A method and an assembly for decontaminating a material. The material is charged into a container (2), where at first steam (4) is introduced and fluids including some contaminants are removed. Then extractant (6) is introduced into the container (2), and fluids (8) comprising condensation water, extractant and contaminants are removed. Then the material is stripped with vapour. The dry or slightl...

The control system operates a railtrack system and has specific sections of track defined (6-17) that are related to time frames for specific vehicles (1, 2). The system is continuously monitored and the degree of overlap measured to a time-base between vehicles is determined. The degree of conflict due to the overlap is classified based upon threshold values that can be individually changed. Cont...

A ski fastening includes a rear engagement member (1,2) provided with a lever (4) with which a jaw (5) is associated and engages the heel (6) of a boot. The rear engagement member is constituted by a first body (2) which is slidably associated with a base (7) which is rigidly associated with the ski and to which the lever is pivoted. The first body includes an inclined plane (14) which is connecte...

A method and apparatus for the inspection and handling of surface level defects is taught. Briefly stated, the object to be inspected is positioned. A Laser light is polarized into at least one orientation and then reflected off of a rotated polygon mirror. This causes the light to "move" over the area of interest. A plurality of fiber optic bundles are used to receive and conduct the reflected li...

A biaxially oriented film and a laminated film contain organic particles at a content of 0.001 to 20% by weight. The strength when deformed by 10% (S10) of the organic particles is in the range of 3 to 30 kgf/mm<2> and the thermal decomposition temperature for causing 10% loss in weight thereof is not lower than 350 DEG C. The weight average diameter thereof is in the range of 0.005 to 5 mu m. Th...

A system for delivering radiofrequency energy to ablate tissue comprises a radiofrequency generator and an intravascular catheter. The catheter includes both a radiofrequency ablation electrode and a temperature sensor within its distal end. Delivery of power to the ablation electrode may then be controlled based on electrode temperature using a cascade control system wherein analog temperature co...

The description relates to a process for the continuous production of cyclindrical rods (24) with at least one and preferably a plurality of internal helical channels (26) of predetermined cross-section uniformly distributed around the periphery. This process is used especially in the production of a sintered metal or ceramic blank in which the plastic compound forming the blank is pressed out of ...

Die Erfindung betrifft einen Vorderbacken nach dem Patent Nr.396.337. Um bei diesem Vorderbacken die Freibeweglichkeit des Lagerteils zu erhöhen, ist erfindungsgemäß vorgesehen, daß der Lagerteil (20) aus einem oberen Teilelement (20') und einem unteren Teilelement (20'') besteht, welche Teilelemente (20',20'') im zusammengebauten Gebrauchszustand formschlüssig miteinander verbunden sind, wobei di...

Die Erfindung betrifft mehrschichtige Verbundsysteme, aufgebaut aus Polyestern P1 und Poly(meth)acrylaten P2, wobei das Poly(meth)acrylat P2 als Deckschicht auf dem Polyester P1 aufgebracht ist und 0,1 bis 10 Gew.-% bezogen auf P2 an herkömmlichen UV-Absorbern enthält, sowie daraus gebildete Formkörper.; The invention relates to multilayer composite systems built up from polyesters P1 and poly(met...

One initial position of the mobile unit (E) is known. The first self-position of the unit is determined relative to the initial position with a position uncertainty. A first distance from the first position to a landmark (L) is determined with a bearing uncertainty. The first position and the landmark serve as the starting map. A second distance from a second self-position to the landmark is deter...

A polyester film contains a polyester having an intrinsic viscosity (IV) in the range from 0.65 to 0.8 and an antioxidant. The polyester has an endothermic high temperature peak at a temperature of (A) DEG C and an endothermic low temperature peak at a temperature of (B) DEG C, both peaks being measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and the value of (A - B) is in the range from 25 DE...

Process for producing rigid polyurethane foams Rigid polyurethane foams are produced by the reaction of 1) polyisocyanates with 2) compounds of a molecular weight of from 92 to 10,000 having at least two hydrogen atoms active towards isocyanates in the presence of 3) hydrofluoroalkanes as foaming agents and of 4) at least one of the following compounds R1-O-CO-O-R2; R1-O-CO-O-CO-O-R2; wherei...

In a sitting furniture with a lounge arrangement having a displacable trolley (2) which may by extended from a seat bolster (1) there is an additional upholstery (5) attached through a four-hinged ironwork (6). The additional upholstery (5) can be lifted and declined and is lowered underneeth the seat upholstery (4) in the sitting position of the furniture, whereas in the lounge arrangement it is ...

The invention relates to a process for making collagenous foams in the form of continuous tapes, which is characterised by a) dissolved or dispersed collagen being poured into a disc mould, b) the collagen solution or dispersion in the disc mould being frozen and then freeze dried, c) continuous tapes being made by machine from the freeze-dried discs, and, furthermore, to the use of the tapes made...

PURPOSE:To provide usefulness of a metal chalcogenide as a starting material, capable of development, such as substitution or solid solution, and synthesizing a superconductor having the high critical temperature by providing a chalcogenide structure containing metals selected from the group of Bi, Sb and As, group of Nb and Ta and group of S, Se and Te. CONSTITUTION:A metal composition expressed ...

PURPOSE:To obtain the title superconducting oxide film of higher critical temperature formed on a substrate by replacing Cd for part of the Ca of a Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu- O-based superconducting oxide. CONSTITUTION:1-9atom% of Cd (based on the metallic atom) is added to a Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O-based superconducting oxide; or Ca is replaced by Cd for part of the Ca in a superconducting oxide having a composition Bi2...

PURPOSE:To improve the superconducting characteristics, stability, reliability. etc., of a Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O oxide superconducting thin film by adding one or more kinds of hetero elements in gaseous phase to a formed laminate thin film during the heat-treatment after the formation of said superconducting thin film. CONSTITUTION:An oxide superconducting thin film having an average composition expressed...

A master batch of hardener for curable one-package epoxy resin system which comprises (I) a hardener consisting of (I) a hardener consisting of (i) a powder of an amine compound (A) as a core having at least one tertiary amino group in the molecule while having no primary and secondary amino groups, the powder having both a group (X) capable of absorbing infrared rays of 1630 to 1680 cm<-><1...

Polytetrafluoroethylene powder having an average particle size of 1 to 30 mu m and a specific surface area of 2 to 6 m<2>/g is prepared by heating unsintered polytetrafluoroethylene powder having a melting point of 313 to 330 DEG C at a temperature in a range from a temperature 70 DEG C lower than the melting point to a temperature lower than the melting point and comminuting it.

A method of preventing the adherence of the ash to a gasifier wall in a process for gasifying petroleum coke in the gasifier by partial oxidization reaction. The petroleum coke is mixed with 10 to 30 wt % of coal based on the petroleum coke and the mixture is gasified at a gasifying temperature higher than the melting point of the ash of said coal.