A first polymer (preferably in granular form) is exposed to a gas at a pressure higher than atmospheric pressure to introduce the gas into the polymer. This occurs at a temperature from the glass transition temperature to the melting temperature when the first polymer is crystalline or semi-crystalline in nature, or at a temperature below the glass transition temperature when the first polymer is ...

An electric light comprising: a light fitting; a plate (402), located within the light fitting, that defines a pair of apertures (407); and a lamp (201, 603, 605) connected to a lamp holder (501) within the light fitting. The electric light further comprises a retaining device (204) for increasing mechanical stability of the lamp within the light fitting. The retaining device comprises a strap (30...

A printing system and a printer used in a printing system that acquires from a printer data relating to how much ink or other recording material was used manages the ink cartridges or other recording material cartridges individually while maintaining the reliability of data acquired from the printer. The printer (240) calculates the amount of ink used only for printing as a number of discharged in...

An approach for making an object owned by a first application that executes in a first isolated execution context accessible to a second application that executes in a second isolated execution context is described herein. According to this approach the object is associated with the first isolated execution context. A request is received to render the object accessible to the second application. O...

The invention concerns a catalytic filter for depolluting a gas loaded with soot particles and gaseous pollutants, obtained by impregnating in a catalytic solution a filtering structure formed by an assembly of honeycomb-type monolithic elements, wherein the porosity of the cement used as coating and/or as joint and/or as plug is less than the porosity of the material constituting said element(s).

A compression molding machine includes a wheel mounted for rotation around a horizontal axis and a plurality of angularly spaced molds disposed around the wheel. Each of the molds includes a first mold segment and a second mold segment disposed radially outwardly of the first mold segment. Each of the second mold segments is movable radially with respect to the associated first mold segment betwee...

A lightweight concrete composition containing from 10 to 90 volume percent of a cement composition, from 10 to 90 volume percent of particles having an average particle diameter of from 0.2 mm to 8 mm, a bulk density of from 0.03 g/cc to 0.64 g/cc, an aspect ratio of from 1 to 3, and from 0 to 50 volume percent of aggregate; where the sum of components used does not exceed 100 volume percent, and ...

A dual-chamber oil pan includes an oil pan provided below an engine block, an oil pan separator that is provided within the oil pan and defines a first chamber communicating with the engine block, and a second chamber provided around the first chamber, and a suction port disposed within the first chamber. The first chamber includes a large-capacity portion including a bottom portion of the oil pan...

The device has an electron source (3) for producing electron beam (8). A set of radiation heads (7) is arranged around an isocenter (2) in a supporting structure (5) and provides radiation in a direction of the isocenter. The electron beam is guided in the supporting structure and on the radiation heads by a beam guide. The beam guide is formed as a symmetrical polygon (10) around the isocenter. D...

The instrument has a screen display (3) e.g. LCD, and an indicator light (13) that are covered by a transparent disk (5) in a direction of a viewer. The transparent disk has a reduction unit for reducing a light transmission through the transparent disk. The transparent disk is arranged in an inner side of a rear wall (2), cover plate (14) and tube body (15). A polarizer (6) is attached on the tra...

The present invention has its object to provide an acrylic curable composition which is improved in tackiness, retention and other adhesive properties without reducing the thermal stability and weather resistance. The above-mentioned object can be solved by a curable composition which comprises, as an essential component, polymer (I), which is a (meth) acrylic acid ester copolymer having, in eac...

The pump unit has a gas separation device for separating gas from fluid to be conveyed, where the gas separation device is arranged on a suction side. The gas separating device exhibits a plumping body (2) partially arranged in a suction sided flow way of the fluid and arranged on housing side with a distance to a suction mouth (8) of a pump. The plumping body is designed as fins, which are connec...

An angular rate sensor includes a tuning-fork oscillator, a support portion, an oscillation absorption portion and a mounting portion. The tuning-fork oscillator has a base and arm portions extending from the base. The support portion supports the base of the tuning-fork oscillator at a front face thereof. The oscillation absorption portion is provided on a back face of the support portion opposit...

The invention relates to a device for controlling a vehicle 8 comprising a housing 3, a rectangular printed circuit board 4 which is fixed to the inside of the housing and has a control circuit thereon, and plugs 1a and 1b provided along one side of the rectangular printed circuit board 4 to transfer signals between the inside and the outside of said housing 3; wherein the plugs 1a and 1b respecti...

Selected units of storage, such as segments of storage or regions of storage, are invalidated. The invalidation is facilitated by the setting of invalidation indicators located in data structure entries corresponding to the units of storage to be invalidated. Additionally, buffer entries associated with the invalidated units of storage or other chosen units of storage are cleared. An instruction i...

A process for preparing artificial bone is described which comprises: (i) preparing a mixture of a finely divided bio-compatible ceramic powder, an organic binder and a pore-forming agent in an inert liquid to form a body and causing at least some of the pore-forming agent to align along a common axis; (ii) optionally shaping the resulting body; (iii) allowing the pore-forming agent to form a poro...

A domestic appliance assembly comprising at least two machines (10,12), each of which being provided with control means able to receive program inputs set by a user and operative information transmitted by the other machine so as said machines can perform their functions in an integrate and synchronised way. Each machine (10,12) comprise a wireless communication module (14) adapted to exchange in...

Fireproof building material contains 5 to 20% of cement, 20 to 60% of expanded granulated filler, 20 to 60% of silicic water glass, 5 to 20% of TiO2, and 5 to 10% of substances from the group of ammonium phosphates, given as percentage by weight in the resulting mixture. Preferably ammonium dihydrogen phosphate is contained. Special-purpose admixtures such as pigments are contained in the quantity...

A laundry machine and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which malfunctions of a steam generator and laundry machine and fire due to the overheating of a heater can be prevented. The present invention includes a steam generator having a heater and a controller turning of the heater if an operation time of the heater exceeds a operation limit time set in the course of driving the heater.