A vacuum electrode module comprises in a housing (1), a vacuum cup (2) having an end wall (3) and an annular sealing member (4) to form a vacuum chamber with a patient's skin. An electrode (5) extends through the end wall (3) to engage the patient's skin to detect signals of electrical activity of the patient's heart. A connector block (6) of resilient material is provided in the housing (1) with ...

The present invention relates to a method for the installation and repair of insulated piping, wherein the insulated piping comprises an outer pipe 1, 1.1 or 1.2 made of a weldable polymer material that encases an inner pipe 2, 2.1 or 2.2 embedded in an insulating layer 4, and wherein the inner pipe 2, 2.1 and 2.2 has been substantially exposed over a section A between the ends 1 a and 1 b of the ...

Use of compounds from the class of compounds Cx+1H2X+3(C2H4O)yOH where x = (44y/ W - 44y + 17/ W - 32) / 14 x = 0 1 =y=20 0.58 = W = 1.0 as additive to urea solutions to counteract the risk of clogging of catalytic converters.

This invention provides accurate, high quality images for the identification of the surface characteristics of an object, that may be used as an input to suitable industrial process. It involves acquiring a first raw scan of a portion of a target object across a scan line in a scan zone with a first camera and simultaneously acquiring a second raw scan of the same portion of the target object acro...

A sharpening device for manually sharpening the cutting teeth of saw chains for chain saws has a frame, which has two head parts (spaced apart from one another and two pairs of guide rods which are, in each case, arranged parallel to one another and to a longitudinal axis and rigidly connect the head parts to one another. Parallel to the longitudinal axis, round files and two file faces are held w...

A motor-compressor assembly (6) for a refrigerating and/or conditioning system of a vehicle, said system (1) having a refrigerating circuit (2) with a condenser (3) and an evaporator (5) for carrying out a refrigeration cycle on a refrigerant fluid. The motor-compressor assembly (6) has an electric motor (7) and a compressor (8) connectable in the refrigerating circuit (2) and actuated by the elec...