A dual-energy scanning-based radiation detecting apparatus comprises a line detector; a device for scanning said line detector across an object while said line detector is exposed to an ionizing radiation beam, which has impinged on said object, to thereby record a plurality of line images of said object; a filter device arranged in the path of said ionizing radiation beam upstream of said object ...

FIELD: transport engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: invention can be used in brake systems of trolleybuses, automobiles, tractors and other vehicles with electric transmission. Proposed brake system contains supply sources, relay valve, brake chambers, electronic control unit coupled with traction electric motor and brake pedal position pickup, and brake cock whose first section is connected with control i...

FIELD: drilling equipment, particularly cable television system used to perform navigational control of directional and horizontal oil and gas well drilling from ground surface and to guide borehole cable rope from inner cavity out of drilling string. ^ SUBSTANCE: sub comprises threaded connection pipe with thrust end, body with straight and peripheral inclined channels, bush and annular sealing m...

FIELD: wind power engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed wind power generator has magnetic field source, operating coils, magnetic circuits and rotary elements - segments installed on wind wheels. According to invention, magnetic circuits are made in form of two E-shaped plates arranged in two parallel planes and in form of two L-shaped plates arranged square to E-shaped plates. Each L-shaped plate is...

FIELD: mechanical engineering; aircraft industry; rocketry. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed harmonic drive has housing 1 with bushing 2, output shaft 4, flexible wheel 5, fixed rigid wheel 7 fitted on housing 1, wave generator 9 and plate 11 with n (n=1,2 etc) electric motors 12 placed inside flexible wheel 5. Wave generator 9 is installed on housing 1 and is provided with gear rim 10 coming into meshing wi...

FIELD: technology for performing electronic payments. ^ SUBSTANCE: method includes sending request with noting of transaction total to payment transactions processing center, identification of seller in payment transactions processing center and receiving seller essentials from his identifier, one or two unique transaction codes are generated in payment transactions processing center, which are ad...

FIELD: electrical engineering; chemical current sources; production of lead-acid cells, additives for sulfuric-acid electrolytes in particular. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed additive is made from mixture of sulfate of metal with phosphonocarboxylic acids and aminoalkylphosphonic or hydroxyalkylene diphosphonous acids in diluted sulfuric-acid medium at pH no more than 0.8 and total content of phosphonous a...

An insulation material having insulative properties of a synthetic down, while have a fir-tree structure more similar to natural down, and being in a blown form. The blowable insulation material is composed of plural units each having a number of filaments that are fused at one end of the unit and are open at an opposite end.

A method and system for managing an on-line inauguration investment lottery, which creates an effective association of a lottery business with inauguration enterprise support. With the method and system, since enterprise founders and inauguration enterprises can attract investments funds, promising businesses can be prevented from being hoarded, and moreover, enterprise inaugurations can be promot...

Pulping biological samples in a vibro-mill using a stack of sample plates with numerous wells sealed by covers interlocking for mechanical security during rapid breakdown process, is new. Blocks comprising more than 10 sample wells are used. An Independent claim is included for corresponding apparatus. This comprises a U-shaped clamp frame (10) for the blocks with a screw-adjusted (14) clamping h...

The invention relates to a web (20) comprising mutually sequentially disposed package blanks (26) and an arrangement for opening and closing the package blanks. The web has longitudinal first and second edges and a first wall (21a) opposing a second wall (21b). Transverse slits (27) are disposed between the side closures of the package blanks. Each respective wall is, along said second edge, provi...

Disclosed is a cosmetics container comprising a container body adapted to contain cosmetic compositions therein, a lid having a hinge part formed at one side surface thereof for hingeably connecting the lid to the container body and a swab body adapted to act as a cosmetic implement, characterized in that a swab body insertion hole is formed at one side surface of the container body which is oppos...

An adaptor kit or system for use with conventional can light fixtures to adapt the can light fixture for use as a hanger assembly for ceiling fans, for example, includes a spider plate that is hung onto the can height adjustment screws and a mounting plate to which a cross-bar or other mounting hardware is attached. Adjustment screws are adjusted to control the distance between the spider plate an...

A toroidal-type continuously variable transmission, includes: a trunnion including: a support plate portion; and a pair of bent wall portions formed in longitudinal-direction two end portions of the support plate portion and bent on an inner surface side of the support plate portion, the pivot shafts being disposed concentrically with each other on outer surfaces of the bent wall portions; a trunn...

Systems and methods for reducing the number of temperature measurement wires in multiple temperature sensor ablation systems are described. In a preferred embodiment, temperature sensors capable of measuring the temperature of body tissue and transmitting the temperature data digitally are incorporated in a catheter or probe ablation system that also includes electrodes in operative contact with t...

A polyurethane resin having a total concentration of the urethane group and the urea group of not less than 15% by weight is prepared by reacting a diisocyanate component (e.g., an aromatic diisocyanate) with a diol component (e.g., a C2-8alkylene glycol). The repeating unit of the polyurethane resin may contain a constitutive unit of an aromatic or alicyclic compound. The polyurethane resin may b...

A test strip platform for a testing apparatus of the type using test strips, wherein the platform has a shroud defining a strip track for positioning an inserted strip over an optical aperture for making analytical determinations. The platform has a hood permanently mounted to the shroud for overlying the optical window and protecting the testing apparatus optics. The strip track has stabilizing m...

An apparatus and method for determining the location of a medication container, such as an intravenous bag.

A system and method for approaching the intervertebral disc through a percutaneous insertion from the back of a patient for thermal or electromagnetic treatment of an intervertebral disc, includes an elongated probe member having a guidable region adjacent its distal end with an undulating groove defined in its outer surface. The undulating groove is dimensioned to facilitate bending of the guidab...

A control method is disclosed for a storage control apparatus having a plurality of channel control units connected to communicate with each other and which receives a data input or data output request transmitted from an information processing device and controls writing and reading of data to a storage device in accordance with the data input/output request, and a disk control unit which carries...