An edge protector for the edges of roll shaped articles, e.g. pallets, reeled steel and paper products is made from an elongated sheet (10) of plastics material, the sheet having an indentation (11) extending longitudinally along a major surface of the sheet and extending only partially into the thickness of the sheet. The indentation (11) divides the sheet into webs (12, 13) which are folded into...

An electron emitter assembly and a method for generating an electron beam are provided. The electron emitter assembly includes a laser configured to emit a first light beam and a second light beam. The electron emitter assembly further includes a mirror configured to move to a first operational position to reflect the first light beam toward a first region of a photo-cathode. The mirror is further...

Apparatus for inspecting the sealing surface area (36) of a container finish (34) that includes a structured light source (44) positioned to direct a collimated line-shaped light beam (46) onto the sealing surface area of a container as the container is moved relative to the light source. The line-shaped light beam at the container sealing surface area has a long dimension orthogonal to the contai...

A method and device for imaging a description of a zone behind a casing of a well uses a logging tool provided with a plurality of acoustic transducers. The casing is insonified with a first acoustic wave using a first acoustic transducer for transmitting among the plurality of acoustic transducers. The first acoustic wave has a first mode that may be any mode of a set of modes defined as follows:...

The present invention discloses a radio frequency identification tag apparatus for a tire in a radio frequency identification system (hereinafter, referred to as a 'RFID system'). The radio frequency identification tag apparatus for a tire in a radio frequency identification system, which has a reader for transmitting a strong radio frequency signal to peripheral areas, comprises: a substrate with...

A mixed refrigerant comprising one member selected from R-23, R-116 and a mixture thereof and one member selected from propane, butane and a mixture thereof. The mixed refrigerant allows cooling the inside of a freezer to a super low temperature, particularly to a temperature of -60 DEG C or lower, with a compressor of a conventional freezer. The mixed refrigerant not only has a low boiling point ...

The present invention is directed toward water-soluble supramolecular self-assemblies and a process for their preparation via micellization of polyelectrolytes through the use of hydrophobic monomeric units. In this invention the polyelectrolyte segment ultimately forms the core of the supramolecular assembly whereas the shell consists of uncharged hydrophilic polymers or oligomers. It has been de...

Fine cement-binder mixt. contains finely ground clinker or finely ground foundry sand, and additives, e.g. bentonite, brass, high dispersed silicic acid or other known additives, and agents, e.g. fluxing agent, hardening retarder, hardening accelerator, water held-back agent and other known agents. The entirety of the homogeneous dry mixt. has a grain size distribution of d95 ≤ 24 mu m and d50 < 7...

Strain of Lactobacillus useful as probiotics in food and naturopathic medicines and which is resistant in vitro against hydrochloric acid and gastric juices and tolerates bile salts without deconjugating them whereas strong assimilation is occurring and which has good survival at the passage through the stomach and the gastrointestinal tract and which strain is growing optimally at about 37° C., w...

A P-type polysilicon layer having a stable and desired resistivity is formed by alternately depositing a plurality of silicon atom layers and a plurality of group IIIA element atom layers on a semiconductor substrate by atomic layer deposition, and thereafter forming a P-type polysilicon layer by thermally diffusing the plurality of group IIIA element atom layers into the plurality of silicon atom...

All prestretching tools are connected to a common plate(22) guided by rods(15) and a locking system(30) retains the tools in a set position. In the holding system the ends(32) of the rods(15) slide in a fluid-filled chamber(33) in a fixed housing(29). A connecting bore(34) links the chamber to a storage fluid storage chamber(35). The shut-off mechanism comprises either: a) a bolt(39) of similar c...

A porous textile product made from bioactive glass fibers. The fibers in the product are of at least two types, fiber A and fiber B, with fiber A being made from a bioactive glass, and fiber B being made from a weakly bioactive glass.

A manually operated floor grooving tool (10) is provided which has opposing front (22) and rear (24) ends with a seam-following roller (30) at its front end (22) and a groove-following roller (70) at its rear end (24). The tool (10) also employs a pair of grooving blades (44,44'), one (44) at the front end (22) and one (44') at the rear end (24). The front grooving blade (44) is inclined upwardly ...

A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell containing a compound of an olivinic structure as a cathode active material is to be improved in load characteristics and cell capacity. To this end, there is provided a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell including a cathode (2) having a layer of a cathode active material containing a compound represented by the general formula LixFe1-yMyPO4, where M is...

A processor with cache way prediction and method thereof. The processor includes a cache way prediction unit for predicting at least one cache way for selection from a plurality of cache ways. The processor may further include an instruction cache for accessing the selected at least one cache way, where the selected at least one cache way is less than all of the plurality of cache ways. The method...

There is provided the use of a low molecular weight thrombin inhibitor for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment by dialysis, particularly haemodialysis, of a patient in need of such treatment, in which the thrombin inhibitor is provided in the dialysing solution, as well as dialysing solutions and concentrates including low molecular weight thrombin inhibitors, such as melagatran.

A printer 10 is arranged to include a pay-out section 12 for a strip of label sheet M having label base LB, a printing section 14 for printing on the surface of the label base LB, a film feeder 16 for supplying a protective film F and a sticking section 18 for sticking the protective film F to the label base LB. The sticking section 18 comprises a press roll 50 and a platen roll 51, the press roll...

A method and system for sharing information of contents possessed by audio/video (A/V) devices having network interface, which are connected with each other on a network, and efficiently controlling the execution of the contents are provided. In a control device which receives a list of contents from a collection device collecting content information of each content possessed by a source device wi...

Compounds or their salts having general formulas (I) and (II) wherein: s=is an integer equal to 1 or 2, preferably s=2; b0=0 or 1; A is the radical of a drug and is such as to meet the pharmacological tests reported in the description, C and C₁ are two bivalent radicals. The precursors of the radicals B and B₁ are such as to meet the pharmacological test reported in the descr...

The present invention relates to an improved method of producing agglomerates and compressed products containing isomaltulose and/or hydrogenated isomaltulose.