Abstract: Headbox for one of a paper and cardboard machine includes at least one material suspension supply running a width of the machine. At least one turbulence producer has at least one conduit through which a material suspension flows. At least one metered addition point is located in the conduit for introducing a fluid medium. A headbox nozzle is located downstream from the at least one turbulence producer for delivering the material suspension. A portion of a flow resistance located downstream of the metered addition point is at least approximately 50% of a total flow resistance of the at least one conduit.

Abstract: A furnace has a dual structure for carbonizing material. The furnace has a group of inner chambers and an outer chamber. Each of the inner chambers has a lid which can open and close to input the material for carbonizing. The outer chamber moves so that the group of inner chambers is housed in the outer chamber. Due to this, a combustion space is formed between the group of inner chambers and the outer chamber so as to heat each of the inner chambers to dry the material by distillation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a material having adhesiveness to bone and/or fascia, which is composed of a polymeric material comprising carbon as a constituent element, and at least a part of a surface of which is modified by ion bombardment. The material of the present invention is applicable as a prosthesis in surgery of spinal diseases and as a prosthesis in surgery on thoracic organs and abdominal organs or musculoskeleton in addition to the application thereof to the artificial dura mater.

Abstract: A terminal-joining apparatus includes a lock member. A temporarily assembled unit of a terminal assembly is guided into a receiving space and a bent portion of the unit pushes up a releasing surface of the lock member. When the releasing surface is pushed up, the lock member is turned about a fixed axle and a lock-supporting portion is moved down. When a lever is released from the lock-supporting portion and is turned about an axle, the temporarily assembled unit of the terminal assembly is pressed between a pressing surface and a stop wall to permanently join the unit.

Abstract: Components are separated from liquid or gaseous media with the aid of a nanocomposite comprising nanoparticles in a matrix, wherein the liquid or gaseous medium is brought into contact with the nanocomposite in such a way that at least part of the components to be separated off is bound to the nanocomposite and the resulting laden nanocomposite is separated from the liquid or gaseous medium.

Abstract: A gamut judging apparatus of the present invention has source color distance calculator 1 that calculates the length of a source color vector connecting a source color as an object to judge whether the source color is in or out of gamut of a device and a center color set in the gamut, gamut distance calculator 3 that calculates a gamut distance between the center color and an intersection at which the source color vector or an extended source color vector intersects a gamut boundary of the device, and a judging section that judges that the source color is out of the gamut of the device when the length of the source color vector is larger than the gamut distance, and judges that the source color is in the gamut of the device when the length of the source color vector is smaller than the gamut distance.

Abstract: An image decoding method is provided for decoding each block of a digital image divided into a plurality of blocks, from a coded image signal including codewords of the block and codewords of coding mode information of the block. The method comprises separating the codewords of a target block and the codeword of coding mode information of the target block from the coded image signal, and decoding the coding mode information of the target block from the separated codeword of the coding mode information using a codeword table. The codeword table is selected from a plurality of codeword tables by referring to a combination of coding mode information of previously decoded blocks at the periphery of the target block, the codeword tables each having codewords, each codeword being determined based on a combination of coding mode information of previously decoded blocks at the periphery of the target block.

Abstract: A laser imaging apparatus is provided with a light source unit that emits a laser beam including a first beam and a second beam. The central axes of the first beam and the second beams substantially coincide with each other. The first beam includes non-visible light, and the second beam includes visible light. The imaging apparatus further includes a modulating system that modulates the beam emitted by the light source unit, a deflecting system that deflects the beam modulated by the modulating system to scan within a predetermined angular range, and an imaging optical system that converges the deflected beam to form a scanning beam spot on a surface to be scanned.

Abstract: Disclosed are a defrosting apparatus of an air conditioner and a method thereof. The defrosting apparatus includes a temperature sensor for sensing a pipe temperature of an outdoor heat exchanger and an outdoor temperature; a comparator for comparing the sensed pipe temperature of the outdoor heat exchanger and the sensed outdoor temperature, and generating and outputting a comparison signal; and a valve controller for increasing an opening value of an LEV (Linear Expansion Valve) at a defrosting operation and decreasing the opening value of the LEV at a defrosting operation termination. The apparatus and the method can increase efficiency of the defrosting operation and reduce a period of time required for performing the defrosting operation by determining the defrosting operation based on a difference between a pipe temperature of an outdoor heat exchanger and an outdoor temperature and increasing an opening value of an LEV at the defrosting operation.

Abstract: An advanced intelligent network (AIN) based system and method that allows a subscriber connected to the Internet to receive customized call alerts and caller identification information concerning an incoming telephone call. Using client software, the subscriber associates telephone numbers to sound files. Then, when an incoming call with caller identification information is received, the client software determines whether the incoming telephone number points to a sound file. If so, the client software directs the sound file to play.

Abstract: The present invention employs a beam dividing prism corresponding to a size of a single pixel on a screen in order to create a plurality of viewing zones for multi-viewer, in which a prism panel having an 1-dimensional or 2-dimensional arrangement of a prism cell for dispersing beam in various directions is coupled to the 3-dimensional image projection screen in order to increase the number of the viewing zones, and in which the number and position of the available viewing zones are determined by the number and a relative position of disperse surfaces in the prism cell. By using the present invention, the desired number of the viewing zones can be created by selectively adopting the prism cells, so realizing the 3-dimensional image display system for multi-viewer.

