A vehicle battery and controller combination having two batteries where each battery has one positive terminal cell and associated positive terminal conductor and one negative terminal cell and associated terminal conductor. Each terminal cell is independent of any other terminal cell. The controller includes a first switch capable of connecting one or more pairs of like poles of the batteries. Th...

An adhesive composition for filling box parts of vehicle bodies includes from 20 to 35 % of PVC resin (PVC/PVA) and from 5 to 15 % of a hot-expanding agent constituted by an acrylonitrile/acrylic ester/olefin copolymer, encapsulating an appropriate quantity of a C4-C6 alkane.

Setting-element arrangement controls the longitudinal speed and/or the steering angle of a motor vehicle. More specifically, a user-actuable setting element which, during forward motion, when actuated in a respectively first actuation direction, brings about a change of the parameter controlled thereby in a first change direction and, when actuated out of the position of rest into a respectively s...

Implant intended to be fixed through contact with new grown bone tissue comprising a dense material having an implant surface, and having, at least within a surface portion of the implant surface, surface pores covering at least 5% of the surface portion. The surface pores constitute a contact surface for new grown bone tissue, wherein close to at least a substantial fraction of all of the surface...

The invention relates to a pallet (2) device (1) for providing stabilisation of goods (3) carried by a divisible pallet (2) also after its division. According to the invention, a number of bolster sheets (4) comprising a number of weakenings (5), preferably consisting of perforations (7-7<4>; 107-107<4>; 207-207<4>), in the transverse central part region of said sheets, are arranged to be position...

A coating system for cement-grouted floors consists of an elastic floating layer that lies on the floor and is made of one or several inorganic binders, an organic cement-compatible polymer and optionally organic or inorganic fillers, and of a covering layer made of one or several inorganic binders and optionally cement-compatible polymers and inorganic aggregates.

A disposable pallet comprises a base plate (1) of corrugated cardboard and a plurality of block-shaped feet (2) situated on the bottom side of the base plate (1). Each block-shaped foot (2) is made of a strong corrugated cardboard and is substantially solid, said foot comprising a substantially planar laminate including at least ten layers (3a, 3b, 3c, ..) of corrugated cardboard situated substant...

There is provided a method for manufacturing a flat, porous, ceramic filter cassette, by manufacturing from a dough or paste, which is produced by mixing a ceramic material together with one or more of the elements binder, plasticizer, dispersant and solvent, flat, porous, ceramic filter bodies for use as coarse filters or substrate for functional membranes in one or more layers, with a large surf...

The present invention provides collagen constructs and methods of making and using such constructs. The present invention also provides tissue equivalents having improved characteristics and methods of making and using such tissue equivalents. This invention also provides methods of producing highly concentrated solutions of collagen.

The invention relates to a process and device for producing decorative panels (2) consisting of a polystyrene foam sheet and a section of decorative foil bonded thereto. The process comprises the steps below with the appropriate components of the device: (1) cutting a block of foam into individual panel-like blanks (20, 20', ...); (2) laying the blanks on a horizontal plane (E) and aligning them; ...

PCT No. PCT/AU95/00100 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 29, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 29, 1996 PCT Filed Feb. 28, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/23682 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 8, 1995The present invention discloses structural articles such as helmets, cooler chests, pallets, building boards and a large number of diverse articles all formed from an inner, preferably air permeable, body to which a structural strength impartin...

An arrangement for delivering a flowing material out of a plastic, deformable container, comprises a member which is compressible lengthways, and has a neck of reduced dia. to enable dosage of material leaving the neck (3). The member is a pot shaped container (7) with an opening for the neck. A piston (8) can be pushed in the container against its base. A display unit shows movement of the piston...

The present invention discloses novel peptides utilized to treat patients suffering from depression. These novel peptides are modifications of the tripeptide hormone MIF, including modification of amino terminus residues, carboxyl terminus residues and internal residues, including addition and substitution of amino acid residues and modification of the peptide bonds and functional side groups of r...

Microwave susceptor sheet of the paperboard type, and method of making such susceptor sheet for use in a disposable food appliance adapted to heat a quantity of food in the appliance by microwave energy which susceptor sheet and method comprises vacuum deposition of a layer of aluminum onto a thin plastic film and then bonding the film onto a support sheet of paperboard, wherein the thin plastic f...

Pharmaceutical composition which comprises an insulin sensitivity enhancer in combination with other antidiabetics differing from the enhancer in the mechanism of action, which shows a potent depressive effect on diabetic hyperglycemia and is useful for prophylaxis and treatment of diabetes.

The invention concerns a device for holding and discharging homogeneous suspensions of comminuted cellulose in a liquid, aqueous tertiary amine oxide, the device comprising: a cylindrical, substantially horizontally mounted mixing vessel (1) with an inlet (5) for the homogeneous suspension; an agitator shaft (2) which has agitator components (3) mounted thereon, is axially mounted in the cylindric...

The invention concerns a device for holding and discharging homogeneous suspensions of comminuted cellulose in a liquid, aqueous tertiary amine oxide, the device comprising: a cylindrical, substantially horizontally mounted mixing vessel (1) with an inlet (5) for the homogeneous suspension; an agitator shaft (2) which has agitator components (3) mounted thereon, is axially mounted in the cylindric...

Pharmaceutical composition which comprises an insulin sensitivity enhancer in combination with other antidiabetics differing from the enhancer in the mechanism of action, which shows a potent depressive effect on diabetic hyperglycemia and is useful for prophylaxis and treatment of diabetes.

Pharmaceutical composition which comprises an insulin sensitivity enhancer in combination with other antidiabetics differing from the enhancer in the mechanism of action, which shows a potent depressive effect on diabetic hyperglycemia and is useful for prophylaxis and treatment of diabetes.

A multifocal birefringent lens system is described together with applications of the lens system such as ophthalmic lenses (including those of the intraocular, contact and spectacle type) and optical instruments and devices including photographic cameras, telescopes, microscopes, copiers, spectrographic instruments, etc.