The drivetrain of a motor vehicle with an engine, a crankshaft starter-generator, a hydrodynamic torque converter and an automatic gearbox, comprises an overriding drivetrain controller ( 20 ) with a driver and situation recognition ( 31 ), a status controller ( 34 ) and a torque management ( 35 ). The controller carries out the following functions: a start-stop operation, an increase in engine to...

A method for controlling the shifting operation of an automated twin-clutch transmission includes executing a shifting operation between a load gear and a target gear assigned to a first transmission unit by using an intermediate gear assigned to a second transmission unit. The engine speed is adjusted to reach the synchronous speed of the target gear at the end of the shifting operation. At the s...

An electronic control device includes a circuit substrate consisting of four rigid portions and intervening flexible portions which are serially connected to each other. This circuit substrate is accommodated in a casing in such a manner that respective flexible portions are folded by 180° to dispose respective rigid portions to be parallel to each other. The rigid portions, positioned at both end...

Composite silicone rubber particles of this invention include silicone rubber particles A and silicone rubber particles B, wherein the surface of said particles A is covered with said particles B having sizes smaller than sizes of particles A. The composite silicone rubber particles are characterized by exhibiting excellent flowability and dispersibility, and in case of adding the particles to var...

A downhole corrosion monitor comprises a sensor head suspended on a cable, the cable being extensible so as to raise and/or lower the sensor head downhole and having a signal conductor to return data from the sensor head to the surface, the sensor head comprising a plurality of mutually insulated electrical sensors and means for detecting the voltages and/or currents existing therebetween. The ele...

A warehouse system enabling the stocking of various products and in which it is possible to monitor the stock position and inventory information for the products in a warehouse, using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) labels (2) placed on the products (1), RFID labels (4) placed on shelves (3) in the warehouse and RFID labels associated with zones within the warehouse, preferably located on th...

A belt for training abdominal muscles comprises means (103) for determining a base girth of a user. Means (115, 117, 119) is also provided for determining changes in girth of the user as a result of contraction and relaxation of the user's abdominal muscles. Further means (125) provides feedback to the user as to the extent of contraction of the user's abdominal muscles, the feedback being display...

The present invention relates to a SMIS system for managing systematically an implementation status of an aviation safety regulation, and more particularly, to a SMIS system for analyzing, complementing and assessing automatically an implementation status of an aviation safety regulation in own country on the basis of standards and recommended practices prescribed in the annexes for 18 fields publ...

Dispositivo de confección para confeccionar mercancías con un procesador, al que está asignada una memoria de tipo de mercancía, en la que está almacenado, al menos, un conjunto de datos que reproduce la imagen del aspecto de un tipo de mercancía, así como una memoria de configuración de mercancía, en la que están almacenados diversos datos que reproducen distintas configuraciones de mercancía par...

In a rolling bearing (2) provided with an outer ring (2a) connected to a mounting opening of a knuckle (3), an inner ring (2b) connected to a wheel through a hub (5), a rolling element (2c) intervening between the outer ring (2a) and the inner ring (2b) and a sealing device (4) for sealing the space between the inner (2b) and outer rings (2a) from the outside, the rolling bearing (2) is provided w...

Provided is a data transmitting/receiving method as follows. A server device receives management data which includes matching information for making a judgment of validity and which is transmitted from a terminal. The server device judges whether or not the matching information included in the received management data is valid. If the result of the judgment is that the matching information is vali...

A device/system and a method for the treatment of varicose veins and other vein abnormalities are presented. In one preferred embodiment, the treatment comprises a combination of two wavelengths to effectively occlude abnormal veins. The wavelengths are chosen as the effective absorption peaks of hemoglobin and water, which are seen at these wavelengths, approximately 980 nm and 1460 nm respective...

A method and apparatus for purifying water are provided. A feed water such as seawater can be fed to a filter such as a nanofiltration membrane to produce a permeate that can, in turn, be fed to an electrodeionization system to produce fresh water.

Extrudable polystyrene foam compositions having flame retardant properties, flame retarded extruded polystyrene foams, methods of making such foams, and products comprising such compositions and foams are provided. The extrudable polystyrene compositions having flame retardant compositions can be generally characterized as having a molecular weight (M_W)of at least about 90% of the polys...

A method and apparatus is provided in which the use or provision of a resource or service can be optimised based on data indicative of the benefits of using or providing the resource or service at one or more future times. The service could be the provision of electricity to an appliance or device. A retailer or distributor of the electricity could transmit future prices of the electricity based o...

Saving time and middle-men costs in performing one-country or multi-country market research studies. Users are permitted to collaborate directly on assets deemed by the user to be non-competitive, and by automizing many functions that are today handled manually. Also, CPX is utilized, which lets buyers and sellers of access trade this access in a wholly open environment, which decreases trading fr...

A setup for storing data in and reading out data from a holographic storage medium comprises a light source (12) for emitting light (14) having a wavelength ?, a modulator (16) for modulating the light emitted by the light source, projection means (18) for forming a signal beam (20) from the modulated light and for focusing the signal beam into the holographic storage medium (26) and a light sourc...

The optical recording medium has a recording layer sensitive for recording at a first wavelength and sensitive for reading at a second wavelength, the recording layer having a groove structure, wherein at the first wavelength the groove structure has a diffraction efficiency into a first diffraction order sufficiently large to generate a push-pull signal, and at the second wavelength it has a diff...

The inventive method for producing a sorbent consists in adding a strong acid solution to a methylsiliconate sodium (or potassium) solution for obtaining a product, which after being stabilised, is ground and activated by adding a strong acid to the solution, is washed out by water until a neutral reaction is attained in such a way that a product, the pore space of which is equal to or greater tha...

A silicone resin composition obtainable by reacting a bifunctional alkoxysilane and a trifunctional alkoxysilane in the presence of a dispersion of fine metal oxide particles. The silicone resin composition is suitably used in backlights for liquid crystal displays, traffic lights, outdoor big displays, advertisement sign boards, and the like.