A plurality of mobile robots forming part of a travel control system are controlled by a travel control station. The travel control station directs each of the mobile robots to a destination where it performs selected operations. The robot, in response to instructions from the travel control station, searches the route selected by the travel control station and sends the results of the search to t...

The unit includes a light source (1), a partially reflecting plane surface (2), and a retroreflecting surface (4). Also provided is an automatic working unit for detecting faults. The The source illuminates the object (3) via the partially reflecting plane surface and the optionally shaped retroreflecting surface. A telecentric or approximately telecentric optic selectively illuminates and images...

Verbundelemente, enthaltend DOLLAR A i) thermoplastische Folie, an die sich haftend DOLLAR A ii) das Produkt der Umsetzung einer Reaktionsmischung, enthaltend DOLLAR A a) Isocyanat, DOLLAR A b) Polyetherpolyalkohol mit einer Funktionalität von 1,9 bis 8,0, einer Hydroxylzahl von 250 bis 1800 mg KOH/g sowie 10 bis 100% primären Hydroxylgruppen, DOLLAR A c) mindestens eine organische und/oder anorga...

Process for producing formed Ta/Nb powder metallurgy products using Ta and/o r Nb hydride powders with an oxygen content greater than a target level, e.g., 300 ppm, heating the metal hydride in the presence of another metal having a higher affinity for oxygen, removing the other metal and any reaction byproducts, to form a metal powder with an oxygen content less than the targ et level and formi...

The invention relates to a method and a device for detecting the position of a vehicle (F1-F4) in a given area (100), especially a storage facility. The inventive method comprises the following steps: the size and angle of incremental movement vectors relating to the movement of the vehicle (F-1) i s detected; a respective reference position of the vehicle (F1-F4) is automatically determined at p...

An umbrella assembly (10) comprising a base (12), a pole (14) mounted on the base (12) extending upwardly and outwardly from the base (12), a carriage (1 6) slidably mounted on the pole (14), and an umbrella frame (20) including an adapter (18) releasably engagable with the carriage (16). A handle (28) is rotatably mounted on the pole (14), and a cable (136) is coupled at one end to the handle (2...

The present invention is drawn to a unique application of the Maximum Likelihood statistical method to commercial neural network technologies. The present invention utilizes the specific nature of the output in target marketing problems and makes it possible to produce more accurate and predictive results by minimizing a gradient criterion to produce model weights to get the maximum likelihood res...

Internet-e-commerce wird hocheffizient und dabei hochsicher ermöglicht durch Vorrichtungen und Verfahren zur Durchführung und Abrechnung eines über das Internet (7, 14) tätigbaren Kaufes eines Käufers (1) bei einem Verkäufer (3) von Produkten (8) oder Dienstleistungen, wobei für einen vom Käufer (1) über das Internet (36) beantragten (24) Kauf seine Mobilfunkteilnehmer-Identität repräsentierende M...

Die Erfindung betrifft das Ausgeben von Stückgut an den Empfänger. Dabei werden folgende Schritte durchgeführt: Überbringen oder Übersenden einer Stückgutbenachrichtigungskarte mit einer maschinenlesbaren Identifikations (ID)-Nr. an den Empfänger und Aufbringen der gleichen ID-Nr. auf das Stückgut, Lesen dieser auf dem Stückgut aufgebrachten ID-Nr. und Einlagern des Stückgutes in einem automatisch...

A transaction based award program method and apparatus that includes a list of members and merchants participating in the program. A method is provided for operating the transaction based award program wherein participating members earn awards from participating merchants based on transactions recorded in electronic transaction records. The awards being provided in a common currency and wherein th...

A nonwoven (10) having a low tensile strength and high elongation in the first direction (typically the CD (12)) and high tensile strength and low elongation in the second direction (typically the MD (14)). The nonwoven (10) has a plurality of bonding points (20) defining a total bonding area along the second direction (14) greater than along the first direction (12). Accordingly, the nonwoven has...

A stock management system (1) comprises a management center device (2) (a stock management server (6) and a basic system (7)) connected to user terminals (3) installed in a large number of warehouses (5) through communication lines (8) and a distribution center terminal (4). Stock data (681) in the stock management server (6) is updated according to past record data about carrying stored commoditi...

Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zur Herstellung von expandierbaren Polymerpartikeln auf Basis einer Mischung aus A. einem bioabbaubaren aliphatisch/aromatischen Copolyester und B. einem bioabbaubaren natürlichen Polymeren, wobei die Mischung A + B in einem Extruder aufgeschmolzen, mit einem flüchtigen organischen Treibmittel vermischt, ausgepresst und granuliert wird.; The invention relates t...

A polymer composition comprising, based on the total weight of (A), (B), (C) and (D), (A) from 10 to 89.99 percent of a substantially random interpolymer comprising in polymerized form (i) from 35 to 89.5 mole percent of one ore more alpha -olefin monomers and (ii) from 65 to 10.5 mole percent of one ore more vinyl or vinylidene aromatic monomers and/or one or more sterically hindered aliphatic o...

A coating composition which gives on polycarbonate substrates a hard coat film excellent not only in surface hardness and marring resistance but in adhesion to the substrates. The coating composition comprises a material giving a hard coat and an organic solvent. The organic solvent comprises a solvent (S) which attacks the polycarbonate at 25 DEG C, in an amount of at least 70 wt.% based on the ...

A three dimensional imaging system is described which uses a diffraction grating (4) to divide a wavefront and ancillary optical modules (5, 6, 7) in each diffraction order to modify the imaging characteristics in each order. Object planes (9, 10, 11) located at different distances from the diffraction grating are imaged simultaneously and spatially separated (12, 13, 14) on a single image plane a...

Serversystem und Verfahren zur automatischen Bestimmung, Überwachung und Übermittlung von aktuellen Wertdaten individueller Portefeuilles von Produkten mit sich über die Zeit ändernden Kurswerten wie insbesondere Wertpapieren, Terminkontrakten, Derivaten wie z.B. Futures und anderen an Börsen und Terminbörsen handelbaren Produkten zwischen einem wenigstens eine Signalerzeugungseinheit und einen La...

A method of marketing and selling a filtering network access services to subscribers in a multi-tiered distribution chain. Special interest groups distribute the network service provider's browser software to users and receive a portion of the subscription fee for registering each user. The filtering system (100) comprises a network filter and a user filter resident in the subscriber's terminal (2...

A user authentication method to authenticate a registered user of a service over a computer network, the method comprising the steps of: (a) permitting a client user to request a service from a service provider having one or more information pages accessible from said computer network; (b) requiring the client user to submit a first password via said one or more information pages to the service pr...