Abstract: Test fixtures, each being adapted to receive a capacitor, are connected through a relay network to a time variable high voltage source. Predetermined relays are energized in a predetermined sequence to connect a given capacitor to the source. A high voltage signal having a predetermined waveform is applied to the capacitor associated with an energized relay. When the current through the given capacitor exceeds a threshold, the voltage value then being applied to the capacitor determines the breakdown voltage of the capacitor.

Abstract: Preparation of ethylene copolymers from ethylene and polar and/or non-polar comonomers in the presence of selected nickel-containing catalysts.

Abstract: This invention relates to certain heterocyclic sulfonylurea herbicidal compounds, agriculturally suitable compositions thereof and a method of their use.

Abstract: Sandwich assays for detecting and identifying lipopolysaccharides of gram negative bacteria utilizing immobilized lipopolysaccharide binding proteins and labelled detection reagents are provided. The active supports are also useful in removing LPS from biomedical and cosmetic preparations.

Abstract: An integrated system for process control in which a process supervisor procedure defines parameters for one or more controller systems (or control procedures). The supervisor procedure changes control parameters only in discrete changes, and the decision to act is sufficiently constrained that every change must be a significant change. Every change is logged (or otherwise reported out to human experts). Since every change is significant, the history of changes will provide a meaningful record which can be reviewed by human experts.

Abstract: A composition which is useful for bonding integrated circuits to inorganic dielectric substrates comprising an admixture of finely divided particles of a thermally conductive metal or metal-containing compound, non-aqueously milled amorphous glass frit and fatty acid-based surfactant dispersed, in a solution of primary organic solvent selected from ethylene glycol monobutyl ether acetate, dimethyl adipate and mixtures thereof and optionally minor amounts of certain secondary solvents and an acrylic polymer which is free of polar functional groups.

Abstract: Herbicidal sulfonamides having the general formula ##STR1## wherein J, W, R and A are more particularly described herein, such compounds and agricultural compositions containing them being useful as preemergent or postemergent herbicides or both, or as plant growth regulants, including the manner of their use.

Abstract: Extraction of polyamic acid-polyimide gel in bipolymerized polyimide manufacturing process with a solvent containing an extraction-enhancing agent, which is a pyridine, picoline, or quinoline, leads to a polyimide film having increased molecular weight. Polyimides are valuable materials used in fabricating articles which must withstand high temperatures, especially in aerospace applications, and in the manufacture of electronic circuit boards.

Abstract: Preparation of bis(hexamethylene)triamine from 6-aminohexanenitrile by catalytically preparing di(5-cyanopenyl)-amine, followed by hydrogenation using a nitride hydrogenation catalyst.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a thick film thermistor composition consisting of finely divided particles of (a) a ruthenium-based pyrochlore, and (b) a short borosilicate glass or glass mixture, both dispersed in (c) an organic medium.

Abstract: Novel compounds of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is lower alkyl, lower cycloalkyl, lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl, lower alkyl carboxymethyl, aryl carboxymethyl, aryl, or aralkyl; A is a direct bond, lower alkylene, or lower alkenylene; x is 1 or 2, provided that when x is greater than 1, different occurrences of the ##STR2## group may be the same or different; Ar is heterocyclic, unsubstituted aromatic or aromatic substituted with lower alkyl, lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl, lower alkoxy, halogen, acetamido, amino, nitro, lower alkylamino, hydroxy, lower hydroxyalkyl or cyano; W is alkylene containing from 1 to about 10 carbon atoms; and B is --NR.sub.2 COR.sub.3, --NR.sub.2 CONR.sub.3 R.sub.4, --NR.sub.2 SO.sub.2 R.sub.3, --NR.sub.2 SO.sub.2 NR.sub.3 R.sub.4, or --NR.sub.2 COOR.sub.5, wherein R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 may be the same or different and may be hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkoxyaryl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, or aralkyl, except that R.sub.3 and R.

Abstract: A segmented thermoplastic copolyetherester having soft segments formed from a long chain polyalkyleneether glycol containing 80 to 97 mole percent of copolymerized tetrahydrofuran and 3 to 20 mole percent of a copolymerized cyclic alkylene oxide, preferably copolymerized 3-methyltetrahydrofuran, provides fibers and films with an improved combination of high tenacity, high unload power, high melting temperatures and low set.

