Abstract: A method of attaining depilation by laser beam more effectively by enabling a laser beam the output of which is repressed to an extent of avoiding exertion of an effect on the peripheral tissue to reach a depth in the approximate range of 5-6 mm from the surface of the skin. The method of depilation attains required depilation by pulling out the skin of a subject and compressing the drawn skin thereby transforming part of the skin into a flap and emitting a laser beam to the region of the skin transformed into the flap.

Abstract: A method and device for simultaneous compensation of five existing components of deviation from the ideal linear motion of solid unit moving hydro (air) static slides and using five independent flow control valves whose valves connections to the recesses and commutations between recesses are made in such a way that every valve is responsible for compensation only for one component of deviation.

Abstract: An intromedullary nail for the distraction of bone parts consists of two elements which can be moved relative to one another. At least one electrically operated driving element which is supplied by electrical energy to move the two elements relative to one another is connected to the medullary nail by at least one detachable plug-in element.

Abstract: The present invention provides antistress compositions containing various medicinal herbs which are composed of one or more medicinal herbs 2.0-40.0 g of fructus hordei germintus, messa medicata fermentata, fructus amomi and fructus crataegei; one or more medicinal herbs 2.0-40.0 g of radix polygalae, semen zizyphi spinosae and rhizoma acori graminei; one or more medicinal herbs 2.0-40.0 g selected from the group consisting of poria holen and poria, one or more medicinal herbs 2.0-40.0 g of folium phyllostachys, calus in taein phyllostachys, succus phyllostachys and radix scutellariae; one or more medicinal herbs 2.0-40.0 g of germinated Glycine max (L.) Merr, fructus amomicardamomi, semen glycine and semen lablab; one or more medicinal herbs 2.0-40.0 g of rhizoma zingiberis, radix asari, rhizoma zingiberis siccatum and radix aconiti; one or more medicinal herbs 2.0-40.0 g of bulbos allii fistulosi, herba ephedrae and folium perillae; and one or more medicinal herbs 2.0-40.

Abstract: An arrangement for absorption of the energy of impact for road or rail bound vehicles contains an elongated insert (6)—in the form of a rigid lever or as part of a lever of length r and featuring two end faces (10, 11), the first end face (10) being attached to the long side of a section component (3) and the second face (11) coupled via a collision component (12) to an impact area (9) projecting out from the section component (3) in such a manner that a force of impact acting on the impact area (9), while displacing the collision component (12) in the direction of the force of impact, effects a rotational movement (D) of the insert (6) about a predetermined point of rotation (P) in the section component (3) and local bending of the section component (3) at the point of rotation (P).

Abstract: A method for counting substantially uniformly sized objects includes the steps of obtaining an image of substantially uniformly sized objects; analyzing the image to determine total object area in the image and average object size of the objects; and determining a count of the objects from the total object area and the average object size.

Abstract: A caffeine replacement composition including a first plant extract portion containing at least one flavoglycoside selected from the group consisting of quercetin, quercetagetin, ginkgetin, biloba, isorhamnetin, kaempferol, rutin, isoginkgetin, ginnol, and mixtures thereof; a second plant extract portion containing Ginkgolactones; and a third plant extract portion containing a component selected from the group consisting of puerarin, acetylpuerarin, puerarin-xyloside and combinations thereof. These extracts are preferably obtained from Ginkgo biloba and kudzu (Pueraria).

Abstract: A process and a device for joining or separating various workpieces, in particular made of plastic or plastic and other materials, by means of curtain-like laser beams. To join workpieces in a particular joining area of the contact surface, a mask, made of a laser-impermeable material, is arranged between the laser source and the workpieces to be joined. The laser beam and the mask are moved relative to each other. To generate high energy density in the joining area, laser beams of at least two diode lasers are brought together, and subsequently, differing laser line lengths are generated by means of a zoom optics arrangement. Via a beam splitter, a first laser beam aligned perpendicularly to the surface of the mask, is joined by at least one secondary laser beam arranged perpendicularly to the first laser beam, and the resulting laser beam is directed onto the mask.

