Abstract: A non-dehiscent sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) designated S26 has been found. Its degree of shatter resistance, or seed retention, makes S26 suitable for mechanized harvesting.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method of protecting a subscriber telephone interface circuit from the application of excess voltages and currents. The method uses a standard subscriber telephone interface circuit, including a speech circuit and a ringing detection circuit, in conjunction with updated controlling software. When excess voltage or current is detected by the ringing detection circuit, a CPU disconnects the speech circuit. The speech circuit is reconnected when the excess voltage or current is removed. The present invention further provides a ringing detection circuit that connects a speech circuit when a ringing signal is detected, and disconnects the speech circuit when excess voltage or current is detected.

Abstract: A method and a device for adjusting one or more roll segments (1) in a continuous casting installation for metals, especially for steel materials, the rolls (1a) of which adjusted in the segment upper frame (2) and the segment lower frame (3) on frame cross members (5) by pairs (4) of hydraulic piston-cylinder units in a position-and/or pressure-controlled manner, wherein an operation for guiding and/or pressing the casting strands (6) is switched from a position-controlled to a pressure-controlled operation when pressure within the respective pair (4) of piston-cylinder units reaches a predetermined maximum value, whereby an improved reaction is effected by operating the piston-cylinder unit of every roll segment (1) in the case of overload, in subsequent steps at a reduced pressure or in a pressureless switching mode until the switching mode is reached in which the segment upper frame (2) can be opened to some extent.

Abstract: A zoom optical system has a focus adjusting unit that performs focusing for an object by moving along an optical axis thereof and a magnification adjusting unit that corrects a change in optical magnification caused by the focusing by moving along an optical axis thereof.

Abstract: A fastening element having a stem provided, at its opposite ends, with a head and a tip, respectively, and a separate cover element releasably arrangeable on the head.

Abstract: An electro-optical distance measuring system (1, 1′) for large measurement ranges having a para-axial arrangement of a beam source (2) with a transmitting optics (3) and a beam receiver, configured as at least one small-area photodiode (4), with an associated receiving optics (5), which contains the processes for signal extension for the lower distance measurement range for distances (X). The beam source (2), the transmitting optics (3), the small-area photodiode (4) and the receiving optics (5) are each oriented with their optical axes (A1, A2) parallel to the measurement light beam (6). The measurement light beam (6) is directed from the transmitting optics (2) to the measurement object and continues to the receiving optics.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display having stacked liquid crystal light modulation layers each containing a liquid crystal compound. At least one of the liquid crystal modulation layers is different from remaining ones in at least one of a dielectric anisotropy, a thickness, a liquid crystal compound contained therein, and a functional layer provided therein so that the drive voltage ranges for the layers are made equal.

Abstract: An electrical hand-held power tool including a percussion assembly (3) with a percussion mechanism (2) and displaceable, substantially vibration-free, in an outer housing (6) provided with a plurality of aeration openings (4) and at least one cooling conduit (7) connecting the aeration openings (4) with a cooling ventilator (5) and securable on the percussion assembly (3).

Abstract: A method for operating an electronic metering system with an electronic hand metering device which includes an electrical drive, at least one displacement device such as a piston drivable by the drive, a program-controlled electronic control, at least one non-volatile write-read memory, an electrical voltage source and a data interface connected to the electronic control, with a computer and a data transfer device. The data transfer device includes a data interface for connecting the data interface of the metering device to the computer such that parameters specific to the apparatus type, apparatus, user parameters, routines for carrying out operating procedures, the program and at least one programming part may be written into and read from the write-read memory and read from the hand metering device can be remote controlled.

Abstract: A setting tool includes a piston guide (13) displaceably arranged in the tool housing (11) and in a hollow chamber (14) of which a piston guide (13) is displaceable under action of a propellant from an initial position thereof to an end position thereof, a device (20) for breaking displacement of the setting piston (15) in its end position at an end of a setting process, and a wear recognition device (30) associated with the setting piston braking device (20) for automatically blocking a setting process dependent on a wear condition of the setting piston braking device.

Abstract: For a further development a device for continuous casting of metal, in particular steel, with a metal mold with mold walls (1,18) and a mold cooling device and which can remove high thermal flows and can be subjected to thermal loads and, thereble, is suitable for use at high speeds, at least one mold wall (1,18) of the mold of this device should include a steel wall (2) and a support mesh (3) for this wall and the device further should be provided with magnetic field generator (3.2) for generating a magnetic field (3.1) acting on the mold steel wall (2) via the support mesh (3) for attracting the mold steel wall (2) to the support mesh (3), with the mold cooling device comprising spray cooling means.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a minimum selector, a maximum selector, and a detector for processing image data having a plurality of color components expressing the image. The minimum selector selects an image data of a minimum value color component from the image data having a plurality of color components. The maximum selector selects an image data of a maximum value color component from the image data having a plurality of color components. The detector detects an edge existing in the image based on the image data of two color components selected by the minimum selector and the maximum selector.

