Abstract: A hydrodynamic stirring device which dissolves, mixes or puts back into suspension or into a “sol” in a primary liquid phase, a deposited sediment which is contained in a tank and covered by the primary liquid phase. The stirring device includes a suction device, including at least one pumps to remove liquid from the primary liquid phase in the tank, and an injector connected to a discharge side of the suction device. The injector is equipped for reinjecting the liquid into the tank, towards the deposited sediment, in the form of at least one jet having a predefined pressure and flow rate. The injector further includes at least one tube which bears at an end portion thereof, a self-rotating lance. The lance a hollow cylindrical stator which is open at both of its end portions. At a first of its end portions to the injector tube. At a second of its end portions, the stator is connected to a nozzle bearing rotor which is rotatably mounted on the stator.

Abstract: A composite textured air-entangled multi-filament yarn having two or more continuous filament feed yarns, each of which is of different color or dyeability from the other, each feed yarn being pigmented in a melt-spinning process, pre-dyed, or undyed with different dye affinities which are subsequently dyed, the feed yarns being combined into a composite yarn having repeated color change alternating cycles along its length, and the alternating cycles having between them a lengthwise color difference of about 15-95% or more on the circumferential surface of the yarn in either the red, green or blue primary colors, as measured by spectral analysis, between immediately adjacent lengths thereof, and each adjacent color length being between about 4 inches to 144 inches.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a wire-shaped ultrasonic catheter for ultrasonic angioplasty. The ultrasonic catheter head is provided with a diamond coating. The catheter has a cylindrical sonotrode and a thin ultrasound catheter which together form a resonant system. The catheter is made from a thin stainless steel ultrasound waveguide. The catheter is coupled to a mechanical connection system at one end and at the other end to a hardened, bulb-shaped stainless steel catheter tip having a cylindrical, spherical or rounded conical shape with a diamond powder coating.

Abstract: A solidified residual iron within a blast furnace is suspended up by employing a shell suspending device fixed to a tuyere arranged in a lower end portion of an upper portion of a furnace body suspended by a lift jack and a solidified residual iron suspending band, thereafter is descended by employing the lift jack and is mounted on a horizontally moving table. Subsequently, the horizontally moving table mounting the solidified residual iron thereon is moved onto a furnace outer truck rail from a furnace inner truck rail so as to be taken out of the furnace by operating a center hole jack arranged near the furnace outer truck rail, whereby an operation of taking out the solidified residual iron within the blast furnace out of the furnace is economically performed for a short time.

Abstract: A method for producing pyrrolidine derivatives such as 3,4-epoxypyrrolodines, 3-pyrrolidols and the like, by oxidizing 3-pyrrolines with at least one peroxide in the presence of at least one acid is disclosed. The 3-pyrrolines are produced by deriving cis-2-butene compounds from cis-2-butene-1,4-diols and performing a cyclization between the cis-2-butene derivatives and at least one primary amine. The method may be performed as a one-pot synthesis and may be performed as a continuous reaction.

Abstract: A fuel reforming device comprising a fuel lead-in pipe, a forward travel fuel pipe wound spirally toward a first direction with a spiral diameter gradually decreasing, a flow direction reversing pipe for reversing the direction of fuel flow from the forward travel fuel pipe in a second direction opposite to the first direction, a backward travel fuel pipe wound spirally toward the second direction with a spiral diameter gradually increasing in a winding direction opposite to that of the forward travel fuel pipe, and a fuel lead-out pipe, wherein a filler containing a silicon compound is placed around the forward travel fuel pipe, the flow direction reversing pipe and the backward travel fuel pipe. The fuel reforming device makes it possible to greatly reduce exhaust smoke and nitrogen oxides, to reduce other components such as carbon dioxide, and to improve the output and the rate of consumption of fuel for engines using reformed fuel.

