The method involves evaluating a variable at a rotation angle of a crankshaft in a combustion chamber of a cylinder for each of displacement cycles of a piston in the cylinder. The variable is compared with a threshold value above which combustion of fuel is not initiated. A modulus difference between the variable and another variable evaluated for another angle is compared with another threshold ...

A declaration control apparatus and method for a vehicle, which performs deceleration control such that a deceleration acting on the vehicle becomes equal to a target deceleration by an operation of a brake system which applies a braking force to the vehicle and a shift operation which shifts a transmission of the vehicle into a relatively low speed or speed ratio, increases the target deceleratio...

La présente invention concerne une unité à barres de retournement pour une rotative d'impression à bobine comportant plusieurs barres de retournement (11, 12), au moins une bande (14) d'une matière imprimée en forme de bande étant introduite dans l'unité à barres de retournement (10), là où chaque bande (14) de la matière imprimée en forme de bandes est coupée par au moins une installation de coup...

A method and apparatus for applying tabs to a traveling web of material at a transfer position when the tabs are provided to the transfer position in a path that is skew to the web travel path. A tab supply assembly carries the tabs in a tab path that is either perpendicularly skew or obliquely skew to the travel path of the web. The web is generally spaced from the tab supply assembly. A pluralit...

A method and apparatus is described for estimating terminal purity or terminal contamination for a fluid during the withdrawal of the fluid from a subsurface formation. The apparatus and method provide for measuring refractive index of the fluid over a time period, fitting a curve through the refractive index measurements or data values derived therefrom and estimating a terminal refractive index ...

The method involves calculating optimal consumption according to characteristics of a vehicle, circulation condition and preset time constraints. The characteristics and the constraint determine a cost related to fuel consumption and increase of travel time, respectively. The circulation condition determines limited value of admissible speed. The function of cost resulting from fuel consumption an...

A return pad includes a backing, at least one return electrode, and at lea st one ring sensor. The backing has a top side, a bottom side, and a periphery. The return electrode is disposed on the bottom side of the backing layer and is adapted to connect to a current generator. The ring sensor(s) is disposed in substantial concentri c registration with the periphery of the backing and is configured...

L'invention concerne un procédé de traitement d'au moins une charge de bois (2) par aspersion à l'aide d'un produit de traitement.Ce procédé est caractérisé en ce que:- l'on dispose au moins une charge de bois (2) à l'intérieur d'une enceinte et à plat sur des moyens de réception (10);- l'on procède au traitement du bois par aspersion à l'aide du produit de traitement;- l'on assure le déplacement ...

Provided is a polypeptide having no more than 100 amino acids, which polypeptide comprises one or more sequences having at least 60% homology with any of SEQ ID 1-6, or comprises two or more epitopes having 7 amino acids or more, each epitope having at least 60% homology with a sub-sequence of any of SEQ ID 1-6 that has the same length as the epitope: wherein, the polypeptide is immunogenic in a ...

The cross-member (1) has a girder (2) forming a channel (3) along the length of the girder and with an opening (5) on its lateral face (2b) for receiving a ventilator. A ventilation conduit (10) has an opening (11) positioned opposite to the opening (5), and is made of a rigid and insulating material. Fastening units (20, 25) fix the conduit to the girder along directions parallel and perpendicula...

The cross-member has fixing units (8) to fix a plastic vent duct inside a segment of a tubular beam, where each unit (8) has a fastening strap (34) mounted to the beam. The straps assemble a bundle of cables to the beam. Each fixing unit has a male click-lock point (32) which cooperates with a hole in the beam so as to be fixed in the hole. Each male point projects out from the beam. The tube form...

The method of this invention comprises, on the one hand, the determination of the parameters of the blob perimeter which consists in identifying the real changes in an irregular-shaped albedo, and on the other hand, the processing of possible unblurring of the image based on the principle that these real changes are maybe the irregular shaped images of the moving profile of the object, so that the...

An IC package dissipates thermal energy using thermally and electrically conductive projections. The IC package includes a substrate material with a die pad area, which is suitable to support an integrated circuit. A plurality of solder ball pads is disposed on a first surface of the substrate material and a plurality of conductive projections radiate outwardly from the die pad area and extend to ...

A washer and a control for an automatic washer to operate the washer through a wash cycle selected based upon a range of conditions of a fabric load to be washed. The control has a plurality of selectable stain type entrées, each with a particular dedicated wash cycle. The control also has dispensing control over at least two wash liquor additives, one being a detergent and the other being an oxid...

The method involves associating a safety light sign (100) that produces a determined light response in response to an excitation radiation, to a document (10). The light response is produced partially according to a wide spectrum. A marker is incorporated into the safety sign, where the marker is able to generate a light transmission ray in response to another excitation radiation. - Independent c...

The method involves placing a cylinder head on an assembly line, and placing a gauge (4), on a cylinder head. The gauge has cuts (d) with geometrical shapes of a camshaft (1) for laterally inserting and positioning cams (C), pulley (P) and bearings (R) e.g. needle bearings, and with a geometrical shape of a plane of a cylinder head gasket/cover. The camshaft is positioned on the cylinder head, and...

L'invention concerne un insert ultrasonique (100) destiné au soulèvement de membrane sinusienne. L'insert (100) comprend un corps (101) s'étendant entre une partie proximale (102) adaptée pour être couplée mécaniquement avec une pièce à main chirurgicale génératrice de vibrations ultrasonores et une partie distale (103) destinée à reproduire les vibrations ultrasonores transmises par la pièce à ma...

Procédé de contrôle d'un récipient (12) de fluide sous pression, notamment une bouteille de gaz, le récipient (12) comprenant un organe (10) de commande d'au moins du soutirage du fluide tel qu'un robinet, un clapet (11) de pression résiduelle destiné à empêcher une vidange totale du récipient par maintien d'une pression résiduelle prédéfinie (Pr), un manomètre (1) électronique de mesure de la pre...

The method involves selecting a silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer (2) e.g. epitoxial SOI wafer, comprising a semiconductor superficial layer (4) on an insulating layer (6), where the insulating layer forms a barrier layer. The insulating layer is etched from the semiconductor superficial layer to form cavity and membrane in the semiconductor superficial layer of the silicon on insulator wafer. Inde...

El presente invento esta dirigido a las composiciones de queso crema con las cuales los niveles de proteina son reducidos bajo el 6,5%, y preferiblemente entre 5% y 6%, con propiedades aceptables para ser horneado. Para obtener una composicion que queso crema con propiedades aceptables para ser horneado, se anade un compuesto estabilizador al queso bajo en proteina.; The present invention is direc...