A SAW filter is configured so that a resonator-type filter portion, in which a plurality of SAW resonators are connected in series and in parallel, and a 3-electrode type serially coupled filter portion, in which three IDTs for inputting and outputting signals are interposed between reflectors, are serially connected on one and the same substrate. The design parameters of the respective SAW resona...

A secondary ignition coil is wound around a bobbin having a plurality of slots therein. The slots are spaced around the cylindrical wall of the bobbin to provide for the rapid and uniform flow of resinous potting material through the slots in the cylindrical wall into the coil. Resin also flows from the outer portion of the coil winding into said coil winding.

An outer surface of an object (23) is irradiated with visible light from a light source (21), and the reflected light is acquired by a TV camera (24). A two-dimensional image with gradation is Fourier transformed by an image analyzer (20). The brightness and darkness of the image are bipolarized using an emphasis coefficient in a predetermined wavelength range in the process of Fourier transform. ...

The socket has a casing (2) containing a carrier (5) for the flat strip contacts (11) and a protective contact rail (17). The strips (13,15) have spring clip portions (20) formed in the longitudinal direction with three additional spring sections (23). Retaining and supporting areas (9) of the carrier hold the strips resiliently in the region of the spring clips. These are formed by rolling and/or...

A mosaic image is formed from a database of source images. More particularly, the source images are analyzed, selected and organized to produce the mosaic image. A target image is divided into tile regions, each of which is compared with individual source image portions to determine the best available matching source image by computing red, green and blue channel root-mean square error. The mosaic...

PCT No. PCT/EP96/01359 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 30, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 30, 1997 PCT Filed Mar. 28, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/30113 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 3, 1996A device for mixing very small quantities of liquids comprises at least one mixing element with at least one inlet channel and at least one outlet channel; at least two microchannels issue from the inlet channel, all such issuing channels lying...

A method for bonding a tube into a device each of which is formed from a thermoplastic polymer. The device has first and second solid members in spaced apart relationship to form a hollow cavity therebetween. At least one linear channel extends through each of said solid members in an aligned relationship, such that a tube may be passed through in sliding engagement, including through the hollow c...

A descalant means, comprising LE structured liquid crystals which when placed close to, or into a liquid stream, cause the formation of microscopic liquid crystalline structures, which act as nucleation sites for the formation of crystal structures of normally liquid-soluble or insoluble salts, and other suspended particles, these crystalline structures being chemically stable and causing a large ...

PCT No. PCT/AT97/00256 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 29, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 29, 1998 PCT Filed Nov. 21, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/23550 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 4, 1998The cement composition of this invention includes 10 to 35% by weight of portland cement, 65 to 90% by weight of a synthetic pozzolan, and an activator for reducing the positive surface potential of the synthetic pozzolan. The synthetic pozzola...

An aviation turbine oil of reduced deposit forming tendencies and improved anti-oxidancy is disclosed which comprises a major portion of a suitable aviation turbine oil base stock and a minor amount of a non-sulfur containing triazine derivative and DMT, derivatives of DMTD and mixtures thereof.

The image processing method includes the acquisition of an image of intensity (J) formed from a matrix of points (A) given non binary intensity values. The points represent filiform objects. The method also includes detection stages for these filiform objects ie automatic determination of a vector field of intensity (V) forming an image if STATES comprising characteristics of magnitudes and angles...

A method of manufacturing an organic EL element according to the present invention comprises the steps of forming pixel electrodes (801), (802), (803) on a transparent substrate (804) and forming on the pixel electrodes by patterning luminescent layers (806), (807), (808) made of an organic compound by means of an ink-jet method. According to this method, it is possible to carry out a high precise...

A lubricant is provided for use in hot working such as cross-roll rolling of a seamless steel pipe. It effectively reduces the friction coefficient between the working tools and the material under the hot work, thus extending the lives of the tools. The lubricant contains: (A) from about 10 to about 60 wt% of alkali silicate; (B) from about 1 to about 20 wt% of silane coupling agent; (C) from abou...

A moving-image signal encoding apparatus is provided in which information to be lost is suppressed to a minimum extent when a cell is lost in a transmission line. A cell assembler (214) divides a bitstream into cells of bits and adds to the cells positional information of encoded words having particular meaning within the cell. When the cells are lost in the transmission line, a decoding is allowe...

In a digital VTR that carries out magnetic recording and reproduction by bit rate reduction coding a digital video signal, a fixed length block is formed by controlling the code amount of a large block including a plurality of small blocks located distant from each other on a screen at the time of recording. The fixed length block is divided into a plurality of recording blocks so that the main co...

In a ringing-tone control device for a telephone set, an audio signal which is sent from a communication opposite party is converted into a corresponding bi-level signal. The bi-level signal is stored into the memory. The bi-level signal is read out from the memory. A ringing tone is generated in response to the bi-level signal read out from the memory.

A system for the collection of physiological fluids includes a vacuum source (14) that is controlled to provide low vacuum as a function of whether fluids are entering the system. The suction wand and associated tubing are made of thin flexible materials, and the pressures employed do little damage to the collected fluids.

A container (400) for the collection of fluids in a vacuum system includes upper and lower chambers (402, 404). Fluids are admitted to the upper chamber (402) to form a vortex and separate fluid and debris from air. The fluids then pass to the lower chamber (404) through a filter (412). A discharge tube (428) is connected to the lower chamber (404) to allow the accumulated fluids to be pumped from...

A system for collection of blood during surgery includes an interlock that requires conduits supplying collected blood to a bag to be properly connected before the system is operated. The interlock includes a source of electromagnetic energy that illuminates connectors to determine whether they are connected. In a preferred embodiment, the connector is a Luer connector with a cylindrical portion t...

The invention is directed to an electric appliance for personal use such as a dry shaving apparatus, a hair cutting machine or epilator, having a housing to accommodate an electric motor, a storage cell charging circuitry, at least one rechargeable storage cell designed to be connected to the electric motor, and a connector compartment in which a connector equipped with connector pins is pivotally...