FIELD: investigating or analyzing materials. ^ SUBSTANCE: method comprises setting the rod covered with the adhesive agent in the gas flow. The rod is allowed to stand in the flow for a time interval and then is removed. The adhesive agent together with the adherent particles is then washed out by a solvent, and the solution obtained is filtered. The presence and amount of sediment indicate the fa...

A method for determining formation pressure at a depth region of formations surrounding a borehole, including: keeping track of the time since cessation of drilling at the depth region; deriving formation permeability at the depth region; causing wellbore pressure to vary periodically in time and determining, at the depth region, the periodic and non-periodic component of pressure measured in the ...

FIELD: wind power engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed segment-type wind-mill electric generating set contains tower, wind wheel with horizontal axle, generator and turnable base. Tower is provided with arc-like base and it is made up of triangles with common side to which step unit with windwheel axle provided with blades is attached. Windwheel blades are connected by rotor member provided with mag...

FIELD: measuring equipment, particularly used in oil production industry to control oil producing well operation without gas-and-liquid well product separation in fractions directly in wells or in oil accumulation areas. ^ SUBSTANCE: method involves directing gas-and-liquid flow in measuring device built-in main pipeline; measuring pressure, temperature and density of gas-and-liquid flow by pressu...

FIELD: mechanical engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: drive comprises housing made of a single part, engine mounted on the housing, reduction gear, and position pickup. The input stage of the reduction gear is made of a cylindrical gear whose pinion is made on the engine shaft, and gearing wheel is mounted on the intermediate shaft. The output stage of the reduction gear is made of a worm gear whose output ...

FIELD: wind power engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: to decrease mass of tower and provide stability to wind gusts proposed windmill electric generating plant containing tower, windwheel with horizontal axle, step-up gear, generator and slewing base, tower is made up of rods assembled in form of right-angle triangles with common hypotenuse and legs, legs being sides of two isosceles triangles with common b...

A system and method of facilitating centralized and standardized remote ratings of subjects in clinical trial studies includes providing training to raters located at one or more central rating sites such that the raters are trained to apply substantially similar criteria in determining whether a candidate is a qualified subject for the clinical trial and/or in the actual assessment, or informatio...

An emotion-based software robot for automobiles, in which a driver's emotion and behavior caused by such emotion are anticipated when each input such as a driver's states, commands, and behaviors, automobile situations, automobile environmental situations, etc., is recognized based on results learned with respect to a change in emotion of each individual driver offline, as well as each piece of ve...

A wear part made in a foundry is provided having a structure reinforced with at least one type of metallic carbide, and/or of metallic nitride, and/or of boride, and/or of metallic oxides, and/or of intermetallic compounds, hereafter called components. The raw materials acting as reagents for the components are put into a mold before casting in the form of inserts or preformed shapes of compacted ...

FIELD: robotics. ^ SUBSTANCE: method for correcting position of mobile robot comprises steps of changing robot position by generating position signal corresponding to predetermined site of concrete zone; detecting position signal and correcting position of mobile robot on base of stored beforehand position data in accordance with detected position signal. Apparatus for correcting robot position in...

A method and apparatus for detecting and removing un stripped residual shell left on shellfish, which are suited for use in inspecting whether or not there is residual shell left on the flesh of shellfish such as shrimp or crab after finishing the shell-stripping work thereof. It is characterized in that it comprises; a means (1) for irradiating a light of specific wave-range onto stripped shellfi...

A method and apparatus for initializing a telematics terminal (100) includes generating a door open signal corresponding to an open state of a door of a vehicle. The telematics terminal (100) is initialized based on the door open signal. An accessory signal corresponding to a position or change in operating state of an ignition switch may be generated. At least one telematics module within the veh...

An opposed pair of inwardly facing radiant energy detecting sensors (20, 22) is positioned to sight on freshly formed glass containers (C) being conveyed on a side by side pair of conveyors (12, 14) to determine if any of the containers is misoriented from its desired orientation. Each sensor has a sharply focused fiber and lens assembly (24) that is focused to sense radiant energy in a cone of vi...

FIELD: compositions for fluoro-polymer coats. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed composition contains separate particles of fluoro-polymer having polymer hydrophilic macro-moleculars connected to them by high energy treatment. Proposed invention refers also to method of treatment of fluoro-polymer, method of treatment of fluoro-polymer particle surfaces, method of imparting property of wetted surface to partic...

Disclosed is a joining element that is part of a fast connecting unit for hydraulic or pneumatic connecting conduits and comprises a tubular basic member ( 1 ), onto which two diametrically opposed, laterally spaced-apart two-legged snapping elements ( 5 ) are formed. Said snapping elements ( 5 ) are connected to the outer wall of the basic member ( 1 ) at the swaying point thereof while the free ...

An apparatus for recording and displaying images of and identifying material types in a target object in a fluid carrying conduit includes a downhole unit. The downhole unit includes a controllable light source, the controllable light source structured to emit high energy photons. The downhole unit further includes a sensor unit structured to detect the high energy photons that are backscattered f...

The invention relates to the production of paints-coatings by addition of recycled ground rubber completely or partially neutralized by alkaline environment. After treatment, this filler reduces the cost of the produced final paint and provides a final product endowing the shelves of stores with anti-slipping storage properties.; Παραγωγή χρωμάτων -επιχρισμάτων βάσεως τριμμένου ανακυκλωμένου ελαστ...

A system and method for managing workflow is provided. The system includ es one or more computer devices which execute workflow software to assign tasks to medical staff. The workflow software may be configured to assign tasks to persons on the medical staff based on a set of criteria including a path length determined by a shortest-path algorithm. The system may include portable wireless communic...