An exercise device (100) having a footrest (102) including a plurality of angled surfaces (146,148,150) for placement of the user's feet and a pair of rotatable arms (104) extending from the sides of the footrest. A handle (118) is positioned over the arms and is resistively connected to the exercise device by an elastic cord (120) releasably attached to the handles and extending through the arms ...

FIELD: collective games, applicable for drawing of lotteries. SUBSTANCE: n lotteries are conducted simultaneously, signals of distinctive characters are formed, the extent of the prize fund for each conducted lottery is calculated separately, and then after drawing according to the law of accidental figures, the information signals corresponding to the lucky lottery tickets are determined, of whic...

FIELD: sorbing materials for removal of oil product pollutions. SUBSTANCE: sorbent includes two layers, one of which is made from preliminarily fastened together by needle puncturing polypropylene fibers. Both layers are fastened to each other by needle puncturing. Polypropylene fiber layer is denser than layer of hollow siliconized polyester fibers. EFFECT: higher floatability of material with hi...

FIELD: geophysical exploration of holes, seismic profiling in steeply inclined and horizontal holes. SUBSTANCE: facility includes containers with geophysical transmitters and rollers-centralizers, geophysical communication cable and tubular members with grooves and elastic couplings. Containers are interjoined by means of elastic braces formed by sections of geophysical cable carrying system of cy...

FIELD: means for estimating category of objects, their identifying criteria, and for recording their condition. SUBSTANCE: system intended for servicing clients requests on presence (or absence) of real estate rights and servicing public and local authorities has n data input and processing channels, intelligent recording block, documentary data block, peripheral information storage and retrieval ...

FIELD: wind-power engineering; automatically controlled off-line and power-grid windmill-electric power plants. SUBSTANCE: windmill- electric power plant has differential gear transmission whose links are mechanically coupled with windmill shaft, ac generator shaft, and adjustable dc machine shaft, respectively. Adjustable dc machine armature is electrically connected to second dc machine armature...

An apparatus and method of automatically and anonymously buying and selling positions in fungible properties between subscribers. The specific embodiment described in the disclosure relates to the buying and selling of securities or contracts where the offer to purchase or sell the property may be conditioned upon factors such as the ability to purchase or sell other property or the actual purchas...

There is provided an optical wavelength converting apparatus comprising a first (11) and a second (19) light sources and a nonlinear optical material (29) so that beams (17,25) from the two light sources are allowed to be incident on the nonlinear optical material to generate sum frequency light (35) of these beams, wherein the nonlinear optical material is provided with a periodic structure (31) ...

An improved x-ray image sensor system and method enables the use of an uncooled or only slightly cooled CCD array (18a) within a standard size x-ray film cassette (10). The sensor system enables the provision of a number of advanced functions such as remote diagnostic capability, variable image resolution, real-time exposure control, automatic x-ray detection, a low-power "sleep" mode, and automat...

An improved apparatus for hemodialysis treatment includes an ultrasonic module with an ultrasonic transducer coupled to a membrane or hollow fiber dialyzer. An ultrasonic waveform generator is switchable between various modes, including a narrowband sine wave, a variable or sweeping frequency sine wave and a broadband square or sawtooth waveform. A low power setting is used to increase the diffusi...

The present invention relates to a device for obtaining a predetermined linear force, including a first elastic force means (Ee 1, 56 ) and a force output means ( 16, 76 ) in the form of a non-elastic, flexible elongated member. The invention is characterised by a force transformation means ( 10, 12, 72 ) arranged between said first elastic force means and the force output means, such that a pulli...

Press felt for a papermaking machine has support made up of layers (3, 4, 5) of parallel fibers (6, 7, 8). These have spacer fibers between them which are soluble in a solvent which does not dissolve the parallel fibers. An Independent claim is also included for a method for making the felt in which spacer fibers as described above are embedded between the parallel fibers and are dissolved from b...

In a case where a vehicle stops and a brake sensor is ON, a stop control of an engine (2) is started at a point in time, and when an engine rotational speed becomes equal to or less than a predetermined rotational speed threshold value at a point in time, an electric oil pump (8) is driven based upon an electric oil pump voltage. An input clutch oil pressure based upon an oil pressure supplied by ...

An antenna device (10) is constructed such that a short circuit is formed by an antenna (16) formed on an outer surface of a dielectric substrate (14) and an input end side resonance electrode (32) of a filter section (18) formed at the inside of the dielectric substrate (14), and an output end side resonance electrode (34) of the filter section (18) and an output electrode (36) are coupled to one...

Multilayer meltblown fibrous webs, as well as apparatus and methods of forming the webs. The webs are produced on a rotating collector that also moves parallel to its longitudinal axis. The webs are thus formed in a helical process, and the resulting tubular web is separated in a direction parallel to a helix angle. By separating the tubular web in a direction parallel to the helix angle, a flat m...

An apparatus and method for guiding and cutting a continuously advancing yarn (1) during a package doff in a takeup device. The yarn is guided by means of a yarn guide (18) which is movable substantially parallel to a package or to a new tube (13), which is driven by a drive roll (29). Downstream of the yarn guide (18), a deflection device (2) and a suction device (37) are arranged, with the sucti...

The braking control system includes a control unit configured to be electronically connected to at least an object detector and a host vehicle speed sensor for automatically controlling, depending on a host vehicle speed (Vm) and a relative distance (L), a braking force needed for an automatic braking operation, comprising preliminary braking control or supplementary braking control, without drive...