The present disclosure provides electrodes that possess components capable of indicating to an end-user when the electrode is in need of replacement. In embodiments, the electrodes include a hydrogel in combination with a pH indicator which changes its color or opacity upon repeated use of the electrode, thereby indicating an appropriate time for changing or replacing the electrode.

The present disclosure provides electrodes that possess components capable of indicating to an end-user when the electrode is in need of replacement.

The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for making large objects from fibrous slurry or paper pulp in water by using mating molds and hot air drying. The apparatus and the method of the present invention use robots with 3-dimentional freedom of rotation to transfer moulds from slurry tanks for draining and to transport the objects to drying units. A set of robots with mating mold ...

A degree of seal of an ear about a speaker port may be estimated by detecting touch contact between the ear and at least one touch sensor in fixed relation to the speaker port. The degree of seal is estimated based on the detected touch contact. Based upon the estimated degree of seal, the acoustic output of the speaker may be adjusted. The adjustment may compensate for perceived changes to the qu...

A shaped roof element (1) for roofs made of elements, the roof element (1) comprising a first and a second side edge (4, 6), an upper edge (8) and a lower edge (10), a profile substantially parallel to the side edges (4, 6) and a series of steps comprising two or more steps (12, 14) extending substantially parallel to the upper and lower edges (8, 10), the steps being produced so that the lower ed...

A bassinet for mounting on a play yard frame is supported to provide a swinging movement of the bassinet relative to the play yard. The bassinet is suspended from four detachable connector mounts that slide over the upper frame member of the play yard frame by three flexible support members and a single rigid support member that is operatively connected to a motor housed within a motorized connect...

The present invention relates to a method for dispersing a powder mixture of metal carbide and cobalt powders in an apolar medium with a dispersant and possibly a wetting agent. According to the invention, the dispersant is an effective dispersant for both cobalt- and metal carbide surfaces. The invention is particularly useful for powder mixtures with a fine grained cobalt powder and a relatively...

A solution for providing a data security service in a wireless communications system (S) is disclosed. In the solution, a first security association (SA1) is established between an anchor node (LMA1) located in a home operator network (N1) and a concentrator node (Ha) located in an interconnecting operator network (GRXa). In addition, a second security association (SA2, SA3, SA4, SA5) is establish...

A computer-implemented method and system for managing transaction card accounts involves enabling a transaction card account by a card issuer for u se with pre-defined categories of providers of goods/services and goods/services sol d and issuing a transaction card and establishing an associated pre-qualified category card account. Upon receiving data for a transaction with the transaction card at...

A system and method of recovering heat and water from a slurry, such as tailings from oil sands extraction, is provided. The method includes providing the tailings to a humidification vessel, adding a sufficiently dry gas directly to the slurry in the vessel to form warm, water-saturated gas, such that heat and water are recovered from the slurry, removing the warm, water-saturated gas from the hu...

Waste heat and water resulting from thermal hydrocarbon recovery operations can be reduced and re-used according to a method which involves accessing a hot wat er stream produced in a thermal hydrocarbon recovery operation; vapourizing water from the water stream by applying a vacuum, thereby producing water vapour; and condensing the water vapour to produce high quality water. A system is also de...

An electronic device includes a base, a touch screen display, a shape memory alloy and operational components. The touch screen display is connected to the base an d moveable relative to the base and includes a display device and a touch- sensitive input surface overlying the display device and connected to a controller for determining a touch event to the touch-sensitive input surface. The shape ...

A method provides search results for a handheld electronic device including an input apparatus having a plurality of input members, each of at least a portion of which have a plurality of characters assigned thereto. A type of the input apparat us is sent from the device to a server. The device receives a number of activations of a number of the input members, and sends the received number of acti...

A system and method for processing images on a camera-equipped mobile device. Upon direction from the user that a picture is to be taken with the camera of the mobile device, an image is initially captured and temporarily stored at a first resolution (e.g. a maximum resolution). This may be, for example, the highes t resolution setting that might be specified by a user of the camera. The user is t...

A degree of seal of an ear about a speaker port may be estimated by detecting touch contact between the ear and at least one touch sensor in fix ed relation to the speaker port. The degree of seal is estimated based on the detected touch contact. Based upon the estimated degree of seal, the acousti c output of the speaker may be adjusted. The adjustment may compensate for perceived changes to the ...

The present disclosure pertains to a fluid filter having integral attachment means which may take the form of a threaded portion of a filter cartridge. The threaded portion threadably interacts with a complementary threaded portion of a filter mounting to retain the filter cartridge to the filter mounting. The disclosure also pertains to a fluid filter having a cartridge made from two plastic shel...

An object of the present invention is an apparatus for administering liquids into the human body characterised in that it has at least one main loading channel provided with at least one main administration point able to be connected to at least one container holding the liquid and at least one secondary loading channel, separated from the first by a membrane, provided with at least one container ...

A bassinet for mounting on a play yard frame is supported to provide a swinging movement of the bassinet relative to the play yard. The bassinet is suspended from four detachable connector mounts that slide over the upper frame member of the play yard frame by three flexible support members and a single rigid support member that is operatively connected to a motor housed within a motorized connect...

The present invention relates to a method for dispersing a powder mixture of metal carbide and cobalt powders in an apolar medium with a dispersant and possibly a wetting agent. According to the invention, the dispersant is an effective dispersant for both cobalt- and metal carbide surfaces. The invention is particularly useful for powder mixtures with a fine grained cobalt powder and a relatively...

The present invention relates to a cutting tool insert, particularly useful for machining of aluminiumalloys, comprising a cemented carbide substrate and a coating. The cemented carbide has a composition of 4-14 wt% Co, up to 5 wt% of the elements Ti, Ta, and/or Nb and/or Cr or other element from groups IVb, Vbor VIband rest WC. The coating is composed of one or more layers of refractory compounds...