Abstract: A tissue irrigating solution useful for irrigating animal tissue, such as ocular tissue and neuro tissue, during surgery, contains sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, chloride, and bicarbonate ions as well as dextrose and glutathione in proportions consistant with the osmotic stability and continued metabolism of the tissue cells. The irrigating solution is prepared by mixing a first basic solution which provides the bicarbonate and a second acidic solution which provides the calcium, magnesium, dextrose and glutathione. The first and second solutions may be stored as stable, sterile solutions for extended periods of time and mixed within 24 hours of use.

Abstract: A high density information record of the electrostatic capacitance type comprising a record substrate on which signal information is recorded as geometric variations. The record substrate is made of a conductive resin composition comprising a vinyl chloride resin and a conductive powder. The vinyl chloride resin is obtained by suspension polymerization of starting vinyl chloride monomer in an aqueous solution of a water-soluble polymer suspension stabilizer from which insoluble organic matters with sizes over 10 .mu.m have been removed.

Abstract: An optoelectronic switching network comprises a transmit board (10), a receive board (40) and an optical projection system (3). The transmit board is formed by plural transmit units, each including a light source (11). The receive board is formed by plural receive units (41), each including plural optoelectronic cells. The optical system projects an image of the transmit board onto the receive units so that in each receive unit the images of the sources of the transmit board coincide with the optoelectronic cells of the receive units. An optoelectric cell is thus activated by an illuminated light source. In each receive unit, a light source illuminates the receive units when a cell thereof is activated, and a supervision receive unit (60) supervises the optoelectronic cells (62) having projected thereon images of the receive units.

Abstract: A method for fabricating an electrode for use in lead storage batteries in which an aqueous emulsion of a silicone capable of forming an elastic, porous matrix on breaking of the emulsion, is contacted with a finely divided active electrode material at the stage of preparing an electrode paste, or after formation as an electrode. The contacted material is dried, so that the elastic, porous silicone matrix formed in association with and in intimate contact with the finely divided active electrode material. An aqueous dispersion of fluorocarbon resin can be further added to the paste, or an electrode having a fibrous network of fluorocarbon resin can be applied with the silicone emulsion. Fine particles obtained from the silicone emulsion can also be applied to a finely divided active electrode material.

Abstract: This invention relates to manufacturing a grooved cylindrical core by extrusion. The manufacturing device comprises a single rotating integral die that has a tapered rear portion and a grooved cylindrical front portion. The tapered portion surrounds a stationary central member and guides the material from a main extruder. The front portion has a bore including linear or helical channels. The sealing problems are obviated since the tapered portion and the grooved portion make up an integral die. This die further enables to produce a grooved core perfectly gauged. According to another aspect, the threads or stripes between core grooves are identified by means of auxiliary extruders feeding predetermined die channels with extrusion materials having different colours. This stripe identification is particularly used for a core constituting the central strand of an optical cable.

Abstract: Information storage mediums such as video discs and digital audio discs are fabricated by extruding a mass of electrically conductive synthetic resin into a block assembly composed of a pair of separable blocks in which the mass is molded into a cake that is then carried by one of the blocks as separated into a press in which the cake is pressed into an information storage medium or disc blank. The blank is transferred into a trimmer for trimming an overflow off the disc blank as an annular scrap, which is in turn chopped by a chopper into pieces for reuse. A disc from which the scrap has been removed is fed to a hot stamping machine in which an identification foil piece is attached with heat to the disc. The disc with the foil piece stamped thereon is punched to form a central hole by a punching machine.

Abstract: An input composite color video signal is processed to derive a luminance signal and three primary color signals first, and then only a high frequency component of the luminance signal is A/D converted by a first A/D converter, while only low frequency component of each of the three primary color signals is A/D converted by a second A/D converter with the low frequency component of the three primary color signals being time-shared by a first switching circuit to be a single analog signal. The A/D converted chrominance information is fed to a second switching circuit comprising shift registers of parallel-in and serial-out type so that three bits respectively indicative of red, green and blue signals are simultaneously outputted therefrom. The A/D converted luminance data of a plurality of bits, and three bits indicative of three primary colors are simultaneously written into a memory.

Abstract: A moving obstacle detection system using a Doppler radar device for an automotive vehicle which detects and informs a vehicle driver that another vehicle (moving obstacle) approaches or moves away from the detecting vehicle, wherein there is provided a means for determining whether the rate of change of the period of a Doppler signal outputted from the Doppler radar equipment with respect to time exceeds a predetermined value so that an erroneous alarm in response to a pedestrian or another vehicle traversing the front detection area of the vehicle, e.g., when vehicle is at rest at in an intersection is inhibited. Consequently, more reliable detection of approach or departure of another vehicle can be achieved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a collapsible camp stove and in particular to one comprising a folding casing, two leg members engageable with the bottom of the foldable casing, two grips engageable with two sides of the foldable casing, a base plate disposed in the casing, a grate located in the casing, and two roasting frames placed on the top of the casing.

Abstract: Each object on a panel has a respective location designated by an address and associated with an indicator lamp. A panel managing system comprises a memory for successively reading location address combinations. The indicator lamps are successively energized at the locations designated by the addresses read from one and the same combination so that a collector withdraws or inserts the objects at designated locations. The objects are detected to check the normal presence or absence of the objects in the panel after withdrawal or insertion of each object.

Abstract: An electrical contact structure of a vacuum interrupter wherein a pair of electrical contacts 2 are provided within a vacuum vessel 1 through a pair of contact rods 14 so that one is in contact with the other or away therefrom. The electrical contact 2 comprises a substantially disk-shaped contact body 2b made of high electric conducting metal portions and metallic pipes having a low electric conductivity, and a plurality of major current flowing sections 22 made of metal having a high electric conductivity, penetrated in the contact body 2b in a manner to be penetrated in the direction of the thickness of the contact body 2b and separated from each other.

