Abstract: A goalkeeper's glove inner hand portion, including four front finger regions, a thumb region, a hand region, and wrist region, the four front finger regions and the thumb region having fingertip pieces, a carrier layer covering the inner hand portion, and an external latex layer put on the carrier layer, with the external latex layer having thickenings provided in regions of the fingertip pieces of the front finger regions, the thumb region, along an outer side of the thumb region, along a hand edge line of the hand region, and in a transition region between the hand and wrist regions, with the thickness of respective thickenings increasing in directions from the hand region toward the wrist region and toward free ends of the finger and thumb regions, respectively, and with the thickness of the respective thickenings diminishing from a predetermined ridge line toward ends of the fingertip pieces of the front finger regions, and the thumb region, toward the hand edge line, and toward the outer side of the thum

Abstract: Autonomously replicating sequences(ARS), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase(GAPDH) gene and GAPDH promoter derived from Hansenula polymorpha DL-1(ATCC 26012); a vector for H. polymorpha which contains the novel ARS and is capable of inserting tandem repeating multiple copies of a polynucleotide encoding a foreign protein to the chromosome of H. polymorpha; a process for the production of a foreign protein in H. polymorpha by employing said vector; and a method for the selection of transformed H. polymorpha having multiple copies of integrated foreign genes.

Abstract: An apparatus for packaging mattresses and including a furling drum having a roll-forming chamber defined by a plurality of circumferentially arranged rotatable rollers located downstream of a substantially nozzle-shaped feeding area of the drum, with the rollers having a surface pattern defined by a plurality of circumferentially spaced from each other mattress-engaging elements providing for rolling of a mattress into a roll and enabling movement of the mattress in an axial direction; and a forming tube provided downstream of the furling drum for wrapping the rolled mattress, with the forming tube having a diameter greater than a diameter of the furling drum.

Abstract: A driving data recording device for a motor vehicle for collecting at least one of time- and speed-dependent data and including, housing having an element for securing the housing to a housing shell of a motor vehicle drive gear, a control module for processing collected data and located in the housing, and a memory located in the housing and cooperating with the control module.

Abstract: For concealing channel errors in an image signal divided into a multiplicity of blocks of M.times.N pixels, M and N being positive integers, a lost region is detected, wherein the lost region is of a polygonal form having a plurality of sides and includes one or more connected lost blocks, each lost block containing a channel error. And then, a reference region of pixels including a plurality of groups of first and second pixels, each group of first pixels being adjacent to a side of the lost region and each group of second pixels being adjacent to a first group of pixels is found. Thereafter, edge pixels having non-zero valued edge magnitudes, an edge magnitude for a pixel representing differences between pixels residing adjacent to the pixel among pixels within the reference region are determined. And each edge point representing an edge pixel having a largest edge magnitude among the edge pixels included in groups of first and second pixels for a side of the lost region is detected.

Abstract: A block type expansion valve for use in a vehicular air conditioning system has a dampening spring to dampen movements of a diaphragm within a diaphragm chamber. The dampening spring is fixed to an upper fixing member positioned on an adjusting hollow thread and a lower fixing members positioned on the diaphragm. The adjusting hollow thread is engaged into a cylindrical thread member to allow a level of biasing force of the dampening spring to be adjusted.

Abstract: A method for tracing a contour of an object in an image of a video signal, the image including object pixels and background pixels, indexes each of the background pixels; detects contour pixels; groups the contour pixels to thereby provide one or more groups of contour pixels, each contour pixel in a group adjoining one or more background pixels of a same background index; and traces the contour pixels on a group-by-group basis.

Abstract: An expansion dowel is formed of an axially extending expansion sleeve (2) with a through bore (9) and an expansion region (3) having at least one axially extending slot (5), and an expanding member (6) axially displaceable by axially directed blows in the through bore from an initial position to an end position in which the expansion region (3) is expanded. The through bore (9) has an inside surface (4) of the expansion region (3) adjacent to an envelope or outside surface (7) of the expanding member (6) in the end position with the radius of curvature (a) of the inside surface (4) basically the same as the radii of curvature of the envelope surface (7) of expanding member (6).

Abstract: The invention relates to an installation for cold rolling strip-shaped rolling material, with a reversing stand disposed between two reel-up or unreeling coils or reels, and a second reversing stand in the rolling line of the first reversing stand, with both stands capable of being adjusted corresponding to consecutive passes for performing the rolling process.

Abstract: A mounting rail, particularly for use in building construction, is formed by an elongated rail member (2) of approximately C-shaped cross section having a rear wall (3) with spaced openings (7a-7d) therethrough and pair of side walls (4a, 4b) extending from and at substantially right angles to the rear wall (3). The side walls have free edge sections spaced from the rear wall bent inwardly towards one another and forming cross members (5a, 5b) extending generally parallel to the rear wall with the inner edges of the cross members spaced apart and forming a slot (6) extending in the elongated direction of the rail member (2). Each side wall (4a, 4b) has shaped recesses (8a, 8b) extending for the length of the rail member (2). The shaped recesses (8a, 8b) are arranged symmetrically to one another in the opposite sidewalls (4a, 4b) and have a depth of (d) which does not exceed the width (b) of the cross members (5a, 5b) defining the slot (6).

