A stable and highly productive method for the preparation of silicone foam having uniform cells comprising mixing the base and curing agent portions of an organosiloxane along with a gas-containing hollow filler in a mixing device having a shear-stirring mechanism such that the organosiloxane begins to foam and cure when the shear-stirring mechanism is used to rupture the filler and mix the base a...

A multi-layer coating comprising a base coat and a topcoat is formed on an article such as a chemically-treated steel plate by coating the article with a base coat composition containing (a) a crosslinking agent which does not interfere with the hydrosilylation reaction of a topcoat composition, and (b) a functional resin reactable with the cross-linking agent, and then with a topcoat composition ...

The wiper rest area of an automotive windshield is heated by a heatable member optionally mounted on polyester substrate. The windshield may include outer and inner glass sheets secured together by an interlayer. The heatable member is positioned on inner surface of the outer glass sheet adjacent the bottom of the windshield in the wiper rest area. The heatable member is held in position by the in...

A substantially mineral oil-free aqueous composition useful to produce a dry lubricant film comprising water; a silicone oil, a vegetable oil or a mixture thereof; at least one waxy film-forming material selected from at least two of the following three groups: (a) saturated C10 - C24 aliphatic monohydric alcohols, (b) saturated C10 - C24 aliphatic monocarboxylic acids, and (c) saturated or monoun...

PCT No. PCT/SE96/00358 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 20, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 20, 1997 PCT Filed Mar. 21, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/01392 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 16, 1997A water atomizing nozzle adapted to be used in the type of snow making machines, in which water is disintegrated into very small water particles in a ring of atomizing nozzles surrounding an air channel through which air flows at high speed, a...

PCT No. PCT/SE96/00358 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 20, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 20, 1997 PCT Filed Mar. 21, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/01392 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 16, 1997A water atomizing nozzle adapted to be used in the type of snow making machines, in which water is disintegrated into very small water particles in a ring of atomizing nozzles surrounding an air channel through which air flows at high speed, a...

A method and apparatus for creating abdominal visceral anastomoses. A first magnet is placed within a first viscera and a second, larger magnet is placed within a second viscera. The magnets each have a raised rim around their perimeters. The two magnets couple to each other by virtue of their mutual attraction, thereby capturing a portion of the intervening visceral walls between them. The coupli...

Anthracycline derivatives are disclosed which are coupled to an enzymatically cleavable N-phenyl-O-glycosyl carbamate spacer group, which derivatives are represented by the formula as well as the acid addition salts thereof. Further the synthesis of these derivatives and their use, alone or in combination with enzymes or antibody enzyme conjugates are disclosed.

A significant problem is unsupervised detection of events in the digital image representation of objects or bodies acquired at logically different states. To detect events a set of sample data points is selected, and normalized using a novel technique to desensitize the analysis to the intensity level of the data. The normalized data are presented to a clustering algorithm, preferably the fuzzy C-...

This invention was developed to improve the capacity and efficiency of a burner type that can not be classified as either a blast furnace or a pyrolytic oven. The blast furnaces usually have a greater capacity but their efficiency from an environmental standpoint is so poor that many have been shut down. The pyrolitic ovens performmore efficiently but their capacity is limited making them both une...

In accordance with the present invention, an optical fiber is provided that includes a first optical fiber section having a first end facet and a second optical fiber section having a second end facet. A dichroic glass polarizer optically couples the first end facet to the second end facet. The polarizer has a thickness of less than approximately 50 microns. An optically transparent adhesive may f...

Process for removing unwanted material from wanted material containing water by bringing an isocyanate-containing prepolymer into contact with the materials, allowing the prepolymer to react with the water to form a flexible foam and removing the foam obtained from the wanted material.

The present invention relates to a self-contained heating system for automobiles or the like. The system includes a resistance heating element, power supply, charging unit and switch contained within an automobile. Actuation of the system provides heating to the engine and/or ignition battery of an automobile for facilitating cold weather starting of the vehicle.

A decrease of the irreversible capacity, an increase of the discharge capacity of a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery is achieved, together with an improvement of output power density and cycle characteristics of the lithium secondary battery. Carbon material is used for the negative electrode that adsorbs or bears an organic compound having a larger partition coefficient in the e...

The present invention relates to a method for reduction of vibrations in a windmill blade so that the loads on the blade and on the remaining part of the mill structure are reduced. According to the invention this is achieved by changing the aerodynamic properties of the blade as a function of the acceleration and/or speed in the direction of rotation and/or out of the rotor plane of a slidable de...

A power converter protecting apparatus include series transformers connected in series to phase power lines, respectively, of an electric power system, power converters connected to secondary windings of the transformers, respectively, a current detector for detecting system currents flowing through the phase power lines, a current detector for detecting converter currents flowing to the power con...

A method and apparatus is disclosed for converting a reheat steam turbine plant to a non-reheat, combined cycle plant without requiring internal modification of the steam turbine unit. A reheat steam turbine power plant with a boiler and a steam turbine with a plurality of turbine sections, receiving steam under pressure and successively expanding the steam through the turbine sections, is convert...