A valve-regulated lead acid (VRLA) battery cell (2,40) has positive and negative plates (10,11,41,42) separated by separator media (12,43) and held together under pressure. The separator is adapted to support therein an electrolyte. Each plate has a first single or plurality of tabs (12,13,46) on a first side and a second single or plurality of tabs (15,16,47) on a second side of the plate, each t...

The door has an armrest formed of a movable support unit (324) extended at its two ends by two arms (326, 328). The arm (326) is extended beyond a bearing (330) by a lug (390) forming an equalizer beam. The lug is terminated by a rectangular plate (391) intended to cooperate with a stop (331) carried by a body shell (2) of a motor vehicle in order to bring and maintain the armrest in deployed posi...

La présente invention concerne un système de direction de véhicule qui peut supprimer l'orientation de roues orientables dans une direction non prévue par un conducteur. Un mécanisme de direction oriente les roues orientables (5a, 5b) conformément à un volant de direction et un mécanisme de superposition d'angle de direction auxiliaire (2). Une section de détection (6) détecte exactement l'angle d...

L'invention propose un appareil du type comportant une plaque de substrat (12), un ensemble (16) de microélectrodes agencées sur la face supérieure (14) de la plaque de substrat (12), et une cuve (24) qui est apte à contenir des cellules vivantes et un liquide de perfusion, et qui comporte une jupe latérale cylindrique verticale (36) qui est ouverte vers le haut et qui entoure une zone comportant ...

A device and method for preventing the damage underlying lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) or medial epicondylitis (golfer's elbow), or both lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) and medial epicondylitis (golfer's elbow), or for treating the damage underlying lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) or medial epicondylitis (golfer's elbow), or both lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) and medial epi...

The present invention relates to an apparatus that is used in the building of a tire and an assembly process for building a tire. The apparatus comprises an apparatus frame and a main shaft that is rotatable in at least one axis about the apparatus frame. The apparatus further comprises a building drum that is provided with a plurality of drum segments disposed concentrically about the axial cente...

The present invention refers to a radiation system (1) comprising an excentric gantry (100) arranged in connection with multiple treatment rooms (61-68) separated by radiation-shielding separating members (71-78). A movable rotation head (120) is connected to the gantry (100) and is able to move between, and direct a radiation beam (110) into, the treatment rooms (61-68). A simulator head (200-1 t...

The decanter centrifuge comprises a screw conveyor having a body ( 4 ), which carries a screw comprising one or more flights ( 7, 7 ') and having a nominal transport speed varying along the longitudinal axis. An inlet ( 6 ) is provided in the screw conveyor for the material to be separated. The screw conveyor is provided with a baffle ( 8, 8 ') dividing the separation chamber in a substantially cy...

A hard metal of WC for tools for mechanical working of stone, concrete, and asphalt conatins 5 to 25% by weight of a binder based on Co or Co and Ni. The hard metal has a coercive field strength up to 17.0 kA/m, and the binder contains up to 30% of Fe. The hard metal has a magnetic saturation (sigma or 4pisigma, in units of microtesla times cubic meter per kilogram, respectively) as a function of ...

A method of producing a corrosion resistant ferrous product is disclosed. The product is produced by rolling a heated billet which comprises a mass of mild steel swarf in a stainless steel jacket. Two reducing agents are present in the jacket when the billet is heated. The first reducing agent is in the form of powdered aluminum, titanium turnings or other metal having a greater affinity for oxyge...

The releasable ski binding has a support plate with front and rear boot holders (8,9) interacting in a useful position in keyed engagement with counter faces on the boots to secure same. The rear boot holders can be moved against an adjustable resistance of a second detent assembly uncoupled from the first into a release position and/or the front boot holders inside a predetermined rotational angu...

A damping device, which is provided between a handle and pole tube of a sport pole such as a ski pole, combines the action of a helical compression spring (17) with that of a gas compression spring, whereby a rod-shaped body (5) can be displaced inside a tube (3). An elastic insert (13), which is subjected to the action of the helical compression spring (17), is provided at the end of the rod-shap...

Method and apparatus for positioning bead cores during a building of a radial tire carcass in a tire-building machine. The method includes positioning first and second bead cores on respective first and second core-centering devices, on a first side of a carcass drum and centering the first and second bead cores. Further, the method includes grasping, with a second core-setting device, the second ...

A test sensor having a pair of electrodes and a reagent for electrochemically measuring the concentration of the analyte in a liquid sample. The test sensor comprises a capillary channel for collecting the liquid sample and a conductor disposed outside the capillary channel. The conductor is in fluid communication with the capillary channel. The liquid test sample is collected and moved through th...

The invention relates to a monitoring device and system and particularly to a monitoring device (100) that is arranged to be attached (102) to a target to be monitored and to give an alarm by means of wireless data transmission when the target to be monitored is moved. The monitoring device (100) includes a motion-sensitive sensor (104) that is arranged to give a signal as an output when the targe...

A method and system for producing a spliceless tread ring (2) of cured elastomeric material, wherein the tread ring (2) is produced by molding and curing a spliceless green ring (13) obtained by continuously extruding and depositing a section (40) directly onto a mold core (11) of a centripetal press (42); the mold core (11) being movable axially, with respect to a curing mold (43), between an ext...

A system comprising a measuring module for executing measurement of a sample on an analytic test unit; and an optical unit (1), where the optical unit includes a lens (2) and an aperture (3), where the light can be focused through the aperture, the lens and aperture of the optical module are combined as a single piece in a multi-component spray casting part, and the lens is made up of translucent ...

This invention describes an apparatus and method, where the processing of each individual operator is labelled to each individual processed object through tracing the object. By determining at least one characteristic property of the object before and after the processing, parameters such as the weight of each processed object, the efficiency of the processing, the yield and other parameters relat...

The article has a purchase order (1) comprising an optical reader zone (2) regrouping an transmitter individual identification zone (3), individual controlled products identification zones (5) and quantification zones (6), where the zones (5, 6) are associated to each other. A product identification tag (16) comprises an optical reader code associated to a numeric or alphanumeric product identific...