Abstract: The present invention provides an active matrix organic electroluminescence display device including: a transparent substrate; a plurality of pixels aligned over the transparent substrate, wherein each of the pixels further includes: a luminescent region which exhibits a luminescence upon application of an electric field; a circuitry region including at least a circuitry; and an optical shielding structure provided between the luminescent region and the circuitry region for shielding the circuitry region from the luminescence from the luminescent region.

Abstract: A hydrostatic power transmitting device in combination with a speed reducing apparatus together disposed within a common housing having an interior space divided by partitioning device into a first region in which the hydrostatic unit is disposed and a second region in which said speed reducer is accommodated. First and second regions are segregated from each other by the partitioning device being in the form of a flexible non-porous barrier. The elastically deformable partitioning device can therefore adjust its shape to take up any change in the amount of hydrostatic transmitting fluid in the first region due to temperature changes of the fluid and facilitates the regulation in depth of lubricant held by the second region. Thereby an initially low level of lubricant in the second region lessens the adverse effect of power-retarding drag losses, especially during cold weather winter operation, and a rising level of lubricant ensures good lubrication when temperatures are elevated and viscosity is low.

Abstract: Method of producing a paper having a three-dimensional pattern of alternating raised and recessed portions which has been provided in connection with impulse drying, at which the wet paper web (10) is passed through at least one press nip (12) comprising a rotatable roll (13) which is heated and that the paper web during the passage through the press nip is given a three-dimensional pattern of alternating raised and recessed portions either by means of a pattern wire, band or belt and/or by a pattern on the heated roll (13) and where the paper web (10) after said press nip (12) is led around an essential part of the periphery of the heated roll (13) in order to provide an additional drying of the paper web while this is still in contact with said three-dimensional pattern.

Abstract: A composition and method for removing hardened or semi-hardened cementitious substances such as concrete, plaster, mortar, grout and similar substances from surfaces such as exterior and interior building surfaces and exterior surfaces of automobiles. The composition includes anhydrous citric acid as an ingredient together with a thickening or viscosity building agent and a wetting agent. The composition is inherently non-aggressive and environmentally friendly. Therefore, the composition is not hazardous to users and is unlikely to damage surfaces from which the cementitious substance is to be removed.

Abstract: A process for de-icing an air intake cowling (5) of a reaction motor, having an air intake lip (6a), a de-icing system (10) and acoustic attenuation part (11), where the acoustic attenuation part includes separate islands (11a) formed by a sandwich of an acoustically resistive porous layer forming a portion of the external envelope (6i) of the fan channel delimited by the air intake lip, a cellular core, and a reflector (13), has the steps of sending into the lip, preferably in the direction of the acoustic attenuation islands, the warm fluid under pressure of the de-icing system, and causing the fluid to escape outside the cowling, through one or several openings (20) of suitable shape and size, provided in the cowling.

Abstract: A battery cell and a method of producing the cell. The cell includes a pair of electrodes and a smart electronic circuit having one or more active or passive components directly mounted on one of the electrodes, so that the electronic circuit is inside the electrodes and is electrically connected to the electrodes. The components are protected by a coating.

Abstract: A hinge for a motor vehicle rear door (2) includes a fixed knuckle (20) mounted on the body (1) of the vehicle, a moving knuckle (30) mounted on the rear door (2), the door being movable between a closed position and an open position resting against the side of the body (1), and an intermediate knuckle (40) connected to each of the knuckles (20; 30) by a hinge pin (11; 15). The hinge also includes a device (60) for holding the rear door (2) in a wide-open position.

Abstract: A method of manufacture includes the steps of making perforations using a perforating tool in a flat product before it is bent; making bends using a bending tool in the perforated flat product; detecting the position of a perforation on the corrugation; and slaving the relative position of tools to the detected position.

Abstract: A process for the dynamic manufacture and packaging of gas mixtures containing a first component and a second component in predefined proportions, the first and second components being chosen from the group formed by O2, N2, He and N2O, in which predetermined proportions of the first and second components are dynamically mixed in order to obtain a gas mixture of the desired composition and the temperature of the mixture is adjusted in order to keep it above the demixing threshold temperature of the mixture. This process is particularly suitable for the production of analgesic gas mixtures that can be used in the medical field, particularly a mixture formed from 50% oxygen and 50% nitrous oxide.

