Abstract: The invention greatly improves an efficiency of a whole of aparts mounting process. In a method of applying an adhesive material to a parts mounted circuit board, a recess portion surrounding a part of a circuit board in which the parts are already mounted is provided on a back surface, a portion corresponding to a position at which the parts of the circuit board should be mounted is protruded in the recess portion, and a mask having a through hole for applying the adhesive material in the protruding portion is used. Then, the mask is mounted on the circuit board and the adhesive material is pressed out from a through hole by a squeegee in a screen printing apparatus so as to be applied.

Abstract: A screen printing apparatus is configured to perform a printing operation and a checking and inspecting of the state of print on a substrate. A mask frame and a camera apparatus for checking and inspecting the print state are arranged along a direction of transfer of the substrate so as to be disposed in parallel to each other. After the substrate receives a printed pattern by operation of a squeegee apparatus, the substrate is moved by substrate support tables to a checking and inspecting station. The supporting tables are arranged below the mask frame and the camera apparatus.

Abstract: A mounting apparatus of a fuel injection valve by which a fuel injection valve can be securely mounted to a fuel distributing pipe with a significantly simple engaging member so as to improve a performance of mounting to a suction pipe and increase a production efficiency.

Abstract: A flexible, absorbent, fabric mat or cover is removably affixed to a bathtub over the side or lip thereof. The fabric is advantageously terry cloth. Particularly where a bather's hand is wet or soapy, the coefficient of friction of the bathtub lip is substantially improved relative to an uncovered porcelain or enamel coated bathtub. Safety is improved even if the terry cloth inadvertently becomes saturated with water, and the device is readily removable for washing and readily washable.

Abstract: An electric heating device includes a flexible resistor ribbon, a plurality of sections of electroconductive coating attached to the resistor ribbon at preset intervals, and connector contacts coupled to the resistor ribbon for enabling connection of a power source to the resistor ribbon. The resistor ribbon has a high specific impedance. The flexible resistor ribbon is attached to a rigid or flexible flat base panel for incorporation into a building as a floor, wall or ceiling panel. Layers of electric insulation are attached to the base so as to sandwich the flexible resistor ribbon. Where the resistor ribbon is bent back on itself, for example, to form a snaking configuration, a strip of two-sided adhesive tape is attached to the layers of electric insulation and to the ribbon at multiple spaced points.

Abstract: A screen printing apparatus for applying a printing agent in different thicknesses to a plate. A mask of the apparatus has a width corresponding to or matching the widths of two plates to be printed. A first portion of the mask, for applying a first printing to the plate, is reduced by recessing an upper surface of the mask portion, with screen holes being provided therein pursuant to a desired pattern. A second portion of the mask, for applying a second printing to the plate, is provided with screen holes in a different pattern. Recesses are provided in the lower surface of the second portion of the mask for receiving the printing agent applied via the first portion of the mask, thereby preventing the printing agent from attaching to the second portion of the mask. A single printing operation, on two plates disposed side by side, is performed by moving a squeegee having two portions with different thicknesses or heights. The plate to be printed can be shifted under the lower surface of the mask.

Abstract: The invention provides an inexpensive acceleration apparatus of a carburetor which can stably supply a fuel for acceleration for a long time. In the acceleration apparatus of the carburetor, a cam lever (8) provided with a cam surface (8A) is fixed to a throttle valve operating shaft (4A) disposed between a throttle lever (5) and an end portion (3A) of a supporting boss (3). A first lever (10) is brought into contact with the cam surface (8A) of the cam lever by a first spring (12) for urging in a first rotational direction (A). A second lever (11) is brought into contact with a restriction portion (10C) of the first lever (10) by a second spring (13) for urging in a second rotational direction (B), and is arranged in such a manner as to be brought into contact with a pump rod (6H) for pressing a pump diaphragm (7) of a pump apparatus (P).

Abstract: A method for the general and localized sanitizing of air and similar gas mixtures, to be applied in aeraulic climate-control systems of buildings and in the preparation and preservation of perishables, the method including a continuous and constant or intermittent negative ionization of the air of an environment, so as to have a bactericidal and microbicidal action on the air without producing ozone and to have a neutralizing action on toxic gaseous compounds such as benzene, NOx and the like or an action which converts the toxic compounds into non-toxic compounds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to select peptides of the carboxy terminal and aminoterminal portion of the beta unit of hCG and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof that can be used for controlling retroviral, e.g., human immunodeficiency virus (BV infections. The invention comprises a method in vitro as well as in vivo for prevention and/or treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) at pharmacological doses of beta hCG-derived peptides and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof which are sufficient to exert an anti-HIV effect for a sufficient period of time.

