A user is able to informatively control how contact information is provided to one or more applications through the use of a persona interface object, corresponding personas and contact information, and an information picker interface. The persona interface identifies available personas, each persona having different contact information. The user can select a persona to use in response to an appli...

A downhole fluid pump including a pump chamber, and a piston disposed in the pump chamber so that the piston will move in one selected from a charge stroke and a discharge stroke when the piston is exposed to a differential pressure. The downhole fluid pump may form part of a formation evaluation while drilling tool.; Una bomba de fluido de fondo de pozo que incluye una camara de bomba, y un pisto...

A method for determining formation pressure at a depth region of formations surrounding a borehole, including: keeping track of the time since cessation of drilling at the depth region; deriving formation permeability at the depth region; causing wellbore pressure to vary periodically in time and determining, at the depth region, the periodic and non-periodic component of pressure measured in the ...

A user is able to informatively control how contact information is provided to one or more applications through the use of a persona interface object (210), corresponding personas (220) and contact information, and an information picker interface (300). The persona interface (210) identifies available personas (220), each persona (220) having different contact information. The user can select a pe...

COJINETE-CASQUILLO BIMETALICO (10) QUE TIENE UNA JUNTA AXIAL (17) SOLDADO CON LASER, DE MANERA QUE SIMULTANEAMENTE LA CAPA INTERIOR BLANDA (14) Y LA CAPA EXTERIOR DURA (12) DEL COJINETE SON CONTINUAS Y HOMOGENEAS SIN FISURA INTERIOR O SUPERFICIAL. SE CORTAN LOS BORDES (16) DE LA JUNTA Y SE LES HACE CHOCAR PARA CREAR UNA RANURA AXIAL (29) EN LA SUPERFICIE INTERIOR DE LA CAPA EXTERIOR. DURANTE LA OP...

The invention relates to a device for gas-bubble flotation with a rectangular flotation tank (1a, 1b), at least one liquid inlet (2a, 2b) for a liquid containing suspended matter and a liquid with added gas bubbles in which at least one liquid inlet (2a, 2b) is arranged in the region of at least one corner of the flotation tank. The flotation tank preferably has a square cross section. This makes ...

This invention relates to an engine stall prevention apparatus for a hybrid vehicle. This engine stall prevention apparatus comprises a clutch operation detectio n device which detects an operation of a clutch; a clutch state determination device which determines the state of the clutch based on the relationship between the vehicle speed and the engine speed; a throttle opening degree determinatio...

A continuous method for making starting, lighting and ignition lead-acid battery positive plates and the resulting battery is disclosed which utilizes a directly cast alloy strip wherein the alloy consists essentially o.f lead, from about 0.02 to 0.05% calcium, from about 0.3 to about 0.5% tin, and from about 0.02 to 0.05% silver, the percentages being based upon the weight of the alloy strip, as ...

An apparatus and method are disclosed for supplying printed products to a preferably continuously operating processing section with a plurality of stations. The stations may be feeding stations and each feeding station is assigned a buffer. Each buffer is provided with an arrangement for discharging printed products onto the processing section and can be charged via a mobile supply device. The sup...

"CARTãO DE MARKETING DE LOTERIA E MéTODO DE MARKETING ON-LINE". São descritos cartão de marketing de loteria e método de marketing on-line usando o cartão. O cartão de loteria inclui uma matriz de filas e colunas e caracteres ou símbolos de brindes impressos na matriz. O método de marketing on-line que usa o cartão de loteria inclui as etapas de conectar o cliente a um sítio de oferecimento de bri...

A thread 4 , intended to form a carcass reinforcement for a tire, is laid in contiguous hoops on a rigid core 1 by a system with a single oscillating arm transporting an orifice 6 so as to enable the orifice 6 to pass over a core 1 and come as near as possible to each bead of the tire, in order to lay adjacent hoops.

A storage capacitor structure of a planar display is disclosed. The storage capacitor includes a substrate, a bottom electrode, an insulator, and a top electrode. The bottom electrode or top electrode has an uneven surface toward the insulator interposed between the two electrodes in order to increase the capacitance of the storage capacitor structure. A method for fabricating such storage capacit...

A multi-layered unit according to the present invention includes a support substrate formed of a material which has conductivity and on which a dielectric material containing a bismuth layer structured compound can be epitaxially grown, at least the surface thereof being oriented in the [001] direction, and a dielectric layer formed by epitaxially growing a dielectric material containing a bismuth...

The invention is intended to shorten a positioning time required for forming an irradiation area with high accuracy using a number of leaf plates, and to reduce physical and mental burdens imposed on patients. A multi-leaf collimator comprises leaf plate driving body each including a plurality of movable leaf plates and provided respectively on one side and the other side, the plurality of leaf pl...

The present invention is embodied in a system and method for compressing image data using a lapped biorthogonal transform (LBT). The present invention encodes data by generating coefficients using a hierarchical LBT, reorders the coefficients in a data-independent manner into groups of similar data, and encodes the reordered coefficients using adaptive run-length encoding. The hierarchical LBT com...

A method of transmitting position information of a digital map capable of transmitting a position on a digital map efficiently and accurately in which a transmitting side transmits position information including coordinate series information for specifying a vector shape on a digital map and a receiving side execute map matching by the coordinate series information to the thereby identify the vect...

A transportation vehicle for transporting an individual over ground having a surface that may be irregular. The vehicle has a support platform for supporting the subject and the support platform is coupled to a ground-contacting module at a pivot. While the ground-contacting module may be statically stable, balance of the support platform with respect to the ground-contacting module is maintained ...

A surface cleaner for assemblies having a spray nozzle such as pressure washers, spray wands, spray lances, and the like. The surface cleaner includes a guide having wheels in line with the spray nozzle for substantially maintaining the distance from the spray nozzle to a surface through a variety of angles assumed by the spray wand or the like. In exemplary embodiments, the guide is capable of be...

A method for making a fine electrically conductive grid embedded in a polymer substrate. The method includes the steps of providing a polymer substrate, forming a pattern of grooves in the substrate, filling the grooves with electrically conductive powder, and then applying heat and/or pressure to the substrate. The application of heat and/or pressure to the substrate causes the grooves to collaps...

A method and apparatus for monitoring grounding of personnel and equipment in electrostatic discharge (ESD) sensitive areas. The device generates a low voltage alternating current control signal ( 60 ) which is applied to personnel ( 50 ) and equipment ( 350 ) being monitored. The device further includes signal conditioning ( 66 ) and detection means ( 70 ) to distinguish static charges from the c...