A production system of electrolyzed water which includes a first brine tank arranged to store an amount of saturated brine, a second brine tank arranged to store an amount of diluted brine prepared by dilution of the saturated brine supplied from the first brine tank and an electrolyzer for electrolyzing the diluted brine supplied from the second brine tank. In the production system, an electric c...

A process is disclosed for producing reinforced twin-sheet thermoformed articles comprising the steps of heating first and second sheets of thermoplastic material; forming the sheets in molds; heating a reinforcing insert of thermoplastic material; placing the heated insert on the first sheet in its mold at the location to be reinforced; pressing tile second sheet into contact with the heated firs...

A ternary composite with thermal stability of up to at least 200 DEG C. is formed using a thermally stable matrix resin, carbon fibers, and borosilicate glass particulates. The composite has stability to acids, toxic wastes and may be formed into sheets, shapes, tubes, containers, flooring materials and the like. The composite may have unevenly distributed borosilicates, enhancing one surface's ab...

A cutting tool blank formed of material having a composition comprising of 0.1 to 20 wt % of BaCO3 and/or MgCO3, and/or 0.05 to 10 wt % of CaMg(CO3)2 or CaCO3, the balance being preferably substantially diamond forming a matrix is heated and maintained at a temperature of 800 DEG to 1400 DEG C. in a vacuum to change, by chemical reaction, the above BaCO3 and/or MgCO3, and/or CaMg(CO3)2 or CaCO3 ...

A system for controllably actuating a lock mechanism has a lock actuator control unit arranged to receive a key and to communicate with a programmable key control unit contained within the key. The lock actuator control unit contains a power supply for supplying power to the key control unit, so that a transfer of communication signals between the key control unit and the lock actuator control uni...

System for use by a caller and a recipient of a telephone call for suppressing environmental noise in the vicinity of a telephone comprising a telephone handset forming a part of the telephone. The telephone handset has a human voice sensor for picking up human sounds generally in one direction, and creating a first electrical signal. A speaker capable of producing substantially directional human ...

A coherent optical communications system with continuous polarization scrambling, wherein such scrambling is obtained by combining orthogonally-polarized radiations at different frequencies emitted by two independent sources in a transmitter, frequency modulated by a binary information signal. The frequency difference between the two sources for both emission conditions must be at least equal to t...

A vacuum system and a method of operating a vacuum system. The system comprises a vacuum line, a pump, a pump motor, a pressure adjusting assembly, a pressure sensor and a control device. The pump is connected to the vacuum line for drawing fluids therefrom, and the motor is connected to the pump to drive the pump. The pressure adjusting assembly is connected to the vacuum line for conducting flui...

A patient fluid collection system is disclosed which includes a fluid collection reservoir, a cover for the reservoir and a liner within the reservoir comprising an enlargeable or expandable wall portion such that the wall portion may expand if the liner fills with fluid. An anti-reflux system is also disclosed as well as a new tandem tube and a new connector.

A prosthetic, resorbable articular cartilage and methods of its fabrication and insertion are disclosed. The prosthetic articular cartilage, when implanted in a humanoid joint, acts as a resorbable scaffold for ingrowth of native articular chondrocytes and supports natural articulating joint forces. The prosthetic articular cartilage is a dry, porous, volume matrix of biocompatible and bioresorbab...

The acetabulum (1) comprises a semispherical support shell (2d) whose inner surface (20) has at least three retaining means (2b) which protrude into the interior. Furthermore, the acetabulum (1) comprises a semispherical inner shell (3) which can be inserted into the correspondingly dimensioned semispherical support shell (2d). The outer surface (30) of the inner shell (3) has at least one recess ...

Plaster is rendered water-repellent by impregnation with organosiloxanes containing Si-bonded hydrogen atoms and with alkali metal silicate. In particular, the water-repellent action is improved in the case of shaped plaster articles treated at high drying temperatures.

A method for fabricating an electron multiplier is provided. The method consists of depositing a random channel layer on a substrate such that the random channel layer is capable of producing a cascade secondary electron emission in response to an incident electron in the presence of an electric field.

The invention provides novel peptide derivatives which are designed to deliver pharmacologically active peptides into the central nervous system by sequential metabolism. The peptide is placed in a molecular environment which disguises its peptide nature and provides biolabile, lipophilic functions to penetrate the blood-brain barrier by passive transport. The design incorporates a dihydropyridine...

A surface mounting type diode is provided which comprises: a diode chip; a pair of leads held in electrical conduction with the diode chip, each of the leads including an inner end, an outer end, a first bend closer to the inner end, a second bend closer to the outer end, and an intermediate portion between the first and second bends; and a resin package enclosing the diode chip together with part...

An integrated circuit chip carrier (100) provides an improved mounting pad density. The chip carrier (100) includes a flexible substrate (102) with pads (104) on the top surface for interconnection with an attached integrated circuit chip (302). The chip carrier (100) further includes a mounting pad array (502) on the bottom surface having an interconnection with the pads (104), and a rigid substr...

An integrated circuit device performing arithmetic operations on a plurality of digital inputs to produce an effective address and a linear address in a single operation. The integrated circuit device comprises a first circuit, a first adder circuit and a second adder circuit. The first circuit performs logical operations on the plurality of digital inputs to produce a first group of output signal...

A remote control unit for use with an in-home audio player adapted to play pre-recorded music stored on a semiconductor music chip storage medium. In accordance with one preferred embodiment of the invention, the remote unit is a battery powered, hand held device which enables customized music selection to be made at the audio player from a distant position. The remote control unit includes an LCD...

A mechanism which manages variable length instructions in cache is comprised of three cooperating elements designed to optimize self modifying code and anticipate next instructions for branch operand management. A content addressable memory (CAM) stores addresses of lines which have been accessed for instruction fetching. In a system having modifiable instruction stream (i.e., store to instruction...

An apparatus performs source operand dependency analysis, perform register renaming and provide rapid pipeline recovery for a microprocessor capable of issuing and executing multiple instructions out-of-order in a single machine cycle. The apparatus first provides an enhanced means for rapid pipeline recovery due to a mispredicted branch or other store/load conflict or unsupported store/load forwa...