PURPOSE: A variable detecting device and a variable detecting method are provided to make the best use of wind power by moving the variable detecting device and generating electric energy in winding the elastic body. CONSTITUTION: A variable detecting device comprises a first detecting unit having a first winding detecting unit(81) and a first unwinding detecting unit(82), a second detecting unit ...

PURPOSE: Provided is an apparatus for examining the leakage of a battery for a notebook computer visually and easily. CONSTITUTION: The apparatus comprises a vacuum chamber(2) which forms a space for accommodating a cabinet, mounts a door by hinge at an open part, seals the inside by closing the door by a door lock, and has a plurality of inhalation ports(26) at the side wall(21) and the bottom(22...

The present invention relates to sustained release drug delivery systems, medical devices incorporating said systems, and methods of use and manufactu re thereof. The inventive systems feature bioerodible drug delivery devices tha t include biocompatible solid and biocompatible fluid compositions to achieve desired sustained release drug delivery.

Beschrieben wird ein Strangpressverfahren zur kontinuierlichen Herstellung von vollzylindrischen Sinterrohlingen (24) mit zumindest einem innenliegenden, wendelförmig verlaufenden Kanal (3) vorbestimmten Querschnitts, bei dem die den Rohling (24) bildende, plastische Masse (12) aus einem Düsenmund (DM) einer Strangpressdüse (10) in Form eines auslassseitig im Wesentlichen kreiszylindrischen, vorzu...

An umbrella mount adapted to hold an umbrella shaft and to be detachably mounted to a support shaft such as a rear leg of a folding chair, lawn chair, or beach chair. The umbrella mount comprises a tube, a top binder, a bottom binder, a support member, and a securing member. The top binder detachably attaches the tube near its top end to the support shaft, whereas the bottom binder detachably atta...

The train (5) has a lateral bar with electricity and there is another lateral bar (3) alongside the tracks, and this bar (3) begins five kilometres before the crossing level (2). When the train is approaching the lateral bar of the train side bar touches the bar (3) in the specific point (6), there is supply of electricity to the crossing level (2) and that means that a train (5) is near and the c...

A static dissipative flexible polyurethane foam is formed under free rise expansion conditions from a polyether graft polyol, a polyether polyol or ester polyol and an isocyanate, wherein one or more anti-static additives are incorporated into the reaction mix in an amount from 0.10 to 20 parts by weight. Water is added in an amount of from 0.2 to 1.0 parts per weight. Upon curing, the foam has a ...

The present invention pertains to a flame-retardant soot-containing polyurethane foam with improved colour comprising (a) carbon particles, (b) one or more oligomeric, halogen-free organophosphorus compounds, and (c) one or more quaternary ammonium compounds.; L'invention concerne une mousse polyuréthanne contenant de la suie ignifuge présentant une couleur améliorée comprenant (a) des particules ...

A door entry security device used in a security system including a control panel, the door security device in a housing suitable for mounting within a recess of a doorjamb or door of a premises. In the housing is a lock position detecting switch, adapted to detect the position of a lock mounted on a door as being either locked or unlocked, a door position detecting switch adapted to detect the pos...

Bei einer Brennkraftmaschine (1) mit zumindest zwei Gruppen (6, 7) von Zylindern (18, 20), mit zumindest einem Abgasturbolader (5), mit einem Einlasssystem (2), einem Auslasssystem (3) mit je einem Auslassstrang jeder Gruppe und einem Abgasrückführsystem (4) mit zumindest einer Abgasrückführleitung (142, 146), welche stromaufwärts der Abgasturbine (24) des Abgasturboladers (5) vom Auslasssystems (...

An apparatus for verifying proper operation of an optical inspection machine, including a row of colored segments that simulate reagent pads containing known types of analytes at known concentrations positioned so that the row of colored segments can be illuminated by the readhead of the optical inspection machine. If the optical inspection machine provides results that correspond to the known typ...

Identifying a test product having a test region includes impinging on the test region a set of test signals at known test wavelengths. An image of the test region is generated from the reflected signals. The image is comprised of a set of reflectance values that are compared against reference reflectance values at the test signal wavelengths to determine the test product type.; Selon l'invention, ...

For the determination of analytes in body fluids, voltammetry using a simple, non-selective, electrode sensor system has been found to work. The signal is desirably processed by a technique such as neural network analysis, which can permit plural analytes to be determined simultaneously.; Selon l'invention, on a découvert que la voltampérométrie faisant appel à un système de détection à électrodes...

The present invention provides a test strip for measuring a concentration of an analyte of interest in a biological fluid, wherein the test strip may be encoded with information that can be read by a test meter into which the test strip is inserted.; L'invention concerne une bande d'essai permettant de mesurer la concentration d'un analyte d'intérêt dans un fluide biologique, ladite bande pouvant ...

A bandwidth meter method and apparatus for measuring the bandwidth of a spectrum of light emitted from a laser input to the bandwidth meter is disclosed, which may comprise an optical bandwidth monitor providing a first output representative of a first parameter which is indicative of the bandwidth of the light emitted from the laser and a second output representative of a second parameter which i...

A strap (12) extends diagonally along the front of a user, over one shoulder of the user, and diagonally across the back of the user. The strap has end portions (14, 16) that come together near the midsection of the user and attach via a mechanism (20) to an item of apparel (24) worn by the user. A carrier (30) slideably engages the strap and houses one or more personal items.; L'invention concern...

Erfindungsgemäss wurden Tumor-assoziiert exprimierte Genprodukte und die dafür kodierenden Nukleinsäuren identifiziert. Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft die Therapie und Diagnose von Erkrankungen, bei denen diese Tumor-assoziiert exprimierten Genprodukte aberrant exprimiert werden. Des weiteren betrifft die Erfindung Proteine, Polypeptide und Peptide, die Tumor-assoziiert exprimiert werden und d...

There is provided a method of manufacturing a tire wherein a uniformity of a tire having a reinforcing rubber layer of substantially a crescent-shaped section between a carcass and an innerliner and capable of mainly running at a run-flat state is improved by transferring a carcass band prior to turning of a carcass member around a bead core to a green tire building drum of a cylindrical form from...

Method of laying a tire belt ply on a form, using one or two transporters each having gripping assemblies, for gripping and moving the gripping sectors situated at the two longitudinal ends of a belt ply. The front and rear edges are aligned, after having determined the angular geometry of the ply edges by means of a suitable device, by independently moving at least one gripping sector of each of ...