Abstract: Compounds corresponding to the general formula (I) in which R1 represents hydrogen or an alkyl or cycloalkylmethyl group, X1 represents hydrogen or a halogen or an alkoxy group, or alternatively OR1 and X1 together represent a group of formula —OCH2O—, —O(CH2)2—, —O(CH2)3—, —O(CH2)2O— or —O(CH2)3O—, X2 represents hydrogen, an amino group or a group of general formula —NHCO2R in which R represents an alkyl or phenylalkyl group, X3 represents hydrogen or a halogen, and R2 represents hydrogen or an alkyl, phenylalkyl or [(4-dimethylamino)piperid-1-ylcarbonyl]alkyl group. Therapeutic application.

Abstract: An athletic equipment attachment for use by persons having a stump arm, such as amputees and persons having congenital birth defects, is described and claimed. The inventive athletic equipment attachment includes a body having a top end with an adjustable opening configured to receive a person's stump arm, and a bottom end with connecting means for either removably or permanently connecting the attachment to the handle of a piece of athletic equipment, such as a field hockey stick, an ice hockey stick, a golf club or the like. The attachment can also be used as a rehabilitative tool or in connection with items for daily use, such as brooms or mops.

Abstract: An antenna means (2) for transmitting and receiving RF signals, comprising: a ground plane (11) arranged to be connected to ground of the circuitry of a radio communication device and a conductive radiating structure (20) in the form of a band. The radiating structure has in a first end a feed portion (21) arranged to be coupled to circuitry of a radio communication device. The radiating structure has a second end which is a free end (29). The band has a first (A) and a second (B) surface, and is divided by bent portions into a number of sections Sn along its length. The band is bent or folded so that the first surface (A) of a first section S1 faces the first surface (A) of a second section S2, being adjacent to the first section S1, and the second surface (B) of a section Sm faces the second surface (B) of a consecutive section Sm+1, whereby a compact antenna means which can operate within a wide frequency band is achieved.

Abstract: Apparatus and a method for the direct recovery of residual quantities of an aqueous solution adhering to pourable mass parts following an electrolytic and/or chemical surface treatment on the parts, in the course of which the parts are carried in a perforated immersion barrel supported on a movable carriage of a barrel treatment installation. A compressed-air chamber is provided on the carriage, into which the barrel is moved, the chamber being provided with a compressed air source to cause a current of air to flow transversely through the chamber. The compressed-air chamber essentially comprises a horizontal, upwardly cylindrically convex upper half-shell which is fixed on the carriage and which encompasses in a substantially air-tight manner the upper half of the immersion barrel when the barrel has been positioned within the chamber, and a pair of horizontal, lateral, lower, outwardly cylindrically convex quarter-shells which are capable of movement towards and away from one another.

Abstract: The electronic micrometer includes a casing defining at least an internal volume, in which are disposed a sleeve having an at least partially threaded inner surface. A screw is engaged in this sleeve and is able to be put in rotation with respect to the sleeve in such a way as to displace itself along the longitudinal measuring axis (x) of the device. There is a capacitive system of measurement for measuring the relative rotation of the screw with respect to the sleeve and for determining, starting with that measurement, the longitudinal position of the screw. The casing comprises two half-shells. At least one filiform joint allows the internal volume inside the casing to be sealed. Other sealing means are provided to prevent any infiltration of water or of dust into this internal volume. Accordingly, micrometer are protected.

Abstract: With an antitheft lock assembly, the extreme anchor section projecting from the lock main body of the lock assembly is inserted into the corresponding engaging slot of an object to be protected against theft and the cylinder lock of the lock assembly is operated by a matching key to protect the object against theft when the wire rope extending from the lock main body is wound around an immovable pillar. The lock main body may not be obstructed for its operation by the desk top if the object is placed on it and the engaging slot located at a lower position of the object. In the unlocked state, the rotary hook shaft and the single anti-revolution arm axially and eccentrically extending from the lock main body 1 are introduced into the vertically arranged engaging slot H of the object B to be protected against theft.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for noninvasively measuring the levels of urea, blood osmolarity (or Na+), plasma free hemoglobin and tissue water content in a patient's blood or tissue. Light of selected wavelengths is passed through blood or body tissue and the transmitted or reflected light is detected and the detected signals can be electronically compared and manipulated to provide the non-invasive, continuous and quantitative display of a patient's blood urea, blood osmolarity (or Na+), plasma free hemoglobin and tissue water content.

Abstract: A method and a system for tuning a resonance module in e.g. a radio base station are disclosed. The resonance module has tuning means, a transmitter connection, and an antenna connection. First frequency input and output signals on the transmitter and antenna connection, respectively, are sensed and processed to tune the resonance module to a frequency of the input signal on the transmitter connection. The processing of the sensed input and output signals includes processing in a second frequency range. Prior art methods are improved by the invention through e.g. the use of a quadrature modulator to increase adjustment speed and overall applicability of the resonance module to be tuned.

Abstract: The invention relates to an actuating device for a closing element movable in a vertical direction within openings which are guided in lateral guides, with the door weight being taken up by a spring-loaded tension element or being compensated by a counterweight.

Abstract: A phase-shift digital holographic apparatus shifts the phase of a reference wave by a phase shifting means, produces holographic image data by a holographic image pickup means having an image forming surface on which an object wave and the reference wave fall simultaneously, processes a plurality of holographic image data produced by the object wave and a plurality of reference waves of different phases determined by shifting the phase of the reference wave by the phase shifting means by an object wave calculating means to calculate phase data on the phase of the object wave and amplitude data on the amplitude of the object wave, and constitutes object wave data of the phase data on the phase of the object wave and the amplitude data on the amplitude of the object wave calculated by the object wave calculating means by a reproduced image calculating means and subjects the object wave data to a predetermined transformation process to calculate a reproduced image.

