Abstract: A method and several exemplary apparatus for capillary dewatering of foam materials. The apparatus may include felt which is applied to an exposed face of the foam material, or a double felt arrangement applied to two opposed surfaces of the foam material. The apparatus may provide a temperature differential between the two exposed surfaces of the foam material. An alternative embodiment utilizes a roll having a capillary dewatering medium. The capillary dewatering medium may be maintained at a vacuum either above or below the breakthrough vacuum of the capillaries. The disclosed apparatus and method is particularly useful for dewatering foams having relatively fine open capillaries.

Abstract: Novel pyrimidin-4-one derivatives of formula [1] are provided, which are useful as active ingredients of herbicides, wherein R1 is hydrogen or alkyl; R2 is alkyl optionally substituted with halogen; R3 is alkyl optionally substituted with halogen, alkenyl, or alkynyl; and Q is substituted phenyl. Also provided are intermediates for their production and processes for producing these intermediates.

Abstract: A processor architecture and method are shown which involve a cache having heterogeneous cache sets. An address value of a data access request from a CPU is compared to all cache sets within the cache regardless of the type of data and the type of data access indicated by the CPU to create a unitary interface to the memory hierarchy of the architecture. Data is returned to the CPU from the cache set having the shortest line length of the cache sets containing the data corresponding to the address value of the data request. Modified data replaced in a cache set having a line length that is shorter than other cache sets is checked for matching data resident in the cache sets having longer lines and the matching data is replaced with the modified data. All the cache sets at the cache level of the memory hierarchy are accessed in parallel resulting in data being retrieved from the fastest memory source available, thereby improving memory performance.

Abstract: Polymer compositions comprising polysiloxanes and metal coated boron phosphates are described and they unexpectedly display flame retardant properties and hydrolytic stability without creating environmental hazards.

Abstract: The discharge section of an axially arranged rotary combine is provided with a discharge chute having a ramp on the downward swept side. The ramp is provided with upper and lower metering edges for metering the flow of crop material other than grain from the helical flow to a transverse discharge beater. The floor of the discharge chute is provided with three guide vanes that define specific flow paths of the crop material being expelled by the axial crop processing unit and directing this crop material uniformly across the transverse discharge beater. The upward swept side of the discharge chute is provided with a filler plate for engaging crop material that was not engaged by the vanes to direct this crop material to the upward swept side of the discharge beater.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a buried layer pinched collector bipolar, (BPCB), device, sharing several process steps with simultaneously formed CMOS devices, has been developed. The BPCB device fabrication sequence features the use of polysilicon field plates,. placed on field oxide regions, in an area of an N well region in which the field oxide regions are located between subsequent P type, base and N type, collector regions. The use of the polysilicon field plates results in an increase in collector—emitter breakdown voltage, as a result of a reduction in the electric field at the surface underlying the polysilicon field plates.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting objects are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a person entering a secured or “Safe Zone™” is illuminated with low-power polarized radio waves. Differently polarized waves which are reflected back from the person are collected and measured. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, concealed weapons are detected by calculating the difference of a pair of differences between levels of different polarized reflected energy in the time domain, and by using signal processing methods and apparatus to improve the reliability of the detection process. Alternative embodiments of the invention may be used to detect a wide variety of objects other than concealed firearms. The invention may be used for inventory control or to thwart shoplifting.

Abstract: This invention provides a multicolor photographic element comprising a support bearing a cyan dye image-forming unit comprising at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one cyan dye-forming coupler, a magenta dye image-forming unit comprising at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one magenta dye-forming coupler, a yellow dye image-forming unit comprising at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one yellow dye-forming coupler, wherein at least one of said emulsion layers comprises large tabular grains having an average equivalent circular diameter of greater than 3 &mgr;m and contains a one equivalent image dye-forming coupler and a fragmentable electron donating compound of the formula: X—Y′ or a compound which contains a moiety of the formula —X—Y′; wherein X is an electron donor moiety, Y′ is a leaving proton H

Abstract: A novel liquid crystal display apparatus includes a substrate kit and an assembling member. The substrate kit includes first and second polymer substrates on which electrodes are mounted and which are deposited in parallel in a horizontal direction such that the electrodes face each other. A sealing member is deposited around a circumference of the first and second polymer substrates such that a sealed space is made by the electrodes and the sealing member. The first polymer substrate forms a substrate extension extending outwards in a horizontal plane and the electrode bonded on the first polymer substrate forms an electrode extension extending along the substrate extension. The substrate kit further includes liquid crystal sealed inside the sealed space, polarizing seals bonded on each of the pair of polymer substrates on sides opposite to the sides having the electrodes, and an assembling member on which the substrate kit is mounted.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic device has top and bottom green ceramic layers machined and fired. Intermediate green ceramic layers are machined, have conductors laid down in the machined areas, are laminated, and are fired to form an enclosure layer. The areas of the layers which will be in contact with each other are coated with a bonding agent. The layers are aligned and bonded to form a structure having arbitrarily shaped, interior channels adjacent to the top and bottom layers which are not subject to detrimental nonplanarities.

