Abstract: A hinged finger ring which is adapted to fit around the base of a finger without slipping is particularly useful for wearing on a finger having an enlarged knuckle. The ring preferably includes ornamented portions attached to first and second shank portions which are hinged together at ends opposite from the ornamented portions. The ring is closed around the finger by latching a male member attached to one of the ornamented portions into a cavity in the other of the ornamented portions. The latch is released to remove the ring by pressing down on the ornamented portion to which the male member is attached, thereby releasing the latch and allowing the ring to be opened.

Abstract: The invention related to a process for the production of a monolithic electronic and/or optoelectronic single-element or multi-element structure from a semionic material selected from the group of semionic materials comprising doped elemental semiconductors and doped binary, ternary or multinary chalcogenide or pnictide semiconductors, said process comprising: (a) establishing a location in a semionic body; (b) applying an electric field to said location in said semionic body; (c) maintaining said semionic body including said location at a temperature sufficiently low to preclude melting or decomposition of the semionic body while said electric field is being applied; and (d) controlling the electric field as to magnitude and time so that no decomposition and macroscopic melting of the material occurs while creating doping profiles sufficiently sharp to define at least one homojunction and thus create an electronic or optoelectronic device element in the semionic material in said location thereof.

Abstract: A lamp for fluorescent tubes includes a housing of plastic having two half-shells that can be divided laterally. A plug element is molded out of the housing and an illumination field is enclosed by an illumination field cover. Electrical equipment necessary for operating the fluorescent tube is provided. In the area of the separation line of the half-shells adjacent to the illumination field, at least one slot-shaped cutout for insertion of contact pins of the fluorescent tube is provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a low solvent content type-coating composition which provides the resultant coating with improved surface appearance, acid resistance, alkali resistance, weathering resistance, scuff resistance and solvent resistance, while the content of an organic solvent of the coating composition can be much reduced to 0 to 30% at 25.degree. C. The low solvent content type-coating composition comprises a vinyl oligomer having a blocked carboxyl group and an additional group selected from an epoxy group, a silanol group, a hydrolyzable silyl group and an acid anhydride group. The vinyl oligomer has a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 600 to 2000, a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 600 to 5000, and a ratio of a weight average molecular weight/a number average molecular weight (Mw/Mn) of 1.0 to 2.5. The blocked carboxyl group and an additional group may be present in the same or different vinyl oligomers.

Abstract: There is provided a stator yoke capable of improving magnetic characteristics and a rust-proofing effect of a stator yoke produced by using a Fe-Cr type alloy. When a stator yoke is produced by using a Fe-Cr type alloy, its magnetic characteristics can be improved, but when press working is made to obtain a predetermined shape, the magnetic characteristics drop. Annealing is carried out so as to recover the magnetic characteristics. This annealing generates the property change of a surface layer and a rust-proofing effect lowers.

Abstract: A tearing-off roller pair, for tearing off sections or strips divided by perforation cuts from a material web, consists of a first roller with a substantially smooth steel shell and, applied against it, a second roller with a resilient body set into it for increasing the contact pressure, which resilient body projects above its peripheral surface in its unstressed state. To allow a greater retaining force to be exerted on the sections to be torn off, several of the resilient bodies are set in a recess along a cylindrical surface of the second roller.

Abstract: A traveling control system for a motor vehicle includes a detector for detecting an object which exists in front of the motor vehicle to follow a vehicle traveling ahead. The system further includes a first course determination device for estimating a first course on which the motor vehicle will travel hereafter, an identification device for identifying an first target vehicle among the objects existing on the first course, and a second course estimation device for estimating, based on the first target vehicle, a second course on which the motor vehicle will travel hereafter at least while the first target vehicle is outside of the first course. The identification device identifies a second target vehicle among vehicles which travel on the first or second courses while the first target vehicle is outside of the first course.

