Bobina de hilo de falsa torsión compuesto de fibras de politrimetilén tereftalato, caracterizada porque que la dureza, la densidad de bobinado de la bobina y el número de rizos del hilo de falsa torsión así recogidos cumplen simultáneamente las siguientes condiciones (1), (2), (3) y (4): (1)70 £ dureza £ 90 (2)0, 6 g/cm3 £ densidad de bobinado £ 1, 0 g/cm3 (3)dureza x número de rizos ³ 520 (4)el n...

Máquina para el corte transversal de bandas de material, en particular de bandas de papel o de cartón, con un bastidor de máquina formado por una pared lateral (3, 4) en cada lado longitudinal de la máquina, donde las paredes laterales están unidas entre sí mediante travesaños (16 a 20), y con dos tambores de cuchillas (1, 2) alojados con sus respectivos extremos axiales en las paredes laterales (...

Toma para la conexión eléctrica entre un vehículo y un remolque, que comprende: - una caja (12) realizada en material plástico que presenta una pared cilíndrica (20) la cual define un asiento (14) diseñado para alojar una parte tubular de una clavija complementaria; - un cuerpo de soporte de contactos (24) que lleva una pluralidad de contactos eléctricos (26), incluyendo el cuerpo de soporte de co...

An apparatus for connecting a strap to a pair of eyeglasses is disclosed which may include first and second connection devices and first and second springs. Each connection device may have a loop, a first portion, and a second portion. Each loop may be used to attach the respective connection device to a temple leg of a pair of eyeglasses. Each loop may be separate and distinct from the strap. A m...

Method for measuring friction in a hair sample, comprising: (a) providing a friction member; (b) drawing it through the hair, generating a frictional noise signal; and (c) capturing the signal by a noise sensor. Device suitable for use in said method, comprising comb means having a plurality of tines and a noise sensor arranged to capture frictional noise generated by passage of comb means through...

The invention herein provides a method to improve retention of tensile properties upon aging in poly(trimethylene terephthalate) cast film. The method involves first nucleating the poly(trimethylene terephthalate) resin prior to film formation and controlling the quench temperature during casting of the film. The quench temperature should be controlled to a temperature in the range of from about 1...

Devices and methods for utilizing dry chemistry dye indicator systems for body fluid analysis such as glucose level in whole blood are provided by incorporating a porous membrane with a skin side which enables separation of whole blood and visually reading the indicator without removing the red blood cell portion of the blood from the membrane. The devices also enable visual reading of the indicat...

Disclosed in this invention is a heat-shrinkable polyester film comprising a polyester film support and a coat layer formed on one or both sides of the polyester film support, said coat layer comprising a quaternary ammonium sulfate and a polysiloxane resin.

Methods and systems for monitoring semiconductor fabrication processes are provided. A system may include a stage configured to support a specimen and coupled to a measurement device. The measurement device may include an illumination system and a detection system. The illumination system and the detection system may be configured such that the system may be configured to determine multiple proper...

There are disclosed an elastic member which comprises (A) polyurethane foam obtained by agitationally mixing a foaming agent, a foam stabiizer and a urethane prepolymer synthesized from a polyol and a polyisocyanate in the presence of a modified silicone, or (B) polyurethane foam obtained by agitationally mixing a polyol, a polyisocyanate, a modified silicone oil bearing a functional group reactiv...

A restroom maintenance alert system and method for signaling when a restroom needs service includes a signaling device, an actuator located in a public restroom and configured to communicate with a signaling device to activate the signaling device, and instructions located on at least one of or on or near the actuator and directed to a restroom patron to actuate the actuator if the restroom needs ...

A measuring device comprises an irradiation optical system and a detection optical system. The irradiation optical system comprises a light-emitting element. The detection optical system comprises a cylindrical lens and an imaging element. The cylindrical lens is disposed in such a manner that the direction of a generating line thereof intersects with the direction of travel of the antigens or ant...

An illumination apparatus includes an inner-surface reflecting type integrator, an optical system for directing a beam from a light source to a portion of incidence of the inner-surface reflecting type integrator, an wave-front splitting type integrator, an image-forming optical system for arranging the portion of incidence of the inner-surface reflecting type integrator approximately conjugate wi...

A combine having a camera system is disclosed in which pictures of the ground in front of the vehicle are processed to extract the slope and intercept of a characteristic line indicative of the boundary between the cut and uncut portions of the field. A fuzzy logic algorithm compares the slope and intercept using four input membership functions and a single output membership function. If the slope...

The present invention provides a system and method of detecting a process failure and a network failure in a distributed system. The distributed system includes a plurality of processes, each executing on a host, operable to transmit messages (i.e., heartbeats) to each other on a network. A process in the system is operable to execute a process failure algorithm for detecting failure of a process ...

SE DESCRIBE UNA COMPOSICION PARA SINTETIZAR PLASTICOS DE ESPUMA A PARTIR DE LATAS DESECHABLES A PRESION, QUE SE CARACTERIZA PORQUE EL RESTO QUE QUEDA EN LA LATA TIENE UN CONTENIDO EN MONOMEROS DE DIISOCIANATO DE MENOS DE 5,0 % EN PESO, CON RELACION A LA CANTIDAD DE RESIDUO EN EL CONTENEDOR VACIO. A CAUSA DE QUE EL CONTENIDO SE REDUCE EL DOBLE, EL RESTO QUE QUEDA ES MUCHO MENOS CONTAMINANTE QUE ANT...

UN SISTEMA DE FABRICACION PARA NEUMATICOS COMPRENDE LINEAS DE FABRICACION, CADA UNA UNA INCLUYENDO ESTACION DE CONSTRUCCION DE CUBIERTAS NO VULCANIZADAS, PARA MONTAR ELEMENTOS NO VULCANIZADOS DE LOS NEUMATICOS EN CUBIERTAS NO VULCANIZADAS. SE VULCANIZAN LAS CUBIERTAS NO VULCANIZADAS EN UNA ESTACION DE VULCANIZADO, QUE INCLUYE AL MENOS UNA INSTALACION DE VULCANIZACION EQUIPADA CON UNA PLURALIDAD DE...

Película que comprende un poliéster, comprendiendo dicho poliéster mitades de tereftaloilo, opcionalmente una o varias otras mitades de diácido aromático, mitades de etilenglicol, mitades de isosórbido y opcionalmente una o varias otras mitades de diol; teniendo dicho poliéster una viscosidad inherente de al menos aproximadamente 0, 35 dl/g medida en forma de una solución al 1% (en peso/volumen) d...

An impedance feedback electrosurgical system (100) is useful with electrosurgical tools (104) to maintain a substantially constant level of current wihtin the tissue in contact with the tool. The system comprises active and return elechndes (108, 112) associated with an electrosurgical tool (104), an impedance monitoring device (116) and a power control unit (118). Energy sufficient to affect tiss...