The present invention includes the hardware and software necessary to perform virtually any volume of complex transactions, and particularly a large volume thereof, is disposed in a central Application Processing Front End (APFE) which is shared by a plurality of merchants, thereby spreading the cost of the APFE among a large number of users. By including only the minimum amount of hardware compon...

The Computer Aided Software Engineering - CASE - tool assesses the value of and the effectiveness of items of business information. The tool produces text and graphic images on a computer screen. The tool supplies a virtual atlas of charts which show: The business hierarchy, An overview of essential information output and the necessary classes of internal and external data, Attributes of each clas...

An energy converter for generating high-power pulses includes a housing defining a chamber having an open side; an electrode assembly supported in the chamber; a power supply for applying a voltage to the electrode assembly; a fluid medium accommodated in the housing and being in contact with the electrode assembly for receiving pulses from the electrode assembly; and a diaphragm attached to the h...

Device for coupling optical fibres on a photometer, and apparatuses equipped with such a device. The invention consists in the possibility of coupling one or more optical fibres on a conventional photometer, by positioning each of them as one or more sources of the apparatus would be positioned. An adaptor (23), at the end of one or more optical fibres (5), has its image projected through an optio...

The winder comprises a rotating drum with a vertical extension (4) around which the band is wound. The drum has a drive spindle (10) at its top and its bottom rests on a plate (6) through a ball end piece (18). The drum rotates on the plate by a blind socket (14) in its bottom end. The socket covers, in sliding contact, a finger (16) projecting from the plate and is supported by its bottom (22) on...

L'invention concerne un élément de retenue d'une chaussure sur une planche de glisse. Il comprend une embase (2) définissant un plan vertical médian (21) et surmontée d'un corps (3), une mâchoire mobile par rapport à l'embase ayant deux ailes de retenue latérale (5, 6) mobiles au moins selon une direction latérale contre la force de rappel d'un ressort principal (160) selon une phase de course ...

L'invention concerne un élément de retenue d'une chaussure sur une planche de glisse. Il comprend une embase (3) surmontée d'un corps (2), une mâchoire mobile par rapport à l'embase ayant deux ailes de retenue latérale (5, 6) mobiles au moins selon une direction latérale de part et d'autre d'une position centrée de repos contre la force de rappel d'un ressort principal (15), un organe d'asymétr...

A coupling device between a ski boot and a ski having a top surface and a toe binding. The toe binding engages the ski boot and is pivotal around a first axis which is perpendicular to the top surface of the ski. The coupling device also includes a heel binding for engaging the ski boot. A carrier device having a front end, a back end and two sides, is located between the toe binding and the heel ...

The invention describes a coupling part (1) between a boot (17) and a sliding means, e.g. a ski (6), in particular a front jaw (2) of a ski binding, having a base bearing (22) arranged in a housing (3). Opposite this, a sole-retaining means (30) can be pivoted about a central axis (19) of a pivot pin (20), said central axis (19) being arranged perpendicular to a mounting surface, and is equipped w...

The invention pertains to a toejaw for a safety ski binding with a casing (1) that attaches to a ski and with two two-armed angle levers (4a, 4b) that are pivotably mounted on a common bearing pin (5) that is subjected to a forward tensile force with at least one release spring (7) mounted in the casing. This release spring (7) is supported at its front end on a front spring support (8), from whic...

A system which allows transmission of data on the same electrical cable which is used to transmit power to an electrical load, such as an Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP), is described. This is achieved, in one embodiment, by using the cable insulation as the dielectric of capacitors whose electrodes are the cable current-carrying conductors and external conducting sheaths. This obviates the need...

A system which allows transmission of data on the same electrical cable which is used to transmit power to an electrical load, such as an Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP), is described. This is achieved, in one embodiment, by using the cable insulation as the dielectric of capacitors whose electrodes are the cable current-carrying conductors and external conducting sheaths. This obviates the need...

The template has cut-outs and fold lines designed to form sides of a package when folded. The template is made from a single piece of material and has first and second principal panels (4,5) for front and back, first and second vertical sides (6,9) for edges, and first and second longitudinal sides (12,21) for bottom and top. The edge (12) is attached to a part (13) which forms a cover. Internal ...

The present invention relates to a process and a device for polymerizing alpha-olefins such as ethylene or propylene in a gas phase. The device comprises a gas phase polymerization reactor (5) into which a suspension of prepolymer particles in liquid saturated hydrocarbon(s) is continuously introduced. The prepolymer suspension is prepared in one or more prepolymerization vessels (14) and is conti...

The device has a light source (1) for transmitting a pulsed exciting radiation, and a cell (2) designed to be applied to the skin to be analysed. This cell (2) has at least a measuring cavity (5) open the face (2a) of the cell (2) in contact with the skin. The device has also an optical unit (4) designed to guide the light from the source into the measuring cavity (2) and a microphone (8), connec...

PCT No. PCT/EP96/00339 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 23, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 23, 1998 PCT Filed Jan. 29, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/23227 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 1, 1996The invention relates to a process for magnetorelaxometric quantitative detection of analytes in liquid and solid phases, compounds for magnetorelaxometric detection, and their use in analysis and immunomagnetography.

PCT No. PCT/EP96/00339 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 23, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 23, 1998 PCT Filed Jan. 29, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/23227 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 1, 1996The invention relates to a process for magnetorelaxometric quantitative detection of analytes in liquid and solid phases, compounds for magnetorelaxometric detection, and their use in analysis and immunomagnetography.

The invention relates to an improvement of deactivation reliability of shoplifting detection labels in handling procedures at checkouts by means of acoustic and/or optical signalling. The detection system used therefor utilizes the difference in rate of change of the label detection signal level between a successful deactivation and a label which is removed from the field manually because it does ...

The electrical socket includes a socket body (1) having a front surface (2) with a housing (22) having a base (24) in which are socket holes and a peripheral wall (23). A rear cover (4) fits on the rear (3) of the socket body (1) and has guides (49) to channel the cables into the corresponding self-stripping slots (33) which make an electrical contact by cutting into the insulation. The cover has ...