Abstract: A garment of the jacket type including an outer envelope covering the upper body of a user and provided with a closure system. The garment includes an inner carrying system constituted of an inner envelope distinct from the outer envelope and enveloping the user's upper body over at least a portion of the height of the upper body, wherein the inner envelope is fixed at its upper portion to the outer envelope, wherein the inner envelope is provided with a closure system separate from those of the outer envelope, and wherein the inner envelope includes a pocket arrangement for carrying objects. The inner envelope of the garment is fixed to the outer envelope in the area of the torso.

Abstract: Transmission line structure is composed of a pair of signal conductors which are embedded in one wiring region of a dielectric layer and a thickness in height of the signal conductor is larger than a width, and is constituted so that a coupling impedance between the adjacent signal conductors is lower than a coupling impedance between the signal conductor and another conductor formed in another wiring region, and thus to provide a multi-layer wiring board having a transmission line structure of high wiring density and excellent transmission characteristic.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing silver containing candles includes preparing a candle composition containing main components of paraffin, hardening oil and stearic acid, and adding fine silver particles to the main components. A wick is prepared by soaking a multi-ply thread in a solution containing silver and drying the thread. The wick is fixed on a mold frame and the candle composition is poured into the mold frame. The silver particles are dispersed in the air by thermal convection during burning, so that the dispersed silver particles produce disinfecting and human-beneficial effects.

Abstract: A sports boot, especially a ski boot, including a shell base overlaid by an upper at least partially pivotal in relation to the shell base and including a device for locking and unlocking with respect to the latter, which is constituted by an abutment zone provided on the rear portion of the upper, and by an oscillating lever forming a rocker, arranged on the rear portion of the shell base, capable of cooperating in locking with the abutment, under the action of a control member, wherein the control member of the oscillating lever forming a rocker, adapted to cooperate in locking with the abutment, is located in the rear fitting zone of the boot so as to be biased by the rear binding of an element to be fitted, and is controllably connected to the lever, located at a distance, in a zone separate from the fitting zone, by means of a cable pulling on the lever during the fitting of the boot.

Abstract: Production of a thin-film system containing at least one ultra-thin film, preferentially in the film thickness range from 1 to 10 nm, which is deposited by plasma-aided chemical or physical vapor-phase deposition using magnetron discharges. The method is characterized in that in the course of deposition of the ultra-thin film the power output is introduced into the plasma in the form of a controlled number of power pulses and that the average power output during the pulse-on time is set higher by a factor of at least 3 than the averaged power output over the entire coating time during deposition of the ultra-thin film.

Abstract: A zoom lens system including a first to third lens groups, and zooming is performed by respectively moving the first to third lens groups. The zoom lens system satisfies the following conditions: 1.3<|f1/f2|<1.8   (1) 2.0<f3/fw<3.4   (2) 1.05<m3t/m3w<1.25   (3) wherein fw: the focal length of the entire the zoom lens system at the short focal length extremity; f1: the focal length of the first lens group; f2: the focal length of the second lens group; f3: the focal length of the third lens group; m3w: the magnification of the third lens group at the short focal length extremity, when an object at infinity is in an in-focus state; m3t designates the magnification of the third lens group at the long focal length extremity, when an object at infinity is in an in-focus state.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to reduce the number of colors provided on electrical cables wired in a vehicle. The unitary wire harness containing the greatest number of electrical cables is taken as the critical harness. The critical number of different color markings is then determined from the following formula: R=A/B+C/B  (I) wherein A is the number of electrical cables contained in the critical unitary wire harnesses, B is the number of connectors to be engaged with the critical unitary wire harness, and C is the number of terminal receiving elements contained in all of the connectors. The critical number of different cable color markings thus obtained allows the reduction of the number of different cable color markings, and the electrical cables of the same cable color marking can be differentiated when they are connected to a connector.

Abstract: A hardened skin care instrument having a file tooth portion formed by an electroplating process is disclosed. The instrument including a handle part with a recessed portion formed thereon, and a head part comprises an abrasive piece attached to the head part. The abrasive piece includes a plurality of release grooves that are produced by corroding a selected portion of a copper film laid on one surface of a base made of synthetic resin, and a plurality of file tooth portions that are formed by adhering abrasive powder to the remaining portion of the copper film by an electroplating. The release grooves and file tooth portions are arranged to cross over each other.

Abstract: A starch-based graft polymer, a process for its preparation and printing inks and overprint varnishes containing the graft polymer. The graft polymer is based on a derivatized starch or a derivatized starch product as the graft substrate. The starch or starch product is derivatized by one or more bifunctional monomers and grafted, at sites of derivatization, with one ore more ethylene derivatives. The process for preparing the graft polymer involves the provision of an aqueous medium containing dissolved or dispersed starch or dissolved or dispersed starch product. This dissolved or dispersed starch or dissolved or dispersed starch product is subjected to derivatization with one or more bifunctional monomers to prepare a derivatized starch or a derivatized starch product. The derivatized starch or derivatized starch product then is graft-polymerized, at sites of derivatization, with one ore more ethylene derivatives.