The present invention relates to an apparatus adapted to supply a semi-finished product made of elastomeric material towards a packaging and/or assembly station of a rubber item. More particularly, the assembly station is the assembly station of a tire. The semi-finished product is associated to a traction-inextensible protective layer. The assembly formed by the semi-finished product and by the p...

A self-cleaning filter or screen for use with a pump has rotary backwashing jets 28 connected to the pressure side of the pump through pressure-reducing jets and serves to screen the inlet side of the pump. Rotation of the backwashing jets within the screen or filter maintains screening efficiency without the necessity to rotate the screen. The backwashing jets are of flexible construction to perm...

The device has two parallel rails constituted of respective upper and lower arms (1a, 1b, 2a, 2b) and connected to a base plate (5) by a hinge (4). The hinge allows folding of the lower arms on the upper arms, and an axle (6) connects the upper arms to the base plate which is connected to ground by a removable fixation (8). Height adjustable support feet at lower ends of the lower arms and at uppe...

Two lateral portions are provided to mold the lateral faces (4). One of the lateral portions is axially movable relative to the central portion. One or more pin is provided to mold a channel (7) inside a tread (2). The pin is anchored in one of the lateral portions. A contact surface is formed between the pin and rib when a mold is closed. The pin and/or rib have at least one buffer made of deform...

An aqueous dispersion includes an associative thickener based on a hydrophobically modified poly(acetal- or ketal-polyether) (HM-PAPE) and at least one viscosity reducing agent selected from ethoxylated alcohols, ethoxylated acetyleneic diols, phosphate esters, dialkyl sulfosuccinates, and mixtures thereof. This aqueous dispersion improves the incorporation of the HM-PAPEs into aqueous based prote...

Share of Wallet ("SOW") is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a consumer's spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. These outputs can be appended to data profiles of customers and prospects and can be utilized to support decisions involving prospecting, new applicant evaluation, and customer ma...

An actuator unit for a braking device, particularly for a vehicle parking brake, includes a casing (3) for supporting an electric motor (7) and a male-and-female screw unit (21, 23). The male-and-female screw unit comprises a rotatable element (21) connected for rotation with the output shaft (7a) of the electric motor (7) and an element (23, 25) which is slidable relative to the casing (3) as a r...

The method involves obtaining an alert message, and determining predetermined keywords in content element in the message. The keywords are substituted by variable information associated to the keywords and relative to a preceding message, and are diffused towards a recipient e.g. telephone set (24). A result of diffusion of the keywords is stored in a database (10) that comprises a table (T1) defi...

L'invention concerne un dispositif (28) et un procédé mettant en oeuvre les moyens du dispositif de contrôle des efforts ou des couples d'un véhicule automobile à quatre roues motrices comportant deux trains, un train avant (AV) et un train arrière (AR), pour imposer un effort ou un couple adapté à la situation de conduite à au moins une roue d'un train du véhicule qui comporte :- un moyen pour dé...

On indique un procédé de production d'une céramique de verre avec les étapes suivantes: fonte d'un verre de départ qui, à part des impuretés fortuites, est exempt de métaux alcalins et contient au moins un générateur de grenat ainsi qu'au moins l'oxyde d'un lanthanide ; broyage du verre de départ pour la préparation d'une fritte de verre, moulage par pressage et frittage de la fritte de verre jusq...

Procédé de chemisage d'un puits ou d'une canalisation par hydroformage d'une chemise tubulaire métallique, selon lequel :- on introduit à l'intérieur de la chemise (4) un outil (1) pourvu d'une paire d'obturateurs gonflables (3) axialement écartés l'un de l'autre, d'une distance sensiblement égale à la longueur de la chemise ;- on y positionne l'outil (1) de sorte que les obturateurs (3) se trouve...

Le domaine de l'invention est celui de la sûreté de fonctionnement des systèmes de visualisation. Le domaine d'application est plus particulièrement celui des systèmes de cockpit embarqués sur aéronefs.L'invention concerne un procédé de codage des pixels d'une image numérique couleur comportant des symboles critiques représentés par des pixels critiques, chaque pixel coloré étant codé sur trois co...

Disclosed is a parking assisting device, including: a camera for capturing an image behind a vehicle; a display provided to a dashboard of the vehicle; passage width measurement means for measuring a width of a passage; and a controller for displaying the image captured with the camera on the display, and for calculating an initial stopping position required for parking the vehicle in-parallel int...

The procedure consists of acquiring a radiographic and digital image of the component, e.g. a fuel rod for a nuclear reactor, and comparing the acquired image with a reference image produced by digital processing of the acquired image to detect a fault in the component such as porosity or sub-penetration of a weld. The procedure is carried out with an X-ray source (29), an X-ray to light ray conve...

Le procédé selon l'invention comprend, d'une part, la détermination des paramètres du noyau de flou de l'image consistant à identifier les transitions réelles d'albédo déformées et, d'autre part, le traitement de défloutage éventuel de l'image en partant du principe que ces transitions réelles constituent potentiellement des images déformées de profils de marche de l'objet et en transformant des t...

The trolley, consisting of a body (1) with wheels (3) at its lower end and an optionally retractable handle (2) at its upper end, incorporates an additional support (4) that can be deployed to hold the trolley in an inclined position on a flat surface. The additional support is in the form of a frame (41) with wheels (42) or a roller, hinged to the underside of the body so it can be deployed when ...

A prosthesis for a vertebral column has an upper part (10) for attachment to an upper vertebrae, a lower part (12) for attachment to a lower vertebrae and a middle part (11) located between the upper and the lower parts, wherein the upper part has a lower surface portion with a first radius of curvature, the middle part has an upper surface portion with a second radius of curvature and a lower sur...

A leadframe is plated with palladium (la) only to a surface of a metal plate (1) on which semiconductors elements are to be mounted and a surface of the metal plate (1) to be placed on a substrate, and is not plated with palladium (la) to lead portions, pad portions, other portions except for the surfaces to be plated and the side surface, of the leadframe, thereby, the amount of use of palladium ...

The invention concerns a method for diagnosing the condition of tires of a front wheel and of a rear wheel of a motor vehicle arranged on the same side of the vehicle and connected to the body shell thereof via suspension means. Said method includes a step (102) of acquiring the vertical acceleration of said wheels in a reference model of the vehicle, a step (104) of time-based resetting of one of...