A punch apparatus for punching hole patterns in thin sheet material. The apparatus includes a housing having a liquid-cooled cavity (46) therein; a coil (58) mounted in the liquid-cooled cavity; a driver disk (48) made of a highly conductive material mounted in the liquid-cooled cavity, the driver disk mounted adjacent to the coil; a driver button (49) located outside of the liquid-cooled cavity b...

The invention provided a new type of high capacity storage battery, wherein the colloidal electrolyte is hard to hydration, and has no cracking. The high capacity colloidal storage battery comprises: battery case, anode plate, cathode plate, isolating plate and electrolyte, wherein the electrolyte consists substantially of a) 3 to 9.9% (by weight, the same below) of silicasol (SiO2) b) 48.1 ...

At the workstations of a textile machine producing bobbins, the yarn bodies on the devices for the winding of yarn bodies are each driven by means of a friction roller. The friction rollers are usually driven via a geared motor flanged to the wall of the housing of the workstation. A geared motor requires space and, in the case of maintenance work, the installation and removal of the friction roll...

A non-woven fabric having improved absorbent characteristics. The fabric has three different fiber arrays which are interconnected to produce a unique fiber distribution in the fabric.

The present invention provides a coating composition having improved intercoat adhesion with an under coating layer. The coating composition comprising: (A) a film-forming resin, (B) a crosslinking agent for thermosetting the resin (A), and (C) a phosphate, a sulfonic acid or a carboxylic acid having a long-chain alkyl group of 8 to 18 carbon atoms and HLB of 3 to 12. A solid content of the ...

An instrument and a method for determining a coagulation characteristic of blood, a blood fraction or a control comprise a radiation-reflective surface, a first source for irradiating the surface, and a first detector for detecting radiation reflected from the surface. A cuvette holds a sample of the blood, blood fraction or control the coagulation characteristic of which is to be determined. The ...

An instrument for determining a characteristic of a biological fluid or a control comprises a radiation-reflective surface, a first source for irradiating the surface, a first detector for detecting radiation reflected from the surface, and a mechanism for determining the characteristic based on the detected radiation. A slide holds a sample of the biological fluid or control the characteristic of...

A self-supporting polyester film comprises a molecularly oriented blend comprising a major amount of at least one linear polyester and a minor amount of at least one aromatic copolyesterether. The film exhibits improved flex-crack properties and low haze.

A connection component (10) suitable for use with an enteral fluid delivery set wherein the connection component (10) consists of a threaded cap having a projecting spike (32) thereon to penetrate and deform a foil diaphragm on the fluid container and further including an air passageway (30) having a flexible member (38) therein to allow filtered air to flow into the fluid container while preventi...

A method and apparatus for buffing a tread is described. The method comprises mounting a tread on an apparatus capable of buffing the casing engaging surface of said tread, the apparatus buffing the tread such that the grooves are formed on the buffed tread surface. The grooves angularly intercept a tread edge.

This invention relates to a method for determining a component of a test sample with a solid support, said support having incorporated therein a removable first monoclonal antibody which binds to said component and a labeled monoclonal antibody or fragment of a monoclonal antibody which binds to said component wherein said first monoclonal antibody and said labeled monoclonal antibody or monoclona...

The invention relates to a device 10 for enteral nutrition which comprises a plastic bag 12 for reception of a nutrient solution, a tube 44 starting from the bag 12 and having a probe at the other end, and a reception pocket 14 connected to the plastic bag 12 for the nutrient solution and having an insertion opening 50 for a pump 16. The reception pocket 14 for the pump 16 is welded on the bag 12 ...

Polyurethane can be reclaimed from solvent-containing or solvent-free polyurethane wastage by adjusting the amount of solvent, preferably with methyl ethyl ketone; adding an emulsifier, preferably, acylpolyethyleneglycolester; then adding about twelve times the wastage weight of water; mixing, preferably for about one hour at room temperature to form an emulsion; and then expelling the solvent as ...

The silicone composite product comprises a silicone gel obtained by curing a specified addition-curable type organopolysiloxane composition, and an elastomer layer or resin layer formed on the silicone gel by use of an organopolysiloxane having Si-bonded alkenyl groups and Si-bonded hydrogen atoms. The silicone composite product has the elastomer layer or resin layer formed integrally with the sil...

A crosslinkable polymer composition comprises an olefin copolymer or graft copolymer with hydrolysable silane groups and a silanol condensation catalyst, as well as a silane compound with at least one hydrolysable organic group. The polymer composition is characterised in that the silane compound has a compatibility with the polymer composition of at least 0.035 mole hydrolysable groups per 100 g ...

A plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of sustaining electrodes parallel to each other are located on an inner face of a first glass substrate. Each of the scanning electrodes and each of the sustaining electrodes form a pair. A dielectric layer and a protection layer are formed on the first glass substrate in this order, covering the electrodes. A plurality of data electrodes perpendi...

A gear-shifting shock suppressing system for a vehicle provided with an automatic transmission which shifts to a desired gear-speed on the basis of a gear-shifting signal controls the output of the engine of the vehicle in order to suppress gear-shifting shock which occurs when the automatic transmission shifts. The gear-shifting shock suppressing system detects the interval between successive two...

Processes are provided for improving the surface properties of polyimide articles, especially of those polyimide articles which contain significant amounts of transimide. The surface of the polyimide is first treated with a base to convert the surface layer of both the polyimides and the transimides to the polyamic salt. Thereafter the surface layer of the converted polyamic salt is treated with a...