Packaging apparatus, using an upper film (6) pre-heated before contact with a lower film (9) on which products (not shown) are placed, has at least the central region heated by radiant heaters (7) and the marginal regions heated by hot air nozzles (10) at least in the region immediately preceding contact (8) between the upper and lower films.

Described is a sealing glass composition comprising, in wt. %, 13-50% lead oxide, 20-50% vanadium oxide, 2-40% tellurium oxide, up to 40% selenium oxide, up to 10% phosphorous oxide, up to 5% niobium oxide, up to 20% bismuth oxide, up to 5% copper oxide and up to 10% boron oxide and an electrically conductive formulation comprising, in wt. %, 50-77% silver, 8-34% of a sealing glass composition as ...

Novel 10-membered ring lactone derivatives of the formulae I and II a process for the preparation of these compounds, pharmaceutical compositions which contain the active compounds according to the invention and their use as medicaments having, in particular, hypolipidaemic action are described.

Sucrose is mono-acylated in the 6 position by reacting sucrose with an acylating agent such as acetic or benzoic anhydride in the presence of a catalytic quantity of a 1,3-diacyloxy-1,1,3,3-tetra(hydrocarbyl)distannoxane, for a period of time and at a temperature sufficient to produce sucrose-6-ester.

This invention provides a novel compound having the following formula: This compound is a useful intermediate for the preparation of N-glycolylneuraminic acid:

L'invention concerne un procédé pour absorber H2 S, NH3 et HCN à partir du gaz provenant de la valorisation du charbon, par exemple du gaz de cokerie (GFK), lors du lavage en circuit ammoniac/sulfure d'hydrogène au moyen d'une solution aqueuse ammoniacale et d'eau sans ammoniac jusqu'à de faibles degrés de pureté finals, de préférence jusqu'à moins de 0,2 g de H2 S/Nm3 .
Selon ce procédé...

Compounds of the formula I wherein R1 is halogen, C1-4-alkyl, halo-(C1-4-alkyl) or C2-4-alkanoyl, R2 is hydrogen, hydroxy, C1-4alkoxy, C1-4-alkylthio or phenyl-(C1-4-alkoxy) or , when X is O, also acyloxy, R3 is hydrogen or C1-4-alkyl, R4 is a carbocyclic group or a heterocyclic group, R5 is hydrogen or fluorine, m stands for zero, 1 or 2, X is O or NH and Y is a direct bond, -CH=CH-,...

PURPOSE: To provide a light beam direction device used in a single opening laser transceiver system for generating deflection on two surfaces for transmission and reception beams, while maintaining identity for the polarized waves of respective channels. CONSTITUTION: The four pieces of one-dimensional beam deflection devices 10c, 10d, 10e and 10f are used for two orthogonally crossing linearly po...

PURPOSE: To use a standard driving member with various kinds of surgical members, and use the driving member made of a material which can not be welded, with the surgical material, by providing the surgical member removably connected with a driving member, with a holding member for holding the torque transmission relationship between the driving member and the surgical member. CONSTITUTION: A devi...

PURPOSE:To achieve a carrying into and out of a human body under a proper control by mounting into a flexible pipe a flexible screw provided with a spiral thread on an outer wall of a flexible wire to connect a rotary means to the flexible screw. CONSTITUTION:The outside of a nylon line 1 with a diameter of 1mm is wound with a fine wire 2 having a diameter of 0.5 mm the same in quality as the nylo...

PURPOSE:To stably manufacture the needle of required bent shape by bending with the small radius of curvature succeedingly after bending with max. radius of curvature, on the manufacture of the compound curved needle having plural differential radiuses of curvature. CONSTITUTION:On the manufacture of the compound curved needle A which are composed with a needle end 1a, a blade end 1b, a drum part ...

PURPOSE: To improve the throughput by using a dynamic register file to separate the instruction fetch operation from instruction execution. CONSTITUTION: Fetcher 9 supplies an instruction fetched from a cache to a dynamic register file 11. When an instruction 8 is fetched from the cache, an identification code 29, namely, an ID is assigned to the instruction by a counter which exactly assigns sequ...

PURPOSE: To provide a digital phase-locked loop circuit capable of being securely and stably operated, even if an aperiodic synchronization pulse is generated and accurately addressing horizontal frequency video signal processing operation with the phase of a digital oscillator. CONSTITUTION: To adjust a period of a digital oscillator 10 to a nominal period determined by synchronization pulses whi...

In an electric razor (1) having a housing (2), a shaving head (5), which comprises a shaving foil (7) and a cutter block (8) with cutter plates (19), and having a motor (23) of the rotation type and also a transmission mechanism (31) which operates between the motor (23) and the cutter block (8) and is intended for converting the rotary movement of the motor shaft (30) to a reciprocating movement ...

PURPOSE: To minimize the cross contamination among patients, and reduce the cost for use, by mounting a new web to a rigid housing part which can be repeatedly used by cleaning the same. CONSTITUTION: A finger 20 on a deformable pad 18, is hemmed by a flexible web 12 having a light generating unit 22, and an adhesive layer 28 having a black coating 29. On this occasion, the light generating unit 2...

PURPOSE: To adaptively compress/restore video data to obtain an aliasing prevention mode by checking (n× n)-picture element blocks of picture element data to judge which compression system should be used, for every block. CONSTITUTION: Video data is divided into blocks of n× n picture elements, for example, 4x4 picture elements, and different colors are settled for them. That is, they ar...

PURPOSE: To create an encoding method for KANJI which has a small number of key depressions and is easy to use. CONSTITUTION: Radicals of strokes are classified and integrated to determine. section parts of KANJIs with radicals and stroke orders by phonetic or numerical codes corresponding to them, thus encoding KANJIs. Thousand radicals which nave the strongest capability of KANJI constitution an...

Ακαμπτη προσαρμόσιμη κατασκευή (4,5,7,8) η οποία μπορεί να χρησιμοποιείται ιδιαιτέρως ή να παρέχεται σε ένα απορροφητικό αντικείμενο (10) για ελαχιστοποίηση του συμβάντος διαρροής ρευστού λόγω πιέσεων προκαλουμένων από την κίνηση του σώματος του χρήστη. Η άκαμπτος αυτή προσαρμόσιμη κατασκευή έχει την ιδιότητα να προσαρμόζεται δυναμικά στο σώμα χρήστη ούτως ώστε να εμποδίζει την ύπαρξη κενών μεταξ...

The invention provides the noninvasive testing of the elasticity of soft biological tissues for the diagnosing of physiological and pathological state in human and animals, by exciting the tangential oscillatory deformations on the surface of tissue in the frequency range of 0.5 - 30 kHz and by determining the velocity of the excited surface wave propagating along the vector of the initial displac...

An article for adsorbing mouth odors includes a packet containing an activated charcoal, zeolite, silica or alumina for placing in the mouth. The packet is formed from a porous substantially insoluble material. The packet is placed in the mouth for a period of time to adsorb mouth odors and then discarded.