Abstract: The exemplary disclosure includes a patient support, an x-ray tube with a diaphragm installation comprising diaphragm plates for the limitation of the x-ray beam irradiating the patient, and a cassette changer for x-ray film cassettes. The cassette changer is a large cassette changer for the entire area to be detected. The diaphragm installation exhibits a fixed diaphragm which limits the maximum size of the x-ray beam, and mechanism for the individual, independent adjustment of movable diaphragm plates determining the dimension of the x-ray beam in the longitudinal direction of the patient support.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing plastic parts which are otherwise identical but which display different indicia such as typewriter keys which comprises the steps of injection molding a plurality of identical parts of a plastic having a filler material capable of undergoing a color change and thereafter exposing individually the identical parts to a radiation source for changing the color of localized portions of the part to display the indicia while retaining the molded color of remaining portions wherein the plastic is polyacetal and the filler is carbon black or graphite.

Abstract: An activation module for multiplex passive displays integrates the output drivers of the module into two groups which, independently of one another, can be connected either to the columns or to the rows of an electrode matrix. The four pulse voltages necessary for this purpose are internally formed. Preferably, the switching unit has driver groups with 10 or 35, respectively, output drivers and can thus activate a 10-position data row with 5.times.7 matrices. The component can be constructed with known elements of CMOS technology. The proposed multiplex driver finds use, above all, in medium-to-high information liquid crystal displays.

Abstract: A Fault-tolerant computer architecture employs a plurality of microcomputers connected in a partially meshed ring. Three device controllers are connected to any of the microcomputers by means of a passive switch, and a fault in data transmission relative to one microcomputer is resolved by a two-out-of-three decision. A failure of one microcomputer is manifested by an adjacent microcomputer, so that the down microcomputer is omitted from furthwr task assignments.

Abstract: The invention provides a push button switch covering member integrally made of a rubbery elastomeric material having an improved structure with which a much larger key stroke is obtained before a snapping action takes place in the covering member when the member is pushed at the center portion leading to the contact of the contact points than in the conventional ones.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing woven slide fastener stringers comprises means for shedding a plurality of warp threads, a coiling mechanism for coiling a monofilament of synthetic resin around a mandrel in a conical orbit to form a series of coiled coupling elements and a weft inserter reciprocable across the warp shed and the conical orbit for inserting a weft thread into the warp shed, by which the coiled coupling elements can be woven into a stringer tape along a longitudinal edge thereof as the tape is woven of the warp and weft threads. The weft inserter includes an arm which when the weft thread is inserted is engageable with the monofilament to displace the latter out of the path of insertion of the weft thread so that the weft thread can be inserted smoothly without being frictionally engaged by the monofilament.

Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, the point of departure is that of a substitute signal system for deaf individuals which codes acoustical signals, in particular speech sound, into electrocutaneous stimulation patterns. Current pulse patterns serve as substitute signals which, via skin surface electrodes, e.g. on the forearm, bring about sensory patterns which can be interpreted as speech information. To this end, the sound signal is separated with band pass filters into e.g. twelve component signals characteristic for the recognition of speech, whose levels are converted into pulse durations, whereby the dependency of the sensation intensity upon the stimulation parameters is taken into account. The mean frequencies of the band pass filters are associated with a corresponding number of locations on the forearm (i.e. in the present example twelve). A simulation of lateral inhibition suppresses irrelevant spectral components and thus acts in a selectivity-increasing (or enhancing) fashion.

Abstract: Very fine circuit structures in microelectronics are produced by first applying a thin metal oxide layer uniformly over an entire surface of a layer to be etched, then applying a resist layer uniformly over the entire metal oxide layer and structuring such oxide layer by ion-beam etching and, utilizing the structured oxide layer as a mask, performing a dry-etching with an ion beam of the metal layer lying thereunder so as to attain structures having very unfavorable resist height to etching depth ratios.

Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, for testing the chronological resolution of hearing, acoustic signals are supplied to the ear to be tested via an earpiece and consist of a test tone which can be interrupted and of a masking sound which can be modulated, their frequency and amplitude level being adjustable. Complicated measures are necessary for the measurement of the so-called listening threshold period pattern in order to present a complete pattern for identifying the chronological resolution of the hearing. In contrast, the disclosure provides an uncomplicated measuring device which is also easy to operate and with which the maximum and the minimum of the listening threshold period pattern or, respectively, their difference can be determined. To this end, the disclosure provides a device with channels generating respective sound signals, each of the channels having its own generator.

Abstract: In the exemplary embodiments, the imaging of the interior of bodies is rendered possible by means of nuclear magnetic resonance. Up to the present time, the known methods have such a small signal-to-noise ratio that the medical application is uncertain on account of the necessary long measuring duration and the thus unavoidable body movement. The disclosed method permits a significant raising of the signal-to-noise ratio and thus renders possible a shortening of the measuring time for the purpose of preparing medically utilizable images. For this purpose, the disclosure provides, through inversion of the nuclear magnetization by means of "fast adiabatic passage" in the primary field direction and simultaneous detection of the magnetization change by a longitudinal field detector, the attainment of a spatially resolved examination of extensive objects by means of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR, entire body-zeugmatography) with substantially higher constant field intensities than previously.

