The present invention relates to an exhaust valve assembly (18) for a large two-stroke diesel engine (1). The assembly (18) includes an exhaust valve (11) that is movable in opposite directions between a closed position and a variable open position. A double acting spring assembly (40) is operably connected to the exhaust valve (11) and forms a mass-spring system together with the exhaust valve (1...

The use of a cellular system's packet data channel for transport of speech communications is enhanced by dynamically controlling the transmission of data packets that were received in error and notified to the transmitter by the receiver in accordance with an algorithm that takes into account a self-generated determination of the perceptual quality importance of the frame and is generated once for...

Ball striking devices, such as golf club heads (including putter heads), include devices within and/or otherwise engaged with the ball striking head that allow users to selectively change the sound and/or other aspects of the "feel" associated with using the ball striking device to strike a ball. In this manner, a user, a club fitter, or the like can freely customize and adjust the sound and/or ot...

An aircraft cockpit flight deck data display system for displaying, on a viewable display screen, typically anti-aliased graphical imaging data derived from aircraft sensors, generates or receives graphics processing language (GPL) commands that define the information intended for presentation on the display screen. The GPL commands are input to a video graphics processor that is operable to inter...

The invention relates to copolymers which are suitable for producing additives for solvent deparaffination of paraffin-containing mineral oil distillates and which consist of radically polymerized monomers of formulas A and B, wherein the radicals have the meaning cited in the description. The invention also relates to the use of said copolymers for the production of dewaxing additives.

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed which provide imager devices having a light blocking material layer formed over peripheral circuitry outside a pixel cell array.

The purpose of the invention is to improve responsibility of an engine with common rail system at the time of starting and to reduce whole vibration of a plurality of engines. With regard to fuel injection control method controlling fuel injection to a plurality of cylinders of an engine 20, a fuel injection control device is used comprising an engine stopping operation recognition means 17, a spe...

The present invention provides a gel beverage composition for comprehensive nutritional supplementation, having balanced nutrients, refreshing taste, a low pH, a soft gel form suitable for drinking/eating and the ability to retain its gel form for a long period of time. The composition is a gel which has a pH ranging from 3-4 and contains 5-20% by weight of saccharide, 0.1-5% by weight of fat, 2.5...

Methods and apparatus for auto-subscription in a network environment. A method is provided that includes determining an affiliate associated with a device, and identifying a package associated with the affiliate. The method also includes generating system information parameters that identify the package, and transmitting the system information parameters to the device. The method also includes rec...

Cleaning compositions for contact lenses are described. The compositions contain multifunctional anionic surfactants that include at least two hydrophilic dissociating head groups. The multifunctional surfactants described (e.g., LED3A) possess both surface active and chelating properties, and have been found to be particularly effective in removing protein deposits from contact lenses.

A portable electronic device displays a plurality of icons (e.g., graphical objects) in a region in a touch-sensitive display; detects a predefined user action, with respect to the touch-sensitive display, for initiating a predefined user interface reconfiguration process; and varies positions of one or more icons in the plurality of icons in response to detecting the predefined user action. The v...

This invention features pyrimidine compounds of formula (I): each of R₂ and R₄ is H; R₃ is H, alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, cyclyl, heterocyclyl, or alkylcarbonyl; R₅ is H or alkyl; n is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6; X is NR^c; Y is covalent bond, CH₂, C(O), C-N-R^c, C-N-OR^c, C-N-SR^c, O, S, S(O), S(O₂)...

A polyamide molding compound having a partially crystalline polyamide, includes partially aromatic copolyamides and classic mineral fillers. The mineral filler is ultrafine chalk (calcium carbonate) and has an average particle size of at most100 nm.

A calculating apparatus, or system, having a plurality of stages, such as in a pipeline arrangement, has the clocking rail or conductor positioned alongside the stages. With a large number, i.e., hundreds, of stages arranged in parallel sub-arrays, the clocking conductor is snaked alongside the sub-arrays. In individual stages it is arranged that the shortest of the two calculations taking place i...

A method for the production of reinforced tube-shaped structures ( 1 ) of rubber layers and reinforcement layers ( 2, 3 ) has the steps of: a) applying a first rubber layer ( 2 a) with a first extrusion unit ( 4 a) onto a series of sequential rigid cylindrical mandrels ( 5 ) which are coupled to each other and which are driven at an advancement speed (v) in the direction of an advancement axis (x)...

A measuring device with a daisy type cantilever wheel enabling easier setting of a measuring head and modification head by rotating the daisy type cantilever wheel, enabling modification, adhesion of a sample, and application of a force to a sample specimen by using centrifugal force, and also enabling an easier measurement of a variation of characteristic vibration frequency and vibration amplitu...

A high power, high luminous flux light emitting diode (LED) comprises a substrate, a light-emitting structure, a first electrode and a second electrode. The LED has a top surface layout design in which the first electrode has a number of legs extending in one direction, and the second electrode has a number of legs extending in the opposite direction. At least portions of the legs of the first ele...

A method and system for a handoff in a broadcast communication system is disclosed. A subscriber assisted handoff is impractical in a broadcast communication system due to e.g., a high signaling load, a difficulty to synchronize the broadcast transmission. On the other hand, the small number of broadcast channels enables the subscriber station to perform the handoff autonomously. To streamline the...

In a plasma processing apparatus for plasma-processing a silicon wafer 6 to which a protective film 6 a is stuck in a state that the silicon wafer 6 is held by a first electrode 3 by electrostatic absorption and is being cooled, the top surface 3 g of the first electrode 3 consists of a top surface central area A that is inside a boundary line P 2 that is distant inward by a prescribed length from...

A backlight unit is provided to miniaturizing the size of the backlight unit by integrating a heat transmission pad, and a reflecting sheet in one body. A plurality of LEDs(110) are generating the light. A plurality of LED modules(120) has the printed circuit board which it operates while supporting a plurality of LEDs. A plurality of LED modules comprises a plurality of LEDs arranged to matrix-sh...