Abstract: A digitizer comprising a measuring table having a substrate on which a grid is mounted, and a movable coil inductively coupled to the grid. When a time variable current is applied, a variable magnetic flux produces a measuring signal in the form of an induced voltage. The grid is a plurality of side-by-side, parallel conductors, each having opposite axial ends and arranged in pairs. A bridge is provided between adjacent ends of a plurality of the pairs of conductors. Current flowing into the opposite end of one conductor of a pair of conductors, thus, produces oppositely directed magnetic fields around the conductors of the pair, or a changing magnetic flux produced by the coil and interacting with the conductors of a pair induces voltages of opposite polarity in the conductors of the pair.

Abstract: A flow cell for high performance chromatography, in which the measuring chamber is formed by a bore (12) in a plate (11) and the supply and discharge ducts are formed by bores (13, 14) in the plate (11) communicating with grooves (16, 18) in the plate surfaces (15, 17), the grooves being covered by transparent plates (19, 20) bonded on the plate surfaces, and thus forming closed ducts.

Abstract: A transparent disk with a round periphery is produced, for example, by a grinding operation, and a mark is placed at the geometric center of the disk. A coil is then wound about the periphery of the disk. As a consequence, the mark at the geometric center of the disk coincides with the electrical center point of the coil, thus obviating the need for a bobbin, or coil former, on which the coil can be wound.The transparent disk is first ground into a round shape, and a metallic film is deposited on a surface of the disk. The film is coated with a photosensitive resist material, and then exposed through a mask to define an image of a mark at the geometric center of the disk. The film is then etched to remove all but the mark from the disk.In manufacturing the coil, the disk, is concentrically clamped between two plates of a winding jig, each plate having annular peripheral flanges that are radially larger than the disk and thus project beyond the periphery of the disk.

Abstract: A combined sensor for sensing partial O.sub.2 pressure and partial CO.sub.2 pressure and comprising measuring electrodes, a reference electrode, a diaphragm covering the electrodes and an electrolyte layer between the electrodes and the diaphragm wherein the reference electrode has disposed around it a screening of gold which is at the same potential as the reference electrode and the electrolyte contains a defined concentration of a soluble silver compound or of a silver complex.

Abstract: There is disclosed an angioplasty catheter having a drilling head disposed within its distal end. The drilling head having a rotatable drilling tool and means for temporary closing a blood vessel. A shaft position within the interior of the catheter is attached and drives the drilling tool. A pneumatic turbine is connected to the proximal end of the catheter and to the shaft for driving the shaft in drive tool and suctioning material removed by the drive tool.

Abstract: A centrifuge having an interchangeable rotor provided with an information support means for machine-readable information, and a reader comprising detectors for scanning the information support means and an electronic circuit for processing the received information, the information support means comprising an array of permanent magnet pins distributed over the rotor and having in some cases their north poles and in other cases their south poles facing the detectors.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for monitoring waveforms representing the respiration of a patient and for detecting waveforms having characteristics indicative of apnea. The method comprises processing a first electrical signal having a waveform representing the respiration of the patient and a second electrical signal representing the electrocardiogram of the patient.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for producing improved ultrasonic cross-sectional images of a body subject to a number of consecutive and at least partly overlapping scans by the pulse echo method to produce digital image signals corresponding to the received echoes. The illustrated systems includes an ultrasonic transducer scanner energized by a transmitter, and a receiver configuration which processes the received echo signals for display on a TV monitor. To reduce the image-quality-limiting noise while retaining a satisfactory representation of moving parts in the zone under examination, image signals corresponding to corresponding scanning dots of consecutive scans are combined in the receiver circuit which utilizes time-discrete non-linear filtering with filter coefficients which vary as a function of the filter input signal. This arrangement and the related process produce improved images.

Abstract: An apparatus for withdrawing liquid from a receptacle which is closed with a penetrable cover, which comprises a puncturing tool for creating an aperture in the receptacle cover, a cannula for entering the receptacle through the aperture and withdrawing liquid from the receptacle, a holding arm to which the puncturing tool and cannula are affixed in parallel and at a certain distance apart, and a motor drive for effecting horizontal and vertical movements of the holding arm relative to the covered receptacle to align, lower and raise the puncturing tool and cannula in succession through the cover.

Abstract: A two-beam spectrophotometer comprising a monochromator and a beam splitter is provided. In addition to being inclined to the optical axis by an angle .alpha./2 lying in the optical plane, the beam splitter is inclined to the direction perpendicular to the optical plane, so that the reference beam is deflected out of the optical plane by an angle .beta.. This improves the spectral intensity distribution.A spectrophotometric method employing this apparatus is also provided.

Abstract: Apparatus for sample transfer and analysis by centrifugation, comprising a rotor having rotary joints at its periphery, to which cuvette carriers are connected so as to be able to perform a tipping movement through an angle of 90.degree., a locking device for locking the cuvette carriers in an inclined position, and cuvette assemblies for use in the cuvette carriers, the rotor preferably being in the form of a rotary beam at the two ends of which two cuvette carriers are disposed, and the cuvette carrier is in the form of a comb so that the teeth engage between the cuvette rows of the cuvette assembly. This apparatus enables samples to be transferred without mixing the cuvette contents.

Abstract: A personal electrocardiology recorder having body electrodes for detecting heart action signals, an amplifier, a signal converter for converting the detected signals into signals recordable on magnetic tape, and a tape recorder, wherein the body electrodes are disposed directly on the tape recorder casing, the measuring and reference electrodes being disposed on a first wall and the earthing electrode being disposed on a wall other than the first wall, and wherein a microphone for recording a spoken description of the symptoms is provided. The recorder can be carried permanently by patients and can be switched on during the occurrence of corresponding symptoms for recording a diagnostically relevant ECG phase.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a magnetic field sensor is disposed on a stationary part of a centrifuge near an annular member of a rotor and is adapted to detect those variations in a gap which exists between the annular member and the sensor. The variations in the gap arising from deflection and/or precession of the rotor axis.