PURPOSE: A blade for forming a tire kerf is provided to prevent a width of kerf from being shrunk due to wearing a tread away and prevent the kerf formed by a blade from being torn as well as outputting a tire made of a metal mold to keep maintaining function of the kerf. CONSTITUTION: The blade(2) for forming tire kerf includes a main blade(3) of which width of both end sides is getting narrower ...

A socket for electrical connection between a vehicle and a trailer, comprising: a casing (12) made of plastic material and having a cylindrical wall (20) which defines a seat (14) designed to receive a tubular portion of a complementary plug; a contact-bearing body (24) including a cylindrical portion (28) set coaxially inside said cylindrical wall (20) in such a way that an annular space is def...

PURPOSE: Provided are a chemical filter medium, which simultaneously removes ozone, nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxide, a chemical filter and a method for preparing thereof. CONSTITUTION: The chemical filter medium(20) comprises a first ozone adsorbing layer(22) consisting of a first ozone removing filter media to mainly remove ozone, a first nitrogen oxide adsorbing layer(24) layered on the ozone a...

A sensor utilizing a non-leachable or diffusible redox mediator is described. The sensor includes a sample chamber to hold a sample in electrolytic contact with a working electrode, and in at least some instances, the sensor also contains a non-leachable or a diffusible second electron transfer agent. The sensor and/or the methods used produce a sensor signal in response to the analyte that can be...

Expanded perlite products having controlled particle size distribution, methods of producing the expanded perlite products, and methods of use thereof are provided. The expanded perlite product has, for example, a low ratio of standard deviation of particle size distribution to median particle size (for example, less than 0.63) and low median particle size (for example, less than 50 microns). The ...

A method and apparatus for microfluidic processing by programmably manipulating a packet. A material is introduced onto a reaction surface and compartmentalized to form a packet. A position of the packet is sensed with a position sensor. A programmable manipulation force is applied to the packet at the position. The programmable manipulation force is adjustable according to packet position by a co...

The invention relates to a method for securing horizontally loaded cargo units on a vessel, in which method the cargo units (13) are handled and secured for transporting the cargo units (13) on the vessel. The cargo unit (13) is secured to the vessel and/or to an adjacent cargo unit (13) by means of securing elements extending in the longitudinal direction of the cargo unit such that securing part...

The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of perfluoroalkanesulfonic acid esters and to the further conversion thereof into salts, and to the use of the resultant compounds in electrolytes and in batteries, capacitors, supercapacitors and electrochemical cells.

A method for manufacturing at least a skin (2) for forming a visible front surface (3) of an interior trim part which comprises at least one pre-manufactured insert (6) showing a back face (7) situated at a distance behind said visible surface. The skin is made by applying at least one flowable skin material for producing an elastomeric, non-cellular or micro-cellular plastic skin (2) against at l...

The invention concerns a method for treating timber pieces comprising one or several drying steps, characterised in that it consists in carrying out a starching step and a step of starch gelatinization.

A blood circulation assistance device ( 1 ), for location around a blood conduit ( 20 ). The device comprises: an inflatable bladder ( 10 ) moveable between a contracted form and an expanded form, for compressing the blood conduit ( 20 ) to provide counterpulsation. Pump means ( 30 ) in fluid communication with the bladder ( 10 ) move the bladder ( 10 ) from the contracted form to the expanded for...

PURPOSE: An SMT(Simultaneous Multi-Thread) processor fetching a thread applying a performance cycle count to an instruction number as a weight and a method thereof are provided to enhance the performance of the SMT by applying the performance cycle count to the instruction number as the weight. CONSTITUTION: A fetch unit(110) performs counting for each thread by responding to an operation sort of ...

PURPOSE: A method for displaying plural menu display images is provided to display plural menus on a display device when a menu screen display request signal is received from an outer input device, thereby displaying more information on single screen as displaying the plural menus. CONSTITUTION: A VCR controller reads a GUI screen from a flash memory, and displays plural menu screens on a display ...

An allogenic intervertebral implant for fusing vertebrae is disclosed. The implant is a piece of allogenic bone conforming in size and shape with a portion of an end plate of a vertebra. The implant has a wedge-shaped profile to restore disc height and the natural curvature of the spine. The top and bottom surfaces of the implant have a plurality of teeth to resist expulsion and provide initial st...

A vertebral-column device that is suitable to be received in an intervertebral space between two dorsal vertebrae, the prosthesis comprising a curved strip of biocompatible material. The width of the strip being such that after placement, the strip makes contact with the vertebrae. The strip is manufactured from a material that can undergo great deformations before permanent deformation arises. Th...

Compounds of formula (I): in which: R<1> is methyl, ethyl, isopropyl or sec-butyl; X is carbonyl or methylene; Z is =C=(R<2>)2 or =C=(CH2)m (in which R<2> is alkyl, and m is integer of from 2 to 5); n is 0 or 1; R<3> is nitro, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, alkoxy, alkoxyalkoxy, or a group (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii) or (ix): (in which: R<4> rep...

The invention relates to a method of preparing compounds of the formulaand to pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds of formula 1 are antibacterial agents that may be used to treat various bacterial and protozoa infections. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of formula 1 and to methods of treating bacterial protozoa infections by ad...

PURPOSE: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprising a means to relieve a deficient erasure address is provided to realize to redesign a flash memory to relieve a defective chip, into its own memory device. CONSTITUTION: A register(13) stores an address inputted from an address input unit(17). A capacitive judgement circuit(14) outputs an address in a capacitive block(12c) as the address ...

Substituted propanolamine derivatives, their pharmaceutically tolerated salts and physiologically functional derivatives thereof are described.Also described are compounds of formula Iin which the radicals have the abovementioned meanings, and their physiologically tolerated salts, physiologically functional derivates and processes for their preparation. The compounds are suitable as, for example,...

A class of aromatic-substituted xanthene compounds useful as fluorescent dyes is disclosed, the compounds having general structure (I), where Y1 and Y2 taken separately are selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl, oxygen, imminium, linking group and amine, or Y1 taken together with R2 is cyclic imine, or Y2 taken together with R3 is cyclic amine; R2, R3, R5, and R7 taken separately are sele...