Abstract: A slat cove filler is utilized to reduce airframe noise resulting from deployment of a leading edge slat of an aircraft wing. The slat cove filler is preferably made of a super elastic shape memory alloy, and the slat cove filler shifts between stowed and deployed shapes as the slat is deployed. The slat cove filler may be configured such that a separate powered actuator is not required to change the shape of the slat cove filler from its deployed shape to its stowed shape and vice-versa. The outer contour of the slat cove filler preferably follows a profile designed to maintain accelerating flow in the gap between the slat cove filler and wing leading edge to provide for noise reduction.

Abstract: A slat cove filler is utilized to reduce airframe noise resulting from deployment of a leading edge slat of an aircraft wing. The slat cove filler is preferably made of a super elastic shape memory alloy, and the slat cove filler shifts between stowed and deployed shapes as the slat is deployed. The slat cove filler may be configured such that a separate powered actuator is not required to change the shape of the slat cove filler from its deployed shape to its stowed shape and vice-versa. The outer contour of the slat cove filler preferably follows a profile designed to maintain accelerating flow in the gap between the slat cove filler and wing leading edge to provide for noise reduction.

Abstract: A slat cove filler is utilized to reduce airframe noise resulting from deployment of a leading edge slat of an aircraft wing. The slat cove filler is preferably made of a super elastic shape memory alloy, and the slat cove filler shifts between stowed and deployed shapes as the slat is deployed. The slat cove filler may be configured such that a separate powered actuator is not required to change the shape of the slat cove filler from its deployed shape to its stowed shape and vice-versa. The outer contour of the slat cove filler preferably follows a profile designed to maintain accelerating flow in the gap between the slat cove filler and wing leading edge to provide for noise reduction.

Abstract: A slat cove filler is utilized to reduce airframe noise resulting from deployment of a leading edge slat of an aircraft wing. The slat cove filler is preferably made of a super elastic shape memory alloy, and the slat cove filler shifts between stowed and deployed shapes as the slat is deployed. The slat cove filler may be configured such that a separate powered actuator is not required to change the shape of the slat cove filler from its deployed shape to its stowed shape and vice-versa. The outer contour of the slat cove filler preferably follows a profile designed to maintain accelerating flow in the gap between the slat cove filler and wing leading edge to provide for noise reduction.

Abstract: A-way locking rotary drive clutch assembly for actuating an adjuster mechanism on an automotive vehicle seat including a cylinder (30) fixedly secured to the vehicle seat and a mobile flange (40) rotatable journaled to the cylinder and fixedly secured to an input shaft (18) for externally actuating the adjuster mechanism. The cylinder includes a cylindrical bearing surface. The clutch assembly includes a plurality of cams (50, 52) enactable with the bearing surface to prevent rotation of the mobile flange relative to the cylinder. The cams are rotatable assembled to the mobile flange for moving in and out of engagement with the bearing surface. The cams are biased into engagement with the bearing surface. A handle body (60) journaled to the cylinder includes a plurality of teeth engagable with teeth on the mobile flange. Tabs (62) extend from the handle body to move the cams out of engagement with the bearing surface during rotation of the handle body relative to the mobile flange.

Abstract: A ring seal has an annular body and a radially inwardly extending tab member. The tab member is effectively associated or combined with a slot formed in a shaft or other rotating object to prevent rotation of the seal relative to the rotating member. The ring seal has two sides of sealing surfaces, which are annular, and one radially outer circumferential sealing surface.

Abstract: A dielectric capacitor having self healing properties is disclosed. The capacitor includes a film made of an amorphous aromatic copolycarbonate having a weight average molecular weight of at least 10,000 and a glass transition temperature of at least 160° C. In a preferred embodiment the copolycarbonate includes structural units derived from bisphenol TMC. Also disclosed is a process for making the film.

Abstract: A show case, e.g. for displaying shoes or the like, comprises horizontal shelf plates (2) and tilted shelf plates (4). The tilted shelf plates (4) are pivotably supported and can be tilted upwardly. The pivots (40) and support elements of the tilted shelf plates (4) as well as the guide rails (44) of the horizontal shelf plates (2) are vertically displaceable in side plates (1) of the show case and may be locked in desired positions.