Abstract: This invention is a mass incinerator for burning various rubbishes (life rubbishes, industry wastes, hospital rubbishes and like) and flammable wastes (hospital wastes, poison material and like) under high temperature atmosphere. In particularly; to an incinerator in which the combustion chambers 101 constructed in a dome form and the auxiliar combustion chambers 102 are connected alternately to form a tunnel shape. An air supply chamber 104 is formed between the outside wall and the inside wall of the combustion chamber 101. The materials being burned are inputted through the double hinged gate so that the soot or the dust is not scattered outward. The input during the combustion process is possible to improve the treating whereby rubbishes or wastes are completely burnt to prevent the environmental pollutant such as heavy metal material or dioxin as well as soot from discharging.

Abstract: A device for the suspension of a payload in a space launch including annular chambers of fluid with variable geometry installed between the launch and the payload and first and second rigid members fixed, on either side of the chambers, to the payload and to the launch respectively so as to transmit the stresses between the latter through the chambers. The fluid chambers and the first and second rigid coupling members are coextensive, ring-shaped and coaxial with a longitudinal axis common to the launch and to the payload. The first and second annular rigid coupling members each include external and internal ribs respectively, axially separated by one of the annular fluid chambers.

Abstract: A method for treating flushing caused by other means than normal estrogen decreases associated with normal or natural menopause. Specifically, the method comprises administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of leucine, or leucine in combination with isoleucine, valine and mixtures of isoleucine and valine. Treatment may be achieved via manipulation of dietary protein intake or through direct administration, e.g., dietary supplement or the like. An article of manufacture is also provided.

Abstract: Device for heating a blown film web, inflated into a blown film bubble between a pair of forward draw rolls and a pair of take off rolls, comprises a frame mounted, driven pair of forward draw rolls and an opposite, stationarily mounted, driven pair of take off rolls for the blown film web hauled off the inflated bubble. Furthermore, there are collapsing mechanisms and mechanisms for inflating and heating the blown film web. To feed the correct amount of heat to the inflated web independently of its diameter, the heating devices comprise heating elements, which are arranged concentricly around the axis of the inflated blown film web and which can be moved toward and away from the blown film web by means of regulating drives in the radial direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device feeds back a signal made by detecting a data sensing when reading a memory chip, precharges a local data bus within a short time, performs a high-speed operation, and enhances a burst characteristic and AC characteristic responsive to the burst characteristic. The semiconductor memory device detects a sensing moment of a data generated from a local data bus in case of a read operation by using a data bus sense-amplifier unit. At this time, the detection signal precharges a local data bus and its related signals until the next data is generated.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device having a parallel test mode for simultaneously testing a plurality of memory cells, comprising: a memory cell array having N numbers of memory cell blocks, wherein each memory cell block includes the plurality of memory cells and outputs first and second complementary data signals, the N being a positive integer; M numbers of first logical operation circuits responsive to a parallel test mode enable signal, each first logical operation circuit for carrying out a logical operation with respect to first and second complementary data signals outputted from at least two memory cell blocks, thereby generating first and second logical operation signals, wherein the N is greater than the M; a second logical operation circuit for carrying out the logical operation with respect to the first and second logical operation signals, thereby generating third and fourth logical operation signals; a pair of global data bus lines coupled between each of first logical operation circuit and said sec

Abstract: A mounting system for securing planting units in planting machines, each unit including at least a portion removably secured to a carrier beam, the system allowing to quickly and simply change the distance between working units in order to adapt the machine to a better use thereof the beam having at least one slot extending along the beam and receiving a bolt connected to a curved plate bearing against a rear face of the beam, and to the beam, the bolt passing through the slot of the beam.

Abstract: An apparatus for sensing a current direction of an input signal and amplifying the sensed input signal to a logic level in use for semiconductor memory devices includes a current-direction sensing ad amplifying means for sensing a current direction of the input signal and amplifying the input signal in response to a sensing control signal to output a sensed and amplified signal, and a voltage level shift means for receiving a reference voltage from an external circuit and shifting a voltage level of the sensed and amplified signal to output a level shifted signal, thereby preventing an erroneous operation therein and improving a data access time.

Abstract: Microcapsules involving a wall of chitin or chitin derivatives or of polyhydroxylated polyamines or one of their salts, with the wall sheathing a hydrophobic substance, are prepared by forming a hydrophobic phase emulsion of the hydrophobic substance in an aqueous phase containing an anionic surfactant capable of causing insolubilization of chitosan or chitosan derivatives or polyhydroxylated polyamines, mixing the emulsion with a chitosan or chitosan derivative or polyhydroxylated polyamine organic salt so as to cause the coacervation of the chitosan or the chitosan derivatives or the polyhydroxylated polyamines around the droplets of the hydrophobic phase, subjecting the chitosan or chitosan derivative or the polyhydroxylated polyamine coacervate to an acetylation or crosslinking reaction and recovering the microcapsules, and are applicable to cosmetic compositions incorporating sunscreens.

Abstract: A treatment mat includes: a mat foldable at the one side thereof and centrally provided with a longitudinal groove; a hyperthermo-therapeutical apparatus moving along a rail provided in the longitudinal groove of the mat; a mechanism for conveying the hyperthermo-therapeutical apparatus; a control panel for controlling the conveying mechanism, and a control unit for controlling the position of the hyperthermo-therapeutical apparatus.