Abstract: An electric current generation device includes a rotatable rotor including a magnet assembly establishing a magnetic field proximate the rotor. A stator includes at least one set of coils disposed with respect to the rotor so that rotation of the rotor moves the magnetic field with respect to the coils of the coil set to generate electric current flow in the coil set. The coil set includes an impedance component in communication with the electric current flow to limit the rate of increase of electric current flow generated by the coil set as the rotational speed of the rotor increases. The winding direction of at least one coil with respect to the magnetic field may be opposite the winding direction of the other coils with respect to the magnetic field. Two coil sets may be provided wherein the coils of a first coil set are wound so that the output of the first coil set is out of phase with respect of the output of a second coil set.

Abstract: A handheld low power user device for accessing and controlling interactive bidirectional real time telecommunications with a host server over a telecommunication path, the handheld low power user device having a low power sleep mode and components including a communication transceiver, a microprocessor, a power supply interface and an operator interface selected from among a keypad, a bar code reader, an audio system comprising a speaker, a display screen and a microphone; wherein, the communication transceiver includes a low power voice and data modem, and a DTMF or an MF tone generator; the audio system includes a dual power system; the bar code reader includes a bar code media proximity detector; the microprocessor includes less than about 128 Kbytes of PROM, a protected memory, and RAM; the power supply interface is connected with a telephone line, a cellular or wireless telephone battery, or a PBX line; and the handheld low power user device operates on less than about 300 milliwatts of power when off ho

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Raney catalyst comprising iron, cobalt, a third metal wherein the third metal is selected from the group consisting of nickel, rhodium, ruthenium, palladium, platinum, osmium, iridium and mixtures of any of these metals.

Abstract: A multiple beam antenna system including a reflector that is at least partially parabolic in one dimension, a pair of dielectric lenses, and a pair of waveguides. Multiple received beams are received and reflected by the reflector into an orthogonal mode junction which separates signals of a first polarity from signals of a second orthogonal polarity. The signals of the first polarity are forwarded into a first waveguide and the orthogonal signals of the second polarity are forwarded into a second parallel waveguide. A plurality of satellites may be accessed simultaneously thus allowing the user to utilize both signals at the same time.

Abstract: Metal oxide particles having a substantial uniform and homogeneous (across-particle) coating of a metal oxide or organofunctionalized metal oxide are disclosed and are prepared by hydrolysis of a monomeric precursor to the coating.

Abstract: A process for the carbonylation of allylic butenol or butenyl ester of a carboxylic acid (e.g., crotyl acetate, 3-acetoxybutene-1 and mixtures thereof) in an anhydrous carboxylic acid solvent and production of beta-gamma unsaturated carboxylic acid anhydride (e.g., 3-pentenoic acid anhydride) utilizing a rhodium-containing catalyst (e.g., dicarbonylacetylacetonate rhodium(I)) promoted with a metal iodide (e.g., dicarbonylacetylacetonate rhodium(I), or the like). The following representative reaction showing a crotyl ester (i.e., a carboxylic acid ester of 2-buten-1-ol) as the reactant producing a corresponding pentenoic acid anhydride is illustrative of the overall carbonylation. ##STR1## Suitable allylic compounds are of the form ##STR2## where one of the groups R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 is methyl and the other two groups are H and wherein R.sub.4 is selected from the group consisting of H and ##STR3## wherein R.sup.5 is selected from the group consisting of a C.sub.1 to C.sub.10 alkyl.

Abstract: An electrochemical sensor includes electronic circuitry for automatically performing on a periodic basis, e.g., every 1 to 24 hours, specified integrity tests which verify proper operation of the sensor.

Abstract: A programmable vehicle detector with operator actuatable function selection and parameter value setting keys, and an operational display. A small cluster (four) of key switches enables an operator to select programmable vehicle detector functions, such as pulse/presence, scanning/non-scanning, end of green control; and also adjust the value of settable parameters, such as loop frequency, sensitivity, delay time, and maximum presence time. The value of certain parameters is displayed, either by manual interrogation by operation of the switches during a set mode or automatically during normal operation. During normal operation, the display also indicates dynamically the relative value of the loop inductance, using a unique bar graph, the generation of Call a signal, and the time remaining in a delay time period and a maximum presence time period. The display further indicates which of several channels has been selected for function and parameter programming, or is currently being monitored for operation.

Abstract: A valve for controlling the flow of fluent plastic material from an injection molding machine to a mold cavity. The valve includes an axially slidable valve pin that interacts with a material outlet to control flow through the valve selectively. The valve pin is actuated by an eccentric cam arrangement that positively drives the valve pin between positions where it is engaged with or disengaged from the material outlet. The cam acts on the valve pin only in an axial direction to avoid wear occasioned by side loads imposed on a valve pin.