Abstract: In industrial production of &ohgr;-hydroxyaliphatic acid being an important intermediate for large cyclic lactone-based perfumes, using dicarboxylate ester which is inexpensive and readily obtainable, a method, with high yield and improved selectively, for making a 2-(&ohgr;-alkoxycarbonylalkanoyl)-4-butanolide and an alkaline metal salt thereof, an ester of &ohgr;-hydroxy-(&ohgr;-3)-ketoaliphatic acid as a novel compound and a derivative thereof, and a method for making the same are provided.

Abstract: A device for generating and manpulating coherent matter waves contains a magnetic trap being adapted to form a magnetic trapping potential for gas atoms, said magnetic trap comprising a plurality of trap coils being connected with a current supply device and including two quadrupole coils and one Ioffe coil, wherein the trap coils are arranged in such a relative position that a common trap is formed, said common trap having a quadrupole trap shape with one trap minimum if the quadrupole coils are in an operation condition and the Ioffe coil is in a currentless condition or two trap minima or a Ioffe trap shape if all the quadrupole and Ioffe coils are in an operation condition and a shielding device protecting the magnetic trap against external magnetic fields. A method of continuous extracting matter waves from the trap is described.

Abstract: In a method for scanning microscopy, for which the surface of a sample is scanned point-by-point using a tunnel tip and locally resolved tunnel current measurement is performed, during scanning the tunnel tip is remagnetized by a predetermined remagnetization frequency, and from the tunnel current (It) or a z coordinate of the distance between the tunnel tip and the sample or a value derived from this, locally resolved signal components are derived, occurring at the remagnetization frequency and being characteristic for magnetic sample properties, whereby on the basis of the derived signal components an imaging of the magnetic structure of the sample surface is performed.

Abstract: Grain-oriented silicon steel sheet with Bi as an auxiliary inhibitor and a forsterite coating film having a Cr spinel oxide subscale of FeCr2O4 or FexMn1-xCr2O4 (0.6≦x≦1), made from a steel slab containing 0.005-0.20 wt % of Bi and 0.1-1.0 wt % of Cr.

Abstract: Process for the remote publishing of musical scores, characterized in that a data base comprising a file of digitized scores and a file comprising search criteria are stored in the memory of a server, with the server having communication means for access to the search file by a remote client workstation, and for receiving specific digital data sent by the client workstation to the server, and means for generating a download file corresponding to the merger of the specific digital data and the selected digitized score file, with said downloadable file being a digital image file comprising means to limit the number of reproduction.

Abstract: A polyimide-based insulating film composition comprising (a) 100 parts by weight of an organic solvent-soluble polyimidosiloxane obtained from a tetracarboxylic acid component and a diamine component comprising 45 to 90 mole percent of a diaminopolysiloxane represented by the following general formula (1): H2N—R1—[Si(R2)2—O—]n1—Si(R2)2—R1—NH2  (1) 0.5 to 40 mole percent of a polar group-containing aromatic diamine and 0 to 50 mole percent of an aromatic diamine with plural benzene rings, (b) 2 to 40 parts by weight of a polyvalent isocyanate and (c) an organic solvent. The composition has satisfactory storage stability and printing properties, while its cured films exhibit solvent resistance, with both heat resistance and flex resistance.

Abstract: Aromatic compounds having an alkyl group with at least 3 carbon atoms are produced in a process comprising at least one of the following steps: (1) a step of contacting a starting material that contains an aromatic compound having a branched alkyl group with at least 3 carbon atoms, with a zeolite-containing catalyst in a liquid phase in the presence of hydrogen therein, thereby changing the position of the carbon atoms of the alkyl group bonding to the aromatic ring of the compound; (2) a step of contacting a starting material that contains an aromatic compound having a branched alkyl group with at least 3 carbon atoms, with a catalyst containing zeolite and containing rhenium and/or silver, in a liquid phase, thereby changing the position of the carbon atoms of, the alkyl group bonding to the aromatic ring of the compound; (3) a step of contacting a halogenated aromatic compound having an alkyl group with at least 3 carbon atoms, with an acid-type catalyst, thereby isomerizing the compound; (4) a step o

Abstract: Biologically active sultams are disclosed which have potent anti-HIV activity. Solution methods of syntheses, which use a new catalyst for the asymmetric reduction of a C═N intermediate, are described. Biological compositions and method of treating mammals for viral infections with compositions comprising the sultams of the invention, especially HIV are described.

