A shell seafood cracking and serving device for cracking shell seafood with little mess and effort by the user. The shell seafood cracking and serving device includes a utensil having a handle member and a seafood cracking member being securely attached at an end of the handle member.

A cured tire having an integral adhered applique both cured in the same cure step in a mold to form spaced apart scuff resistant ribs under the applique on the sidewall of the tire, said applique a thin gauge non-staining compatible rubber backing adhered to said sidewall, a highly stable rubberized ink design adhered to said backing and covered with a removable film before and at the time of remo...

An adhesive polyester film which comprises a biaxially oriented polyester film base layer and an adhesive layer and which is particularly useful as a base layer for a sublimation-type thermosensitive image transfer recording material. This base layer has no point at which the gradient of its temperature-dimensional change curve changes from a positive value to a negative value when temperature is ...

A method and apparatus are provided for correcting ambient temperature effect in biosensors. An ambient temperature value is measured. A sample is applied to the biosensors, then a current generated in the test sample is measured. An observed analyte concentration value is calculated from the current through a standard response curve. The observed analyte concentration is then modified utilizing t...

"Portable, individualized, hand washing agents dispensers are filled and checked out from a control station to healthcare workers and worn by the workers outside their clothing. Unique worker identification signature ID numbers in magnetic counterpart to bar code, and unique dispenser identification signature ID numbers in magnetic counterpart bar code are stored in computer memory. At patient tre...

An apparatus and method are provided for interfacing railway controllers with light units, such as LED light unit arrays, to shunt and/or disable test signals not traditionally intended to test non-incandescent light unit arrays.

An MRI system acquires NMR image data to produce real time anatomic images as an ablation device is guided into contact with target tissues in a patient to be thermally treated. The ablation device includes a resistive element at its operating end which receives alternating current from an ablation control system. The resistive element produces therapeutic heat that treats the target tissues.

A method and apparatus for managing cache memory is described. The invention improves the efficiency of cache usage by monitoring parameters of multiple caches, for example, empty space in each cache or the number of cache misses of each cache, and selectively assigns elements of data or results to a particular cache based on the monitored parameters. Embodiments of the invention can track absolut...

A new control circuit for a watchdog timer which is incorporated on the same integrated circuit as a microprocessor or microcontroller. The control circuit permits either permanent or software enablement or disablement of the watchdog timer depending on the operating mode of the microprocessor.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for ensuring fault detection and system recovery in a multiprocessor computing system. This system comprises a multitude of processing element modules, input/output processor modules and shared memory modules. Each module within the system includes an identical period sanity timer capable to reset the module once a predetermined limit count i...

The use of enol ether capped polyether-polysiloxane copolymers as surfactants in polyurethane foam applications is taught herein. These enol ether capped surfactants exhibit a high capping efficiency and yield good performance. Moreover, they are stable in water/amine premixes.

In a sealant-containing tire, an outer liner 2 is fastened to an inner surface of a tread 4 of a tire body 1, and a sealant chamber 7 that is filled with sealant 6 is defined between a central part of an inner liner 3 and an inner surface of an outer liner 2 by fastening left and right ends of an inner liner 3 to an inner surface of a side wall 5 of a tire body. The tire body comprises a mixture o...

Bu bulus, asagida belirtilen etaplari içeren, bir lastik karkasina (2) sirt (3) geçirilmesine yönelik metot ile ilgilidir:bir sekilde örtülmüs olan tekerlek lastigi karkasi (2) bir janta (6.6') monte edilir ve sisirilir, ve bu da sirtin (3) kaliplanmasini saglayan halka sekilli bir iç satha sahip olan esnek bir halka tipi kalibin (7) sirtin (3) üzerine yerlestirilmesini; kalibin (7) her çemberinin...

Apparatus (10) for inspecting external dimensional parameters of a container finish (12) that includes a light source (16) for directing light energy onto the finish (12) of the container (14) and a matrix array sensor (24) disposed to receive an image of the container finish illuminated by the light source. A telecentric lens (32) is positioned to focus onto the matrix array sensor (24) an image ...

"COMPOSIçãO DE COMBUSTìVEL MOTOR, E, PROCESSO DE PREPARAçãO DA MESMA". A invenção refere-se a um combustível motor para motores a diesel, de turbina a gás e a jato, inclusive motores padrão, que compreende uma mistura de compostos orgânicos contendo oxigênio ligado e opcionalmente uma fração de hidrocarboneto. O combustível é um líquido homogêneo estável à pressão atmosférica e à temperatura ambie...

"MECANISMO DE SINCRONIZAçãO DE ENGRENAGENS". Mecanismo de sincronização de engrenagens controlado e comandado por atuadores (101, 102) eletromagnéticos ou por um sistema eletromecânico assistido e governado por uma central de processamento eletrónico que, de forma controlada, ajusta a rotação do eixo piloto (1) de acordo com a rotação da engrenagem a ser engatada (3, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57 figura 1, o...

The present invention concerns a method of preparing PM products by high velocity compaction of iron or iron-based powers having irregular powder particles.

A flexible isocyanate-based polymeric foam which has: (i) low resiliency; (ii) a Tg less than or equal to about 0° C.; and (iii) a change in tan delta less than or equal to about 35% from a median value measured over a temperature range of from about -20° to about +60° C. The foam may be produced using a formulation comprising selected plasticizers as set in the disclosure. The subject foam is les...

The invention relates to the driving of transport means .For perception purposes, a value of at least one parameter is represented in such a way that it is accessible and can be reached at a current value thereof taking into account the dynamic and character of changes during the time prior to the present. The accessible values of the parameter are modified in order to reach the desired parameters...

The invention relates to a packaging device for a liquid that is to be dispensed drop by drop, comprising a container (1) with manually elastically deformable walls, which ends in a rigid neck (3) in which a head (4) for dispensing the liquid is mounted. A membrane (31) which is both hydrophilic and hydrophobic, advantageously antibacterial, is arranged in the dispensing head (4) across the passag...