Apparatus for inspecting the sealing surface area of a container finish that includes a light source positioned to direct a collimated line-shaped light beam (i.e .. having a length dimension many times a width dimension) onto the sealing surface area of a container. The line- shaped light beam at the container sealing surface area has a long dimension orthogonal to the container axis, and a nar...

The invention relates to hydrophilic, highly swellable polymers for aqueous liquids, so-called superabsorbers, which are coated with reactive, water-insoluble, film-forming, hydrophobic polymers and an additional reactive component capable of reacting with carboxyl groups or carboxylate anions to form additional crosslinking sites on the particle surface, the production of such coated superabsorbe...

An article of manufacture comprising a foamed high density polyethylene wherein said polyethylene, prior to foaming, has a density of from 0.93 to 1.0 g/cc, a melt strength of 5 to 20 grams and a melt viscosity, at 0.1 rad/s, of 4 to 10 (kPa-s); wherein after foaming, the density of the foamed polyethylene is from 20% to 80% less than said from 0.93 to 1.0 g/cc density.

The present invention provides method of molding a polyolefin-based resin comprising the steps of dissolving at least one dibenzylidene sorbitol compound in a molten polyolefin resin, cooling the molten resin to a temperature not higher than the sol-gel transition temperature during the cooling cycle to form network crystals of the dibenzylidene sorbitol compound, and molding the resulting resin c...

There is disclosed a halftone phase shift mask blank, in which, for example, a semitransparent film (halftone phase shifter film) 2 contains silicon, palladium, and at least one selected from nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen, and silicon and palladium contained in the semitransparent film are in a relation represented by the following equation: [atom% of palladium in the film]/[(atom% of palladium in...

The present system facilitates delivery and pickup of goods by providing a locker module at a location near a customer's residential site. For a vendor to deliver a good to the customer, the vendor leases a unit in the locker module from the system controller by accessing the system controller's website and providing details of the customer and a delivery agent. The vendor then notifies the delive...

A computer workspace comprises a plurality of memory slots, the memory slots each operable to store at least one object. The computer workspace further comprises a permissibility framework in communication with the computer workspace, the permissibility framework maintaining access rights to each memory slot. The computer workspace further comprises an event manager in communication with the memor...

An optical recording medium is described on which control information is recorded for use in a method to set the write power at an optimum level for recording information on the medium. The control information comprises a preset value of the derivative of the modulation of a read signal with respect to the write power. The optimum write power is derived from values of the modulation measured from ...

The method of applying plastic material or layers containing plastic material onto metallic components is effected such that (a) the components are brought in contact with a solution or dispersion containing 5 to 50 wt-% organic polymer, (b) the solution or dispersion is dried on, (c) the components are brought in contact with a qualitatively substantially identical solution or dispersion in accor...

A process for producing, starting from a silicon substrate, a semiconductor device having a capacitor part comprising platinum group metal electrodes and a ferroelectric film, which process comprises a cleaning step of cleaning and removing the platinum group metal-derived contaminants adhering onto (1) the silicon-based insulating film formed in contact with the platinum group metal of the electr...

A polymeric fuel additive, a method of making the additive, and a fuel containing the additive are disclosed. The additive is prepared by isothermally mixing an ethoxylated alcohol and an amide, wherein the ethoxylated alcohol comprises at least about 75 weight percent of at least one linear, straight-chain alcohol having a hydrocarbon chain length of about nine to about fifteen carbon atoms, and ...

A method of manufacture of a semiconductor device comprises a step of providing an adhesive (30) between a semiconductor chip (20) and a substrate (10), a step of positioning electrodes (22) and leads (12) to oppose each other, and a step of applying pressure in the direction of making the gap between the semiconductor chip (20) and substrate (10) narrower, and on the substrate (10), in a region o...

A vacuum extrusion line of the horizontal barometric leg type includes a vacuum chamber 10 having an extrusion die 18 at one end and a water baffle immersion cooler 20 at the other end for extracting the extrudate to atmosphere, extrudate shaping and sizing equipment downstream of the die 18, a large diameter fixed bulkhead 16 at the die 18, and first 44 and second 46 large diameter movable sectio...

The thin synthetic resin laminate for liquid container for forming liquid container has a first and a second thin synthetic resin laminates (10, 20), each of which has a curved surface portions (11, 21) and projection portions (12, 22) which are formed by outwardly the predetermined area in the edge of said curved surface portions (11, 21). Each of the curved surface portions (11, 21) is laminated...

Roller covers and methods for manufacturing such roller covers are disclosed. According to one method, a paint carrying medium is secured to a core material to form a composite material having at least one core layer and a paint-carrying layer, wherein the composite material has opposite edges, The opposite edges are positioned adjacent to one another and are secured together. According to an alte...

An instruction memory circuit comprises an external instruction memory for storing a plurality of instruction codes, and an internal instruction memory having capability of outputting and rewriting instruction codes stored therein at high speed for storing instruction codes which have preliminarily been read out from the external instruction memory and outputting the instruction codes for instruct...

A non-uniform memory access (NUMA) computer system includes at least a local processing node and a remote processing node that are each coupled to a node interconnect. The local processing node includes a local interconnect, a processor and a system memory coupled to the local interconnect, and a node controller interposed between the local interconnect and the node interconnect. In response to re...

A method of automatically configuring an autoconfigurable computer peripheral device as a primary device or as a secondary device. There are four possible cases: (1) no other device present, (2) legacy primary device present, (3) legacy secondary device present and (4) second autoconfigurable device present. Host computer device configuration application software provides a signal or numerical dat...

The present invention is directed to method and apparatus for reordering load operations in a computer processing system. In one aspect of the invention, a method for scheduling instructions for execution in a computer processing system implementing out-of-order execution, includes the steps of: selecting and moving a next instruction from its current position in a sequence of instructions to an e...

A method and structure for testing embedded memories in an integrated circuit chip having a microprocessor core therein. The method includes the steps of: testing the microprocessor by applying thereto a test pattern and evaluating the resultant output of the microprocessor; applying an assembly language test program to the microprocessor; generating a memory test pattern by the microprocessor bas...