An opto-electronic scanning head for drum and flat bed scanning apparatus for point-by-point and line-by-line scanning of opaque and transparent originals which are illuminated point-by-point. The housing of the scanning head 7 has a front panel 9 which is displaceable along the optical axis 12 of the scanning objective lens 11 and has a housing part which is stationary with respect to the optical...

PURPOSE:To make stable action achieved for a long period by applying a regenerating process to make the forward end of a needle-like chip to be in the form of a facet in a first process, and applying a process of maintaining the form of the facet in a second process. CONSTITUTION:The forward end of a needle-like chip having a curvature is regenerated to be a facet in a first process, where the ele...

PURPOSE:To improve the space efficiency by providing an engine and a transmission in parallel, and linking the output shaft side of the transmission and an intermediate shaft parallel to the output shaft, so as to lock a center differential, in a four-wheel driving device furnishing a center differential. CONSTITUTION:In a four-wheel drive vehicle, a center differential 2 of an epicyclic gear syst...

PURPOSE:To make it possible to stop a vehicle smoothly and to stop rapidly only by operating a brake pedal, by making the transmission control shaft of a hydraulic continuously variable transmission device varied and linked with the operation of a running pedal, and making it possible to operate to restore forcibly to the neutral position with the operation of the brake pedal. CONSTITUTION:In a hy...

PURPOSE:To permit the taking-up operation at a high speed by reducing the height of a winder by judging the state of yarn by a slab catcher and carrying out the replacement of a yarn feeding bobbin or yarn relaying, in a winder for taking up yarn onto a package from the yarn feeding bobbin. CONSTITUTION:A winding unit W is equipped with the first suction arm 9 which suction-holds the thread edge o...

An improved railroad missile garrison system, which helps to reduce the dangers to the civilian population, by providing a computerized system for issuing track warrants to missile trains, and other non military trains, and by providing for remote intervention of the throttle and brake functions on the missile train locomotives.

A catheter (10) which can be advanced through a body vessel to an internal organ, typically the heart, for electroshock ablation. The catheter (10) includes a catheter lead (12) and a contoured electroshock ablation electrode (20) attached to the catheter lead (12) at or near its distal end (12a). The contoured electrode (20) and the catheter lead (12) are configured to provide a high arcing thres...

The invention relates to a safety ski binding having a foot plate that can be swivelled but not lifted, wherein the foot plate in the rear area is held in a running position by a locking member that can be moved against the tension of a spring, the locking member engaging in a holding member. The mounting of the foot plate on a pivot enables a slight displacement in vertical direction. According t...

A process for selective metallization of a substrate in a predetermined desired pattern, and particularly for the manufacture of printed circuit boards, in which a substrate patterned in desired manner with resist material is treated with conditioning agent, adjuvant and deactivating agent preparatory to catalytic activation and electroless deposit of metal flash. By proceeding in this manner, adh...

A buoyant article which can be used for floatation and/or insulation comprising a fibrous structure of a multiplicity of resilient, shape reforming, elongatable, nonlinear carbonaceous fibers and a coating for said carbonaceous fibers comprising a water insoluble, hydrophobic, cured or set material.

A circuit arrangement for a picture reproducing apparatus having an amplitude limited (7), to which a frequency-modulated picture signal is applied and whose output is coupled to a frequency demodulator (8, 9). The output signal of the amplitude limiter (7) is applied to a low-pass filter (12) via a delay means (8) which may form part of the frequency demodulator (8, 9), the output signal of the l...

PURPOSE:To prevent the explosion of powder dust, etc., with a simple construction by spraying a molten metal poured into a metallic mold for spraying from a nozzle hole so as to bring the molten metal into collision against a cooling liquid formed on the inside peripheral face of a metallic mold for cooling and rotating the two metallic molds. CONSTITUTION:The cooling liquid 11 is poured into a co...

CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR MONITORING THE QUALITY OF DATA IN A DATA STREAM The invention provides a circuit for monitoring predetermined performance criteria of a transmission link by measuring a predetermined ratio of events in a data stream. A first counter having a predetermined maximum count is responsive to each of periodic predetermined occurrences in the data stream and a clock pulse for also i...

PFBC power plant for burning fuel, primarily coal, in a fluidized bed of particulate material, at a pressure exceeding the atmospheric pressure. The plant comprises a bed vessel (12) which is divided into a first section (14) and a second section (16) by a vertical partition (17) which reaches up to the upper wall of the bed vessel (12) so as to form two separate freeboards (86 and 46, respectivel...

A toroidal electrical transformer having a low voltage coil, a high voltage coil and an annular magnetic core is disclosed. The preferred low voltage and high voltage coils are each continuous and form an arcuate elongated passage therethrough. The preferred annular magnetic core is wound in place in said arcuate elongated passage substantially from a continuous strip of magnetic material resultin...

The present invention provides a burner for the partial oxidation under pressure of a first fluid by the second fluid. This burner comprises two fluid introduction tubes, one being internal to the other, with each of the tubes comprising a plate, and with each plate having several holes and a plate of the external tube has holes placed opposite the holes in the internal plate.