The invention relates to a device for guiding or treating a multifilament thread in a melt spinning process or in a textile machine, which contacts a running multifilament thread with a thread contact region, wherein the thread contact region comprises a ceramic surface made of a ceramic material. In order to obtain a thread-protecting surface that is favorable with respect to friction, according ...

Plate consisting of a steel substrate (1) and a precoat (2) consisting of a layer of intermetallic alloy (3) in contact with said substrate, topped by a layer of metal alloy (4), characterized in that, on at least one precoated face of said plate, an area (6) situated at the periphery of said plate has said metal alloy layer removed.

Production of cutting tools with a holder (1) in which a removable cutter (2) is mounted comprises treating a tool base (3) using a generative manufacturing process to produce the final shape of the holder.

In control apparatus and method for a hybrid vehicle, a target driving power and a target driving torque are calculated from at least one of detected values and estimated values of both of a vehicle speed and an accelerator opening angle, a target engine speed is calculated from the target driving power; and target values of motor torques of the first and second motors/generators and of an engine ...

An apparatus for detecting a hazardous condition including fire, smoke or both includes an optical module for measuring scattered light caused by the hazardous condition, wherein the optical module is configured to output at least one signal indicative of the scattered light, at least one temperature sensor configured to output at least one signal indicative of a temperature in proximity of the te...

In a diagnostic imaging system (10), a monitor (50) monitors periodic biological cycles of the subject (14). A trigger point detector (60) detects a time (t1, t2, . . . ,tn) of a common, reoccurring reference point (R1, R2, . . . ,Rn) in each periodic cycle of the subject (14). A sequence selector (62) selects a sequence (64) of nominal sampling segments (Si, S2, . . . ,Sn). An adjustor (70) adjus...

The present invention relates to a method of epilating hairs, in particular of light color, e.g. light brown, red, blond, white, or non-pigmented, the method comprising the steps consisting in: i) mechanically removing the hairs to be treated so as to cause blood masses to form in the follicular sacs of the removed hairs; and ii) exposing the blood in contact with the follicular papillae of the re...

The invention relates to tracking the configuration of a vehicle (1) having a multitude of components for which it is desired to consult and record various items of data specific thereto, and their identification/authentication parameters, history, and operating state. A plurality of transponders (17, 17A), each coupled to one component of the vehicle (1), communicate this specific data via a mesh...

A driver model with higher precision is created as an evaluation standard for a driving condition in a normal condition. Further, a driving action is estimated using a driver model which can be created easily and can represent driving characteristics of a driver more precisely. By detecting biometric information of a driver, whether a driver is in a usual condition or not is recognized. Then, data...

Method for assisting the protection of trade marks comprising the following steps: collecting data comprising at least one natural language term relating to a field of activity, these data being indicated by a user; determining, in an automated manner, on the basis of the natural language term or terms indicated by the user, a suggestion comprising goods and/or services and their respective classe...

A company technical document group analysis supporting device comprises index term extracting means for extracting an index term from a group of documents of a subject company including a technical document group, clustering means for classifying the document group of the subject company under given conditions to acquire multiple clusters, number-of-documents determination means for determining th...

A carrier development system wherein registrant communication terminals carried by registrants, an employer end communication terminal, and a system server computer are mutually connected via a communication network such as the Internet, and wherein the computer automatically assigns the registrants, who satisfy employment requirements of an employer end, to time frames (cells) corresponding to jo...

A computer based banking system is provided in which at least selected clients termed participating system members have access to a remote device adapted to communicate with the computer base banking system such that financial transactions can be conducted by remote operation of the remote device by the participating system member to result in the debiting of a financial data base record associate...

The invention concerns a method of making a payment transaction between a customer and a merchant using a payment card (200) of the customer including steps of: transmitting details of the payment transaction from a mobile device (202) to a remote server; capturing at least one image of the payment card using the mobile device of the merchant; transmitting the at least one image of the payment car...

A Network capable entity, having an estimator for estimating a superpeer number of required superpeers in a hierarchical peer-to-peer network, the number depending on an actual network situation, and for estimating an existing superpeer number of actually existing superpeers in the hierarchical peer-to-peer network, and a controller for promoting a different networking capable entity to become a s...

In a method of synchronizing with a separated disk cache, the separated cache is configured to transfer cache data to a staging area of a storage device. An atomic commit operation is utilized to instruct the storage device to atomically commit the cache data to a mapping scheme of the storage device.

Una composición de cola termoplástica reactiva en forma de pastillas que fluyen libremente, comprendiendo la composición: una resina reticulable que incluye al menos un copolímero de etileno con un monómero insaturado etilénicamente, incluyendo la resina uno o más de un copolímero de etileno-ácido acrílico, un copolímero de etileno-ácido metacrílico, y un terpolímero de etileno-ácido acrílico-ácid...

The system (10) has data transmission units (21, 21', 43) connected on a mobile service terminal equipment (20). A crane data structure is readable by a data processor, where the structure has data for identifying a crane (11). The structure has a software for transmitting data with the equipment by the transmission units. The software includes data sets for identifying the equipment for reading t...

A method for packaging products including the steps of delivering an initial packaging material to a package assembly line; reshaping the initial packaging material into self-supporting initial packages; packaging the products in these initial packages; delivering second packaging material to the package assembly line and packaging the initial packages, filled with the products, in the second pack...

Composition (I) comprises at least one microgel and at least one functional additive. Independent claims are included for: (1) the preparation of (I); and (2) a plastic, rubber, thermoplastic elastomer, coating composition or lubricant, comprising (I).