Abstract: In a method for packaging an object using a hose-shaped stretch foil having laterally extending folds guided axially with respect to the stretch foil and along a length of the object, a foil hood sized to a shape of the object to be packaged is formed, which hood is reefed onto several gripper devices movable in essentially horizontal direction, of a lifting frame movable in essentially a vertical direction. The reefed foil hood is tentered in an essentially horizontal direction by the movement of the gripper device such that the tentered opening of the foil hood is larger than the contour of the object to be packed and wherein the foil hood is expanded in essentially horizontal direction. The foil hood is then pulled over the object by the essentially vertical movement of the lifting frame, wherein the foil hood is pulled off from the gripper device and is expanded in essentially vertical direction.

Abstract: A medicine packing apparatus including a display unit with which a medicine housed state can be easily determined, operatability is made favorable, and prescription data can also be input. The apparatus also includes a plurality of medicine containers (11), which each contain a medicine and is equipped with a medicine identification unit (16). The containers are housed in a medicine housing rack (1). A medicine included in prescription data is fed from the medicine container 11 by medicine feeder (34). The medicine fed from a medicine feeder (34) is packaged by medicine a packing device (3). Medicine data is read from the medicine identification unit (16) of the medicine container (11) by a reader (40), and housing site data of the medicine container (11) and medicine data of a medicine contained in the medicine container (11) are stored.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for fitting stretchable sleeves on containers in the form of a substantially prismatic or cylindrical carton, the opening of which is at least partially surrounded by a rim projecting out towards the exterior. Sleeves are cut from a stretchable sheath and stretched to assume a section slightly bigger than the section of the carton. The sleeve is placed on the carton by moving it from above the base in the direction towards the rim. The apparatus comprises a sheath feed and a sleeve cutting device, a transfer drum equipped with transfer elements, and a placing turret equipped with placing units with two placing elements, each having a stretching tool and a clamping block. A container feed positions the containers, in steps, in synchronization with the placing elements, in the placing zone, the base of the container being turned towards the placing elements.

Abstract: A rake has two side members attached perpendicularly to the rake so as to form an H-shaped frame system. A swivelable wheel is mounted at each corner of the frame. The frame fully stabilizes the rake in a position approximately level with a ground surface as the rake is pulled across the ground by a tractor or other vehicle. The wheels are adjustable both vertically and horizontally by inserting or removing rings on a shaft holding each wheel, and by telescoping parts of the frame into each other. The invention is useful either as a combined rake/stabilizer system, or as a kit for retrofitting existing rakes.

Abstract: There are proposed a track link production method capable of providing markedly improved wear life with good cost performance and a track link produced by this method. To this end, the track link production method includes a heat treatment process (Steps 4, 5) of applying quenching and low temperature tempering treatment to a whole link material after hot forging (Step 2), and is designed such that desired machining is applied to the link material (Step 3) before the heat treatment process (Steps 4, 5) and such that after the heat treatment process (Steps 4, 5), tempering (Step 6) and finish machining (Step 7) are sequentially applied to some of the parts which have undergone the machining process, the some parts including at least parts where high dimensional accuracy is required.

Abstract: A low noise cable or the like protection and guide device is provided, which can suppress sliding contact wear of a sliding portion, which is liable to occur at the time of braking the rotation of connected link frame bodies, and can avoid collision noise and a braking load, which are liable to occur in a sliding portion at a rotation terminal position, and is easily formed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for driving an accessory, such as a fuel pump or an oil pump in a turboengine, said system comprising an electric motor and further comprising an air turbine associated with said electric motor. Said air turbine is suitable for being fed with a flow of air taken from a compressor of said turboengine and contributing to driving the accessory. The system also includes a valve for controlling the flow of air taken from the compressor, which valve is in the closed position while the turboengine is starting.

