A process for reclaiming sulfur-cured, vulcanized rubber by combining finely ground scrap vulcanized rubber within a specialized, twin-screw extruder capable of providing strong shearing and just-on-time mixing; adding a reclaiming agent to the extruder; and masticating the rubber scrap and reclaiming agent within the extruder until the rubber scrap is devulcanized. The present invention also disc...

This invention relates generally to the field of software and systems that manage the inventory for products that are time period sensitive (or have a short shelf life) and have the need to be matched with sales and/or distribution on a time period basis..; Un metodo, un sistema y un software implementado en una computadora que ejecuta los inventarios de un articulo sensible al periodo de tiempo s...

Environmentally degradable melt spun fibers comprising a polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer and a polylactic acid polymer or copolymer are disclosed. A preferred configuration of the present invention is directed to environmentally degradable fibers comprising a sheath/core structure where the core comprises a biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer and the sheath comprises a polymer or copolymer...

Disclosed is a method of determining the extent of recovery of materials injected into a oil well comprising the steps of : a) preparing a material to be injected into an oil well ; b) admixing therewith a chemical tracer compound at a predetermined concentration ; c) injecting the admixture into an oil well ; d) recovering from the oil well a production fluid ; e) analysing the production fluid f...

The invention relates to an improved method for producing foamed material, especially poly(meth)acrylimide foams, which are foamed from polymer plates produced according to the casting method. The two-step method consists of a pre-heating step and at least one foaming step. The product obtained has a significantly smaller compressive strain, measured according to DIN 53425(ASMD 621), than prior ar...

Film, fibre, foam and adhesive materials are produced from soluble S-sulfonated keratins. Once formed, the films, fibres, foams or adhesives are treated to modify the properties of the materials, in particular to improve the wet strength of the materials. Treatments used include removal of the S-sulfonate group by treatment with a reducing agent, treatment with an acid or treatment with a common p...

PURPOSE: Provided are a composition for a polyolefin resin foam, a polyolefin resin foam obtained from the composition which is excellent in softness, cushioning property and thermal insulation and has a sufficient thickness, and its preparation method. CONSTITUTION: The composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a polymer component containing a polyolefin resin and rubber and/or a thermoplastic...

A planarization composition is disclosed herein that comprises: a) a structural constituent; and b) a solvent system, wherein the solvent system is compatible with the structural constituent and lowers the lowers at least one of the intermolecular forces or surface forces components of the planarization composition. A film that includes this planarization composition is also disclosed. In addition...

A planarization composition is disclosed herein that comprises: a) a structural constituent; and b) a solvent system, wherein the solvent system is compatible with the structural constituent and lowers the lowers at least one of the intermolecular forces or surface forces components of the planarization composition. A film that includes this planarization composition is also disclosed. In addition...

The dual cure coating composition requires both radiation and heat energy to cure and comprises a radiation curable component (al), a thermally curable binder component (a2), and a thermally curable crosslinking component (a3). Radiation curable component (al) is polymerizable upon exposure to radiation and comprises at least two functional groups (al 1) comprising at least one bond activatable wi...

PURPOSE: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is provided to control an increase of a leakage current and obtain a good characteristic of a semiconductor device by forming a high dielectric layer with a low content of impurities. CONSTITUTION: The first insulation layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate(S102). The second insulation layer having a higher relative dielectric constant...

In a method of segmenting an image a first seed pixel unit is selected from a first group of pixel units in which the pixel units all have substantially the same grey-level intensity. The grey-level intensity of said first pixel unit is compared with the grey-level intensity of each of selected adjacent pixel units of said image and those pixel units with grey levels within a selected range arm as...

A system and method for calculation of the duration a target area included within an image stream utilizes a three-dimensional model of at least one target area within a site. A counter is incremented during periods, for example on a frame-by-frame basis, when the target area is included in the image stream. An occlusion parameter is calculated for adjusting the calculated duration that the target...

The invention concerns a compound of general formula (I). The invention also concerns combinatorial libraries containing same, use thereof as medicines, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for preparing same.; La invencion se refiere a un compuesto de formula general (I). La invencion tambien se refiere a las quiotecas que los contienen, su uso como medicamentos, composiciones farmaceuticas y ...

Laser treatment equipment, comprising signal generating means (4, 5), means for modulating the generated signal (3), a central control unit (1) and laser emission means (106) located in an applicator handle (6); the said modulated signal derives from square wave modulation at a frequency of between 50 and 200 Hz combined with square wave modulation at a frequency between 0.1 and 20 Hz, in such a w...

An image processor includes a Lee filter for processing image data to improve noise therefrom. The Lee filter includes a smoothing control signal. During filtering of the image data, the smoothing control signal is converted to a monochrome video signal that is provided to a display instead of, or in addition to, the filtered image data. The image projected by the display of the smoothing control ...

A mesh-and-plate surgical is manufactured by a method including the steps of applying a mask (22, 23) to first (28) and second (29) faces of a metal sheet (21), selectively ablating the mask on both faces, affixing a first tape (41) to the first face to cover same and maska thereon, but leaving an exposed portion (24A) for a screw hole, affixing a second tape (42) to the second face to cover same ...

PURPOSE: An organic electroluminescence display is provided to prevent a short-circuit between power supply lines, by forming the power supply lines simultaneously with a reflection film or the first pixel electrode. CONSTITUTION: An organic electroluminescence display comprises a gate line, a data line, and a power supply line(230) formed on an insulation substrate(200); a pixel region defined by...

PURPOSE: An organic electroluminescence device is provided to reduce the difference of resistances between current paths of the device, by reducing the difference of sizes of currents flowing at each position in the light emitting region of the device. CONSTITUTION: An organic electroluminescent device comprises the first electrode; the second electrode made of a material having a volume resistivi...