Abstract: A subscriber line access circuit for use in a telecommunications system is disclosed. The subscriber line access circuit has a power supply bridge in the form of a first resistor inserted in the b-wire (ground potential side) of a subscriber line, a second resistor inserted in the a-wire (supply potential side) of the subscriber line, and a capacitor which bridges the two wires at the terminals of the two resistors on the sides thereof opposite to the respective potential sources. This supply bridge is coupled on the capacitor side with a two-to-four wire hybrid transformer for the two-wire/four-wire transition to the system, and includes an evaluating circuit which delivers an indicating signal when the subscriber actuates a ground key. A cutoff circuit is arranged in the power supply bridge in series with the first or the second resistor, or both, between such resistor and the winding of the hybrid transformer to which it, the resistor, as well as the evaluating circuit are connected.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for correcting for the spatial distortions of scintillation cameras or similar image forming apparatus. The spatial distortion correction method accurately and precisely determines distortion correction factors in an off-line test measurement and analysis phase prior to actual on-line diagnostic use. The distortion correction factors are initially determined from image event data that is obtained during the test measurement phase by orthogonal line pattern images. Data from a uniform field flood image is also utilized during the test measurement phase to refine and modify the distortion correction factors utilizing the gradient of a function of the field flood image data. Scintillation camera image repositioning apparatus is provided and includes a memory having the correction factors stored therein in a predetermined array.

Abstract: There is disclosed a hand held testing device for measuring different electrical quantities. Two handles equipped with test prongs are interconnected by a cable. A battery and means for charging the same are built into one handle. The other handle is provided with a function selecting switch and a range selecting switch having finger grip elements. Movable switch elements are constructed of contact rollers. The stationary switch elements are commonly formed of a printed circuit board bearing respective contact areas. A second printed circuit board assembly arranged aside the first board carries the main electrical units on one side and a display device with a visible display area on the opposite side. Selector areas assigned to each one of the switches for marking selector positions are arranged on the same side of the handle body as the display area. Test prongs, selector areas and the display area may therefore be viewed together.

Abstract: The circuit breaker contains a contact system and a blast device. The blast device produces a flow of quenching gas required for the quenching of the switch-off arc in the contact system. The blast device, which is assigned to the contact system, includes an annular piston and a movable cylinder. The piston is sealed via a first sealing ring against the cylinder and via a second sealing ring of different diameter against a movable cylindrical bridging element of the contact system.The circuit breaker also contains a one-way-action valve which is closed in the compression phase and opened in the intake phase. The valve is formed by the two sealing rings which are located in the same plane. They are arranged with axial play in annular grooves which are formed in the piston in flow paths for the quenching gas. Between the sealing rings is arranged at least one spacer element. The rings are supported in a way so that they are movable transversely to the main axis of the piston.

Abstract: A charged particle accelerator has an accelerator chamber in the interior of which a narrow beam of charged particles is accelerated. The particle beam is directed to a discharge window for discharging the particles therethrough. A device is provided for wobbling the beam of particles before the particles strike the discharge window, thereby enlarging the area where the particles strike the window. Preferably a magnetic wobbling device may be used. Such a device may have one or more magnetic coils which is/are arranged near the discharge window and which receive(s) a varying electric current. The accelerator may be a linear accelerator generating high energy electrons or X-rays for medical treatment.

Abstract: There is disclosed an optoelectronic coupling device for transmitting digital signals from an input to an output, which input and output are electrically isolated from each other. An input stage includes an input for receiving digital input signals from an incoming signal line and an output. The input stage is connected to an optoelectronic coupling circuit comprising luminescent diodes and phototransistors arranged adjacent to respective ones of the luminescent diodes. Either the collectors or the emitters of both phototransistors are commonly connected to a first voltage source. The other leads of the phototransistors form outputs of the optoelectronic coupling circuit. An output stage, connected to these outputs, includes an operational amplifier having an output, a non-inverting input and an inverting input. Each of the non-inverting and inverting inputs are connected to one of the outputs of the optoelectronic coupling circuit.

Abstract: There is disclosed a circuit arrangement for receiving unipolar DC signals from a transmission line of a telecommunication system. An opto-coupler circuit is coupled with a light-emitting element at the input side to two wires of the receiving branch of the transmission line. A current reflector circuit arranged at the input side of the opto-coupler circuit is composed of a pair of transistors with a common base connection coupled to one wire of the transmission line. One of these transistors is connected in series by its collector-emitter path with the light-emitting element. The second transistor is symmetrically arranged between both wires of the transmission line. A resistor is arranged in the emitter circuit of one transistor for controlling the current reflection ratio.

