Portable radiation measuring device
What is claimed is: 1. Portable radiation measuring device, comprising a detector adapted to deliver electrical signals whose amplitude spectrum depends in a one-to-one relationship on the energy spec... Read More
Inventors: Allemand, Robert; Laval, Michel; Parot, Pierre;, Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (Paris, FR) |
Self-supporting mask, method for production as well as use of same
We claim: 1. In a self-supporting mask for use in the treatment of substrates by irradiation or by a stream of particles constituting an image-forming medium having a mask foil fastened to a frame, th... Read More
Inventors: Stengl, Gerhard; Loschner, Hans;, Assignee: Rudolf Sacher Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Vienna, AT) |
Ionization chamber
I claim: 1. A device for measuring intensity of a beam of ionizing radiation comprising a closed chamber having at least one flexible wall through which ionizing radiation is passed, an ionizable gas ... Read More
Inventors: Larkin, Keith J.;, Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation (New York, NY) |
Screens for storing X-ray images and methods for their use
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The x-ray storage screens of this invention are closely related to the x-ray intensifying screens disclosed in DeBoer et al U.S. Pat. No. 4,637,898, based on U.S. Ser. No... Read More
Inventors: DeBoer, Charles D.; Luckey, George W.;, Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) |
Self-extinguishing, expandable styrene polymers
We claim: 1. A molding composition which comprises: self-extinguishing, thermoplastic particles of a styrene polymer having a size of from 0.4 to 3 mm and containing volatile blowing agents, which par... Read More
Inventors: Hahn, Klaus; Walter, Manfred; Stange, Karl; Weber, Heinz;, Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft (DE) |
Vapor treatment of metal tire cord
We claim: 1. In a process of treating a filament of steel having a brass coating thereon with a reagent reactive with the brass and/or any exposed surface of the steel filament, the improvement charac... Read More
Inventors: Rye, Grover W.; Marencak, Karol;, Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Akron, OH) |
Foldable composite reinforcing member for use in a foam structure
What is claimed is: 1. A reinforcement member which can be folded and rolled and is particularly suited for the preparation of structures by the spiral generation technique, the reinforcement member c... Read More
Inventors: Smith, Jr., Hubert Stacy;, Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, MI) |
Woven stringer for slide fasteners
The present invention is directed to improvements in and relating to the above prior-art woven slide fastener, and has for its primary object to provide means of stabilizing the fastener filamentary e... Read More
Inventors: Tsubata, Noritaka;, Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo, JP) |
Information signal recording disc
The recording disc of the present invention comprises at least one nitrile resin containing from 40 to 90 percent, preferably from 50 to 85 percent, by weight of an unsaturated nitrile. Typically rep... Read More
Inventors: Kaneko, Akira; Ohya, Masaki; Suzuki, Masayasu; Kobayashi, Akio;, Assignee: Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Floatable sheet material and method of making
OF THE INVENTION As noted above, the present improved sheet material may be produced with only a slight, and therefore, advantageous, modification of the conventional process for making such sheet ma... Read More
Inventors: Lazar, Stanley;, Assignee: Cantar Corporation (Ontario, CA) |
Smokable synthetic food-packaging film
OF THE INVENTION A smokable food-packaging film according to the present invention comprises at least one layer of a mixture of 45 to 85 wt % polyamide, and 10 to 45 wt % copolymer of olefin and viny... Read More
Inventors: Hisazumi, Nobuyuki; Funabashi, Shinichiro; Tomioka, Yoshihiko;, Assignee: Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Multilayered container and process for production thereof
OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described by reference to the accompanying drawings. FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 are partly broken-away front views showing examples of the container of th... Read More
Inventors: Shimizu, Senzo; Momose, Yoshiaki; Yoshida, Yozo;, Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co., Inc. (Tokyo, JP) |
Method for rapidly laying up and curing thick complex resin matrix composites
What is claimed is: 1. A method for rapidly laying up and curing complex shaped resin matrix composites, by transferring the resin matrix composite from an alterable male mold to an alterable female m... Read More
Inventors: Sullivan, Sr., Fletcher R.;, Assignee: |
Method for the production of composite plastic film
That need is met by the present invention which provides an improved composite plastic film and an efficient method and apparatus for producing that film. The method of the present invention is capabl... Read More
Inventors: Wagers, Kevin J.; Gundlach, Douglas P.;, Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, MI) |
Method of making a variable molded part
In one aspect of the present invention, a method is disclosed for variably making tie bar guides usable to guide tie bars within locking system housings having different inner dimensions, which tie ba... Read More
Inventors: Pettit, Dean A.;, Assignee: Truth Incoporated (Owatonna, MN) |
Apparatus for molding optical plastic lenses of the standard and bifocal type
