The present invention relates to a nonoriented electrical steel sheet coated on both surfaces with a cured insulative coating for providing a high level of surface r esistivity to minimize interlaminar power losses. The cured insulative coating on the steel sh eet includes, based upon 100 parts by dry weight, 20-60 parts of aluminum phosphate, 20-70 parts of at least one inorganic particulate sili...

An improved front loading washing machine and method of wetting clothes in a front loading machine is provided. The balance ring of the machine has a plurality of holes extending 360.degree. around the ring through which water is flowable. A water supply line directs water to the space between the machine tub and spinner, such that the water flows by gravity along the outer surface of the balance ...

Novel hyaluronan-binding peptides are provided. The peptides are useful in preventing and treating disorders associated with altered tissue levels of hyaluronan or RHAMM, including cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune disorders and fibrotic disorders associated with tissue trauma.

Methods and systems for routing information to a destination through a plurality of networks, wherein at least one of the networks is a packet network. The system comprises a routing processor for receiving a routing query signal, which specifies the destination to which the information will be routed and a memory for storing at least one characteristic of the destination. The processor determines...

A blow molded product which is generally tubular having a first and second open ends, a bellows section intermediate said first and second ends so that the product is flexible, and a skirt adjacent the second end, the skirt having an outer cylindrical outer surface and a lobed inner surface. The bellows section is formed in a blow molding operation and the skirt is formed by injection molding. The...

System to stop the side sliding door (6) of a work vehicle provided with a back swing-door (8) collapsible on the body side, said side door being slidingly supported by means of small arms (14) provided with guiding rollers (16;17), between a position of maximum opening and a closing position; the stop system including a combination means to absorb energy (24',28), means to stop (24,38,46,49) the ...

There is disclosed a modular electric system easy and quick to be assembled, comprising: a control and managing central unit (1); a plurality of electric modules; a component-carrying module (19) and a plurality of modular connecting means (41) adapted to interconnect the control central unit (1) and the electric modules. The modular connecting means (41) comprises connecting raceways equipped wit...

An earth-boring bit has a bit body and at least one bearing shaft depending inwardly and downwardly from the bit body. The bearing shaft has a base where it joins the bit body. At least one cutter is mounted for rotation on the bearing shaft and has radial and axial surfaces that cooperate with the base of the bearing shaft to define a bearing seal gland. A bearing is defined between the cutter an...

A protection facility is provided for use in an optical communications node that communicates with another optical communications node via first and second bi-directional communications paths respectively serving as a service path and protection path, in which a filter filters signals respectively received over the service and protection paths and generates a main signal and a complementary signal...

The total porosity is calculated by summing over the effective porosity and the CBW porosity. With the correction described in this patent, an overcall of the t otal porosity from some part of the clay bound water signal being counted twice is avoided. The effect will be more significant in shaley sand where CBW porosity i s abundant. The correct T2 distribution is essential to BVI and SBVI estima...

The present invention relates to a percutaneous bone anchored transferring device and a connecting device for obtaining a transfer of an electrical signal and/or energy and/or distribution of a drug and/or airing of a body cavity and a system and a method for using the same.

The present invention relates to a percutaneous bone anchored transferring device and a connecting device for obtaining a transfer of an electrical signal and/or energy and/or distribution of a drug and/or airing of a body cavity and a system and a method for using the same.

A method of enabling roaming of a mobile intemet-access terminal from a first to a second intemet access network each of which has a home agent for routing intemet datagrams between networks. The method comprises de-registering the mobile terminal from said first network and registering it with said second network and allocating to the mobile terminal a new intemet address in said second network. ...

A method for cleaning and recycling protective atmosphere for a float glass facility wherein contaminated protective atmosphere is cooled, preferably while scrubbing out particulates, compressed, and then purified by passage through a bed comprising water selective and hydrogen sulfide selective adsorbents.

This invention provides a battery separator of improved resistance to splitting and puncture strength having five microporous membranes laminated together. The first, third, and fifth membranes are strength layers, and preferably are polypropylene. The second and fourth layers are shutdown layers, and preferably are polyethylene. The present invention is based on the discovery that a penta-layer s...

The invention relates to a method of treating the L1 and L2 signals of a positioning system in which each of said L1 and L2 signals presents a single frequency carrier modulated by a known pseudo-random code P, itself modulated by an unknown code W, in which: a) each of the signals L1 and L2 is correlated in a respective system with a locally-generated replica of the P code; b) the first and secon...

The invention related to a platinum/ruthenium alloy catalyst that comprises finely-dispersed alloy particles on a powdery, electrically-conductive carrier material, methods of making it, and its use in fuel cells having a polymer electrolyte membrane. The catalyst is particularly resistant to carbon monoxide poisoning when the alloy particles display mean crystallite sizes of 0.5 to 2 nm.

A container for soluble metals is provided that is adapted to control soluble metal wastes, particularly heavy metals. In particular, the container of the present invention provides a breakable capsule adapted to release a composition that is capable of reacting with soluble heavy metals to produce an insoluble metal compound. The composition may include reactive sulfides, phosphates and a base.

Overcurrent limiters (1) based on high temperature superconductors (SLa, SLb) have low availability because of inhomogeneities in high temperature superconductors, which lead to hot spots if stabilizing measures are not taken. In order to increase availability, in at least one current branch in parallel with a first high temperature superconductor (SLa), at least one inductive impedance (3) is pro...