A centrifuge includes a conveyor for moving cake along a cake flow path towards a cake discharge opening and further includes a baffle mounted to the conveyor and disposed along the cake flow path. The baffle is provided on an upstream side, facing substantially away from the discharge opening with a concave profile or surface. This concave profile or surface serves to direct a portion of the cake...

Dual glass fibers can be processed into coherent webs and felts by first blending the dual glass fibers with an equal or greater amount of uncrimped fibers. Optionally, other crimped fibers can be added without significant impact on processibility.

Porous pipe formed of particles of vulcanized rubber dispersed in a binder resin such as polyethylene are stabilized to reduce degradation by ultraviolet light by dispersing in the binder resin an effective amount of an ultraviolet stabilizer such as 0.1 to 10% by weight of carbon black.

An apparatus to facilitate volume control for route aural guidance. When supplying a guidance voice to a loudspeaker 34a, a voice control section 30 disconnects the loudspeaker 34a from audio and outputs the guidance voice through the loudspeaker. A volume control screen is displayed on a display section 28 where the user adjusts the volume by touching the screen. When the voice control section 30...

There is described a method for cutting continuously supplied material such as, for example, a strip, a round bar or other metal and non-metal products, intended in particular for production with high feeding speeds of the material. Cutting is performed by means of the blades arranged along the generatrices of two counter-rotating drums (6, 7), that cut the material acting on opposite sides thereo...

The device has a variable flow gap, a valve housing in which a valve needle (1) is movable to open and close a flow channel formed by the valve housing and valve needle. The valve needle is stimulated by at least one actuator element so that the valve needle carries out an oscillating motion in at least one spatial direction to control the geometry of the flow gap and the pattern (S) of the valve ...

An arrangement for providing captioned telephone service is provided which permits persons who are hard of hearing to receive captioning of their telephone communications as they need it. A personal interpreter/captioned telephone device (60) can dial a relay (42) on a second telephone line (64) while the assisted user if conversing with a hearing user over a first telephone line (34). The second ...

A control apparatus and method for a vehicle that has at least one detection means that detects a running state of the vehicle, and a control apparatus that receives a result of detection by the detector and controls a predetermined vehicle-installed apparatus. The control apparatus determines whether the detection means has failed; restricts a control process by which the control apparatus contro...

A system in which a packet-sending entity and a packet-receiving entity communicate using a plurality of parameter signaling channels (SCCH) and also using a plurality of shared data channels (SDCH) and do so according to a protocol in which when packet data are transmitted over one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs), the communication being such that once a parameter signaling channel is ...

The present invention comprises a system (10) and method for a control system which allows for autonomous, manual and tele-operation of underground mining vehicles (18). The control system (10) is retrofitted to existing mining vehicles (18) and has a robust system design to withstand the harsh environment of underground mines. A tele-operator (82), in a remote tele-operator station (16), uses vid...

A system and method for creating lesions and assessing their completeness or transmurality. Assessment of transmurality of a lesion is accomplished by monitoring the impedance of the tissue to be ablated. Rather than attempting to detect a desired drop or a desired increase impedance, completeness of a lesion is detected in response to the measured impedance remaining at a stable level for a desir...

The invention relates to a steam-sterilizable, multilayer film (6). The film (6) has at least six polymer layers. The first layer (1) is a protective layer containing polyolefin based polymers, the second layer is an adhesive tie layer (2), the third layer is a barrier layer (3) made of caprolactam-free polyamide or a derivative or a copolymer thereof, the fourth layer is an adhesive tie layer (2)...

Nucleic acids having base sequences represented respectively by SEQ ID NOS:1 to 104 in Sequence Listing, and proteins encoded by these nucleic acids; in particular, nucleic acids showing a difference in expression dose between hepatoblastoma and normal liver among the above nucleic acids, and proteins encoded thereby; and detection of tumor using the same.; Nucleic acids having base sequences repr...

A method of evaluating the degree of canceration of a mammal-origin specimen characterized by having: (1) the first step of measuring the methylation frequency or an indication correlating thereto of Heparan sulfate D-glucosaminyl-3-O-sulfotransferase gene contained in the mammal-origin specimen; and (2) the second step of comparing the methylation frequency or an indication correlating thereto me...

Diagnostics and diagnostic kits for the prognosis of neuroblastoma which comprise a nucleic acid probe, a primer, etc. with the use of a nucleic acid originating in NEDL-1 gene or NEDL-1 protein and a method of diagnosing the prognosis of neuroblastoma by using the same.; Diagnostic et kit de diagnostic pour le pronostic du neuroblastome qui comprend une sonde d'acide nucléique, une amorce, etc. L...

An apparatus and method for clearing a playing surface are provided. The apparatus preferably includes a chassis or frame, a sensor connected to the chassis to sense a location of a line on a playing surface that needs to be cleaned, and a drive connected to the chassis to drive the chassis in a selected direction of travel. The apparatus also preferably includes a controller connected to the chas...

A luggage bag has a wide mouth construction with reinforced back and bottom panels and a telescoping handle and wheels integrated into the reinforced back panel.

An Electrochemical biosensor system which can do selectively quantitative analysis of blood sugar, cholesterol and other elements in blood is disclosed. The electrochemical biosensor test strip used in this invention is provided with recognition electrode which indicates that a fixed reagent is used for what material's quantitative analysis. The readout meter used in this invention discriminates t...

A dual function portable computer bag serves its conventional function as a carrying device for a portable computer and associated accessories and also serves an additional function as an ergonomically appropriate padded back support for a user thereby converting a conventional chair and table into an ergonomically appropriate and comfortable workstation for a portable computer user.

A convertible bag has a front panel peripherally engaging a rear panel. The front panel defines an harness pouch encompassing an upper portion of the front panel. A flap 60 may be positioned over the harness pouch closing it with a zipper 70. The flap 60 alternately is positionable to one side of the front panel 30 to expose a carry harness 80. The lower portion of the elongated bag 13 is adapted ...