Abstract: In an eye drops container, a barrel portion 2 in the form of a flexible hollow cylinder defines a dent portion 7 which can be gripped with two fingers.

Abstract: A method for determining from measured reflection data on a plurality of trace positions, a plurality of subsurface parameters. The method includes the steps of: preprocessing the measured reflection data into a plurality of partial or full stacks; specifying one or more initial subsurface parameters defining an initial subsurface model; specifying a wavelet or wavelet field for each of the partial or full stacks of the measured reflection data; calculating synthetic reflection data based on the specified wavelets and the initial subsurface parameters; optimizing an objective function, including the weighted difference between measured reflection data and synthetic reflection data for a plurality of trace positions simultaneously; and outputting the optimized subsurface parameters. A device for implementing this method is also included.

Abstract: A martial arts training bag is provided having a substantially cylindrical upper portion and a tapered, e.g., frusto-conical, lower portion. The bag includes a central support and one or more training devices configured to be releasably connected to the central support.

Abstract: A spring nut adapter for use in connection with a U-shaped channel. The channel has a base plate, two side plates and channel grooves on upper portions of the side plates. The channel grooves are bounded by channel groove walls. The spring nut adapter includes a face plate with an attachment orifice extending therethrough, and a compression spring with a first end and a second end. The first end of the compression spring is secured to an underside of the face plate; an adapter element is secured to the second end of the compression spring.

Abstract: A hydraulic control apparatus for controlling a hydraulic cylinder for an implement selectively mounted to a work vehicle. The apparatus includes a hydraulic power source, a four-position changeover control valve disposed between the hydraulic cylinder and the hydraulic power source, and an operational mechanism for operating the four-position changeover control valve. The four-position changeover control valve has a first position for moving a rod of the hydraulic cylinder in one direction, a second position for stopping the rod of the hydraulic cylinder, a third position for moving the hydraulic cylinder rod at a high speed in the other direction with using a function of a regenerative circuit and a fourth position for moving the hydraulic cylinder rod in the other direction at a standard speed without using the function of the regenerative circuit, in the mentioned order.

Abstract: A saw blade for cutting hard workpieces, such as concrete or stone, characterized by improvement of the shape of a shank of the saw blade providing a plurality of cutting tips of the saw blade with a rotational force while the cutting tips are securely attached to the shank. The saw blade comprises a disc-shaped shank having an insertion hole formed at the center thereof, through which a rotating shaft of an electric-powered tool is inserted, and wave-shaped portions formed over a prescribed portion of the radius of the disc-shaped shank, and a plurality of cutting tips attached to the outer circumference of the shank for cutting a workpiece. The wave-shaped portions are spaced a prescribed distance from each other and alternately arranged on the front and rear surfaces of the disc-shaped shank. The prescribed portion of the radius of the disc-shaped shank is at a distance from the center of the insertion hole. The cutting tips contain particles of high hardness.

Abstract: A swivel type working vehicle includes a running device (30), a swivel base (32) mounted on the running device to be swivelable about a vertical swivel axis (31), a swing bracket (5) supported to be swingable about a vertical axis by a flange unit (4) disposed at a front end of the swivel base, a boom (2) having a proximal end (2B) thereof attached to the swing bracket to be swingable about a horizontal axis (6), a boom cylinder (3) having one end thereof connected to the swing bracket and the other end to the boom for swinging the boom, a hydraulic pressure takeoff device (10) disposed in a distal end region (2C) of the boom, and hydraulic pressure takeoff pipes (12A, 12B) for supplying hydraulic pressure to the hydraulic pressure takeoff device (10). The boom (2) is a hollow box having a front wall (17), a left wall (16A), a right wall (16B) and a rear wall (14) extending longitudinally of the boom. The boom cylinder (3) is disposed outside the boom to extend along the rear wall of the boom.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of a eukaryotic organism, for example selected from plants, animals and fungi, showing constitutive, inducible and/or organ specific expression of a specifically modified TPS gene, which comprises the steps of providing a TPS gene; designing a suitable modification to the TPS gene by aligning the gene with the corresponding gene of yeast and establishing which part of the gene extends beyond the 5? terminus of the yeast gene; deleting or inactivating a part of the N-terminal region of the TPS gene extending beyond the 5? terminus of the yeast gene, in order to achieve an increased trehalose-6-phosphate synthase activity; cloning the thus modified gene into an expression vector under the control of a constitutive, inducible and/or organ-specific promoter; transforming a plant cell or tissue with the thus obtained expression vector; and regenerating a complete plant from the transformed plant cell or tissue.