Abstract: A subscriber line access circuit for use in a telecommunications system is disclosed. The subscriber line access circuit includes a power supply bridge in the form of a first resistor inserted in the b-wire (ground potential side) of a subscriber line, a second resistor inserted in the a-wire (supply potential side) of the subscriber line, and a capacitor which bridges the two wires at the terminals of the two resistors on the sides thereof opposite to the respective potential sources. This supply bridge is coupled on the capacitor side with a two-to-four wire hybrid transformer for the two-wire/four-wire transition to the system and includes an evaluating circuit which delivers an indicating signal when the subscriber actuates a ground key. A cutoff circuit is arranged in the power supply bridge between the first and/or second resistor in that bridge and the respective one or ones of the transformer windings at the junction points at which the evaluating circuit is connected.

Abstract: A temperature sensor for an engine such as an automotive engine, which sensor comprises in combination an electric heat sensitive device such as preferably a thermistor, a contact board and a housing. One of the surfaces of the magnet magnetically attaches the sensor to the engine. The magnet has an aperture for housing the heat sensitive device which is retained within the aperture by a heat-conductive material. The contact board connects the leads of the heat sensitive device with leads of a cable which may be connected to an indicating device. The housing of the sensor, made of an electrically insulating material, partially encloses the magnet, thereby leaving open a surface for magnetic attachment to a ferromagnetic part of the engine, the temperature of which is to be determined.

Abstract: A process for the separation and isolation of AHF, fibronectin and von Willebrand's ristocetin cofactor from blood plasma by adding a sulfated mucopolysaccharide to blood plasma to a concentration of from about 0.05 to about 0.4 mg/ml of plasma, cooling the plasma to 0.degree. C.-15.degree. C., centrifuging the plasma to isolate a precipitate which forms and then removing the AHF-rich supernatant liquid from the precipitate.The precipitate is washed in a slightly basic solution of dilute salts and then dissolved in a buffered solution of chaotrophic salts of the Hofmeister series having an ionic strength from 0.01-1. Fibronectin is separated by chromotographic means from the dissolved precipitate which contains fibronectin and fibrinogen.The dissolved precipitate may also be applied to a glass or plastic column containing a 4% agarose gel (E. G. Sepharose 4B or Biogel A-15m) in a 0.25 molar solution sodium phosphate titrated to pH 7.0 with any base, preferably TRIS.

Abstract: A leg stretching exercising device comprises a platform having an upwardly extending backrest at one end thereof, at least one handle opposite the backrest and extending outwardly from the platform. A bar including telescoping inner and outer end portions extends outwardly from the platform at each end substantially in alignment with the backrest and perpendicular to the handle. The telescoping members are longitudinally adjustable and include means for fixing the length of said members. A pulley member is connected to the end of each inner telescoping member and includes a rope-like member having a stirrup at one end for locking one's foot and a handle at the other end. In operation, an individual adjusts the telescoping members to the proper length and sits on the platform against the backrest gripping the pulley handles which are pulled together stretching one's legs which are placed in the stirrups. The handle is gripped if an individual is stretching only one leg with the pulley.

Abstract: A temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of a part of an automobile, which sensor comprises in combination a clip and an electric heat-sensitive device, such as preferably a thermistor. The clip, which attaches the sensor to the automobile part, includes a first and a second jaw. These jaws are movable between a first and a second position. In the first position, the jaws are remote from each other, whereas in the second position they are positioned close to each other. In the first jaw, there is provided a recess adjacent to the second jaw. A heat-sensitive device is retained within this recess by a heat-conductive material. The automobile part, the temperature of which is to be determined, is enclosed between the jaws when the clip is in its second position.

Abstract: A vacuum evaporator/sublimator flask apparatus comprises an elastomer cap and a cylindrical glass body. The glass body is a straight-sided cylinder, preferably made of borosilicate glass tubing of sufficient wall thickness to prevent implosion when subject to high vacuum, open at one end and sealed at the other. The elastomer cap is preferably fabricated of clear elastomer in a one-piece molded arrangement which includes an upper neck portion, an outwardly extending sloping intermediate portion terminating in outer downwardly extending walls having an inwardly extending flange at the end thereof to engage the glass body. The neck portion has a tubular opening and a molded-in-place insert at the base of the neck to serve as a stop for rigid tubing that is inserted to permit connection to a vacuum system. The upper portion of the neck includes an inwardly extending portion which engages a vacuum insert.

