PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic transaction system having information or professional techniques needed to quickly help the buyer decide which seller is the best candidate with respect to specified RFQ. SOLUTION: This method is one to perform online reverse auction on the Internet through a Web site, and includes a step in which the buyer accesses the Web site and prepares an estima...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a high-accuracy and high-performance MRI apparatus and NMR apparatus without damping of a value for a current running through a persistent current circuit. SOLUTION: A short-diameter grooved roll is rotated with a motive energy by roll processing method without adding tensile stress to a superconductive wire material.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a complex and an Nb3Sn superconductor dispensing with a barrier material and lowering material cost and a manufacturing method of them. SOLUTION: This is the Nb3Sn superconductor 9 composed of a center part 13 of Nb3Sn-system made by heat treatment of a mixture of tin bronze 10 and Nb 11, and a coated layer of bronze 12 directly formed on the outer circumference of...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a winding method of a superconductor which has been heat-treated, where bending strain is controlled without having to move a drum for conductor supply. SOLUTION: In this winding method of a superconductor which has been heat-treated, the superconductor is wound with a drum for conductor supply which can be rotated at a fixed position, led out from the drum while b...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a superconducting actuator for securing functions of the actuator with an extremely simple configuration, by effectively utilizing strong magnetic field obtained by superconducting. SOLUTION: A coil 1 that is made of a superconducting wire, a magnetic field space 2 for securing uniformly strong magnetic field in the longitudinal direction, and a superconducting bul...

Disclosed is an insulative, bimodal aromatic polymer foam structure having microscopic pinholes in the cell walls to enhance the flexibility of the foam structure. Further disclosed is an insulative, bimodal alkenyl aromatic polymer foam structure containing carbon black. Further disclosed is a process for making low density alkenyl aromatic polymer foams prepared with a halogen-free blowing agent...

Compounds of formula (V) : wherein R2 represents a group R6-A- wherein A represents a divalent straight or branched, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon chain of up to 6 C atoms which may be interrupted by an O or S atom, and R6 represents hydrogen or an optionally substituted phenyl, cycloalkyl or cycloalkenyl group; and the groups R12 and R13 are hydrogen, alkyl, phenyl or substituted ph...

The hose comprises a smooth inner tube (1) of flexible material and an outer woven webbing (3) of plastics. A spiral metal or hard plastics reinforcement such as metal wiring is placed loose in the inner tube or between the inner tube and webbing and is not connected to either. Preferred Features: The inner tube comprises thermoplastics or elastomer plastics or rubber and the webbing is woven from...

The invention relates to hydrophilic, highly swellable polymers for aqueous fluids, e.g. superabsorbants, which are coated with reactive, water-insoluble, film-forming, hydrophobic polymers and an additional reactive constituent which can react with carboxyl groups of carboxylate anions and form additional cross-links on the particle surface. The invention also relates to the production of superab...

A method of concentrating an aqueous solution of hydrazine comprises pervaporation on an ionic membrane. The membrane may be anionic and the concentrated solution recovered on the retentate side or cationic and the concentrated solution recovered on the permeate side or the membrane Independent claims are included for: (1) a method of production of anhydrous hydrazine using the claimed concentrat...

Procédé de régulation d'une phase de démarrage d'un véhicule automobile à l'aide d'un embrayage et d'un moteur dans la ligne de transmission et commandés de manière coordonnée. Pendant la phase de démarrage, en fonction de la position de la pédale d'accélérateur, on prédétermine l'accélération et/ ou la vitesse du véhicule.En fonction de la position de la pédale d'accélérateur (alpha), on fixe ...

Procédé pour coordonner la commande d'un moteur et d'un embrayage de véhicule, à l'aide d'une commande de ligne de transmission qui, pendant un changement de vitesses, fixe la consigne du couple d'embrayage (mdk,cons ), en fonction d'un couple de sortie d'embrayage de référence (mdka, ref ) (trajectoire du couple); la consigne du couple moteur (mdm, cons ) est composée d'une composante de régul...

Dispositif servant à faire fonctionner un moteur à combustion interne (10) de véhicule routier avec une boîte de vitesse automatique, dans lequel on détecte un roulement en marche arrière alors qu'une vitesse en marche avant est enclenchée. Le dispositif servant à faire fonctionner un moteur à combustion interne (10) présente un appareil de commande (20) servant à modifier l'angle d'allumage du...

Selon le procédé on détermine un régime de consigne (nm, cons ) en fonction d'un régime de synchronisation (nsync) d'un nouveau rapport de vitesses (u) à passer, et on détermine une dynamique de la montée du couple à partir du régime actuel (nm ) du couple actuel (mdm ) du moteur et d'un historique de couple (mdhist ) enregistré dans une mémoire de couple (22). Un prédicteur (18) émet un régime...

Procédé de changement de vitesses pour véhicule automobile, dont l'ensemble d'entraînement comprend un moteur (12), un arbre (14) embrayable par un embrayage (18) avec une boîte de vitesses manuelle (24) dont les arbres d'entrée et de sortie (20, 22) peuvent être désaccouplés. Une machine électrique (26) peut être mise en prise avec l'arbre d'entrée (20) de la boîte de vitesses au moyen d'une b...

An exhaust hood (10) with enclosure (10a), has suction devices (11,12) for conveying cooking smoke and steam to the outside atmosphere along the exhaust pipe (10b). The sound control devices (16-21) which activate suction device, compare the recorded voice messages with user's voice to select operating mode of suction device.;

Hotte aspirante (10) pour cuisine comprenant une enveloppe (10a), un...

Method has the following steps: start-up of a mobile telemeter (26), definition of a path to be followed by the telemeter, automatic following of the path by the telemeter and at certain measurement points, determination and recording of the coordinates of the telemeter, measurement and recording of the distance between it and a wall and calculation of the wall coordinates from the measured values...

Photographic method consists in taking two or more photographs of the same region (R) of a wall (2). For each photograph multiple, ideally six, marker points with known coordinates are projected onto the wall, which allows the photographs to be used for photogrammetry. The coordinates of the images and the marker points are recorded associated with the photographs taken. An Independent claim is m...

A multiple-layer film comprises an oriented propylene polymer substrate having on opposed surfaces thereof, respectively, a first vinylidene halide copolymer having a Tg of up to 25 DEG C and a molecular weight not exceeding 135,000 and a second vinylidene halide copolymer having a Tg greater than that of the first copolymer. Such films offer excellent sealing profile, blocking resistance, gas-bar...

Disclosed are films or sheets comprising a crystalline propylene polymer composition which is comprised of, by weight, (A) from about 30 to 65% of a copolymer of propylene with a C4-8 alpha-olefin containing from 80 to 98% propylene, and (B) 35-70% of a co- or terpolymer of propylene with ethylene and, optionally, a C4-8 alpha-olefin having an ethylene content of 5 to 10% when ethylene is the sole...