An apparatus for borehole electric-field telemetry that comprises a source of modulated voltage or current, at least one axially non-conductive collar connected between pipe sections in a pipe string, and a system of insulated wireline components providing electrical connections, insulated from drilling fluids, between the ends of the one or more aforementioned insulated collars in the pipe string...

Disclosed is a device and method in which the on-line activities of an on-line user are monitored and stored. Information regarding the user's activities are used as a basis for targeting advertisements to the user. Monitoring is performed by a client monitoring application, which performs monitoring without intruding on the user's activities. According to one aspect of the invention, URLs in the ...

A wall-mounted microwave oven and a control method for controlling a hood motor are provided. Here, the wall-mounted microwave oven having a main body forming a cavity for accommodating foods to cook, a casing enclosing the main body and forming a hood duct having an inlet located on a bottom area and an outlet located on an upper area, and a hood fan installed in the hood duct, includes a hood mo...

A low-contact-resistance stainless steel or titanium plate for a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell member, wherein a noble metal or an alloy of a noble metal is deposited on a portion that comes in contact with other member developing a contact resistance. The stainless steel contains not more than 30% by weight of chromium and, as required, one or more of not more than 10% by weight of molybden...

Detergent compositions containing sodium percarbonate bleach are provided in which at least 60 % of the originally added percarbonate remains after 28 days storage at 32 DEG C and 80 DEG RH. The compositions contain at least one multi-ingredient component and have a density in excess of 650 g/litre, a content of Iron, Manganese and Copper less than 25 ppm, an Equilibrium Relative Humidity at 32 ...

A wall-mounted microwave oven and a control method for controlling a hood motor are provided. Here, the wall-mounted microwave oven having a main body forming a cavity for accommodating foods to cook, a casing enclosing the main body and forming a hood duct having an inlet located on a bottom area and an outlet located on an upper area, a hood fan installed in the hood duct, and a hood motor drivi...

A system for implementing secure transactions includes a mobile communication network, a service provider communicating with the mobile communication network and a mobile station communicating with the mobile network and, through the network, with the service provider. A subscriber identity module, in which an executable service application is stored, is associated with the mobile station. The sys...

A method and system for the production of energy-providing fuels, and particularly methanol or methanol-based derivatives, is disclosed. The system includes a methanol synthesis unit (20) that receives a supply of coal (116) and a supply of oxygen (114) from which methanol or a methanol-based fuel is synthesized and excess carbon dioxide is produced. A photovoltaic cell system (2) generates a DC p...

A roll of mesh is placed on a conveyor or a moving vehicle and raised into an upright position where it can be rotated about an essentially vertical rotation axis in order to the mesh to be unwound whilst the roll is moving. Fence posts can be driven in whilst the mesh is being unwound.

One of the eyes (6) is kept covered by a shield (2) formed by a contact lens (4) and glass eye (5). Sections (7, 8) of the glass eye exhibit different light polarising properties and the contact lens includes a section which does not polarise light.

Information is sent to a receiver (12) on board a vehicle (20), which then sends a signal to a computer (14) on board the same vehicle, used to display the information on a screen (18) whenever the vehicle arrives at a given location, where the information can be received. - An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is also included for the digital information system hardware.

A data communication method allowing reliable real-time communications among a plurality of nodes participating in a session is disclosed. In the case where a plurality of nodes participate in a session such that two or more nodes do not concurrently send data, a session management node reserves a necessary bandwidth needed by all the nodes participating in the session by accessing the Isochronous...

A signal handling device enables a data transmission between a plurality of position measuring devices and a master unit. The signal handling device includes a main communications port for communicating with a master unit via a data bus and a measurement port for communicating with a position measuring device. The signal handling device also includes an extension port for connection to an intellig...

A signal handling device enables a data transmission between a plurality of position measuring devices and a master unit. The signal handling device includes a main communications port for communicating with a master unit via a data bus and a measurement port for communicating with a position measuring device. The signal handling device also includes an extension port for connection to an intellig...

A small and light decompression device of a four-stroke-cycle engine which cancels decompression operation surely when the engine rotational speed exceeds a predetermined speed to enable a stable engine starting. The device comprises an axial hole formed in a cam shaft, an oil pressure chamber formed in the axial hole, a decompression shaft reciprocating in accordance with oil pressure in the oil ...

A tamper evident buckle including a first part adapted to be attached to one end of an elongate strap, a second part adapted to be attached to the other end of the strap, the first and second parts including respective engagement means for releasably engaging the two parts together, an enclosure movable between a first position wherein the first and second parts are freely engageable and disengage...