A solid waste material comminuting system having n electric motor for providing rotary motion, a pair of cutter stacks with cutter elements of one stack interleaved with cutter elements of the other, and gear means to transmit the rotary motion of the electric motor to counter-rotate cutter elements of one stack with cutter elements of the other. Each of the cutter stacks comprise a central shaft ...

"MOTORIZAçãO E FECHAMENTO DE EXAUSTOR EóLICO PROVIDO DE CONTROLE MANUAL OU AUTOMáTICO". Se refere a uma exaustor eólico (1), do tipo que compreende um duto cilíndrico (2) reforçado internamente por uma estrutura aletada (3), a qual é montada em eixo central (4) e sendo apoiado inferiormente em base de sustentação (5) onde é prevista abertura circular (6) de dimensões correspondentes ao diâmetro do...

"MìDIA DE GRAVAçãO óTICA QUE PERMITE QUE DADOS SEJAM GRAVADOS NA MESMA, SEJAM APAGADOS DA MESMA, E SEJAM REPRODUZIDOS DA MESMA". Trata-se de uma mídia de gravação ótica na qual são armazenadas informações sobre potências de um pulso de apagamento. A mídia de gravação ótica permite que dados sejam gravados na mesma, sejam apagados da mesma, e sejam reproduzidos da mesma. Na mídia de gravação ótica ...

A system for determining friction between a surface and a tire of a driven wheel in a wheeled vehicle having a first and a second driven wheel, comprising the steps and functions of: - calculating slip values of a first and a second driven wheel dependent on the angular velocity of said first and second driven wheels; - calculating normalised traction forces of said first and second driven wheels ...

A tape application jig (10) comprising a tape application head (2), a jig guide (3) and a tape holding member consisting of a pair of members (6, 16) combined so as to face each other in vertical direction. The jig guide (3) comprises a guide pin (13) capable of abutting during the movement of the jig guide against the surface of the adherent opposite to the tape applying surface portion.

Die Erfindung betrifft einen pulvermetallurgisch hergestellten prismatischen Schneideinsatz (1) zur spanabhebenden Bearbeitung. Der Schneideinsatz (1) ist aus passgenaue zueinander positionierten Teilen (2) gebildet, welche durch eine Wärmebehandlung stoffschlüssig miteinander verbunden sind. Erfindungsgemäß weisen die Verbindungsflächen (3) der einzelnen Teile (2) zum passgenauen Positionieren zu...

Coffee-making device with a piston/cylinder unit, the piston (3) being driven by a crankshaft (11). A swivelling arm structure (13) is also driven by means of the crankshaft, with the interposition of a cam/cam follower mechanism. The swivelling arm structure is provided with a cover (19) for closing off the free end of the cylinder (2). The cover can be pressed onto the cylinder by means of a cam...

A tubeless tire (1) comprising:Twin bead portions (5), each of which lets a wheel engage it;An outer layer portion (2) having a tread portion (6) to be grounding;An inner liner layer (3) included rubber, which is entirely stuck inside of the outer layer portion (2), whereinThere is provided the most inner layer (4) inside of the inner liner layer (3), which not only maintains airtight of the tubel...

An apparatus for delivering energy to a biological site includes a catheter having an ablation electrode and a plurality of backplates distributed at various locations proximal the biological site. The backplates are coupled to a switching device for selecting which backplate to utilize as a return electrode to complete the circuit with the ablation electrode in order to obtain deeper, larger lesi...

Instruments for thermally-mediated treatment of a patient's lower esophageal sphincter (LES) to induce an injury healing response to thereby populate the extracellular compartment of walls of the LES with collagen matrices to altere the biomechanics of the LES to provide an increased intra-esophageal pressure for preventing acid reflux. A preferred embodiment is a bougie-type device for trans-esop...

A biosensor comprising an electrically insulating base plate, an electrode system containing a working electrode and a counter electrode disposed on the base plate, and a reagent system comprising at least an oxidoreductase, a hydrophilic polymer and an electron mediator, wherein the reagent system further comprises a substance having a function to convert an organic product generated by direct re...

The invention is directed to an optical fiber holder apparatus for aligning and positioning an optical fiber such that a user can perform various testing and manipulation of the fiber. The apparatus comprises first and second sides coupled together along a common axis, each having a face containing a plurality of fiber engaging protrusions extending along the face. The fiber engaging protrusions o...

The robot floor cleaner (10) has a main housing with a drive for multiple wheels (21,22). It has a downward looking camera adjacent to the wheels to photograph the floor along an axis perpendicular to the travel direction. A control recognizes the driving distance and direction of the wheels using floor (15) image information to control the cleaning action. Claims include a method of cleaning floo...

An under-cart type guided tractor comprising a frame provided with a driving unit including driving wheels on the underside thereof, the guided tractor being adapted to travel guided by a guide signal sent out from a guide element, such as a magnetic tape laid along a traveling path on a floor surface, and to draw a cart provided with free wheels and loaded with goods, with the guided tractor loca...

"SISTEMA COOPERATIVO PARA A FORMAçãO DE GRUPO CONSUMIDOR E CAPTADOR DE SERVIçOS". A partir de uma central gerenciadora (1), a qual receberá associados (4) em forma de profissionais, instituições, pequenas, médias e grandes indústrias e comércios, interessados em veicular seus produtos de forma intercambiável, formando uma "força consumidora" interna auto-sustentável, de modo a estimular a demanda ...

"DISPOSIçãO EM REDUTOR DE VELOCIDADE PLANETáRIO". Constituído por uma carcaça externa formada por uma tampa [1] acoplada a dois seguimentos flangeados [2 e 2'], internamente denteados, sendo, ao final, colocada a tampa [3]. A tampa [1] possui o eixo [4] de tomada de força e a tampa [3] possui uma abertura concêntrica [5] para encaixe do eixo entalhado (não mostrado), de saída de força. O conjunto ...

To provide a polyester resin particularly useful in application to optical films, etc. A polyester resin which is an alicyclic polyester comprising dicarboxylic acid units and diol units, characterized by the following (1) to (4): (1) the dicarboxylic acid units are composed mainly of 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid units, (2) the diol units are composed mainly of 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol u...

The present invention relates to a device (2) for carrying a portable object at a wrist (4), comprising a wrist band (12) that is arranged at the wrist (4), a holder (6) in which said object is intended to be arranged, that the holder (6) is rotatably arranged to the wrist band (12) in a joint (22), whereby the holder (6) can be rotated (R) from a folded position arranged in connection against the...

The invention concerns a method for identifying and/or cloning nucleic acid regions representing qualitative differences associated with alternative splicing events and/or with insertions, deletions located in RNA transcribed genome regions, between two physiological situations, comprising either hybridization of RNA derived from the test situation with cDNA's derived from the reference situation ...

The present invention relates to an analytical tool (1) including a capillary (5) for moving a sample liquid introduced through a liquid introduction port (51), and a window (43) for checking that the sample liquid of an amount necessary for measurement is supplied into the capillary (5). In the analytical tool (1), an opaque region (45) is defined between the liquid introduction port (51) and the...