A window pane for attenuating the effect of a pressure or shock wave after an explosion, in which the window pane includes a safety element and at least two panes, placed at a distance from one another and enclosing a space between them, which are assembled together in their edge regions with aid of a spacing frame with formation of edge grooves. In the window pane the safety element is flexible, ...

The present invention relates to parking brake lever system 1 for manually tightening and releasing of at least one brake cable 90, wherein the parking brake lever system 1 comprises at least one rotation arm 10, 12 pivotably supported at a fixed support 50, wherein the rotation arm 10, 12 is connected to the brake cable 90, and at least one actuation lever 20, 22, which at a first end thereof is ...

A foamed rubber roller including a foamed elastic layer formed as an outer layer thereof. The foamed elastic layer is composed of a thermosetting elastomer composition containing 100 parts by mass of a rubber component and 5 to 60 parts by mass of zinc methacrylate or 5 to 60 parts by mass of a mixture of methacrylic acid and zinc oxide as a filler. The thermosetting elastomer composition is foame...

A vibratory gyroscope including a vibrator ( 10 ) integrally having a plate-like body portion ( 11 ) spreading along a reference plane, three drive arms ( 12, 13, 14 ) extending in a first direction from the body portion along the reference plane, and two detection arms ( 15, 16 ) extending in a second direction opposite to the first direction from the body portion along the reference plane. The t...

The present invention relates to a beam shifting element and to an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to optical storage media using in such a beam shifting element. According to the invention, the beam shifting element has at least a first optical element for deflecting an incoming light beam by a first angle and a second optical element for deflecting the light beam coming from the first ...

The invention provides a formulation including an acetic acid buffer, a glutamic acid buffer or a succinic acid buffer with a pH from about 4.5-7.0, at least one excipient comprising a sugar or a polyol and an effective amount of a therapeutic antibody. The buffer can include a salt of acetate, glutamate or succinate and the sugar or polyol can include glycerol, sucrose, trehalose or sorbitol. The...

A process for electrostatically coating a stent on a catheter. A conductor which is permanently affixed to the catheter contacts a stent mounted on the catheter. Conductive ink applied to the catheter may be used as the conductor. An electrical charge is applied to the conductor. The stent is then coated using an electrostatic coating process.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a retardation film comprising a norbornene type copolymer, being excellent in heat resistance, low specific gravity, low birefringence, low photoelasticity, and low chromatic dispersion and having high performance of retardation compensation. The present invention is a retardation film, which comprises a norbornene type copolymer composition con...

A cellulose acylate film produced by a melt-casting film formation, wherein the total of the number of projections having a height of from 0.1 mum to 100 mum and a length of at least 1 mm and the number of depressions having a depth of from 0.1 mum to 100 mum and a length of at least 1 mm is at most 10 per 10 cm of the width of the film. When built in a liquid-crystal display device, the cellulose...

The present invention pertains to carpet and methods of making and recycling carpet. In one aspect, the carpet includes: a primary backing which has a face and a back surface; a plurality of fibers attached to the primary backing and extending from the face of the primary backing and exposed at the back surface of the primary backing; an adhesive composition backing; and an optional secondary back...

The present invention provides a polyvinyl alcohol film having a film thickness of 30 to 70 mum and a kinetic friction coefficient against a stainless-steel roll of 0.03 or less and a process for producing a polyvinyl alcohol film.

An electronic unit includes a case, a printed circuit board, a connector block, and a connector introducing portion. The case is selected from a waterproof case and a non-waterproof case. The connector block is mounted upon the printed circuit board. The connector block has a retaining projection that engages a mating connector. The connector introducing portion is integrally formed with the cases...

Systems and methods are provided for automatically providing one or more event driven global available to promise services in a supply chain. In one implementation, the system includes an inbound interface for interfacing with a plurality of data storage devices, in at least one of which one or more documents are stored as data, wherein the one or more documents correspond to an activity. The syst...

Online sale of software product use licenses through a data network by offering software products (SOFT) through vendor sites, purchasing a license on-line on one of said vendor sites, and activating said license on-line by a different licensing site. A specific component (COMP) is provided with the software product (SOFT) and identifying data (IDV) of the vendor site are transmitted during the do...

A computer-implemented method disclosed may include providing a plurality of classes to represent at least one attribute of a NIC team, providing at least one association class to represent the relationship between each of the plurality of classes and associating each of the plurality of classes with the at least one association class.

A server 102 and user apparatuses 103 through 105, 106 A through 108 A, and 106 B through 108 B are connected to a network to configure a social networking system. The server 102 stores multimedia data of respective users and best friend lists for identifying users with whom the respective users have established a relationship of best friends within a range of a certain number of users which can b...

Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for unifying user sessions on a network. An user utilizes a transmitting device to transmit user requests that are split between a plurality of data centers for processing. The user requests are captured at the data centers. The user requests are unified into an user session. The user session can be analyzed...

Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for detecting and interdicting fraudulent activity on a network. An user utilizes a transmitting device to transmit user requests that are split between a plurality of data centers for processing. The user requests are captured at the data centers. The user requests are unified into an user session. The user...

Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for subscribing to data feeds on a network. An user utilizes a transmitting device to transmit data packets that are split between a plurality of data centers for processing. The data packets are captured at the data centers. The data packets are recombined. The recombined data can be analyzed for fraud dete...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automobile control system capable of managing an engine with more degree of freedom.

SOLUTION: An internal combustion engine E is provided with control units ECU, GSCU, SCU and sensors S1, S2. The control units control the engine, and drive torque CMis supplied changing in response to a position α of an accelerator pedal AP. The accelerator pedal...