An apparatus constructed from a super elastic material and having magnetic properties is provided for joining together at least two hollow bodies. The apparatus comprises a frame having at least one magnet mounted to an end thereof. The frame is substantially tubular and is preferably constructed from super elastic materials allowing the frame to assume a first expanded diameter and a second small...

An apparatus constructed from a super elastic material and having magnetic properties is provided for joining together at least two hollow bodies. The apparatus comprises a frame having at least one magnet mounted to an end thereof. The frame is substantially tubular and is preferably constructed from super elastic materials allowing the frame to assume a first expanded diameter and a second small...

The invention relates to a method for joining a metal piece of aluminum or aluminum alloy to a metal piece of copper or copper alloy or to another piece of aluminum or aluminum alloy by soldering. Soldering is carried out using at least one metal powder comprising zinc and tin and that the pieces to be joined are subjected to a heat treatment step carried out at a temperature of 250 - 310 °C. The ...

The ring has inner and outer sides (14, 13), and a label that is provided on a small stressed surface section within an area of the side (14) for identification of the ring, where the area of the side (14) defines an internal diameter of the ring. The label includes a text and a coded barcode, where the text contains data such as name of a producer, manufacturing date, drawing number, code number ...

A handover processing system in mobile communication system, implemented in gateway connected to subscriber network including base station in the mobile communication system, public network and IP network and accompanied by movement of radio terminal in the mobile communication system, wherein the gateway comprises line exchanger performing line exchange processing, VoIP connection unit controllin...

An electronic toll collection system with dynamically adjusted timing f or operation of one or more subsystems. The timing is dynamically adjusted based upon the prevailing traffic speed for the roadway. The roadway traffic speed is determined based upon direct measurements of traffic speed by external equipment or based upon a variable correlated with traffic speed. The variable may include the a...

A process for making slurries is provided. The process comprises providing a liquid component and a solids component; introducing the liquid component into a mixing vessel having pitched blade turbines; adding at least 25% of the solids component into the mixing vessel; initiating an in-line rotor stator positioned to receive the mixture from the mixing vessel; and re-circulating the mixture from ...

A user of a handheld device may be alerted to a possible risk of losing the handheld device. The handheld device is able to be secured to a carrying case. The carrying case may alert the user by activating one or more of its user interface elements. The handheld device may determine that it is not secured to the carrying case and that at least a predetermined or programmable amount of time has pas...

An ironing board, of the type constituted by a frame (11, 111, 211) with supporting legs (12), for supporting an ironing surface (13, 213), comprising a laundry holder means and a means for supporting an iron or a heated tank, the laundry holder means being able to be extracted at least partially and reversibly from a configuration in which it is closed and concealed below the ironing surface (13,...

For diesel internal combustion engines, an improved filter unit comprising a casing the interior of which is separated by a filtering baffle into two separate chambers to which a fuel inlet conduit and a fuel outlet conduit are connected respectively, with said unit there being associated a device for determining the degree of clogging of the filtering baffle; said device is located inside said ca...