A harness apparatus for attachment to a torso of a forest firefighter to facilitate carrying a standard pack comprises a semi-rigid upper yoke comprising a substantially upright back portion and shoulder portions extending upward from the back portion, then forward over the shoulders and down over right and left areas of the chest. A semi rigid substantially upright lower belt band extends around ...

In a process for generating signals which can be transmitted from above ground to a receiver located below ground in a well, the volume flow of a fluid pump (1) arranged above ground, which conveys fluid from a fluid tank (8) through the interior of a drill string to the bottom of a well, is temporally changed. The temporal change of the volume flow of the fluid pump (1) is caused by a change of t...

A prefilled syringe or carpule is provided for medical purposes, having a glass syringe barrel and inside it a syringe plunger which can be displaced by means of a plunger rod. A cannula cap, in which a cannula is fixedly inserted and held axially in a detent position, is mounted on the cannula end of the syringe barrel. Further provided is a sealing disk inserted in the cannula cap and arranged c...

The present invention describes the use of the technique for acquiring images by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to identify the area of origin of produce and to differentiate the different cultivars of a same product. In one of its preferred aspects, the invention is used to identify the production area of the cherry tomato and to differentiate its cultivars.

The invention relates to a thermoplastic, thermally bondable polyolefin fibre for production of nonwovens as well as a nonwovens obtained by thermal bonding of such polyolefin fibres. The production of nonwovens for applications in hygienic end uses have thermal bonding and softness characteristics dependent on the fibres. For improvement the fibre of the invention shows a whole plastic deformabil...

Plant and method for producing aluminium pistons of internal combustion engines having cast iron inserts, comprising: a first loading station (11) for loading the inserts (10) to be palced in a cast chill (43) for casting said pistons, a second station (21) wherein a molten metal bath is provided in which said inserts (10) are dipped for undergoing a coating treatment, a third exchange station (31...

The present invention belongs to the class of electronic devices for registration of vehicle information, by closed circuit, in a memory unit protected from destructive factors such as mechanical and thermo impacts, in the case of accident or catastrophe of the vehicle. The device is aimed to be a technical mean of reconstruction of the crash dynamics, in the case of accidents or catastrophes, sim...

A method for manufacturing a micro-electro-mechanical device, which has supporting parts and operative parts, includes providing a first semiconductor wafer, having a first layer of semiconductor material and a second layer of semiconductor material arranged on top of the first layer, forming first supporting parts and first operative parts of the device in the second layer, forming temporary anch...

A device (10) for the coupling and rapid release of the support stays of a bicycle mudguard comprises a base element (11) which can be attached to the fork of a bicycle, and a coupling element (12) for a pair of stays designed to support a mudguard; the base element comprises a substantially spherical head (13) designed to cooperate with a conjugated cavity (19) cut in the coupling element (12). <...

A device (10) in moulded synthetic material for fixing the mudguard of a bicycle to support rods comprises a central curved portion (11) delimited by a pair of uprights (14) inside each of which is a cavity or notch (20) designed to accommodate a support rod; each upright (14) also comprises an opening communicating with the cavity or notch (20) and at least partially dividing the upright (14) int...

This process for nitrogen liquefaction by recovering the cold derived from liquid methane gasification has the characteristic of cooling with the liquid methane (1) a cryogenic fluid (5), preferably nitrogen, and then using said cryogenic fluid as coolant fluid (9,10) in two nitrogen compressor units of the nitrogen liquefier, both for the interstage coolers (11,12,13,27,28,29,30,31,32) and for th...