A carrier release tape having pressure-sensitive adhesive segments attached thereto is disclosed which has an indexing mechanism thereupon to facilitate the dispensing of individual adhesive segments from a handheld adhesive segment applicator apparatus. The indexing mechanism consists of a plurality of patterned scores, cuts, or indentations located in the surface of the carrier release tape, the...

A location mark detecting method of a robot cleaner capable of accurately detecting location marks from an image captured by an upwardly looking camera. The location mark detecting method comprises the steps of obtaining from the image object marks to be compared with the reference location marks, determining whether shapes of the object marks are identical to those of the reference location marks...

A device for transforming a digital signal into an acoustic signal, making use of a standard phase modulation, that comprises a modem chip ( 1 ) with a phase modulation of known kind, used until now for the data transmission via cable, conceived and used only for a cable connection, for acquiring a digital signal through a serial inlet RS232 and for modulating the same according to a standard reco...

A scanner apparatus comprises a first device for scanning bank cheques and a second device for scanning other paper documents (D). The first device includes a first input receptacle (11) for receiving cheques to be scanned, a first image-scanner unit (25, 26) for scanning a cheque, a first output receptacle (27) for receiving the cheque after it has been scanned, and a first conveyor mechanism (15...

An external sun visor (1) for vehicles, particularly for industrial vehicles, has a panel (2) which can be placed in a position facing the upper portion (8) of the windscreen (9) of a vehicle (7) and is elongate along one of its axes (10; 10a) which is horizontal and orthogonal to the direction of advance (11) of the said vehicle (7); the panel (2) consists of an intermediate plate element (12) wh...

The procedure uses a shaping wheel (2) with a series of U-shaped recesses (21) corresponding to the shape of corrugations to be made in a plastic edging strip. The strip is blocked relative to the wheel by pneumatic pressure elements (4, 6, 7, 8) and corrugated by a descending thermoforming head (5) heated by induction or circulating hot water. The procedure uses a shaping wheel (2) with a series ...