Abstract: The present invention provides improved confectionery compositions which have a substantial reduction in the unpleasant organoleptic sensations associated with the release of functional ingredients from the confection in the oral cavity. The confectionery composition comprises a confectionery base, a functional ingredient which is a botanical or a mineral or a mineral salt having an unpleasant mouthfeel, and from about 0.5% to about 5.0% by weight of the composition of one or more fats, said amount being effective to suppress the unpleasant mouthfeel of the functional ingredient. For botanicals the confectionery composition is a hard boiled candy composition or a hard gum composition and the fat is one or more partially hydrogenated vegetable oils or saturated fats. For minerals or their salts the confection is a hard boiled candy composition and the fat is one or more partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.

Abstract: A rotor-stator assembly includes a rotor and a stator, each of which includes at least one surface having a plurality of grooves defining a plurality of ridges and valleys. The grooves are located so that material in the rotor grooves is caused to collide with material in the stator grooves or vice versa. Ideally, the grooves have a curved cross section so that material is caused to spin in the grooves. Material spinning in a stator groove is caused to collide with material spinning in a rotor groove and vice versa. The number of times that particles are caused to collide depends on the number and length of the grooves in relation to the depth of the grooves. Shear zones are located between the grooves on the stator and the grooves on the rotor.

Abstract: This invention describes a novel rhesus receptor having affinity for neuropeptide Y, pancreatic polypeptide, and peptide YY. This invention also encompasses nucleic acids encoding this receptor, or a fragment thereof, as well as methods employing this receptor and the nucleic acid compounds.

Abstract: A palletizing system for a wheeled item comprising an undercarriage and wheels extending from the undercarriage. The pallet includes a plurality of ramps on a base frame sloping from a support toward the base frame and the palletizing system includes at least one selectively removable bridging member for placement in one of the plurality of ramps for forming a track along which the wheels of the item can roll over the one of the plurality of ramps. The support and the plurality of ramps are structured and arranged so that when the bridging member is removed from the at least one of the plurality of ramps and the wheeled item is shifted on the wheels from the support surface along the plurality of ramps, the undercarriage of the wheeled item comes to rest on the support surface.

Abstract: A specified transition metal compound having two transition metals and two cyclopentadiene type anion skeletone in tis molecule and said metals are linked through an atom of Group XVI of the Periodic Table of the Elements, and olefin polymerization catalyst component comprising said transition metal compound, an olefin polymerization catalyst comprising said transition metal compound, a specific organoaluminum compound, and a specific boron compound, and a process for producing an olefin polymer using said olefin polymerization catalyst.

Abstract: An interpolymer consisting essentially of units derived from vinyl fluoride and at least two highly fluorinated monomers, at least one of the highly fluorinated monomers introducing into the polymer a side chain of at least one carbon atom. Films from these interpolymers have substantially reduced haze, low surface tension, and can be made to form solutions in common polar organic solvents that are stable at room temperature. The extremely low surface tensions obtained with these interpolymer films provide enhanced stain resistance and improved release properties compared to polyvinyl fluoride or known vinyl fluoride interpolymers.

Abstract: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding an ornithine biosynthetic enzyme. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the ornithine biosynthetic enzyme, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the ornithine biosynthetic enzyme in a transformed host cell.

Abstract: A cold trap that is equipped with a curvilinear housing and a curvilinear cooling plate contained therein for collecting unwanted reactant gases and reaction byproducts in an exhaust gas is disclosed. In the curvilinear housing of the cold trap, a curvilinear cooling plate, i.e., in a convex shape is provided which has a plurality of cooling fins mounted on a convex surface facing an incoming flow of exhaust gas such that contaminating powder in the exhaust gas is collected by the cooling fins. The present invention novel curvilinear cooling plate functions at twice the efficiency of a conventional flat cooling plate such that the frequency for cleaning required for the present invention novel cold trap is reduced.

Abstract: The present invention provides an epoxy resin composition for encapsulating a semiconductor, which has excellent flame retardancy without containing any flame retardant such as halogen type, antimony trioxide or the like. The present invention lies in an epoxy resin composition for encapsulating a semiconductor, comprising as essential components: (A) a phenolic resin containing, in the total phenolic resin amount, 30 to 100% by weight of a phenolic resin of novolac structure containing, in the molecule, a biphenyl derivative and/or a naphthalene derivative, (B) an epoxy resin containing, in the total epoxy resin amount, 30 to 100% by weight of an epoxy resin of novolac structure containing, in the molecule, a biphenyl derivative and/or a naphthalene derivative, (C) an inorganic filler, and (D) a curing accelerator.