A decanter centrifuge having a screw conveyor within an imperforate bowl is provided with an annular baffle carried by the screw conveyor. Light phase material and heavy phase material is separated from a mixture thereof fed to the centrifuge bowl. The heavy phase discharge port, usually in a tapered portion of the bowl, is preferably at a greater radial distance from the rotational axis than the ...

1524584 Dressing seeds CIBA-GEIGY AG 29 Sept 1976 [30 Sept 1975] 40476/76 Heading A2Q [Also in Division C2] Seeds are dressed with compounds of the formula: wherein R 1 is halogen or (C 1 -C 4 ) alkyl or alkoxy, R 2 is halogen, (C 1 -C 3 ) alkyl or (C 1 -C 4 ) alkoxy, R 3 is H, halogen or (C 1 -C 3 ) alkyl, R 4 is H or CH 3 , with the proviso that the total number of C atoms in R 1 , R 2 , R 3...

PURPOSE:To stop runaway not detected by a failure detecting circuit without decreasing the number of ports usable for substantial control by providing a watchdog circuit in a microcomputer. CONSTITUTION:The microcomputer 10 is incorporated with the watchdog circuit 20 or the like constituted by a main body section 1a, a frequency abnormality detecting circuit 2 and a free-running multivibrator 3. ...

PURPOSE:To prevent the transmission of an erroneous command and to improve the reliability in the internal processing by counting the pulse of a pulse output program to check whether or not the counted value is identical to the value of a given command. CONSTITUTION:When a register 3 receives a command bus signal, a command processing program is read in the unit of small modules from an ROM5, tran...

A foamed molded article of a polypropylene resin having a density of from 0.011 to 0.026 g/cm<3> and a closed cell proportion of at least 80%, said molded article being obtained by filling preliminarily-formed particles of the polypropylene resin in a mold having a capability of enclosing the particles and allowing escape of gases therefrom, and foaming the particles by heating; and a process for ...

A foamed and molded article of a polypropylene resin characterized by having a latent heat of crystallization of from 9 to 28 cal/g, a density of from 0.026 to 0.060 g/cm<3> and such a cellular structure that the number of cells per mm<2> of its cross section is not more than 300, said article being obtained by filling preliminarily-foamed particles of the polypropylene resin in a mold capable of ...

A process for producing a foamed and molded article of a polypropylene resin, which comprises pressurizing preliminarily-foamed particles of an ethylene/propylene copolymer having a melt index value of from 0.1 to 25, a latent heat of crystallization of not more than 28 cal/g and an ethylene content of from 1 to 30% by weight as a base resin with an inorganic gas or a gaseous mixture of the inorga...

Method for the preparation of micronized p-butoxyphenylacetylhydroxamic acid, comprising dissolving the p-butoxyphenylacetylhydroxamic acid in a basic solution of salifying agent and then precipitating it in an acid solution in the presence of a surface-active agent.

PURPOSE:To allow a personnel going to use a terminal device to confirm the operating state of the terminal device without visiting the installed place of the terminal device by displaying the operating state of plural terminal devices connected to a computer main body on a place apart from the terminal devices. CONSTITUTION:A comparator circuit 24 compares a registration number from a card 18 with...

PURPOSE:To improve the traveling durability and blocking resistance by forming a back layer contg. CaCO3 and carbon black dispersed in a mixture of thermoplastic polyester with nitrocellulose on the rear side of a support having a ferromagnetic metallic thin layer. CONSTITUTION:A back layer of 1.0-2.0mum thickness is formed on one side of a support having a magnetic layer on the other side for a m...

A multi-cylinder self-starting hot gas engine according to the present invention consists of two parallel pairs of opposed displacer cylinders with respective displacer members mounted for movement therein and two parallel pairs of opposed work cylinders disposed parallel to the displacer cylinders and having respective pistons arranged to reciprocate therein; each work cylinder communicating with...

A continuously variable multi-focal soft contact lens wherein a continuous optical gradient in a region smaller than the maximum pupil opening is provided. The concave surface is aspheric with a desired optical power for distant viewing at the center which increases to the desired near vision power. The increase is usually about 3 to 5 diopters within 6 mm of the anterior optical zone (AOZ) which ...

PURPOSE:To realize a pseudo obstacle generating circuit having the capacity for testing the effect of a pseudo obstacle by setting the pseudo obstacle to an optional address of a circuit to be tested in advance. CONSTITUTION:A pseudo obstacle generating tool 6 comprising a test program generating the pseudo obstacle is provided, and when a pseudo obstacle address is set, a pseudo obstacle mode sig...

1. A Store control arrangement (Fig.1) - in particular for an error-tolerant telephone exchange system - for determining the freedom from errors of the address (Adr) and, if possible, for correcting the stored word (Infout) when this stored word (Infout) is read-out from a store (Mem) where - a section of a word (Infin), composed of digits or bits, generally comprises only a sub-quantity, formed f...