The present invention relates to a nozzle for the injection of a liquid under pressure (3), comprising a vertical feed pipe (1) surmounted by a hollow head (3), the liquid under pressure being conducted between the outer wall (4) of the vertical feed pipe (1) and an inner tube (5), the upper part of the nozzle comprising at least one lateral orifice (6) for expelling the liquid under pressure (3)....

Method and device for providing an increment shifted transmission ( 9 ) for motor vehicles including an in-going shaft in a housing. At least one intermediate shaft in the housing exhibits at least one gear wheel ( 16, 17 ) in engagement with a gearwheel ( 12, 15 ) on the in-going shaft. A main shaft in the housing has gear wheels ( 15, 21, 22, 23 ) and is in engagement with gear wheels ( 18, 19, ...

The motor-fan unit comprises a turbine (12) housed in a casing to generate airflow, motor (14) for driving the turbine, and support forming a cover that closes off the casing on one side. The control module is mounted on the rim (24) of motor support cover on outside and the radiator is partially engaged through an opening (28) in motor support cover, which opens laterally into the casing.

The upward gear-changing sequence consists of an initial declutching phase (1), a gear changing phase (2) and a clutch re-engagement phase (3). The clutch re-engagement phase comprises a first stage in which it is closely quickly and partially, re-establishing engine torque and acceleration, and a second stage in which the clutch slip is regulated by acting on the torque provided by the engine and...

The gear changing relationship has a gearbox with an input shaft. The final angular speed of the shaft is determined as a function of the initial speed. An electrical machine control is applied to provide a first braking couple and then a second assistance couple is applied after a set time.

Method and arrangement for controlling a clutch coupling ( 3 ) via a brake control ( 17 ). The primary function of the clutch coupling ( 3 ) is to transmit motive force from an internal combustion engine ( 1 ) arranged in a vehicle to an automatic stage-geared gearbox ( 9 ) that is arranged in the vehicle, and in which the primary function of the brake control ( 17 ) is to control service brakes (...

Surface-crosslinked superabsorbent polymer (SAP) particles having a clay in the vicinity of the surfaces of the SAP particles a clay are disclosed. The clay is added to SAP particles during surface crosslinking to substantially reduce the generation, and recycling, of SAP fines, and to provide SAP particles having an improved acquisition rate of fluids and an improved permeability of a fluid throu...

The mobile control unit has a data processor (8) having a data input device (12) and coupled to a GPS receiver (16) for reception of time and position data, for determining a movement protocol, the position data for the latter compared with the position data fields of the controlled devices held in a memory. The data processor is coupled to a transceiver (18) for transmission of the movement proto...

A method is provided for creating a phase mask for lithographic exposure operations. In this case, phase-shifting regions ( 10 ) with a different phase are defined on both sides of critical structures ( 6 ), which fall below an extent limit. At least one phase shifter correction is carried out such that at least two mutually facing phase-shifting regions ( 10 ) are joined together to form a contig...

A foamed sheet containing a polymer composition including a polymer formed by polymerizing a mixture including 40% to 90% of styrenic monomers; 5% to 45% of maleate-type monomers; 0.1% to 25% by weight of elastomeric polymers with Mn greater than 6,000; and 0.1% to 10% by weight of low molecular weight polymers that include one or more monomers according to the formula CH₂-CR³

A negotiation system according to various aspects of the present invention comprises an information system configured to store negotiation information relating to a negotiation, and an assessment system responsive to the negotiation information from the information system for automatically assessing the negotiation according to the negotiation information. The negotiation system stores the negotia...

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for logging an earth formation and acquiring subsurface information wherein a logging tool is conveyed in borehole to obtain parameters of interest. The parameters of interest obtained may be density, acoustic, magnetic or electrical values as known in the art. The parameters of interest are acquired with a plurality of sensors. For time based ...

There is disclosed a system and method for managing the privacy of a patient's PHI within a medical/healthcare domain (e.g. within a healthcare institution or organization). More generally, listing of a caregiver or assistant in a patient's circle-of-care is managed by a circle-of-care manager that tracks the names and any aliases for any caregivers/assistants, as well as the name and any aliases ...

A method and system of coordinating events that occur between a time that a person enters a health care setting and a time that the person is discharged from the health care setting by generating and operating a health care setting specific workflow module that includes receiving a selection of one or more predetermined events, and associating one or more workflow processes with the one or more pr...

By using a high molecular weight syrup phase comprising PMMA or PMMI, it is possible to distribute fillers in the polymerization batch so that the distribution of the fillers remains homogeneous during the polymerization. A homogeneous foam results.

A wrapping film which has a resin composition (C) layer containing 100 parts by mass of an aliphatic polyester resin (A) and 5 to 40 parts by mass of a liquid additive (B) as at least one surface layer, characterized in that it exhibits a surface roughness of 0.5 to 4.0 nm, a tensile modulus of 400 to 1500 MPa, a heat resistance temperature of 130°C or higher, and a work of adhesion of 0.5 to 2.5 ...

Methods, systems and data structures are described for conducting synthetic continuous double auctions. A method includes participating in a synthetic continuous double auction having contingent bidding on a plurality of heterogeneous item auctions. A composite reverse auction, defined by a bid set including a first contingent bid on a first of the plurality of heterogeneous item auctions and a se...

A device, method and processor-readable storage medium for enrolling a consumer in a merchant loyalty program are disclosed. Consumer identification information may be received from a consumer via an input device. Loyalty identification information associated with a loyalty card may be determined. The loyalty identification information may be associated automatically with the consumer identificati...

A device, method and processor-readable storage medium for enrolling a consumer in a merchant loyalty program are disclosed. Consumer identification information may be received from a consumer via an input device. Loyalty identification information associated with a loyalty card may be determined. The loyalty identification information may be associated automatically with the consumer identificati...

A project-work administrative management method includes receiving, from a buyer, project-administration configurations, storing transactional project work data relating to project work to be performed for the buyer by a supplier, receiving, from the buyer, configuration of project statement-of-work (SOW) records, processing a project change in plan/scope record set of the buyer, processing a proj...