Abstract: A gas turbine comprises a compressor for compressing a gas supplied therein and discharging the compressed gas, a combustor in which the discharged gas from the compressor and a fuel are combusted, a turbine to be driven by a combustion gas from the combustor, and a water injection unit which injects water into the gas to be supplied to the compressor, thereby lowering the temperature of the gas to be introduced into the compressor to a temperature lower than the atmospheric temperature, and causing water droplets having been injected in the gas and within the compressor to be vaporized while flowing down therein, wherein the quantity of water spray injection is controlled while monitoring operational conditions of the gas turbine.

Abstract: An engine control system in a vehicle including a diesel engine in the vehicle, a diesel fuel tank for supplying fuel to the diesel engine, a gasoline tank in the vehicle, a reformer for providing partial oxidation products from gasoline contained in the gasoline tank, a NOx trap coupled to the exhaust of the diesel engine.

Abstract: Detecting deterioration of an oxygen concentration sensor disposed downstream of a catalyst. The air-fuel ratio is set to a rich air-fuel ratio, and then changed to a lean air-fuel ratio after an enrichment time period elapaes from the time of enrichment. A determination threshold is set according to a dead time period from the time the air-fuel ratio has been changed to the lean air-fuel ratio to the time the output from the oxygen concentration sensor reaches a first value. A change time period from the time the output from the oxygen concentration sensor reaches the first value to the time the output from the oxygen concentration sensor reaches a second value indicative of an oxygen concentration higher than an oxygen concentration corresponding to the first value, is measured. The oxygen concentration sensor is determined to be deteriorated when the change time period is greater than the determination threshold.

Abstract: An exhaust purifying device is arranged in an exhaust gas passage extending from an internal combustion engine. The exhaust purifying device includes a NOx trapping catalyst that traps NOx in the exhaust gas when an exhaust air/fuel ratio is leaner than stoichiometric and releases the trapped NOx therefrom when the exhaust air/fuel ratio is richer than stoichiometric, and a particulate filter that collects a particulate matter in the exhaust gas. A condition detecting device is arranged to detect a condition of the particulate filter. An exhaust air/fuel ratio control device is arranged to control the exhaust gas from the engine in such a manner that the exhaust gas has a target exhaust air/fuel ratio. When the exhaust air/fuel ratio is changed from a stoichiometric or richer side to a leaner side, the exhaust air/fuel ratio control device varies the exhaust air/fuel ratio under the leaner air/fuel exhaust condition in accordance with the condition of the particulate filter.

Abstract: A device, for purifying exhaust gas of an engine, comprises a SOx storage arranged in the exhaust passage for temporarily storing SOx contained in an exhaust gas inflowing therein, and an auxiliary catalyst arranged in the exhaust passage downstream of the SOx storage, the auxiliary catalyst having an oxidizing ability. When SOx stored in the SOx storage is discharged therefrom with the atmosphere of the auxiliary catalyst being in a sulfate forming atmosphere, the atmosphere of the auxiliary catalyst is changed to an atmosphere other than the sulfate forming atmosphere. When SOx stored in the SOx storage is discharged therefrom with the atmosphere of the auxiliary catalyst being in an atmosphere other than the sulfate forming atmosphere, the atmosphere of the auxiliary catalyst is maintained at an atmosphere other than the sulfate forming atmosphere.

Abstract: An exhaust purification system for use with diesel or other compression ignited systems to remove particulate and gaseous pollutants from the exhaust. The system includes a catalytic converter assembly that heats the exhaust to a level sufficient to incinerate particulate pollutants in the exhaust prior to the pollutants contacting the catalytic element and a plurality of gas cooling elements communicating with the exhaust outlet in the catalytic converter assembly for reducing the temperature of the exhaust passing from that assembly to about 100° F. whereupon the cooled exhaust is directed back to the engine for further combustion.

Abstract: A wave power station device (1) of the kind wherein the waves flow up a ramp (12) and wherein the ramp (12) is provided with fixed openings (17), the openings (17) being arranged in such a way that water flowing up the ramp (12) will flow down through the openings (17) to an insignificant degree, whereas water flowing down the ramp (12) will essentially flow down through the openings (17).

