A coreless roll winder includes two sets of belts traveling in opposite directions. A cigarette of web material is formed, and the web is wound around the cigarette by the contact with the belts. The roll formed from the winding is transported to the downstream end of the belts and separated from the rest of the web.

PURPOSE: A mandrel for winding the electrode assembly for a secondary battery is provided, to minimize the final thickness of a wound electrode assembly by employing a plate-shaped body and to enable the wound electrode assembly to be separated from the mandrel by controlling the interval between reel members by a control means using an electromagnet. CONSTITUTION: The mandrel(20) comprises a plat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic controller sensing a tilling state and automatically locking a differential gear when a tiller is kept in the tilling state and sensing the untilling state and automatically keeping a lock release state when a tiller is kept in the untilling state.

SOLUTION: The tiller K1 is equipped with a rotary tilling apparatus 2. The tilling apparatus 2 is ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an X-ray imaging system capable of easily producing a digital phase-contrasted X-ray image, excellent in accuracy and clarity, by using digital X-ray image detectors such as CR (computed radiography), FPD (flat X-ray picture detector) and the like which are widely used in medical sites, non-destructive tests or the like.

SOLUTION: This system is provided wit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method which is capable of accurately inserting an indicator, tool or surgical instrument without any assistance of a patient or an operator into a preoperative image for which a respiratory movement or deformation due to heart beat is also taken into consideration.

SOLUTION: The navigation system for biopsy or surgical operations under the navigation guid...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lock device certainly enhanced in safety with respect to the loosening or detachment of a lock element, simple to assemble and easy to manufacture.

SOLUTION: An element equipped with a shank (1) and the holding element (2) connected thereto is provided for the purpose of connecting a rod (100). The holding element (2) has a recessed part having a U-shaped ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a process and a device for aerating a liquid with a gas to realize dissolution of the gas.

SOLUTION: The process to saturate the liquid with the gas is for a use in a process for separating impurities from a suspension 5 by means of floatation, covering the injection of a large quantity of gas to the liquid through a nozzle. In order to draw closer more effe...

FIGURE 1 shows a battery generally designated 1, which is a lead-acid battery. The battery 1 includes the components normally found in a GMF (glass microfibre) battery. The battery 1 includes a container or box 2 of tough flame retardant material and positive plates or electrodes 3 comprising lead alloy grids covered with an active material of lead dioxide. In one embodiment of the battery 1, acid...

In a method and apparatus for processing materials comprising ashes from waste incineration plants and mineral residues to condition them in a short time by washing them and by subjecting them to electrodynamic processes and shock waves generated by high voltage spark discharges, the material is made chemically inert and aged so that it can be used immediately after treatment without harming the e...

The inventive cutting tool comprises a plate (1) which is curved in longitudinal section to form two elbows (2, 3) and an element (4) connecting said elbows. One of the elbows (2) can be mounted on an oscillating tool (5), while the other elbow (3), located opposite the first elbow, represents a blade. The plate (1) is curved in a longitudinal section so as to form a "W" with rounded angles, where...

An X-ray imaging system (14) comprises an X-ray head (16) containing an x-ray source which emits an X-ray beam, the head (16)is rotatable about a pair of orthogonal axes (X;Y) for orientating the emitted X-ray beam in space. A pair of head angle sensors (58,60) are located with the X-ray head (16), each being associated with a different one of the pair of axes (X;Y) for measuring an angle of incli...

On a machine (1) for producing articles, in particular a packaging machine for producing packets of cigarettes, a reel (14), laid flat on a support, is fed, by means of a transfer device (42), to a relative unwinding pin (34) fitted to the periphery of a rotary platform (28) rotating about a substantially horizontal axis (27); the unwinding pin (34) being set to a substantially radial position wit...

A method and apparatus for producing image carrying laminated material (10). An image (18) is printed on a polyvinylbutyral interlayer (16) using a solvent based ink, paint or dye system. The interlayer (16) is used to join two sheets of material (12, 14) to form the laminate.

The invention relates to a device for automatically changing threadlike materials in a thread processing machine, comprising connecting means to connect a first thread (100) being guided from a supply to said thread processing machine, with a second thread (200) and cutting means (127) to cut said first thread through between the connecting point of the threads and the supply. The problem of the p...

An abrasive and wear resistant material comprises a mass of carbide particles, a mass of cubic boron nitride particles, and a bonding metal or alloy, bonded into a coherent, sintered form. The cubic boron nitride particle content of the material is from 10% to 18% inclusive by weight, the particle size of the cubic boron nitride is less than 20 micron or less, and the material is substantially fre...

Encoded spatio-spectral information processing is performed using a system having a radiation source (12), wavelength dispersion device (16) and two-dimensional switching array (18), such as digital micro-mirror array (DMA). In one aspect, spectral components from a sample (24) are dispersed in space and modulated separately by the switching array, each element of which may operate according to a ...

The present invention relates to a high through-put system for determining and/or monitoring electrophysiological properties of ion channels of ion channel-containing membranes, typically lipid membrane-containing structures such as cells. In particular, the invention provides a substrate which provides means for automatically positioning cells at measuring sites using electroosmotic flow in canal...

Verfahren zur Rekonstruktion eines 3D-Bilddatensatzes eines Untersuchungsbereichs (13), in dem ein sich näherungsweise periodisch bewegendes Untersuchungsobjekt, z.B. das Herz, angeordnet ist. Segmente (40,50,60) des Untersuchungsbereiches (13) werden aus einem von der Detektoreinheit (16) erfassten Messdatensatz rekonstruiert, der stückweise während einer Anzahl n von periodisch aufeinanderfolgen...

Es wird eine Verschlußeinrichtung zum Sichern eines Stabes (100) in einem Aufnahmeteil (3) insbesondere einer Polyaxial-Knochenschraube, wobei die Verschlußeinrichtung ein hülsenartiges Element (40) mit einer zylindrischen Außenfläche und mit einem Außendurchmesser, der so bemessen ist, daß das Element (40) zwischen den Schenkeln (9, 10) des Aufnahmeteils (3) verschiebbar ist, aufweist und wobei d...

Methods and apparatus for preparing an array of catalysis material that involves parallel apparatus for simultaneously effecting mechanical treatments such as grinding, mixing, pressing, crushing, sieving, and/or fractionating of such materials are disclosed. The methods and apparatus are useful for mechanically treating catalysis materials and other solid materials, including without limitation, ...