Abstract: A roller chain incorporates a plurality of rolling members between a roller and a bushing. A thrust bearing plate is provided between the end surfaces of the roller and inside surfaces of inner link plates. The outer diameter of the roller is smaller than the widths of the inner link plates and the outer link plates and the roller is accomodated in a projected area of the widths of the inner link plates and the outer link plates.

Abstract: A tensioner lever for a chain or belt power transmission comprises a resin shoe having a shoe surface on which the chain or belt slides, and a back surface with a plunger-engaging part adjacent one end and a lever shaft bearing adjacent the other end. A shape-retaining groove extends longitudinally along the shoe through the plunger engaging part and the lever shaft bearing. A part of a strength-maintaining plate is fits in the shape-retaining groove and a part of the strength-maintaining plate is exposed. Simplification and weight reduction in the tensioner lever can be realized, and molding accuracy requirements are reduced. Assembly is simplified by pawls formed in openings in a side wall of the shoe, which cooperate with locking holes in the strength-maintaining plate. The pawls simplify disassembly for recycling and may be notched so that they can be broken away.

Abstract: In a sliding contact guide for a drive chain or other flexible transmission device, a guide body includes a shoe 102 and a slotted, plate-receiving portion 102 integrally molded on the back of the shoe. A reinforcing plate is inserted into the slot. The guide body has a mounting hole near one end for receiving a mounting shaft. The reinforcing plate, on the other hand, has an arcuate bearing portion which extends only part way around the mounting shaft.

Abstract: In a sliding contact guide for a chain, a guide body is composed of a shoe having a front surface on which the chain slides, and a plate-receiving portion provided on the back of the shoe. The shoe and plate-receiving portion are integrally molded from a synthetic resin. A reinforcing plate is inserted and fitted into a longitudinal slot in the plate-receiving and the sliding contact guide is attached to a frame by a pivot pin which extends through aligned mounting holes in the guide body and the reinforcing plate. Locking pieces formed in the plate-receiving portion, have tapered surfaces on their tips that engage locking holes in the plate and exert a biasing force on edges of the locking holes which urges the plate against the back of the shoe. The reinforcing plate and the guide body are reliably secured together and, even when the guide is vibrated, movement of the reinforcing plate in the slot of the guide body is prevented, so that low noise and long life are attained.

Abstract: An analytical apparatus, such as a quartz crystal microbalance, comprises a piezoelectric sensor and an oscillator circuit, coupled to the sensor, to oscillate at a frequency substantially determined by a resonant frequency of the sensor, and to provide an output signal at the oscillator frequency at an output. The oscillator circuit maintains a substantially constant drive signal to the piezoelectric sensor by an AGC (33) within a feedback loop of the oscillator. The gain control signal is used as an indication of the Q of the piezoelectric sensor. The drive signal to the sensor is made substantially sinusoidal by ensuring that all the elements in the feedback loop providing signal gain and attenuation are configured to operate in a substantially linear mode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oxide sintered body having a perovskite structure represented with a chemical formula of MRuO3 (M: one or more types among Ca, Sr, Ba), characterized in that the total content of alkali metals such as Na, K, and Fe, Ni, Co, Cr, Cu, Al is 100 ppm or less, the content of respective elements U, Th is 10 ppb or less, and the relative density is 90% or more, and provides an oxide sintered body and the manufacturing method thereof having a pervoskite structure represented with the chemical formula MRuO3 (M: one or more types among Ca, Sr, Ba) by using a MRuO3 sintered body raw material refined to a high density of 4N or more, which enables sintering at low temperatures, and which is capable of obtaining a high-density sintered body.

Abstract: A sliding contact guide for a chain, or other flexible transmission medium comprises a synthetic resin guide body having a shoe on which the transmission medium slides, and a slotted, plate-receiving portion on the back side of the shoe for receiving a reinforcing plate. The plate-receiving portion is composed of a pair of opposed, longitudinally extending, slot-defining walls. Raised ribs, for sandwiching the reinforcing plate, are disposed on opposed inner surfaces of the walls, and are oriented in the direction of insertion of the reinforcing plate into the slot. The guide suppresses shock noises due to wobbling of the guide during operation, and molding and assembly of the guide are enhanced.

Abstract: Performance of a rotating filter element for removing particulate matter from a liquid is enhanced by applying acoustic energy in the ultrasonic frequency range to the filter element by plural transducers affixed to the exterior of a bowl surrounding the rotating filter element. The bowl and filter element can be electrically isolated from each other and connected to a D.C. power supply for further enhancement of filter performance. The ultrasonic transducers, the power supply, and a discharge valve can all be operated by a controller, responsive to a sensor which senses the pressure drop across the filter element.

Abstract: A MoSi2 arc-shaped heater formed in a continuous waveform, characterized in that U-shaped heater members having parallel parts are connected alternately to each other at the end parts, and the parallel faces of the U-shaped heater members have an angle relative to each other and an arc-shaped face with a specified curvature in a connecting direction, wherein a large number of parallel U-shaped heater members having heating parts are connected to each other and welded so that the heater can have a generally arc-shaped curved surface to install the heater onto the inner wall of a heating furnace, whereby the arc heater having an excellent joining strength and capable of being manufactured stably, and a method and a device for manufactured the heater can be provided.