Abstract: For a power assisted steering system for vehicles, in particular passenger cars, there is provided a hydraulic circuit with a servopump, a three-way flow regulator valve which is located at the junction between the pump and a servoactuator and has a measuring throttle, located in the inflow to the servoactuator, as a fixed throttle and an outflow throttle which is located in a bypass of the latter and which determines a variable throttle cross section by means of a piston which is charged alternately as a pressure compensator. The piston, which is charged via an active actuator element, changes the outflow throttle cross section as a function of the current applied in order to change the volume flow which passes via the measuring throttle.

Abstract: A multilevel speed regulation jack includes an input oil cylinder, an output oil cylinder, and a fluid conduit member between the cylinders. The output oil cylinder includes a cylinder body containing an annular space and a tube piston, which fits in the annular space. A sliding sleeve of the tube piston is movably positioned in the annular space. An annular in-flow oil chamber is formed between the end annular surface of the tube piston and the cylinder body, and a central in-flow oil chamber is formed between the inner central surface of the piston and the cylinder body. The fluid conduit member includes at least two parallel fluid channels connected to the central in-flow oil chamber and the annular in-flow oil chamber, respectively. A control valve in one of the fluid channels opens/closes the channel. The jack can automatically switch between different jacking speeds based on the load sensed by the system and therefore has a high jacking efficiency.

Abstract: A two piece center section assembly for mounting inside the housing of a hydrostatic drive apparatus is disclosed. The assembly includes separate pump and motor support portions where the check valve is formed between the two pieces. Fasteners extend through the two pieces and into the housing for the drive apparatus to secure the assembly thereto without the need for additional fasteners. The need for additional sealing material between the pump and motor portions can also be reduced by the use of raised portions on the mating surfaces between these two portions.

Abstract: This invention relates to a master cylinder of the so-called “penetration” type, in which a cup (3), which is fitted inside a groove (11) of the master cylinder, bears on the wall (20) of a piston (2) in a sealing manner, and in which such wall (20) is provided with main resupply ports (51). According to the invention, the wall (20) of the piston (2) also comprises secondary resupply ports (52) having a smaller size than that of the main resupply ports (51) and disposed farther from the bottom part (33) of the cup (3), and achieving an outstanding static resupply of the master cylinder with brake fluid, with a reduced dynamic dead stroke.

Abstract: A combustion engine method and system provides increased fuel efficiency and reduces polluting exhaust emissions by burning fuel in a two-stage combustion system. Fuel is combusted in a piston engine in a first stage producing piston engine exhaust gases. Fuel contained in the piston engine exhaust gases is combusted in a second stage turbine engine. Turbine engine exhaust gases are used to supercharge the piston engine.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling the final feedwater temperature associated with a regenerative Rankine cycle, said cycle commonly used in thermal systems such as conventional power plants. This invention involves the placement of a new heat exchanger, termed an Exergetic Heater, in the feedwater path downstream from the highest pressure feedwater heater to assure that the feedwater is properly heated to its final temperature before entering the steam generator. The heating of the feedwater is accomplished by routing steam from the Intermediate Pressure turbine, which normally is routed to the second highest pressure heater. Control of the final feedwater temperature is achieved through a control valve whose actuation adjusts the amount of steam flow being routed from the Intermediate Pressure turbine to the Exergetic Heater.

Abstract: A method enables a gas turbine engine to be assembled. The method includes providing a combustor including a liner that defines a combustion chamber therein, and coupling a casing within the gas turbine engine to extend circumferentially around the combustor liner, wherein the casing includes an inlet and a scroll duct that is coupled in flow communication to the inlet and extends at least partially circumferentially around the liner. The method also includes coupling the inlet in flow communication with a feed air source.

