power transmitted to the input shaft, to a rear portion of the vehicle; and a casing (14) for containing the input shaft and the output shaft; wherein the power transmitting d...

A metering installation comprises dispensing device for dispensing the powder pigments; weighing device having weighing container (8), conical hopper-shaped pressure container (20), arcuate-shaped outlet connector (22), and injector tube (24); and pneumatic conveying conduit for receiving powder pigments from the weighing device and conveying the powder pigments to the consuming unit (30). Meteri...

A vehicular transmission comprises an engine (E), a continuously variable transmission (CVT) and a starting clutch (5). The driving force from the engine (E) is conveyed through the continuously variable transmission (CVT) with a speed change to a countershaft (2), and the starting clutch (5) is used to convey this driving force from the countershaft (2) to wheels of a vehicle. In this power trans...

A directional control valve which has a movable control piston (5) which separates two pressure chambers (6, 8) from each other in the valve housing interior, which pressure chambers can be subjected to control pressure in order to move the control piston (5) into axial positions corresponding to relevant switch positions of the valve in accordance with the difference in pressure prevailing betwee...

The paper web winding device at the end of a paper machine comprises a main drum, a support drum and a web guiding device with a dynamic clamp unit with two draw strands. A clamping extent of the clamp unit, in which the two draw strands (3',4') work together to clamp, ends before the support drum (7). One draw strand (4') is fed over a section of the support drum and is deflected before a nip (8)...

An automatic transmission having gear trains provided between an input shaft and an output shaft, the gear trains including drive gears mounted on the input shaft and driven gears mounted on the output shaft, includes a start clutch provided between a crankshaft of an engine and the input shaft for transmitting or shutting off an engine power from a crankshaft of the engine to the input shaft, a c...

A delivery for a sheet-processing machine for keeping the extent thereof required downline from the delivery pile as short as possible, includes a frame and grippers revolvable, during operation, along a gripper path within the frame. The grippers seize sheets at a location on the gripper path and drag the sheet along sections of the gripper path in a transport direction. A first switching element...

A portable, lightweight medical radiographic device having an articulated support is described. The device includes a base, an elongated supporting structure having multiple sections interconnected by adjustable joints, a mount for a radiological camera, and a support for a film cartridge. The camera mount includes a concave, motorized track; the film cartridge support is also concave and may also...

The utility model discloses a one-chip bipolar accumulator plate which is provided with a one-chip bipolar pole plate slab lattice. Both sides of the one-chip bipolar pole plate are respectively provided with an anode lead plaster layer and a cathode lead plaster layer. The utility model has the advantages that the utility model adopts interior forming electrochemical reaction principle, having ad...

一种含酶颗粒，它包括(a)酶和(b)本身能吸收至少5％w/w(基于芯的重量)水的芯。生产这类颗粒的方法，该方法包括(a)将能吸收至少5％w/w(基于芯的重量)水的吸收性芯与液体介质如含水介质接触，该介质含呈溶解形式和/或分散形式的酶，应用的液体介质量应使所得产物基本上不伴随发生附聚作用；以及(b)从所得产物中至少部分地除去该液体介质的挥发性组分。; The present invention relates to enzyme-containing granules comprising (a) an enzyme and (b) a core which intrinsically is capable of absorbing at least 5% w/w (based on the weight of the core) of water and to processes for ...

本发明公开了一种图像读取器，包括：其上叠置文档的文档叠置盘；输送辊，一次一页地拾取叠置在文档叠置盘上的文档；弯曲的输送路径，通过它输送文档；和用于从文档上读图像的CCD读取单元和CIS读取单元。文档叠置盘包括：电动托盘，用于在弯曲的输送路径的高度范围内升降文档，以将文档送到输送辊。利用这种配置，所提供的图像读取器和图像形成设备，能分开和输送大量文档和有效地读文档中的图像，即使文档很厚。; An image reading device includes a document stacking tray on which documents are stacked, a feed roller for picking up, one sheet at a time, the documents that are stacked on the document stacking tray, a...

本发明提供一种在具有陶瓷外涂层(2)的隔热涂层(3)的金属工件(1)上钻孔的方法，通过激光钻成一个沉孔，直到延伸通过陶瓷外涂层但是基本上不进入金属工件的深度，并且随后激光穿过工件钻一个和沉孔对齐的孔，沉孔的直径比该孔大。; A method is provided for drilling a hole through a metallic workpiece having a thermal barrier coating with a ceramic top coat by laser drilling a counterbore to a depth which extends through the ceramic top coat but not substantially into the metallic workpiece and then laser drilling t...

在基本上不存在水的条件下，通过使用发泡剂稳定剂制备具有大和小泡孔分布的多峰热塑性聚合物泡沫。本发明的多峰泡沫含有主要邻近大泡孔的发泡剂稳定剂。获得的多峰泡沫作为保温材料特别有用。; Prepare a multimodal thermoplastic polymer foam having a distribution of large and small cells in a substantial absence of water by using a blowing agent stabilizer. Multimodal foams of the present invention have blowing agent stabilizer predominantly located proximate to large cells. The resulting multimoda...

本发明提供一种形成纤维筒子卷装的方法，该方法包括：在筒管上卷绕包括至少一种纤维的股线的第一部分，其采用第一标定指数比A∶B，其中A大于0且A大于B；在筒管上卷绕包括至少一种纤维的股线的第二部分，其采用不同于第一标定指数比的第二标定指数比A∶B，其中A和B均大于0。在本发明的一非限制性的实施例中，第一标定指数比中的B等于0，第一标定指数比中的A等于第二标定指数比中的A，且在第二标定指数比中A等于B。在本发明的另一非限制性的实施例中，第一标定指数比中的B大于0，第一标定指数比中的A等于第二标定指数比中的A，且在第二标定指数比中A等于B。本发明还提供用该方法形成的一卷装。; A method of forming a wound fiber package comprises winding a first portion of strand having at least one fiber ...

Disclosed is a method for the production of delustering additives for incorporation into polyester, especially for the production of spinnable fibres, films and bottles, comprising TiO2 pigments which are finely distributed and embedded in polyethylene glycol. According to said method, 30 - 50 wt. % TiO2 (in relation to the aqeuous dispersible charge) is dispersed in an aqueous solution containing...

A foamable polyester resin composition comprising (A) 100 parts by weight of a polyester resin, (B) from 0.5 to 30 parts by weight of a (meth)acrylic ester polymer or a polymer mixture obtained by polymerizing from 0 to 50 parts by weight of a monomer mixture (b) in the presence of a polymer latex which is obtained by emulsion-polymerizing from 50 to 100 parts by weight of a monomer mixture (a) wh...