Abstract: A radiographic intensifying screen comprising a support, a phosphor layer which comprises a binder and a phosphor dispersed therein, and a light-reflecting layer provided between the support and the phosphor layer which contains a white pigment, characterized in that said white pigment comprises alkaline earth metal fluorohalide represented by the formula M.sup.II FX, in which M.sup.II is at least one alkaline earth metal selected from the group consisting of Ba, Sr and Ca; and X is at least one halogen selected from the group consisting of Cl and Br.

Abstract: A method for coating tin on a electro-conductive substrate in a bath comprising stannous ions, a mineral acid and a surface active agent alone or in combination with a water soluble acrylate and an aromatic aldehyde or ketone. A catalyst metal comprising metallic zinc or zinc alloy and the substrate to be coated are immersed in the bath. During this immersion electro-conductive contact is effected between the substrate and zinc or zinc alloy. A smooth, pore-free, pure tin coat is deposited on the substrate during the time the substrate is in electro-conductive contact with the zinc or zinc alloy.

Abstract: A memory circuit to be connected to a central processing unit through an information bus and including a memory bank for storing several data words with each word having its own unique address, and including control circuitry enabling a user to obtain a data word having an address within a first address space in response to a first set of control signals and enabling the user to obtain a second data word having a second address contained within a second address space in response to a second set of control signals wherein the second address space are the addresses not included in the first address space. Also detailed is an embodiment that provides two modes of operation for a memory apparatus. In the first operational mode, the apparatus functions as a standard memory providing one word per address. In the second configuration, the memory provides a series of data words in accordance with the single address and an address incrementing signal.

Abstract: A peripheral-controller is used to manage data transfers between peripheral units of the magnetic tape type. A program sequencer in the peripheral-controller can signal an automatic read-write selection logic and control unit to operate in the "automatic read" mode whereby an automatic read-logic unit will transfer data out of the magnetic tape peripheral unit into a buffer memory of the peripheral-controller on a continuous basis without further instructions being required from the program sequencer.

Abstract: A thick resin film is formed on the joint part of a welded metallic can body by first coating the joint part with a primer composed of a solution of a thermosetting resin in an organic solvent and drying it, and then coating the dried primer layer with a slurry paint composed of a dispersion of a thermoplastic resin powder in a poor solvent, and drying the coating. The resin powder has a specific gravity differing from that of the poor solvent by not more than 0.2.

Abstract: The invention employs an execution control unit consisting of a look up memory, three instruction registers and logic gates to control pipe line processing by an ALU. During such processing the sequential steps required to execute a program instruction are overlapped so that the ALU and its associated memory are always busy. The three instruction registers are provided to receive and retain up to three instructions which may be in process at a given time. The memory is preferably divided into a plurality of banks to improve the performance of the system by reducing the occurrence of a memory busy condition. To facilitate pipe lining an instruction format is employed having a fixed location for the data field which specifies the register to be used for address preparation.

Abstract: On line coating of optical fibre (20) adopts silicon nitride or oxynitride to provide an hermetic seal using chemical vapor deposition. Non-contacting gas seals (3,4) at the top and bottom of the reaction chamber are so constructed that fibre vibration is avoided, (6) surface flaws are minimized and the coating minimizes stress corrosion.

Abstract: This invention relates to a polymer concrete composition; to methods for lining pipes and for filling girthweld concrete cutbacks using the composition, and to a reusable mold for preparing filled girthweld concrete cutbacks. The polymer concrete composition contains no transition metal compounds and comprises a vinyl ester resin or an unsaturated polyester resin, a free radical initiator; a transition metal free, an accelerator which does not contain a transition metal.The reusable mold comprises a separable sheath (10) having a means (21) for introducing a filler composition to the girthweld concrete cutback (40). The sheath is capable of conforming generally to the shape of the coated pipe (1, 2) or other coated conduit and circumscribing the entire circumference or perimeter of at least a portion of the pipe or other conduit. The mold further comprises a closure means (20) mounted on the separable sheath.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises an endless tunnel having a wall provided with openings giving access to processing chambers in a locked chamber which has a panel sealing the apparatus from the external environment. A conveyor which follows a closed path is arranged in the tunnel and is provided with seats for containers with articles to be processed and transport means for introducing articles carried by the conveyor into positions opposite to a chamber into a respective chamber. The apparatus has structure by which the environments in the tunnel and in each of the chambers can be controlled. The chambers can each be sealed from the tunnel in a vacuum-tight manner. By means of this apparatus articles, which are screened from the surroundings in a vacuum-tight manner, can be subjected in a controlled environment to a variety of processing steps.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a mask for use in x-ray photolithography includes the steps of coating a set of wafers (20) with boron nitride (22). The tension in the boron nitride is measured by using a capacitive probe (26) to measure bowing in a set of test wafers. The remaining wafers are attached to a pyrex ring (28), and the boron nitride is removed from one side of the wafers. A circular hole is then eteched in the wafer, and a layer of tantalum (32) and gold (34) are formed on the remaining boron nitride membrane. The gold (34) is patterned via a sputter etching process. Power is reduced at the end of the sputter etching process slowly to reduce mechanical stress in the mask. The tantalum (32) is then etched via a reactive ion etching process. In this way, an x-ray transparent boron nitride membrane is used to support x-ray opaque gold.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for galvanizing articles sought to be plated and wherein a molten zinc bath into which articles sought to be plated are dipped, lays and is floated upon a molten bath of tin or lead, and wherein the molten zinc bath is contained above the molten tin or lead bath to form the dipping bath by a surrounding wall of refractory material. The interface between both of the molten baths is kept at least in the area of the refractory wall.

