A ski safety binding is provided with a measuring system for determining the occurrence of a dangerous bending moment about a transverse axis 11 passing through the weakest point of the skier's leg lying generally somewhat above the ankle. In a first embodiment first, second and third measuring transducers 14, 15, 12 are strategically arranged between the sole of the ski boot and parts of a bindin...

An electrically releasable safety ski binding in which a measuring system determines the load applied to a skier's leg during skiing and a release mechanism incorporating an electromechanical converter such as a solenoid acts on a clamp device securing the ski boot to the binding to release the ski boot when the aforementioned load reaches a dangerous level. To prevent the binding becoming inopera...

The invention relates to a sole made of flexible material for orthopaedic footwear, in which, to achieve a comfortable damped massage effect on the wearer foot, there are formed on the underside of the sole edgeless large-area profiled reinforcements (2), the size, shape, height and position of which are selected in such a manner that during walking a selective massage effect is produced on the we...

The polymers, which may also contain polyalkylene oxide side chains, are prepared by reacting 1,2-alkane diols having 6 to 20 carbon atoms and/or phenylethane-1,2-diol with difunctional compounds which are reactive with respect to the hydroxyl groups in a manner known per se, possibly replacing up to 75 mol-% of the alkane diols by polyalkylene oxides which have two free hydroxyl groups on the sta...

A magnetic recording material which comprises a film of a polyester and a magnetic layer formed on at least one side of said film, said polyester containing more than 85 mol % of the repeating unit represented by the formula below and having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.3 to 1.4, and said film of said polyester having a refractive index ratio of 0.935 to 0.975 in the thickness direction and a densi...

A heel holder includes a base plate, a bearing block supported on the base plate, a binding housing pivotally supported on the bearing block, a control lever pivotally supported on the bearing block and engaging a control element on the binding housing, a release spring which biases the control lever, and a two-arm release lever which is pivotally supported on the control lever and has on a load a...

An apparatus for optical monitoring of the surface of rod-shaped smoking articles and/or filter rods for the tobacco industry comprises a conveying means transporting the rods perpendicularly to their longitudinal direction and a high-pressure lamp which serves as light source and which is connected via an optical fibre cable to a sensor block; the optical fibre cable is divided amongst at least t...

Glass fibres for the production of reinforced polymers, characterized in that said fibres have a coating comprising, besides a film forming agent of polyolefinic kind and a silane, also a bis-maleamic acid such as N.N min -hexamethylene-bis-maleamic acid, N.N min -dodecamethylene-bis-maleamic acid or N.N min -isophoron-bis-maleamic acid. The invention also concerns blends consisting of 50-90%...

PCT No. PCT/NL81/00007 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 16, 1981 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 16, 1981 PCT Filed Mar. 27, 1981 PCT Pub. No. WO81/02855 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 15, 1981.The invention relates to a process for the spraying of a liquid by means of a gas into a fluidized bed, in which process said spraying is conducted by means of a two-phase spraying device, consisting of a liquid feed tube fitted concentricall...

PURPOSE:To obtain a film having good conductivity and uniformity on a ceramic surface by coating the outer periphery of a cylinder made of a ceramic base material of predetermined shape with a superconductor, forming a fine conductor layer pattern, and then baking it at the optimum sintering temperature of the superconductor. CONSTITUTION:A cylindrical ceramic material 1 is cleaned and a thin supe...

PURPOSE:To obtain a film having good conductivity and uniformity on a ceramic surface by bonding a foil of metal on the outer periphery of a cylinder made of a ceramic base material of predetermined shape, coating the surface of the material with a solution-like superconductor, forming a fine conductor layer pattern, and then baking it at the optimum sintering temperature of the thin film. CONSTIT...

PURPOSE:To produce a material having a transition point to superconducting state at above the b.p. of liquid N2 by specifying a temp. lowering rate in a cooling stage during sintering in a process for producing an M (a IIIA group element)-Ba-Cu-O type superconducting ceramic material. CONSTITUTION:Raw material powder for an M-Ba-Cu-O type (wherein M is a group IIIA element) superconducting ceramic...

PURPOSE:To expand a range generating diamond and to improve productivity by introducing microwave from many directions when the diamond is synthesized on a substrate by introducing specified microwave to mixed gas of hydrogen gas and org. compd. CONSTITUTION:The mixed gas (<=about 10C/H2 ratio) of hydrogen gas and org. compd. decomposed to produce carbon (methane, ethylene, etc.) is introduced to ...

PURPOSE:To obtain the excellent characteristic and reproducibility by forming a superconductor with the specific composition as a thin film on an oxide substrate with the composition of Gd2MCuO5. CONSTITUTION:A superconductor with the composition of LnM2Cu3O7-k as a thin film is formed on an oxide substrate with the composition of Gd2MCuO5, where Ln is at least one kind among La, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, G...

PURPOSE:To obtain the excellent characteristic and reproducibility by forming a superconductor with the specific composition as a thin film on an oxide substrate with the composition of Tb2MCuO5. CONSTITUTION:A superconductor with the composition of LnM2Cu3O7-k is formed as a thin film on an oxide substrate with the composition of Tb2MCuO5, where Ln is at least one kind among La, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, G...

PURPOSE:To obtain the excellent characteristic and reproducibility by forming a superconductor with the specific composition as a thin film on an oxide substrate with the composition of Dy2MCuO5. CONSTITUTION:A superconductor with the composition of LnM2Cu3O7-k is formed as a thin film on an oxide substrate with the composition of Dy2MCu5, where Ln is at least one kind among La, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd...

PURPOSE:To obtain the excellent characteristic and reproducibility by forming a superconductor with the specific composition as a thin film on an oxide substrate with the composition of HO2MCuO5. CONSTITUTION:A superconductor with the composition of LnM2Cu3O7-K is formed as a thin film on an oxide substrate with the composition of Ho2MCuO5, where Ln is at least one kind among La, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, G...

PURPOSE:To cope with a large current and reduce the alternate current loss by arranging a layer made of part of a superconductive element wire, a normal conductive metal layer, a layer made of the remaining superconductive element wire, and a normal conductive metal layer on the outside of a low-resistance layer at the center. CONSTITUTION:Superconductive element wires 2 doubly coated with a norma...

PURPOSE:To obtain the good conductivity and electromagnetic shielding effect by arranging an article and the film source of a superconductor in a vacuum container, selectively directing an energy beam with the intensity of the specific range to the film source, and heating and melting and evaporating it. CONSTITUTION:A degreased raw material 1 is put in a vacuum container 3, the air in the contain...

PURPOSE:To form a ceramic superconductor thin film with excellent quality by forming an oxide superconductor thin film by the CVD method. CONSTITUTION:An oxide superconductor thin film is formed by the CVD (chemical vapor phase deposition) method. A compound containing the component element of a superconductor is formed into gas, this gas (raw material gas) is fed to a deposition tank with the car...