The present invention relates to a system for storage of items (7), such as notes (3) and coins (5), which are transferred to and from customers (9) at at least one point of sale, such as a checkout (11) in a shop (13), which system (1) comprises at least one storage device (15) for storing the said items (7) according to denomination, input and issuing units (19) designed to be able to be connect...

Foam a polymer blend of (a) a high melt strength polypropylene (HMS PP); (b) a linear or substantially linear polypropylene that has a melting point within ten degrees Celsius of (a), a melt flow rate that is significantly different than (a) and that is miscible with (a); and, optionally, (c) a polyethylene that is immiscible with (a) produces a polymeric foam having an average cell size of at lea...

The present invention provides a method for producing dipeptide using inexpensively acquirable starting materials by an industrially advantageous and simple pathway. Dipeptide is produced from L-amino acid ester and L-amino acid using a culture of microbes having the ability to produce a dipeptide from an L-amino acid ester and an L-amino acid, using microbial cells isolated from the culture, or a...

The system for replacement of a natural hip joint socket consists of a shell and an insert module which is constituted in such a way that it accommodates or is firmly joined to an insert element forming a joint with an artificial head element. An Independent claim is also included for an instrument for inserting an artificial hip joint socket. It comprises a rod provided with means for attaching i...

The sealing and insulation system uses flat sealing insulating panels (1) and connectors. The connectors and insulating panels have connecting areas of a first type (2, 3) for mutual connection or connecting onto structural parts. These connecting areas have apertures (4) at least in some areas so that paste or fluid substances such as mortar or adhesive can be filled in to produce the connection....

A prefilled medical syringe includes a syringe barrel. A syringe plunger is disposed in the barrel and displaceable by means of a plunger rod. An end plug closes off a cannula side of the syringe barrel. The plug is provided with a through-channel closed off by a membrane. A finger support is disposed at the end of the syringe barrel opposite the end plug and provided with a through-opening for th...

The fishing line (1) has a swivel (2) fastened to it. The eye (4) at the other end is positioned on the machine (11). The eye (5) of a hook is aligned with the swivel eye and both are aligned with a passage (16) through which the snood material (18) is fed. The loose end of the snood is captured (6). The hook (8) is then drawn down to form a loop in the snood and sealed or clipped. A support (11) ...

Continuous process for regasifying a feed stream having (i) a slurry phase comprising gas hydrate particles suspended in a produced liquid hydrocarbon and optionally free produced water and (ii) optionally a gaseous phase comprising free produced gaseous hydrocarbon thereby generating a regasified multiphase fluid and for separating the regasified multiphase fluid into its component fluids. The me...

The invention relates to a mineral wool panel of increased structural strength, of the type of those used for the manufacture of air ducts, particularly airconditioning ducts, which are composed of a central core made of mineral wool, especially glass wool, coated on both faces with coatings, said core incorporating a web on the face located on the inside of the duct obtained, the panel of the inv...

La invencion provee una salida de la canoa teniendo una porcion que conecta para adjuntara la pared base de la canoa, una seccion de union extendiendose desde la porcion que conecta y un conector del bajante extendiendose desde la seccion de union, el conector del bajante teniendo un grosor transversal mayor que el grosor de la pared base de la canoa y un paso fluido extendiendose a lo largo de la...

Se descubre una valvula de escape que tiene una primera espita y un aleron de cierre con una extension anular adaptada para calzar comodamente dentro del extremo de la salida de la primera espita y un ribete integral con una extension anular adaptada para rodear el extremo de salida. La valvula de escape tiene una segunda espita de menor diametro que la primera espita formando una extension de la ...

Systems and methods for adaptively allocating resources between a dedicated reference signal and a traffic signal are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a wireless communication system 100 includes a base station 404. The base station 404 includes a receiver 428 that receives a quality metric 432 from a remote station 106. The quality metric 432 indicates the quality of a signal transmitted fr...

A container for holding a wafer includes an enclosure portion having a top, a bottom, a pair of opposing sides, a back and an opposing open front defined by a door frame. A door is sealingly engagable in the door frame to close the open front. The container further includes wafer restraint means in the enclosure including fixed wafer restraint means and operable wafer restraint means. The operable...

An information processing method, comprises the steps of acquiring information for identifying customized drivers; displaying the customized drivers in such a way as to be identifiable based on the information acquired in the acquisition step; selecting a driver to be installed from the customized drivers displayed in the display step; and installing the customized driver selected in the selection...

An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit (101) that reads out image data for a document; a dividing unit (501, 502) that divides the image data for the document, read out by the reading unit, into secure parts and non-secure parts; a secure document generating unit (503) that generates a secure document from the secure parts; a non-secure document generating unit (503) that generates ...

The present invention relates to a method of enhacing a preamplifier read recovery in a hard disk drive system and comprises the steps of determining whether the hard disk drive system is transitioning from a non-read state (122) to a read state and initiating a non-read state to a read state transition sequence (126) when a transition (124) from the non-read state to the read state is determined....

The present invention relates to a process for producing an aqueous silica-based sol which comprises: (a) providing a cationic ion exchange resin having at least part of its ion exchange capacity in hydrogen form; (b) bringing said ion exchange resin in contact with an aqueous alkali metal silicate to form an aqueous slurry; (c) stirring said aqueous slurry until the pH of the aqueous phase is in ...

PURPOSE: A device for forming coating film and spin chuck are provided to prevent radial transcription mark from being generated on a substrate and damage of the substrate by sticking the substrate securely. CONSTITUTION: A photo-resist coating/vacuum drying unit is one of the performing modes of a film forming device, and the film forming device employs a holding plate(40a) capable of sucking and...

A capacitive-load driving circuit has a configuration in which a driving power supply source (1) is connected to an output terminal (10) via a driving device (6). The capacitive-load driving circuit has a power distributing circuit (2) inserted between the driving power supply source (1) and the driving device (6). Therefore, temperature rise (power consumption) in the capacitive-load driving circ...

The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate 10; a capacitor element 40 formed above the semiconductor substrate and including a lower electrode 34, a capacitor insulation film 36 formed on the lower electrode and an upper electrode 38 formed on the capacitor insulation film; a shield layer 14, 58 formed at least either of above and below the capacitor element; and a lead-out inter...