Abstract: The adhesive bonding system is chosen, applied and, where appropriate, crosslinked so as to have a critical energy release rate in mode I (tension) greater than 1500 J/m2 and a critical energy release rate in mode II (shear) greater than 2000 J/m2. The composite sheet is easily drawable to form parts requiring no curing after forming.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel endoproteolytic hatching enzyme called zonase. The new enzyme is a non-selfdegrading endoprotease. The inventors have purified the enzyme to sequence grade, this was made possible due to the described purification method, which set forth the sequence in which the purification method is to be performed. All preparations of salmon zonases exhibit valuable enzymatic properties with regard to proteolysis, both in terms of catalysis and stability.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical information recording/reproducing device which comprises a light source for emitting a light, a light transmitting system including an objective lens for focusing the emitted light onto an optical storage medium and a photo-detector system for detecting a reflected light from the optical storage medium, wherein before the light is incident into the objective lens, the light has been divided into a main beam and at least a sub-beam which are different in intensity distribution from each other, and the photo-detector system detects first and second track error signals from the main beam and the sub-beam separately, and said photo-detector system further obtains a difference in phase between the first and second track error signals in order to detect a radial tilt of the optical storage medium on the basis of the difference in phase, and further a compensation of the radial tilt is made on the basis of the detected radial tilt.

Abstract: A method and a device involving an electric iris diaphragm/shutter are disclosed for controlling particle transfer of electrically charged medication powder particles from a source to a defined target area, of a substrate. Spatial distribution of particles onto the target area is achieved by an electro-dynamic field technique (320) applied to the distribution and deposition of particles in a dose forming process. An electric iris diaphragm/shutter (130) is located between a particle generator (110) and the substrate (140) such that all particles must pass the iris diaphragm for being transferred to the substrate. By adjusting amplitude and frequency of a superimposed AC potential (136) charged particles will oscillate in the created AC field such that only small light particles will emerge from the iris diaphragm/shutter for further transfer in the dose forming process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a ready-to-use binary gaseous mixture containing 63.1 to 69.9% by volume of helium and the remainder being oxygen, preferably a mixture of 65% of helium and of 35% of oxygen, and its use in the treatment of asthma, of obstructive bronchopneumopathies and the like. Such a gaseous mixture can be used as a vector or propellant gas for medicinal aerosols, in particular aerosols containing a therapeutically effective substance chosen from &bgr;2-mimetics, corticoids and anticholinergics.

Abstract: An apparatus for extruding pencils and a method of using the apparatus. A core material (6) is extruded from an extruder (1) and forms a catenary loop in a cooling zone (4). The core material is carefully cooled at ambient temperature before being cooled and straightened at a cooling unit (5). The core material is coated in a crosshead and die assembly (8) with sheath material extruded from extruder (10). In a further cooling zone (12) the sheath material expands under the action of a blowing agent and the extrudate is sized by a calibrator (13).

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of removing a Cu-contamination from a wafer surface having a Cu-based metal region, comprising the step of: carrying out a cleaning process by use of a cleaning solution free of HF and capable of oxidation to the wafer surface for not only removing the Cu-contamination from the wafer surface but also oxidizing the wafer surface to cause the wafer surface to have a hydrophilicity.

Abstract: A method and a device for separating oil from ice. In the method, ice is pressed under the water along an inclined surface formed by a bar screen (3) or a grating. The oil is separated from the ice by vibrating the inclined surface formed by the bar screen (3).

Abstract: A security imprint (4) is interposed between a protective film (2) of synthetic material and a surface (8) of an object (9) to be protected, onto which surface the film is glued by means of an adhesive (3). The security imprint (4) includes an ink composition having at least one pigment, a bonding agent, and a soluble agent. The soluble agent dissolves in a solvent that is intended to release the adhesive (3) and produces a visible stain.

Abstract: A card sealed by using a composition which includes an acrylate compound polymerizable by an ionizing radiation and 1 to 40 parts by weight of a polyfunctional isocyanate compound per 100 parts by weight of the acrylate compound and can be cured by irradiation of the ionizing radiation and a process for producing a card disposing a coating layer of the composition between a substrate sheet and a cover sheet and curing the coating layer by irradiation of an ionizing radiation.