A cemented carbide insert of a first grade has at least one cutting point consisting of a cemented carbide of a second grade with different composition and/or grain size with an uneven transition zone between the first and second grade.

PURPOSE: A method is provided to reduce costs by forming a horizontal bank and a vertical bank at the same time by using the same mask, while achieving improved quality of the electroluminescence device. CONSTITUTION: A method comprises a step of forming a first electrode on a transparent insulation substrate on which a plurality of pixels(62) are defined; a step of forming vertical banks(52) betw...

Chew toys (10) for domestic carnivorous animals having rawhide (11) and jerky sheets or members (12). The jerky sheets (12) are wrapped in a rawhide sheet (11) by either rolling or folding. This provides an outer layer (18) of rawhide containing jerky therein. A seam (19) is created in rawhide outer layer (18) by the rolling or folding of the rawhide sheet (11). The jerky (12) preferably extends t...

An apparatus and method for determining at least one downhole formation property is disclosed. The apparatus includes a pretest piston positionable in fluid communication with the formation, and a series of flowlines pressure gauges, and valves configured to selectively draw into the apparatus for measurement of one of formation fluid and mud. The method includes performing a first pretest to dete...

A dressing for medical treatment is provided by the present invention; this dressing is contracted in such a manner that a nonwoven fabric and a light-transmissive, flexible plastics film are laminated, wherein at least the nonwoven fabric is embossed, and a light-transmissive adhesive layer is provided over the whole surface of the dressing, on the side of the plastics film opposite to that to wh...

A work tool belt device includes an elongated strap for mounting on a user's waist and for carrying a plurality of tools thereon. The strap has opposed free ends that carry complementary parts of a locking member for securing the device around a user's waist. An elongated hip rest is secured to an internal surface of the strap to resiliently and uniformly distribute the carried weight of the tools...

A support device for an elongated weapon which is connectable to a belt. The support includes a housing having a bottom and a wall portion extending from the bottom along the dimension of elongation of the weapon. The wall portion forms an open chamber for accommodating the weapon and positioning the elongated weapon in an upright manner with the weapon resting on the bottom of the housing. A clam...

A modular personal container has a stiff container shaped to receive and support a soft container in the preferred configuration of a tool belt. Both containers provide correspondingly shaped fixating and positioning features. The fixating features interlock the soft container with the stiff container. The interlocked soft container is then lowered down onto the stiff container until positioning e...

A catheter assembly for treatment of cardiac arrhythmia. The catheter assembly includes a catheter body and an ablative energy source. The catheter body includes a proximal portion, an intermediate portion, and a distal portion. The intermediate portion extends from the proximal portion and defines a longitudinal axis. The distal portion extends from the intermediate portion and includes an ablati...

A pneumatic tire production system comprises production lines each including a green tire building station for assembling unvulcanized members of pneumatic tires into green tires. The green tires are vulcanized at a vulcanizing station which includes at least one vulcanizing unit equipped with a plurality of vulcanizing molds. The number of the vulcanizing mold is determined so as to satisfy the v...

A method for manufacturing a reinforcing structure for tyres of vehicles includes the steps of preparing a plurality of strip segments having substantially parallel, longitudinal filiform elements at least partially coated by at least one layer of elastomeric material, and applying the plurality of strip segments along a circumference of a toroidal support, to form at least one continuous reinforc...

A laminated polyester film in which a coating layer whose main constituent component is a water-soluble or water-dispersible resin is provided on at least one side of a polyester film, wherein the water resistance value of the film is at least 90%, the discoloration after melt molding is no more than 10, and the haze value change after heating is no more than 20%. Adhesion, water resistance, recov...

The invention features a method for detecting an increased likelihood of hyperhomocysteinemia and, in turn, an increased or decreased likelihood of neural tube defects or cardiovascular disease. The invention also features therapeutic methods for reducing the risk of neural tube defects, colon cancers and related cancers. Also provided are the sequences of the human methionine synthase gene and pr...

The invention provides particular sets of genes that are expressed differentially in tumors characterized as high MAI or low MAI tumors. These sets of genes can be used to discriminate between high and low MAI tumors. Diagnostic assays for classification of tumors, prediction of tumor outcome, selecting and monitoring treatment regimens and monitoring tumor progression/regression are also provided...

The present invention provides the visualization of the fiber architecture in the nervous tissue without staining. The major principle of the method is to make the neural tissue transparent in normal light, and to utilize the ability of neuronal fibers to deflect and deviate light directed from the side to render them visible. The method involves the preparation of thick sections (more than 200 mm...

A low-voltage self-regulating heating device (200) for operation with supply voltages in the range of 0.1-12 volts having first and second layers (104, 106) of material, at least one of which is PTC material interposed between a first electrode (102) and a second electrode (108). Also a high-voltage self-regulating heating device (300) for operation with supply voltages above 240 volts having firs...

A logistics system and method are mounted on a vehicle and utilize vehicle position control for logistics operations, such as loading and unloading material to and from the vehicle. The position control can be GPS-based and/or based on linear movement of the vehicle, such as movement of a railcar along a rail track. A computer-based position control subsystem mounted on the vehicle is connected to...

The present invention relates to a method of error detection of a microprocessor in a control unit of an automotive vehicle, wherein a control unit can send and receive data by way of a data bus, wherein the output of the microprocessor is monitored by a watchdog circuit, wherein the watchdog circuit compares the signals output by the microprocessor with predetermined signal patterns, and an error...

A process, a tool and a computer for analyzing and locating hardware failures in a computing machine storing information on operational errors generated by the various sensible hardware components of the machine, characterized in that it consists of creating a man/machine interface (I) through which the components and the rules for interpreting errors are described in a structural language and use...

The invention concerns a method of preparing products having a sintered density of above 7.3 g/cm3. This method comprises the steps of subjecting a water-atomised, stainless steel powder to HVC compaction with an uniaxial pressure movement with a ram speed of at least 2 m/s, and sintering the green body.; La invencion se refiere a un metodo para preparar productos que tengan una densidad sinteriza...