Abstract: 2-Substituted-1-naphthols are 5-lipoxygenase inhibitors which make them useful in the treatment of inflammation, obstructive lung disease and/or psoriasis. Useful 2-substituent groups are alkyls, alkenyls, alkynyls, cycloalkyls, cycloalkenyls, the groups CH.sub.2 --C.tbd.C--(CH.sub.2).sub.m R.sup.5 and CH.dbd.CH--(CH.sub.2).sub.n R.sup.5 (where m is 1-4, n is 0-3 and R.sup.5 includes phenyl, COOR.sup.9, where R.sup.9 is H or alkyl or 1-4 carbons, AR.sup.6 (where A is a methylene chain and R.sup.6 is a variety of groups including Cl, Br, I, CHO, CN, COOR.sup.9, NH.sub.2, SC(NH)NH.sub.2, phenyl, P(O)(OR.sup.9).sub.2, etc.), and CHR.sup.7 R.sup.21 (where R.sup.7 is a variety of aromatic and heterocyclic groups and R.sup.21 is H, optionally substituted phenyl and a variety of heterocyclic groups).

Abstract: A coating composition useful for a finish for automobiles and trucks in which the film forming binder contains reactive binder components of about(a) 25-90% by weight, based on the weight of the binder, of an acrylic polymer having at least two reactive anhydride groups composed of polymerized monomers of an ethylenically unsaturated anhydride and polymerized monomers from the group consisting of alkyl methacrylate, alkyl acrylate and any mixtures thereof, wherein the alkyl groups have 1-8 carbon atoms and the polymer has a weight average molecular weight of about 2,000-50,000;(b) 5-50% by weight, based on the weight of the binder, of a glycidyl component having at least two reactive glycidyl groups; and(c) 0.1-7% by weight, based on the weight of the binder, of a phosphonium catalyst or a blend of a phosphonium catalyst and a tertiary amine catalyst which may or may not contain hydroxyl groups.

Abstract: Partially fluorinated polyesters are disclosed having increased biodegradability and water repellancy. The incorporation of an ester group into the backbone of the partially fluorinated compound permits modification of the compound's physical properties.

Abstract: Measurement apparatus and method utilizing microwave energy. A symmetric microwave cavity is excited to oscillate in at least two identical resonant modes having substantially the same resonant frequencies but different field orientations relative to each other. A sample to be measured is caused to interact with the identical resonant modes and the difference in the frequencies of oscillation of the modes is determined in order to measure a property of the sample.

Abstract: Compounds having the formula ##STR1## and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and possessing antibacterial activity, and intermediates to compounds of formula I having the formula

Abstract: A hip joint for a prosthetic leg has first and second members pivoted together by a pin through the first member. The pin includes an outer spool-like spindle roatable in a bearing in said first member and an inner spool-like spindle rotatable in a bearing in the outer spindle and carrying pivots for the second member. The inner spindle has an axis skew to the outer spindle so that firstly an angle may be set between the pivot axis of the joint and said first member by adjusting the relative angular positions of the inner and outer spindles and secondly an attitude of said pivot axis may be set by adjusting the angular position of the outer spindle relative to the first member. The hip joint may have a buffer assembly that contacts an abutment on the first member at a contact line or plane to define a rearward limit of swing of the second member.

Abstract: A multi-element antenna formed of symmetrical paired elements symmetrically positioned in a concentric arrangement. The proximate ends of the elements are interconnected through a switching network which, when properly biased, permits exciting the element of the antenna to obtain right-hand or left-hand circularly polarized radiation.

Abstract: Dispersion-process-produced, non-melt-processible, particulate, core-shell, tetrafluoroethylene copolymer comprising recurring units of tetrafluoroethylene and modifying recurring units of at least one ethylenically unsaturated comonomer that is copolymerizable with the tetrafluoroethylene, the number of recurring units of comonomer in the shell being sufficient to enable the copolymer to compound uniformly with an elastomer or plastic without forming visible agglomerates, and blends thereof with elastomeric and plastic resins.