Abstract: A gas turbine (1), in particular in a power plant, has at least one combustion chamber (2) and an enclosed inner liner (3) which surrounds the combustion chamber (2) and an enclosed outer liner (4), having a stator (5) which has at least one vane row (6) with a plurality of vanes (7), a rotor (8) which has at least one blade row (9) with a plurality of blades (10), an air cooling arrangement (31) which is designed for cooling parts of the gas turbine (1) with air (L), and a steam cooling arrangement (32) which is designed for cooling parts of the gas turbine (1) with steam (D).

Abstract: The invention relates to the sealing of the cavity from which air is bled off to the cabin, which cavity is delimited, on the one hand, by the external shell of the compressor and an annular structure connected to the shell, and, on the other hand, by the external casing of the diffuser grating and a strut connected to said external casing and to an external engine casing shell fastened to the annular structure. A first seal is fitted in a first groove provided around the upstream part of the external casing of the diffuser grating, the strips of this first seal bearing on the downstream end of a first projection integral with the annular structure. A second seal is fitted in a second groove provided under said annular structure, the strips of this second seal bearing on the downstream end of a second projection integral with said annular structure and on the end of a third projection formed on the upstream part of the external casing of the diffuser.

Abstract: A cryostat having a connecting branch which is connected to a coolant chamber and is open on the end side. The connecting branch expands from an inside diameter to an outside diameter.

Abstract: A low-temperature dryer, especially a compressed air low-temperature dryer, for drying of a gaseous working fluid with cooling of the gaseous working fluid by use of a refrigerant comprises a pre-heat exchanger section (11) and a main heat exchanger section (12), in which the pre-heat exchanger section (11) and/or the main heat exchanger section (12) comprises at least one, preferably elongated heat exchanger element. Cooling of the working fluid introduced to the low-temperature dryer occurs here in the pre-heat exchanger section (11) from the dried and cooled working fluid. Additional cooling of the precooled working fluid passed through the low-temperature dryer occurs in the main heat exchanger section (12) from the refrigerant, so that moisture is condensed from the working fluid. All flow channels (21, 22) of the pre-heat exchanger section (11) and/or the main heat exchanger section (12) are formed essentially by hollow chamber profiles.

Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus incorporates an ion generating device that generates positive and negative ions by applying an alternating-current voltage between electrodes. The generated positive and negative ions coexist in the air and, when they attach to the surfaces of airborne bacteria, they react chemically with each other and generate radical hydroxyl and hydrogen peroxide, which extract hydrogen atoms from the cells of the bacteria and thereby kill them. This sterilizing effect is combined with the temperature-conditioning, dehumidifying, humidifying, air-purifying, and other functions of the air conditioning apparatus to bring about a comfortable and healthful indoor environment.

Abstract: An electromagnetic clutch for a compressor includes a rotor, an armature, an electromagnetic coil for bringing the rotor into contact with the armature and for separating the rotor from the armature, and a temperature detection device, such as a temperature fuse or a temperature switch, or both, for detecting an excessive increase in temperature ascribed to slippage between the rotor and the armature or a temperature increase of refrigerant discharged from the compressor. An electric circuit of the temperature detection device is separated from the electric circuit of the electromagnetic coil. An abnormal condition may be accurately detected by the separate circuit structure, and a proper response to the abnormal condition may be taken quickly.

Abstract: A cooling system comprising a compressor (20) and controlled by means of an electronic circuit (TE), the electronic circuit (TE) comprising a measuring circuit (ME) for measuring an electric power (Pn) supplied to the compressor (20) a microcontroller (10), a time variable (td), the measuring circuit (ME) effecting a measurement of the electric power (Pn) supplied the compressor (20), the microcontroller (10) comparing the measure. An electric power with reference-power values (Prl) and (Prd) previously stored in the microcontroller (10), the microcontroller altering the state of operation of the compressor (20) in function of the electric power (Pn) and of the time variable (td). A method of controlling a compressor (20), which comprises steps of storing a variable (Pn(te)) at a power value (Pn) measured at the moment when a period of time (te) counted from the moment of turning on the compressor (20) has been, and altering the value of the time variable (tD).

