The present invention provides a feeder cutter that pulls media from a continuous roll of media and feeds it to a print engine. The feeder cutter includes a number of subsystems that draw media from the media source, present the media to the print engine and maintain tension on the media. The feeder cutter isolates the velocity used to feed media from the media source from the velocity used to fee...

The invention relates to a method for improving the runnability of a printing press in the printing process. In the method, printing rolls are used whose cross-directional tension profile is measured in the paper manufacturing process. In the method, the printing rolls used in the printing process are selected by using as one selection criterion the cross-directional tension profile of the printin...

A grip for an umbrella is provided on an outer wall with a through hole; at least one annular groove having a start point communicating with the through hole and a terminal point; a hook located at the terminal point of the groove; and an elastic strap having an inner end pressing against an inner side of the through hole, and an outer end outward extended through the through hole to form a loop p...

A toolbox, which includes a box body, a box cover pivotally connected to the box body with a shaft and two pivot bolts, and a plurality of tool holders coupled to one another and pivotally supported on the shaft and turnable with the box cover out of the box body one after another into a spread-out status like the action of a fan when opening the box cover from the box body.

A method of making an article that is comprised of a metal foam in contact with a base metal by an intermediate braze composition, in particular, a method of brazing a metal foam to a base metal via a braze composition. In one preferred method, a polymeric foam is coated with a powdered metal composition and thermally-treated to volatilize the polymeric foam and form an open-cell metal foam. A sec...

There is provided a tire vulcanizing mold capable of smoothly and surely forming narrow-width grooves in a treading face without causing the damage, breakage and the like of projections for the formation of the grooves in a sector mold and land portions in the tread, which comprises a plurality of sector molds arranged at predetermined pitches in a circumferential direction and displacing in synch...

A laser treatment apparatus for performing treatment by irradiating an affected part with a laser beam comprises: a laser source capable of emitting beams of a plurality of different wavelengths; a first setting unit which sets an irradiation amount of a laser beam for treatment of a wavelength to be used for treatment; an emission amount changing unit which changes an emission amount of the beam ...

It is an object of the present invention to provide a substrate inspection system, a substrate inspection method, and a substrate inspection apparatus for realizing efficient operation of inspecting both a large region and a small region of a substrate. The present invention includes a first inspection apparatus 11 executing a macro inspection of each of a plurality of substrates 14 (l) to 14 (n) ...

A system and method for operating robots in a robot competition. One embodiment of the system may include operator interfaces, where each operator interface is operable to control movement of a respective robot. A respective operator interface may be in communication with an associated operator radio, where each radio may have a low power RF output signal. A robot controller may be coupled to each...

Devices and methods for measuring the fraction of a liquid in a wet gas flow are described, the device including one or more light sources emitting at a first wavelength at which the liquid is highly absorbing and emitting at a second wavelength close to the first wavelength and at which the liquid is not highly absorbing; and one or more sensor for detecting the transmittance of the light at the ...

The invention relates to a method for leaching a material containing a valuable metal and precipitating the valuable metal as a fine-grained powder by changing the electrochemical potential of an intermediary metal in the solution. In the leaching stage the intermediary metal or substance of the electrolyte solution is at a high degree of oxidation and in the precipitation stage another electrolyt...

A multiple use universal closure assembly designed for use in various containers (10) having receiving means for assessing to the content of the container (10). T he multiple use universal closure assembly comprising an elastomeric membrane capable of being ruptured by an external access means such as a luer connect or or a syringe having a sharp or blunt cannula or a sharp or blunt spike for flui...

A device for storing and administering a medical fluid comprising a sealed flexible formed container (10) with an opening part (12) in its front end in which an insert (20) is positioned. Over the insert, the container extends into a removable sealing cap (14). After removal of the sealing cap an injection means is attached to the insert and fluid administration through the insert is admitted in o...

The invention relates to a drive train having a twin-clutch transmission and to a method for controlling the same.

A suction sleeve is configured to couple to the shaft of an RF device to evacuate hot gasses, fluids and/or other aspirates. The suction sleeve may be configured to be disposed coaxially around the shaft between the first end of the shaft and the work element (e.g., an RF cutting element) thereof. The suction sleeve defines a suction port and a plurality of openings near the work element, and is c...

The invention relates to a process for forming an integral protective layer on a polarizing layer comprising coating the layer with a sol, gelling the sol, and then curing the coating to form a contiguous crosslinked adherent protective layer.

An elastomeric glove that contains a donning layer containing waterborne polyurethane and a lubricant formed from a silicone emulsion is provided. It has discovered that the application of a waterborne polyurethane donning layer and silicone emulsion lubricant to the inner surface of the glove may provide both damp and dry donnability to the resulting elastomeric glove.

A norbornene-based cyclic olefin layer with a curable layer disposed thereon is described. The curable layer may additionally be imparted with a texture. The norbornene-based cyclic olefin films with curable layers can be incorporated into optical bodies which include an optical film, such as an oriented multilayer optical film. In addition, the invention includes a method of coating a curable lay...

Superabsorbent polymer (SAP) particels containing a clay are disclosed. The clay is added to an SAP hydrogel prior to SAP neutralization to provide particles having improved fluid acquisition rates and an improved permeability of a fluid through the swollen SAP-clay particles. Diaper cores and absorbent articles containing the SAP-clay particles also are disclosed.