A lashing device includes a stretching device which is to be fastened between two fixing points that are to be secured to one another, the stretching device including stretching device parts which are each connectible to one of the fixing points. At least a first stretching device part has a stretching rod extending in the longitudinal direction of the stretching device and has a threaded portion....

To reduce pressure loss on a heat-exchanger fluid while downsizing a heat exchange and reducing the production cost of the heat exchanger without impairment of the heat transfer performance of the heat exchanger by forming a fluid channel in surfaces of thin metal plates such as stainless steel plates through the use of an etching technique or the like and by improving the shape of the fluid chann...

A split serial-parallel hybrid dual-power drive system, comprised of two or more than two separation drive systems allowing independent operation to respectively drive the load, or all loads driven individually are incorporated in a common frame to drive land, surface, underwater transportation means or aircraft, industrial machines and equipment or any other load drive by rotational kinetic energ...

A method includes forming a lower dielectric layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming a bit line landing pad and a storage landing pad that penetrate the lower dielectric layer, covering the lower dielectric layer, the bit line landing pad, and the storage landing pad with an intermediate dielectric layer, forming an upper dielectric layer on the intermediate dielectric layer, partially removin...

The invention relates to a method and device for the determination of the roll angle φ of a rotating body, such as a shell, utilizing sensors for the detection of rotation signals in a body-fixed coordinate system. According to the invention, a new filter device is proposed to handle moment interferences to which the body is subjected, for example, caused by wind turbulence in the atmosphere or si...

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A continuous transfer type freezer for cooling or freezing articles such as foodstuffs transferred on a conveyor belt by spraying chilled air from slit nozzles on the articles is provided in which chilled air jets rectified to have long spray travel is produced, thin stream layer of chilled air is formed on the surface of the article to achieve increased heat transfer, and exhaust passages of the ...

The present invention provides methods to process multiple sensors by providing a sensor plate and HT plates. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, methods for assembling microarray pegs and microarray plates are described for high throughput microarray processing.

A fastening tool that drives a fastener into a work-piece. The tool includ es a motor that is connected to a transmission. The transmission includes a flywheel. The tool also includes a driver mechanism that is adapted to drive the fastener into the work-piece. The flywheel is connected to the driver mechanism when the flywheel is in a flywheel firing position. The tool includes a control modus th...

A vehicle floor tray molded from a sheet of thermoplastic polymeric material of substantially uniform thickness, comprises a floor substantially conforming to a floor of a vehicle foot well, the floor having at least one longitudinally disposed lateral side and at least one transversely disposed lateral side. A first wall integrally formed with the floor, upwardly extends from the first lateral si...

A mobile wireless communication device also has at least one wired communication port. Enhanced security is achieved by permitting the device to automatically disable one or more wireless ports when connected to a wired port. Specific combinations/permutations of such automatic control may be effected by use of an IT Policy also resident on the device.

A lens for a wet environment lighting device that has a fixture with an interior that has an opening, and at least one light source located within t he fixture interior. Light from the light source proceeds out through the opening. The lens is for location in front of the fixture and the light source locat ed therein and the lens encloses the opening from the wet environment. The lens has a first ...

A protective cover for a cutting wheel of a hand-held cut-off machine driv en by an internal combustion engine has a circumferential wall and two opposed sidewalls adjoining the circumferential wall. The circumferential wall and t he two sidewalls are a monolithic component made of cast light metal. The circumferential wall in a circumferential direction has at least over sections thereof a fir st...

A method and apparatus are provided for measuring a parameter such as capillary pressure in porous media such as rock samples. The method comprises mounting a sample in a centrifuge such that different portions of the sample are spaced at different distances from the centrifuge axis, rotating the sample about the axis, measuring a first parameter in the different portions of the sample, and determ...

A method of operating a fuel cell apparatus that comprises at least first and second groups of fuel cell stacks includes heating cathode gas supplied from a cathode gas inlet to cathode parts of the first group of fuel cell stacks by passing the cathode gas in heat exchange relationship with cathode exhaust gas being removed from at least one group of fuel cell stacks, and supplying cathode gas to...

The invention relates to a bipolar cooling plate module for use in fuel cell stacks. The module comprises an anode-side terminal plate and a cathode-side terminal plate, in which at least one of the surfaces of the two terminal plates facing towards one another contains coolant channels. The two terminal plates are fixed to one another in situ by an integral sealing element applied in an injection...

A cooling plate module for fuel cell stacks is provided, comprising an anode-side terminal plate and a cathode-side terminal plate, whose mutually facing surfaces as cooling surfaces tightly enclose a coolant distribution structure and are joined to one another by means of a bonding agent. According to the invention the bonding agent is applied to the cooling surfaces exclusively outside the coola...

A system and methods providing immediate peer-to-peer messaging between mobi le devices (10) in a wireless system. An invitation architecture is disclosed which enables the exchange of personal identification numbers (PINs) without requiring a user to directly access or provide his or her PIN. A messaging application (160) encrypts its associated PIN before providing it to a messaging application ...