Abstract: The invention relates to an operating unit comprising at least one operating element, especially for adjusting the quantity of air, the temperature or the air distribution of an automatic air conditioning system, an automatic function and a manual adjustment function being provided. According to the invention, when changing from the automatic function to the manual adjustment function, the adjusted valued of the adjustment function is associated with the value of the automatic function which is selected during the changeover, or the next value in the direction of the new target value, or the closed value to the display value, or a value which can be pre-programmed in a fixed manner.

Abstract: An air conditioner is provided that can reduce the occurrence of situations in which the comfort level of an occupant of a room is degraded. The air conditioner is capable of running in cooling mode and/or dehumidifying mode and is provided with an air delivery unit, a flap, and a control unit. The air delivery unit delivers conditioned air into the room. The flap determines the discharge direction of the air delivered from the air delivery unit. The control unit executes a first control that changes the swing speed of the flap in accordance with the room temperature.

Abstract: A secondary drive system for an air conditioner compressor includes a conventional air conditioning circuit having integrated therewith a secondary compressor drive. The secondary compressor drive includes an air motor for selectively operating the otherwise conventional compressor of the air conditioning circuit and a compressed fluid source for driving the air motor. The compressed fluid source includes a pressure vessel and a collection reservoir. Heat generated in the operation of the air conditioning circuit is utilized to convert a liquid phase of the operating fluid into a highly compressed gas within the pressure vessel whereafter the resulting compressed gas is utilized to drive the air motor. The air motor operates the compressor of the air conditioning circuit. The operating fluid is captured within the collection reservoir as a gaseous or vaporous operating fluid for reuse in the system of the present invention.

Abstract: An air conditioner has a variable capacity rotary compressor, which allows the compressor to be smoothly re-started, thus increasing start reliability of the compressor. The air conditioner includes a compressor rotated in opposite directions. A drive unit rotates the compressor in a forward or reverse direction. A start determining unit determines whether the compressor has started to rotate in a forward direction or not. A control unit operates the drive unit so as to rotate the compressor in a direction opposite to the forward direction, and then re-start the compressor in the forward direction, when the compressor has failed to start. The air conditioner and a method of controlling the air conditioner allow the compressor to be smoothly and rapidly re-started even when the compressor has failed to re-start, thus increasing start reliability, and shortening a time required to re-start the compressor.

Abstract: A method and system for recovering thermal energy from an ambient environment includes an evaporator plate assembly located in the ambient environment, such as outdoors to absorb thermal energy from air. A compressor, heat exchanger, and water storage tank are located indoors. Fluid lines provide a closed circuit between the evaporator plate assembly, the compressor, and the heat exchanger. Water lines provide a flow path between the exchanger and the hot water tank. Refrigerant fluid in the evaporator plate assembly absorbs thermal energy from the ambient environment, and the fluid is then compressed by the compressor to increase the temperature thereof. The heated fluid transfers thermal energy to water in the heat exchanger, which is then stored in the tank for use. The hot water can be circulated to furnace coils wherein air is blown over the coils to absorb heat therefrom, and used to heat one or more rooms.

Abstract: In a fuel cell system 10, a refrigerant channel 70 that circulates refrigerant is configured to exchange heat between the refrigerant and each of a fuel cell 30, a hydrogen storage tank 20 having a hydrogen storage alloy, and a radiator 50. The hydrogen storage alloy has a higher absorption temperature at which absorption and release become equilibrium under the predetermined hydrogen pressure than the temperature of the fuel cell 30 in a steady-state operation. The refrigerant after cooling the fuel cell carries the heat generated by hydrogen absorption to the hydrogen storage alloy during storing from the tank 20 and facilitates absorption of hydrogen.

Abstract: A lighting system for dispensing units such as ice and water dispensers on refrigerators includes a paddle on a shaft for activating and deactivating the dispenser by force applied from a receptacle. The shaft is configured as a light tube. A light source is positioned above the shaft to supply light into the shaft and paddle in the non-deflected condition. A prism is provided to receive light from the light source when the paddle is depressed, and to redirect light from the light source towards a receptacle positioned for receiving ice or water dispensed by the dispenser.