Abstract: An electrical terminal board comprises a plurality of modules having contacts which clamp the individual modules to adjacent modules as well as position them with respect to one another. The modules are secured together preferably by a dovetail arrangement wherein a dovetail slot on each side of the contacts mates with a corresponding protrusion on the individual molded plastic modules. Each module comprises a base having a wall extending upwardly from one surface thereof at substantially the mid-point of the base with the wall having dovetail protrusions extending outwardly on each side thereof at an intermediate point. The contacts may include a variety of configurations such as a tubular or flat structure having a mating dovetail protrusion on the module wall securing the adjacent modules together. The module spacing may be varied merely by employing contacts of different widths.

Abstract: A dowel post for securing dental and medical prostheses is provided having improved retention when cemented in a parallel-sided blind hole, and which reduces build-up of hydrostatic pressure ahead of the post as it is inserted. The dowel post comprises a head on which said prosthesis is formed or mounted and a shaft extending downwardly therefrom having a channel formed therealong providing a flow path for the cement. The channel is formed by one or more and preferably four or five helical concave flutes wound about the axis of the post at a pitch angle to the axis of 70.degree. or less and preferably at about 45.degree..

Abstract: An X-ray generator has at least a first and a second cathode filament for emitting electrons, one end of the first filament being connected to one end of the second filament, the connection point forming a terminal. Still two further terminals are located at the ends of the serial connection of the two filaments. Two of the three terminals are connected via a diode in each connection line to the first pole of a d-c source, while the third terminal is coupled to the second pole of the d-c source. Both diodes are oppositely poled. The polarity of the d-c voltage supplied by the d-c source can be changed, for example, by a remote reversing switch. The polarity of the d-c source determines which and how many filaments are energized to provide focal spots of different size. Since two supply lines are sufficient in a high-voltage cable for feeding the first and second filaments, a third line in the cable can be used for the supply of a third heating filament.

Abstract: The radiation emitting apparatus contains a radiation source which projects a beam of radiation along a central axis onto a surface to be irradiated. There are provided a first and a second light-beam localizer for emitting a first and a second plane light fan, respectively, towards the surface to be irradiated. The second light fan intersects the first light fan in an intersecting line which coincides with the central axis of the emitted radiation. A scale may be projected towards the surface along with one of the light fans. In a preferred embodiment the radiation source is an electron accelerator and the surface is the skin of a patient to be treated.

Abstract: A machine with a central strut, which strut has a center portion first and second end portion, two pairs of flexible bows, each pair comprised of two bows under flexed stress and having first and second ends. The bows are flexed in an arc such that said first and second ends of the bows extend at 90.degree. angles to each other. The first end of each the bows in a pair are fastened to each other in overlapping longitudinal relationship to form a handle for said machine, and the second end of each of said bows are rotatably secured to an end portion of the strut in a manner to prevent lateral or longitudinal movement.The machine converts forces applied in a direction perpendicularly to a plane to a force acting perpendicularly to the same plane but in a direction opposite that of the first force applied. The first force may be applied in the first direction of a single point, or a pair of points, in equal or differing magnitudes.

Abstract: A system for detecting railroad cars in a moving train. The cars are assumed to be of the type having two wheel trucks, each with at least two axles arranged adjacent to each other such that the maximum distance between the axles of a single truck is less than the center distance between facing axles of two trucks of a single car. The system includes a device for measuring the distance between successive axles as a train of cars moves in one direction along a track, a device for comparing each measured distance with the maximum axle distance for a truck, and a device for determining whether the axle spacing of a first truck equals the axle spacing of a second truck after the maximum axle distance for a truck has been exceeded. In this way, an individual car is detected upon identification of two identical truck assemblies which are separated by an axle spacing that is greater than the maximum permissible axle distance in a truck.

Abstract: There is disclosed a head loading carriage assembly for a data storage device such as a "floppy" disk device, the carriage assembly including a base and being movable in a radial direction relative to the recording medium. Pivoted with respect to this base are two arms: a head support arm carrying at least one magnetic head and an auxiliary load arm which is movable in respect to the head support arm between a first and a second load position. The magnetic head is in contact with the recording medium in both of these load positions; however, it is operative only in the first load position. A first spring urges the auxiliary load arm into the first load position towards the head support arm, so as to engage the magnetic head attached to this arm with the recording medium. A second spring, forming a residual leaf spring, is arranged between the head support arm and the auxiliary load arm.