A windmill consists of a rotary head with wind wheel on which wind energy transformers are installed, with additional wind wheels, and a fixed support. Axis of rotation of the wind wheel is placed in horizontal position. Each transformer of electric energy is equipped with two additional wind wheels, those are installed in sequence, have opposite direction of rotation, and axles of rotation of tho...

The method involves pinching a flat object (1) between a fixed plate (2) and an elastically deformable wheel (3) rotatably mounted around a fixed axle (4). The wheel has a tread (4a) contacting the object and radially deformed under the pressure exerted by the object while the object is pinched. A laser beam is guided on a reflective strip (4b) of the wheel to measure thickness of the object, wher...

The invention relates to a mammography apparatus, comprising a bracket having one of its arms fitted with an X-ray tube head, comprising an X-ray tube for producing X-radiation and a collimator for collimating X-radiation, and the bracket arm opposite to the X-ray tube head is fitted with an image forming element, said bracket being further provided with a compression means for compressing the bre...

A sheet of material which is made two dimensional which inlcudes portions that are removed that allows the sheet to be folded to create a three dimensional structure without the need for cutting and darting.

An electro-magnetically operated device is described in which a magnetisable armature, typically a length of thin naturally resilient mild steel, is sandwiched between, and extends from, two parts of a magentic circuit which contains an air gap into which the armature extends. An electromagnet polarizes the armature along its length so as to cause the end thereof in the air gap to be attached to o...

An interlock mechanism for a food product slicer that prevents the carriage support of a reciprocating carriage from being removed from the slicer housing unless the gauge plate of the slicer is closed and the carriage is positioned along a predetermined portion of the path of reciprocation of the carriage. The interlock mechanism includes a pivoting interlock plate and a stationary interlock bar....

The invention relates to a nonwoven mat as half-stuff which contains a high performance thermoplast as melt fiber and a reinforcing fiber, and also a method for producing a nonwoven mat of this type and fiber composites produced from the nonwoven mat.

A method for determining charges in real time for value-added services in a telecommunication network, having an intelligent network structure, in which a caller selects a value-added service by dialing an associated destination number. This destination number is intercepted in an intelligent network element of the telecommunication network and is converted into a special access number for the val...

The invention concerns a method comprising detecting tubes inside carriers (P), detecting an expected imbalance of the centrifuge (CE) and, when said detection reveals the presence of such an imbalance owing to the presence of an insufficient number of carriers (P) or an odd number of carriers (P), the method consists in: simulating the load of the centrifuge incorporating the incomplete carrier (...

The stack lifting drive has a stack support plate (2) raised and lowered by a motor (6) via a cable (3). The motor is supported relative to the frame by a compression spring (8), and has a limit switch to trip the motor under predetermined conditions. The casing of the motor may be rotatable around the drive axis and has a lever arm (7) which interacts with the compression spring.

A method controls the speed of a motor vehicle in accordance with risk. Each risk element of a road segment is evaluated for the specific risk potential thereof by taking into consideration the perils and the actual speed of the driver of the motor vehicle. An integral risk potential is calculated for the road segment on the basis of the sum of the specific risk potentials of all detected risk ele...

The invention concerns a method for securely providing identification data of a banking card to a user. The invention is characterized in that said identification data of the banking card are directly created by said user from appropriate generating means ( 6, 1 ), the resulting generated card data are then communicated through telecommunication means ( 6, 5; 1, 2 ) to a computer server of a finan...

Method in which a customer (1) applies to a vendor's web server (3) for a personal identification number (4) by filling in a form including his mobile phone number and paying a minimum amount. The details in the form are checked in a database and in the testing is successful the customer is sent a PIN or similar via e-mail. To finally authorize the account the user sends an SMS message to the web ...

A method for online purchasing with high operating security, comprising the steps of: purchasing a card which bears a code and with which a PIN for enabling the card is associated; creating, by communicating the code and the PIN, a virtual account (3) which is univocally associated with the card; when the owner of the card wished to make a purchase online, entering the code of the card and the PIN...

A water-based coating composition for automobiles comprises a resin in emulsion obtained by emulsion polymerization of a mixture of alpha,beta-ethylenically unsaturated monomers with an acid index of 3-50 and comprising at least 65 wt.% of (meth)acrylate ester with 1 or two carbon atoms in the ester part, a coloring component comprising an optically coherent lamellar pigment and an acrylic polymer...

The invention is directed to a process for multilayer coating of substrates which comprises a) applying a filler layer of a filler coating composition to a substrate, b) curing the resultant filler layer by irradiation with high energy radiation and c) applying a top coat layer to the cured filler layer and curing the top coat layer, whereby the filler coating composition comprises A) at least one...

A method for applying a reactive epoxy containing coating to a substrate, said method comprising subjecting said substrate to a plasma discharge in the presence of a compound of formula (I) or (IA) where R1 or R1a is an optionally substituted hydrocarbyl group or heterocyclic group; R2 is an optionally substituted straight or branched alkylene chain; and Y is oxygen or a...

A sun gear 6 is rotatably fitted on a circle which is located on the inside of and concentric with an internal gear 4. A plurality of planet gears 8 carried by a planetary carrier 10 are disposed between the internal gear 4 and the sun gear 6 in meshing engagement with the internal gear 4 and the sun gear 6. In operation, a frictional resistance between a tooth crest 8a of the planet gear 8 and a ...

Improving interlayer adhesion in multi-layer coatings made by a wet-in-wet process involves using an aqueous basecoat based on a binder dispersion comprising a graft copolymer with a hydrophobic core and a hydrophilic shell, obtained by polymerising olefinic monomers in presence of a polyurethane containing unsaturated groups, e.g. ethenylarylene groups. A method for improving interlayer adhesion...

The present invention relates to coated articles wherein the polymer chains of the coating are obtainable by after-glow plasma-induced polymerization of a monomer under specific plasma conditions. The invention further relates to a method for the production of articles coated with a polymer of said features.