Abstract: An ice supplying device of a refrigerator is disclosed, which has a structure a container is easily mounted in a door, or separated from the door. The ice supplying device includes an icemaker for making ice with a cool air of a freezer; a container mounted in a door in perpendicular to the inside of the door, the door for opening or closing the freezer, and provided below the icemaker for storing the ice when the door is closed; a dispenser provided on an outer surface of the door; and an ice chute provided in the door so as to connect the container and the dispenser with each other.

Abstract: An air conditioning system for an aircraft in which cabin air is recirculated and mixed with cold air from an air conditioning machine which includes at least an expansion turbine over which warm pressurised air is expanded and cooled, and wherein the system includes a heat exchanger in which a heat load from hot cabin air and/or a hot avionics system is exchanged with the warm pressurised air prior to the pressurised air being expanded by the expansion turbine.

Abstract: A Kimchi storage facility having a non-contact power supply device is provided. The Kimchi storage facility includes a main body provided with a storage room storing Kimchi, and a mechanic room where a power supply is installed, a door opening and closing the storage room, and a non-contact power supply device which is installed between the door and the main body, to supply power by an electromagnetic induction. A magnetic levitation unit is provided in a fan accommodation case and rotated in a magnetic levitation rotating manner by induced current supplied via the non-contact power supply device, to thus forcedly circulate cooled air in the storage room. Here, a rotating fan is installed in the lower portion of the door at the state where the rotating fan is accommodated in the fan accommodation case, or a driving motor and a fan which are connected with the non-contact power supply device by wire are installed in the lower portion of the door.

Abstract: A storage unit having at least one storage compartment, to store various food and beverage at respective optimum temperatures, and to allow various food and beverage to be conveniently stored in and removed from the at least one storage compartment. The storage unit has a cabinet with at least one storage compartment, a first door to close a first side of the at least one the storage compartment, and a second door to close a second side of the at least one storage compartment. A table is slidably placed on a first surface of the cabinet. The cabinet has a storage recess positioned on the first surface thereof. The storage recess is selectively exposed and shielded by the table sliding on the cabinet. The storage recess is maintained at low temperatures by a refrigerant pipe positioned adjacent to the storage recess.

Abstract: An insulated container assembly, which has a main body portion and a lid hingedly attached to the main body portion. The main body portion has four walls and is substantially rectangular in shape. The walls of the main body portion define an area for receiving and holding food and beverages therein. The walls each have a slot extending therethrough. The lid has an interior surface having a rectangular indentation centered therein. A plurality of gel packs are inserted within the slots of each wall of the main body portion, and in the rectangular indentation of the lid, for keeping the area within the main body portion hot or cold.

Abstract: An object is to improve cooling efficiency while preventing an abnormal increase in pressure of a high side in a cooling apparatus which uses so-called carbon dioxide as a refrigerant. The cooling apparatus comprises a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a gas cooler, pressure reducing means, an evaporator and the like are connected in an annular shape, and carbon dioxide is sealed as a refrigerant. In a stable running state in which a temperature of a space to be cooled by the evaporator is cool, time after a start of the compressor until a difference between outlet and inlet temperatures of the evaporator becomes within 1 degree is 5 minutes or more to less than 20 minutes.

Abstract: In an ejector refrigerant cycle, even if refrigerant is super-heated in an evaporator, super-heated gas refrigerant does not directly flow into a gas-liquid separator, so that boiling of refrigerant does not occur in the gas-liquid separator due to evaporation of refrigerant in the gas-liquid separator. When an equivalent inner diameter (D) of a tank body of the gas-liquid separator is set in a range of 2 cm–6 cm, and when a ratio of a vertical dimension (H) of the tank body to the equivalent inner diameter (D) thereof is larger than 1, a wall thickness of the tank body can be reduced while gas-liquid separation performance in the gas-liquid separator can be improved.