Abstract: A superconducting current limiting device protects an electric circuit from a fault current. The device comprises a magnetically saturable core having saturated and non-saturated states and an input coil for electrically coupling the core to the electric circuit, the input coil drawing a current therethrough so that a magnetic flux is generated in the core due to the current. Further, the core includes a main path for drawing the generated magnetic flux and at least two magnetic paths, a first of the magnetic paths drawing a first portion of the magnetic flux, and a second of the magnetic paths drawing a second portion of the magnetic flux and having a damping element for cancelling at least a fraction of the second portion of the magnetic flux to thereby prevent the core from getting into the saturated state.

Abstract: A monoclonal antibody specific for human 4-1BB, accessory molecule, selectively expressed on activated T cells; polynucleotides encoding the variable regions of the monoclonal antibody and amino acid sequences deduced therefrom; a hybridoma cell line producing the monoclonal antibody; and a process for preparing the hybridoma cell line.

Abstract: A video cassette recorder is equipped with a tape tension adjusting device which includes a tension lever having a tension pole coming into contact with a tape and rotatably mounted on the deck to be biased toward the tape by a torsion spring, and an eccentric cam having a cylindrical body and a shaft eccentrically extending from the cylindrical body and rotatably mounted on the deck through the shaft. One end of the torsion spring comes into contact with the pressed piece and the other end thereof comes into contact with the cylindrical body of the eccentric cam in such a way that the pressing force of the tension pole against the tape changes with the eccentric cam.

Abstract: A method for encoding a binary shape signal determines as a mode of a target block a first and a second modes, if errors of the target block with respect to a first and a second reference blocks are not greater than a predetermined threshold, respectively. If the mode is not determined, the target block is motion estimated and compensated, a motion compensation error(MCE) and a motion vector difference(MVD) are calculated and the MVD is encoded if the MVD is not zero. Then the mode of the target block is set to a third mode if the MVD is zero and the MCE is not greater than the threshold and a fourth mode if the MVD is not zero and the MCE is not greater than the threshold. If the mode is not determined, intra-coded data and inter-coded data are generated, and the number of bits of the intra-coded data is compared with the one of the inter-coded data. If the number of bits of the intra-coded data is not greater than the one of the inter-coded data, the mode of the target block is decided to a fifth mode.

Abstract: A double-flow gas friction pump including a shaft supported in the pump housing and extending at a right angle to an axis of the suction port, a rotor fixedly secured on the shaft for joint rotation therewith, a stator fixedly secured in the housing and cooperating with the rotor for pumping gas, and a discharge element located in the suction region of the pump and operatively connected with the shaft for joint rotation with the shaft and the rotor for conducting the gas from the suction port directly to the stator and the rotor.

Abstract: The invention concerns a lubricant based on silicone oils or silicone greases and is characterized in that it comprises between 95 and 99 wt % silicone oil or silicone grease and between 1 and 5 wt % organic compounds from the group comprising trichloromethyl compounds having at least one oxygen atom in the sp.sup.3 configuration.

Abstract: A self-cutting, undercutting dowel (1) is formed of an axially extending anchor rod (2) with a head part (3) leading in a setting direction (S) of the dowel and an axially extending sleeve (5) laterally enclosing the anchor rod (2). At its end facing in the setting direction, the sleeve (5) has expansion sections (7) separated from one another by axially extending slots (6). The sleeve (5) can be driven over the head part (3) relative to the anchor rod (2) so that the expansion sections (7) flare radially outwardly. At least one of the expansion sections (7) has a tooth shape at its end facing in the setting direction forming a cutting edge (10) for cutting an undercut in a receiving material for the dowel. The cutting action is effected by rotating the sleeve (5). The cutting edge (10) is located at a side edge (11) of the expansion section (7) leading in the rotating direction (R) of the sleeve (5) and the cutting edge is inclined to an axis (A) of the sleeve at a first angle (.alpha.).

Abstract: A door lock for motor vehicle doors, including a door retaining part provided with brake cams or brake ramps and fixedly secured to one of two door assembly parts, a door and a door pillar, a braking and locking assembly cooperating with the door retaining part, fixedly secured to another of the two door assembly parts and including a plurality of braking bodies cooperating with the brake cams or brake ramps, and braking and locking force-applying element arranged between the door retaining part and the braking and locking assembly, with the door retaining part, the braking and locking assembly and the force-applying element being formed as separate structural components.

Abstract: An aluminum oxide film is economically and conveniently deposited on a substrate by a process which comprises vaporizing a dialkylaluminum alkoxide compound at a temperature ranging from 0 to 25.degree. C. and contacting the resulting vapor with said substrate heated to a temperature ranging from 300 to 600.degree. C.