Abstract: A method of controlling light transmission through a reflective/transmissive surface by first creating surface irregularities having an anti-glare effect and then applying an inert liquid coating sufficiently thick to remove at least some, but not all, of the anti-glare effect. The surface irregularities are created by applying a dispersion and allowing it to dry to form a coating that reduces reflected glare at the surface. The dispersion is a dispersion of polyvinyl acetate particulates and water or acrylic particulates and water; alternatively, the dispersion comprises a matte varnish comprising an aqueous dispersion of an acrylic resin, and an aqueous dispersion of polyvinyl acetate.

Abstract: Data from a patch memory (23) is substituted for that in a system ROM (9) by applying high order addresses to a standard PLA (19) having word lines (FIG. 3, 50a-50p). The address orders are separately applied to EXCLUSIVE OR circuits (27a-27g). The PLA (19) is personalized to activate line (21) at addresses to be substituted and to provide logical zeros to the EXCLUSIVE OR circuits (27a-27g) which change during the patch. Only one word line is required for each continuous patch, which vary in size on a patch-by-patch basis. The circuit is fast and efficient. It can be used for a wide variety of memory substitution applications.

Abstract: A galvanizing furnace comprises a plurality of burners arrayed parallel to the surface of sheet iron to be galvanized and having burner nozzles directed upwards so that flame exiting the burner nozzles forms a screen-like wall of flame opposite and parallel to the sheet iron as the sheet iron passes through the alloying furnace. Preferably, the burners are separated into a plurality of blocks which can be controlled independently.

Abstract: The present invention describes an integrated text and data processing system allowing processing of link data before output. The system also provides simultaneous dual emulation of a display and printer normally associated with a host data processor. In accordance with the first aspect of the invention, an input/output terminal includes a support logic circuit for interconnecting the input/output terminal to a port of an intermediate control unit attached to a central processing unit. The input/output terminal includes separate link and display buffers whereas link data may be stored in the link buffer for processing before output to the display associated with a text processor. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the input/output terminal may include a plurality of support logic circuits each connected to one of the ports of one or more control units associated with one or more central processing units.

Abstract: A liquid coating composition for producing high quality, high performance fluorine-doped tin oxide coatings by chemical vapor deposition includes 1-30 wt. % of a reactive fluorine dopant compound and 70-99 wt. % of an organotin compound.

Abstract: Transparent, haze-free tin oxide coatings on glass are obtained by chemical vapor deposition of liquid monophenyltin trichloride. The method includes the steps of vaporizing liquid monophenyltin trichloride and contacting the vapor in an oxidizing atmosphere with a substrate at an elevated substrate temperature, preferably about 450.degree. to 600.degree. C. The tin oxide coating on glass produced by this method has a haze which is less than 1%, and is substantially equal to the haze value for uncoated glass.

Abstract: The problems of tackiness and long curing times usually associated with the treatment of dosage forms are overcome via the use of a new curing process. That process involves: (1) coating a drug with a sustained release formulation, (2) immediately coating with a water-soluble overcoat, (3) drying, and (4) recovering the coated dosage form.

Abstract: An x-ray tube target composed of a molybdenum alloy material such as TZM is coated with a mixture containing from 40 percent to 70 percent of TiO.sub.2 with the remaining material being a stabilized oxide. The coating is then fused to a smooth, glossy condition to provide an enhanced thermal-emittance surface that adheres well to the target substrate.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array for a liquid crystal display device is produced by simultaneously forming gate electrodes and picture element electrodes; forming islands of a layered structure comprised of a gate insulating film, a thin semiconductor film and a light shielding film in a single masking step; and forming the gate, source and drain wiring metals in contact windows by the "lift-off" technique after using a resist film for opening the contact windows. Only three masking steps are required thereby enabling an increase in production yield and a lower production cost as compared to conventional techniques which typically require seven masking steps.