Abstract: An integrated-type suction pipe module for refrigerators, and a refrigerator having the integrated-type suction pipe module allow a suction pipe to be completely isolated from an interior of the refrigerator and an atmosphere. The integrated-type suction pipe module includes a suction pipe, and a foam body. The suction pipe defines a refrigerant path between an evaporator and a compressor. The suction pipe has an exposed part placed in a machine room which is exposed to an atmosphere, and an embedded part which is placed to be isolated from the atmosphere. The embedded part is disposed in the foam body. The construction enhances work efficiency while producing a refrigerator, and simplifies a design of a machine room to provide a better appearance. Further, the suction pipe is completely isolated from the atmosphere, thus preventing dew from being formed on the suction pipe. A heat exchanging effect between a capillary tube and the suction pipe is maximized.

Abstract: Described is a process and a device for liquefying hydrogen, whereby the hydrogen to be liquefied is liquefied against one or more refrigerant (mixture) circuits and/or by means of expansion and is guided over at least one ortho-para conversion catalyst. According to the invention, the ortho-para conversion catalyst or at least one of the ortho-para conversion catalysts (K) can be bypassed. Furthermore, during the liquefaction process an exchange (7, 8) can take place between the hydrogen fraction (3), flowing (2, 4) through the ortho-para conversion catalyst(s) (K), and the hydrogen fraction (3), not flowing through the ortho-para conversion catalyst(s) (K).

Abstract: A flexible piece of jewelry, such as a charm bracelet or necklace, that utilizes non-continuous chain links that constitute the continuous chain of the piece of jewelry. This link design allows more non-continuous links to be added to the bracelet as the child grows and the need for a larger piece of jewelry evolves and minimizes damage to the piece of jewelry caused by the addition of additional charms or links.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for sealing and affixing a component assembly for an electrical lighting device to a glass lamp envelope. The assembly used in the process comprises the component, such as an electrode lead wire and a solder glass perform. The process is useful, for example, in hermetically sealing and affixing lamp components, such as electrical lead wires and exhaust tubulation, to a low pressure fluorescent discharge lamp envelope having phosphor coating already applied thereto. The present invention is particularly suitable for lamp envelope made of borosilicate glass having a CTE from 0 to 300° C. in the range of 30–45×10?7° C.?1.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process and a device from the production of molten glass. According to the invention, measures will be taken to lead the current of the molten glass through the tank furnace so that cutoffs of the glass current between the surface of the glass bath, on the one hand, and the outlet opening on the other hand are avoided and a an equal holding period of all melt particles in the tank furnace is achieved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a three-dimensional knit, i.e. a knit whose area is shaped spatially. In accordance with the invention a homogeneously tough three-dimensional knit structure is achieved when loops in specific portions are widened and/or narrowed, this widening/narrowing of the loops being done at many locations arranged distributed homogeneously over the area to be formed three-dimensionally. In the same way a three-dimensional knit may be produced in which the knitting needles are inactivated at least in part over at least one course in the portion to be shaped and later reactivated while in the other portions full knitting is continued.

Abstract: A knitted fabric constructed from cotton yarns and synthetic yarns of polyester. The fabric is knitted with courses of cotton yarns, with a polyester yarn knitted with at least every fourth course of cotton yarn.

Abstract: An electronic lock system comprises a recessed grip which can be mounted on a door leaf or the like, in which a lockable grip lever is held by one end around an axis parallel to the door leaf by the recessed grip or by a drive shaft for a bar lock, sash lock or the like which is held therein, and further comprises a locking device by which the grip lever can be locked into its position in which its is swiveled into the recessed grip. According to the invention, the locking device is constructed in a modular manner and comprises the following exchangeable components (modules): a base module with a movable bolt which, in its locking position, secures the grip lever in its swiveled in position, and with a device for supplying electric energy (e.g., a battery) for driving the movable bolt, which base module can be inserted through an opening formed by the recessed grip and can be secured therein.