First sensors measure physical quantities correlated with the heat release value of a fire source, and second sensors measure physical quantities correlated with the amount of the product of burning. At least a pair of one first sensor and one second sensor are arranged in a zone to be monitored. A first threshold of high sensitivity and a second threshold of low sensitivity are set at the first s...

Water clarifying apparatus has a cylindrical tank where particulate contaminants suspended in raw water are separated using flotation techniques. A set of concentric mutually spaced, conical plates are positioned in the flotation tank. The plates rotate about the tank, preferably in unison with a (i) header that distributes equal quantities of raw water to each annular zone in the tank defined by ...

A foldable sofa sleeper mechanism having pivotally interconnected head, body, intermediate, and foot sections movable between a folded position in which the mechanism is contained within a storage enclosure of a sofa frame, and an extended unfolded position in which the bed frame extends in a planar attitude away from the sofa frame, and tilt prevention means for preventing the head end of the unf...

A tube container of double or triple sleeve structure includes a molded nozzle having a neck and a shoulder formed integrally. An outer sleeve is welded to the shoulder of the molded nozzle. An inner sleeve also is welded to the molded nozzle. A mixing nozzle piece is fitted tightly to the internal circumferential surface of the molded nozzle. A first creamy content is filled into the internal low...

A method and apparatus for predicting the number of contaminant particles in circuit area of a patterned semiconductor wafer having a number of reflective circuit areas. The method includes forming on a wafer in specified areas, a grating test pattern, such as a line grating. The grating patterns are formed at the same time and in the same manner that repetitive circuit patterns are formed on the ...

Disclosed is a quantitative evaluation method of optical absorption image which applies rays of light to a sample to obtain a quantitative optical absorption image without using destructive inspection and which can measure automatically and easily the dispersion of resistivity of the sample by calculating the mean value and standard deviation of the quantitative optical absorption image.

A video signal processor includes circuitry which may be conditioned by a mode control signal to operate as a single 16-bit adder or as two eight-bit adders. The circuitry includes two eight-bit adders, each of which has a carry-in input terminal and a carry-out output terminal. The carry-out output terminal of one of the adders is selectively coupled, via an AND gate, to the carry-in input termin...

Stress cracking in poly(alkylene terephthalate) articles of manufacture is inhibited by applying to the article a stress crack inhibitor which contains an amine having at least 6 carbon atoms. In a preferred embodiment, the stress crack inhibitor is applied to the article in the form of an aqueous fatty acid-based lubricant.

A synthetic foam is produced which has incorporated detergent. The detergent in substantially dry form is mixed with one of the foam forming reactants prior to the foam forming reaction. Typically for a polyisocyanate foam, the detergent is added to the polyol reactant.

The present invention is directed to methods for producing carbon containing fuel elements especially suited for use in cigarette-like smoking articles. One method of the present invention makes use of two separate pyrolysis steps to ensure that the carbon used to form the fuel elements for smoking articles is substantially free of materials which could adversely affect the aerosol delivered by su...

A disc brake caliper seal arrangement wherein an annular seal is provided between the caliper housing and the outside diameter of the piston provided therein. The seal provides a rollback function which returns the piston to a given running clearance between the disc rotor and brake pads after actuation of the brake. The seal is provided in a substantially square or rectangular cross-sectional con...

A metallic seal ring assembly (10) including a U-shaped ring having a bight section and a pair of legs (34), a flange (36) on the end of each of said legs (34), each flange (36) including a radial surface (40) and an annular surface (42), the distance between the radial surfaces being greater than the width of the bight section of the ring and a resilient sealing material (38) filling the space be...

A process for removing trace amounts of water soluble organic and inorganic substances dissolved in a water supply from the water supply includes the steps of flowing water from the water supply including trace amounts of the water soluble substances dissolved therein adjacent to and in contact with one side of a semipermeable barrier within a chamber, inducing evaporation of the trace amounts of ...

A semiconductive rubber foam having a volume resistivity that can be controlled to a practical level and retaining an initial softness even after the lapse of time, is obtained by foaming and curing a rubber composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a chlorinated ethylene/ alpha -olefin copolymer rubber and 10 to 50 parts by weight of carbon black. The volume resistivity of this semiconductive...

Biaxially oriented, partially crystalline polycarbonate carbonate films have improved properties. For instance, a 2 mu m film that has a degree of crystallinity of about 35% has an electrical breakdown strength of about 13.5 kv per mil. Such a film has a stretch ratio in the transverse direction of about 2.27/1 and in the machine direction of about 3.77/1.

A method of imbuing polymer films as of polyethelene and polypropylene with gas, aroma, fragrance, flavor, grease and oil impermeable surface characteristics involving coating the film with appropriate silane compounds and cross-linking the same while providing physical adsorption adherence to the film, and in sufficient coating micron thickness to produce gas and related barrier characteristics; ...

A method of inhibiting diffusion into a polyimide body by organic solvents and cations comprising applying ammonia to one or more surfaces of the body prior to exposing the surface to the solvents and cations. A composite article incorporating the diffusion barrier is also disclosed.

An EVA closed cell foam is composed of 100 parts of EVA, 1 to 5 parts of azodicarbonamide, 3 to 10 parts of zinc oxide, 1 to 5 parts of zinc stearate, 1 to 3 parts of stearic acid, and 15 to 25 parts of electrically conductive carbon black. The composition is stirred in a stirring machine. The stirred composition is mixed in a mixing machine. The mixed composition is rolled out with a calender rol...