Abstract: A hydraulic control system of an automatic transmission during a shift operation wherein a control pressure is controlled to selectively engage and release a plurality of frictional elements to establish a desirable shift stage comprising inertia phase detecting device for detecting a starting point of an inertia phase of the shift operation from one shift stage to another, and control pressure reducing device for gradually reducing the control pressure introduced to a frictional element to be engaged after the inertia phase is detected. The torque shock in the shift operation can be effectively reduced.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrasonic spirometer with a graduated tube where a transmitter/receiver cell pair is positioned in a graduated portion diagonally or perpendicularly to the graduated tube axis, with an easily replaceable breathing tube being insertable into the graduated tube. The breathing tube is at least partially made from essentially one material which is permeable for ultrasonic waves, but wholly or at least largely impermeable to germs and contaminants. In accordance with the invention, the material permeable for the ultrasonic waves and wholly or at least largely impermeable to the germs and contaminants is positioned at least in the area in which the graduated portion intersects the graduated tube over the whole circumference of the breathing tube.

Abstract: In a reverse-charge prevention apparatus (24) including a 1st breaker (25) for connecting or disconnecting an electric power system (A) to or from a distributed electric power apparatus (11), in which the 1st breaker (25) is switched off when the distributed electric power apparatus (11) is disconnected from the electric power system (A) by switching off a 2nd breaker (F) disposed in the electric power system (A) so that reverse-charge from the distributed electric power apparatus (11) to the electric power system (A) is prevented, the reverse-charge prevention apparatus (24) further includes a disturbance generator (20) for slightly varying electric power outputted by the distributed electric power apparatus (11) regularly with a given period; a variable period extraction circuit and a filter (26, 27) for extracting a variable period same in period to the given period, the variable period existing in a period of an alternating-current voltage outputted by the distributed electric power apparatus (11); and a

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the measurement of the molar mass of a gas or gas mixture and an apparatus for the performance of the method. The gas or gas mixture to be investigated is passed through at least one holder, on which at least one sonic or ultrasonic transmit-receive cell is arranged defining a baseline and preferably arranged obliquely to the axis of the tube. The sonic or ultrasonic transmit-receive elements radiate a pulsed sonic signal, which measures the transit times of the sonic pulses along the baseline. Using a temperature probe for instance the variations in gas temperature along the at least one sonic transmission path is determined. From the transit time of the sonic pulses and the measured or assumed temperature the molar mass is found. The apparatus in accordance with the invention may be employed with advantage in pulmonary function diagnostics.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an extract from Rehmannia glutinosa plant having a safener activity to a herbicide paraquat, a safener composition and a method for using the same. When the extract or the safener composition of the present invention is treated before treatment of the herbicide or with the herbicide simultaneously, phytotoxicity to the target crops can be reduced or prevented and the crops can be protected.

Abstract: A gas meter includes a measuring tube through which gas to be supplied is fed. The tube includes two ultrasonic transducers between which ultrasonic signals are transmitted so that gas flow is measured in dependence upon the difference between the times of flight of ultrasonic signals transmitted therebetween in opposite directions. The gas flow is determined from the difference between the times of flight. A digital display is operative to indicate the volume of gas used, and an electrical power supply is used for driving the apparatus. The times of flight are measured by an electronic clock. Finally, a data interface facilitates the feeding of data to or from the meter.

Abstract: The present invention relates to ion exchange membranes comprising soluble graft copolymer comprising a backbone of a first polymer having a main chain containing aromatic rings and a polymerizable vinyl or ring containing compound which contains at least one functional group which displays ion exchange functionality or may be converted to display ion exchange functionality, which is grafted onto said first polymer on at least one of said aromatic rings or on at least one benzylic carbon atom of said aromatic rings. The copolymer components may be selected to produce membranes for a variety of uses including electrodialytic processes such as electrodialytic concentration and separation processes, electrodialytic water splitting, electrolysis or electrolytic splitting of water and fuel cells for electrical generation; and pressure or chemical potential driven membrane processes such as ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, piezodialysis, diffusion dialysis and pervaporation.

