A perfected device for walking on snow or ice consisting of platforms ( 1 ) that are fitted on the upper face of the rackets ( 20 ) and have a swivel mechanism ( 6 ) formed by a spherical or similar piece equipped with axles ( 22 ) at the heel end. At the bottom of the platforms ( 1 ), they also have housings ( 24 ), spikes ( 8 ), rackets ( 20 ) and, at the heel end, semi-cylindrical parts ( 23 ) ...

A system and related method of a computer card slot and a bezel. Some of the exemplary embodiments may be a portable computer comprising a computer card slot accessible through an aperture in a housing of the portable computer, a card reader electrically coupled within the computer card slot, and a bezel mechanically abutting an outer end of the card reader (at least a portion of an outer face of ...

Method and apparatus ( 8 ) in which a biomass is carried on a substrate which is fluidised. The fluidised substrate has below it a lazer of distributor particles through which the fluidising medium passes prior to contact with the fluidised substrate and biomass associated therewith. The effect of the distributor layer is that the particles damp out excessive turbulence in the fluidising medium th...

The invention concerns a procedure for estimating unknown amplification factors of a received CDMA signal, which encompasses a plurality of code channels, in which respectively an input signal from a symbol plane is split on a symbol plane through splitting with a split code (omega_a^b(nu)) in a chip plane. The procedure is executed in the following steps: formation of a cost f...

A fuel injection device includes at least two valve elements, disposed in a housing and coaxial with one another, with at least one fuel outlet opening associated with each valve element. On the outer valve element, radially outward from the at least one fuel outlet opening associated with it, there is a first sealing edge which cooperates with a valve seat on the housing and can separate the at l...

The invention provides an injection nozzle for an internal combustion engine, the injection nozzle ( 2 ) including an outer valve member ( 8 ) received within a bore ( 6 ) provided in a nozzle body ( 4 ) and being engageable with a first seating region ( 20 ) to control fuel flow from a first delivery chamber ( 32 ) to a first nozzle outlet ( 22 ), an inner valve member ( 44 ) slidable within an o...

A method of determining a charging capacitance of a capacitor in an air bag system having an electronic control unit for controlling a gas generator, a bus line having a loop wire extending from the electronic control unit, gas generators connected to the loop wire, each gas generator having an igniter connected to the loop wire via a connector, one of the igniter and the connector being provided ...

A device for folding flaps of box blanks having crease lines transverse to the travel direction of the blanks, for use in a folder-gluer. A rotary member is rotatable around a transverse axis and provided with at least one folding arm. A removable linking device linking to a support secured to a frame of the folder-gluer. An adjusting device adjusts the position of the folding arm with respect to ...

A wastewater treatment and dispersal system wherein wastewater will stand until it has a BOD of less than about 125 mg/l. The dispersal field may comprise inner and outer conduits, an inner conduit and a permeable outer cover, or a trough and an enclosure.

Character strings in sample data are classified into groups of character strings with the same leading n characters (for example, "abc"). Then, one character string with the highest appearance frequency (the most frequently appearing character string) in the sample data is extracted from each group. The most frequently appearing character strings extracted from each group are registered in a dicti...

A technique is provided for segmenting a structure of interest from a volume dataset. The technique identifies regions of the structure using templates having characteristics of the structure of interest. The identified regions may then undergo a constrained growth process using dynamic constraints that may vary based on local statistics associated with the identified structure regions. Edges with...

To easily identify the owner of an object currently drawn on a collaboration work area, or an object already drawn thereon, to easily carry out an editing operation for the object of each owner by selectively identifying the object drawn by a particular owner. A user management table registers the node identification code and the owner identifier of a user system therein, and an object management ...

PURIFICADOR DE AR UTILIZANDO LìQUIDO COM ROTOR DE CENTRIFUGAçãO A presente invenção se refere a um purificador de ar utilizando líquido com um rotor de centrifugação com um motor elétrico ao invés de utilizar filtros, então a separação das partículas de poeira pode ser obtida de maneira completa, eliminando-as do ar, com a diferença de gravidade específica entre o gás e o liquido com poluentes sob...

A translation apparatus retains a first correlation between a Mobile IPv6 terminal's home address and virtual IPv4 address. When the Mobile IPv6 terminal transmits a packet to said IPv6 network with a care-of address specified as the packet's source address and a home address specified in an extension header, the translation apparatus changes the packet's source address to a virtual IPv4 address t...

Described herein is a method and system for sampling rate conversion. A clamped cubic spline interpolator (CCSI) may be utilized to interpolate or decimate a source signal to provide samples at times based on a sink rate. The source clock and sink clock may be driven by independent oscillators, and may therefore drift independently. A rate tracking algorithm may monitor the relative drift and adju...

A method of increasing specific gravity of a liquid or gel type deteregent product having a pH less than about 10.5, while at the same time imparting transparency or translucency to said liquid or gel type detergent product, comprises: (a) providing a liquid or gel type detergent composition having no greater than 20% by weight of (i) potassium tripolyphosphate and (ii) mixed sodium and potassium ...

A method and system for the distribution of water in a high rise building is provided using a minimum number of piping risers. The system has a domestic cold water riser, and a domestic hot water supply riser and a return riser. At each serviced floor, a cold water supply main extends from the domestic cold water riser and a hot water supply main extends from the domestic hot water supply riser. O...

An apparatus for detecting abnormalities in spatial perception that consists of a first transparent screen in a close-vision field and a second screen seen through the first one and located in a far-vision field of a person being tested. The apparatus is provided with devices for forming images selectively on the first or second screen and with a device for tracking trajectories of the eye pupils ...

A device for measuring eye characteristics, an operation device, and the coordinate origin and the coordinate axes of each eye are sufficiently related with one another. A measuring unit ( 111 ) measures eye optical characteristics based on a first light receiving signal from a first light receiving unit ( 23 ), and measures a cornea topography based on a second light receiving signal from a secon...

A first movement unit for moving a condensing position so that a light flux from a light source is condensed on a place close to a retina of a subject eye, and a second movement unit for optically moving a conversion member for condensing a light flux reflected by the retina and a light receiving part for receiving light fluxes can be independently driven and can be further driven by an operation ...