A hammermill having a housing (20), a rotor assembly (30), a first plurality of hammers, and a first attrition plate assembly (70) is provided to reduce oversized particulate material to a desired size. The housing has a sidewall that extends between an inlet end and an discharge end which defines an enclosed work space. The rotor assembly is disposed within the housing for rotation about a longit...

The present invention provides a biaxially oriented film of a polylactic acid resin that is suitable for films for bags and packaging films for various windows, particularly films for outlook window envelopes. The film is biodegradable and, as films for outlook window envelopes, is superior in the coating adaptability for an antistatic agent, a lubricant and an antiblocking agent or the like and i...

ARTIGO LAMINAR POROSO, PROCESSO PARA PRODUZIR UM ARTIGO LAMINAR POROSO, DISPOSITIVO RESPIRATóRIO, E, ELEMENTO DE FILTRO SUBSTITUìVEL PARA UM DISPOSITIVO RESPIRATORIO. Um artigo de lâmina porosa, compreendendo uma folha contínua não-tecida suportante de fibras poliméricas e pelo menos 80% em peso de partículas sorventes emaranhadas na folha contínua, as fibras tendo elasticidade suficientemente mai...

A system by which a software product may be tested on multiple client computers on various platforms. Product developers submit requests for tests on their products, in the form of test packets, to a test component, via an API. For each platform and language (i.e., group) on which a product developer wants a product tested, the product developer provides a test packet that defines tests that the p...

A method and system is designed for processing alarms, that have been triggered by a monitoring system such as an intrusion detection system, a firewall, or a network management system, comprising the steps of entering the triggered alarms into an alarm log, evaluating similarity between alarms, grouping similar alarms into alarm clusters, summarizing alarm clusters by means of generalized alarms,...

A method for cutting a ribbon of rubber-coated fabric includes dragging a free end of the ribbon past a working position of a punching device, forming a notch between two adjacent reinforcing cords of the ribbon using the punching device, moving a counter-blade of the punching device away from the working position, inserting at least one cutting blade through the notch, and performing first and se...

A pneumatic tire production system comprises production lines each including a green tire building station for assembling unvulcanized members of pneumatic tires into green tires. The green tires are vulcanized at a vulcanizing station which includes at least one vulcanizing unit equipped with a plurality of vulcanizing molds. The number of the vulcanizing mold is determined so as to satisfy the v...

The object of the present invention is to provide a vulcanization molding and its vulcanizing machine in which a heating pressure medium, which is nitrogen gas, is heated at high heat exchange ratio without an increase in the running cost and an increase in size. The vulcanizing machine includes a mold mechanism such as a lower side mold 5 and an upper side mold 25 and the like, which removably ac...

A system for removing or transferring a pharmaceutical product from a reservoir including an ampoule with a moveable piston therein and an adaptor which includes, generally along a longitudinal axis, a reservoir connector and an ampoule connector for coupling to the ampoule, wherein the ampoule connector includes at least one locking mechanism which, in a side wall, includes a resilient element ge...

The present inventions provide assemblies, probes, and methods for creating circumferential lesions in tissue, e.g., the tissue within or around the ostium of a vessel. An ablation probe with an ablative structure can be placed in contact within or around the ostium of the vessel. A diagnostic probe can be introduced through a lumen within the ablation probe and inserted into the vessel. The energ...

A device for ablating tissue is provided. The device comprises a conductive element with a channel for irrigating fluid formed therein, which is in contact with a non-conductive microporous interface. All or a portion of the interface may be removable. When the interface is removed, a portion of the conductive element is exposed for use in ablating tissue. Methods of using the device and of removi...

Described herein are genes whose expression are up-regulated or down-regulated in ovarian cancer. Related methods and compositions that can be used for diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer are disclosed. Also described herein are methods that can be used to identify modulators of ovarian cancer.

A displacement measuring device including a scale, and an optical readhead including an index pattern and a light receiving element is provided. A bright/dark pattern arising from a scale grating is detected by the readhead to measure displacement. In various embodiments, a magnification of the pattern is adjusted by the spacing between at least a lens element, aperture element, and detection plan...

An apparatus, system and method for providing spot lighting for observing a gemstone is presented. In particular, the spot lighting provided by the invention allows for observing of the fire of a gemstone, i.e. the visible effects of light dispersion into separate colors. The apparatus includes a tube for receiving a portion of a multi-spectral light source, and a mask coupled to the tube for bloc...

The constituent elements of a carcass structure of a tire are formed by laying elementary components on a building support including an inflatable bladder set in an inflated condition in which it substantially reproduces the inner configuration of the carcass structure to be obtained. A belt structure carrying a tread band, both produced separately, is coaxially disposed around the carcass structu...

The invention relates to a method for protecting street furniture against the effect of fireworks. For this purpose cavities, recesses, gaps and the like in the street furniture are where possible filled. This preferably takes place by placing attachments such as filler piece (4) in the cavities, recesses, gaps and the like and subsequently securing these attachments.

An intermediate film for laminated glass and laminated glass having excellent sound insulation properties and particularly suitably used for a head-up display etc. where the driver can view both a forward field and instrument display at the same time without dropping their line of vision. The intermediate film for laminated glass is constructed from at least a pair of protective layers and a sound...

A method of identifying an anomalous orientation definition condition of a remote locomotive ( 12) of a train includes monitoring an operating condition of the remote locomotive of the train, the remote locomotive e configured to operate according to a defined orientation with respect to a lead locomotive of the tram. 'The method also includes identifying an operating condition of the.remote locom...

A biosensor having a first conductive component is described, wherein the first conductive component includes at least one boundary formed by a first processing technique and at least one boundary formed by a second processing technique not the same as the first processing technique. The biosensor can also have a second conductive component including at least one boundary formed by the first proce...

Cooling rolls (11) and (12) are spaced to have a gas of a size greater than thickness of metal thin bodies to be produced. A nozzle (14) is arranged to eject molten metal onto a surface of the cooling roll (11). The first cooling roll (11) quenches molten metal ejected from the nozzle (14) into metal thin bodies. On the next cooling roll (12), the produced metal thin bodies are hit into flakes and...