Abstract: An amusement device, including a frame made from four support legs which, running obliquely upwards toward one another, at their top end support a rotary member, an arm, one end of which is secured to the rotary member and which can be pivoted between the support legs, and a receiving device for people, which is suspended from the other end of the arm. The support legs, at their bottom end, are secured to a trailer by means of hinges, the hinge axis of which is oriented transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the trailer, and the axis of rotation of the rotary member is oriented in the longitudinal direction of the trailer.

Abstract: Fine particles of dust and other pollutants in gas streams are agglomerated to form larger particles which are more easily filtered in downstream processing. In one embodiment, particles in successive portions of the gas stream are charged with opposite polarity, and the gas stream is introduced into an Evasé portion (12) to slow it down. Particles of different sizes have differential deceleration and therefore mix generally in the direction of flow, leading to agglomeration of oppositely-charged particles. In another embodiment, a gas stream is divided into substreams in respective parallel passages, and the particles in adjacent passages are charged to opposite polarity. Deflectors at the downstream end of the passages cause substreams of particles of opposite polarity to mix, with resultant agglomeration of oppositely charged particles.

Abstract: In order to configure a jack (J) that realizes a favorable conductive state by bringing a tip electrode (10) at a front end of a plug (P) into reliable contact with a contact without making the jack bigger, a contact unit (CU) having a pair of tip contacts (CT) that contact the tip electrode (10) at the front end of the plug (P) in an embracing fashion is incorporated in a body (20). The contact unit (CU) is made of a linking portion (23), intermediate portions (24) that extend from both ends of the linking portion (23) towards an aperture side of the plug insertion hole (H), and folded portions (25) that are folded over from the ends of the intermediate portions (24) to the inner end side of the plug insertion hole (H), projecting into the plug insertion hole (H), the contact unit being formed in one piece by bending a band-shaped conductor, such as a copper alloy, and the tip contacts (CT) being formed on a free end side of the folded portions (25).

Abstract: The invention relates to a recording medium provided with colored image information, notably an identification card or value card. The colored image information is applied to a surface (A) of a polycarbonate layer which is treated to give it adhesive properties. The colored image information is notably applied by means of a thermal method and the surface (A) is preferably treated by application of an adhesive coating.

Abstract: The newly proposed cast aluminum alloy product has the composition consisting of 6.5-8.0% Si, 0.25-0.45% Mg, 0.08-0.40% Fe, 0.001-0.01% Ca, P less than 0.001%, 0.02-0.1% Ti, 0.001-0.01% B, optionally one or two of 0.05-0.3% Cr and 0.05-0.2% Mn, and the balance being Al except inevitable impurities. It has the metallurgical structure that an ?-Al phase in a surface layer is of average grain size different by 50 ?m or less from an ?-Al phase in an inner part, and that a maximum size of eutectic Si particles is 400 ?m or smaller. It is manufactured by injecting a molten aluminum alloy into metal dies at an injection speed of 0.05-0.25 m/second, and then cooling the injected alloy at a cooling speed of 20° C./or higher in a temperature range between liquidus and solidus curves in a state charged with a pressure of 30 MPa or higher. Since the cast product is good of ductility, it is used as a member for coupling another member therewith by calking or the like.

Abstract: In a process and a device for the parallel preparation of at least 4n oligonucleotides, at least four inserts each with n reaction vessels are first arranged on a plate (16), each reaction vessel containing a nucleotide initiator base bound to an inert carrier. Particular operations are then carried out in parallel with one another at four stations (28, 30, 32, 34), and in particular a deblocking operation simultaneously in all n reaction vessels of the insert at the first station (28), a first washing operation simultaneously in all n reaction vessels of the insert at the second station (30), a coupling operation in all n reaction vessels of the insert at the third station (32), and, simultaneously in all n reaction vessels of the insert at the fourth station (34), a second washing operation followed by a capping operation followed by a third washing operation followed by an oxidation operation followed by a fourth washing operation.

Abstract: A new and distinct Prunus rootstock compatible with other Prunus varieties and producing trees with reduced growth, suitable to sandy soil with high productivity.

Abstract: A new and distinct flowering Pelargonium plant with abundant purple colored flowers.