An engine control system for managing lean operation of an internal combustion engine coupled to a lean NOx trap uses an indication of vehicle activity. A target amount of tailpipe emission per distance is adjusted based on the vehicle activity indication. Then, engine air-fuel ratio is controlled based on the adjusted target amount of tailpipe emission per distance. Also, the indication of vehicl...

A long term oxygen therapy system having an oxygen supply directly linked with a patients lung or lungs may be utilized to more efficiently treat hypoxia caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis. The system includes an oxygen source, one or more valves and fluid carrying conduits. The fluid carrying conduits link the oxygen source to diseased sites w...

A valve assembly can automatically dispense aerosol content from an aerosol container at predetermined intervals without the use of electric power. A diaphragm at least partially defines an accumulation chamber that receives gas propellant from a portion of the can during an accumulation phase. Once the internal pressure of the accumulation chamber reaches a predetermined threshold, the diaphragm ...

A package for dispensing a pressurized material to be applied to the body. In one embodiment, the package comprises a container body having a cavity for containing a pressurized material to be applied to the body, the container body having an outer surface. An applicator is positioned adjacent the outer surface and is configured to dispense pressurized material. A cap is captively engaged with the...

A card connector includes an insulating housing ( 10 ), a number of contacts ( 20 ) and an ejector ( 30 ). The insulating housing ( 10 ) defines a card receiving space ( 13 ) with a card insertion/ejection direction. The contacts ( 20 ) comprises a number of contacting portions ( 23 ) exposed into the card receiving space ( 13 ) and arranged in two rows along the card insertion/ejection direction ...

A video platform architecture provides video processing using parallel vector processing. The video platform architecture includes a plurality of video processing modules, each module including a plurality of processing elements (PEs). Each PE provides parallel vector processing. Specifically, means are provided to read all elements of one or two source vector registers in each PE simultaneously, ...

An angled axis machine vision system having two cameras angled with respect to roil axis. Provides advantages of horizontal alignment between two cameras and eliminates problem of utilizing horizontal/vertical lines in the environment for distance calculations when lines arc parallel or close to parallel to axis between camera centers. With camera centers angled about roll axis, horizontal/vertica...

An imaging apparatus. The apparatus includes a display mechanism for displaying an image. The apparatus includes a camera mechanism distributed throughout the display mechanism to take images of objects in view of the display mechanism. A screen. The screen includes a display for displaying an image. The screen includes a plurality of pinholes distributed in the display. The screen includes a plur...

Electrostatic discharge protection circuitry includes a timing circuit operably coupled between the high supply side and low supply side of an associated circuit. The timing circuit has an RC node used for triggering a series of inverters configured to control an ESD dissipation device operably coupled to the high supply side node and the low side supply node of the circuit. A feedback transistor ...

The present invention provides a system and method for migrating a control of a wireless communication service provided to a mobile station (MS) in a first network depending on a first technology to a second network depending on a second technology. When receiving a request for the wireless communication service in the first network by a mobile switch center (MSC), at least one instruction is obta...

A behavioral synthesis process is provided that transforms a generalized behavioral design into a detailed interconnection of design objects to implement the behavior. A design database including design objects is generated as a user creates a diagrammatic representation of a desired behavior using a user interface. The synthesis process, which includes multiple concurrent threads, transforms the ...

A method of preventing intrusions on a node of a network comprising monitoring, by a first layer of an intrusion prevention system, application data of applications running at on the node, monitoring, by a second layer of the intrusion prevention system, transport layer data of the node, and monitoring, by a third layer of the intrusion prevention system, network layer data of the node is provided...

This invention relates to 2-substituted D-homo-estra-1,3,5(10)-trien-3-yl sulfamates of general formula I (I), in which R3 means a C1-C5-alkyl or C1-C5-alkyloxy group as well as their use for the production of a pharmaceutical agent for treating tumor diseases, which can be influenced positively by the inhibition of tubulin polymerization. The compounds according to the invention are distinguished...

The present invention is directed to a consolidation apparatus for consolidating a plurality of products having random variations in products arrangement with gaps between the products.

A composition suitable for the production of protective coatings, especially for the inhibition of fouling, more particularly in marine environments, which comprises: (A) a polymer carrying pendant and/ or terminal curable functional groups, at least a major proportion of the repeating units in the polymer of (A) being other th an siloxane units, and (B) a curable organohydrogen polysiloxane or po...

A high capacity conveyor assembly is utilizable with pressure sealers or other business forms manufacturing or handling equipment to efficiently handle forms that may be job separated and provides high capacity outfeed. An infeed conveyor (11) has a first horizontal conveyance surface (15) and feeds forms in a first direction to a pair of nip wheels (13, 14), with an outfeed conveyor (12) downstre...

"MéTODO PARA DISTRIBUIçãO DE FáRMACOS PARA TECIDO SOB PROPULSãO DE MICROJATOS". A presente invenção refere-se a um método de distribuição de um fármaco para o tecido inclui as etapas de: fornecer um dispositivo de distribuição de fármaco possuindo pelo menos um bocal e um fármaco contido em uma parte do dispositivo; identificar um local para distribuição do fármaco em ou no tecido; colocar uma par...

"DISPOSITIVO DE APLICAçãO DE FáRMACOS DE INJEçãO DE JATO LIVRE DE AGULHA". A presente invenção refere-se a um dispositivo para aplicar um fármaco que inclui um alojamento; pelo menos um bocal em uma porção do alojamento; uma fonte de fármaco dentro do alojamento; e uma fonte de energia para prover uma pressão de aproximadamente 13.800 kPa (2.000 psi) para acionar o fármaco através de pelo menos um...

"DISPOSITIVO PARA DISTRIBUIçãO DE FáRMACOS PARA APLICAçõES BUCAIS E AURICULARES E OUTRAS áREAS DO CORPO DIFìCEIS DE ACESSAR". A presente invenção refere-se a dispositivo para distribuição de um fármaco que inclui um tubo de distribuição em que o tubo de distribuição tem nele uma câmara de pressão e pelo menos um bocal em uma extremidade distal do tubo de distribuição e em comunicação de fluido com...

In a needle loom having at least one needle bar coupled by cam follower means to two eccentric shafts in order to be moved by said eccentric shafts in a movement path having two components which are normal to one another, the eccentric shafts are each provided with eccentric cams which have equal amounts of eccentricity and are adapted to be synchronously rotated, and said cam followers rotatably ...