Abstract: The invention concerns a film as a dielectric in capacitors having self-healing properties and a process for producing such a film.

Abstract: The invention relates to films made from mixtures of polycarbonate and polystyrol, the use thereof for manufacturing products made from said film, by stamping, a method for the manufacture of products made from films made from mixtures of polycarbonate and polystyrol, by stamping and the products obtained by the stamping of films made from mixtures of polycarbonate and polystyrol.

Abstract: The present invention relates to antistatic extruded polycarbonate sheets produced from thermoplastic polycarbonates, polyalkylene terephthalates and carbon black, as well as processes for the production of such sheets.

Abstract: Films from aromatic polyesters and from aromatic polyestercarbonates are excellently suitable for preparing printing ribbons, in particular for thermal and electrothermal recording processes.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing printed electrical circuits which comprise a substrate and copper foil applied thereto by hot embossing in a predetermined circuit pattern, said method comprising(a) providing a laminate which comprises the sequence of a printed circuit substrate, a heat activated adhesive layer, a copper foil and a carrier film which is electrically conductive,(b) passing an electrical current between two electrodes and through the carrier film wherein one electrode has sufficiently large film contact area whereby substantially no resistance heating results from the current density and the other electrode serves as an embossing tool and is of sufficiently small film contact area whereby sufficient resistance heating results from the current density to activate the adhesive layer to bond the copper foil to the substrate in the pattern of said other electrode, and(c) removing from the laminate the carrier film and such copper foil overlying areas where the adhesive was not heat activated thereby leav

Abstract: Films from aromatic polyesters and from aromatic polyestercarbonates are excellently suitable as electrically insulating films, for example as dielectric for capacitors and as conductor track films.

Abstract: Polyesters having at least 90%, by weight, of recurrent structural units corresponding to the following formula: ##STR1## and characterised by a relative viscosity.eta..sub.rel of from 1.6 to 4.5 (determined at 25.degree. C. in CH.sub.2 Cl.sub.2, c=5 g/l) are suitable for the production of films having highly advantageous performance characteristics, in particular high heat resistance.

Abstract: Optically monoaxial film of plastic which is coated with a product formed by hardening a mixture of a prepolymer, containing at least two (meth)acryloyl groups, and a (meth)acrylic acid ester of a monohydric or polyhydric aliphatic alcohol and/or an aliphatic vinyl compound, and the use of this film in liquid crystal visual displays.

Abstract: An optically virtually isotropic plastic film, in particular for use in liquid crystal displays, can be produced by a method in which first an optically uniaxial birefringent plastic film is produced by casting or extrusion, and then irreversible molecular reorientation is produced in layers of the film close to the surface by heating or by immersion in a solvent or swelling agent. This reoriented structure is retained after cooling or drying of the film, and results in the birefringence (anisotropy) initially present being eliminated or compensated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polycarbonate laminates consisting of an electrically conductive polycarbonate layer (A) containing carbon black or graphite, and an electrically insulating polycarbonate layer (B), their preparation and their use in the electrical sector.

Abstract: Birefringence-free arrangement of plastic foils, characterized in that two plastic foils having a single principal optical axis, said optical axis lying within the plane of the plastic foil, are arranged parallel behind each other so that the optical axes of both plastic foils are forming an angle of 90.degree..+-.7.degree. and the material of the foils with regard to its optical properties and the thickness of the foils being selected in such a manner that the optical path differences .DELTA.n.sub.1 D.sub.1 for the light waves which are associated with the two main refraction indices within the first plastic foil is approximately equal to the optical path difference .DELTA.n.sub.2 d.sub.2 of the second plastic foil, .DELTA.n.sub.1, .DELTA.n.sub.2, being the difference of the main refraction indices in the first and second foil, respectively, and d.sub.1, d.sub.

Abstract: A show case, e.g. for displaying shoes or the like, comprises horizontal shelf plates (2) and tilted shelf plates (3). The tilted shelf plates (3) are pivotably supported and can be tilted upwardly. The pivots (7, 22) and the support elements (8, 14, 29) of the tilted shelf plates (3) as well as the support elements (6, 14) of the horizontal shelf plates (2) are vertically displaceable in side plates (1) of the show case and may be locked in desired positions.