Drive unit for motor vehicles, comprising an internal combustion engine ( 2 ), an accelerator pedal and an electronic engine control unit ( 15 ) arranged for controlling engine torque and r.p.m. The accelerator pedal is electrically connected to the engine control unit. During acceleration, the engine control unit controls the torque as a function of engine speed for various accelerator pedal posi...

Drive unit for motor vehicles, comprising an internal combustion engine ( 2 ), an accelerator pedal and an electronic engine control unit ( 15 ) arranged for controlling engine torque and r.p.m. The accelerator pedal is electrically connected to the engine control unit. During acceleration, the engine control unit controls the torque as a function of engine speed for various accelerator pedal posi...

A Printed Circuit Board (PCB), bare or populated with electronic components, may present some short-circuits occurring during the manufacturing or the assembly process. By taking different images of the entire PCB, at specific times, with an Infrared (IR) camera, before and after the short- circuit current is applied, and by processing them, it is possible to detect the warm pixels of the short-...

The invention describes a process for the preparation of a polymer-base d material consisting of a polyolefin matrix and silica particles as filling mate- rial, in which the silica particles are incorporated during the polymerisati on process. In addition, the uses of a polymer-based material for the produc- tion of joint implants in the medicotechnical area and also the use for the production of ...

An installation tool that is useful for the efficient and effective placemen t of an article, such as an artificial disc, between adjacent vertebral bodies is provided. The installation tool can be provided as a kit having modular components which allow the surgeon to select from among a variety of components to assemble an installation tool that is optimized for its intended use. The installation...

The invention discloses an improved process for preparing non-hygroscopic Azithromycin dihydrate wherein Azithromycin monhydrate can be converted to Azithromycin dihydrate with continous stirring/agitation in presence of a mixture of at least one solvent such as herein described and water till non-hygroscopic crystals of Azithromycin dihydrate are obtained.The solvent in the process of the inventi...

A transfer layer of cellulosic air-laid material characterized by a non-uniform binder distribution profile that allows a faster liquid acquisition. In a specific example, the transfer layer has a higher concentration of binder on its liquid-acquisition surface than on the liquid-release surface. Typically, the liquid-release surface of the transfer layer forms part of the interface transfer layer...

Absorbent article, such as a sanitary towel, with a stiffening area (6) which is intended to contribute to the three-dimensional shape of the article during its use. The stiffening area (6) is in a plane state before use of the article. The stiffening area (6) comprises a first part area (61) and a second part area (62) which extends in the longitudinal direction of the article over the crotch por...

Absorbent article, such as a sanitary towel, with a stiffening area (6) which is intended to contribute to the three-dimensional shape of the article during its use. The stiffening area (6) is in a plane state before use of the article. The stiffening area (6) comprises a first part area (61) and a second part area (62) which extends in the longitudinal direction of the article over the crotch por...

Absorbent article, such as a sanitary towel, with a stiffening element (6) which is intended to contribute to the three-dimensional shape of the article during its use. The stiffening area (6) is in a plane state before use of the article and comprises a first stiffening part area (61) in the front portion (1). The first stiffening part area (61) in the front portion (1) has a width which, at leas...

Absorbent article, such as a sanitary towel, with a stiffening element (6) which is intended to contribute to the three-dimensional shape of the article during its use. The stiffening area (6) is in a plane state before use of the article and comprises a first stiffening part area (61) in the front portion (1). The first stiffening part area (61) in the front portion (1) has a width which, at leas...

Absorbent article, such as a sanitary towel, with a stiffening element (6) which is intended to contribute to the three-dimensional shape of the article during its use. The stiffening element (6) is in a plane state before use of the article. The stiffening element (6) has in the rear portion (2) an elongate second through-hole (620) which extends in the longitudinal direction of the article and a...

Absorbent article, such as a sanitary towel, with a stiffening element (6) which is intended to contribute to the three-dimensional shape of the article during its use. The stiffening element (6) is in a plane state before use of the article. The stiffening element (6) has in the rear portion (2) an elongate second through-hole (620) which extends in the longitudinal direction of the article and a...

Absorbent article, such as a sanitary towel, with a stiffening element (6) which is intended to contribute to the three-dimensional shape of the article during use. The stiffening element (6) is in a plane state before use of the article and is provided with a first cutout (610) which is arranged so as to make possible pressing-together of the stiffening element in the lateral direction at a trans...

Absorbent article, such as a sanitary towel, with a stiffening element (6) which is intended to contribute to the three-dimensional shape of the article during use. The stiffening element (6) is in a plane state before use of the article and is provided with a first cutout (610) which is arranged so as to make possible pressing-together of the stiffening element in the lateral direction at a trans...

A virtual private network (VPN) service is provided through a shared network infrastructure, with customer edge (CE) devices each having a provider edge (PE) interface having a single layer 3 address in the VPN. An address resolution request message is transmitted by a first CE device on plural layer 2 virtual circuits of its PE interface. The address resolution request message including the layer...

L'invention concerne de nouvelles compositions cosmétiques ou dermatologiqu es à usage topique, en particulier pour la photoprotection de la peau et/ou des cheveux, caractérisées par le fait qu'elles comprennent; dans un support cosmétiquement acceptable, au moins (a) un filtre UV organique, insoluble de taille de particule allant de 10 nm à 5 pm, à titre de premier filtre et (b) un dérivé de 2-h...

A driveline retarder (2) coupled to a vehicle driveline where a ball ramp actuator (7) having a control plate (21) and an actuation plate (14) separated by rolling elements (19) is energized by an electrical coil (28) is used to apply a clamping load on a clutch pack (8) which frictionally couples a rotating shaft to a gerotor hydraulic pump (32) which is used to absorb rotational energy to create...

A duplexer for a communication device having a transmission unit, a receptio n unit and a shared antenna. The shared antenna transmits a portion of a transmission signal provided by the transmission unit and receiving a reception signal. The duplexer generates a leakage signal from the transmission unit toward the reception unit. The leakage signal being added to the reception signal. The duplexer...

A primary label switched path (LSP) defined in a label switching networ k has a protected portion for transmitting data packets containing a label sta ck from a first label switching node to a second label switching node, the protected portion including at least one Intermediate label switching node between the first a nd second nodes. To provide path recovery resources in case of link or node fa...