Abstract: The invention provides a treating method of forming a protection layer having strong abrasion resistance and oxidation resistance and having a thickness of micron order of a surface of a polished grain or a processed granular material obtained by kneading and solidifying a starch so as to make it hard to be changed in quality, thereby improving a storage capacity for a long time. Further, the invention provides a treating method of forming a fine particulate starch attached to the grain or the granular material into a paste state so as to combine with the protection layer. The surface treating method has a step of applying a high humidity hot wind to the polished grain or the granular material so as to heat a surface layer portion, a step of forming a starch in the heated portion into a paste state and further making the starch into an alpha state, and a step of cooling and forming a fine layer of the alpha starch on the surface portion.

Abstract: To provide a loading device in a magnetooptical disc recording apparatus having a sufficiently wide space for the magnetooptical disc between an elevation mechanism and a driving unit without positioning a holder lever constituting the elevation mechanism between a clamper and the driving unit, and a space for avoiding contact between the holder lever and the magnetooptical disc, an elevation mechanism and a plurality of holder levers are disposed removably in a radially outward direction to be substantially flush with the clamper and adapted to give a vertical motion and a opening and closing operation in a radial direction to the holder lever in cooperation with the rotation of the clamper base. When the magnetooptical disc is loaded or unloaded, the clamper is moved upwardly by engagement with the holder lever to maintain said sufficient space.

Abstract: An improved method of introducing sample into a low-pressure flow stream of a high-pressure chromatography system to improve efficiency and significantly shorten the time of the separation process through a chromatography column is described. The method comprises injecting samples in a modifier liquid flow stream upstream of a mixing column that combines two independent flow streams of a liquid modifier with a highly compressed solvating fluid. Focusing can be controlled at the column head by changing the ratios of the two flow streams. Total flow may also be adjusted to speed the application of the sample onto the column during injection. The method improves the timing and efficiency of a supercritical fluid chromatography system and can reduce the amount of modifier added to the mobile phase flow stream.

Abstract: A method for converting a pump for use in a flow stream containing a mixture of highly compressed gas, compressible liquid or supercritical fluid wherein the pump delivers a compressible fluid against a back-pressure regulator which in turn delivers a controllable flow rate downstream of the regulator without performing variable compressibility compensation adjustments on the pump. By using a pressurized source of compressible fluid combined with isocratic conditions, the delivery pressure from the pump is controlled at a rate higher than the downstream gradient with the back-pressure regulator, and an inexpensive pump may be used in place of specialized, expensive pumps and compressibility compensation systems for use in stems operating at or near supercritical fluid levels of compressible fluids. Significant capital and operating laboratory costs are saved through a simpler and cheaper system for accurately delivering compressible fluids into mobile phase flow streams.

Abstract: An efficient and safe method and apparatus for collecting exhaust gasses in an open-air sample collection container in a supercritical fluid chromatography system is claimed. The invention uses a vacuum force to evacuate the gaseous phase and vapors separated from liquid mobile phase in a sample collection device. The invention is portable to use on a series of collection containers, such as test tubes or wells in a titration place. Embodiments are claimed for capture of gasses and vapors either internally or externally to a collection container. The invention removes the gasses from the collection container that are then safely vented to a waste collector, thereby creating a safer environment for the laboratory and properly removing and disposing potentially hazardous chemicals instead of venting these chemicals into the environment.

Abstract: The invention provides a close-talking type microphone which can shut a sound under a loud sound environment and does not make it hard or impossible for receivers to recognize a target sound due to a significant reduction of a quality of receiving the target sound. The microphone is provided with an outer casing having an open front surface, an inner casing having a front wall provided with a sound hole in a center portion, the front wall closing the front surface, having a space on a peripheral surface and a rear surface, and inserted to the outer casing, a sound pressure-electricity conversion unit fitted and held in the inner casing so as to direct a vibrating body toward the sound hole and a porous cap member covering the front surface of the front wall. The inner casing is made of a vibration isolating material, and the space is filled with a sound absorbing material constituted of a fiber laminated material.

Abstract: To provide a tandem valve type throttle body in which a closing direction of a second throttle valve is not restricted to one side, can an intake efficiency can be improved, and an entire length of a throttle body can be reduced, a butterfly type first throttle valve (3) is attached to a first throttle valve shaft (4) and operated by an accelerator, a butterfly type second throttle valve (5) is disposed in an upstream side of the first throttle valve (3) and attached to a second throttle valve shaft (6), the second throttle valve (5) is formed in an always open type and operated so as to be closed by an electromagnetic actuator, an axial pitch (P) between the first throttle valve shaft (4) and the second throttle valve shaft (6) is twice a radius (R) of the throttle valve (3) or less, and a notch portion (5B) is formed in the second throttle valve (5) in correspondence to an interference portion on planes of both the throttle valves (3, 5) at a time of fully opening both the throttle valves (3, 5).

Abstract: To save a space for heating remarkably than that of a conventional case, to apply main heating at a high temperature only to portions of chips to be soldered and to perform heating operation in a short period of time, a heating apparatus is composed of a preheating zone and a main heating zone. In the preheating zone, support pallets are rotated in the vertical direction within a vertical heat insulating chamber like a Ferris wheel. Also, heat at a temperature such that cream solder is not molten by heaters is applied to a printed circuit board by fans. In the main heating zone, a pattern mask is fixed within a heat insulating chamber, sleeve bodies are fitted in necessary through-holes, blind plugs are fitted in unnecessary through-holes and heat at a temperature such that the cream solder is molten by a heater is applied to portions of chips to be soldered by fans through sleeve bodies, coil springs and other sleeve bodies.

