Composite wear component produced by casting and consisting of a metal matrix whose working face or faces includes inserts which have a very high wear resistance, characterized in that the inserts consist of a ceramic pad, this ceramic pad consisting of a homogeneous solid solution of 20 to 80% of Al₂O₃ and 80 to 20% of ZrO₂, the percentages being expressed by weig...

A method and apparatus is provided to collect downhole data during a drilli ng operation via a downhole tool. A differential pressure is created by the difference between internal pressure of fluid passing through the downhole tool and the annular pressure in the wellbore. The apparatus includes a drill collar connectable to the downhole drilling, and has an opening extending into a chamber therei...

The viscosity of a puncture-preventing sealant ( 7 ) is set in a range of 25 to 35 dPa.s, and a thixotropy index is set in a range of 6.5 to 11.0, the sealant ( 7 ) being filled in a sealant chamber ( 6 ) defined to extend along an outer periphery of an air chamber ( 5 ) in a tire (T). When the tire (T) is being rotated by traveling of a vehicle, the viscosity of the sealant ( 7 ) is reduced by a ...

A pneumatic tire comprises: a carcass ply turned up around a bead core in each bead portion from the inside to the outside of the tire so as to form a pair of turnup portions and a main portion therebetween; a bead apex disposed between the carcass ply turnup portion and main portion; and a reinforcing rubber layer disposed axially outside the carcass ply, wherein the bead apex extends radially ou...

A tyre drum has a central shaft, two ring segments around the shaft and spaced apart for supporting bead cores and, on either side outside of the ring segments, sets of axially extending arms having free ends with first turn-up means, particularly a turn-up roller, opposite second ends hinged to an axially shiftable arm support and, near the free end, a tyre component support roller rotatable on t...

An electrochemical biosensor strip has a base, an electrode system, an optional spacer and a cover. The electrode system is laid on the base. The spacer is laid on the electrode system and exposes a portion of the electrode system for electrical connection with a meter and a different portion of the electrode system for application of a test reagent. The cover is covered on the spacer to form a ca...

An auto-calibration label for use with one or more sensing instruments. The label includes first and second encoded calibration information. The second encoded calibration information may correspond to a different instrument than the first encoded calibration information. The second encoded information may also be used to provide additional calibration information for use with the first instrument...

A system for personalizing one or more electrical circuits having plurality of layers with electrical characteristics. The layers being produced by an electrical characteristic determination process (ECDP). The system for personalizing includes a wafer stage for receiving a wafer in order to produce a plurality of electrical circuits. The system is configured to apply a personalization process dur...

A device for detecting surface defects ( 2 ) on the neck ring ( 3 ) of a container comprises: a light source ( 5 ) illuminating, by means of an incident light beam, a section of the surface of the neck ring of the container, along a determined incident direction (D_i), at least one linear sensor ( 10 ) measuring light beams, arranged to receive the light beam reflected by the surface def...

An assay result reading device for reading the result of an assay performed using a liquid transport carrier may include at least one light source capable of emitting light incident upon at least one of two or more spatially separated zones of the carrier, a photodetector so positioned as to be capable of detecting light emanating from each of the two said zones and generating signals representing...

An earthmoving machine including a control system is disclosed. The machine comprises first and second satellite navigation antennas mounted in a longitudinal direction on the earthmoving machine. A third satellite navigation antenna is mounted on a pole attached to an operational element of the earthmoving machine. In one embodiment, the earthmoving machine is a bulldozer and the operational elem...

A random slip generator is provided to lessen side channel leakage and thus thwart cryptanalysis attacks, such as timing attacks and power analysis attacks. Random slip generation may be configurable so that the average frequency of random slips generated by the system may be set. Additional techniques are provided to make nullified instructions consume power like any other executing instruction.

A method and apparatus for detecting and responding to a system error. To detect the system error, a protected mode of operation is activated in a processing system. While the protected mode of operation is activated, the processing system is queried to determine whether a system error has occurred. If the system error is determined to have occurred, the system error is responded to based on a fau...

An improved operator's station includes an improved three position seat assembly which allows the operator to stand, perch or sit while maintaining the operator's eyes at essentially the same vertical level. The seat assembly includes a back rest, a seat that may be raised and lowered, and a movable shelf or perch positioned between the back rest and the seat. In a stand mode of operation, the sea...

There is now provided storage stable polyol compositions and polyisocyanate based rigid closed cell foam made by reacting an organic isocyanate with polyol compositions in the presence of a blowing agent, where the polyol composition contains at least: a) an aromatic amine initiated polyoxyalkylene polyether polyol having an hydroxyl number of 200 meq polyol/g KOH or more; b) an aliphatic amine in...

Sistema de gestão de dinheiro eletrónico e informações pessoais com segurança de transações, fidelização de usuários e accountability. A presente invenção refere-se a um sistema de gestão de dinheiro eletrónico, identificação de pessoas, autenticação de transações eletrónicas na forma de um inovador sistema para realização e controle de transações financeiras. A combinação de funções de dinheiro e...

DISPOSITIVO ELETRÈNICO PARA MEDIçãO DIRETA DAS VARIáVEIS QUE INTERFEREM NO RISCO DE SEGUROS DE VEìCULOS E PARA GERENCIAMENTO DE PERFIL DO CONDUTOR. A presente invenção refere-se a um produto que mede diretamente as variáveis que interferem no risco de seguro de automóveis, permitindo determinar, através de uma correlação estatística (Análise Multivariada), um Coeficiente de Risco a ser utilizado p...

PROCESSO E APARELHOS PARA CONTROLE DE ABASTECIMENTO EM BOMBAS DE COMBUSTìVEL E IDENTIFICAçãO DE FRENTISTAS E CLIENTES, caracterizado por uma unidade eletrónica de controle e de identificação (1) que é instalada em uma bomba de combustível (2) e conectada à CPU (3) dessa bomba de combustível para poder controlar a mesma, e ainda ligada a leitores de dispositivos de identificação externos (4), que f...

MéTODO E APARELHO PARA FORMAR UM CONJUNTO DE TALãO DE PNEUMáTICO Um método para formar um conjunto de talão de pneumático compreende prover um comprimento de uma carga de enchimento com uma parte de base anular para posicionamento axialmente adjacente a um anel do núcleo do talão (16) em um suporte e uma parte cónica anular para estender axialmente para fora da parte de base e do anel do núcleo do...

SISTEMA INFORMATIZADO PARA O ARMAZENAMENTO DE DADOS DE PACIENTES SUBMETIDOS A TRATAMENTOS ORTODÈNTICOS. Refere-se a presente inovação a um sistema informatizado plenamente seguro e eficiente para o armazenamento de informações de pacientes submetidos a tratamentos ortodónticos (dados pessoais, fichas clínica, odontológica e de procedimentos, orçamento e controle de pagamento, radiografias e modelo...