The present invention provides a method for determining magnetometer errors during wellbore survey operations. It is capable of determining errors on up to three axes, with or without the use of an external reference measurement of the local magnetic field, and is capable of providing an accurate result using data from a minimum number of surveys. A model is used to correct the observed data and t...

A collection management system, or virtual jukebox, is provided for a collection of recordings that is independent of the physical media upon which the material is recorded. The system forms a part of a network that includes storage media and playback devices, and provides an easy to use system for collection cataloging, archiving, and retrieval. In a preferred embodiment, a collection management ...

A contact intelligence data mining tool for storing, processing, displaying, and printing relational patterns between entities (e.g., business and other contacts). The tool allows proprietary individual contact data to be merged with accurate and up-to-date public information in order to explore the full scope (or sphere) of an individual's or business concern's scope of influence. It intelligentl...

A method for storing electronic mail, including defining a category set (24) associated with a recipient, and providing the category set to a sender. The sender selects a category (26) therefrom for inclusion in an electronic mail message sent by the sender. The message, including the selected category, is received and sorted responsive to the selected category.; L'invention concerne un procédé de...

A method and device for verifying the integrity of a luggage item from embarkation to disembarkation. The method consists in allocating a specific chip card (2) to the luggage item (1), whereby said luggage item (1) acts as a support for the chip card (2), in addition to making the luggage item go through a device that creates a signature (3) for said luggage item at check-in and/or after said lug...

In a system for authentification of transactions over a public network (100), a terminal (14) sends digitally signed transaction data (SD) to a service provider (20) over the public network (100), together with card application data (CAD) generated by a smart card (18). The card application data (CAD) is sent to an authorization server (30) which checks that the smart card (18) is valid and that t...

The present invention sets forth techniques for channelizing and encoding various broadcast information services using, for example, a broadcast control channel to provide information to a mobile station user. The mobile station may be a receive-only device, similar to a simple pager, or may be a receive/transmit device, such as a mobile phone. In order to limit the capacity of the broadcast chann...

An object of the present invention is to provide a drawn polypropylene film as a wrapping material that has transparency and mechanical properties sufficient as a wrapping material yet having permeability of gases need for maintaining the freshness of the enclosed goods and in addition that enables control of permeability of gases to a certain proportion if needed even if secondary steps such as p...

A filled polymer composition which comprises A) from about 5 to about 90 percent of one or more thermoplastic substantially random interpolymers prepared by polymerizing one or more a-olefin monomers with one or more vinylidene aromatic monomers and/or one or more hindered aliphatic or cycloaliphatic vinylidene monomers, and optionally with other polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s),...

SE PRESENTA UN PROCESO PARA PRODUCIR PARTICULAS ESPUMABLES DE POLIMEROS ESTIRENICOS EN EL CUAL DICHAS PARTICULAS SUFREN UNA SEPARACION PARCIAL DEL AGENTE ESPUMANTE, EL PROCESO SE LLEVA A CABO A UNA TEMPERATURA INFERIOR QUE LA TEMPERATURA DE TRANSICION A CRISTAL (TG) DE DICHAS PARTICULAS.; Described is a process for producing foamable particles of styrenic polymers in which said particles are subje...

SE PRESENTAN PELICULAS IMPERMEABLES A LOS LIQUIDOS, BIODEGRADABLES. EN PARTICULAR, LAS PELICULAS CONTIENEN UNA MEZCLA DE UNA RED INTERPENETRADA DE ALMIDON DESESTRUCTURIZADO CON COPOLIMEROS DE ACIDO ACRILICO/ETILENO O COPOLIMEROS DE ALCOHOL VINILICO/ETILENO Y UN POLIESTER ALIFATICO TAL COMO POLICARPORLACTONA. TAMBIEN SE PRESENTAN PAÑALES, COMPRESAS, BRAGAS Y SIMILARES, QUE CONTIENEN CAPAS POSTERIOR...