Abstract: A computer implemented process compares signals communicated between a known position and a plurality of base stations in a cellular telephone system to determine the level of interference with a signal on a channel expected to serve the known position, and determines a value indicating a probability of interference with a signal on a channel expected to serve the known position.

Abstract: A computer implemented process compares signals communicated between a known position and a plurality of base stations in a cellular telephone system to determine the level of interference with a signal on a channel expected to serve the known position, and determines a value indicating a probability of interference with a signal on a channel expected to serve the known position.

Abstract: To feed stably fuel through a fuel injection valve for a long period and to stabilize pressure controlling characteristics of a fuel pressure controlling valve, a fuel case is partitioned to form a fuel introduction chamber, a pump receiving chamber and a fuel discharge chamber. A fuel pump is received in the pump receiving chamber, an intake passage thereof communicates to the fuel introduction chamber and a discharge passage is opened to the inside of a filter in fuel discharge chamber. Fuel discharged from the fuel pump is fed into the inside of the filter from the discharge passage and clean fuel is fed into a cleaned fuel discharge chamber. The clean fuel within the cleaned fuel discharge chamber is fed from a fuel discharge passage to a fuel distribution pipe and fed from a fuel introduction passage of the fuel pressure controlling valve to the fuel chamber thereof.

Abstract: A method of extracting active mineral liquid from a rock such as granite is described. This method comprises charging an extraction vessel with finely divided granite at ambient temperature and pressure; introducing an aqueous ammonia solution with agitating and then diluted sulfuric acid into the vessel; introducing 98% ethyl alcohol at below 80° C. into the vessel to elevate the inner pressure of the vessel to 2-3 kg/cm2 for facilitating the formation of complexes; and agitating the resulting reaction mixture for 20-160 minutes at 80° C. to 85° C. while maintaining the internal pressure of the vessel. The active mineral liquid is advantageously used as a mineral source for soils, animals, plants, the human body and so forth, and as an agent for the purification of waterworks as well as for the treatment of wastewater.

Abstract: An induction manifold for an internal-combustion engine, comprising an elongate main body having longitudinal inner cavity provided with an opening adapted to communicate with the intake orifices of the engine, an inlet duct provided with an air-inlet opening and communicating with the cavity, a feed duct for EGR gases formed integrally with the manifold and comprising a first portion extending inside the main body from an inlet orifice for EGR gases to the air-inlet duct and from a second portion extending inside the inlet duct and provided with an outlet opening in the inlet duct itself, and a baffle disposed in the inlet duct between the air-inlet opening and the outlet opening of the feed duct for directing the air and the EGR gases towards a mixing zone inside the inlet duct and situated at a predetermined distance from the cavity of the main body.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for safely introducing sample into a flow stream of a supercritical fluid chromatography system is described. The sample injection method improves safety of injection by eliminating the risk of injecting sample into a high-pressure system containing liquids and gasses at or near supercritical ranges. The method improves the efficiency and significantly shortens the time of the injection process by using a check valve placed between a fill port on an injection valve and sample port where sample is injected by a syringe. After sample injection from a sample loop into a high-pressure flow stream, an injection valve is reset to receive a subsequent sample. High-pressure flow stream mixtures become trapped within the sample loop when the valve is reset. The check valve prevents the mixtures from expanding into the sample port and blowing out a syringe and flow stream mixtures from the fill lines.

Abstract: A computer implemented process which utilizes actual received signal level data gathered from closely spaced locations covering an entire CDMA system to calculate interference levels at each location, determines those base stations which most probably communicate with a mobile unit at each particular location, compiles a list of neighbor base stations for each base station at each location throughout the system, and determines the transmit power necessary for each base station to communicate with a mobile unit at each location, calculates interference levels at each base station, and determines the transmit power necessary for a mobile unit at each location to communicate with each base station which most probably communicates with a mobile unit at that particular location.

Abstract: A fractionated sample collection process and device having at least one pressurized chamber used to gather and store liquid samples generated from a flow stream containing a mixture of highly compressed gas, compressible liquid, or supercritical fluid and a relatively incompressible liquid. A bank of multiple collection chambers is secured together in a frame to form a cassette unit. Each collection chamber may house a replaceable liner such as a test tube vial, to hold a fractionated liquid phase sample. After filling with sample, a collection chamber is returned to a clean state and ready for refilling with a new sample by manually or automatically replacing the liner.

Abstract: A computer implemented process which determines those base stations which most probably communicate with a mobile unit, determines a probability for each base station to communicate with a mobile unit at a location based on the actual received signal level compared to the interference level of signals received at the location, then computes for each set of base stations a probability of that set of base stations communicating.

Abstract: The invention provides a fuel distribution pipe which can restrict an increase of temperature of a fuel flowing within a fuel distribution path of the fuel distribution pipe, whereby it is possible to improve an operation property of the engine. In the fuel distribution pipe, the fuel distribution path is pierced along a line X—X in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the fuel distribution pipe and an injection valve supporting hole for inserting and supporting a rear end portion of the fuel injection valve and a fuel introduction path for supplying a fuel having a pressure increased by a fuel pump are continuously provided in the fuel distribution path of the fuel distribution pipe, and a cooling water flow path extending along the line X—X in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the fuel distribution path and sectioned from the fuel distribution path is provided on an outer periphery of the fuel distribution path, thereby introducing a cooling water into the cooling water flow path.