Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing and retrieving images of documents, e.g. checks.

Abstract: An electric motor assembly e.g. for an air cycle air conditioning apparatus comprises stator windings and a rotating member mounted for rotation about a motor axis and wherein, the stator windings comprise therethrough at least one axially extending passage, and there being means to connect the passage to a source of cooling gas, whereby as the cooling gas flows along the axially extending passage the motor assembly is cooled.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for designing inhibitors of serine/threonine kinases and tyrosine kinases, particularly MAP kinases, through the use of ATP-binding site mutants of those kinases. The methods of this invention take advantage of the fact that the mutant kinases are capable of binding inhibitory compounds of other kinases with greater affinity than the corresponding wild-type kinase. The invention further relates to the mutant kinases themselves and crystallizable co-complexes of the mutant kinase and the inhibitory compound.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing and retrieving images of documents, e.g. checks.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing and retrieving images of documents, e.g. checks.

Abstract: An electrical machine system includes at least one electrical machine, such as a switched reluctance machine, that produces a magnetic field. According to one embodiment, the machine is a rotary machine with a rotor, a stator, and a sensor for indicating their relative movement. The sensor of the controller is powered by a power supply unit, the power output of the power supply unit being derived from the magnetic field of the machine. The power supply preferably is isolated electrically from the current running in the machine, and from the power supply for the machine, reducing the risk of voltage transience, noise, and other undesirable interference. A corresponding method provides similar advantages.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing and retrieving images of documents, e.g. checks.

Abstract: The inhaler includes a storage chamber for the powder to be delivered and an inhalation passage through which air is drawn via a mouth piece. A metering member having a frustoconical side wall presents each dose to the inhalation passage in an upwardly open metering cup to be drawn therefrom by the air flow through the passage. A wiping element removes any particles of powder from the dispensing cup as it travels from the inhalation passage to the storage chamber to be refilled, and a chamber containing a moisture-absorbent material dries the empty cup and also dries the powder in the cup prior to inhalation to aid its removal from the cup. A mechanical counter is indexed each time the metering member is indexed to display the number of doses used or remaining.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a treated chrome pigment which comprises precipitating antimony on to the surface of the pigment in the presence of a solution of metaphosphate ions.