Freno Eléctrico por Acumulación para vehículos ferroviarios. Sistema concebido para frenar vehículos ferroviarios mediante la transformación de su energía dinámica en energía eléctrica que se almacena en acumuladores portátiles (instalados en el propio vehículo o en otros vagones de la composición). El sistema está compuesto por un generador eléctrico que se activa, produciendo energía, por el mec...

The phase setting device set the phases dependent on the folding mode. The perforating tools (35.1, 36.1, 37.1, 38.1) act with the perforating battens (35.2, 36.2, 37.2, 38.2) to perforate the web (1) of material. The battens are on at least one perforating bridge (27, 27.1; 28, 28.1) which can be adjusted relative to the perforation cylinder surfaces.; Die Erfindung bezieht sich auf eine Vorricht...

An assembly including a holding bar disposed transversely to a sheet-conveying direction in a paper sheet-processing machine, includes a device on the holding bar for holding paper sheets; a device for guiding the holding bar in individual, laterally spaced-apart guiding planes and through at least one direction-changing region located outside the guiding planes; a device for transporting the hold...

A positioning jig used when a pressure-sensitive tape is stuck on the surfac e of a vertical material of a door sash frame of a car, comprising a jig main body (10) with an engagement part (40) holding a vertical material contact part and horizontal material contact part each having a rear surface side in contact with the vertical material and horizontal material of the door sash frame, respectiv...

A method of processing sea shell, comprising the steps of injecting liquid t o the inside of a shell of a sea shell to separate the shell from meat so as t o open the shell, suckingly removing individual, or two or more types of, or a ll of the associated parts of the sea shell after opening one piece of the shel l of the sea shell, forming an opening part in a part of the shell of the sea shell a...

An electrical current is created across an electrically conductive medium comprising a cell which may be part of a tissue of a living organism. A firs t electrical parameter which may be current, voltage, or electrical impedance is measured. A second electrical parameter which may be current, voltage or a combination of both is then adjusted and/or analyzed. Adjustments are carrie d out to facilit...

This invention is an integrated catheter assembly for enabling diverse endoscopic in situ therapies. The assembly includes a catheter (12) with an irrigation fluid lumen, a distal electrode tip portion (20) that acts as a hemostat, and a cutting wire (23) for making incisions in or ablating tissue. A cutting wire hub (21) provides a sealing entrance for a cutting wire. An operator (24) enables the...

Methods are provided for the optimization of the utilization of crustaceans, e.g., lobsters and crabs, especially through the use of underutilized components thereof. The methods include separating the intact shell of hard-shelled crustaceans from the raw edible meat contained therein which is very strongly attached to the shells. The methods each include the first step of initiating the detachmen...

A robotic floor cleaning device comprises a chassis (10), motor-driven wheels (11) supporting the chassis (10), a motor-driven suction fan (9), a dirty air inlet (2) and a motor-driven rotatable agitator (4) at the dirty air inlet (2) for agitating the surface. A control system navigates the device around a room and distributes power to the motor-driven wheels (11) and to the agitator (4). The con...

A self-propelled robot is disclosed for movement over a surface to be treated. The robot has a power supply (11) and a pair of wheels (8, 9) driven by motors (6, 7) for moving the robot over the surface. The robot is provided with means (120, 121) for providing sonic or ultrasonic energy to the surface. A mechanism (113, 115, 16) is also provided for controllably depositing a fluent material on to...

This invention is a method, a system for laser surgery produced controlled laser pulses, and simultaneously verifies that a sequence of pulses of prescribed energy are being delivered to the patient. A photo detector (120) receives a predetermined portion of the energy of each treatment pulse. A separate monitoring computer compares an output signal from the photo detector (120) corresponding to e...

The invention concerns a method for treating wood in which the wood to be treated is placed in a chamber in which a vacuum is produced, where said chamber is filled with a hardening product, in particular a monomer, so as to impregnate the wood by causing the product to penetrate the space between its fibers, where said product is hardened, in particular by polymerisation. This method is character...

The invention relates to a method of manufacturing non-slip floor coverings made of mineral materials, such as, for example, natural stone, fine stoneware, artificial stone or ceramics. This method is carried out in two-stage process, there being produced on the surface of the floor coverings or slabs, in a first process stage by means of pulsed laser bombardment, statistically distributed microcr...

A drive circuit (150) that produces an over-voltage signal and protects circuit components from the over-voltage signal (i.e., such that circuit components operate within process specification limits). A photosensitive pixel cell (10, 110) can be driven by the drive circuit (150). Use of the drive circuit (150) increases dynamic range of the pixel cell (10, 110) and reduces ""ghost images"". Contr...

Mejoras introducidas en la Patente de Invención nº P-9400175/8, por: Procedimiento de fabricación de piezas cerámicas sin soporte, piezas cerámicas obtenidas por el mismo y aplicaciones. Las mejoras comprenden: (I) aplicar, durante el proceso de fabricación de la pieza, una serigrafía hidropelente sobre la capa de material refractario, que delimite el contorno exterior de la pieza; y (II) aplicar ...

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An object of the present invention is to provide a novel liquid crystalline compound having a large dielectric anisotropy, small change in threshold voltage depending on temperature, and an improved solubility to other liquid crystal materials at low temperatures, and expressed by the following general formula (1): wherein R represents, for example, an alkyl group or alkoxy group having 1 t...

Grippers of a cutting wire moving and positioning system connect with guide members holding the wire ends. Guide members comprise parallel guide rails (4) on opposing shanks of the cutting frame (1), current supply rails (5) parallel to the guide rails and wire holders (2) which move along the guide rails and are used to hold, tension, adjust and supply heating current to the cutting wires (6).; D...

For changing between different wire cutting positions, wires in a specific cutting position are moved into a transfer position. Unwanted wires are either moved out of the cutting position into a parking position or further wires moved into the cutting position. Wires in the cutting position can then be moved relative to each other into the required cutting arrangement and uncoupled from parked wir...

Ein Verfahren zur Hydrophobierung von keramischen Oberflächen, insbesondere von Dachziegeln, bei dem eine keramische Oberfläche mit einer ein anorganisch-organisches Hybridpolymer enthaltenden Flüssigkeit behandelt und anschließend getrocknet wird. Hierdurch wird eine Hydrophobierung ohne Beeinträchtigung der Atmungsfähigkeit der keramischen Oberfläche erzielt.; Process for making ceramic surfaces...