Abstract: A holder for squeezing a soft tube, includes a main housing having a longitudinal slot and a hollow cylindrical interior, a center tube gripper having a longitudinal slot for receiving a closed end of a soft tube and being received by the main housing, a cover being assembled with the main housing at one end of the housing and having a plurality of fixed teeth, the cover receiving a key section of the center tube gripper, and a rotating device for rotating the center tube gripper so that a soft tube inserted into the longitudinal slot of the center tube gripper is wound up, and thereby flattened. The wound portion of the soft tube is stored inside the main housing. The rotating device further includes a rotation handle for manually rotating the center tube gripper, the rotation handle receiving the key section of said center tube gripper.

Abstract: An apparatus for calibrating and supporting an extruded film blown up into a film bubble made of a synthetic melt in an inflation extrusion installation consisting of supporting means driven by link rods whose inner ends are articulated in the median zone of each supporting means, and whose outer ends are articulated to brackets, which form parts of frames that carry spindle nuts at at least two points, and axially parallel screw spindles which are mounted on the basket-shaped frame and are provided with drive means, and have thread sections provided with threads of opposite hand screwed into said spindle nuts; that at a distance from one of said link rods, there is arranged an additional link rod parallel thereto and whose respective ends are articulated to a respective said supporting bar and to a said bracket.

Abstract: A super-conducting electro-magnet for use in an MRI system comprising a helium vessel within which magnet windings are positioned, a vacuum chamber within which the helium vessel is contained, at least one thermal shield positioned between the helium vessel and the vacuum chamber, a service turret having a neck tube which is arranged to extend through the thermal shield within the vacuum chamber so as to communicate with the helium vessel for filling purposes, the thermal shield being thermally coupled to the service turret neck tube by means of a plurality of flexible connector strips fabricated from laminated conductive material which at one end are secured to the thermal shield and which at the other end thereof are secured to the service turret neck tube, sufficient strips being provided substantially to surround the service turret neck tube thereby to provide a substantially continuous thermally conductive junction between the service turret neck tube and the thermal shield.

Abstract: A vehicle ignition key device directly activates a rotary switch by a rotation-driving mechanism remotely driven by an external control signal for stopping the engine of the vehicle. The device is further useful as a burglar-proof device. A rotary switch can be placed in OFF, ON and START positions by key operation, and a rotation-driving mechanism activates the switch in each of the positions by receiving an externally dispatched signal. Further, this device is constructed for use as the burglar-proof device by being provided with a vehicle speed detector and a mode switch for burglar-proofing.

Abstract: The invention relates to dispersion interferometers for measuring a dispersion portion of the refractive index of an investigated medium by an interferometric method and can be used in the optical industry and in the composition of diagnostic complexes of various plasma installations of the type of Tokamak, Stellarator, gas-discharge lasers. The dispersion interferometer comprising a radiation source, two nonlinear optical doublers of frequency at a distance ensuring a location of an object under examination therebetween, a light filter means and a recording device, all arranged along an optical axis. Additionally provided is a polarization beam splitter, and the two non-linear optical frequency doublers are so oriented that the directions of polarization of fast waves are orthogonal to each other and do not coincide with ones separated by the beam splitter and the radiation source.

Abstract: A wheel assembling apparatus for assembling different types of wheels to different types of vehicle bodies conveyed along a vehicle assembling line has a robot hand for fastening a plurality of nuts to hub bolts provisionally affixed to the wheel so as to assemble the wheel held by the robot hand to the vehicle body. The robot hand is provided with a center pin attachment to which different types of center pins, having been prepared correspondingly to center holes of the different types of wheels, are selectively and detachably attached. The center pin attached to the robot hand is fitted into the center hole of the wheel hub and locates the wheel in position with respect to the robot hand.