An X-ray radiographic apparatus for medical use in photographing tomographic images and X-ray penetration images of an examinee. This apparatus has a bed horizontally movably supporting a top board for carrying the examinee, a gantry for X-ray tomography including a first X-ray source revolvable around the examinee and a first X-ray detector for detecting transmitted X-rays, a second X-ray source ...

The present invention refers to a process and relative plant for the disposal and recycling of waste, both of urban and industrial origins. The process and plants are based on cryogenic technology, that is on the principle of putting waste into contact with a cryogenic fluid, with the aim of weakening, separating and reducing in volume the waste to be disposed of and recycled. The process is intri...

The biopsy table (21) includes a platform (22), on which the patient lies in a prone position with the breasts passing through an aperture (37). An image receptor (36) is mounted on a C-arm (27) and can be rotated about an axis (29) able to be positioned between the patient`s breasts or against the underside of a breast. A tube-head (28) which delivers X-rays to the patient is positioned at the pa...

A process for photo-ablating at least one stepped opening extending through a polymer material, the stepped opening being useful as a fluid carrying passageway such as an inkjet nozzle in a nozzle plate of an inkjet printer. In a first step, the polymer material (1) is exposed to a first beam of laser energy (2) to ablate the polymer material (1) so as to form a first hole (3) which extends into t...

A device for cutting moving material webs, especially of fibrous materials, to shape comprises a rotating shape cutting roller and a rotating counter cutting roller. The shape cutting roller has a shape cutting side and the counter-roller a smooth surface. Both rollers are borne in a machine frame by means of rotary bearings and the center distance between them is adjustable. The rollers are rotat...

A thin conductive film, which excels in film strength, weather resistance, transparency, and electric field shielding effect, is formed on a glass substrate at a low temperature as a multilayer film consisting of two layers of an ITO dispersed silicate layer and an overcoat silicate layer, or three or more layers, of which at least two layers are an ITO dispersed silicate layer and a high-conducti...

The utility model relates to a solar water heater which is composed of a glass vacuum heat collector, a conduit, a shim plate, a protection net, a frame, etc. The vacuum heat collector of the water heater is also used as a container, and the protective net is adopted to replace a glass cover plate. The utility model has the advantages of high heat efficiency, simple structure, and low cost.

The utility model relates to a wholly-enclosed accumulator, which is composed of a plate electrode, an electrode, the electrolyte, the casing of the wholly-enclosed accumulator, an acid resistant partition board arranged in the casing of the wholly-enclosed accumulator, a hydrated oxide box arranged in the upper space of the casing of the wholly-enclosed accumulator divided by the acid resistant p...

A method and a device designed to apply coatings, heat being used to weld or melt material layers which overlap each other. According to the invention infrared lamps (23) are used as the heat source and at least two blowers (11, 16) are used to meet the large cooling requirements and are disposed in the ends (4 and 5 respectively) of a longitudinal house (2) (one blower in each end) and designed t...

A surface inspection lighting apparatus (1) for use in the visual inspection by a human inspector (2) of a reflective surface (3) for surface defects (6) has a region from which light emanates when the apparatus is in use, the intensity of the light emanating from the said region varies gradually substantially as an exponential function of a sinusoidal function of the distance along an imaginary l...

In a microprocessor based interlocking system the various elements of the signalling system, signals, points and track circuits are identified by number or letter codes eg 3 or 4 digits or letters. These ID codes are stored in the system and compiled for processing in a control program which is extremely complex and may contain thousands of occurrences of the equipment ID codes. "Dyslexic" entry o...

The assembly has a base surmounted by a hollow body (3) and extending rearwardly into a supporting plate (5) for the sole of a shoe. The shoe is retained by two wings (7, 8) articulated around vertical axes (9, 10). Forces applied by the shoe on the wings are transmitted to a spring (12) by a cylindrical longitudinal link (13) with a screw (15) and washer (14). The triggering threshold is adjustab...

A polyester laminated film with excellent sealing ability is provided. The polyester laminated film comprises a base film of a polyester resin and a sealing film of a polyester composition, said sealing film being disposed on at least one side of said base film, wherein the sealing energy, which is measured when two pieces of said laminated films are joined together with the respective sealing fil...

A curing mold (20) for pneumatic tires includes a plurality of segments (22) which are detachably adjoined with each other in a direction corresponding to the circumferential direction of a product tire. Each segment has a plurality of fitting pieces (26) with fixing portions (42, 44) at both ends, at least one of which is complementary to part of the land portion of the tire. The fitting pieces (...

The invention relates to a press for making dimensionally stable stacked pressed articles from a powdered material. The said press has a lower (16) and an upper pressing ram hammer with a basic body (1) which is fixedly supported in the press and in which there are arranged hydraulic annular piston systems (2, 3, 4) which are arranged one above the other. According to the invention, the basic body...

A braking assembly comprises an electrically operated, brake release, lifting magnet 1, a lifting anchor 4 of which is connected to a drum brake 12 by means of a cable 8, is pretensioned by a spring 3 in a direction tending to apply the brake 12, and is connected to an adhesive anchor 16 of an electrically operated adhesive magnet 2. The adhesive magnet is so rated that, when activated, the adhesi...

Torque which is being transmitted by a clutch in the power train of a motor vehicle is regulated in response to processed signals from a control unit which receives signals denoting the driver's desire concerning the acceleration of the vehicle as well as numerous other variables including the position of the gas pedal, the RPM of the engine, the input and/or the output RPM of the transmission and...

A particulate resin mixture for the manufacture of grinding wheels, clutch and brake linings, moulding compositions, as well as for use as reactive hot-melting adhesive for connection points which are subjected to high thermal and mechanical stress, comprise a particulate resin wherein at least a proportion of the particles comprise a cure accelerator for the system. The resin may be a phenolic no...

A double ended hydraulic actuator (10) having a body (11) with a stepped bore (12). A larger diameter piston (17) is slideable in a large diameter portion (14) of the bore and a smaller diameter piston (16) is slideable in a small diameter portion (13) of the bore. The smaller diameter piston (16) or body (11) carries a limiting means (26) to limit the axially inward movement of the smaller diamet...

A method of determining the weight applied to a drill bit during drilling a borehole comprising: a) determining for a given period of time t, values of hookload H and surface drilling string velocity Vs; b) from the determined values of H and Vs, calculating a quantity indicative of bit velocity Vb; and c) from the determined value of H and the quantity indicative of Vb, determining the effect w...