A combinatorial weighing system which, using a combinatorial weighing apparatus for combining weight data obtained from a plurality of weighing machines to find a combination giving a total combined weight value equal or closest to a target weight value, is capable of performing combinatorial weighing in a case where the target weight value is greater than the maximum load of the weighing apparatus. When such is the case, the system operates by first discharging articles from all of the weighing...

A combinatorial device especially adopted as a teaching aid in the study of finite, non-Abelian permutation groups. The invention structurally utilizes a central core member having a multiplicity of supporting members extending outwardly from the core member. Further, a multiplicity of face pieces are slidably interlocked with the support members such that a transitive permutation group is generated by varying the orientation of a multiplicity of the face pieces, having a common junction, about ...

The invention concerns gene banks and combinatorial derivatives thereof, prepared using phagemid- or phage-display in combination with type IIS restriction enzymes and cosmid packaging; their use for the isolation of ligands, including enzyme inhibitors, agonists and antagonists for receptors, competitive binding peptides to a defined target, diagnostic ligands for diseases and autoimmune syndromes, including surveillance tools for immune status, post-translationally modified peptides, and such ...

The present invention provides methods and compositions for producing and screening combinatorial metabolic libraries of multimeric proteins. The present invention relies on the use of filamentous fingal heterokaryons that are produced using two or more parent strains into which a population of heterologous nucleic acids encoding components of a metabolic pathway have been introduced.

A combinatorial weighing method for combinatorially weighing out articles supplied to a plurality of weighing machines includes the step of making a comparison between a predetermined percentage of a set target weight value and a sum total of weight values from weighing machines that have participated in a combinatorial weighing operation. This step is performed when an optimum combination is not obtained through a combinatorial calculation. Based on the results of the comparison, weighing machi...

A combinatorial weighing or counting method and apparatus in which a plurality of articles are weighed to provide a plurality of weight values, or to provide a plurality of discrete numbers found from the weight values, the weight values or numbers are combined, and the optimum combination thereof is found whose sum is equal or closest to a set target value. In the inventive weighing method and apparatus, (1) the purality of weight values are divided into a plurality of groups, (2) there are com...

A programmable controller for sensing the status of input devices and controlling the state of operating devices in accordance with a stored ladder logic control program includes a state machine instruction. A memory is provided for storing data regarding each state of an apparatus being controlled. This data defines the status of apparatus operating devices for each state, and the legitimate transitions from that state to other selected states, along with a Boolean logic expression of selected ...

A combinatorial weighing system designed for weighing out a desired number or weight of articles, wherein groups of articles are respectively weighed by a plurality of weighing machines, combinatorial addition is performed on all or a fixed number of possible combinations for weighed values obtained, a particular combination whose combination value is equal or the closest to a set value is selected, and articles are discharged from the weighing hoppers corresponding to the selected combination. ...

A combinatorial weighing method and apparatus therefor, the apparatus being of the type which includes a plurality of buckets for carrying articles to be weighed, a conveyor for conveying each of the buckets, and a weight sensor for sensing the weight of each bucket. The method includes steps of storing in memory the empty weight of each bucket following the measurement thereof by the weight sensor, storing in memory the total weight of each bucket and the articles introduced into the bucket, th...

A method of generating a compound capable of interacting specifically with a selected macromolecular ligand is disclosed. The method involves contacting the ligand with a combinatorial library of oligomers composed of morpholino subunits with a variety of nucleobase and non-nucleobase side chains. Oligomer molecules that bind specifically to the receptor are isolated and their sequence of base moieties is determined. Also disclosed is a combinatorial library of oligomers useful in the method and...