A method and apparatus for shaping a tire wherein an outboard pocket assembly and an inboard pocket assembly are radially movable outwardly into engagement with preshaped bead/apex assembies of a tire band and movable axially to a cured tire width of the bead/apex assembelies for shaping other tire components to a cured tire shape and for positioning the ply edges at predetermined cured tire posit...

Method for improving the energy input during the heating and melting of a scrap bulk, in which a channel is burned into a scrap bulk and additional energy for the heating and melting of the scrap bulk is input through this channel, wherein said method is characterized in that the said channel is burned into the scrap bulk by means of a hot oxygen-containing gas jet.

Multilayer meltblown fibrous webs, as well as apparatus and methods of forming the webs. The webs are produced on a rotating collector that also moves parallel to its longitudinal axis. The webs are thus formed in a helical process, and the resulting tubular web is separated in a direction parallel to a helix angle. By separating the tubular web in a direction parallel to the helix angle, a flat m...

This method is furnished with a multi-step-process, wherein in the first step the layer is sputtered in low temperature. In the second step, a RTP-method is carried out in an inert atmosphere in middle or high temperature. And in the third step, the layer is annealed in an oxygen containing atmosphere in low or middle temperature. The temperature-load relative to the conventional method is obvious...

A sensor strip comprises an electrode substrate, an electrode set, on the electrode substrate, and microspheres. The sensor strip allows for a smaller sample volume and maintain a more uniform flow profile through the sample channel.

Process for producing formed cellulosic articles, such as fibres, filaments, sheetings, membranes or tubes, comprising (a) extruding a solution of cellulose in an aqueous amine oxide, particularly N-methylmorpholine N-oxide, through an extrusion die via an air gap and coagulating the formed article in an aqueous precipitation bath containing amine oxide, and (b) passing the formed article through ...

The present invention is related to an optical head with several semiconductor laser chips mounted on a mount face orthogonal to the tracking control direction of focus lens. The optical head with unevenness occurring inside face while several semiconductor laser chips are being mounted could diminish the variation of optical spot power even while tracking control is proceeding. In Fig. 1, a laser...

A brake actuator having a switch device mounted to an actuator housing with a C- shaped molded body and a C-shaped spring member partially surrounding an actuator rod and adapted to contact a large diameter section of the actuator rod when bra ke wear causes the actuator rod to travel to a service limit position. In normal operation the spring member is separated from a small diameter section of t...

To make a whole device compact by photographing a pair of guide marks by one image pick-up means so as to reduce the number of expensive part items and performing the conveyance and positioning of a plate shaped work by the same device. For the positioning and conveyance (feeding to a next process) of a plate shaped work W (multi-layered substrate) on which a pair of guide marks M1 and M2 are prov...

The present invention provides a capacitor, wherein a lower electrode (4), a dielectric layer (5) made of a ferroelectric material or a high dielectric constant material, and an upper electrode (6) are formed in order on an insulating film (2). The dielectric layer (5) is formed by extending the lower electrode (4). Between the extending portion of the dielectric layer (5) and the insulating film ...

A method of forming hemispherical grain (HSG) silicon is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: forming a doped amorphous silicon layer on a substrate; seeding and annealing the amorphous silicon layer until HSG silicon is formed; enlarging the HSG silicon grains during the annealing stage; and performing a chemical dry etch on the HSG silicon to remove an undoped silicon layer from the sur...

A semiconductor integrated circuit capacitor is provided which includes an insulating substrate and a lower electrode disposed on a predetermined part of the insulating substrate. The capacitor also includes an interlevel insulating layer disposed on the insulating substrate and on the lower electrode, and a via hole having sidewalls, whereby the via hole passes through the interlevel insulating l...

An integrated ferroelectric/CMOS structure which comprises at least a ferroelectric material, a pair of electrodes in contact with opposite surfaces of the ferroelectric material, where the electrodes do not decompose at deposition or annealing, and an oxygen source layer in contact with at least one of said electrodes, said oxygen source layer being a metal oxide which at least partially decompos...

The invention relates to a method for transmitting video images between video terminals (1, 1') in a data transmission system. Video images comprise frames (T0, T1,. . . T9), which are divided into slices (S1-S8, SX). Every frame (T0, T1, . . . , T9) comprises at least two slices (S5, S3, S6; S1, SX, S2; S7, S4, S8) which are at least partly adjacent to each other, and consecutive frames (T0, T1, ...

A sensor strip comprises an electrode substrate, an electrode set, on the electrode substrate, and a heat conducting layer, on the electrode substrate opposite the electro de set. A sensor instrument for use with this sensor strip comprises a temperature sensor, at a side of a gap for accepting the sensor strip, opposite electrical contacts. The invention provides an accurate determination of the...

Uniformly sized and shaped particles of metal salts are provided comprised of one or more metal cations in combination with one or more simple oxoacid anions and a general method for the controlled precipitation of said metal salts from aqueous solutions. The methods proceed via the in situ homogeneous production of simple or complex oxoacid anions in which one or more of the nonmetallic elements ...

Given compressed video which supports the coding of interlaced and noninterlaced frames through DCT and motion compensation, shared information is used in a macroblock for efficient conversion of inter-coded blocks to DCT intra-coded blocks. The shared information is also used to efficiently construct spatially reduced images without decompression.

A tridimensional disposable absorbent article having a tridimensional shape prior to use with a generally upwardly convex rear region having a body facing surface and a garment facing surface, a longitudinal symmetry plane, a front end edge and a rear end edge, and comprising a liquid pervious topsheet, a backsheet joined to said topsheet and an absorbent core intermediate the backsheet and the to...

A sanitary napkin having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction intersecting said longitudinal direction, said napkin comprising a liquid-pervious topsheet, a liquid-impervious backsheet and a liquid-absorbent core disposed between said topsheet and said backsheet, characterized in a middle region of said napkin in said transverse direction having a rigidity lower than a rigidity of b...

The present invention relates to a compound sanitary napkin comprising a primary absorbent member, a base member, flaps and at least one zone of extensibility. The compound sanitary napkin has a longitudinal center line along a longitudinal direction and a transverse center line along a transverse direction. The primary absorbent member has a longitudinal length, a transverse width, a thickness, a...