A tire tread comprising grooves defining motifs in relief, at least one of these motifs being provided with first and second incisions, said incisions each being defined by two main lateral surfaces connected by an end surface, each of the first incisions opening on to the running surface of the tread when new and extending at most as far as the depth, and each of the second incisions extends at l...

A connector suitable for connection of at least three different types of containers to administration sets, preferably enteral administration sets, and feeding tubes. The containers contain nutritional feed for administration thereof to various types of patients who require enteral nutrition. In one aspect, the connector comprises three different segments:(a) a first segment for connecting contain...

The invention provides a biosensor comprising a support; a conductive layer composed of a electrical conductive material such as a noble metal, for example gold or palladium, and carbon; slits parallel to and perpendicular to the side of the support; working, counter, and detecting electrodes; a spacer which covers the working, counter, and detecting electrodes on the support; a rectangular cutout...

This invention provides a method for diagnosing a patient with neoplasia.

The invention concerns transparent, flame retardant, thermoformable, UV-stabilized, single layered or multilayered films, containing a cristallizable thermoplastic material, preferably polyethyleneterephthalate, at least one flame retarding agent and a UV stabilizer as main components. Said films are characterized by good stretchability, thermoformability and good optical and mechanical properties...

A automatic train control system (ATCS) in which a driverless vehicle is reset remotely upon detection of a failure in an on-board controller. If the direction of the train has not changed, and none of the train doors were opened, during the time the train was disabled due to the failure, the train is controlled to resume automatic operation.

There is disclosed a guidance assisting apparatus for aiding in the guidance of an agricultural vehicle (5) over arable land. The apparatus makes use of a GPS positional receiver (81) in order to determine if the vehicle (5) is overlapping previous passes of a paddock thereby reducing the likelihood of strips of land being double processed or left unprocessed. Guidance may be provided by a visual ...

"FITAS DE TESTE, MéTODOS DE PRODUçãO E USO DE PLURALIDADE DE FITAS DE TESTE, DE MEDIçãO DE GLICOSE EM AMOSTRA DE SANGUE E DE IDENTIFICAçãO DE FITA, DISPOSITIVO DE ARMAZANAMENTO DE DADOS REMOVìVEL PARA MEDIDOR E MEDIDORES". Um sistema para medição do nível de glicose numa amostra de sangue inclui uma fita de teste (10) e um medidor. A fita de teste (10)inclui uma câmara de amostra, um elétrodo oper...

"CONTA DE COBRANçA DE SERVIçOS PúBLICOS DE áGUA, FORçA E LUZ, GáS E TELEFONIA, COM FINALIDADE ESPECìFICA DE SERVIR COMO VEìCULO à COMUNICAçõES, PROMOçõES DIVERSAS E/OU CóDIGO PESSOAL NELA INSERIDA, PARA AFERIçãO INSTANTâNEA, VIA INTERNET E/OU POR QUALQUER FORMA TRADICIONAL DE PREMIAçãO E/OU SORTEIO". Refere-se a presente patente modelo de utilidade a um novo veículo promocional utilizando as conta...

A cable control which can be mounted in a simple manner in an expanding lock of a braking device for a motor vehicle, a so-called cable slack of the cable end is required in the area of the expanding lock. For eliminating this cable slack again in a simple manner, a holding device is provided in the wheel carrier which comprises a sliding sleeve and of a fixing sleeve, between which locking device...

A worktable for an apparatus for grinding recesses, having on a frame (3) a pair of pulleys carrying a grinding belt (2), is provided with a sole control member (19) to approach and move apart said workpiece vice (20) with respect to said shaping pulley (1) of said pair of pulleys.

A method of making a rubber composition. The method includes the steps of: providing fibers of a desired length; treating the fibers with a treating liquid made up of a nitrile rubber-modified epoxy resin and an alkylphenol.formaldehyde resin; and dispersing the treated fibers in rubber.

A method and an actuating arrangement for automatically actuating a component of a motor vehicle brake is actuated by an externally applied force and independently of an actuation of a brake pedal by the driver of the vehicle clutch actuation occurs at times when the speed of the vehicle is substantially zero, or when the vehicle rolls backward with the gearbox engaged in a forward gear, or when t...

Devices, methods and systems for obtaining biopsy tissue samples are provided. Flexible hollow tubes with a rail and a tip cutting element advance within a shaft with an aperture and a bore having a ramp, so that the cutting element emerges from the aperture and cuts tissue as it moves over the ramp. Either or both shaft and bore may have guides, which may engage each other to guide the tube along...

A textured elastomeric article and a method of making such an article is disclosed. The article includes a substrate body having an inside surface and a plurality of alkaline earth salt particles embedded within at least a portion of the inside surface but not extending through the thickness of the article such that no separate binder material is needed to affix the particles.

The present invention provides: a production process for a particulate water-absorbent resin with high productivity, which production process is carried out in such a manner that the particulate water-absorbent resin will contain particles with particle diameters of 150 to 850 mum (but excluding 850 mum) in an amount of not smaller than 75 weight % of the particulate water-absorbent resin after th...

An objective lens for recording and/or reproducing an optical information recording medium, comprises a first lens having a positive refractive power; and a second lens having a positive refractive power; wherein the first lens and the second lens are aligned in this order from a light source side of the objective lens; first lens and the second lens are respectfully made of material having a spec...

An optical storage device capable of at least reproducing information recorded on first and second optical storage media different in distance from a medium surface on which a light beam is incident to a recording surface and in operating wavelength. The optical storage device includes a first light emitting element for emitting a light beam having a first wavelength, a second light emitting eleme...

A method for creating a maintenance algorithm for a fleet of vehicles, with which maintenance information can be collected and displayed in each vehicle of the fleet. In the fleet vehicles, sensor data that are indicative of a stress on components in the vehicles are used to derive stress variables. The ascertained stress variables are stored in the vehicles for a predetermined period and, if a we...

A method, apparatus, computer program product, and decision support system and for allocating hosting-service resources to clients in at least one shared server. The method comprises discovering utilization patterns of the clients; monitoring the clients to discover the utilization patterns; providing bounds specifying minimum and maximum hosting-service resources for each of the clients; modeling...