A new natural fiber and rubber composition for use in clothing and fashion accessories, is provided. The rubber portion of the new composition includes recycled rubber, most preferably recycled tire rubber. The fiber portion of the new composition includes natural fiber fabric such as hemp or cotton fabric.

The invention relates to a release agent for bituminous material, characterized by a mineral oil-free composition containing an aqueous dispersion of a polyalkenamer, preferably of a polyoctenamer. The release agent may additionally contain a dispersing agent and at least one fatty acid ester. The release agent may also be used for the cleaning of surfaces contaminated with bituminous material. Th...

A one-step direct method of making a high molecular weight functionalized polyolefin aqueous emulsion is provided. In this one-step direct method, a functionalized polyolefin having a molecular weight of at least 10,000, a fatty acid, a base, a surfactant, and water are heated in a pressure reaction vessel to a temperature above the emulsification temperature of the polyolefin with agitation for a...

Methods and apparatus for hair treatment are disclosed which comprise applying electromagnetic radiation (EMR) to a skin treatment area to deposit energy in one or more hairs so as to modify a shape and/or chemical structure of at least a portion of the hairs. The applied radiation can cause heating of the hair tips, so as to modify their shape, e.g., reduce sharpness of the hair tips. Modificatio...

There is disclosed an interface and architecture for a transaction system capable of collecting data for filing of intellectual property rights, which includes provision for collecting text data, image data, audio data, and/or video data, and supplying that data to a service provider in a form which enables the service provider to apply for legal protection for that data.

By providing an apparatus unit replacement assisting method, in which, upon receipt of a request from a first user to replace a first unit comprising part of an apparatus with a second unit, the second unit is offered to the first user at a price after the deduction of the trade-in price of the first unit, and maintenance is performed on the first unit taken from the first user for trade-in, so th...

A computer-implemented method of making a presentation of data requested by a question received via a user interface of a database, wherein data items are categorized as measures or dimensions, and in which question data items of the type measures or dimensions can be associated to specify a set of data; the method comprises the following steps: parsing (301) the question for associations of dimen...

The present invention relates to compositions for producing poly(meth)acrylimide foams having reduced flammability which comprise ammonium polyphosphate and/or zinc sulphide. Furthermore, the present invention also provides poly(meth)acrylimide moulding compositions and also poly(meth)acrylimide foams obtainable from the abovementioned compositions and moulding compositions. The present invention ...

PURPOSE: A method for electronic banking transactions using the Internet is provided to enable users to hedge risks for uncertainty occurring usual life and receive a financial reward for the risks by making diverse indexes, news, and events into goods, and transacting the goods as off-board derivative goods. CONSTITUTION: The user registers/logs in to a trading system constructed to transact the ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tension adjusting device of a cable in which a stepless tension can be adjusted, and noise is not produced on the operation.

SOLUTION: The tension adjusting device of the cable installed in an equalizer E is provided with an input device 15 to tow forward in order to apply a parking brake, an output transmitting member 16 engaged with the input member 15 v...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a joining method for firmly joining two members by an easy technique without using any adhesives.

SOLUTION: In the joining method, a joining base material having a surface on which an organosiloxy group exists is joined to a material to be joined having a surface on which a hydroxyl group exists. The joining method includes a process for applying ultraviolet...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an oxide superconductive compression forming conductor superior in the flexibility of the conductor and current density Je.

SOLUTION: After a powder of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8is filled into a pure silver matrix and a shrinking process is applied, many pieces of these are bundled and engaged with a silver alloy pipe, and furthermore,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a magnese diboride superconducting wire rod for signal reception which can realize each magnetic resonance equipment excellent in analytic sensitivity, a probe coil using the wire rod, and a method for manufacturing the probe coil.

SOLUTION: As a first means, the probe coil for nuclear magnetic resonance equipment around which a diboride magnesium supercondu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of a current lead constituted for housing a flux conductor in a metallic pipe with optimal density.

SOLUTION: A metallic pipe 2 is inserted into a part of holders 3 having a crack formed to match a finish shape and is compressed in the radial direction after inserting a flux conductor 1 into the metallic pipe 2 with internal sectional ...

The terminal has a SIM which aids the operation of a terminal such as mobile phone. Control equipment has in and output equipment to operate the terminal, and a smart card reader is included for contacting the contact points on a smart card which is to be inserted into a receptacle.

The damping plate for the braking of a friction lining consists of two co-planar parts (11,12) with an elastomer insert (13) between them, forming an air gap (14). The air gap during the braking of the friction lining (9) on the first damping plate is reduced and in extreme cases reduced to zero so that the first damping plate and second damping plate bear one against the other. The elastomer inse...

The object of the present invention is to provide a gas discharge panel, where the conversion efficiency of discharge energy into visible rays and the panel brightness are improved, with the color purity being improved as far as possible. To achieve this object, in a gas discharge panel, the pressure of discharge gas is set in a range of 800-4000Torr, that is higher than a conventional gas pressur...

A propylene resin composition suitable for use as a non-stretched film comprising (A) 50-95 parts by weight of a polypropylene resin, (B) 3-40 parts by weight of an ethylene/ alpha -olefin random copolymer, the alpha -olefin having at least three carbon atoms and the random copolymer having a content of structural units derived from ethylene of 60-95 mole %, a density of 0.900 g/cm<3> or lowe...

Insecticides, and particularly termiticides, may be dissolved in monomers polymerized to form foamable polymers, such as polystyrene. The resulting monomer and insecticide may then be polymerized in a conventional manner and either impregnated with a blowing agent or expanded using an extrusion process to produce polymeric foam having insecticidal properties. The polymer may also contain a flame r...

Expanded articles of biodegradable plastic material are produced by agglomerating expanded particles with density from 0.1. to 0.003 g/gm<3> and size from 0.5 to 10 mm of diameter, made of a material comprising: from 50 to 95% by weight of thermoplastic starch; from 0.5. to 45% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polymer; from 2 to 20% by weight of water; subject to a heating treatment...