SE DESCRIBE UNA COMPOSICION DE EXTRUSION POLIMERICA DE ETILENO QUE TIENE ELEVADA INCLINACION Y REBAJAMIENTO SUSTANCIALMENTE REDUCIDO, UN PROCEDIMIENTO PARA FABRICAR DICHA COMPOSICION Y UN PROCEDIMIENTO DE UTILIZACION DE DICHA COMPOSICION PARA PREPARAR REVESTIMIENTOS DE EXTRUSION, PERFILES DE EXTRUSION Y PELICULAS FUNDIDAS POR EXTRUSION. LA COMPOSICION DE EXTRUSION POLIMERICA DE ETILENO ESTA REALIZ...

UN LASER DE COLORANTE EXCITADO POR LAMPARA DE FLASH GENERANDO IMPULSOS DE LUZ PARA TERAPIA TIENE UN DISTRIBUIDOR QUE PROPAGA UN MEDIO DE GANANCIA A TRAVES DE UNA CELULA COLORANTE. UN CONTROLADOR COORDINA EL FUNCIONAMIENTO DISPARANDO LAS LAMPARAS DE FLASH PARA EXCITAR EL MEDIO DE GANANCIA DE LASER MIENTRAS EL DISTRIBUIDOR PROPAGA EL MEDIO DE GANANCIA. ESTE FUNCIONAMIENTO PERMITE LA GENERACION DE IM...

Proceso de recuperación de metales a partir de barros procedentes de tratamientos superficiales electrolíticos, en el que consta de las siguientes fases: a) se parte de barros neutralizados procedentes específicamente de tratamientos que han utilizado el metal/es (Me) que se desea recuperar y que contiene salles del neutralizador empleado; b) se desionizan dichos barros de los aniones y cationes p...

Polytetrafluoroethylene powder for molding, which contains 0.01-1 wt.% of perfluorovinyl ether units, has a heat of crystallization of 18.0-25.0 J/g, and provides a molded article having a bending life of 7 million cycles or above, a creep resistance (at 200 DEG C, total deformation) of 20 % or less, and a creep resistance (at 25 DEG C, total deformation) of 15 % or less. The powder is excellent...

An oriented film easy to split which contains nylon (Ny) and meta-xylene adipamide (MXD6) at the weight ratio of 40-85:15-60 and which were oriented with magnification above 2.8 times to both direction of MD and TD. The concrete example of nylon (Ny) composes of as nylon 66 (Ny66), nylon 6-66 copolymer (Ny6-66) and so on. Under this manufacturing method of oriented film easy to split, when a raw f...

A film with properties such as good thermal stability, enhanced extrudability, improved oxygen barrier properties, and reduced stickiness to metal surfaces is made by the use of a vinylidene chloride composition with small amounts of a plasticizer, such as epoxidized oil or epoxidized alpha olefin, and with acrylate/styrene polymer, such as methyl methacrylate/butyl acrylate/styrene polymer, butyl...

The disclosed method is intended for deriving a quality signal (Vm) from a binary read signal (Vl') which read signal comprises bit cells (30) of constant length (T). During the reading process, an optical information pattern of optically detectable effects (32) is scanned. A read signal (Vl) is then generated in which first read signal portions that exceed a reference value (Vref) in a first dire...

Disclosed is an extruded propylene polymer resin foam comprising a propylene polymer resin exhibiting a biaxial extensional viscosity of at least 3.0 x 10<6> poise at a biaxial extensional strain of 0.2, and a biaxial strain hardening rate alpha of at least 0.25, the biaxial strain hardening rate alpha being defined by the following formula: $wherein\; eta\; 1\; represents\; the\; biaxial\; extensi...$

The CNC (Computerized Numeric Control) grinding machine has a multi axis control that allows the grinding wheel (4) to be moved relative to a cutting tool component (5) that is held on a coordinate table (6). The tip profile of the tool, which can be for use on a milling machine or lathe, is scanned by a CCD (Charged-Coupled Device) camera (9) and the coordinate data fed to the CNC controller for ...