A rotatable vehicle laundry brush (10) comprising a center shaft (18) and a plurality of axially stacked hollow blow-molded spacers (24, 26, 28, 30) which are pinned (40) and clamped together with felt discs (32) sandwiched between the spacers and extending radially outwardly therefrom so as to translate in an edgewise manner when the brush rotates. The felt discs are made up from pie shaped or re...

A driving force control unit for a vehicle allows transmission of driving force irrespective of releasing an accelerator pedal at a certain vehicle speed when a transmission is selected to a running range, and which switches the magnitude of the driving force while the accelerator pedal is released at a vehicle speed no more than the certain vehicle speed between a greater condition and a smaller ...

The machine has a flexible aspiration tube (4) connected in a detachable manner to an aspiration conduit that has a visible part (1) fabricated in transparent or translucent materials and an invisible part. The conduit is made of flexible material and is connected to a bag that receives cut fur or hair. An electrical supply cord (5) connected to a plug-in connector is bind with the tube using a re...

A system for inspecting components is provided. The system includes an axial lighting system that illuminates the component with axial lighting to allow one or more features of the component to be located, such as by causing protruding features to be brighter than the background and recessed features to be darker than the background. An off-axis lighting system illuminates the component with off-a...

A mobile station with a receiver having antenna diversity where the diversity processing is controlled from the base band processing circuit and only turned on when the performance gain justifies extra power consumption. The base band processing circuit may be instructed by the network that it can cease diversity reception after evaluating cell leads within a system.

A navigational control system for altering movement activity of a robotic device operating in a defined working area, comprising a transmitting subsystem integrated in combination with the robotic device, for emitting a number of directed beams, each directed beam having a predetermined emission pattern, and a receiving subsystem functioning as a base station that includes a navigation control alg...

A train control system includes positioning systems at the end of the train and at the front of the train, allowing the conductor or engineer to unambiguously determine that no cars of the train have become detached. The positioning system at the end of the train is also used to verify that the entire train has cleared a block. This information can be relayed to a dispatcher, thereby eliminating t...

The disclosed embodiments relate generally to providing increased data integrity in computer systems and, more particularly, to using a system management processor to overcome a computer system failure because of corrupted programming. A system management processor detects an attempted boot by host computer system and starts a watchdog timer. If the system BIOS or other firmware fails to execute, ...

The system and method described herein automatically detect various corruptions in a file system and notify a system administrator of the corruption. Detailed information on the file system is collected by a probe process. If the file system is corrupt or inaccessible, the system and method marks the file system as bad, notifies the system administrator and then ceases to attempt to collect inform...

A method for the production of zinc flake from zinc particles by dry milling the zinc particles using a mixture of a fluorocarbon lubricant and a stearate lubricant, optionally in admixture with a hydrophobic inorganic powder.

A plasma arc reactor and process for producing a powder from a solid feed material, for example aluminium, is provided. The reactor comprises: (a) a first electrode ( 5 ), (b) a second electrode ( 10 ) which is adapted to be spaced apart from the first electrode by a distance sufficient to achieve a plasma arc therebetween, (c) means for introducing a plasma gas into the space between the first an...

There is provided a laminated polyester film which is improved in lubricity, transparency, dimensional stability, shock resistance and adhesion, and which comprises a polyester base film comprising polyester and to at least one direction, and a coating layer provided on at least one surface of the base film, wherein said coating layer contains polymer binder and inert particles, the refractive ind...

An object of the present invention is to provide a high-quality biaxially oriented film exhibiting an excellent electromagnetic conversion property, traveling durability, magnetic head traveling performance, etc. as a magnetic recording medium. The object of the present invention is achieved by a biaxially oriented film including a polymer alloy composed of polyester (polymer 1) and a thermoplasti...

A method of operating a control panel in a security system that includes a door entry security device in a housing suitable for mounting within a recess of a doorjamb or door of a premises. The control panel is programmed to register a system arm/disarm device and a door closure device, both with the same identification number, such that the control panel recognizes that identification number to b...

The invention relates to a rubber tire composed of carbon black reinforced rubber carcass and having a rubber tread which is quantitatively reinforced with silica and which, in turn, has a thin, integral, rubber outer cap on its outer surface which contains a quantitative amount of carbon black. In one aspect, said outer cap, sometimes referred to herein as an outer top cap, extends across the out...

Zonnescherm of dergelijke dat in hoofdzaak bestaat uit een steun (2) waaraan een scherm (3) is bevestigd, daardoor gekenmerkt dt het voornoemde scherm (3) aan de steun (2) is bevestigd door middel van een stangenstelsel (4) dat wordt gevormd door vier stangen (9, 10, 11, 12) die een parallellogram definiëren, waarvan minstens twee aangrenzende stangen, respectievelijk een eerste stang (9) en een t...

In a hydrocarbon production well, a control processor 32 selectively sends light to each of one or more gas lift valves 28 to cause injection of an injection fluid (such as nitrogen gas) from a pressurised annulus 22 into a production fluid (hydrocarbon) in production 18 tubing, and/or to each of one or more inlet valves 60 , to control the rate of flow of the hydrocarbon (oil). The control proces...

A manual control device for electrically driven and controlled steering, and/or accelerating and/or decelerating of a road vehicle, that includes a hand grip device, sensors for sensing a force and/or a movement imposed on the hand grip device which correspond to a desired steering direction, and/or acceleration and/or deceleration of the vehicle, as well as a manual lever device comprising at lea...

The invention relates a method and a device for storing baggage delivered early, so-called early baggage, in traffic facilities, in particular commercial airports, which baggage is delivered to a check-in point a period, for example >2 h before the departure time of the respective transport vehicle, whereby this early baggage is being taken into storage until the time when it will be loaded into t...

The invention is directed to a method for controlling the operation of a clutch ( 19 ) which coacts with an automatic transmission stage ( 17 ). A variator controller ( 16 ) is assigned to the automatic transmission stage ( 17 ) and a contact-force control ( 18 ) is assigned to the clutch ( 19 ). Depending upon the detected and classifiable drive situations, first and second torque/contact-force r...