In a method and CT apparatus for producing CT images of a body region periodically moving with resting or motion phases, data corresponding to a number of projections serving the purpose of imaging are analyzed to determine whether each projection was acquired during a resting or motion phase, and only those data that were acquired during a resting phase are employed for image reconstruction.

The lock-up clutch of a torque converter is engaged to directly couple the output shafts of an engine and a transmission, when the engine speed is slightly less than that of the transmission. The engine speed is made to rise when the difference between the engine speed and input shaft speed of the transmission is detected to exceed a preset value. The torque converter is interposed between the en...

A control device for a hybrid vehicle is provided, which executes charging o f a capacitor when a depth-of discharge of a capacitor exceeds a predetermined depth-of discharge which is set based on a vehicle speed. The control device of the hybrid vehicle, provided with an engine, a motor for assisting the output of the engine, and a capacitor for supplying electric power to the motor and for stori...

The device comprises a lifting mechanism (1), a sheet-inserting means, means for detecting the front top level of the stack (32) connected to a computer acting on an electric motor (11) of the stack-lifting mechanism (1), and means for raising the stack (4). The detector (32) of the front level of the stack (4) comprises means for measuring the extent of variations in the level of the stack. The c...

An apparatus is adapted to centrifuge and furthermore automatically handle a container (10) for separating a component, such as fibrin monomer, from plasma. The container (10) comprises a cylindrical member (11) and a piston (25) displaceable therein and comprising a tubular piston rod (12), which extends through the top wall. The piston (25) divides the cylindrical member (11) into a first chambe...

An ambidextrous drill holster (10) is provided which enables the drill holster to be accessible for both left handed and right handed users.; L'invention porte sur un étui à mèches (10) à double sens utilisable à la fois par les gauchers et par les droitiers.

A system for efficient delivery of radio frequency (RF) energy to cardiac tissue with an ablation catheter used in catheter ablation, with new concepts regarding the interaction between RF energy and biological tissue. In addition, new insights into methods for coagulum reduction during RF ablation will be presented, and a quantitative model for ascertaining the propensity for coagulum formation d...

Disclosed is a medical apparatus assembly (10) comprising a medical device (11) that includes a side port assembly 13 adapted to combine a first pathway (37) for infusion of fluids with a second pathway (38) for wire guide (12) into a first passageway (26) while the second passageway (27) includes the third pathway (39), which comprises a control member (24), such as an electrical wire. The side p...

In automatic vehicular velocity controlling apparatus and method for automotive vehicle, a target vehicular velocity to maintain a predetermined inter-vehicle distance between a preceding vehicle which is running ahead of the vehicle is set as a first set vehicular velocity and a vehicular velocity of the vehicle (host vehicle) is controlled to give one of the first set vehicular velocity and a se...

Zur Bestimmung der Position eines auf einem Schienennetz verkehrenden Schienenfahrzeuges (2) wird eine Ortungsinformation dadurch ermittelt, dass von einem im Schienenfahrzeug vorhandenen, mit einer Empfangs- und/oder einer Sendeeinheit versehenen Benutzergerät mindestens eine erreichbare Übermittlungsstation (3) eines Mobilfunk-Übermittlungssystemes kontaktiert wird. Aus dieser Ortungsinformation...

Process for preparing rigid polyurethane foams using a surfactant composition comprising at least a first moderate surfactant and at least a second weak surfactant according to a weight ratio first:second ranging from 1:25 to 5:1.; L'invention porte sur un procédé de préparation de mousses de polyuréthane rigides au moyen d'une composition de tensioactifs comprenant au moins un premier tensioactif...

Polyurethane and/or polyurea polymers are reinforced using certain crystalline and amorphous reinforcing polymers. The reinforcing polymers have crystalline melting temperatures and/or glass transition temperatures from about 40-200 DEG C, and are relatively miscible with the reacting polyurethane and/or polyurea formulation.; L'invention concerne des polymères de polyuréthane et/ou de polyurée r...

Traffic of autonomous vehicles (32) in a mining operation is controlled by dividing predetermined trajectories (20-30) into zones of free operation, "permission zones" (50, 54, 58), wherein the vehicle is allowed to move according to predetermined permission parameters but unhindered by other system constraints. Permission zones are assigned and activated using criteria that ensure the vehicle wil...

A method of manufacturing components for a tire for vehicle wheels includes the steps of picking up a toroidal support using a robotized arm, feeding at least one elongated element from a delivery member disposed adjacent to the outer surface of the toroidal support, giving the toroidal support a rotatory motion around a geometric axis of rotation of the toroidal support so that the at least one e...

A method of manufacturing a carcass structure for vehicle tires includes the steps of making at least one carcass ply by deposition of elongated sections circumferentially distributed on a toroidal support and applying annular reinforcing structures to a region close to inner circumferential edges of the at least one carcass ply. Each of the elongated sections extends in a U-shaped configuration a...

Disclosed is an improved electrochemical sensor having a base bearing a working and counter electrode which provides a flow path for a fluid test sample. The working electrode has a reaction layer on its surface which contains an enzyme capable of reacting with an analyte to produce electrons which are received by the working electrode. The base is mated with a cover to form a capillary space into...

A beer-like carbonated alcoholic beverage rich in the characteristic flavor of an organic acid such as malic acid or citric acid is obtained by conducting with a Rhizopus or white-Aspergillus mold the saccharification of malt in beer brewing. The formation of the organic acid during the production process makes it possible to allow the fermentation to proceed stably. Furthermore, the beverage obta...

A wedge shaped interlayer blank is used in the fabrication of a laminate e.g. a vehicle windshield to provide the subsequently formed windshield with opposing major surfaces that are non-parallel and offset at a predetermined angle such that images from a display source that are reflected off the opposing major surfaces of the windshield are substantially superimposed over each other.

A barrier rib for an EL display element. The rib is formed from the radiation sensitive resin composition containing (A) an alkali soluble resin, (B) a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, and (C) a radiation sensitive polymerization initiator.

The invention refers to an apparatus for positioning medical treatment devices or treatment supporting devices (2) by a transportation means (1) to move said devices (2) to a predetermined position, said transportation means (1) including an automatically guided transport system (3, 7), and to a corresponding method and the use of an automatically guided transport system to perform said positionin...