The invention relates to an arrangement for a centrifugal separator (10) for separating solid and/or liquid particles suspended in gaseous media, comprising a rotor (12) provided with sedimentation means (14), which is mounted rotatably in a surrounding, stationary housing (20) and has a central inlet (22) for the gaseous medium to be purified. In a gas outflow duct in the housing (20), downstream...

Centrifugal separator for separating solid and/or liquid particles suspended in gaseous media, comprising a rotor (12) provided with sedimentation means (14), which is mounted rotatably in a surrounding, stationary housing (20) and has a central inlet (26) for the gaseous medium to be purified. An axial side wall (28) of the housing encloses the periphery of the sedimentation means (14) of the rot...

PURPOSE: Method and apparatus for machining substrates are provided to prevent chips and dices from being damaged by improving a strength of a cut surface using welding of chippings on the cut surface. CONSTITUTION: A substrate machining apparatus insulating a disk-like blade(40) and a laser light irradiating portion(60). The disk-like blade is rotated to cut the substrate from one surface thereof...

The present invention provides a coating composition having improved intercoat adhesion with an under coating layer. The coating composition comprising: (A) a film-forming resin, (B) a crosslinking agent for thermosetting the resin (A), and (C) a phosphate, a sulfonic acid or a carboxylic acid having a long-chain alkyl group of 8 to 18 carbon atoms and HLB of 3 to 12. A solid content of the compon...

In the shaping of a green tire for a pneumatic tire, a pair of bead cores each attached with a stiffener are set to insides of both resulting hook-shaped wrap portions of a carcass band at a fall-down posture of the stiffener, and thereafter the stiffener of the fall-down posture is stood up on an outer peripheral side of the wrap portion, and a belt and a tread are piled on an outer peripheral si...

A method and system for building, in at least two stages, an unvulcanized tire carcass (30). The system (20) incorporates a first stage tire building drum (22) on which predetermined, unvulcanized tire building components are layered to form a cylindrically shaped, unvulcanized tire carcass (30), a second stage shaping drum (24) on which the carcass (30) is shaped into a shape suitable for subsequ...

A metal injection-molding feedstock is heated and plasticized. Supercritical carbon dioxide is injected into the feedstock to form micropores when the pressure is reduced and a parts mold is filled. The micropores are retained when the green parts are debindered and sintered.

It has been found that non-chlorinated pentafluorobutane blowing agents may be used alone or in combination with water in flexible integral skin foams. For example, foams prepared using 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluorobutane (HFC 365mfc) alone or in combination with water or other non-cholorinated hydrocarbons such as heptafluoropropane exhibit improved physical characteristics, such as resistance to abrasio...

A method and system for providing different magnified images of an electronic device. The vision system has a first beamsplitter for receiving an image of the device illuminated by a light source, the beamsplitter providing multiple of images of the device; optical elements for receiving the plural images of the device, each of the optical elements magnifying the image by a predetermined magnifica...

An automatic train handling controller. In one embodiment, there is disclosed a system and method for tracking a velocity profile in a rail-based transportation system. A fuzzy logic controller is used to ensure that a train simulator complies to the velocity profile over a specified track profile while providing a smooth ride. A safety constraint enforcer is used to minimize sudden slack movement...

A device and a method is provided for protecting a laptop computer or other shock-sensitive electronic devices from impact while being transported within conventional luggage along with personal articles by securing one or more collapsible and lightweight bands of material having external hook and loop fasteners to the laptop computer and securing a plurality of pads along the edges of the electro...

A bottle suspension device for suspending a bottle upside down to facilitate dispensing of all of the contents of the bottle. The bottle suspension device includes a belt member comprising a first loop portion and a second loop portion. The first loop portion is designed for being positioned around a neck of the bottle. The second loop portion is designed for extending around a body of the bottle....

A mounting element for the wheels of rolling containers comprises: a load-bearing member rigidly attachable to a bottom edge of a container designed to be rolled along a surface; an arm supporting at least one wheel designed to enable the container to be rolled on the surface; a pivot connecting the load-bearing member to the arm; and a helical spring located between load-bearing member and the ar...

In an electrosurgical system which is operable within the frequency range of from 100kHz to 50MHz and which has a handheld instrument with an elongate instrument shaft, the distal end of the shaft carries a bipolar electrode assembly for use in a conductive fluid field. The electrode assembly has an active electrode and, set back from the active electrode, a return electrode coated with an insulat...

A medical balloon catheter assembly includes a balloon having a permeable region and a non-permeable region. The balloon is constructed at least in part from a fluid permeable tube such that the permeable region is formed from a porous material which allows a volume of pressurized fluid to pass from within a chamber formed by the balloon and into the permeable region sufficiently such that the flu...

The robot cleaner has a body with a drive part and a suction member and a bumper (200) attached to the cleaner body by a support structure (240), when a collision occurs between an obstacle and the cleaner the bumper moves towards the cleaner body to absorb the shock and protect the body. In response to the movement a sensor (300) is turned on and affects the controller in order to change the dire...

PURPOSE: A connecting member for fabricating an electrical contact part and a method for manufacturing the connecting member are provided to obtain sufficient hardness and anti-abrasion against mechanical loads and prevent the formation of arc even at high speeds of connecting/releasing connectors to/from each other. CONSTITUTION: A connecting member(1) used for fabricating an electrical contact d...

PURPOSE: An apparatus for manufacturing partially cured inner liner is provided to control the curing process such that the depth of the cure or the cure depth profile can be controlled. CONSTITUTION: The apparatus for curing an inner liner of a tire includes a drum having an inner surface(22) and an outer surface, a heat exchange chamber(26) on the inner surface of the drum, a housing(14) that su...

Rigid polyurethane foams are prepared by the reaction of 1) polyisocyanates with 2) compounds of a molecular weight of from 150 to 1500, having at least two hydrogen atoms active towards isocyanates and which one tertiary nitrogen atom is the molecule, in the presence of 3) hydrofluoroalkanes as foaming agents as well as optionally in the presence of 4) other auxiliary substances and additives kno...

A process is disclosed for producing sintered parts from a molybdenum-containing steel alloy atomization, pressing and sintering. The melt used for atomization has a molybdenum content determined as a function of the sintering temperature which lies in a range of 1050 to 1350.degree.C. The carbon content of the powder mixture is no more than 0.05% by weight and the reduction annealing takes place ...