A solution of cellulose is formed by moving a premix of a tertiary amine N-oxide, water and cellulose through a thin-film evaporator using a bladed rotor under treatment conditions which specify, an area of heated surface (1m2 to 1252), a circumferential spacing between blade tips (65 to 175 mm), a rotational speed of the blade tips (less than 8 m/sec.), a pressure (25 to 100 mb) and a temperature...

There is described a process for stabilising particulate alkali metal peroxo (peroxy) salts by coating with a solid coating material and the particulate alkali metal peroxo salts, stabilised by coating, thus obtained. The coating material comprises a crystallised mineral salt mixture of alkali metal sulphate and alkali metal chloride, which can, if desired, additionally contain alkali metal silica...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide electronic apparatus having superior reliability. Ž

SOLUTION: This electronic apparatus is characterized in that an apparatus side terminal 37 communicating various types of signals with a medium side terminal 32 of an information storage medium 3 detachably installed and an information storage medium detecting terminal 38 mounted on the upstream side in the i...

The present invention aims at producing a biochip by an inkjet system without wasting a DNA solution. A biochip-producing solution is prepared to contain a combination of a DNA solution 6 to be spotted on a plate 5 and a low-cost buffer solution 7 to be remained in the device after the production. The buffer solution 7 used has a different specific gravity from that of the DNA solution 6 and thus ...

Silver ions and the like are efficiently eluted in the water by the action of electrolysis occurring between the silver ion eluting bodies 51a and the like stirred by the stream in each chamber of the electrolytic cell 32a and turned into positive poles in a chamber and the same turned into negative poles in another chamber and the action of contact between the silver ion eluting bodies 51a and th...

The method for inserting partitions in cardboard bottle boxes (3) includes inserting separators (10) stored in a first magazine (56). A folder (45), comprising two identical flanges articulated to a plane and horizontal back, folds a double compartment (7) element (11) extracted from a second magazine. A linear conveyor (2) loads the empty cases and different means control the advancement and the ...

A leader (100, 200) which is used to pull a seamable papermaker's fabric (112) onto a paper machine comprising a ravel area (118) for securing pull ropes or cables thereto.; Una guia que se usa para jalar a una tela cosible para maquina papelera sobre una maquina papelera, comprendiendo un area deshilachada para asegurar cuerdas o cables de traccion a la misma.

The determining precision of catalyst activation, which is the basis for stopping a secondary air supply to accelerate catalyst activation and start air-fuel ratio feedback control, is enhanced. An engine cooling water temperature is detected, and a catalyst activation water temperature is determined from an engine startup water temperature based on predetermined characteristics. The catalyst acti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately estimate the storage quantity of an oxide stored in a particulate filter by preventing a large portion of particulates from being trapped on one face of the bulkhead of the particulate filter, and applying an oxidizing/removing action of the particulates on the downstream side of the exhaust gas flow from the bulkhead. SOLUTION: An oxidant 61 releasing the activ...

Values for a raw NOx concentration of an internal combustion engine, that are stored on an operating point basis, are read out from a characteristic map and an adaptation of variations in concentration takes place on the basis of an output signal of an NOx sensor provided downstream of a NOx storage catalyst, either by modification of a reduction factor, which serves for the calculation of a corre...

In a non-thermal plasma reactor ( 300 ), at least a component of the active material ( 320 ) is selected or modified to provide the capability to adsorb or trap a predetermined chemical species in the gas flow thereby to increase the effective residence time of said species relative to the residence time of unadsorbed species in the gas flow.

A device for the controlled release over a prolonged period of time of a drug having antiprogestinic properties, the device including a core containing the drug, optionally a membrane encasing the core, where at least one of the core and membrane, when present, is made of a siloxane-based elastomer composition including at least one elastomer and optionally a non-crosslinked polymer. The device is...

A parallel computer system capable of arbitrarily selecting nodes participating in barrier synchronization while enabling an arbitrary number of node groups to independently execute a process requiring the barrier synchronization. A communication network for the parallel computer system includes a plurality of routing controllers. Each routing controller has a register for setting a predetermined ...

An absorbent article, such as a diaper, sanitary napkin, adult incontinent device, and the like having fused layers is provided. The absorbent article preferably comprises a liquid pervious thermoplastic apertured film topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet, an absorbent core, and a fibrous acquisition web of spunlaced nonwoven fibers. The absorbent core is positioned between the topsheet and bac...

A composition (I) based on polyorganosiloxane(s), boric acid and water. Independent claims are also included for: (a) a method for the production of (I) by mixing the above components together; (b) silicone rubber granules containing composition (I); (c) a method for the production of silicone rubber granules by mixing the components and granulating the mixture.

Surfactants with divalent polyether units are added to RTV-1 alkoxy-polysiloxane materials containing tin catalysts. Tin-catalysed RTV-1 alkoxy materials containing surfactants (T) with divalent polyether units of formula -O-((CR alpha R beta )u)v- (I) but containing no acid phosphate esters of formula (HO)aOP(O-((CR'2)b-O)c-((CR<2>2)d)e-L-M)3-a (II); R alpha , R beta = H or 1-10C hydrocarbyl (op...

A first and second digital rate converter device and method provides for synchronization between a first digital sample sequence and a second digital output sequence related to the first digital sample sequence for a rate converter pair (501, 511; 601, 611). The method typically utilizes at least one of: queue monitoring and zero-crossing with resetting to minimize sampling timing error.

The wrapper which surrounds the product (P) is formed from two pieces (1, 2), for example, of thin aluminium foil. The first piece is shaped to a generally cup-shaped configuration so as to house the product (P) substantially completely also leaving a projecting edge (1c) in the region of the mouth portion of the cup-shaped configuration. The second piece (2), which retains a substantially flat co...

Improved hard surface cleaning compositions having an acidic pH provide good removal of soap scum stains. Compositions of the present invention comprise an acidic constituent which comprises either citric acid alone or citric acid in combination with an acid selected from the group consisting of sorbic acid, acetic acid, boric acid, formic acid, maleic acid, adipic acid, lactic acid, malic acid, m...

The present invention relates to a gas fluidized bed polymerization process comprising passing a gaseous stream comprising olefin-type monomer through a fluidized bed reactor in the presence of a catalyst under reactive conditions to produce polymeric product and a stream comprising unreacted monomer gases, compressing and cooling said stream, mixing said stream with feed components and returning ...