A hydrodynamic brake has a rotor blade wheel and a stator blade wheel with oblique blades and which together form a toroidal work chamber. A series of quick blades are mounted on the stator blade wheel for controlling the flow of braking fluid between the blade wheels and thereby the degree of braking action. Each of said blades is mounted for rotation around a radial axis and can be swung uniform...

A three-dimensional fabric is braided with an apparatus having a floating yarn creel and a floating forming plate, each having movable elements. Fibers are fed from the creel through the forming plate to a forming zone where the fibers are braided by synchronous movements of said movable elements. Beaating combs may also be provided in the forming zone.

The invention relates to a process and an installation for the treatment of tritium-contaminated, solid organic waste. The waste is contacted with the steam in enclosure (1) for extracting the tritium in the steam and the steam is then condensed at (11 and 13) to recover the tritium from the waste in the form of tritiated water.

A processing apparatus and method for depositing doped or undoped polysilicon on a wafer utilizing a single process chamber to heat the wafer, provide a silicon comtaining gas, and if desired, an appropriate dopant gas to the chamber with the excitation energy being provided by either or both of a remotely generated plasma form and illumination of the wafer with an in situ generated ultraviolet en...

A collimating arrangement for use in radiotherapy apparatus has a set of mutually contiguous members (8) for substantially attenuating radiation. The positions of the members (8) are adjustable so that edges (8a) thereof form an adjustable aperture (9) for defining the cross-sectional shape of the beam. A lamp (12) illuminates an area including the beam-defining edges (8a). Each of the members (8)...

PURPOSE:To reduce the complexity when a pattern is designed and manufactured by a method wherein trenches for element isolation use are arranged in advance in a lattice shape. CONSTITUTION:When a circuit is designed, an element formation region 2 separated by trenches 1 arranged in advance in a lattice shape is selected and designed, a size of the element formation region 2 is set to a size of a s...

A support for a top cover for a tanning bed using three redundant straps spaced such that any two of the three will support the cover in the event of a failure of one of the other straps. Controls are provided for electrically controlling the operation of the motor for the top cover. These controls have the ability to raise the top cover automatically after a certain time delay or only after a cer...

A polymerizable, radiopaque dental composition including: one or more ethylenically unsaturated, polymerizable monomer and/or polymer, possible conventional fillers, pigments, initiators, activators, and thixotropic auxiliary material, as well as, in addition, a heavy-metal fluoride with very low solubility selected from the group consisting of complex heavy-metal fluorides having the general form...

A presence-detection-system tag (10) in which a frequency-dividing transponder may be decisively deactivated notwithstanding the intensity of the ambient magnetic field. The tag (10) includes a frequency-dividing transponder including an active strip (12, 14) of magnetic material that, when magnetically biased to be within a predetermined magnetic field intensity range, responds to excitation by e...

PURPOSE:To prevent the deterioration of both scalar performance and vector performance during update of the mask data by using a vector operator for operation of the mask data. CONSTITUTION:When the operation of vector data is designated by a vector instruction, a control part VCS delivers address signals AD0-AD2 to vector registers VR0-VR2 respectively. Then the element data designated by the add...

The present invention relates to cooling oils which are free of salt, alcohol, halohydrocarbons and halocarbons and have a low viscosity at low temperatures and which consist of mixtures of hexamethyldisiloxane and/or octamethyltrisiloxane and/or linear decamethyltetrasiloxane and/or octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane and/or decamethylcyclopentasiloxane.

A casket bed has a rectangular metal frame formed by inserting tongues projecting from some frame members into slots in the adjacent frame member. Bands of industrial strapping are wrapped horizontally and longitudinally about the frame to complete the formation of the bed.

An apparatus for comminuting grass clippings and other waste material comprising an elongate cylindrical barrel, an extrusion screw mounted for rotation within said barrel, an inlet opening at one end of the barrel through which material to be comminuted is presented to the extrustion screw by feeding means, an end cap closing the end of said barrel and having a shaped inner surface corresponding ...

A septic system tank assembly, including a primary outer tank having a cylindrical wall, and within which there is nested a second tank also of a cylindrical configuration, extending diametrically across each tank is a dividing partition dividing the two tanks up into four chambers which carry out anaerobic, aerobic, clarification and disinfection treatment, the assembly further includes an air pu...

A process for increasing the efficiency of a primary clarifier in raw waste water clarification by reducing biological oxygen demand and suspended solids by the sequential addition upstream of the primary clarifier of: (1) a salt of a water soluble bi- or tri-valent metal and compositions or mixtures thereof, (2) fly-ash, and (3) a cationic surface active polymer composition comprising a branched,...

A process which comprises (i) the generation of release surfaces by application to predetermined areas of a solid surface of a solution, suspension or dispersion of a release agent and a supercritical fluid that vaporizes from the release agent, (ii) the deposition of a mass onto the release surface containing the release agent, and (iii) the separation of the mass or a product derived from the ma...

In a method for encapsulating microelectronic semiconductor and thin film devices, a reliable hermetically sealed encapsulation of the circuit components is achieved, even under long exposure to extreme environmental conditions of moisture and corrosive gases. A direct soldered connection and sealing of a metal foil capsule is achieved which is more reliable than glued capsules, and more economica...

PURPOSE:To improve both the man-machine interface and the operability of an information terminal processor by providing a knowledge processing means in order to attain the execution of the desired processing just by feeding a natural language such as Japanese, etc. by a user. CONSTITUTION:The operating state of a processor 2 is supplied to a knowledge processing means 100 together with an input se...

PURPOSE:To incorporate a monitoring means into a terminal equipment so as to make the equipment high in economical efficiency and simple in constitution by providing an on-line processing program and a line monitoring program which is simultaneously set to an executing state with the on-line processing program. CONSTITUTION:The line controlling program 100 of a line controlling program section 100...

PURPOSE:To improve the installing environment of a terminal equipment and, at the same time, to cause plural business processing programs to be processed by one operator by providing plural numbers for specifying each terminal equipment, and selecting one virtual display device for displaying 9 picture at every number. CONSTITUTION:Picture display processing in the course of the business processin...