An apparatus for performing ultrasonic measurements of compliant material specimens includes a pair of facing but spaced apart ultrasonic transducers between which the specimen is placed, and which transmits signals into the specimen and receives signals from the specimen, a structure which presses the transducers against the opposite surfaces of the specimen with a reproducibly controllable force so that the same compressive force may be applied for successive measurements, a gauge that measure...

A transaction performing system including a plurality of terminal units each of which comprises a cash handling device of the circulation type having cash containers for accommodating received cash as classified according to the kind of money and delivering cash from the containers for dispensing, and sensors for detecting the level of cash in each container. The transaction modes of the terminal unit include a receiving-delivery mode, a receiving-only mode and a delivery-only mode. When the amo...

An automatic rhythm performing apparatus comprises a rhythm pattern generator (A); a rhythm tone generator; a rhythm control switch (B); and a control circuitry (C) connected to the rhythm pattern generator, the rhythm tone generator and the rhythm control switch. The rhythm pattern generator generates repetitively a repetition period signal defining a repetition period, a first (normal) rhythm pattern signal with the period, and a second (fill-in) rhythm pattern signal with the period. The rhyt...

PCT Filed Jun. 17, 1983 PCT Pub. No. WO84/00102 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 19, 1984 . In surgery, especially in microsurgery, the joining of blood vessel ends or other tubular organs, anastomosis, consumes a considerable part of the time. In order to carry out anastomosis rapidly and reliably a surgical instrument (1) is provided with two clamping means (2, 3), each being arranged to support a fastening means (5a, 5b) consisting of a ring with axially directed pins (6). The clamping means (2, 3) are rot...

A cannula is provided with a guide bar in which adjacent and overlying a hole formed in the cannula tip through which suction is applied to surgically aspirate fatty tissue is a guide surface adopted to contact and slide against the skin of a patient while the cannula tip is manually directed by the surgeon through the fatty tissue in reciprocating strokes. The guide surface maintains the tip at a constant depth within the tissue so that, upon completion of suction lipectomy, the desired amount ...

A kit for performing a medical procedure comprising, a procedure tray having a plurality of recesses to receive procedural components. The kit has a prepping tray having a plurality of recesses to receive prepping components, with the prepping tray being disposed in a side-by-side relationship with the procedure tray. The prepping tray has an outwardly directed upper transparent flange which is sufficiently large to cover the procedure tray.

A miniature toy vehicle capable of performing rear wheelies, spinouts and other playful stunts, the vehicle including a chassis having rotatable front and rear wheel axles mounted thereon, a hollow body being supported on the chassis to simulate the appearance of an automobile. A flywheel motor is supported for rotation on the chassis within the body on a flywheel axle normal to the rear wheel axle. The flywheel axle is operatively coupled to the rear wheel axle whereby when the rear wheel axle ...

An automatic rhythm performing apparatus capable of producing a rhythmic tone of a plural-tone-source rhythmic musical instrument such as a snare drum comprises a plurality of signal producing devices which produce a plurality of rhythmic tone signals corresponding to the respective tone sources of the single instrument. A control device controls respective signal levels of the rhythmic tone signals and a combining device combined the rhythmic tone signals at signal levels controlled by the cont...

In an automatic performing system, when the track is changed to one having a different loop bar number, the bar to be reproduced next is easily determined by first dividing the number of bars accumulated from the start of accompaniment by the loop bar number stored in the sequence track. Based on the remainder resulting from the division, the number of beats is determined and the present pointer is set. In the automatic performing system, by comparing the data at the next address with the part d...

A system for performing the desired transaction when the customer follows a specified procedure comprising a sequence of steps includes an electronic visual display unit for displaying a message and a graphic illustration at the same time, and a plurality of functionally operative physically manipulative function units arranged around the display unit. The physical operations are performed by the customer in a sequence of steps, and some of the function units serve different functions for differ...