Subject: Manufacture of an automatically-operating washing machine for all kinds of carpets or the like. Technical features: Innovative coupling system of brushes and combinational forward and rearward motion of carpet propulsion belts (fig. 1, 2) guided by automation regulating the width of the oscillation and guiding the motors of the carpet-propelling belts and washing brushes (fig. 2 - positio...

A polishing slurry includes liquid medium and particulate abrasive. The particulate abrasive includes soft abrasive particles, hard abrasive particles, and colloidal silica particles, wherein the soft abrasive particles have a Mohs hardness of not greater than 8 and the hard abrasive particles have a Mohs hardness of not less than 8, and wherein the soft abrasive particles and the hard abrasive pa...

The architecture of the high-speed shared service provides a Node B yielding various sets of information that answer a set of basic questions that a data service needs. Many potential measurements the Node B can make are provided to the RNC to enable a resource manager to perform certain functions and which can be used to answer the set of basic questions.

An illuminating equipment is provided. The equipment comprises a housing containing a head end, a reflector disposed in the housing and near the head end, the reflector having a aperture, a packaged system located in the housing, and power supply. The packaged system comprises a casing, a heat-conducting device located in the casing and having a flat portion, at least a heat-dissipating fin dispos...

The present invention relates to a pressure sensitive adhesive sheet 1 comprising a base material 11 and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer 12 wherein a plurality of through holes 2 passing through one face of the pressure sensitive adhesive sheet 1 to the other face are formed. The hole diameter of the through holes 2 is 0.1 to 300 µm and the hole density is 30 to 50,000/100 cm 2 . It is prefera...

An exemplary embodiment relates to a method for forming a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET). The method includes providing a substrate having a gate formed above the substrate and performing at least one of the following depositing steps: depositing a spacer layer and forming a spacer around a gate and gate insulator located above a layer of silicon above the substrate; de...

A charge pump circuit has a voltage increasing stage and a voltage decreasing stage in parallel, and sharing a common input. This shows charge to flow between the stages, so that charge used in the pumping of one stage is recycled to the other stage.

A discharge lamp lighting apparatus includes a first inverter, a second inverter to output a voltage whose phase is opposite to that of a voltage provided by the first inverter, a discharge lamp connected between a first output terminal of the first inverter and a first output terminal of the second inverter, a first current detection circuit arranged between a second output terminal of the first ...

A printing material container is detachably attachable to a printing apparatus having a plurality of apparatus-side terminals. The printing material container comprises a first device, a second device, and a terminal group that includes a plurality of first terminals, at least one second terminal and at least one third terminal. The plurality of first terminals are connected to the first device an...

A capacitor is provided to overcome the following problem: when plural capacitors are linked, a large coupling space is required because an anode and a cathode are brought out through the opposite ends, so that downsizing of the capacitor is difficult. The capacitor also allows easy electrical and mechanical coupling, reducing the required coupling space and unnecessary resistance. According to a ...

A window lift system, especially for the side window of a motor vehicle, includes (i) a pulling device and (ii) a catch for a window pane, which can be moved up and down using the pulling device. The catch has a first fastening point for an upward pulling end of the pulling device and a second fastening point for a downward pulling end of the pulling device, which point is horizontally off-set fro...

A light emitting element circuit has a light emitting element, a drive circuit that supplies a current to the light emitting element, and a signal circuit that autonomously supplies a signal according to an ambient temperature. The signal adjusts the current such that the current corresponds to a temperature characteristic of the light emitting element.

The invention provides a process for the production of coke which brings about an improvement in the strength of coke or which permits simplification of the humidity control step substantially without lowering the strength of coke; and a process for the production of pig iron by using the coke obtained by the process, more specifically, a process for the production of coke by loading coal into the...

A method of monitoring the condition of a pump (10) or at least one component of a system that includes a pump which component or components are not a part of the pump, includes the step of generating a predetermined test condition in the pump or system component or components. During a period in which such a test condition is present, signals indicative of the pump or system component or componen...

A functional element-mounted module can be decreased in size and requires no costly and special members for a light transition member. A substrate is used, on which an optical functional element having an optical function part and bonding pads therearound is mounted by wire bonding, with an upper face of the element upward. A bank to dam a liquid sealing resin is provided around the optical functi...

A process for manufacturing a toilet training article in the form of a toilet training pad containing an astringent agent or source thereof is disclosed. The toilet training pad, which may be an insertable pad or integrated directly into an undergarment, contains an astringent agent or source thereof which does not contact the wearer's skin until urination occurs at which time a tingling or other ...

An optical cable module is mainly provided with: an optical waveguide (10), a light-receiving element (11) and a supporting substrate (14) at its end portion of the light releasing side. The end portion of the optical waveguide (10) is fixed in its relative positional relationship with the light-receiving element (11). The end face of the optical waveguide (10) is not made perpendicular to the lig...

Disclosed are composite transparencies and methods for their production. The colored composite transparencies include a surface at least partially coated with a transparent tinted coating deposited from a coating composition comprising polymer-enclosed color-imparting particles.

Tissues having a high level of softness and hand protection in combination with improved cleaning are disclosed. The tissues have been shown to remove more mucus than commercially available tissues.

An elevator device in which a lock disengaging key for disengaging a lock device of a landing door device from the landing side is kept in a key keeping device. The key keeping device holds the disengaging key to limit the removal of the key and allows the removal of the key when predetermined operation is performed relative to the key. An operation control device sets the operation mode to a norm...