Abstract: This invention utilizes the action of Bakuhan Stone for absorbing moisture and producing nicotine decomposition from an ion reaction to make out a device that is put into cigarette packs to absorb and decompose nicotine.

Abstract: In an intravenous needle and needle holder assembly, the needle can be moved between a retracted position in which it has a substantially rigidified junction with the holder to facilitate insertion in a patient's blood vessel, and an extended position in which a length of flexible tubing on which the needle is mounted becomes exposed from the holder to allow a degree of lateral movement of the holder after the needle has been inserted thereby aiding in immobilizing the holder on a patient's arm and preventing dislocation of the needle.

Abstract: The invention is a color dosification and application machine. The machine has a rotary cutter that has a face plane and an internal plane. The machine also has a drive element for rotating the rotary cutter. On the rotary center are a plurality of blades. The blades emerge from the rotary cutter in an oblique position and form helical channels. The peripheral portion of the blades engage pigment bars during their rotation. The pigment bars are powdered and the powder is transported down the helical channel formed by the blades. At the central, terminal portion of the helical channel, the powder enters a needle through which gas and fluid pass. The gas and fluid passing through the needle mix with the powdered pigment and the mixture is sprayed through a nozzle.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a lightweight building element comprises providing a lightweight aggregate of particles having diameters in the range of 2 mm to 20 mm, mixing the particles together to produce graduated particle size distribution of the mixture, adding a quicksetting binder to the mixture in a predetermined amount sufficiently small so that free spaces are produced between the particles after setting and drying, allowing the binder to set and dry to form a porous body of particles bound together by the binder and having free spaces between the particles, introducing expanding plastic into the free spaces, and expanding the plastic in situ to form a cellular plastic structure completely filling the free spaces.

Abstract: An electric motor, a drive and a clothes washing machine including the motor and drive, the motor having a stator held outboard of a frame carrying bearings in which a shaft rotates, the shaft carrying the rotor outboard of the stator, the rotor having permanent magnets on an inner face thereof.

Abstract: An electrically stimuated filter assembly includes a filter unit in which an air gap is maintained between the filter medium and electrodes disposed on opposite sides of that medium, thereby preventing degradation of filter efficiency by humid filtered fluid. The filter medium is a sheet-like member folded in multiple accordion pleats and disposed between two plate electrodes, one of which is grounded to the chassis, the other of which is at high voltage. The air gaps are established by insulative plastic combs having bases secured to the electrode plates and teeth projecting from the bases into troughs of the folded filter. The high voltage plate is on the downstream side of the filter and mounted recessed from the downstream opening by insulative tubes secured to both the filter housing and the high voltage plate. A precharger is disposed in the assembly upstream of the filter unit and includes plural individual high voltage wires suspended in mutually spaced parallel relation across the flow path.

Abstract: A rice cooker for preparation of shaped foods of rice in a microwave range is made of microwave permeable synthetic resin such as polypropylene and internally provided with mutually separate confined spaces of a fixed capacity and adapted for accommodating rice with water. As the rice cooker containing uncooked rice with water is heated in the microwave range, compression acts on the boiled rice due to pressure contact of the boiled rice swelled with water with walls defining the spaces and the boiled water is automatically shaped in the spaces. Absence of direct contact of the rice with user's hand during the process enables preparation of shaped foods of rice such as rice balls without any keen pain and blemish on the hands.

Abstract: The surface of a rolling mill roll is coated with a coating comprising a metallic substance and is then marked by means of an intermittent laser beam. As a result, micro-craters are formed which penetrate the roll and which have rims containing components from the roll and the coating. The longevity of the roughness of the roll can thereby be enhanced.

Abstract: An internal shoe drum brake has a pair of shoes (1, 2) mounted on a backplate (3), and a mechanical shoe-expansion mechanism which includes a lever (9) movable angularly in a plane parallel to the backplate, an abutment device (13) mounted on the shoe (2) and retained on the shoe by a separate shoe hold-down device (14), the abutment device extending to a position adjacent the lever to provide a backstop for the latter in order to set a predetermined retracted position for the lever.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel self-adhesive matrix for the percutaneous administration of an active ingredient. This matrix comprises a combination of the following:(a) 40 to 60 parts by weight of an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer material,(b) 40 to 60 parts by weight of a higher aliphatic monoalcohol compound,(c) 1 to 20 parts by weight of a cellulose derivative material,(d) 0.1 to 8 parts by weight of a polyhydric alcohol compound, and(e) 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of an active ingredient which can be administered percutaneously,the weight ratio a+c/b+d being between 0.7 and 1.3.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a car's back-up alarm, and particularly a back-up alarm attachedly provided with a communication function capable of guiding the auto body while the car driver speaking therethrough with person/persons in the outside of the car.

