A lighting unit (1) comprising display means (20) for displaying graphic material (11), lighting means (13) for frontal illumination of the graphic material (11), mounting means (19) for supporting the display means (20) and suspending means (4) for suspending the lighting system (1) above the ground, the display means (20), the lighting means (13), the mounting means (19) and the suspending means...

A vulcanisation mould for the manufacture of technical rubber products, in particular for the manufacture of vehicle tyres, is disclosed, which has a plurality of vent openings, with at least a part of the vent openings being provided in the lamellae (3) which are inserted into the mould (1); which are made at least double-walled and have, at the mould wall side, openings (5) which are offset rela...

A catalyst suitable for use in the production of unsaturated aldehyde and unsaturated carboxylic acid through vapour phase oxidation of one or more compound selected from propylene, isobutylene, t-butanol and methyl-t-butyl ether with molecular oxygen or molecular oxygen-containing gas, which catalyst is characterized in that it is a complex oxide composition comprising (A) a complex oxide compr...

A silicon steel plate excellent in magnetic properties, workability, flatness, punching quality and the like is produced easily even in a case of high Si content as much as 12 wt%, through ÄAÜ powder mixing process using iron powder and Fe-Si alloy powder, ÄBÜ powder rolling process for forming the mixture into sheet metal, ÄCÜ sintering process, ÄDÜ cold rolling process, ÄEÜ diffusion annealing p...

A system for controlling a speed of a vehicle having a continuously variable transmission (CVT) and a cruise controller which controls the traveling speed of the vehicle to a desired speed in response to the instruction to cruise control inputted by the vehicle operator. In the system, the detected throttle opening is smoothed or filtered such that the speed ratio of the continuously variable tran...

A foil cutting assembly, in particular for a wrapping machine, comprising: a fixed knife (28) and a rotating knife (22), having respective blades (44, 36) cooperating with each other, and adjustment means for varying the interference between the fixed knife (28) and the rotating knife (22). The fixed knife (28) is rotatably mounted about an axis (50) parallel to the axis of rotation of the rot...

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a sintered body of carbonitride alloy with titanium as the main component and at least 2 at% of each of tantalum and tungsten and that the atomic N/(C+N) ratio is 25-50 at% and cobalt as the binder phase and which does not have any compositional gradients or center porosity concentration after sintering. This is achieved by processing the...

The present invention relates to a sintered body of a carbonitride alloy with titanium as main component and additionally Ta, W with specific ratio N/(C+N) 0.25-0.50 which has improved properties particularly when used as cutting tool material in cutting operations requiring high toughness. This has been achieved by combining a carbonitride based hard phase of specific chemical composition with an...

An inexpensive device with a disposable cartridge for preparing tissue sealant is disclosed. The device is particularly applicable to star preparation of autologous tissue sealant. A method of sealing tissue in which the tissue sealant is applied immediately after mixing platelet-rich plasma concentrate (from the device) with a solution of calcium and thrombin is also disclosed. Preparation in the...

A vehicle tyre(1) has cuts(3) in the tread which in plan view have a zig-zag or wave form along a direction(E) running roughly in the axial direction(A) of the tyre. When viewed tangential to the tread and perpendicular to the direction(E) the cuts(3) display peaks(4) and troughs(5) inclined to a tyre radius and extending from the cut base(G) to the tyre surface. In the same view all peaks(4) and ...

Verfahren zum Behandeln von Halbleitermaterial bei dem eine oder mehrere mittels eines Energiewandlers erzeugte Schockwellen, in einem flüssigen Medium auf ein stabförmiges Halbleitermaterial übertragen werden, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Energiewandler vom Halbleitermaterial einen Abstand von 1 cm bis 100 cm hat und eine Schockwelle eine Pulsenergie von 1 bis 20 kJ und eine Pulsanstiegszeit b...

An apparatus 10 for automatically effecting the change of the cones for feeding the weft yarn 12 to a textile machine 14 such as, for instance, a loom or a warper, comprising a rotating magazine 21 on which the various cones of weft yarn are loaded, a known yarn feeding device 22 adjacent to the machine 14, and an intermediate assembly 23, arranged between the magazine 21 and the feeding device 22...

A lead-acid battery electrode plate is manufactured by consecutively supplying a lead or lead alloy sheet; leaving a part in the vicinity of the center of the sheet as a non-expansion portion and expanding both sides like mesh to form a grid body; filling active material paste into the grid body; and cutting the grid body to predetermined dimensions. In the lead-acid battery electrode plate, the n...

System comprises: (a) 3 containers (C1, C2 and C3) where C1 and C2 and C2 and C3 are in fluid communication; (b) a first porous medium interposed between C1 and C2 (LDM) comprising at least 1 of a leukocyte depletion medium, a red cell barrier (RCBM) and a combined LD-RCBM; and (c) a second porous medium interposed between C1 and C2 comprising a leukocyte depletion medium. Also claimed is a blood ...

The invented process comprises regioselective opening of a chiral epoxide of the general formula IV by successive treatment with a strong base, a Lewis acid and dichloroacetonitrile under formation of a chiral epoxide of the general formula V and subsequent stereoselective inversion/isomerization thereof to oxazoline of the general formula VI, whereby R represents in all the formulae methane sulfo...

A weaving heddle formed of a strip of material has end eyes adjacent opposing end sections of the heddle and a central thread eyelet. The spaced apart legs forming the long sides of the heddle eyes extend transversely outwardly of the opposing edges of the strip from which the heddle is made, and in the area of at least one of the short sides of the rectangular end eye is an auxiliary squeeze-pres...

The utility model discloses a water supply device for a solar water heater, which realizes automatic water supply and is composed of a water tank and a liquid control valve, wherein, the water tank is used for positioning a floating ball, and the liquid control valve is communicated with the water tank by a vertical pipeline. A lever of the floating ball is connected with a piston arranged in a pi...