Abstract: A solid divert and attitude control system for use on a kill vehicle or missile that includes a solid propellant gas generator, a control valve for modulating the effective exit area of the solid propellant gas generator, and a controller for calculating the integral of the burn rate of the solid propellant and for controlling operation of the control valve in response to the calculation of the integral of the burn rate of the solid propellant. The solid propellant gas generator has a solid propellant with a non-constant burn area and a grain profile which includes a first boost phase grain, an intermediate sustain phase grain, and a second boost phase. The controller controls operation of the control valve during a coast phase of the mission so that the second boost phase grain does not ignite until the beginning of the terminal phase of the mission.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel benzopyranyl heterocycle derivatives of the formula 1, process for preparation thereof and pharmaceutical use of the benzopyranyl heterocycle derivatives. The benzopyranyl heterocycle derivatives of the present invention can be used for protecting heart, brain, retina and neuronal cell from “ischemia-reperfusion” injury, treatment for diseases related to it and suppressing lipid peroxidation. Wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, n and * are each defined in specification.

Abstract: A multi-layer preform, includes: (a) a plastic inner liner, comprised of a cylindrical walled body, which may or may not include a tapered annular shoulder portion, and a cylindrical walled neck portion extending upwardly from the body, and (b) a molded outer layer. Prior to the outer layer being molded over the plastic inner liner, at least a portion of the liner is crystallized by a heat treatment process. The molded outer layer may include a means to receive a closure device. When the preform is at an acceptable temperature range for orientation, the multi-layer preform can be blow-molded to form a multi-layer container having improved properties.

Abstract: A fluid mixing-jetting apparatus includes an apparatus body provided at its upstream end with an inlet arrangement for introducing plural kinds of fluids into a flow passage formed in the apparatus body. The apparatus further includes an end plate closing a downstream end of the flow passage of the apparatus body. The end plate is formed with at least one jet opening at a position offset from a center axis of the flow passage of the apparatus body. The end plate may be further formed with a plurality of concave portions on an upstream surface thereof so that the upstream surface of the end plate is formed as a non-planar surface. The jet opening may be non-circular and continuous with an inner circumference of the apparatus body defining the flow passage.

Abstract: A plastic article is formed in an injection mold by injecting molten plastic into the injection mold at an elevated temperature, cooling the plastic from the molten condition to a solid condition, and crystallizing a portion of the plastic by slowing down the cooling of said portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of frequency measuring, in particular to extremely accurate difference frequency measuring as it is used in the area of measuring instruments, e.g. in scanning atomic force microscopes or other scanning probe microscopes, or in the area of thermogravimetry for determining extremely small masses in the ng-range. The invention relates in particular to the principle of such a hybrid frequency measuring device or frequency detector, i.e. a frequency measuring device or frequency detector comprising both digital and analog components or groups of components. The invention also relates to an advantageous use of such a frequency detector for evaluation of the frequency measurements of a scanning probe microscope. A frequency measuring arrangement can be at least partly integrated in a measuring head of a scanning probe microscope, thus enabling a robust, and at the same time sensitive, measuring arrangement.

Abstract: Biaxially oriented, hollow plastic bottle of thermoplastic material having an improved base. The base includes a plurality of circumferential rings occupying substantially the entire space between the central portion of the base and the outer supporting rim of the base. In one embodiment, the rings form substantially uniform, continuous, uninterrupted, circumferential, pyramidal ridges and adjacent depressions. In a further embodiment, some of the rings are interrupted by flat areas.

Abstract: A pen or pencil having a shaft which in its peripheral surface has at least one first and at least one second surface region. Irradiation of the first surface region with light of a first light quantity per unit of surface area results in an emission of visible light in the second surface region, wherein the light quantity emitted in the second surface region per unit of surface area for at least one first frequency is greater than the light quantity per unit of surface area of the first frequency, which is absorbed in the first surface region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sprue bar assembly for use with a number of different injection molding machines. The sprue bar assembly comprises a fixed sprue bar section having a first channel through which molten material, such as a plastic resin, flows. The first channel communicates with the outlet of a source of the molten material. The sprue bar assembly further comprises an adjustable sprue bar section having a second channel through which molten material flows and a powered unit for holding the adjustable sprue bar section in contact with the fixed sprue bar section so that molten material can flow from the first channel to the second channel without leaking and for changing the length of the sprue bar assembly as needed to accommodate molds of different shutheights.