Abstract: A visual display apparatus comprises a multisegment bar display (2) having display characters (16) divided into two groups. In the first group individual outer segment bars (17) are each associated with a respective permanent marking which indicates a specific information item or class of information items, and are connected in a closed cycle whereby the instantaneously actuated display can be advanced forward or backward in the closed cycle from one segment bar (17) to another by keys (4,5). A sequence of display patterns representing parameter values is displayed in the second group of display characters (16), which sequence and which set depends on the segment bar (17) which is instantaneously actuated in the first group, and a desired parameter value can be selected from among the sequence by depressing an "acceptance" key (6).

Abstract: The device utilizes air or other flowing medium to act upon and guide in a hovering manner webs of material, particularly for drying the web. The device has an air duct or the like which comprises at least one nozzle region extending over the width of the web and having a curved wall surface running substantially parallel to the plane of movement of the web. The wall sections defining the air duct are provided with individual outlets opposite a respective guide surface for the air flow in the nozzle region on either side of a transverse plane arranged in the longitudinal direction of the air duct and perpendicularly to the plane of movement of the web. Preferably, there are two wall sections provided opposite one another, each having outlets and forming a guide surface for air flows issuing from the outlets in the other wall section. Preferably, the outlets in one wall section are offset from the outlets in the other wall section in the lateral and/or vertical direction.

Abstract: An electromedical apparatus including a magnetic field generator and an electric field generator adapted for generation of perpendicular fields and for application of the generated fields transversely to the major blood vessels of an afflicted body portion induces helical movement of charged particles in the tissues and increased blood flow. The apparatus further includes electrical and magnetic lens systems for concentrating the electrical and magnetic flow generated by the apparatus.

Abstract: To adjust frequency characteristics (e.g. peak frequency or emphasizing frequency range) of a contour compensating circuit (i.e. edge emphasizer) for correcting scanning beam aperture distortion of a video camera, for instance, the contour compensating circuit comprises a first delay line for delaying a first signal Sa into a second signal Sb; a second delay line for delaying the second singal Sb into a third signal Sc; and a matrix mixer for mixing three signals Sa, Sb and Sc at a matrix mixture ratio of (.alpha.-1):-.alpha.:1 and outputting the mixed signal Sd=Sc-.alpha.Sb+(.alpha.-1 Sa as a contour compensating signal. The above mixture ratio is controllled on the basis of an automatic gain control detection voltage derived from the AGC circuit for the video camera.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel self-adhesive matrix for the percutaneous administration of a pharmaceutical active ingredient. This matrix comprises a combination of the following:(a) 30 to 50 parts by weight of an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer material,(b) 20 to 45 parts by weight of a higher aliphatic monoalcohol compound,(c) 5 to 20 parts by weight of a cellulose derivative material,(d) 1 to 20 parts by weight of an ester compound of a polyhydric alcohol with a fatty aliphatic acid, and(e) 0.1 to 20 parts by weight of an active ingredient which can be administered percutaneously.

Abstract: An extrusion die for producing hollow extrusions from material which is difficult to solidify quickly, e.g. chocolate, the die comprising an outer die part secured to the end of a supply pipe, a central aperture in the outer die part within which an inner die part having a multiplicity of spaced air injectors is provided, so that during extrusion chocolate forced through the apertures surrounds the injectors to produce an extrusion product having a plurality of longitudinal passages therein. A fluid, e.g. air, is passed through the injectors and into the longitudinal passages to prevent collapse of the passages before the chocolate has set. Relative rotation between the outer and inner die parts may be effected.

Abstract: In a forging machine, each ram is the piston or cylinder of a piston-cylinder hydraulic unit and the other component of the unit is attached to the forging machine frame and can be moved to adjust the ram stroke position. The piston or cylinder which constitutes the ram is guided directly in the machine frame to minimize play in the guidance of the ram component.