A user is able to informatively control how contact information is provided to one or more applications through the use of a persona interface object, corresponding personas and contact information, and an information picker interface. The persona interface identifies available personas, each persona having different contact information. The user can select a persona to use in response to an appli...

Absorption mat lead-acid batteries poorly dissipate heat from the internal components of the battery (10) due to the air gap (35, 37) which exists between the plates (20) and the inner wall of the container (12). Improved thermal management of the battery (10) is achieved by filling the air gap (35, 37), an insulating gap, with a thermally conductive gel (40), such as a gel formed of fumed silica ...

There is provided methods for servicing a vehicle's transmission cooling system having inlet and outlet ports. An example method comprises the steps of pumping air into an inlet port of the transmission cooling system to cause transmission fluid to flow out of the outlet port of the transmission cooling system; cycling a solvent through the transmission cooling system, where the solvent enters thr...

The present invention features a unique carrying device for carrying a cartable item, wherein the carrying device is formed of a rigid structure and comprises means for engaging a first shoulder of a user, means for engaging a second shoulder of a user, means for connecting the means for engaging the first and second shoulders of a user together, means for adjusting the ergonomic configuration of ...

It is an object of the present invention to provide spherical metal particles having excellent monodispersity. The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing monodisperse spherical metal particles characterized by passing liquid metal through a porous membrane so as to disperse the resulting liquid metal particles in a continuous liquid phase.

The present invention provides tough, high modulus, low density thermoset polyurethane compositions which are useful in general as, for example, cast structural materials and in a preferred embodiment can be cured directly onto an aircraft engine fan blade, thereby providing a lighter blade, without concomitant loss in structural integrity or blade performance due to, for example, resistance to fo...

The present invention relates to a high-whiteness, biaxially oriented polyester film with at least a base layer made from polyester. The base layer of the polyester film of the invention also comprises from 2 to 60% by weight of a cycloolefin copolymer (COC), from 0.1 to 25% by weight of a white pigment, and, if desired, from 0 to 5% by weight of an optical brightener, based on the weight of the b...

The present invention provides compostions and methods for the prevention or treatment of autoimmune disorders. In particular, the invention methods utilize genetic material encoding at least a portion of an autoreactive epitope that, upon administration to a subject, acts to modulate the immune system thereby ameliorating conditions associated with an autoreactive antigen.

In order to provide an active matrix display device in which a thick insulating film is preferably formed around an organic semiconductive film of a thin film luminescent device without damaging the thin film luminescent device, the active matrix display device is provided with a bank layer (bank) along a data line (sig) and a scanning line (gate) to suppress formation of parasitic capacitance in ...

The present invention relates to an apparatus with electro-luminescent components having one or more layers of organic active material. The electrodes are structured in such a way that the apparatus's layers are protected during structuring and the components may be tightly packed together to improve display resolution. The display includes two electrode layers in addition to the at least one orga...

There is therefore provided, in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a robotic system for systematically moving about an area to be covered. The system includes at least one boundary marker ( 48 ) located along the outer edge of the area to be covered, a robot ( 40 ) with a navigation system ( 41 ) and a sensor unit ( 43 ). The navigation system ( 41 ) navigates the rob...

Methods, systems, and computer program products for resource recovery. A region of code can be considered untrusted. To catch problems in the untrusted region, entry points are wrapped with exception logic for processing exceptions raised within the untrusted region. Until an exception has been raised within the untrusted region, instructions corresponding to the entry points may be executed. Howe...

Fauteuil de relaxation du type comprenant : . un cadre formant dossier (1), . deux longerons (2) formant assise, articulés avec le dossier (1); . deux accotoirs (4) articulés avec le dossier (1); . un cadre (3) en U formant repose-jambes . un piètement formé de deux jambages, respectivement avant (36) et arrière (35), solidaires des longerons (2), lesdits jambages (35,36) étant articulés entre eux...

"TAMBOR DE FREIO E MéTODO PARA A FABRICAçãO DO MESMO". Apresenta-se um tambor de freio para uso em um aparelho para frenagem um tambor de veículos automotores (incluindo motocicletas) . o tambor de freio inclui um corpo do tambor com o formato de um anel, e um membro de fricção fixado à superfície circunferencial interna do corpo do tambor. Como o corpo do tambor é formado por uma liga leve de alu...

"COMPOSIçãO PARA A PRODUçãO DE FILMES RESPIRáVEIS, USO DA MESMA, FILME POLIMéRICO RESPIRáVEL, E, PROCESSO PARA A PRODUçãO DO MESMO". Um aspecto da invenção atual se refere a uma composição para a preparação de filmes respiráveis. A composição compreende uma composição bimodal de polietileno, uma carga de particulados, e opcionalmente, um polímero com base olefínica. A composição bimodal de polieti...

"SISTEMA DE COMUNICAçãO DE MúLTIPLAS ENTRADAS E MúLTIPLAS SAìDAS (MIMO) DE ACESSO MúLTIPLO". São providas técnicas para obtenção de melhor utilização dos recursos disponíveis e desempenho robusto para o downlink e uplink em um sistema MIMO de acesso múltiplo. São providas técnicas para processar dados de forma adaptável antes da transmissão, com base em informações de estado de canal, para adequar...

"MáQUINA DE RETENçãO DE ENERGIA DE IMPACTO DE FORJAMENTO DINâMICO". A invenção refere-se a uma máquina para produzir um corpo com forma desejada de um material trabalhável, por meio de forjamento dinâmico sob impacto, e, finalmente, com retenção de energia, enquanto a onda de choque diminui gradualmente, a dita máquina de impacto compreendendo um suporte de máquina, um sistema de impacto externo d...

A fuel container formed by bonding upper and lower sections, for which both the upper and lower sections are made by thermo-forming a multi-layer sheet that comprises an interlayer of a barrier resin (A) and inner and outer layers of a polyolefin (B), and of which the surface of the innermost layer is coated with a layer of a barrier material (C).

To provide a polyolefin based resin film of high elastic modulus and a composition for producing a polyolefin based resin film of high elastic modulus. The polyolefin based resin film is characterized in that a polyolefin [A] having a weight average molecular chain length of 2850 nm or more and a polyolefin wax [B] having a weight average molecular weight of 700 to 6000 have been compounded in a r...

A laminating resin composition is disclosed which comprises an unsaturated polyester resin, a vinyl ester resin, a polyfunctional acrylate, and up to about 15 percent by weight of a vinyl monomer. Preferably, the vinyl ester resin has a molecular weight ranging from about 450 to 1500.