The present invention relates to a method of consolidation of blocks or slabs made of a building material, which comprises the steps of: - providing offcuts of blocks or slabs of a building material; - adding and mixing the offcuts with a resin-based composition to obtain a mixture thereof; and - applying the mixture thus obtained to one or more faces of a slab or block made of the same building m...

The present invention relates to wood-base materials made flame-retardant with halogen-free organic phosphorus compounds, and to compositions and processes for their production and their use.

A disposable absorbent article has an absorbent chassis, two independent side panels, a pair of front releasable fastening systems and a pair of back releasable fastening systems. Each side panel comprises a pair of opposite transverse edges. The front fastening system releasably attaches the front waist region to a transverse edge of the side panel. The back fastening system releasably attaches t...

A methods and system detecting water system leaks provides detecting of water leakage having very low flows. Very low flow leaks are detected by detecting drops in a building water system pressure when the water supply source is disabled. The water system is disabled by an electrically controllable valve, which may be turned off in response to a motion detector that detects that no human activity ...

The present invention relates to a semiconductor device (1) in silicon carbide, with a highly doped substrate region (11) and a drift region (12). The present invention specifically teaches that an additional layer (13) is positioned between the highly doped substrate region (11) and the drift region (12), the additional layer (13) thus providing a wide safe operating area at subsequently high vol...

A medical catheter comprising a first return lumen, a plurality of withdrawal lumens, a first clamping member and a plurality of intake extension tubes. Each intake extension tube communicates with an intake lumen of the catheter to provide fluid communication with the respective intake lumens. The intake extension tubes are positioned in a stacked arrangement, and the clamping member has a plural...

The invention relates to a window construction. The window construction comprising profiled frames (12). The profiled frames (12) including ventilation air channels (10). The window construction having adjustable ventilation arrangement for ventilating indoor air without opening the window.

Herein, it is shown that strong specific anti-methanogen avian antibodies can be produced when chickens are immunized with an optimal dose of methane producing bacterial antigen (methanogen) formulated with an appropriate adjuvant. The antibodies can in turn be used to reduce methane gas production from an animal by administering an effective amount of the anti-methanogen antibodies to the animal,...

1. Vehicle (10), in particular tracked vehicle (10). 2.1 The invention relates to a vehicle (10), in particular a tracked vehicle (10), having a manual controller (40) for controlling driving functions of the vehicle (10) and/or additional functions of the vehicle (10), the manual controller (40) having a base (42) and a handle which can move in relation to the base (44) and is designed such that ...

A disposable absorbent article having an absorbent core and a fluid redistribution layer disposed on top of the absorbent core, wherein the fluid redistribution layer has a channel which redistributes fluid mainly along the absorbent core. The absorbent core can be disposed between a top sheet and a back sheet of the absorbent article, and the fluid redistribution layer can be disposed between the...

A vertical buffer store (10) for a conveyor (1) that has a plurality of spaced apart driven conveyor members (2) for the conveying of elongated goods (3) in a conveying plane (4), which buffer store (10) comprises a lift device (11) having at least two lifting organs (12) arranged between the conveyor members (2). In order to design the buffer store such that it does not require any space at a low...

A system for modeling a battery installed on a motor vehicle including a crank started engine, a voltage sensor connected to provide measurements of battery voltage and a temperature sensor providing temperature measurements provides for correcting capacity of the battery starting from the battery's rated capacity. A vehicle body computer implements the model through a stored program implementing ...

An inclination compensator device for lifting platforms comprises: an anchoring portion (2), which can be stably connected to a fixed structure; a supporting portion (3), connected to the anchoring portion (2) and able to move relative to it so as to adopt a plurality of different operating positions. The supporting portion (3) can be operatively connected to a portion of the lifting platform (100...

Plant for the treatment of solid waste similar to urban refuse, in particular for the recovery of long, flexible material, comprising conveyor belts (11, 12) positioned in sequence and designed to transport the product, wherein at least one (12) of these belts carries the product to a raised area, characterised in that the raised area has at least one distribution device (13) for distributing long...