An improved combining structure between the battery electrode plates and the battery casing, wherein it is mainly comprised of that the bottoms of the electrode plates are respectively series combined by the series combining straps made of electric conductive or non-conductive materials; and for the improved combining structure between the electrode plates and the battery casing, besides of that t...

An attachment clip comprising a body portion having an outer plate and an inner plate, the outer plate having a lower end provided with a hook portion, a movable plate movably fitted between the outer plate and the inner plate, and a driving means whereby the hook portion keeps an object in place and prevents the object from inadvertent droppage, and the driving means moves the movable plate upwar...

A method and apparatus for connecting an electronic monitoring device to a pneumatic tire includes the steps of providing a green tire and attaching the electronic monitoring package to an anchoring patch. The anchoring patch having the electronic monitoring package is then mounted to the green tire and cured during the green tire cure process. A battery is then provided and a direct electrical co...

A pneumatic tire and monitoring device for monitoring an engineering condition of a pneumatic tire includes a pneumatic tire having a sidewall and a plurality of reinforcing cords carried in the sidewall. The monitoring device includes a sensing element that senses at least an engineering condition of a pneumatic tire and transmits the gathered data from the monitoring device to a data gathering d...

A monitoring device and patch combination used to monitor the conditions of a pneumatic tire having an innerliner includes a monitoring device and patch. The monitoring device includes a first connection element that is connected to the monitoring device. The patch includes an antenna that is connected to a second connection element. In one embodiment of the invention, the first connection element...

A monitoring device and patch combination used to monitor the conditions of a pneumatic tire having an innerliner includes a monitoring device and a patch. The monitoring device includes at least one sensing element that is adapted to sense a condition of the pneumatic tire. The monitoring device also includes a first electrical pad connected to the sensing element. The monitoring device and first...

A process for manufacturing packaging (12) with good barrier properties against passage of water vapour and gases is such that recesses are shape-formed in a filmshaped material (22) to act as containers (26) to accommodate contents. After cutting the shape-formed film into individual units of packaging (12), these are coated in vacuum with materials exhibiting the desired barrier properties. A de...

A body, such as a grain, for providing ingrowth and growth of bone tissue and/or connective tissue. The body consists of a plastic or non-essentially elastic biocompatible material, preferably metal or metal alloy. It is also porous, having the following porosity characteristics: (a) the porosity is continuous and (b) the opening of cavities/indentations/pockets and the ducts connecting them has t...

A body, such as a grain, for providing ingrowth and growth of bone tissue and/or connective tissue. The body consists of a plastic or non-essentially elastic biocompatible material, preferably metal or metal alloy. It is also porous, having the following porosity characteristics: (a) the porosity is continuous and (b) the opening of cavities/indentations/pockets and the ducts connecting them has t...

The invention concerns a method, a system and an interface circuit for identifying a defective plug-in unit in a computer system comprising a CompactPCI bus (PCI) and plug-in units (2) connected to it via an interface circuit (1). In the method, the bus address being used in the bus is transferred into a first register (A) and the bus address is transferred in conjunction with a reboot from the fi...

A header assembly is mounted to a backplane and receives a complementary electrical connector. The header assembly has an insulating shroud having a base with backplane and connector sides and a primary edge, and differential signal pin pairs, ground shields, and ground pins mounted to the base. The signal pin pairs are arranged into rows extending in a first direction along the base and along the...

A class, of data objects, enterprise data objects ("EDOs"), fully encapsulate all details of updating or retrieving host data for use in an application. EDOs make data available from a wide range of environments, including screenbased host data, customer information control system ("CICS") transactions, and database-sourced data. The EDO, a reusable distributed object, hides the details of data ac...

A method and an apparatus for mixing dilution liquid into a stock flow in a paper or board machine. Dilution is carried out in at least two stages using in the first dilution stage (I) valves (V1, V2, V3 . . . ) fitted with a larger mutual spacing at different points of width across a headbox and passing the dilution water through the valves to desired points of width of the headbox according to t...

La présente demande concerne un dispositif ,(20) pour l'actionnement d'une valve (5), et pour la distribution sous pression d'un produit, notamment cosmétique, au travers d'un orifice de distribution (28), ledit dispositif comprenant un orifice d'entrée (30) destiné à être mis en communication avec ledit organe de distribution (5), et au moins un passage (29) destiné à acheminer le produit sous pr...

The invention relates to a channel estimation method and a receiver for forming a channel estimate. The arrangement according to the invention comprises forming a preliminary channel estimate ck by multiplying a received sample zk by a known pilot symbol in a multiplier; forming a preliminary autocorrelation of preliminary channel estimates that are successive in time in multipliers; filtering pre...

A viewer may enjoy viewing a program listing that indicates viewer preferences obtained by monitoring the viewer's viewing habits. For each program viewed, at least two characteristics of the program (e.g., viewing duration, viewing frequency and program content) are monitored, and if at least one characteristic meets a prescribed threshold, the identity of the program whose characteristic met the...