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a complete bifocal lens is produced without the need to first supply a previously formed blank lens. This permits the lens manufacturer to e... Read More
Inventors: Greshes, Martin;, Assignee: |
Diffractive contact lens in relief
Accompanying FIG. 2 shows a diffractive contact lens in relief in accordance with the invention and including a conventional optical component 10 delimited by two optical surfaces 14 and 16, one of w... Read More
Inventors: Taboury, Jean; Chavel, Pierre; Joyeux, Denis; Baude, Dominique;, Assignee: Essilor International-Compagnie Generale d'Optique (Creteil, FR) |
Apparatus for the extrusion of patterned sheets or panels of thermoplastic synthetic resin compositions
We claim: 1. An apparatus for the extrusion of patterned sheets or panels of a basic color thermoplastic resin composition having at least one additional colored thermoplastic resin composition therei... Read More
Inventors: Wissinger, Waldemar; Webermeier, Kurt;, Assignee: Dynamit Nobel Aktiengesellschaft (DE1) |
Coating method
Accordingly, an object of this invention is to provide a coating method in which the above-described difficulties accompanying conventional coating method have been eliminated, and with which a coat f... Read More
Inventors: Hiraki, Yasuhito; Tanaka, Yasunori; Noda, Shinji;, Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. (Kanagawa, JP) |
Image processing method and apparatus permitting use of PDL in compression memory
An object of the present invention is to overcome the above-described problems. To this end, an object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus capable of variably publishi... Read More
Inventors: Ishida, Yoshihiro; Kawamura, Naoto; Honma, Hideo;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Method of recognizing characters
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of recognizing characters without the need for generation, in advance, of definition information of characters on documents. Another object... Read More
Inventors: Kobara, Katsutoshi; Eguchi, Shinichi; Nagano, Yoshihiro; Matsuno, Hideki; Chiba, Koichi; Katsumata, Yutaka;, Assignee: Fujitsu Limited (Kawasaki, JP) |
Image encoding
The present invention has been made in the light of the above problems and its objective is to provide an image encoding method or apparatus which can efficiently encode an image. The present inventio... Read More
Inventors: Yoshida, Tadashi;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Arithmetic encoding with carry over processing
In consideration of the foregoing, an object of the present invention is to provide an image encoding device enabling real-time process in arithmetic encoding, and a method therefor. Another object of... Read More
Inventors: Ishizuka, Keiji; Furuya, Atsushi;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Level-setting optical attenuator
OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to a level-setting attenuator (LSA). The present LSA is an electrically-controlled optical fiber-coupled variable attenuator with an incorporated de... Read More
Inventors: Ford, Joseph E.; Goossen, Keith Wayne;, Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
Transceiver component for data transmission
The object of the invention is therefore to specify a transceiver component for optical data transmission of the kind described above that draws only a low current from a stabilized power supply. This... Read More
Inventors: Angerstein, Jorg; Schairer, Werner; Wicke, Ulrich;, Assignee: Temic Telefunken Microelectronic GmbH (Heilbronn, DE) |
Optical stereoscopic system and prism window
What is claimed is: 1. An optical stereoscopic viewing system which comprises (a) a prism assembly of a pair of thin plate prisms, each having a plano face and an opposite prism face formed with a plu... Read More
Inventors: Sheiman, David M.;, Assignee: Bright and Morning Star (Lawndale, CA) |
Method of and apparatus for focusing ultrasonic waves in a focal line
The object of the present invention is to obtain good focusing of the sound field and hence good lateral resolution over a considerable depth. A sound field which is at least partly convergent and whi... Read More
Inventors: Burckhardt, Christoph Benedikt; Grandchamp, Pierre-Andre; Hoffmann, Heinz;, Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Nutley, NJ) |
Suppression of out-of-focus echoes in ultrasonic scanning
An object of the invention, therefore, is to provide a method which can reduce lateral maxima in such echo-sounding processes but which requires less expensive circuitry than the above described known... Read More
Inventors: Burckhardt, Christoph Benedikt; Grandchamp, Pierre-Andre; Hoffmann, Heinz;, Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. (Nutley, NJ) |
Optical disk apparatus
It is an object of the present invention to provide a data recording apparatus which accurately performs positioning of a recording/reproduction head, shortens access time of the head, and simplifies ... Read More
Inventors: Kimoto, Katsumi;, Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Kawasaki, JP) |
Detecting interferential diffraction of a reflected beam from a polymer liquid crystal recording medium
In view of the above-mentioned problems accompanying the conventional memory media, an object of the present invention is to provide a writable and rewritable optical memory or recording medium requir... Read More
Inventors: Yoshinaga, Kazuo; Oikawa, Katsuya; Ohnishi, Toshikazu;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Optical Systems 