Abstract: An assembly for a percussion power tool includes a carrying handle (5) and a flush head (4) which is connected with the power tool chuck (3) for flushing a working tool receivable in the chuck and which has an inlet opening (12) for a flushing fluid and communicating with the working tool stem (2), the carrying handle (5) and the flush head (4) forming a functional unit.

Abstract: A battery (4) driven circular saw includes a housing (1a) with a motor (3) for driving the circular saw blade (2). The circular saw blade (2) is fixed to a drive shaft (7) that runs transverse to the plane (E) of the circular saw blade (2), the drive shaft being functionally connected by means of a linkage (15) to the motor (3). In order to achieve the most compact construction possible of the circular saw, the axis of rotation (R) of the motor (3) runs parallel to the plane (E) of the circular saw blade (2).

Abstract: A high-speed shear for transversely cutting a rolled ship having a small thickness and including at least one blade provided on one of two oppositely located drums, and a controllable device for displacing the two drums between a cutting position, in which the strip is cut, and an open run-through position in which the strip can be freely advanced between the two drums, with the two drums being synchronized in their open cutting position by respective tooth elements provided on the two drums and engaging each other, and with the tooth elements being so formed that they insure synchronization in the open position of the drums when they engaged each other with, a large tooth backlash and engaged each other substantially backlash-free in the cutting position of the drums.

Abstract: The CMY axes are taken radialy about an origin on a plane. By this plane, a color represented using two colors among CMY can be expressed. A space is generated by adding a K axis perpendicular to the CMY plane. The color in this space is a color having black added to the color of the generated CMY plane. The required color is covered in this space. Color conversion is conducted with a table in which a point on this space and the L*a*b* space are set in correspondence.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of selectively inhibiting the growth of malignant cells in mammals, including humans. The method selectively inhibits the growth of malignant cells of all varieties, and is particularly useful in treating brain tumors and other malignancies of the central nervous system. The method employs HSV-1-derived vectors containing a DNA having a deletion in both copies of the LAT gene and both copies of the ICP34.5 gene of HSV-1. The vectors are delivered to malignant cells either in vivo or in vitro, in accordance with the method. The HSV-1-derived expression vectors are non-neurovirulent and do not spontaneously reactivate from latency, and they optionally contain a functional HSV thymidine kinase gene, which can enhance the effectiveness against cancer of drug treatment with gancyclovir or acyclovir.

Abstract: In order to provide a multi-degree-of-freedom drive mechanism which is capable of preventing a malfunction with a simple structure, the multi-degree-of-freedom drive mechanism includes at least two first and second actuators which generate lengthwise resonance in drive shafts by means of electro-mechanical transducers in a state that driven members are frictionally engaged with the drive shafts to which the electro-mechanical transducers are fixed at its one end, respectively, so as to be capable of moving the driven members along the drive shafts. The other end of the drive shaft of the second actuator is fixed to the driven member of the first actuator 10 directly or via another actuator, and the first and second actuators are composed so that resonating frequencies of their drive shafts are different from each other.

Abstract: A system for detecting fluids in a microfluidic component having at least one microchannel including a limitation wall which has two surfaces which, facing the microchannel in a transparent area, are inclined towards each other at an acute angle, with the system further including a photo transmitter and a photo receiver which are disposed outside the component and are directed to the inclined surfaces in the transparent area of the limitation wall in such a way that if a gas is waiting in the microchannel on the two surfaces, a light ray emitted by the photo transmitter impinges on the photo receiver following a total reflection on the two surfaces and, if a liquid is waiting in the microchannel, the light ray enters the microchannel on at least one of the two surfaces and, as a result, the incidence of light into the photo receiver is reduced or prohibited.

Abstract: A method of lowering a floating body of a floating foundation and carrying a structure projecting above the water surface to an end position located beneath the water level, includes threading, through each of the upwardly projecting tubes, which are secured to the floating body above-through-openings formed in the floating body, a cable or a rod and connecting the cable or rod to a set-in-ground anchor, lowering the floating body, with the uptake devices provided at the free ends of the tubes, to the end position of the floating body beneath the water surface against buoyancy of the floating body, and fixidly securing the cables or rods, in the end position of the floating body, to the floating body and cutting off sections of the cables and rods above fixation points of the cables and rods with the floating body and removing the tubes.