An apparatus and method is provided for preventing sudden acceleration of a vehicle having an automatic transmission by detecting the sudden acceleration with use of transmission state information and rpm. A controller determines that sudden acceleration occurs if the rpm abruptly increases within a first reference time when the transmission maintains a stop or park state, output voltage of an acc...

In a process of separating a liquid sample having phase portions of different densities by centrifugal separation, a phase separator container is employed. The phase separator container comprises a housing having concentric inner and outer cylindrical walls defining a longitudinal axis and a top wall and further a piston body constituting a bottom wall of the housing. The piston body defines toget...

The grinding machine according to the invention comprises a first support (1) designed to support a tyre (2) in a vertical position and able to rotate about a first horizontal axis (3), a second support (7) positioned vertically on one side of the tyre (2), a third support (8) which can be moved manualy, which is connected to an upper part of the second support (7) by a connector (11) with at leas...

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for monitoring characteristics of a pharmaceutical composition during preparation thereof by in the process vessel (1) of a fluidized bed apparatus, wherein a measuring device (11, 11') performs a spectometric measurement on the pharmaceutical composition in a wetting zone (B) into which a processing fluid is injected. The method also compris...

A method is provided for drilling a hole through a metallic workpiece having a thermal barrier coating with a ceramic top coat by laser drilling a counterbore to a depth which extends through the ceramic top coat but not substantially into the metallic workpiece and then laser drilling the hole through the workpiece aligned with the counterbore, the counterbore having a diameter larger than the ho...

A porous for making a high M.wt. solid state polymerised poly(ethylene naphthalate) (PEN) foam comprises (a) dispersing a inert gas into molten PEN of intrinsic viscosity I.V. 0.25-0.55 dl/g to form a foamed PEN with a void fraction of 0.10 to 0.50; (b) forming the foamed PEN into granules; (c) devolatilising the PEN granules at 80-140 deg C; (d) crystallising th devolatilised PEN at 150-260 deg C...

The invention concerns a process and device for preparing foamed materials from two-component reactive plastics materials using carbon dioxide as expanding agent and by mixing at least one of the reactive components with carbon dioxide under pressure and generating a mixture containing liquid carbon dioxide, mixing with the other reactive component, expansion and curing of the plastics material. T...

An opposed pair of inwardly facing radiant energy detecting sensors (20, 22) is positioned to sight on freshly formed glass containers (C) being conveyed on a side by side pair of conveyors (12, 14) to determine if any of the containers is misoriented from its desired orientation. Each sensor has a sharply focused fiber and lens assembly (24) that is focused to sense radiant energy in a cone of vi...

A device for storing and administering a medical fluid comprising a sealed flexible formed container with an opening part in its front end in which an insert is positioned. Over the insert, the container extends into a removable sealing cap. After removal of the sealing cap an injection means is attached to the insert and fluid administration through the insert is admitted in one direction by sque...

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The sheet of glass to be examined (1) is placed horizontally in a support frame (2) and is illuminated uniformly with white light from a source (4). The light falling on the glass plate is reflected on to a screen (6). The image appearing on this screen is captured by one or several colour video cameras (12-15). For each primary colour, and for each point on the image the luminance is determined, ...

A method, system, and computer program for providing purchase incentives to customers is disclosed. Identifying information of a customer is received by a computer during a purchase transaction at a retail store (figure 1, items 101, 109). The computer determines a purchase incentive associated with the identifying information of the customer and based on purchase history information of the custom...

An approach for providing online grocery delivery services that utilize electronic coupons is disclosed. A server receives consumer identification information of a consumer from a client station. The server determines whether a consumer specific coupon that is associated with the received consumer identification information is stored in a coupon database. The server displays the consumer specific ...

A method, system, and computer program product is disclosed for real-time monitoring of consumer behavioral data. The method, on which the system and computer program product are based, includes the steps of: accessing a database of consumer information in order to indentify based upon predetermined criteria a plurality of consumers to monitor, wherein each identified consumer is uniquely identifi...

A method, system , and computer readable medium for generating a personalized shopping list. The method includes electronically receiving a customer identifier and an associated product identifier to a computer associated with a retail store and generating, using the computer, a personalized shopping list including a product associated with the product identifier based on the customer identifier. ...

A method and a terminal for providing promotions based upon consumer input regarding previously consumed food products and/or recipes. This input, alone or in conjunction with previous input from the same consumer or input from other consumers to obtain a predictive profile of the "tastes" (or other factor(s) that influence food purchase decisions) of the consumer, us used to suggest food products...

There are provided aqueous emulsions useful for rendering porous substrates water repellent comprising a) a hydrolyzable silane and/or siloxane, b) an organopolysiloxane resin consisting of R3SiO0.5 siloxane units and SiO2 siloxane units, or R3SiO0.5 units, R2SiO units, and SiO2 siloxane units, c) a filler having a surface area of at least 40 m<2>/g, d) an emulsifying agent, and e) water...

PCT No. PCT/AU95/00034 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 19, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 19, 1996 PCT Filed Jan. 24, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/19995 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 27, 1995A method of increasing the adhesion of a rubber (as hereinbefore defined) or rubber-based material which includes treating at least part of the surface of the rubber or rubber-based material with a halogenating agent simultaneously with a stat...