Abstract: A procedure wherein an elongate, at least partially flexible tie member is partially wound about tissues to be closed at a surgical site. Opposite ends of the flexible tie element are entrained by a twisting instrument which has a distal end juxtaposed to the surgical site. The twisting instrument extends out of the patient so that a proximal end of the instrument is manipulable by a surgeon. The surgeon rotates the instrument about a longitudinal axis, thereby twisting the tie member multiple turns about itself. Where the tie member is a wire, the twisting effectively locks the tie member at the surgical site. The tie member may then be severed by a cutters so that the tissues are closed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a service area expansion method and a method of processing calls between service areas in a mobile communication system adopting a CDMA system like a DCS (digital cellular system) or a PCS (personal communication system), in which a reference clock is delayed and an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) of a plurality of CSMs (cell site modems) in a base station is controlled using such a delayed reference clock so as to expand service area by each CSM ASIC unit, and a handoff area is positioned between expanded service areas so as to perform a normal call processing. A base station of a CDMA mobile communication system is provided with a plurality of CSM ASICs having the same configuration and a delayed reference clock is fed to each CSM ASIC, thus expanding service area. Such a communication service may be provided to the coastal area where a base station is easily installed.

Abstract: A foliar fertiliser composition providing for an enhanced crop characteristic in a crop. The composition is made of soluble compounds of the following trace elements in the following ranges of relative proportions of the respective element by weight, 0.5 to 4.0 copper, 2.0 to 10.0 zinc, 2.5 to 12 manganese, 5 to 14.0 iron, 0.5 to 6.5 boron, 0 to 0.3 molybdenum.

Abstract: In a method for the manufacture of frankfurters, hot dogs and other skinless sausage products, a meat emulsion is extruded onto a flexible conveyor belt which is then conveyed through a tube whose internal diameter is equal to the desired diameter of the sausage product plus twice the thickness of the conveyor belt. In a camming type process, the conveyor belt is caused, upon its entry into the tube, to temporarily form a cylinder containing the meat emulsion. The temporary belt cylinder together with the surrounded meat emulsion extrudate is then conveyed through an ultrasonic waveform generator to cook an outer layer of the meat emulsion. The outer layer may be part of the meat emulsion or a thermoset gelling material deposited on the extruded meat emulsion. At the exit end of the tube, the conveyor belt naturally opens under internal stresses from its cylindrical shape to a flattened belt. The at least partially cooked sausage is then removed from the belt for further processing or packaging.

Abstract: In a method for the manufacture of frankfurters, hot dogs and other skinless sausage products, a meat emulsion is extruded onto a flexible conveyor belt which is then conveyed through an at least partially microwave-transparent tube whose internal diameter is equal to the desired diameter of the sausage product plus twice the thickness of the conveyor belt. In a camming type process, the conveyor belt is caused, upon its entry into the tube, to temporarily form a cylinder containing the meat emulsion. The temporary belt cylinder together with the surrounded meat emulsion extrudate is then conveyed through a microwave applicator to partially or thoroughly cook the meat emulsion. At the exit end of the tube, the conveyor belt naturally opens under internal stresses from its cylindrical shape to a flattened belt. The at least partially cooked sausage is then removed from the belt for further processing or packaging.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a flexible substrate, a flexible video screen disposed on the substrate, and a scanner operatively connected to the video screen for providing thereto a video signal encoding an image of objects located near the substrate. The scanner is provided with an analyzing component in the form of a specially programmed digital computer for analyzing scanner sensor signals and determining therefrom three-dimensional shapes of the objects. In medical diagnosis and treatment procedures, the substrate with the video screen is disposed on a selected body portion of a patient, for example, the abdomen or a shoulder or knee, so that the substrate and the video screen substantially conform to the selected body portion and so that the video screen is facing away from the body portion.

Abstract: A filtering centrifuge includes a case, a perforated filter basket disposed for rotation in the case, filter media disposed along an inner surface of the filter basket, and a cake removal mechanism at least partially disposed in the case outside of the filter basket and engageable with the filter media to distort the filter media and induce separation of deposited cake from the filter media. The cake removal mechanism specifically includes an ejector element movably mounted to the case for shifting between a use position adjacent to the filter basket and a neutral position spaced from the filter basket.

Abstract: Compounds of general structural formula (I) are shown to have AMPA receptor enhancing properties. The compounds are useful for such therapeutic purposes as facilitating the learning of behaviors dependent upon AMPA receptors, and in treating conditions, such as memory impairment, in which AMPA receptors, or synapses utilizing these receptors, are reduced in numbers or efficiency. They may also be used to enhance excitatory synaptic activity in order to restore an imbalance between brain subregions, as in treatment of schizophrenia or schizophreniform behavior.