Polyolefin particles having an average particle diameter of 50-500 .mu.m and containing 10% by weight or more of fine particles having a diameter of 100 .mu.m or less are mixed with 3.0-25.0% by weight of an inorganic fine powder having an average particle diameter of 1.0-40 .mu.m and an apparent density of 0.250.50 g/cm3, the resulting mixture is melt-kneaded with a kneader, whereby a masterbatch...

Disclosed are precursor coating compositions which are particularly suitable for being admixed with at least one supercritical fluid used as a viscosity reduction diluent and then spraying this resultant liquid mixture of supercritical fluid and precursor coating composition onto a substrate to be coated.

Use of an implant having magnetic properties for reproducible determination of the position of a patient in time in relation to external treatment equipment, and an apparatus for reproducibly determining the position of a patient in relation to external treatment equipment. The apparatus comprises at least one magnetic device (1) which is so designed that it can be attached to a body part, the pos...

Use of an implant having magnetic properties for reproducible determination of the position of a patient in time in relation to external treatment equipment, and an apparatus for reproducibly determining the position of a patient in relation to external treatment equipment. The apparatus comprises at least one magnetic device (1) which is so designed that it can be attached to a body part, the pos...

A semiconductor device is manufactured by using a lead frame having a die pad (24) and a plurality of leads (25) arranged outside the die pad, mounting a semiconductor chip (11) on the die pad, and covering the die pad and its peripheral portion with resin. The die pad (24) is formed separately from the main portion of the lead frame having the leads, which is shaped into a flat plate and whose al...

A semiconductor device includes a package (21) molding an semiconductor element (32), and a plurality of leads (22), each constituted by an inner lead (26) located inside the package (21) and an outer lead (30) located outside the package (21), the leads (22) being arranged in a line at a predetermined pitch (P), and the semiconductor element (32) being electrically connected to the inner lead (26...

A semiconductor device having a package of a single in-line type comprises a semiconductor chip (15), a package body (11) that accommodates the semiconductor chip therein and defined by a pair of opposing major surfaces (11a, 11b), a plurality of interconnection leads (14) held by the package body to extend substantially perpendicularly to a bottom surface (11f), wherein each of the interconnectio...

A magnet housing for retaining elongate, rectangular cross-section permanent magnets includes an aluminum, arcuate body portion having inner and outer surfaces. The housing has a first retaining arm biased towards the inner surface of the body portion by a first curved integral portion of the magnet housing located at a first side of the body portion, and a second retaining arm biased towards the ...

A compact oven with a box-like housing (11) for efficient use of plant floor space encases a spiral food product carrying conveyor (12). A process vapor (50,56) is uniformly circulated within the housing by "plug fans" (49) with the inlet drawing vapor (50) from the central axial zone (31) of the spiral conveyor (12) and exhausting into plenums (53), which are arranged along the periphery of the c...

The present invention provides a data processing system, and method of opera tion, in which the system has a first message based environment and includes an encapsulati on system to facilitate the operation of an application program written for a second mess age based environment, the application program being arranged to create objects which interact via messages. The encapsulation system compris...

A method of displaying a defect appearing on an elongated object conveyed in one direction. The method comprises the steps of scanning the object in the width direction thereof by means of a sensor camera (3a), and obtaining object image data corresponding to the object, processing the object image data, to detect a defect in the object, storing the object image data in an image memory (63a) in a ...

The method for manufacturing a semiconductor memory device having cell array region, peripheral circuit region and border region, comprises: forming an overall insulating layer; forming a ditch surrounding the array in the insulation in the border region; forming a material channel (T) in the ditch; and removing the insulating layer from the border region.

A process for the selective oxidation of primary or secondary alcohols to aldehydes or ketones in which the alcohol contains other easily oxidisable groups such as for example amine, thioether and heterocyclic groups, which comprises placing the alcohol in contact with o- iodoxybenzoic acid, is described.

The process for confining hydrogen isotopes in a metal matrix comprises applying an electrical field to the metal matrix MM which constitutes the cathode in the electrolytic process. Thus greater values of Z = (hydrogen atoms) / (MM atoms) are obtained as a result of a combined effect of the electromigration and diffusion of protons, deuterium ions and tritium ions in the MM brought about by a gre...

The invention relates to the use of potassium hydroxide KOH which is gradually added to the spent bath - comprising a solution of copper nitrate and nitrite, traces of nitric acid and water - in order to obtain a pH between 7 and 10 and also, depending upon the temperature of the bath, a precipitate of copper hydroxide or copper oxide and a solution of potassium nitrate and nitrite; the precipitat...

A programmable electronic device for the control of irrigation systems comprising valve means (16) for cutting off an irrigation fluid, comprises a processing unit (2) that drives the opening and closing of said valve means (16) and that is provided with at least one memory (5) for storing programming data of the processing unit (2), a visualisation device (12) driven by said processing unit (2), ...

PCT No. PCT/EP95/03539 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 21, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 21, 1997 PCT Filed Sep. 8, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/09136 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 28, 1996A method for repairing and restoring the functionality of equipment subjected to internal corrosion during its operation at high or medium pressure in a plant for the synthesis of urea. The method includes the cleaning of the corroded area, the...

Mesomorphic copolyesters which can be dyed with cationic dyes and having low viscosity in the molten state represented by general formula I in which: x+y+z = 100, 0.05 < x < 22.5, 7.5 < y < 90, 10 < z < 90, n = 1 or 2, Ar, Ar', Ar" which are the same or different are benzene or naphthalene or biphenyl nuclei which may be substituted with alkyl or aryl radicals, R = C2-C10 alkylene, M = alk...

Continuous process for prodn. of coated solid particles of at least one alkali metal persalt by enclosing the persalt with a coating compsn. comprises: (a) continuously crystallising a supersaturated aq. soln. of the persalt using any known technique; (b) transferring the resulting persalt particle suspension to a stirred post-crystallisation vessel, introducing at least one coating agent (I) and ...