Abstract: An x-y infrared CCD sensor employing the photoelectric effect as in a p-doped semiconductor substrate of silicon with an n.sup.+ pn diode as the infrared sensor element with a three layer structure in the vertical direction in the semiconductor substrate and a n-channel charge coupled device shift register. The device has a metal-oxide-semiconductor storage electrode directly adjacent to the n-region of the three layer structure. The device is manufactured by masked ion implantation with the doping density for the three layer sequence such that the doping density for the layer operating as the emitter is greater than the doping density for the layer operating as a base, which in turn is greater than the doping density for the layer operating as the collector.

Abstract: A technique for sulfonating petroleum oil feed stocks which materially increases the extent of reaction between the sulfonatable components present in the feed stock and sulfur trioxide, and yields an improved sulfonated product. The invention provides a method which includes forming a liquid mixture of a petroleum oil feed stock and an organic additive, feeding such mixture to a reaction zone, and contacting the mixure with a reactable sulfur trioxide material. The additive appears to promote continuity of materials during the reaction in such a way that substantially homogeneous product compositions are obtained. The invention also includes the so-attained reaction products. Methods of neutralizing, digesting, purifying and other treatments to improve product utility are taught.

Abstract: An airless hydraulic diaphragm paint pump having a pumping chamber subdivided by a diaphragm into pumping fluid and pump fluid subchambers with an inlet from a pump fluids storage and an outlet to a pumped fluid utilizer such as a paint spray gun. A bypass port is provided for returning pumped fluid to the source at a low pressure. A pressure release valve in communication with both the outlet and the bypass port is effective to allow bypassing the pumped fluid directly back to the source and to bleed the line between the pumped fluid utilizer and the pump. The valve is actuated by a solenoid actuator and is opened when the pump drive is terminated or manually or in the event of an excessive high pressure.

Abstract: A current transfer amplifier includes a voltage signal source for supplying a voltage signal to be amplified, a voltage/current converter for converting the voltage signal from the voltage signal source into a current signal proportional to the voltage signal, a tone control circuit of a current amplification type supplied with the current signal, a non-linear switching element interposed between the output of the voltage/current converter and the input of the tone control circuit to transmit the current signal therethrough, a variable resistor for receiving the current signal to produce a voltage signal proportional to the current signal.

Abstract: A blank rod of metal has a substantially Y-shaped cross section including a pair of V-shaped diverging legs each having a longitudinal rib on midportions of its inner surface. The blank rod is intermittently fed in a longitudinal direction as each of the ribs is pressed by a presser roll having series of die teeth into a succession of projections or teeth longitudinally spaced an interval from each other. The blank rod is then transversely sliced substantially centrally across each tooth on at least one of the legs into a plurality of individual slide fastener coupling elements.

Abstract: The present invention deals with an improved pyrometallurgical furnace system of the type in which the melt and/or slag comes into contact with cooled furnace walls. The improvements of the present invention are directed to mechanical structures in which the cooling elements are sectionalized and are releasably secured to cooling element carriers, with pivotal means being provided to enable the cooling element carriers to be pivoted into position providing access to the cooling elements which are releasably secured to the carriers.

Abstract: A color television camera system including an image pickup tube and having color filter means for forming color separated images of an object and including means for deriving composite color video signals from the image pick-up tube which represent the color separated images with the color filter having a first set of color stripes for generating a first chrominance signal component having a first frequency band and having in-phase carrier with respect to each horizontal scan and a second set of color stripes and a third set of color stripes for generating second and third chrominance signal components which have frequency bands on both sides of the first frequency band respectively with the carrier phase of the second and third chrominance signals being reversed with respect to each horizontal scan.

Abstract: A signal processing system records and reproduces a music signal which varies repeatedly. The music signal is sampled at a given sampling period and pulse row obtained from the sampling is rearranged into a given pattern to achieve a new pulse row which is stored. For read out from a storage medium, a read-out means reproduces the original pulse row sequence and provides a wave form of the original music signal.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for sharpening, grinding, polishing or honing metal objects which has a motor driven vertically mounted grinding wheel provided with a stream of water which can be recirculated to cool the grinding wheel. The device is provided with an adjustable guard to be mounted at the top of the device which has formed in it several guide means for use in sharpening various tools. A pivotable guard plate can be selectively locked throughout a range of angles with respect to the grinding wheel to provide an appropriate support surface. The guard can be adjusted upwardly and downwardly to accommodate wearing down of the grinding wheel and to adjust the grinding angle.

Abstract: Very thin semiconductor chips are produced from a relatively large semiconductor substrate (such as gallium arsenide substrate) by generating a select pattern of crystallographic stress areas in a front surface of the substrate, as by mechanical scoring or application of a layer of material having a coefficient of thermal expansion significantly different from that of the semiconductor material in a pattern corresponding to the desired chip; applying an etch-resistant carrier member to such stressed front surface and etching the entire back surface of the substrate into a thickness less than 50 .mu.m, whereby the etching reaction penetrates into the region of the crystallographic stress and a division of the resultant eroded body into individual chips corresponding to the selected patterns occurs, with the chips being carried by said carrier member.