Un carrello elevatore (10) ha un motore elettrico (16) di trazione, un motore elettrico che aziona una pompa per i circuiti idraulici, e batterie di accumulatori (19) che alimentano i motori elettrici. Al fine di ottenere lunga durata nonché affidabilità e prestazioni elevate, il motore di trazione (16) od entrambi i motori sono asincroni, ed inoltre sono previsti dispositivi (30) di rilevazione d...

Money items are validated by determining whether n measured properties lie within an n-dimensional ellipse associated with a particular money item. The center of the ellipse lies on the statistical mean of the property measurements for that particular item, and each axis is related to the standard deviation for a respective property measurement.

A gas-liquid contacting apparatus in which spray nozzles for spraying slurry solution upward are arranged in a tower body through which gas passes, wherein a liquid inlet portion of the spray nozzle is of a bell shape having a radius of curvature of 0.2 times or more of the diameter of a liquid discharge port of the spray nozzle, and a ceramic nozzle support structure comprises: (A) a ceramic nozz...

An optical pickup includes a Wollaston prism for passing incident light generated from a light source and splitting reflected light from an optical disk into two polarized components, and two photodetectors for receiving the split reflected light beams, thereby simplifying and miniaturizing the apparatus.

A fiber laser for producing high energy ultrashort laser pulses, having a positive-dispersion fiber segment and a negative-dispersion fiber segment joined in series with the positive-dispersion fiber segment to form a laser cavity. With this configuration, soliton effects of laser pulse circulation in the cavity are suppressed and widths of laser pulses circulating in the cavity undergo large vari...

Applying electrical energy to a microorganism through a liquid, gas or solid having electrical energy causes an increase in an electric charge in excess of the limit of intracellular and extracellular electrostatic capacity possessed by the microorganism, which results in an irreversible change in the microorganism cells and/or explosively destroys the border membrane of the microorganism cells.

Applying electrical energy to a microorganism through a liquid, gas or solid having electrical energy causes an increase in an electric charge in excess of the limit of intracellular and extracellular electrostatic capacity possessed by the microorganism, which results in an irreversible change in the microorganism cells and/or explosively destroys the border membrane of the microorganism cells.

EN LA RED DE CONTROL AUTOMATICO DE GANANCIA (AGC) DE UN SISTEMA DE PROCESO DE SEÑAL VIDEO, UN COMPARADOR (70) RESPONDE A UNA SEÑAL DE CONTROL DE ENTRADA, PROPORCIONANDO UNA SEÑAL DE CONTROL DE SALIDA A UN SINTONIZADOR (23) AMPLIFICADOR DE RADIOFRECUENCIA PARA DISMINUIR SU GANANCIA POR DEBAJO DE UN NIVEL NORMAL MAXIMO CUANDO LA SEÑAL DE ENTRADA SOBREPASA UN VALOR DE UMBRAL. LA OPERACION DEL COMPARA...

A secondary air pump control system for an internal combustion engine having an air pump for supplying secondary air to the exhaust passage, comprises a voltage detector for detecting voltage applied to the air pump, a current detector for detecting current flowing through the air pump, and a switch for making a changeover between supply of electric power to the air pump and cutoff of same. The fl...

A mail piece stacking machine is disclosed which is designed for use on conjunction with a mail piece processing or handling machine, such as a typical mailing machine, for stacking a plurality of pieces of mail as they are ejected seriatim from an outlet end of the processing or handling machine. The stacking machine has an elongate frame with a first feeding device consisting of a pair of cooper...

A technique is described for liquefying, or gelifying, a hardened, cataractous lens nucleus and aspirating the same. Heat or heated solution is delivered to the lens nucleus in vivo so that the heat or heated solution is placed in contact with the hardened nucleus in order to heat and liquefy the same. The lens nucleus is irrigated simultaneously with a cooled solution to thereby limit to a very s...

A special epidural catheter syringe, epidural catheter connector, and continuous epidural tubing connector are provided to provide mechanical lockouts to prevent epidural anesthetic from being injected intravenously and to prevent medications intended for intravenous use from being injected into the epidural catheter.

Amplification and/or expression of nucleic acids is carried out in a medium immobilized by using an organic and/or inorganic solid matrix penetrating the medium and having a porous, fibrous, reticulated, coiled, capillary, lamellar or folded texture and which includes the components of a cell-free enzyme system of exponential amplification of nucleic acids and/or components of a cell-free enzyme s...

The invention includes a sealing system for a heated flat plate exhaust gas sensor having a plurality of alternating layers of glass and steatite surrounding a flat plate sensing element. A ceramic tube surround the plurality of layers. The ceramic tube is carried in a tubular-shaped metal housing.

A three dimensional imaging apparatus may be used as a microscope or camera. The apparatus includes an array of lenses, each of which is aligned with a respective photodetector element. A liquid crystal spatial light modulator has several pixels between each photodetector element and lens. A control circuit controls the modulator so that the pixels in front of each photodetector element act as a m...

PCT No. PCT/FR95/00221 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 23, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 23, 1995 PCT Filed Feb. 24, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/23454 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 31, 1995A method and apparatus for automatic gain control in a receiver. The input signal to the receiver includes both a DC component and a signal component. Filters are used to separate the two components. The DC component modulates a pilot signal a...

The multi-viewpoint video encoder disclosed herein comprises a depth estimator, a predictor connected to the depth estimator, and a comparator connected to the predictor. In addition, the multi-viewpoint video encoder has an output, preferably including a multiplexer for multiplexing the first image, the depth map, the second viewpoint vector and the prediction errors into a signal. The multi-view...

UN DISPOSITIVO PARA COCINAR AL VAPOR (16) INCLUYE UNA CINTA SINFIN (32) DISPUESTA EN UN CAMINO ESPIRAL QUE RODEA UNA JAULA (34). LA JAULA PUEDE GIRAR SOBRE UN EJE VERTICAL PARA IMPULSAR LA CORREA SINFIN, PARA MOVER DE ESTA FORMA LOS ALIMENTOS A LO LARGO DEL CAMINO HELICOIDAL A MEDIDA QUE SON COCINADOS. UN DISPOSITIVO DE LIMPIEZA PARA EL DISPOSITIVO INCLUYE UN DISTRIBUIDOR FIJO (66, 67) CON BOQUILL...

EL DISTRIBUIDOR DE PRODUCTO LIQUIDO DE LIMPIEZA O SIMILAR, PARTICULARMENTE PARA UNA COCINA, SE CARACTERIZA EN QUE COMPRENDE; UNA ENVOLTURA "; UN RECIPIENTE 13 DE PRODUCTO LIQUIDO DE LIMPIEZA BAJO PRESION DE GAS, LLEVADO POR LA ENVOLTURA Y DOTADO DE UN OBTURADOR INFERIOR NORMALMENTE CERRADO; UNA BOQUILLA 19 QUE COOPERA CON EL OBTURADOR Y DISPUESTA PARA PODER DESPLAZARSE ENTRE UNA POSICION INACTIVA ...