Abstract: Three known devices for teaching golfers how to hold their clubs are structurally modified and used together as a set. The three devices are a lie indicator, a shaft position indicator, and a loft indicator. A record member is provided to record the information provided by use of all three of the devices as a set. After the three devices have been used on all of the golfer's clubs and the information provided has been recorded on the record member, further correct holding of the clubs may be obtained without further use of all three devices. Instead, the golfer merely needs to attach the shaft position indicator to each club shaft and the loft indicator to each club face, and to hold each club in the manner recorded on the record member. Accordingly, the lie indicator need not be used repeatedly, and the golfer need not remember the information recorded on the record member.

Abstract: A radiation-curable coating composition for ophthalmic lens is disclosed which comprises a mixture of a monoepoxysilane, colloidal silica, an alkylalkoxysilane or tetraalkoxysilane, and an ultraviolet activated photoinitiator capable of initiating a cationic cure of such composition. The photoinitiator is an aromatic onium salt or an iron arene salt complex.

Abstract: Sentences from a source language having first rules of grammar are translated into a target language having second rules of grammar; the resulting sentences are meaningful but ungrammatical. The ungrammatical sentences are changed into grammatical sentences by a method that includes identifying grammar markers and grammar marker patterns in the translated put ungrammatical sentence. A first database includes grammar rules and is consulted for each grammar marker that appears in the ungrammatical sentence. A second database includes self-correction rules and is consulted for each grammar marker pattern that appears. The grammar rules and self-correction rules are applied by a correction scheme. The resulting sentences are substantially perfectly grammatical.

Abstract: A video game apparatus includes simulated cylindrical housings that are filled with simulated numbered balls that are apparently mixed by a simulated upflowing stream of air through the cylinders. After the passage of a predetermined amount of time, the mixing stops and a simulated ball having a simulated number appears in a simulated ball trapping member above each cylinder to create the impression that the trapped simulated balls escaped their associated cylinders by riding the simulated upflowing airstream. Mechanical buttons are pressed by a player to select a player's random number, and a random number generator in the game apparatus picks a random number and determines the respective numbers of the balls trapped in the simulated ball trapping members. A monetary award is mechanically dispensed by the apparatus if the random number selected by the player matches the random number generated by the random number generator.

Abstract: A diphenylsulfone derivative of the formula (I) ##STR1## which is highly safe and used for imparting storage stability to a colored image of thermal or heat sensitive recording material, wherein R.sup.1 represents lower alkenyl or aralkyl optionally substituted with halogen or lower alkyl, and R.sup.2 represents hydrogen or methyl, provided that R.sup.2 represents methyl when R.sup.1 represents unsubstituted benzyl.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel ester which presents as (CF 1) and a method for the production of the same as well as a process for hydrolysis and a method for the determination of an optical purity using this ester, and the object thereof is to provide an intermediate for the synthesis or various natural products, which has high stability, and the optical purity of which can readily be determined, according to the esterification of 1-oxo-5-hydroxymethyl-2-cyclohexene which is unstable to acids and alkalis.

Abstract: A vent cover for vehicles equipped with roof vents is raisable and lowerable from within the vehicle by rotating a crank. The cover includes a dome formed by a top wall, sidewalls that depend from the top wall, and a venturi cone member secured to an underside of the top wall. A vent base mounted to the roof of the vehicle has upstanding sidewalls so that air molecules exiting the vehicle must flow upwardly to pass over the top of the sidewalls and then downwardly to enter the atmosphere external to the vehicle. The air molecules are forced to flow downwardly after they have passed over the top of the vent base sidewalls by the sidewalls that depend from the top wall of the dome. The cooperative shape of the venturi cone member, the walls that depend from the top wall of the dome, and the upstanding sidewalls of the vent base creates a constricted area above the upstanding sidewalls where upwardly flowing air molecules must change their path of travel to flow downwardly.

Abstract: A finished ophthalmic lens is made by using a pre-manufactured lens or lens wafer as a part of a mold for making the finished lens. A polymerizable lens material is injected between the lens or lens wafer and a conventional mold member and a trio of indexers are used to rotate the conventional mold member relative to the lens wafer, to adjust the spatial relationship between the conventional mold member and the lens or lens wafer, and to control the angular relation between them. The assembly is subjected to irradiation and the radiation cures the polymerizable lens material and fuses it to the lens wafer so that the lens or lens wafer becomes an integral part of the finished lens. A finished lens is made in less than one hour.