Abstract: An improved safety valve for a feeding water machine, comprising a first casing having an inlet and an outlet, a spring-loaded sliding member slidably mounted into the first casing, a spring-loaded steel ball mounted into the spring-loaded sliding member, a ring mounted into the sliding member to confine the spring-loaded steel ball, a supporting member abutting against the ring, a second casing fixedly attached to the first casing, a stem threadedly engaged with the second casing in such a manner that it may be screwed into or out of the second casing, a push member fastened to the end of the stem, a spring located against the push member at one end and provided with a spring shoe at the other end, a sliding rod disposed against the spring shoe and contacting a second steel ball at the other end, and a spacer mounted between the first casing and the second casing.

Abstract: A vacuum interrupter includes a vacuum envelope having a cylindrical metallic housing with at least one opening end and a disc-shaped and apertured end plate of insulating ceramics which is hermetically sealed to the opening end. One metallized layer to which the opening end is hermetically brazed is in an outer-diameter region of a sealing surface of the plate, while another metallized layer to which another metallic members of the envelope is hermetically brazed is formed in an inner-diameter region of the plate. There are provided, within the envelope near two spaced edges of the inner-diameter region and outer-diameter region metallized layers, metallized-layer-edge shields having opposite surfaces separated by a distance which is smaller than that between the metallized layers. Each of the opposite surfaces has extensions at the axial opposite ends so that each extension extends away from an extension of the other surface.

Abstract: An abnormally high vacuum pressure of a vacuum interrupter is detected from outside of the interrupter in response to electromagnetic wave signals generated by an electric discharge derived in response to a voltage difference and depending upon Paschen's law. Since the above-mentioned electric discharge is quite different from so-called partial discharge, even when the fixed and movable contacts are closed (i.e., under hot-line condition), it is possible to detect poor vacuum pressure on the basis of the electric discharge existing between the fixed and movable contact rods including two contacts and the main shield, as well as when the two contacts are open. The vacuum monitor according to the present invention comprises a rod or loop antenna fixedly or movably disposed near a conductive material of or connected to the vacuum interrupter and a detection section including, in particular, a 2 to 20 KHz band-pass filter.

Abstract: Magnetic recording media are described which are characterized by a recording layer formed on at least one side of a support and made of magnetic particles and a TiO powder dispersed throughout a resin binder. The TiO powder is used in an amount of 0.1 to 35 wt % of the magnetic particles and has an average size of about 0.015 to 5 microns.

Abstract: A high density information record of the electrostatic capacitance type which comprises a record substrate on which signal information is recorded as geometric variations. The substrate is made of a conductive resin composition comprising a thermoplastic resin, a conductive material, and a defined amount of a specific type of dimethylpolysiloxane lubricant having a degree of inhomogeneity of 1.0 to 1.3 and a degree of polymerization of 12 to 60.

Abstract: An input audio signal is analog-to-digital (AD) converted into digital data which is processed by a central processing unit (CPU) for determining pitch of each sound by effecting Fast Fourier Transform (FET) operation and power spectrum calculation. The determination of the sound pitch is effected twice in sequence, and by using frequency and level data resulted from two consecutive determinations, the time length of the sound is detected. After the pitch and the time length are determined, data indicative of a given musical note pattern is produced so that a musical note indicative of time value is indicated at an appropriate position on a staff displayed on a screen of a display unit. Such data from the CPU is fed via a video display processor to a video RAM to be stored therein where the video display processor produces a video signal fed to the display unit in turn.

Abstract: Semiconductor layers are selectively epitaxially grown in portions having an insulating film removed which is formed on a substrate by selective epitaxial growth under reduced pressure. With respect to a circumferential region outwardly of the removed portions in which the semiconductor elements are to be provided, there are formed one or more removed portions (dummy portions) in which no semiconductor element is provided, thereby making arrangement of the removed portions as even as possible with respect to the entire surface of the insulating film, to overcome position dependency in flatness of the semiconductor layers to be obtained. The semiconductor layers grown in the dummy portions may be left not to have semiconductor elements formed therein.

Abstract: Electrical continuimeter device for checking the electrical continuity of a conducting layer covering a structure having conducting and non-conducting parts, said conducting layer being covered by an insulator layer. The device comprises a pick-up with an inner and an outer coaxial electrodes to be put on the insulator layer. A supply alternating voltage is applied between the inner electrode and the ground terminal of the structure developing a first voltage across a load resistor and a second voltage between the outer electrode and the ground terminal is measured. Components of the second voltage respectively cophasal and in phase quadrature with the first voltage are generated and these components are divided by the first voltage, thus providing the resistive and reactive components of the ground impedance.

Abstract: Cuprous chloride, which is contained in a reduced leach solution or pregnant liquor, can be recovered as a complex salt of alkali metal chloride, such as potassium chloride, or alkaline earth metal chloride or ammonium chloride. The salts are produced by oxidation of a copper ore, such as chalcopyrite, with ferric chloride and cupric chloride, and after removal of insolubles, by adding sufficient metallic copper to the solution to reduce cupric ions to cuprous ions so as to provide a solution containing 1.5 to 2.5 molal potassium chloride, or other metal or ammonium chloride, and cooling the resultant saturated solution to precipitate the potassium chloride-cuprous chloride complex salts and recovering the complex salts. Also provided as a method for recovery of pure copper metal by electrolysis of solutions derived from the complex salts wherein the impurities are diverted to an anode loop which is separated from the cathode loop by a diaphragm.