A waterborne paint is provided by dissolving or dispersing a polyester resin and a crosslinker in an aqueous medium containing a base. The polyester resin contains a hydroxy-terminated polyalkadienediol having an average degree of polymerization from 5 to 50, a hydrogenated product thereof or a mixture thereof in a proportion from 1 to 30 % by weight of the entire polyester-forming reactants, and ...

Apparatus and methods for improving timing recovery of a system clock by causing its frequency to be within a specified tolerance range during a timing recovery acquisition period for the system clock. The apparatus includes a voltage controlled oscillator for producing the system clock and a non-volatile memory containing an offset value. The non-volatile memory provides an offset value (represen...

High definition television coder/decoder a high definition coder or decoder includes a number of parallel sub-decoders or coders. The image to be coded or decoded is divided into a number of stripes, a given stripe being coded or decoded by a single sub-coder or sub-decoder. Every Nth stripe is coded or decoded by the same sub-coder/sub-decoder, where N is the number of sub-coders or sub-decoders....

Single stranded nucleic acids which have a sequence that is complementary to a target nucleic acid sequence to be detected are immobilized on a solid support to place the single stranded nucleic acid under such a condition that a strand complementary to the single stranded nucleic acid is absent, and the immobilized single stranded nucleic acid is hybridized with a labelled target nucleic acid in ...

In a mold material for use in molding a titanium cast to be mounted into the mouth as a dental prosthesis, magnesia and phosphate are added as a binder to its main ingredient composed of alumina and zirconia.

A resonant tag carries a plurality of resonant circuits having different resonant frequencies. The resonant circuit is composed of a first conductive pattern formed by a conductive metal foil (2) on one surface of an insulating thin film (1) and a second conductive pattern formed by a conductive metal foil (3) on the other surface of the insulating thin film (1). The first conductive pattern (4) c...

An arterial distensibility can be measured by putting a cuff (200) with a blood flow shutting bag (210) on an upper arm. The arterial distensibility E can be measured by measuring a shut blood flow critical pressure Pc, a diastolic pressure Pf at the upper arm and a crest value h of a pulse wave transmitted to the upper arm by the expression E = h / (Pc - Pf). The cuff has a forward bag (210), a c...

The invention relates to a laminated heating window 1, in particular for a transport vehicle, comprising an interposition layer 4 carrying at least one heating grid 5 of fine metallic electrical resistance wires 6 extending between two collector strips 7, 8, at least one collector strip 7, 8 being formed entirely of a flat conductive braid consisting of several strands of several metallic wires ea...

A wiper is attached to a machine element moving along a guide rail on a machine too. The wiper encloses the guide rail and is pre-loaded to press against the guide rail. The different parts of the wiper lip (4) are joined at their junctions (5,6,7) by thermal welding.

Crankcase lubricant compositions for use in automobile or truck engines comprise a major amount of a lubricating oil, added copper present in oil-soluble form and an oil-soluble diamine sulphide. The specified additives provide a highly effective antioxidant system, which may be used, for example, in lubricating oils which are substantially free of phosphorus.

A lubricating oil composition is described which comprises a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity and (A) at least about 1 % by weight of at least one carboxylic derivative composition produced by reacting (A-1) at least one substituted succinic acylating agent containing at least about 50 carbon atoms in the substituent with (A-2) from about 0.5 equivalent up to about 2 moles, per equi...

A head slider (40) for a magnetic disk drive device includes at least a pair of side rails (1, 1 min ) having a surface mating with a magnetic disk, which surface is substantially flat or slightly curved. The side rails (1, 1 min ) define a shallow recess (2) having a width (W) which is gradually increased from an air inlet side to an air outlet side, and a suction force or floating force is gener...

Hole forming and selftapping screw of up to approximately 6 mm thread diameter for tapping into sheet metal of a thickness of up to approximately 1 mm comprising a head including a formation for receiving a tool, a thread shank and a cylinder member following thereon having a diameter less than the thread-pitch diameter of the thread shank, merging into a tapered hole forming member. The thread sh...

PCT No. PCT/CZ94/00006 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 11, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 11, 1995 PCT Filed Feb. 7, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO94/18131 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 18, 1994Reactor for biological sewage purification having a tank with a casing and a bottom surface and a funnel-shaped member in the tank. An activation space is defined between the casing and the funnel-shaped member and a separation space is defined...

Fine cement-binder mixt. contains finely ground clinker or finely ground foundry sand, and additives, e.g. bentonite, brass, high dispersed silicic acid or other known additives, and agents, e.g. fluxing agent, hardening retarder, hardening accelerator, water held-back agent and other known agents. The entirety of the homogeneous dry mixt. has a grain size distribution of d95 ≤ 24 mu m and d50 < 7...

A process which comprises (i) the generation of release surfaces by application to predetermined areas of a solid surface of a solution, suspension or dispersion of a release agent and a supercritical fluid that vaporizes from the release agent, (ii) the deposition of a mass onto the release surface containing the release agent, and (iii) the separation of the mass or a product derived from the ma...

Computerised loom (1) control system, comprises a network which includes messages transmission connections (26,27), to which control units (9-12) for loom functional elements are coupled. Pref. the transmission connections function as a data bus, and the units (9-12) incorporate micro-computers (13,14,23) and a communication controller (24). Functions and elements controlled comprise yarn paths, y...

Waste water is disposed in a flocculation mixing tank 1, an anaerobic tank 2 and an aerobic tank 3 connected in series. First, a dephosphorization flocculating agent and, if necessary, a polymeric flocculating agent are added to waste water in order to produce and grow phosphorus-containing flocs therein. Then, to the water is added a recycling solution from an aerobic tank 3, said solution contai...

In an asynchronous motor fed from an AC current network (R; Mp) via a frequency converter (5; 6) and having an electronic control system (2; 3) for controlling the operating voltage as a function of a comparison of a load-specific current signal, which can be detected by the electronic control system (2; 3), with a corresponding control of the asynchronous motor (1) can be achieved with a low elec...

Household electrical appliance of the washing machine or drier type with a programmer, including, on the one hand, an electromechanical member (11) with a micromotor (12) driving a continuous-rotation cam (13), forming a first time base and itself driving a cam unit acting on switches or commutators for controlling a first device of the appliance, such as a heating resistor and, on the other hand,...