Abstract: The present invention provides a ferritic stainless steel sheet having excellent formability and excellent surface quality after forming. In specific means, the steel sheet contains, by mass %, 0.02 to 0.06% of C, 1.0% or less of Si, 1.0% or less of Mn, 0.05% or less of P, 0.01% or less of S, 0.005% or less of Al, 0.005% or less of Ti, 11 to 30% of Cr, 0.7% or less of Ni, the balance composed of Fe, and inevitable impurities, wherein N is contained to satisfy the relation to the C content represented by 0.06≦(C+N)≦0.12, and 1≦N/C, and V is contained to satisfy the relation to the N content represented by 1.5×10−3≦(V×N)≦1.5×10−2 (wherein C, N and V: the contents (mass %) of the elements).

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a process for the purification of an organic product by fractionated crystallization, characterized in that the organic product is purified by circulation in filled tubes by varying the circulation rate at each purification and concentration stage. The invention also pertains to an apparatus for the purification of an organic product by fractionated crystallization designed for the implementation of said process.

Abstract: A molding material comprises at least the following components A, B and C, with the component C arranged to contact a composite comprising the components A plus B. The components are elongated members identified as: A A continuous reinforcing fiber bundle, B A thermoplastic polymer or oligomer having a weight average molecular weight of 200 to 50,000 and a melt viscosity lower than that of the component C, and C A thermoplastic resin having a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 or more.

Abstract: An articulated container, collapsible and expandable, to be used for the transport of fruits or similar products, formed by two front walls, two lateral walls, two upper tops and a floor or base floor, characterized in that said front walls present a grooved radius which commences in the penultimate horizontal rib from top to bottom. Thereafter a plurality of parts of truncated triangular sections are extended, similar to those that are present at the bottom or base floor. These being joined intermittently through their exterior facings by rectangular membranes extended transversally with respect to the floor or base floor; likewise, they are provided with hooking and piling parts as well as small latches, which commence at the upper and lower border of said front walls; the lateral walls of the interior surface are raised or expanded perpendicularly to the wall, forming the corners, prismatic bodies in the form of an “L”; the tops are joined with the lateral walls through intermittent membranes.

Abstract: A method for measuring fitness for use of a storage battery subject to electric loading including determining a load profile (current profile I(t) or power profile P(t)) as a function of time t, for the storage battery, recording an actual voltage response U(t) of the storage battery to the load profile or calculating a voltage response U(t) of the storage battery to the load profile, and determining a fitness for use value SOH for the storage battery based on the difference between a lowest (highest) voltage value Umin (Umax) during application of the load profile to the storage battery, and based on a voltage limiting value U1, wherein U1 is a voltage value which may not be undershot (overshot) by the voltage U(t) at any time t during which the load profile is applied to the storage battery.

Abstract: A water heater including a water container, a combustion chamber adjacent the container, the combustion chamber having a side wall and at least one flame arrestor to admit air and extraneous fumes into the combustion chamber and confine ignition and combustion of the extraneous fumes within the combustion chamber, and a burner having a multiplicity of burner ports associated with the combustion chamber and arranged to combust fuel to heat water in the container, and an air diverter including a baffle plate with an upper surface and an outer edge portion, the diverter positioned in the combustion chamber and having a lower portion of the upper surface positioned at about the same height as at least a portion of the burner ports, the baffle plate sized to form a gap between the outer edge portion and the side wall such that flames generated by combustion of the fuel tend to attach to at least a portion of the lower portion, and a flange attached to and angled upwardly from the outer edge portion and adapted to