Thermal insulating device with an open celled polyurethane foam core, evacuated and refilled with an insulating gas.

Aqueous dispersions of fluoropolymers obtained by emulsion polymerization and containing at least one fluoropolymer A) with an average particle size (number-average) of at least 200 nm and at least one fluoropolymer B) with an average particle size (number-average) of not more than 100 nm, one of components A) and B) being a thermoplastic and the other component not being processable from the melt...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the operational precision of an index device and to lower costs. SOLUTION: An X axis guide rail 20 is fixed to a frame 10. A Y axis guide rail 12 is fixed to an X axis slider 22 freely movable to the X axis guide rail 20. A frame 3 is installed to a Y axis slider 14 freely movable to the Y axis guide rail. And a table 28 is provided in the frame 3. The table 28 is ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve stability of the effect of a brake, in a duo-servo type drum brake device. SOLUTION: A wheel cylinder to spread a distance between the opposed ends of one of a pair of brake shoes comprises a pressure chamber for driving a drive piston abutted the end part of each brake shoe, by a fed liquid pressure, a control piston 22 in which a flow passage 18 communicated with...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wheel cylinder to be quipped with a boot simply and at a low cost, and prevent an axial size of a drive piston from being shortened due to equipment of the boot. SOLUTION: A boot 70 to close a gap between a cylinder body 24 and piston rods 30 and 31 is constituted such that the two ends of an elastic deformation part 71 are equipped with approximately annular fix...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve durability against prying force by arranging a slidably movable fitting part between an intermediate piston and an outside piston on one side, supporting the outside piston on one side and the intermediate piston by each other via the fitting part, and setting a dimensional ratio of a fitting length to a fitting diameter of the fitting part to a specific value or m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set a displacement quantity freely and to prevent abrasion of a control cable in a cable guide part by inserting an inner cable, in which a contact member is arranged in one end, into a conduit freely slidably so that a parking lever inside a brake drum can be operated in the actuation direction. SOLUTION: A stopper member 3 is constructed of a flat steel wire tight adheri...

PCT No. PCT/EP96/02074 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 19, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 19, 1997 PCT Filed May 14, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/36666 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 21, 1996Described are molded bodies comprising bond material based on cellulose acetate as a bonding agent and reinforcing natural cellulose fibers or natural cellulose-containing fibers. These components are characterized by the fact that the cellulos...

PURPOSE:To increase the density of a thick film of an oxide superconductor and to improve the mechanical strength and superconducting characteristics by molding a slurry contg. powder of an oxide superconductor into a sheet shape and by successively subjecting the molded body to deliming by heat treatment, pressing and sintering. CONSTITUTION:A slurry contg. powder of an oxide superconductor, e.g....

A data processing system includes a number of business domains that co-operate with each other, each of the business domains being managed by a separate organisation. The system also includes a register domain, which holds information common to the business domains. Each business domain includes a process for checking whether a particular data item currently exists within that business domain. If ...

An electronic loyalty card system comprises a plurality of local card interfacing terminals situated at a plurality of local sites at which a loyalty card can be used to pay for goods or services, each local terminal comprising or being closely associated with a respective local database adapted to store total points accumulated by a predetermined number of cards, the local databases being in comm...

The system is for use in a retail outlet or other station where a stock of products is held, and includes a memory 20 which holds a record of the numbers of different products held in stock at that station. The system is responsive to the sale or supply of each product from the retail outlet or other station to update the record held in the memory. It provides periodically, a data output which ide...

A process for the removal of heavy metals from an aqueous effluent stream in which the aqueous medium is passed through a bed which comprises a hydrated cementitious material in particulate form. Also disclosed is an adsorbent for use in the process, in the form of the hydrated cementitious material in the form of pellets or foamed, and a method for the production of the adsorbent material.

A method is provided for adapting the side support, as a function of the driving situation and driving styles, of a person sitting in the seat of a vehicle, in which method a lateral acceleration acting on the seat is determined as reference variable for the adaptation. In order to allow greater allowance for the way in which the sitting person senses lateral acceleration, as well as a comfortable...

Networked computer system for conducting on-line commerce for the purchase of goods across Customs Unions. The apparatus comprising an on-line cybershopping system (CSS) connected to an on-line network such as the internet (NT). The cybershopping system (CSS) including a Customs Union data base (CUD) in which is stored information on the tariff and duties applied to goods to be imported by a custo...

A well data telemetry system for transmitting data along at least a part of a well bore 2 containing tubing of magnetically permeable material comprises a transmitting coil 9 located to transmit a magnetic flux signal along the modulation circuitry connected to the coil 9 for modulating tubing and/or the surrounding geological formations, the magnetic flux signal in response to a data signal, and ...

A process for production of a powder coating comprising: copolymerizing a monomer mixture comprising a (meth)acrylate monomer having branched or cyclic substituents of four or more carbon atoms in its side chain and a (meth)acrylate monomer having functional groups to form a thermosetting vinyl copolymer (a) having a glass transition temperature of approximately 40 to 100.degree.C and a number ave...

A motor vehicle is prevented from being parked with an unactivated parking brake. This vehicle has a roll-away preventer normally to apply a brake pressure which prevents the motor vehicle from rolling. To prevent unintentional rolling of the vehicle upon failure of the roll-away preventer, deactivation of the drive engine by using the ignition key is prevented when a brake pressure is not present...

A method for treating waste pickle liquor solution comprising the steps of (a) adding a flocculating agent to the pickle liquor solution; (b) allowing at least some of the silica in the pickle liquor to begin to flocculate; (c) again adding a flocculating agent to the pickle liquor solution; (d) allowing the floccules containing silica formed in step (b) to increase in size; and (e) physically sep...

A control system and method for a semi-automatic mechanical transmission system (10) is provided for allowing operator request for a direct upshift and/or downshift into a preselected start ratio, under certain predefined conditions, by a single movement, or two movements, of the shift lever (1).