Improved pharmaceutical salts of amlodipine, particularly the besylate salt, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. These salts find utility as anti-ischaemic and anti-hypertensive agents.

A device is described for separating the fillets from fish rumps, in which cutting tools (2, 3 and 4), in each case consisting of pairs of circular blades, are used for cutting free the abdominal fins, the dorsal fins and the ribs or lateral extensions of the spines. The last-mentioned cutting tool (4) has in this case a double function, which is based on the fact that each cutting blade (7) of th...

PURPOSE:To provide a semiconductor memory storage which can be microscopically formed easily without shortening channel length and also can be operated in a stable manner. CONSTITUTION:The title semiconductor memory storage is provided with a writing-in transistor, a read-out transistor having a charge storage node as a floating gate, and the semiconductor memory storage is formed on a semiconduct...

PURPOSE:To surely connect a light guide extended from an inserting part main body to an illumination lens provided in an illumination window of both straight and side adapters. CONSTITUTION:A straight view adapter and a side view adapter can be installed replaceably to an adapter connector 22 on an inserting part main body. A protruded part 30a of a light guide 30 from an adapter connector 22 is c...

PURPOSE:To provide a camera having a focus detecting means and a sight line detecting means in which an automatic focus detecting means displays whether focus detection based on information obtained by the sight line detecting means is carried out or not. CONSTITUTION:A camera is provided with a sight line detecting means T1 for detecting the gazing direction of a photographer gazing into a viewfi...

PURPOSE:To delicately curve and operate the tip part of the endoscope by comparing the tip part side of a curved member for forming a curved part with a snake tube part side and enlarging a bending angle. CONSTITUTION:As for a tubular curved member 8, holes 11, 12 are pierced in both end parts, and the member is connected to the tip part 1 and a snake tube connecting member 13 with a screw or a pi...

A method for providing platinum or tungsten silicide contacts to source, drain, gate and tub regions of a dielectrically isolated MOSFET is described. A "false" (dummy) gate is used to provide automatic self-aligned separation of the source-drain contact and the tub contact. An intermetallic forming material (refractory metal) is uniformly coated over the doped substrate on which the gate and fals...

Sterile pharmaceutical compositions for use in therapy especially inactivated vaccines for use in prophylaxis, are prepared by inactivating a live virus or bacterium with ascorbic acid and/or a salt thereof in the presence of oxygen and a source of heavy metal ions. Methods of treating animals, including humans, with such compositions are also disclosed.

An apparatus for manufacturing a curved glass sheet has a glass sheet conveyor mechanism for conveying a glass sheet heated up to its softening point in a heating furnace, and a mold assembly disposed downstream of the heating station with respect to a direction in which the glass sheet is conveyed by the conveyor mechanism, for curving the glass sheet to prescribed curvature. The glass sheet conv...

A potline for the electrolytic production of aluminium comprises rows of reduction cells with the cells arranged transversely in each row, each cell having at least one conductor (R) projecting through the bottom of the cell for each carbon cathode block. About half of the electric current is conducted to a cathode collector busbar (B1) and the other half to another collector busbar (B2). The cath...

PURPOSE:To extremely lessen the wear of dies for molding a square case, heighten the processing precision of the square case and at the same time prevent the sealing defect of the square case and a sealing cover. CONSTITUTION:As a steel plate 4 to be press-machined, one nickel coating is formed on one side is used. The nickel-coated steel plate 4 is press-machined to use the nickel-coated side as ...

PURPOSE:To provide a thin-type battery deformation of which due to expansion and the handling is prevented without using a protective case. CONSTITUTION:A group of electrode plates consisting of a positive pole 3, an electrolytic material 5, and a negative pole arranged in the same plane is sandwiched between synthetic resin bodies 1, 2 from both upper and lower sides to wrap and seal them. The sy...

PURPOSE:To improve environmental stress resistance including heat resistance, impact resistance, etc., by covering a battery periphery excluding the terminal exposed portion with polyethylene naphthalate resin which has a chemical structural formula shown by a specific formula. CONSTITUTION:An unit cell 1 is covered with a unit cell exterior material 2a made of filmed polyethylene naphthalate resi...

PURPOSE:To provide good liquid holding capability and maintain a stable cycle life by specifically arranging copolymer resin with ethylene excellent in affinity to electrolyte and vinyl alcohol as the exposed portion of a fiber surface. CONSTITUTION:An alkali battery separator consists of the first element 1 which is a copolymer with ethylene and vinyl alcohol and the second element 2 which is ano...

PURPOSE:To prevent the contact of both electrode collector bodies on the peripheral part of a thin battery and prevent the internal short circuit by the displacement of each generating element and the external short circuit on the battery peripheral part. CONSTITUTION:Collectors and battery jars 4, 5 are provided on the upper and lower parts of a generating lement having a positive electrode activ...

PURPOSE:To improve discharge capacity by bonding a mixed body obtained by mixing a hydrogen storage alloy powder with a specified quantity of nickel ultrafine powder by mechanical ironing with a binder, and holding it by an electrode carrier. CONSTITUTION:A nickel porous body is pressed and shaped into a U-shaped section to form a foamed nickel sheet 11. A hydrogen storage alloy powder is mixed wi...

PURPOSE:To reduce the weight of a battery and improve the discharge and life performances by containing cadmium in the active material of a porous sintered body having a surface covered with nickel oxide, and covering it with a cadmium and cobalt layer to form a cathode plate. CONSTITUTION:An active material layer 2 impregnated in a sintered body 1 having a porosity of 83% or more the surface of w...

PURPOSE:To provide an alkaline dry battery excellent in leak resistance in which the hydrogen gas generated from the negative electrode collector (hereinafter referred to as collector) surface of a battery containing a mercury- free zinc alloy as a negative electrode active material and copper or a copper alloy as the collector is suppressed. CONSTITUTION:In an alkaline battery mainly containing a...

PURPOSE:To provide an alkaline dry battery excellent in leak resistance in which the hydrogen gas generated from the negative electrode collector (hereinafter referred to as collector) of a battery containing a mercury-free zinc alloy as a negative electrode active material and copper or a copper alloy as the collector is suppressed. CONSTITUTION:In an alkaline battery mainly containing a mercury-...