Abstract: By press-fitting a cylindrical blank into a die with one of a pair of punches, and at the same time press-fitting small diameter end portions and tapered portions of the pair of punches into both ends of the cylindrical blank while restraining both end surfaces of the blank with cylindrical members movable on the outsides of the punches, the external circumferential surface of the blank is finish molded to the required diameter by the internal circumferential surface of the die and, at the same time, tapered surfaces are formed on the inner circumferential surface in both ends of the blank. The process produces a bushing with its internal surfaces accurately coaxial, and with the external surface accurately formed to the required diameter.

Abstract: This invention relates to compounds which are agonists of the progesterone receptor which have the general structure: wherein: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and Q1 are as defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as well as methods of using these compounds to induce contraception or treat progesterone-related carcinomas and adenocarcinomas.

Abstract: A wide-mouth plastic container is formed from a preform that is blow-molded to form an intermediate container article that has blown threads located below a moil. The moil is severed above the blown threads to yield the finished container. A preform and process for manufacturing the wide-mouth container are disclosed.

Abstract: Frequency-dependent phase center movement in near-field, unshielded, electromagnetic susceptibility testing using a log-periodic dipole can be significantly reduced by bending the rearmost dipole elements forward. Each bent dipole element has an inner portion and an outer portion connected to each other at a bend, the inner portion extending outward from a boom in substantially perpendicular relation to the boom, and the outer portion extending obliquely outward and forward from the bend. The frequency range of the antenna can be extended by forming each element of the longest dipole with an undulating shape when viewed in a direction along the boom.

Abstract: A tensioner lever for an engine timing chain comprises a synthetic resin lever body including a shoe having a chain-contacting sliding surface, and a spring-receiving portion on the back of a shoe. A laminated sheet spring is fitted into a slot formed in the spring-receiving portion along the longitudinal direction of the lever. The synthetic resin lever body is pivoted on a pivot shaft mounted on an engine, and an end of the laminated sheet spring is locked into a groove in the pivot shaft so that the spring can be stressed and thereby exert a tensioning force on the chain through the tensioner lever.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds of the formula I: wherein: R1 and R2 are independently H, OH, OAc, alkylaryl, alkylheteroaryl, 1-propynyl, 3-propynyl, and substituted alkyl, O(alkyl), aryl, or heteroaryl; or R1 and R2 are joined to form a ring comprising —CH2(CH2)nCH2— where n=0-5; —CH2CH2C(CH3)2CH2CH2—; —O(CH2)mCH2— where m=1-4; O(CH2)pO— where p=1-4; —CH2CH2OCH2CH2—; —CH2CH2N(H or alkyl)CH2CH2—; or R1 and R2 together comprise a double bond to C(CH3)2, C(cycloalkyl), O, or C(cycloether); R3 is H, OH, NH2, CORA, or optionally substituted alkenyl or alkynyl groups; RA=H or optionally substituted alkyl, alkoxy, or aminoalkyl groups; R4=H, halo, CN, NH2, or optionally substituted alkyl, alkoxy, or aminoalkyl; R5 is optionally substituted benzene ring; five or six membered heterocyclic ring; 4 or 7-substituted indole or a substituted benzothiophene; or pharmaceutically acceptable salt t

Abstract: There is provided a copper clad laminate which makes laser beam drilling extremely easy and is suitable for forming an interlayer connection microhole by improving a surface of its copper foil, which is to be used as the surface which a laser beam enters, in the production of printed circuit boards. Specifically, the copper clad laminate is such that it includes electrodeposited copper foil for use in the laser beam drilling and is characterized in that the matte side of the above electrodeposited copper foil is used as the surface which the laser beam enters.

Abstract: A plastic movable guide for a chain or other traveling transmission medium, comprises a guide body composed of a shoe and a slotted plate-receiving portion integrally molded as a unit from a resin, and a reinforcing plate inserted into the slot. A mounting hole adjacent one end of the guide body is aligned with a hole adjacent one end of the reinforcing plate. The diameter of the hole in the reinforcing plate is larger than the diameter of the mounting hole in the guide body, so that the inner periphery of the hole in the reinforcing plate does not extend inward past the edge of the mounting hole. The guide so configured exhibits excellent quietness and assembly efficiency and can be produced at a relatively low cost.

Abstract: The present invention provides Bin2 sequences and proteins encoded thereby. Also provided are compositions and methods utilizing these sequences and proteins in the diagnosis and treatment of blood disorders, including hepatocarcinoma. Further provided are oligonucleotides derived from sequences encoding Bin2, as well as compositions and methods utilizing same for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

Abstract: TALL-104 cells, and other cytotoxic T cell lines, may be modified to increase the cytotoxicity thereof, to enhance growth properties, and/or to provide a preferred phenotype, e.g., expression of cell surface antigens, function, e.g., change in cytokine production profile, by culturing the cells in an effective amount of IL-15, optionally followed by gamma irradiation to halt proliferation.