Abstract: A method is provided by blocking or preventing the prenylation of CAAX box containing proteins including ras oncogene products thereby preventing and/or treating ras-related tumors which includes the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of a protein-prenyl transferase inhibitor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a moldable thermoplastic resin composition comprising:(a) 99.95-25% by weight of at least one polyamide-containing compound,(b) 0.05-5% by weight of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of magnesium-, zinc- and aluminium salts, and optionally(c) 0-70% by weight of at least one additive compound, which resin composition has an apparent melt viscosity according to ISO 11443 of less than 100 Pa.s, at a shear rate of 1000 s(-1) and at 0.1% by weight moisture content of the resin composition in the form of granules.This invention furthermore relates to molded articles comprising such a thermoplastic resin composition.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing fluorinated benzene. The process involves (a) contacting chlorobenzene starting material with a metal fluoride composition of the formula (AgF)(MF.sub.2).sub.x (where M is Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn or a mixture thereof and x is a number between 0 and 1) at a temperature above 175.degree. C. sufficient to remove the chlorine substituent from the starting material and to transfer F from the metal fluoride composition to the starting material (thereby producing a reduced metal fluoride composition comprising a silver component of the formula AgF.sub.1-y where y is a number from 0.01 to 1); (b) oxidizing the reduced metal fluoride composition from (a) in the presence of HF to regenerate the metal fluoride mixture composition of the formula (AgF)(MF.sub.2).sub.x ; and (c) recycling regenerated metal fluoride composition of (b) to (a).

Abstract: A multiplicity of water passage pipes (4) are received in a horizontal, cylindrical-shaped drum (3), which is provided at an upper portion thereof with a discharge port (3a) and an inflow port (3b) for a refrigerant. Fixed to both ends of the drum (3) are a water introduction cylinder (6) and a discharge cylinder (7), which is bent downward to be substantially L-shaped. A heat exchanger (1) is secured such that en end thereof on a side of the discharge cylinder (7) is disposed above a cold water tank (2). An interior of the cold water tank (2) is divided into a first tank (2a) and a second tank (2b) by a partition (8), over which water can flow. A piping for supplying a cold water to a facility for utilization of the cold water is connected to a bottom or a lower portion of the first tank (2a), on which the cold water from the heat exchanger (1) falls. A path for water recovery from the facility for utilization of the cold water is connected to the second tank (2b) through a return piping (11).

Abstract: A drawing and coining die for manufacturing metal containers and the like, comprising: a matrix, which is connected to a lower base adapted to be associated with a footing of a press and is provided with a device for centering a disk that constitutes the material to be processed; and a male element, which is connected to an upper base adapted to be associated with a movable slider of the press and is shaped so as to make contact with an edge of the resulting container.

Abstract: A triple layer mouthguard apparatus has a U-shaped mouthguard base with an elastomeric frame embedded therein. The frame includes a wave-shaped contact surface. The mouthguard base includes inner and outer side walls defining an upper channel which has a liner disposed therein. The liner is adapted to form around the teeth when softened. The liner engages the teeth of the upper jaw and is made of a material that softens at a temperature lower than the material of the mouthguard base and becomes softer than the material of the mouthguard base when hardened.

Abstract: A process for purifying a nitrile such as acrylonitrile is disclosed. The process comprises (1) contacting a product mixture, which comprises acrylonitrile and hydrogen cyanide, with glycolic acid or a glycolic acid-generating compound to produce a glycolic acid-treated product; and (2) recovering the nitrile from the glycolic acid-treated product. The product mixture can be produced by contacting ammonia with an olefin under a condition effective to produce a nitrile and hydrogen cyanide.

Abstract: A process for the hydrolysis of a dinitrile (e.g., adiponitrile) utilizing from 0.1 to 500 mmoles of catalyst (e.g., a mixture of phosphorous acid and calcium hypophosphite) per mole of the dinitrile and in the presence of from 0.01 to 0.5 moles of a dicarboxylic acid cocatalyst (e.g., adipic acid) followed by addition of a diamine (e.g., hexamethylenediamine) and heating to produce polymerization. Such a process is particularly useful in the production of nylon 6,6 having a low BHMT content and improved melt stability.

Abstract: A small diameter flexible electrode designed for subcutaneous in vivo amperometric monitoring of glucose is described. The electrode is designed to allow "one-point" in vivo calibration, i.e., to have zero output current at zero glucose concentration, even in the presence of other electroreactive species of serum or blood. The electrode is preferably three or four-layered, with the layers serially deposited within a recess upon the tip of a polyamide insulated gold wire. A first glucose concentration-to-current transducing layer is overcoated with an electrically insulating and glucose flux limiting layer (second layer) on which, optionally, an immobilized interference-eliminating horseradish peroxidase based film is deposited (third layer). An outer (fourth) layer is biocompatible.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for manufacturing sheets having a starch-bound matrix, optionally reinforced with fibers and optionally including an inorganic mineral filler. Suitable mixtures for forming the sheets are prepared by mixing together water, unmodified and ungelatinized starch granules, a cellulosic ether, optionally fibers, and optionally an inorganic mineral filler in the correct proportions to form a sheet having desired properties. The mixtures are formed into sheets by passing them between one or more sets of heated rollers to form green sheets. The heated rollers cause the cellulosic ether to form a skin on the outer surfaces of the sheet that prevents the starch granules from causing the sheet to adhere to the rollers upon gelation of the starch. The green sheets are passed between heated rollers to gelatinize the starch granules, and then to dry the sheet by removing a substantial portion of the water by evaporation.

Abstract: Monochrome and polychrome color proofs, for the graphic arts industry, having an image carrier containing two layers A and B to control optical dot growth are described. Layer A contains at least one polyolefin and, in a preferred embodiment, a light-reflecting white pigment. Layer B contains at least one binder, at least one light-reflecting white pigment at between 50% and 90% by weight relative to Layer B, and at least one light-absorbing pigment. A process and a means for preparing such monochrome and polychrome color proofs are described.