The present invention provides an absorbent article including a fluid pervious topsheet, a fluid impervious backsheet joined to the topsheet, and an intermediate layer positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet. The topsheet comprises: a resilient, three-dimensional, macroscopically expanded, fluid pervious web including a first polymeric material which exhibits a first melting point temper...

A lift truck (10) has a tractive-power electric motor (16), an electric motor which actuates a pump for the hydraulic circuits, and batteries (19) which supply the electric motors. In order to obtain a long working life as well as reliability and a high performance, the tractive-power motor (16) or both motors are asynchronous and there are provided devices (30) for sensing the angular positions a...

The radiation characteristic measurement uses an optical fiber radiometer with a bundle of optical fibers (2) supplying the emitted radiation to a photodetector. The input ends of the fibers are positioned at a constant radial distance from the source (6), the fibers combined with at least 3 reference optical fibers (12), used for position calibration of the sensitive surface of the photodetector....

The invention relates to a method for cutting a workpiece made of brittle material, especially glass or ceramic, using a laser beam (5). According to the invention, the formation of a circular laser beam spot (3) having a directly surrounding cooling zone makes it possible to make any desired cut with a high degree of precision and rounded off sharp edges using simple measures without microfissure...

The rectangular board (2) is for separation of sheet stacks in the sheet feeder. Several distance elements (4) are fastened to each board in each corner. The elements are moveable between a position, where they are sunk into the board, and a vertical supporting position. Each element is loaded into vertical position by pretension parts (26), and held in sunk position by locking parts (34). These a...

The device forms a sheet stack from separate part stacks supplied to a sheet feeder. It has a conveyor track for stack supports. A stacker unit (16) is located in an area outside the sheet feeder. Stack supports (28) carrying part stacks (34) are stacked above each other by the stacker unit. The sheets are supplied to the sheet feeder in a transport direction through the machine, which is at right...

A control system comprises a clutch for limiting a differential action between left and right drive wheels or varying a driving torque distribution between front and rear axles of a 4WD vehicle, a sensor group and a controller for controlling an engagement force of the clutch to control the differential limiting force or the torque distribution between the front and rear drive wheels. The sensor g...

A control method is provided for an engine for a vehicle. The engine is arranged in association with a fluid coupling having a clutch. According to the control method, the state of engagement of the clutch is first detected. In the next step, it is determined whether or not the vehicle is in a predetermined decelerated operation state. When the clutch has been detected to be in a predetermined sta...

A battery plate stacker (10) is delineated for enveloping expanded metal battery plates (12) and stacking positive and negative plates in an alternating pattern, comprising, a battery plate feeder (14); a carrier (16) coupled to the battery plate feeder; and a wire flattener module (18) couple d to the carrier that conveys the expanded metal battery plates through the wi re flattener module. The ...

A method for adhering a layer of organic paint to the surface of a glass sheet, and the products produced thereby. The process comprises applying a layer of a water-based silicate paint to the surface of the glass sheet, heating to cure the paint, forming the glass sheet into a shape, sensitising the water based paint with a layer of silane material, applying a layer of organic paint over the lay...

A vehicle battery and controller combination having two batteries where each battery has one positive terminal cell and associated positive terminal conductor and one negative terminal cell and associated terminal conductor. Each terminal cell is independent of any other terminal cell. The controller includes a first switch capable of connecting one or more pairs of like poles of the batteries. Th...

An apparatus for providing a plurality of signals, each indicative of a temperature at an individual location on an electrode which is formed of a first metallic material includes a plurality of electrically conductive sensor leads, each individually connected to the electrode to form a sensor junction. Each sensor junction has a temperature-dependent voltage associated with it. An electrically co...

An aromatic polyester film made of an aromatic polyester comprising 2,6-napthalenedicarboxylic acid as the main dicarboxylic acid component and 1,3-propanediol as the main diol component, and having a density of at least 1.310 g/cm<3>. This aromatic polyester film can be processed together with other polyester layer(s) into a laminate film. An aromatic polyester containing at a small ratio a quate...

An off-lane alarm apparatus is disclosed in which an image signal provided from a line camera mounted on a car roof is quantized into a corresponding binary image by an image processing device to detect a lane on a road surface whereby an alarm is generated when an off-lane state of the car from the lane is detected. After mounting a line camera on a car, markers preset at predetermined positions ...

A method of free form fabrication of metallic components, typically using computer aided design data, comprises selective laser binding and transient liquid sintering of blended powders. The powder blend includes a base metal alloy, a lower melting temperature alloy, and a polymer binder that constitutes approximately 5-15% of the total blend. A preform part is built up, layer-by-layer, by localiz...

A pumped rare-earth fiber source wavelength control device, having source wavelength control effected by pump source wavelength and power control. The maintaining of pump wavelength and power control can be attained several ways such as by use of a wavelength sensitive coupler, a short length of fiber having an embedded grating, and a modulated grating embedded fiber.

A flame-retardant composition useful in rendering polymers flame-retardant by copolymerizing with the starting monomers, which composition comprises a halogenated, phosphorus-containing polyester obtainable by reacting a polyhydroxyphosphonic compound (A) with a halogenated polycarboxylic compound (B) in such a ratio as to provide two or more hydroxyl groups in the resulting polyester, optionally ...

Process and apparatus for treating vulcanised rubber surfaces before gluing (adhesive bonding), comprising a step in which surface roughness is created and degraded surface particles are removed by applying a jet of high-pressure fluid.

A vehicle tyre having a tread strip (2) of electrically insulating or poorly conductive material forming the tyre running surface (1) and a conducting layer (3) of good electrical conductivity arranged beneath the tread strip (2), characterised by a layer (37) of material which conducts electricity well, provided between the two mutually abutting end faces (29,30) of the tread band (38) which is b...

The method involves directing a light beam from a light source onto a jar (1) to be tested. Light scattered from optical irregularities in the revolving jar is observed under a predetermined angle range to the incident light beam by the photodetector (10), whose output signal is evaluated with respect to signals characteristic for cracks. An Independent claim is provided for a corresponding detect...