Abstract: A chiller is quickly pressurized by heating water in the evaporation circuit of the chiller water loop by pumping the water into a first heat exchanger where it is heated by hot refrigerant fluid from a compressor. A non-cavitating jet pump circulates the water through the first heat exchanger. A second heat exchanger in fluid communication with the first returns the refrigerant fluid to its vapor state before it returns to the compressor by absorbing heat from tap water. Plural monitoring devices in electrical communication with a control device are arranged throughout the system and the control device deactivates the compressor and the jet pump if monitored operating conditions fall outside of predetermined ranges.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument, which, in consonance with the state of a local control function, is designed to play music independently or in conjunction with an external device, includes a detector for detecting a depression of a predetermined operation terminal immediately after power switch-on. It further includes an initial setup device for setting the initial state of the local control function in accordance with the data acquired by the detector.

Abstract: An endotracheal tube has a temperature sensor positioned proximal of a patient's larynx when the tube is in use. Thus, the sensor overlies the tongue. In view of the high vascularity of the tongue, the sensor provides an accurate reading of the patient's body temperature and responds quickly to temperature changes. A heat insulator inhibits heat transfer from the interior of the endotracheal tube to the sensor, and an electrical insulator electrically isolates the sensor from the tongue. In a first embodiment, the sensor is linear in configuration, and in a second embodiment the sensor is serpentine in configuration to increase the surface area of the contact between the sensor and the tongue. A third embodiment adds an oxymeter. In additional embodiments, the sensor is placed on other highly vascular regions of the body, or where an artery is present. The sensor may also be positioned within a preselected vein or artery.

Abstract: A process for producing a dyed article having a substrate laminated with a fluororesin film comprises the steps of: providing a substrate having laminated thereon a fluororesin film through an adhesive layer; contacting an original having a pattern or image formed with a sublimating or volatile dye with a surface of said fluororesin film opposite to said adhesive layer; heating said original to allow said dye to permeate said fluororesin film; and allowing said dye to be trapped by at least one of said adhesive layer and said substrate to transfer the pattern or image of the original thereto. According to the process, designs of an original can faithfully be transferred to a substrate for dyeing having any desired substrate on which a fluororesin film having high resistances to light, solvents, heat and stains is laminated.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel clathrate compounds using tetrakisphenols as host. The clathrate compounds are obtained easily and efficiently by reacting tetrakisphenols represented by the general formula [I] as host and various organic compounds such as alcohol, ether, ester, ketone, heterocyclic compounds containing nitrogen, essential oil, perfume and the like as guest under the condition of solvent-free or diluted with solvent if required. ##STR1## wherein X represents (CH.sub.2)n, n represents 0-3, and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represents each independently hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a pheny group optionally having substituents, a halogen atom or a lower alcoxy group.The clathrate compounds specified in the present invention are useful in the technological field of selective separation, chemical stabilization, conversion to non-volatility, powder processing and the like.

Abstract: A method for preparing ethane and ethylene by reacting methane or a methane-containing natural gas in the presence of oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas, i.e., by partially oxidizing, at a temperature of 500.degree. through 1000.degree. C. using shellfishes or shells as a catalyst is disclosed. The oxidation coupling reaction of methane is controlled so as to remarkably increase the conversion ratio of methane and the selectivity of C.sub.2.sup.+ compounds. The waste matter abundantly released from food industries as well as easily accessible natural resources is used as a raw material of a catalyst for the reaction. The present method is extremely useful from the viewpoint of the recycling of waste as well.

Abstract: An automatic playing apparatus which reads tone information from a ROM piece by piece to play a demonstration. The tone information stored in the ROM includes note data for generation of a musical tone as well as data for changing the parameters of music corresponding to the note data. When a demonstration is played, the note data and the data for changing the music parameters stored in the ROM are read out piece by piece, and the associated musical tones are generated accordingly. In this way, the musical piece being automatically played changes with each repetition, so that listeners hear a different version of the piece each time it is re-played.

Abstract: The proximal end of a nasal oxygen catheter is modified so that it releasably engages a facemask coupler that is in fluid communication with an anesthesia machine. A facemask is also releasably engaged to the facemask coupler. The distal end of the catheter includes nasal prongs and oxygen only from the anesthesia machine is dispensed to the patient through the prongs when the proximal end of the catheter is engaged with the facemask coupler. Upon disengagement of the proximal end of the catheter from the coupler, the facemask may be applied to the nose and mouth of a patient without reconfiguring the anesthesia machine. The anesthesia or oxygen-dispensing capabilities of the anesthesia machine are not disabled by any configuration of parts so that the machine may be reconfigured from an oxygen-only mode to an oxygen-and-anesthesia mode in only a second or two.

Abstract: An apparatus for interconnecting with a lanyard a handle of the type used in rapid inflation applications includes apparatus for impaling a first end of a lanyard with multiple spikes to secure the first end to a handle. The lanyard handle is made with a channel having spike-receiving cavities along its extent, and the spikes on a spike-carrying strip impale the first end of the lanyard when the strip is press fit into the channel.