The present invention concerns a building assembly comprising joining profiles (10) provided with profile contact sides, a corner profile (2) provided with corner profile contact sides (4), and insulation panels (1) orientated in two planes wherein the joining profile contact sides and the corner profile contact sides (4) are adapted for receiving opposite contact sides of the insulation panels, s...

An apparatus for removing ice from an object (e.g., in-flight ice removal from the skin of an aircraft) includes an actuator assembly that forms an elongated electrically conductive loop. The actuator is mounted in a position enabling it to impact the object to be de-iced in response to movement of the loop that is produced by electric current pulses flowing in opposite directions in two mechanica...

A piezo magnetostrictive device has a sheet of piezo material with an array of holes formed therein. At least some of the holes are filled with a magnetostrictive material which converts magnetic energy to mechanical energy by exhibiting a change in length or breadth upon being subjected to a change in magnetic energy. The sheet of piezo material generates an electrical potential in response to ap...

Disclosed is an axial fan for blowing air, for an electric fan, heater, or the like. Compared to existing models, for the same diameter and rotational speed, the disclosed axial fan produces a greater area and volume of air flow in front of the axial fan. Also, the axial fan can be manufactured using a two-piece mold, making mass production easy, while maintaining the strength of the fan itself. T...

An adaptive filter being configured to filter an input signal comprises Fourier transforming means (101) being configured to transform the input signal into a frequency domain signal upon the basis of the Fourier transform, weighting means (103) being configured to weight at least a portion of the frequency domain signal with a filter coefficient of the dispersion filter in frequency domain to obt...

The present invention relates to compositions and methods for producing baked food compositions and bar compositions with a quantity of long chain fatty acids. Specifically, the baked food compositions and bar compositions comprise a quantity of stearidonic acid (SDA) enriched soybean oil that imparts improved nutritional quality with an amount of long chain fatty acids, but retains the mouthfeel,...

The present invention relates to beverage compositions and methods for producing beverage compositions with a quantity of omega-3 fatty acids (n-3 PUFAs). Specifically, the beverage compositions comprise a quantity of stearidonic acid (SDA) enriched soybean oil that imparts improved nutritional quality with a quantity of n-3 PUFAs, but retains the mouthfeel, flavor, odor, and other sensory charact...

Embodiments provide a sensor insertion tool (SIT) that provides a motive force for insertion of an analyte sensor into/through skin. A SIT may be releasably locked to one or more components of a sensor insertion system, such that components of the sensor insertion system remain securely coupled during sensor insertion. A SIT may include a release member that unlocks or uncouples the SIT and the ot...

Methods and systems are provided to allow personal computer users to virtualize a local smart card so that they can remotely connect to a server and interact with the server as if the local smart card was physically connected to the server. They connect a remote smart card target hardware device to the target system through a physical connection, such as a USB connection, and the device interacts ...

The similarity between graphs having an extremely large number of nodes, such as an SNS, a link of WWW, etc., can be obtained within a reasonable time. A unique value is provided to a label of a node in a graph. Preferably, the value is a fixed-length bit string. In this case, the length of the bit string is selected to be sufficiently larger than the number of digits by which types of labels can ...

A vending apparatus and method of vending a product. Embodiments of a vending apparatus include a dispense mechanism configured to dispense a product, the dispense mechanism including a chamber that is rotatable relative to an opening of the dispense mechanism for aligning the product with the opening and dispensing the product therethrough. Further embodiments of a vending apparatus include a coi...

The present invention aims to provide an assay reagent and an assay for accurately measuring KL-6, in particular, an assay reagent and an assay for accurately measuring KL-6 in samples containing a rheumatoid factor and/or a nonspecific substance other than the rheumatoid factor. KL-6 in samples that contain a rheumatoid factor and/or a nonspecific substance other than the rheumatoid factor can be...

This invention relates to benzoyl peroxide products for skin treatment, and more particularly to a kit containing a benzoyl peroxide product and a topical moisturizing product. In one embodiment the kit contains BenzaClin brand clindamycinbenzoyl peroxide gel and Viscontour brand hyaluronic acid serum.

In a wireless network (100) with HSDPA-enabled user equipment devices (130), the base transceiver station (120) transmits to each HSDPA-enabled UE information regarding allocation of HSDPA codes and associated modulation techniques for other HSDPA-enabled UEs. Using this additional control information, each UE configures decision feedback filter of its equalizer to reduce inter-user interference. ...

Disclosed is a system including: (i) an interferometer configured to direct test electromagnetic radiation to a test surface and reference electromagnetic radiation to a reference surface and subsequently combine the electromagnetic radiation to form an interference pattern, the electromagnetic radiation being derived from a common source; (ii) a multi-element detector; and (iii) one or more optic...

A cartridge changer (41) is composed of a swing arm (48) with a cartridge gripper (48B) for gripping a paint cartridge (24), and an arcuate moving portion (46) for putting the swing arm (48) in swinging movements in a horizontal plane. The cartridge changer (41) is adapted to pick up a replenished paint cartridge (24) on the mount deck (42) by the cartridge gripper (48B) and transfer the swing arm...

There is provided an SOFC cell and manufacturing method thereof whereby the occurrence of Cr poisoning of the air electrode can be satisfactorily suppressed in an SOFC cell formed by joining together an air electrode with a Cr-containing alloy or the like. A Cr(VI) oxide suppressing state is induced for suppressing the formation of Cr(VI) oxides in an alloy or oxide during a firing process in whic...

A manufacturing apparatus is provided for manufacturing a tubular resin film of high quality and little thickness variations, which is stretched and given an orientation, and suitable as retardation film or the like. It comprises a stretching section (6) for stretching the tubular resin film (20), and a maintaining section (7) for maintaining a shape of said tubular resin film (20) stretched. Furt...

This invention concerns a network comprising a master and slaves. In the network, each slave figures out its performance values as performance parameters and transmits the performance parameters to the master. The master performs a process of selecting a backup master as a candidate for the next master, on the basis of the performance parameters transmitted from the slaves. The master supplies BM ...

Each program content has a plurality of program states, such as "already recorded", "not recorded", "preset for recording", "not preset for recording", and "not received" states". In response to the selection of a related program on a starting-program-related information page, a detailed operation screen for the related program is presented. When the program state of the related program is "alread...